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Richard Phillips-Jones @rpjwrites.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This one? (Old images retrieved from "the other place") Selling for crazy prices now, I fear... www.discogs.com/release/6097...

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Richard Phillips-Jones @rpjwrites.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Dammit, all this #INXS talk has made me pull the album out... 😂 Special UK gatefold edition of Listen Like Thieves, which came with a free copy of previous LP, The Swing. #WeekendSingles #AlbumAlmanac

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Richard Phillips-Jones @rpjwrites.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Gathering my senses after Saints Vs Pompey, with a couple I dug out from Gin Blossoms: Mrs. Rita on deep pink 12", and Hey Jealousy is... well, 8 inches square and green. #WeekendSingles

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Richard Phillips-Jones @rpjwrites.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The #INXS related post from @vinylgeek.bsky.social earlier prompted a trip down memory lane for me: these three were all pulled from the Listen Like Thieves LP, before they finally broke through in the UK - This Time still has its press release inside. #WeekendSingles (reposted to fix hashtag!)

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Richard Phillips-Jones @rpjwrites.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

"Let's look in the Sunday Market at the Ox", she said. "We probably won't buy anything", she said... #Poole #Dorset

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Richard Phillips-Jones @rpjwrites.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Next for #Shocktober, another Australian chiller: The Dreaming (1988) - bit of a hidden gem, this one.

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Richard Phillips-Jones @rpjwrites.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Starting our #Shocktober in earnest - a bonkers Australian horror from 1981, Alison's Birthday 🎃

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Richard Phillips-Jones @rpjwrites.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

End of the road for The Mamas & The Papas - they split up, Cass heads off to her solo career. Have a great week, everyone 🙂 #WeekendSingles

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Richard Phillips-Jones @rpjwrites.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The next four from The Mamas & The Papas. Twelve Thirty unaccountably failed to hit the UK top fifty, but remains a favourite of mine. #WeekendSingles

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Richard Phillips-Jones @rpjwrites.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Working through the brilliant run of singles unleashed by The Mamas & The Papas for Sunday's #WeekendSingles. Here's the first four...

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Richard Phillips-Jones @rpjwrites.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The chazza I was just in had the radio on, playing Mary's Boy Child by Boney M. In September. 🤬 Anyway... I did pick up this brilliantly mental stereo test LP from 1967, so the trauma was worth it. #WeekendSingles #AlbumAlmanac

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Richard Phillips-Jones @rpjwrites.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This week's #WeekendSingles finds: A post-apocalyptic ditty from Tim Rose and a classy soul number from The Moments, both on my want list for ages. On the #AlbumAlmanac front, 2 lovely Creedence Clearwater Revival records, UK Liberty 1st press - they wipe the floor with the US Fantasy originals.

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Richard Phillips-Jones @rpjwrites.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Why am I reminded of someone who used to be in Viz...

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Richard Phillips-Jones @rpjwrites.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Greeting from #Dorchester Borough Gardens. After a long day yesterday (all that record shopping is exhausting, you know) we're having a bit of a chill out. #Dorset

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Richard Phillips-Jones @rpjwrites.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I came, I saw, I shopped - at #VinylVan in #Dorchester. Couple of long sought #WeekendSingles and a couple of Creedence LP's 😁

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Richard Phillips-Jones @rpjwrites.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The #RollingStones stayed here when they played Weymouth in August 1964. Word spread, and they waved at a mass gathering of fans from the bow window on the first floor. Then, they apparently had to be smuggled out in the back of a local bakery van...

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Richard Phillips-Jones @rpjwrites.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Just checked in at the King's Arms in #Dorchester - I think we'll be just fine here for a few days 😁 And I see there is a record shop in town... 😬 #Dorset

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Richard Phillips-Jones @rpjwrites.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Last #WeekendSingles from me, and it's more soulful stuff to get the feet moving: The Contours, Donnie Elbert, The Isley Brothers and Isaac Hayes. I need a rest after these four... #MusicSky #VinylSky

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Richard Phillips-Jones @rpjwrites.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Some choice instros from the soul boxes for #WeekendSingles: The Mohawks, Willie Mitchell, Booker T. & The M.G.'s and Al Kent Orchestra. If one wasn't so arthritic, one would be shaking one's booty, let me tell you. #MusicSky #VinylSky

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Richard Phillips-Jones @rpjwrites.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

33 years in remission from #HodgkinsLymphoma 🎉 Just spreading the word that today is World Lymphoma Awareness Day... #WorldLymphomaAwarenessDay #Lymphoma lymphomacoalition.org/world-lympho...

