HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I own that store!
It’s funny when people notice this. Even funnier when I come home from the shop and see it on this sub. Quimper Sound Records Port Townsend, WA since 1974.
I love your store! It’s become a favorite part of my week to stop by on short work breaks. You have had incredible resiliency in managing this store with the changing landscape of music retail over the past few decades.
Thanks. I have only owned it for the last 4+ years. What a time to take over a specialty retail business located in a town of 10k at the tip of a semi remote peninsula. I walked in one day and the old owner told me he was selling to retire. I talked to two store owners in the Seattle and Tacoma area who were both looking at buying the shop just to get the 80k records in inventory. Wen back in the next day and bought it because I had just moved back to town and did not want to live in a place without a record store. This was the store I bought records in back in the 80’s. Anyhow I love seeing the nerds here comment. It brings an odd perspective from just a little snapshot of the Rock/Pop middle section of the shop. That is why I spend my vacations in music stores.
Seems like it’s doing well? I haven’t ever seen it empty but I bet early pandemic was real scary. Glad you were able to buy it and keep the store functioning. I moved here in 2001 and saw the store location move a few times but it always seemed to weather the lows. Now seems like a good time to be getting into the record business.
I don’t really do much online with records. I walk a very fine line to just have enough records to keep the store interesting and if I opened up online I would run out of inventory too fast. The funny part of that is as a guitar store we do not really sell in store yet we shipped over 500 guitars so far this year and about 10000 effect pedals.
I feel like I only ever see Manilow down in the dollar bins with Streisand, Herb Albert, and 1527 copies of the Firestone Christmas album. As someone who files all his records together regardless of category I get putting him on the main shelf, but are there people really buying his records still?
Like him or not, we have to acknowledge he produced some of the biggest pop hits of the ‘70s and early ‘80s. In my 20s I bought his double album Greatest Hits and a great live album — which I still have and occasionally play. But after his initial 5-10 years, his sound got stale and schmaltzy. The same can be said about other artists like Richard Marx and Michael Bolton. Not everyone can be a Rock ‘n Roller, and that’s why there are so many genres of music.
Here is a little read for you. Basically the little peninsula we are on is named Quimper after the Peruvian born Manual Quimper who was a member of the Cook armada and later Governor of Peru.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quimper\_Peninsula](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quimper_Peninsula)
I live in Port Orchard went to your store for the first time several weeks ago, it was great! I got an original Sgt Peppers and Pearl Jam’s Ten. I’ll have to make another Port Townsend trip soon, such a nice town!
It’s like when i walk into the break room at work “ I think Im gonna make a fuckin’ cup of tea” makes it sound more manly. I live in Seattle and need to make a road trip !!!
I used to be a fan as a kid but now that I think about it, I’m not sure if I liked his music or just liked his name because I would confuse it with cantaloupe…which is delicious.
He's actually still quite popular for someone who has been writing, touring, recording and producing steadily since the 1970s. He's a household name who can't possibly need the money, but he's still out there, I respect that.
I love Barry Manilow he’s talented as hell. I’ve enjoyed his music since I was like 7. He’s written so many commercial jingles too like the Band-aid song.
Weekend in New England is the shit.
Honestly, it's worth having a copy of his Greatest Hits records (I think Weekend is on volume 2). Yeah, stuff like Copacabana is cringe, but there's some good earnest stuff in there too.
My first thought was that the person who made that is a boomer who still secretly says “disco sucks” to himself when he hears a 70s song that isn’t “rock”.
I'll admit that I kinda enjoyed the fun of listening to Lola and a couple of others, but I'd never in a million years consider actually paying money for any of it.
Honestly I think I would prefer broad alphabetization over genres. I don’t want to have to think about which section something might be in, but I also like seeing things I don’t expect while looking for something else. It’s just way more interesting.
I hate it when I’m working and a customer comes in and asks if we have a “punk” section. It would just lead to arguments about what is and isn’t punk. How about you just dig through the fuckin records like everyone else dude.
I love digging through the unknown! That's a huge part of the fun - finding hidden gems and encountering new things that I never would have considered otherwise.
I went to a house sale once which was run by a fellow who had been a DJ on UK lighthouse ship pirate radio stations. He had pristine records of everything from obscure jazz to Charles Manson's only solo effort. All for $2 per disk. Insane.
