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10 - RPM - Monday July 15,1996

Incredible Records' Lipsin brings fourteen+ years to a close Coladas nationalWeekly1 End of 's originall rock museum altrviafive chart-- ,Record Distributor codes Anative of Montreal, Lipsin's first claim ReC(1rd Distributor Cbdes:- - sub MCA, --.1 by Rod Gudino to fame was as editor of the Underground BMG--34---- EMI -,F MCA Qua1itY,J/1 Polygram -,Q Sony HWarner- P Koch - K, \ Polygram - 9Sony - H warno Back in 1976, when a record was a record newspaper which ended when he was invited to New York city to work with Abby Hoffman TW LW WO - JULY 15, 1996 and a cassette was a record that had been TIN LW WO- JULY 15, 1996 put on tape, Jonathan Lipsin opened up a and Jerry Rubin for the Underground Press

1 1 19 THE FUGEES small used record store on Yonge St just Syndicate. Later, at seventeen, he left New 1 2 8 TRIPPIN. ON A HOLE... York for a peaceful time in California's hippy Stone Temple Pilots - Tny Music... Songs From... !he Score (Columbia) 67147-H south of Bloor. Little did he know that that Atlantic 82871-P in almost fifteen years the store would scene, ending up as gardener to a man by the 2 3 7 TONIGHT TONIGHT 2 2 51 ALAN'S MORISSETTE name of Jerry Garcia. He worked hard, spent Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie And The Infinite... Jagged Little Pill (Maverick) 45901-P become a music house of bohemianism and Virgin 40861-F a fond little while there and, in 1975, 11 TRACY CHAPMAN memorabilia, an aerie for nostalgic sorts and E X 7 8 YOU LEARN LE 5 a place to buy cheap stuff for everybody. And hitchhiked out of California with fifty bucks Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill New Beginning (Elektra) 610850-P Maverick 45901 (comp 2136)-P in his pocket and a vision of a children's 4 7 5 METALLICA we mean everybody. 4 1 11 PRETTY NOOSE Lipsin, who has come to refer to record in his head. - Down On The Upside Load (Elektra) 61923-P A&M 314 540 526 (promo CD( -Q Incredible Records as "The Sam's of used Son of the then owner of Almada 5 3 9 THE TRAGICALLY HIP E n 9 4 WAX ECSTATIC record stores," has spent the past fourteen Corporation in Canada, Lipsin took over the Sponge - Wax Ecstatic !rouble AtI he Henhouse (MCA) 8101 Columbia 67578 (promo CD) -H company's western section for a year and a 4 17 years catering his wares to everyone from 6 6 7 UNTIL IT SLEEPS 6 CELINE DION punk rockers to seventy-five year olds. But half, paying his dues until he realised that he Metallica - Load Falling Into You (Columbia) 331168-H that's just the half of it. The place has also had a knack for the job. Soon thereafter, the Elektra (promo OD) -F KR 15 4 7 8 26 BUSH X become a touchstone for artists like Leonard dream of the children's record took centre Sloan - Sixteen Stone finterscopel 90000-J Cohen, Bob Dylan, Santana and Cher who stage. MURSD 8 16 3 WHERE IT'S AT 8 6 8 GEORGE MICHAEL have been dropping by on a regular basis ever "I found that people my age (I don't think Beck - Odelay Older (keamworks) 50000-J since day one. they were called yuppies then) were having DGC 24823-J 9 12 5 ALL I KNOW 9 9 5 BRYAN ADAMS Offering material covering over 250 kids. Because I was raised on good kid's Screaming Trees - Dust 18 IitI Die (ALM) 314 54 0552141 records like Pete Seger and The Weavers I Epic 64178 (promo CD( -H music formats, a 40,000 vinyl record 10 12 16 "WEIRD AL" YANKOVIC felt there was a market for it. I came to 10 10 6 STUPID GIRL selection, 8,000 CDs, 650 original posters Garbage - Garbage Bad Hair Day (Hock HolVScotti Bros. from the 60s, special interest books and and interviewed about thirty artists and then Almo Sounds 80004-J EN 16 37 OASIS met a group who gave me a tape and I said 11 4 11 PEPPER unique displays (like the mischevuously Butthole Surfers - (What'sI he Story) Morning Glory (Epic maladjusted scribbles from Jim Morrison's `this is it.' I guaranteed them 10,000 records Capitol 29842 (comp 9)-F 12 11 2 SARAH MCLACHLAN which was a lot back then for a small 12 11 9 TAHITIAN MOON high school notebooks), Incredible Records Pomo For Pyros - Good Gods Urge Rarities, B -Sides And Other Stuff (Nen had enough going for it to withstand the rise company, not to mention that I was doing it Wamer Bros. 46126-P 13 13 7 SOUNDGARDEN totally on my own with no money." 