V/A, Hits & Myth (1981)
Spent a bit more money on this than I usually do for a second-hander, but worth it. Pretty mint copy, record in good nick – cover tidy-as – and what a line-up, what a great tracklisting – a perfect party record – Split Enz and Dragon and Hello Sailor and Th’ Dudes but also Citizen Band and Suburban Reptiles and The Swingers and Pop Mechanix and Mi-Sex and Toy Love. Every song brilliant. Compiled, I believe, by Mike Chunn. Top work Mr Chunn. I’m pretty stoked to have this – spotted it in the rack a while back, figured it’d be snapped up before I had the coin. Went back, still there. Still there. Waited. And then decided I had to have it. Took it along when I played a bunch of Kiwi songs in a pub one night recently. I think Saturday Night At Home mighta been the only track I played from this in the end. But there’ll be other times. Next time I might just play the whole album through Side A/Side B…might as well…it’s about as good as it gets right here.
Sample Track: Feels So Good (Spelling Mistakes)
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I’d forgotten all about this one. Used to have a copy. Loved it. Introduced me to so much “new” NZ music (at the time). What happened to it? Someone probably nicked it and sold it to a second hand record shop. It probably sat in the rack til Simon Sweetman had enough coin to buy it. Then he reviews it and sells it back to me all over again. Only he gets to keep it and I get to ponder the whereabouts of another great lost LP.