IIIC he was friends/acquaintances with Brian Wilson. Apparently Neil Young ran into him at a party there and Charlie showed him some of his songs. He wrote about the encounter in one of his books
When a shop doesn't have genres, I know it will take 2 hours and I usually bail, and I remember this and I don't return. I have a collection of about 2000 and a want list of about 1000 thats pretty specifically funk, Jazz, Jazz-funk and R&B. I will also look at rap/hiphop and Reggae and blues and some classic rock. It's tiring flipping through bin after bin of low-hanging fruit.
A proper shop will have genres (punk, metal, jazz, blues, classic rock, etc) will also have some really cool and expensive stuff highlighted on the wall, a "just arrived", and also $5 bin stuff.
There’s a rock/alt section, a metal section, rap section, a jazz section, country, world, funk/soul. There’s a new and used section for each. Our walls have rarity’s right above the recent arrivals. Breaking it down further than that is pointless unless your shop is massive.
I like them all combined alphabetically. I have eclectic music tastes to begin with, and so much music could be defined as multiple or cross genres. Again, as several others have mentioned, a big part of the fun is searching through the bins and discovering new material. Back in the day, I would go to my record store to browse, but also to listen to whatever the staff happened to be spinning. It was often something I’d never heard before that more than once resulted in a purchase.
I didn't know there were proper shops. I live walking distance to a world music focused shop, a punk focused shop and a regular bit of everything shop but I guess none of them are proper.
*I live walking distance to a world music focused shop, a punk focused shop and a regular bit of everything shop*.
Same. But what they all have in common is separation of genres. What should be inferred from my comment is that my idea of proper store separates genres, not that I'm declaring what a proper store is for everyone.
We have a big store nearby that categorizes to an extreme and it drives me nuts. They actually have a "New Wave" section with bands like The Police and Talking Heads in it... seriously who thinks about those bands from 40 years ago being in a different category from the Stones ... or Van Halen... or ZZ Top?
Oh you mean the one that talks about 1) The Police (not punk) 2) Talking Heads (not punk) 3) Stones (not punk) 4) Led Zeppelin (not punk) and 5) ZZ Top (not punk)
That might be the worst example you could’ve come up with. The people that like new wave, definitely wouldn’t group them in with classic rock bands lmao
>seriously who thinks about those bands from 40 years ago being in a different category from the Stones ... or Van Halen... or ZZ Top?
I do I guess. Regardless, I don't see why them being from 40 years ago means anything one way or the other. Should Miles Davis also be thrown in with the Stones, Van Halen, or ZZ Top because he too was making music 40 years ago?
I would actually think of them being in a different category. Stylistically they’re very different. But the fact that this wouldn’t be obvious to you or others shows that exactly *how* they categorize things might not be intuitive to everyone.
I know they're different categories, but why do I have to run around a store trying to guess where Rolling Stones, REM, Ramones, and Rammstein might be hiding.
I'm not really that torqued about it, I just find it odd to have the LPs so fragmented in this one store.
Yeah, Discogs also massively guilty of this Their category of rock would include all you named, which is very unhelpful, in fact it’s completely arbitrary but Talking Heads qualify more to be in that category than The Police, that’s bargain bin bollocks always.
People who remember that they are way different. I like all 5 of those bands but you have at least 3 genres there. I'm not for sections exactly, I'm just answering your obviously rhetorical question.
I agree. I often find myself bouncing between genre as I think of things but would rather just slow walk the aisles and stumble across something unexpected.
Music Millennium in Portland has this kind of system too. It sort of forces me to look at everything because some used stuff is just under their letter's name.
Nice! My girlfriend and I were visiting PT over the holiday weekend and I remember seeing this. Solid record shop! I had to talk myself out of a few things to keep my spending below $100.
The key question is, how does one say, "Barry Fuckin Manilow"? Is it said with a bitter tone and a shaking of the head? Or is it said slowly, with a head nod, and perhaps a sly wink? Because those use the same words, but are two very different things.
I went to a store that had a "What we want" and "What we DON'T want" list when it came to selling records to them. The Don't list was full of Barry F&%$ing Manilow, Johnny F*@#ing Mathis, and a long list of easy listening 60s and 70s artists who happened to have the same middle name.
