This Saturday marks 'Record Store Day' UK [more info]

Just the excuse I need to talk about Record Collections (sub titled "Dealing with dad's junk")

∎ PODCAST: The Collection - BBC Sounds (still available to listen)

Radio 6 Music's Tom Ravenscroft, son of John Peel, invites famous folk to the family home to flick through his father's vast record collection and pick out anything that catches their eye. ∎

I've been listening to these Podcasts over the last months and not only have some of the guests been new to me, so have many of the records played. Quite a mixture of music from the 60s, 70s & 80s featuring a fair amount of reggae, dub music, psychedelia and other oddities that have been dusted off, interspersed with conversations offering an insight into the Star Rating and filing system of the rumoured 26,000 LPs and 40,000 singles in the Collection. 

I've been taking notes, you'll be glad to hear and have picked today's track as chosen by Kieran Hebden aka Four Tet. 

The band is Tomorrow. Who coincidently recorded the first ever John Peel show session on BBC R1 21st Sept 1967. Tomorrow wouldn't last, their only studio album was released in 1968, but by the time the album arrived in record stores the psychedelic trend had already begun to abate. Guitarist Steve Howe would go on to greater things with Yes, while lead singer Keith Hopkins is better remembered as Keith West for the "Excepts from a Teenage Opera (Grocer Jack)" single.

Moving on then to today, this is 'Revolution' by Tomorrow which starts very weirdly, but settles after a minute before a wild ending   

< Peel was a self-confessed vinyl junkie :- 

He was loath to part with any of them, instituted a card index system in 1969 to catalogue them, and even had a shed built at his home to accommodate part of the groaning mountain of ephemera.