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Richard Phillips-Jones @rpjwrites.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Some of Bob Dylan's early UK successes on that minimalist design classic, the orange CBS label, with accompanying company sleeve. #WeekendSingles #BobDylan

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Richard Phillips-Jones @rpjwrites.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I sometimes find it strangely therapeutic to play this very loudly. I suspect the rare and unusual RCA company sleeve is worth a lot more than the actual record... The Archies - Sugar Sugar (1969) #WeekendSingles

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Richard Phillips-Jones @rpjwrites.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Random 60's hits from the L to M box: Roger Miller (as covered by The Proclaimers), Los Bravos, Marmalade's finest moment and Colin Blunstone moonlighting as Neil MacArthur and revisiting The Zombies. #WeekendSingles

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Richard Phillips-Jones @rpjwrites.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Slim #WeekendSingles pickings today, but I picked up The Church's first UK LP from 1982 (with She Never Said + The Unguarded Moment), and Space's Magic Fly from 1977, which I wasn't allowed as a child due to an iffy track title on side 2 so had to settle for the single for 49 years... #AlbumAlmanac

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Richard Phillips-Jones @rpjwrites.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Necessary whippy. Is there any other kind?

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Richard Phillips-Jones @rpjwrites.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

You may not know his name, but if you're of a certain age you know his shows: Robin Of Sherwood, Children Of The Stones, Into The Labyrinth, Sky, King Of The Castle... Patrick Dromgoole remembered, at @spookyisles.bsky.social www.spookyisles.com/patrick-drom... #HTV #FolkHorror #70sTV #80sTV

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Richard Phillips-Jones @rpjwrites.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

On the matter of 21st century albums: we do enjoy some Lovely Eggs. #WeekendSingles #AlbumAlmanac #MusicSky #VinylSky

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Richard Phillips-Jones @rpjwrites.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Not had the #WeekendSingles out this week, but I did unearth these brilliant NME playing cards, circa 1991. You had to collect them over multiple issues, if I remember rightly. Mark E. Smith had to be a Joker, obviously.

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Richard Phillips-Jones @rpjwrites.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I had vague thoughts of filing some stuff today, until I opened the first box and decided I couldn't be arsed. Came across this (very) random lot, though: The Motors, Neil Diamond, Julian Cope and the always welcome Françoise Hardy. #WeekendSingles #MusicSky #VinylSky

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Richard Phillips-Jones @rpjwrites.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Can't get to the #WeekendSingles while the last of the Kallax from IKEA is being assembled, so I'm having an audience with the Cope instead. Saint Julian (1987) #AlbumAlmanac #JulianCope #VinylSky #MusicSky

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Richard Phillips-Jones @rpjwrites.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

A few Burt Bacharach/Hal David ditties before I put my feet up and let Qobuz do the heavy lifting: Sandie Shaw, B.J. Thomas, Walker Bros and Bobbie Gentry #WeekendSingles #MusicSky #VinylSky #BurtBacharach

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Richard Phillips-Jones @rpjwrites.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Seems five minutes ago we were all too hot, praying for rain. Now it's tipping it down in Dorset and everyone's moaning about that. Anyway... A few from the great Del Shannon this morning. #WeekendSingles #MusicSky #VinylSky #DelShannon

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Richard Phillips-Jones @rpjwrites.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Who knew that buying some chocolate and some shredded lettuce could summon Beelzebub? 😬

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Richard Phillips-Jones @rpjwrites.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I love that there is even a small monument near to where it was filmed - always a favourite of mine.

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Richard Phillips-Jones @rpjwrites.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Looking out for the last Kallax to arrive from IKEA, so just a few from the Spencer Davis Group while I wait. These run up to when Steve Winwood left and they went a bit trippy. #WeekendSingles #VinylSky #MusicSky

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Richard Phillips-Jones @rpjwrites.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

#NowWatching One of those brilliantly odd films that used to turn up on Channel 4, late at night and catch you unaware. La Cabina (The Telephone Box) (1972)

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Richard Phillips-Jones @rpjwrites.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Just the thing to ease into my day - Morning!

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Richard Phillips-Jones @rpjwrites.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I think Specsavers really need to get out more.

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Richard Phillips-Jones @rpjwrites.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

#WeekendSingles from the UK top 10 this week in 1968: 1. Tommy James & The Shondells, Mony Mony 2. Crazy World Of Arthur Brown, Fire 9. Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich with their masterpiece, Last Night In Soho 10. Herman's Hermits, Sunshine Girl #MusicSky #VinylSky

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Richard Phillips-Jones @rpjwrites.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I was just wondering if a close-up photo of our sofa would made for a calming desktop background. It's been a long day. Humour me.

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Richard Phillips-Jones @rpjwrites.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Records people may be surprised I own. I have a terrible confession to make. I have a thing about really bad Hammond Organ LP's. I understand I'm a very sick man and I should seek help. If any other sufferers of this affliction would like to form a support group... #WeekendSingles #AlbumAlmanac

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Richard Phillips-Jones @rpjwrites.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Early spins: After a brilliant Graham Gouldman gig the other night, some of his early compositions. 3 for the Yardbirds, 2 for The Hollies and 1 for Wayne Fontana. He's doing more Heart Full Of Songs shows in October - catch him if you can. #WeekendSingles #MusicSky #VinylSky #GrahamGouldman

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