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| From | WARFELT@Nationwide.com |
| Subject | Flexidiscs From a by gone era |
| Date | Mon, 13 Mar 2006 17:00:27 -0500 |
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I was cleaning out some stuff in my record collection this past weekend and
came across some of those flexidiscs that were carefully packed to preserve
them. Most of them were from the early to mid eighties. I was immensely
less hip then.
One came as a prize inside a box of Ghost Busters Cereal. It was
announcing a mystery contest of some kind.
One was a sampler from Incas Records, containing a cut by the Mockers
(Invisible Ink) and a way cool song by Never on Sunday (Other Side of Town)
plus four other non-pop cuts. This was the only flexi that was two sided.
Two were from Reflex Magazine, which I believe was a music magazine of
some kind with one cut each. Swans, (New Mind), Princess (Dressed to
Kill). She was billed as the next big thing! The song was pretty cool.
The last surprise of the batch, was from Fad Magazine (Fad Magazine Dares
You!) The first cut was by a group called Beatnik Beatch singing a song
named Beatnik Beatch. Very cool song. I google them and it turns out to
a be an incarnation of Jellyfish, prior to Jellyfish. Thinking that
couldn't be a bad thing, I go out to GEMM to see if there are any records,
to be had on the used market. I guess there was only one release on
Atlantic. Prices listed were from a low of $58 to a high of $136. I
guess it must be a little collectible.
One of the discs had mostly German on it but indicating it was from Phillip
Morris. It was a psychedelic sound collage. Very bizzare indeed. No
idea where it came from.
The Last one was from an audiophile magazine and the disc was entitled
"illusions in stereo" . I believe it was created to test various sonics
on head phones.
With the exception of the Ghostbuster flexi, I was shocked at the quality
of the sound (almost no surface noise) and the fact that there was no
deterioration after approximately 20 years. They seemed so delicate.
Tom Warfel
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