THE 12″ LUCKY DIP (4)

I didn’t buy this one at the time of its release back in September 1992.   The fact that I was living in a small flat at the time, combined with what was an increasing move towards CD purchases only, means it must have been some 15 years later, when I was starting off the blog and re-igniting a love for vinyl, that I’ve picked up a second-hand copy.

I know that I hoovered up plenty of old 7″ and 12″ singles for next to nothing around this time, being quite fortunate in my timing as it was slightly in advance of the boom that followed and the beginning of the increase in prices, particularly for releases that are long out-of-print and have become increasingly sought after.

The asking price on Discogs for any vinyl by The Sundays is eye-watering.  Upwards of £50 for the debut album Reading, Writing and Arithmetic (of which I have a copy which was definitely bought back in 1990).  The follow-up, Blind, fetches £200 or more, while the third and final album, Static and Silence is marginally more expensive.  I’ve both on CD, and while I’d love to have the vinyl, I’m not prepared to pay those sorts of prices.

The band only ever released five singles in the UK, and not all of them came out on vinyl. The debut Can’t be Sure can be had for about £6, but Goodbye, which was the advance 45 issued a couple of weeks prior to Blind, has an asking price of £40, which is very considerably more than I paid for it!

There’s three tracks on this one.  The version of Goodbye is identical to that on the album,  along with a cover version and otherwise unavailable original on the b-side.

mp3: The Sundays – Goodbye
mp3: The Sundays – Wild Horses
mp3: The Sundays – Noise

The cover is of the Rolling Stones song, originally found on the 1971 album, Sticky Fingers.

Goodbye reached #27 in the UK singles chart.

JC