(Vinyl Love is a series of posts that quite simply lists, describes, and displays the pieces in my growing vinyl collection. You can bet that each record was given a spin during the drafting of each corresponding post.)
Artist: James
Album Title: Gold mother
Year released: 1990, 1991
Year reissued: 2017
Details: Double LP, Black vinyl, 180 gram
The skinny: Manchester’s James finally made a name for themselves with this, their third album. Originally released in 1990, it was reissued the following year with a slightly different track listing (and renamed as a self-titled album for the US). This new pressing is a combination of the two versions, featuring all the great and now iconic tunes, such as the one below, “How was it for you?”, “Top of the world”, and both versions of “Come home”.
Standout track: “Sit down”
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7 replies on “Vinyl love: James “Gold mother””
I had this on CD back in the day. Actually don’t recall the title Gold Mother, though… maybe I had an import…
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I had the American version, called “James” on CD, blue cover with the white flower.
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I think that’s the one I had! Picked it up cheap at a record fair at the SECC, if I remember correctly.
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I’ve never even seen the original cover properly until I received this record in this mail last week.
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I’ve seen the cover, but I didn’t realise it was the same album. It was the tracks that got me thinking I had the CD.
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So nice to see an album of theirs that isn’t Laid! Haha that looks like a beaut.
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I have lots of James albums that aren’t Laid, though I do have that one too. It is a beaut for sure.
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