Year Released: 1999 Label: Crimson Records Year Bought: 2011 I bought this CD off a market stall in Braintree in 2011 (for £6 it seems) and have never listened to it. I got it because I had a cool light blue jacket with the Northern Soul fist logo on it so thought I better get into the scene a bit. Was probably too busy listening to the Manics to actually do it. Ok this took a long time to get through. It's 24 tracks, which is a lot in one sitting. A compilation released in 1999 by Crimson Records, to cash in on the "revival" seen in the 90s, according to the liner noters, this is a pretty good entry point to the genre. There's a load of tunes on here I admit I didn't know, which was the point of a lot of Northern Soul: find obscure 45s. The opening track is one that everyone knows, 'Move On Up' by Curtis Mayfield. However, I'd never heard the full, almost 9-minute long version. Even with the extension, it still feels like it's over too soon...
Pretty much every day I listen to a record from my collection randomly picked by my daughter before she goes to school. This is to justify still having hundreds of CDs (and a few cassettes and vinyl)