FT makes list of the 'world’s greatest record stores'

[editor]

No Spillers Records so it can Get To Fuck, but here's the FT's list of the UK's best record shops:

• Cob Records, Porthmadog
• Sounds of the Universe, London
• Carnival Records, Malvern
• Third Man Records, London
• Truck Store, Oxford
• Banquet Records, Kingston upon Thames
• Tribe Records, Leeds
• Honest Jon’s, London
• Hawkeye Enterprises and Starlight Records, London
• Klang Tone Records, Stroud
• Vinyl Whistle, Leeds
• Jumbo, Leeds
• Thorne Records, Edinburgh
• Assai Records, Dundee
• Rough Trade, Denmark Street, London
• Uptown Vinyl, Weston
• Soul Brother Records, London

More guff here: https://archive.ph/BmkJP#selection-1783.4-1783.34

 

[plurker]

Soul Brother Records, London

Found myself in here just this week (unemployed, so passing a lot of time digging!) and it was a very pleasant experience.
Picked up some Smith & Mighty releases for not much £, which was nice.

 

[skyscraper101]

Found myself in here just this week (unemployed, so passing a lot of time digging!) and it was a very pleasant experience.
Picked up some Smith & Mighty releases for not much £, which was nice.

I love Soul Brother records. Such a tiny place but they have some awesome rarities and re-issues of so much jazz and soul. I could spend hundreds in there if only I had the budget.

 

[Petcha]

I think the Rough Trade on Brick Lane is better. Bar/gigs/Q&As

Surprised not to see Phonica in there

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[JimW]

The Stroud local paper had an interview with the bloke running the one there, he was pleasantly surprised to be included. After my time, but the town has always had decent record shops.

Stroud record store named as one of the best in the world | Stroud Times

A Stroud record store has been named as one of the best in the world by the Financial Times.

stroudtimes.com

 

[spitfire]

I think the Rough Trade on Brick Lane is better. Bar/gigs/Q&As

Surprised not to see Phonica in there

You are being redirected...

Agree on both.

 

[spitfire]

Third man is a brilliant shop but it is niche! They do some great blues reissues and merch but you have to be a fan of Jack White really!

 

[hash tag]

Not mentioned on the list above is Flashback records at Shoreditch.
I would also give a shout out for Andy's in Aberstwyth and 101s in Farnham.

 

[ruffneck23]

Nice to see Banquet records in Kingston (Formerly Beggar's banquet)
I have been buying records from there since since the late 80's, when I used to work across the road at 'Our price records' in Eden walk.

 

[JimW]

Is Cob Records in Porthmadog that one that used to do all the punk stuff back in the day? have a dim recall of making a special trip out there with my mates as a teen, but they were the punks rather than me who was a fellow traveller only in both senses. Somewhere in North Wales, anyway.

 

[ddraig]

Is Cob Records in Porthmadog that one that used to do all the punk stuff back in the day? have a dim recall of making a special trip out there with my mates as a teen, but they were the punks rather than me who was a fellow traveller only in both senses. Somewhere in North Wales, anyway.

most probably

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Cob Records in Porthmadog is quite depressing? (I say this as a someone disinclined to slag off record shops).

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Not mentioned on the list above is Flashback records at Shoreditch.

Flashback Essex Road also good.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Is Cob Records in Porthmadog that one that used to do all the punk stuff back in the day? have a dim recall of making a special trip out there with my mates as a teen, but they were the punks rather than me who was a fellow traveller only in both senses. Somewhere in North Wales, anyway.

I think Jon Savage specifically thanked them for help with tracking down some records for one of his punk books.

 

[Idaho]

The Stroud local paper had an interview with the bloke running the one there, he was pleasantly surprised to be included. After my time, but the town has always had decent record shops.

Stroud record store named as one of the best in the world | Stroud Times

A Stroud record store has been named as one of the best in the world by the Financial Times.

stroudtimes.com

Before I clicked on the link I made the prediction that it would be a 50 something bloke with a beard.

 

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[JimW]

Before I clicked on the link I made the prediction that it would be a 50 something bloke with a beard.

In fairness it sounds like his wife is as much behind it as him, only she wasn't interviewed.

 

[chilango]

I'm delighted Cob is still going. I used to spend hours in there whilst my family went in the Ffestiniog Railway trying pick up decent Welsh language stuff. It was the only place I knew that stocked it.

 

[hash tag]

STOP this.
I have about 3000 CDs. There are more I would like but I am desperately trying to stop buying more and this is just encouraging me.
I like tracking down record shops and have to buy stuff when I do.
FWIW rock n roll voltage in Paris is the best record shop. Ever.

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[SpookyFrank]

All my favourites are gone now