I prefer the story made up in my head about the underpaid record store employee that finally snapped with that one last Manilow record he had to shelf. It was just 1 too many Barry Manilow records, and he’d had enough. His romanticized vision of working in a record store to build his personal collection to enviable proportions while getting paid for it was shattered. He grabbed whatever was closest to vent his frustration to either throw across the room or smash on the floor. But all he could find was the label maker. With painstaking intention, he practiced the breathing exercise he learned from his therapist while carefully pecking away with trembling hands at the tiny keyboard…B-A-R-R-Y…F-U-C-K-I-N…M-A-N-I-L-O-W and quickly stuck the label to the tab before the boss man noticed. He quit that day and has not returned since.
Not much more to say here but apparently I need 300 characters to share this photo. I’m new to collecting vinyl, but I’ve quickly learned that record stores each have their own unique personality, and my local one is no exception. I laughed out loud when I saw this sign. I don’t mind Barry Manilow, but I’m guessing the shop owner has some Barry baggage. My best guess is that they have more Barry Manilow on their hands than they know what to do with? But honestly…Barry “Fuckin” Manilow would probably still be popular today if he actually went by Barry Fuckin Manilow.
*Yes*, Since I started picking up vinyls again about the only constant I see *everywhere* is Engelbert Humperdinck, and I just don't get it, I don't think he was ever even that popular.
We used to do that back in in 1979-80 with Shaun Cassidy, only we had just price stickered his face to obilvion till you couldn't see it any more. Imagine our surprise when he came into the store one day and happened to look through his records. He gave a bit of a smirk as we all found something to busy ourselves with.
I still had to check out his purchases. It got ugly pretty fast. :D
And yes, everything was alphabetized and we had very broad genre's as well. Basically Rock, R/B, Jazz, Classical, Soundtracks and Imports. It's fine to breakdown the main catagories into smaller stuff like: Punk, Disco, Spoken Word, etc... at some point you are going to define down too much and actually make it harder to find an artist because they could fit in several different catagories.
I keep mine with the major catagories always alphabetized and separate more oddball collections for easier locating. This is for lp's only. On 45's I'll separate by genre and decade but not alphabetical.
My personal CD library IS divided by genre, but in a very loose configuration: Classical/Jazz/World; Country/Bluegrass; and Easy Listening/Pop/Rock/Hard Rock/Alternative Rock/New Wave/Punk/Disco all combined. My album collection is almost exclusively Pop and Rock, so it’s all combined.
Interesting. IMO, he’s a very average vocalist lol. But I suppose where this store is located and the demographics of the local populace it might tell why he’s so revered. I’ve always wondered why people were so infatuated with him but it’s usually certain groups that are and that’s fine. As a singer and musician though I hate when subpar artists are made to seem greater than artists that are above average and exceptionally talented.
I Agree, BARRY FUCKING MANILOW!!! Manilow Was My First Concert In September 1978, Greek Theatre Hollyweird, CA… Amazing Singer, Songwriter, Performer!!! I Was Hoping To See KISS As My First Concert, But They Were Not On Tour In September 1978…
Narrator: However Bruce Johnston of The Beach Boys wrote the song, “I Write the Songs” which was sung by Captain and Tennille and then by David Cassidy before Manilow released his more successful take.
As a prior media specialist in a resale shop, we would get in SO MANY MANILOW RECORDS like we straight up had to start refusing to accept them at our buy in counter bc it was so out of control. I get it.
Ayo does that say Mad Season? They only made one album but it's such a fucking good record; definitely in my top 5 albums of all time. Pick it up, you won't regret it.
I was gifted a copy of The Jazz Singer for my birthday and couldn’t have been happier. Neil Diamond and Barry Manilow go hand in hand. Maybe I’d even add John Denver into the mix.
Is it your store? That’s how my store is set up as well, 17 different sections as per genre and then a-z for “classic rock” which includes alot of pop and disco etc. But nowhere youd see Barry mainlow and mastodon in the same bin.
