When I first started collecting records back in my teenage years all I really had were either albums or singles that had just fallen off the charts and were now 50 cents in a Coles bargain bin. I had some sixties singles but often they were obscure cast-offs from my neighbour's house. But I was off buying greatest hits and compilations and topping up my songs that way.
Then someone told me you could buy second-hand singles through a magazine called the Trading Post. I'd never seen it before but there they were. Sixties singles 50 dollars the lot. Will seperate. I didn't have a phone so I had to bicycle up the phone booth on the top of the hill. And I didn't have a car yet so I had to blag a lift. But I got to this place in Hawthorn where the seller opened the suitcase to reveal all these great singles. Picture sleeves. A lot of Australian stuff. It was a strange feeling knowing all this stuff could be mine. I remember feeling quite nervous cos it was a lot of money for me in the mid-seventies. I was still at school. But I got the price down. And I got them home.
Undecided was one of the singles. I'd heard all the Masters other stuff but this one was just out there. Brilliant record. It's as good as anything from overseas or on the Nuggets album. It's just so bloody exciting right from the go.
Eventually, most of the singles ended up in my jukebox. Just the right place for them to be. If not a little scary that they may get a little destroyed in there. Then again it's not working at the moment.
I was 16 when this came out. LOVED it instantly! Still one of my faves.
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