it is a common reality across our land that many of the high streets of the cities and towns are dominated by charity shops, look you see. whereas some say this is a "shame", lamenting the loss of traditional shops, there is quite obviously both a need and demand for such outlets. should i happen to be passing such a store, and if time permits, generally i will pop in and see what is on offer.
these establishments tend to have quite a number of disc based donations for sale, whether DVD or CD. increasingly, i note, blu ray titles feature too. normally i browse the first two such circular things mentioned, and it is findings of the middle one that i write of today.
well, yes, write of and show some pictures of. presumably it is the images which most of you would be most interested in, but should my writing bring some mild entertainment too then that's nice.
above you can see the not one, not four, not two but three (3) sets which i have picked up of late. these were all from different such charity stores, and came with different prices. yes, of course i will give cost details as we go. or rather as i go, for to say we presumes that you will indeed continue to read all of this. maybe, for all i know, the above picture has told you all that you needed to know.
on with it all, then, and first up is something that i could vaguely recall hearing about at the time but do not believe i ever saw. for fans of such information, this was indeed the first of the three to have been procured by me this year, but it is just an accident that it is on first.
behold, then, the splendid ways of Chegger's Choice, which is a compilation of "the forty worst songs ever", as selected by Keith "Cheggers" Chegwin. alas, the much loved Cheggers is no longer with us, but you may recall number of moments from his career fondly, starting with appearing naked in Macbeth all the way through to appearing naked in some sort of quiz show. yes, lots in between those bookends, and most of it was conventionally dressed.
why is Cheggers dressed as a chicken on the cover? as far as i can work out it is so that they can subtitle the album as featuring "clucking awful songs", with clucking of course being a witty rhyming replacement for a naughty word which commences with f and ends with ucking.
the songs on the album? well, to say there are some controversial choices in regards of what Cheggers considered to be the worst of all time is to state the obvious. any compilation which sets out to represent the "best" or "worst" as in this case is always going to be subjective, and open to debate. with great credit, Cheggers embraced the controversy with some of the selections. he, for example, bravely sh!t all over the Cornish culture by including The Wurzels, h!t all over centuries of Spanish civilisation by selecting The Macarena and gave a big "f*** you" by having a song by The Krankies on it.
cost? 33p, to me, as it was part of some form of 3 for £1 sale. not bad, considering the original Woolworths receipt was in the disc, and it set back the original owner 1p south of £10 when they bought it. for those considering purchasing, a word of caution - some 10% of the artists who feature on this compilation now reside on the sex offenders register.
another double set, then, but not a 2 CD set. no, this is one of them "CD and DVD" combo packs, which were popular a while ago. they still are, as and when anyone makes and sells them.
it's a release off of the Official Chart company, from back when they just compiled charts and didn't go around messing with rules and regulations so as to make Ed Sheridan (or whatever) and that Adele seem better than they are in terms of chart records. whilst the CD element is a so-so selection of songs, the DVD is a game, one where you select from multiple choice answers on a wide range of chart related questions.
quite good, except for a slight flaw with the DVD. for some reason they seem to have made the "select" cursor the same colour as the background, so you can't tell which category you are going to have a go at. but still, good practice for if i ever get on that smart Pop Master quiz thing him off of Radio 2 hosts.
cost? well, also 33p. from a different charity shop to the one where i got Cheggers, but also in a 3 for £1 section. from what i recall at the same time i picked up the Moulin Rouge soundtrack, and an unspecified record off of the Stereophonics.
finally, then, off we go down under, so to speak, for a 2 CD set called Aussie BBQ. if this were to do what it said on the box, then it would give the listener a sense of the tunes what one might reasonably expect to hear on the wireless if they were at an Aussie barbie, in Australia. this is more or less gets partially correct.
on the plus side, there's a healthy representation of Jimmy Barnes on the disc, which is as how it would be in Australia. but i question some of the other choices. yes, i would expect to hear Men At Work and Mental As Anything at an Aussie barbie, but not the songs chosen here. Australians, for instance, would surely select Who Can It Be or Be Good Johnny over Down Under, and whereas Live It Up is a class tune, i'd rather expect it to be more earlier 80s Mentals on the go. further, i would argue that Kevin "Bloody" Wilson is compulsory at all Aussie barbies, and yet he is not represented here. neither, for that matter, is Bon era AC DC.
but still, a pretty good set. as is with keeping with the rest of the world, as in the bits that are not Australian, the 80s stuff is excellent, the 90s stuff indicates a brief flicker of a bright light still burns and the 00s onwards is just plain awful and dull.
cost? strictly speaking it should have been 50p, but it was in a 2 for £1 section and i could not find anything else to go with it. with all monies paid over ostensibly going to a good cause i rather just said take the £1 for this one alone, please and thank you.
well, there you have it. for me these were three great finds, with a real term cost of £1.66 but an actual cost of £3 i suppose.
should for some reason you have consulted this post for guidance and advice in regards of any of these titles, my view is yes. there is no reason whatsoever to not have any or all of them in your own collection. may they bring you as much merriment as they do me.
be excellent to each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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