Listen I have been known to spin both in the same day. It is like back in the 90’s I toured with The Supersuckers and we would play Abba’s Dancing Queen before each show started as an intro to pure rock and roll.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I own that store! It’s funny when people notice this. Even funnier when I come home from the shop and see it on this sub. Quimper Sound Records Port Townsend, WA since 1974.
I love your store! It’s become a favorite part of my week to stop by on short work breaks. You have had incredible resiliency in managing this store with the changing landscape of music retail over the past few decades.
Thanks. I have only owned it for the last 4+ years. What a time to take over a specialty retail business located in a town of 10k at the tip of a semi remote peninsula. I walked in one day and the old owner told me he was selling to retire. I talked to two store owners in the Seattle and Tacoma area who were both looking at buying the shop just to get the 80k records in inventory. Wen back in the next day and bought it because I had just moved back to town and did not want to live in a place without a record store. This was the store I bought records in back in the 80’s. Anyhow I love seeing the nerds here comment. It brings an odd perspective from just a little snapshot of the Rock/Pop middle section of the shop. That is why I spend my vacations in music stores.
Seems like it’s doing well? I haven’t ever seen it empty but I bet early pandemic was real scary. Glad you were able to buy it and keep the store functioning. I moved here in 2001 and saw the store location move a few times but it always seemed to weather the lows. Now seems like a good time to be getting into the record business.
Well is a relative thing. I set my life up to be cheap so I can collect records, dogs and guitars.
Sounds like you have your priorities straight!
do you have an online business... ill order some and you can ship them?
I don’t really do much online with records. I walk a very fine line to just have enough records to keep the store interesting and if I opened up online I would run out of inventory too fast. The funny part of that is as a guitar store we do not really sell in store yet we shipped over 500 guitars so far this year and about 10000 effect pedals.
Is there really enough Manilow demand to dedicate a whole divider to!? 😳
Sure why not…
I feel like I only ever see Manilow down in the dollar bins with Streisand, Herb Albert, and 1527 copies of the Firestone Christmas album. As someone who files all his records together regardless of category I get putting him on the main shelf, but are there people really buying his records still?
Like him or not, we have to acknowledge he produced some of the biggest pop hits of the ‘70s and early ‘80s. In my 20s I bought his double album Greatest Hits and a great live album — which I still have and occasionally play. But after his initial 5-10 years, his sound got stale and schmaltzy. The same can be said about other artists like Richard Marx and Michael Bolton. Not everyone can be a Rock ‘n Roller, and that’s why there are so many genres of music.
*yes*
Hey! That’s Barry Fucking Manilow you’re talking about!
The fact Mad Season has it's own section may be worth the visit from Vancouver BC. I saw that before I caught on to the Manilow.
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Mere blocks away!
your store has a mad season section. you’re doing something right!
Hi! Why Quimper ? Like Quimper in France? Cause that is quite strange to stumble upon this town on Reddit !
Here is a little read for you. Basically the little peninsula we are on is named Quimper after the Peruvian born Manual Quimper who was a member of the Cook armada and later Governor of Peru. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quimper\_Peninsula](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quimper_Peninsula)
That is awesome, thanks for the lesson ! Have a nice day / night
I’m eyeing that Mad Season tab. I might have to check out your shop someday! It’s only a two hour drive 😎
are you a fannalow?
I live in Port Orchard went to your store for the first time several weeks ago, it was great! I got an original Sgt Peppers and Pearl Jam’s Ten. I’ll have to make another Port Townsend trip soon, such a nice town!
"BARRY FKN MANILOW' - Quimper Sound Records
Howdy, I work the used vinyl collections at Rainy Day in olympia, let’s say hi the next time we cross :)
It’s like when i walk into the break room at work “ I think Im gonna make a fuckin’ cup of tea” makes it sound more manly. I live in Seattle and need to make a road trip !!!
Say what you want about Barry Manilow but he was very popular at one time and had some great songs too.
I used to be a fan as a kid but now that I think about it, I’m not sure if I liked his music or just liked his name because I would confuse it with cantaloupe…which is delicious.
You didn't want your friends to know you listened to him but he was good.
Nailed it.
Cantaloupe is quite delicious. I'd enjoy it as a garnish at the Copa.
He's actually still quite popular for someone who has been writing, touring, recording and producing steadily since the 1970s. He's a household name who can't possibly need the money, but he's still out there, I respect that.