13 5 9 COUNTING BLUE CARS of the competition from the mega chains of Dishwalla - Pet Your Friends Down Un the Upside (AbM) 314 540 ! HMV and Sunrise Records along Yonge The group was Sharon, Lois & Bram, but A&M 31454 0319 (comp 2)-Q 14 14 2 CHRIS SHEPPARD back then that might as well have referred to 14 8 7 PHOTOGRAPH Street. Verve Pipe - Villains Pirate Radio Vol. 5 (Pirate) 7005-M That notwithstanding (and Lipsin insists Sharon Stone, Lois Lane and Bram Stoker for RCA 66809 (comp 4)-N 15 15 11 all anyone knew. Back then the children's E n 19 6 SPIDERWEBS THE CRANBERRIES that the competition and the currently No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom to the Faithful Departed (Island) 3145 fledgling retail market is not an issue), market was so new it wasn't yet even in utero. lnterscope 90003-J 16 10 2 TONI BRAXTON Incredible Records will open its doors in Lipsin was forced to take drastic measures. 16 20 5 MORALE Treble Charger - Self =Title Secrets (La Face) 261120-N Toronto one last time at the end of this "I took that record and I went to Sam's Smokin' Worm (promo CD) -N month, and possibly re -open them in sunny and Sam's scoffed at it because no one thought 17 17 4 GIFT SHOP mu23 15 NOW! The Tragically Hip - Trouble At The Henhouse Various Artists (EMI) 37637-F California. that a children's record would do anything. MCA 81011-J 18 22 10 HIT ZONE "My wife and I are the kind of people They said 'give me fifty copies,' and that was 18 14 13 AHEAD BY A CENTURY The Tragically Flip - Trouble At The Henhouse Various Artists (Poly! el) 535 483-Q who believe we can do anything and that life for all of Canada which was an insult. So I MCA 81011 (promo CD( -J 19 31 5 is almost like a big experiment," says Lipsin. took that order, and I went next door to A&A 19 23 4 FREE TO DECIDE BONE THUGS N' HARMOD and I changed the fifty - I added another zero The Cranberries -To The Faithful Departed L1999 Eternal (Sony) LP91060-H "It's always been a dream for us to live by Island 314 524 234-Q the ocean and in the mountains, and - and showed A&A that Sam's ordered 500. 20 22 4 GOLD DUST WOMAN 20 20 2 CROWDED HOUSE At the time they were in competition with Hole - The Crow: City Of Angels 0.S.T. Recurring Dream: I he Very Best Of... (1 California is very cutting edge. So you could Hollywood 62047 (promo CD) -0 be in the country, you could be half an hour Sam's heavily and mightily. So they ordered 21 NEW DONT LOOK BACK IN ANGER 27 36 THE SMASHING PUMPKII from , and you can still be Oasis - (What's The Story) Morning Glory? Mellon Collie And I he Infinite... (Virgin] LIPS/N continued on page 14 Epic 67351 (promo CD) -H involved in everything." 22 25 2 WHO WILL SAVE YOUR SOUL 22 19 3 BECK! Jewel - Pieces Of You Udelay (WC) 24823-J Atlantic 82700-P 23 13 7 BANDITOS 23 18 2 ROBERT MILES The Refreshments - Fizzy Fuzzy Big Er Buzzy Dreamland (Arista) 74321 39126-N Mercury (comp 447)-Q 24 29 2 POPULAR 24 17 11 HOOTIE Er THE BLOWFISH Nada Surf- high/low Fairweather Johnson (Atlantic) 82880- Elektra (comp 290)-P 25 27 2 MINT CAR 25 21 7 MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 0. - Various Artists (Mother/Island) 314 53 Elektra 61744 (comp 288)-P NEW 26 30 9 PASTE 26 NEIL YOUNG Pluto - Pluto Broken Arrow (Reprise) 46291-P Virgin 36883-F WALKING CONTRADICTION 27 NEW , BEST OF DANCE PARTY Green Day - Insomniac Various Artists (Quality) 2136-M Reprise (comp 269)-P 28 28 26 5 NOTHING TO BELIEVE IN 36 68 SHANIA TWAIN Cracker - The Golden Age I he Woman In Me (Mercury) 314 522 Virgin 41498-F BURDEN IN MY HAND 29 NEW PHENOMENON O.S.T. Soundgarden - Down On The Upside Various Artists (Reprise) 46360-P A&M 31454 0526 (promo CD) -Q CIGARETTE RELIGION 30 25 4 THE NUTTY PROFESSOR ( Fleshpaint - Imitate Yourself Various Artists (Sef Jam) 314 531 911 Sour Music Inc./Fox 3012 -Select 31 34 15 STONE TEMPLE PILOTS tiny Music... Songs From... (Atlantic) 8

32 32 4 SLOAN One Chord I o Another (Murderecords)

33 24 10 SISTERS WITH VOICES New Beginning (RCA) 66487-N

34 NEW KISS You Want the Best... (Mercury) 31453