New and Used End of the Month Vinyl Arrivals

Lots of shiny new reissues were unpacked this week, as well as some quality used vinyl.

New:

Beatles, Abbey Road (remastered, 180gram vinyl)
Beatles, Revolver (remastered, 180gram vinyl)
Beatles, White Album (remastered, 180gram vinyl)
Black Keys, Brothers
Marvin Gaye, Let's Get It On
Nipple Erectors, Bops Babes Booze & Bovver (The Pogues' Shane MacGowan early punkabilly group)
Pink Floyd, A Collection of Great Dance Songs
Rolling Stones, Exile on Mainstreet (remastered 180gram vinyl)
Velvet Underground and Nico, Andy Warhol

Vintage

We also bought a small collection of used records this week --all in great shape-- and here's a sample:

David Bowie, Scary Monsters
David Bowie, Ziggy Stardust
Eagles, One of These Nights
Genesis, Spot the Pigeon
Genesis, 3 Sides Live
Gordon Lightfoot, Did She Mention My Name?
Indigo Girls, s/t (first LP)
Neil Young, Decade
Ry Cooder, Borderline
Sheepdogs, Learn and Burn
Soundtrack of Our Lives, Behind the Music
Stevie Nicks, Bella Donna
Talking Heads, Remain in Light
Talking Heads, True Stories
Tom Waits, Foreign Affairs

Royal Cat Records Opening February 1, 2014

Well, we finally have a new name and a new logo so we are happy to announce

Royal Cat Records

will be opening Feb. 1st 

@ 10 Carden St

Downtown Guelph

inside Meow! Boutique

(downstairs)

It's a full-service vinyl record shop, with new releases, re-issues, special orders

and Tons of Vintage Vinyl !!!!

We Are Moving!

In February we are moving to our new space, inside Meow! Boutique, 

10 Carden St.

Downtown Guelph

just around the corner from our current location

across from the skating rink.

Tons of new and used vinyl!

New releases and reissues!

Special orders!

Collectibles!

Dulcimer in the Shop

here it is, a nice Appalachian dulcimer, cherry wood, hand-made by an Ontario luthier. already sold the Hammer dulcimer by the same maker...

20% OFF ALL VINYL TODAY

RECORD STORE DAY

In honour of Record Store Day, April 20

ALL RECORDS ARE ON SALE!!!

Today at Chat Noir,

vinyl is 20% OFF

New Vintage Vinyl Arrivals

the New vintage records in shop: classic rock including The Band, Led Zep, Beatles, Bruce Springsteen, Dylan, Pink Floyd, some fun Elvis 45s including coloured vinyl, and tons more....

20% OFF ALL RECORDS in GUELPH

The big Boxing Week sale continues at Chat Noir, your source for vintage vinyl values in the Royal City. 20% OFF everything! ALL THIS WEEKEND.

The Beatles Yellow Submarine Pop Vinyl Figures in Guelph

New in shop: a selection of collectible Pop Vinyl figurines and bobbing heads, including this set of Yellow Submarine Beatles figures featuring John, Paul, George, Ringo and a Blue Meanie!

LP Records in Guelph

Vinyl Records at Chat Noir Antiques, Guelph

At Chat Noir we are always buying and selling vinyl.

Our small but eclectic selection of records --usually about 4 or 5 crates of primo stuff-- ranges from classic rock like Beatles, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd to 80s pop and New Wave like Cyndi Lauper, Billy Idol, The Cars, and Duran Duran. Plus we always have weird oddball stuff (SEE BELOW) as well as jazz, country (Johnny Cash), punk (Clash, Sex Pistols), Canadian (Stompin' Tom), soul, funk, and even the occasional modern pressing and recent indy darling (Radiohead, Cat Power). We also have 45s and 78s. We buy records too! With cash money!

Chat Noir Vinyl Spotlight: Paul Griffin Pours On Some Soul Sauce


Recent arrival! Besides having a classic cover, this 1968 album of Hammond organ dance music by New York session musician Paul Griffin is surprisingly listenable, given its exploitation-style presentation. Turns out Griffin is the missing link of 1960s and 70s rock. This guy had his fingers in every pie! Born in Harlem, he learned piano at a Baptist church and went to the Fame highschool before moving on to the legendary Apollo and a touring gig with 50s sensation King Curtis. Griffin eventually settled down to work as a studio back-up man for the New York record companies and played organ and piano on records for Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Aretha Franklin, Dionne Warwick, The Shirelles, Wilson Pickett, Paul Simon, Quincy Jones, Nina Simone, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and tons more. He played the gospel-style piano you hear on Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone" and Don McLean's "American Pie" (a song I've always hated). He's also the pianist on "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" (another hated classic) and many more hits by the likes of Steely Dan, Neil Diamond, John Denver, etc etc. So, great cover, great story, some funny song titles, and some mildly groovy instrumental numbers. Amen! Check it out! Griffin died in 2000 at 62 years old but his spirit lives on in Paul Griffin's Soul Sauce!