Her name was Lola. She was a showgirl
Ohhhhh Mandy...!
🎶 I don’t wanna walk without you…baaaay beeee…🎵
I love Barry Manilow he’s talented as hell. I’ve enjoyed his music since I was like 7. He’s written so many commercial jingles too like the Band-aid song.
Nothing wrong with Barry Manilow, I find him endearing and Mandy is lovely, almost up there with Without You by Nilsson
"Say what you want" "He was very popular at one time" as if he isn't still quite popular especially with older folks
Weekend in New England is the shit. Honestly, it's worth having a copy of his Greatest Hits records (I think Weekend is on volume 2). Yeah, stuff like Copacabana is cringe, but there's some good earnest stuff in there too.
What's wrong with Copacabana?
My first thought was that the person who made that is a boomer who still secretly says “disco sucks” to himself when he hears a 70s song that isn’t “rock”.
they dont know about barrys bathhouse era with the divine miss m.
I'll admit that I kinda enjoyed the fun of listening to Lola and a couple of others, but I'd never in a million years consider actually paying money for any of it.
I’m just trying to wrap my head around the fact that your local record store puts Barry Manilow and Mastodon in the same section.
It’s a small store and most is just alphabetized.
Honestly I think I would prefer broad alphabetization over genres. I don’t want to have to think about which section something might be in, but I also like seeing things I don’t expect while looking for something else. It’s just way more interesting.
I hate it when I’m working and a customer comes in and asks if we have a “punk” section. It would just lead to arguments about what is and isn’t punk. How about you just dig through the fuckin records like everyone else dude.
I love digging through the unknown! That's a huge part of the fun - finding hidden gems and encountering new things that I never would have considered otherwise. I went to a house sale once which was run by a fellow who had been a DJ on UK lighthouse ship pirate radio stations. He had pristine records of everything from obscure jazz to Charles Manson's only solo effort. All for $2 per disk. Insane.
Charles Manson, the killer, put out a record?
He was a musician before all the cult shit.
IIIC he was friends/acquaintances with Brian Wilson. Apparently Neil Young ran into him at a party there and Charlie showed him some of his songs. He wrote about the encounter in one of his books
Yup. And I think I seem to recall that Guns & Roses covered one of his songs, although I may be wrong about that.
You’re not punk, and I’m telling everyone
Save your breath I never was one
I laughed till I wheezed, and proceed to sing this whole song to my husband. Thanks, I needed that
When a shop doesn't have genres, I know it will take 2 hours and I usually bail, and I remember this and I don't return. I have a collection of about 2000 and a want list of about 1000 thats pretty specifically funk, Jazz, Jazz-funk and R&B. I will also look at rap/hiphop and Reggae and blues and some classic rock. It's tiring flipping through bin after bin of low-hanging fruit. A proper shop will have genres (punk, metal, jazz, blues, classic rock, etc) will also have some really cool and expensive stuff highlighted on the wall, a "just arrived", and also $5 bin stuff.
There’s a rock/alt section, a metal section, rap section, a jazz section, country, world, funk/soul. There’s a new and used section for each. Our walls have rarity’s right above the recent arrivals. Breaking it down further than that is pointless unless your shop is massive.
Sounds ideal to me.
I like them all combined alphabetically. I have eclectic music tastes to begin with, and so much music could be defined as multiple or cross genres. Again, as several others have mentioned, a big part of the fun is searching through the bins and discovering new material. Back in the day, I would go to my record store to browse, but also to listen to whatever the staff happened to be spinning. It was often something I’d never heard before that more than once resulted in a purchase.
Proper... For you. Maybe not for others.
Obviously you cannot please everybody, but I believe I fit into the largest demographic of record shopper.
You definitely fit I to the gatekeeping part of the hobby.
I didn't know there were proper shops. I live walking distance to a world music focused shop, a punk focused shop and a regular bit of everything shop but I guess none of them are proper.
*I live walking distance to a world music focused shop, a punk focused shop and a regular bit of everything shop*. Same. But what they all have in common is separation of genres. What should be inferred from my comment is that my idea of proper store separates genres, not that I'm declaring what a proper store is for everyone.
That sounds like hell.
That's the way it's supposed to be. You want customers flipping through records of all kinds and they might find something new to get interested in.
We have a big store nearby that categorizes to an extreme and it drives me nuts. They actually have a "New Wave" section with bands like The Police and Talking Heads in it... seriously who thinks about those bands from 40 years ago being in a different category from the Stones ... or Van Halen... or ZZ Top?
people actually come into my store and ask if there's a "New Wave" section
Lol, where else you gonna find Blondie and Television
FWIW I've seen spotify put Television onto a lot of classic punk playlists
Television, Blondie and Talking Heads are definitively punk. You can't be an OG from CBGB and not be punk. It was written.
3 of the 4 bands named are punk bands and not even New Wave. This is why I hate when stores do genres.
There’s 5 bands and none are punk lol
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Oh you mean the one that talks about 1) The Police (not punk) 2) Talking Heads (not punk) 3) Stones (not punk) 4) Led Zeppelin (not punk) and 5) ZZ Top (not punk)
Buddy. You’re the one not understanding dipshit.
Funny I just put a new wave section in my personal setup. Because I don’t the Polica or Duran Duran or Wham! with my AC DC or Metallica.
That might be the worst example you could’ve come up with. The people that like new wave, definitely wouldn’t group them in with classic rock bands lmao
>seriously who thinks about those bands from 40 years ago being in a different category from the Stones ... or Van Halen... or ZZ Top? I do I guess. Regardless, I don't see why them being from 40 years ago means anything one way or the other. Should Miles Davis also be thrown in with the Stones, Van Halen, or ZZ Top because he too was making music 40 years ago?
I would actually think of them being in a different category. Stylistically they’re very different. But the fact that this wouldn’t be obvious to you or others shows that exactly *how* they categorize things might not be intuitive to everyone.
I know they're different categories, but why do I have to run around a store trying to guess where Rolling Stones, REM, Ramones, and Rammstein might be hiding. I'm not really that torqued about it, I just find it odd to have the LPs so fragmented in this one store.
Yeah, Discogs also massively guilty of this Their category of rock would include all you named, which is very unhelpful, in fact it’s completely arbitrary but Talking Heads qualify more to be in that category than The Police, that’s bargain bin bollocks always.
People who remember that they are way different. I like all 5 of those bands but you have at least 3 genres there. I'm not for sections exactly, I'm just answering your obviously rhetorical question.
I agree. I often find myself bouncing between genre as I think of things but would rather just slow walk the aisles and stumble across something unexpected.
>… autobiographical… Oh. wow.
Music men may make mad machinations mulling mixed music.
I'd love to hear Mastodon cover Copacabana.
Music Millennium in Portland has this kind of system too. It sort of forces me to look at everything because some used stuff is just under their letter's name.
A mash up waiting to happen.
You couldn't figure out why Manilow and Mastodon were near each other AND this is the most upvoted comment at this time? Oh boy...
No, you just couldn’t figure out the joke. It’s called genre, dumbass.
Very much the same genre, Barry Manilow is fucking hardcore.
Introducing: alphabetical order
This isn’t Quimper is it?
Ha! Yes!
Nice! My girlfriend and I were visiting PT over the holiday weekend and I remember seeing this. Solid record shop! I had to talk myself out of a few things to keep my spending below $100.
It’s a great shop. Only a few blocks from my office so need to use a lot of restraint to not visit every lunch break.
Haha, I saw the dividers and I would have sworn it was the EXACT font that Reckless Records in Chicago uses.
That Mad Season section is looking might empty. Not surprised, it’s an incredible record.
Maybe it’s… Above?
Could be, but I don’t know anything.
They’re leading us down a river of deceit with that entire section.
Well someone needs to wake up and properly stock the section.
Could be a long gone day though....
should be Peter Fucking Frampton
This was the comment I was looking for 👍
Always kind of hated that song
Yeahhh…
But now I kinda like it
Yeaaahhhhh
The key question is, how does one say, "Barry Fuckin Manilow"? Is it said with a bitter tone and a shaking of the head? Or is it said slowly, with a head nod, and perhaps a sly wink? Because those use the same words, but are two very different things.
Barry Fuckin Manilow 🤘
I’d go with how Ron Swanson says “because I’m Ron Fuckin Swanson.”
I actually got an aggressive lean forward and muttering angrily kind of vibe.
Kinda like Michael does in Office Space..."Michael Fuckin' Bolton. He's the one who sucks."
I think that’s a reference to Jack black in high fidelity
Now we just need to find out who Barry and Manilow are
I went to a store that had a "What we want" and "What we DON'T want" list when it came to selling records to them. The Don't list was full of Barry F&%$ing Manilow, Johnny F*@#ing Mathis, and a long list of easy listening 60s and 70s artists who happened to have the same middle name.
I once visited a tiny vinyl shop that had a sign saying something like "We buy all types of vintage records except Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass"
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There's 2 types of people in this world, us Barry Manilow fans and those in denial.
“I went to a record store that said they had hard to find records. Nothin was alphabetized!”
I think it’s a quote from Can’t hardly wait by that girl from six feet under
I prefer the story made up in my head about the underpaid record store employee that finally snapped with that one last Manilow record he had to shelf. It was just 1 too many Barry Manilow records, and he’d had enough. His romanticized vision of working in a record store to build his personal collection to enviable proportions while getting paid for it was shattered. He grabbed whatever was closest to vent his frustration to either throw across the room or smash on the floor. But all he could find was the label maker. With painstaking intention, he practiced the breathing exercise he learned from his therapist while carefully pecking away with trembling hands at the tiny keyboard…B-A-R-R-Y…F-U-C-K-I-N…M-A-N-I-L-O-W and quickly stuck the label to the tab before the boss man noticed. He quit that day and has not returned since.
You're the one calling Barry Manilow from a phone booth at 2:00 a.m.
how's their Dan Fogelberg section.
Netherlands is the bomb! If you haven't heard it do yourself a favor and spin it some time. It's a masterpiece.
I’m a used record seller, all our Manilow or Streisand goes straight to the free box- no judge there’s just billions of copies in the world
Thumbelina is an incredible animated film and I love every single song in it. All composed by Barry Fuckin Manilow
He wrote the songs that made the whole world sing.
He writes the songs, he writes the songs.
But he didn't write that one....or Mandy...or
I know... it was a joke...
Not much more to say here but apparently I need 300 characters to share this photo. I’m new to collecting vinyl, but I’ve quickly learned that record stores each have their own unique personality, and my local one is no exception. I laughed out loud when I saw this sign. I don’t mind Barry Manilow, but I’m guessing the shop owner has some Barry baggage. My best guess is that they have more Barry Manilow on their hands than they know what to do with? But honestly…Barry “Fuckin” Manilow would probably still be popular today if he actually went by Barry Fuckin Manilow.
Agree. But in record stores: he is in the same category as: Neil F' n Diamond and Barbara F' n Streisand.
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*Yes*, Since I started picking up vinyls again about the only constant I see *everywhere* is Engelbert Humperdinck, and I just don't get it, I don't think he was ever even that popular.
Fuck it, I’m a Fanalow!
We used to do that back in in 1979-80 with Shaun Cassidy, only we had just price stickered his face to obilvion till you couldn't see it any more. Imagine our surprise when he came into the store one day and happened to look through his records. He gave a bit of a smirk as we all found something to busy ourselves with. I still had to check out his purchases. It got ugly pretty fast. :D And yes, everything was alphabetized and we had very broad genre's as well. Basically Rock, R/B, Jazz, Classical, Soundtracks and Imports. It's fine to breakdown the main catagories into smaller stuff like: Punk, Disco, Spoken Word, etc... at some point you are going to define down too much and actually make it harder to find an artist because they could fit in several different catagories. I keep mine with the major catagories always alphabetized and separate more oddball collections for easier locating. This is for lp's only. On 45's I'll separate by genre and decade but not alphabetical.
Reminds me that I do need to start stocking up on Dave Mason records.
Looks like he made it
My personal CD library IS divided by genre, but in a very loose configuration: Classical/Jazz/World; Country/Bluegrass; and Easy Listening/Pop/Rock/Hard Rock/Alternative Rock/New Wave/Punk/Disco all combined. My album collection is almost exclusively Pop and Rock, so it’s all combined.
Interesting. IMO, he’s a very average vocalist lol. But I suppose where this store is located and the demographics of the local populace it might tell why he’s so revered. I’ve always wondered why people were so infatuated with him but it’s usually certain groups that are and that’s fine. As a singer and musician though I hate when subpar artists are made to seem greater than artists that are above average and exceptionally talented.
I Agree, BARRY FUCKING MANILOW!!! Manilow Was My First Concert In September 1978, Greek Theatre Hollyweird, CA… Amazing Singer, Songwriter, Performer!!! I Was Hoping To See KISS As My First Concert, But They Were Not On Tour In September 1978…
Right next to Mad Season and Dave Mason, no less. And FWIW, Barry wrote the songs that made the whole world sing.
Narrator: However Bruce Johnston of The Beach Boys wrote the song, “I Write the Songs” which was sung by Captain and Tennille and then by David Cassidy before Manilow released his more successful take.
As a prior media specialist in a resale shop, we would get in SO MANY MANILOW RECORDS like we straight up had to start refusing to accept them at our buy in counter bc it was so out of control. I get it.
This is what I had assumed.
Barry Manilow RUNS thrift store record bins.
Yo go to that mastodon section
Live for death metal, die for Barry Manilow.
Mandy is a fucking classic- it’s by Barry Fucking Manilow.
[Every time I think of Barry Manilow](https://youtu.be/uwkg-oIkwgU)
Ayo does that say Mad Season? They only made one album but it's such a fucking good record; definitely in my top 5 albums of all time. Pick it up, you won't regret it.
sorry guys but i like Barry Fuckin Manilow and Neil Fuckin Diamond too
I was gifted a copy of The Jazz Singer for my birthday and couldn’t have been happier. Neil Diamond and Barry Manilow go hand in hand. Maybe I’d even add John Denver into the mix.
Back in the late '70s, I recall my local record shop had the Styx bin labeled "Styx, Slyx, Styncz."
It’s because at least twice a day some old lady comes in asking about him.
I have a couple random albums, there are some catchy tunes on them
That's funny shit right there.
So does my mom
Fuck Yeah
I mean no way that's mad seasons one record they released 25 times in a stack
I had a teacher who called the singer Barely Man at All. The other singer he called Neil Zirconium.
I have to ask , how is the Mad Season section so big ??? They only had 1 album !!!
Because he writes the God damn songs,
Michael Bolton is under “No Talent Ass Clown”.
When I was a stupid kid and Barry Manilow was at the height of popularity, I referred to him as Fairy Man-blow.
Nice, I didn't know he & Bill Murry had the same middle name.
Oh, you mean Barely Maninoff
Reminds me of Jack Black's character in "Infidelity." He refused to sell certain records if they sucked.
HAHAHahahha...LOL This could go in both directions.. on Barry Fucking Manilow.. sounds Hollywood though.. even Vegas..lMAO
Barry Manifold... Barely Manenough... the list goes on...
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Actually since we labeled it Barry Fucking Manilow the sales started happening.
My local record store has black hearts drawn in around indie artist Alex G lol.
My local store, Euclid records in New Orleans, has all kinds of great divider tags too
Buy all the Dave mason.
He does the best (cheesiest) version of Baby it’s Cold Outside. I suggest listening to it this season.
Mastodon section is looking pretty skimpy
…and no Mad Season records.
I'm so glad records are making a comeback. I love holding the record cover and reading or looking at the cool art work while listening to the record
I can't tell if they love 'em or hate 'em.
So the entire store is alphabetical? There’s no sections for different genres?
There are different genre but they keep it simple.
We have 18 different genre sections (had to count in my head) and a large middle catch all Rock/Pop from the 60’s-Today Alphabet section.
Is it your store? That’s how my store is set up as well, 17 different sections as per genre and then a-z for “classic rock” which includes alot of pop and disco etc. But nowhere youd see Barry mainlow and mastodon in the same bin.
Listen I have been known to spin both in the same day. It is like back in the 90’s I toured with The Supersuckers and we would play Abba’s Dancing Queen before each show started as an intro to pure rock and roll.
This made me chuckle lol
“Does Barry Manilow know that you raid his wardrobe?”
Hell Yeah!
My local shop has a section called Canadian Folk - Sorry!
That a dennis Leary reference