Who needs to be reissued?

Also: 4 Hero - Parallel Universe, Foul Play - Suspected, A Guy Called Gerald - Black Secret Technology (this golden trio of early jungle albums are all impossible to find now) One Dove - Morning Dove White Spooky - Gargantuan Bark Psychosis - Hex ... arguably the nostalgia fever hasn't yet caught up to any of these releases...

ar kane was recently reissued I think...

ff, I recently picked up a copy of Technicolour from Amazonuk. It looked like it had spent four years as a door stop, though. Don't know what that says about their stock level.

I recall trying to gather up stray copies of Hex for the shop I bought for when I heard it was going out of print. Such a shame. Maybe 3rd Stone will do yet another BP retrospective and include "Clawhammer" and "Reserve Shot Gunman" this time. Speaking of which -- I wonder how Graham Sutton's doing on his non-Boymerang solo record.

Tim, I think Modern Eon only released that one record, Fiction Tales. I see vinyl copies turn up from time to time; I think it was on DinDisc?

Off the top of my head, Ice magazine style... The early House of Love records and singles need the upgrade and reissue, but I heard a rumor about that being taken care of soon... A recent purchase of the Harvest box leaves me craving for all the Kevin Ayers records... The deletion of John Cale's Island Years package hopefully means that Fear, Slow Dazzle, and Helen of Troy will eventually be released separately... I think the first three Comsat Angels have gone out of print on CD, since I just sold an extra copy of Fiction at a hefty amount. Those are three records that should never be unavailable, if you ask me -- especially in those extra nice RPM editions... How about the first three Volcano Suns?

I could go on forever about records currently available that sound like crap and need a good shine, but that's another thread.

What else should be reissued? Buzzcocks best album 'A Different Kind of Tension' is only available in the 'Product' Boxed set. I'd like to replace my vinyl.

Also anybody remember The Passage? 'Degenerates' and 'Enflame' were two great albums on Cherry Red, which need to be re-issued. There's a compilation, but it's not enough!

A good Nightingales anthology including some of the singles and EPs (Use your Loaf, What Hi-Fi?) is needed too.

Finally, while on the subject of Cherry Red, there were a couple of great singles compilations which they did. I can't remember the name of the series, but they were divided into 'Pop' and 'Rock' as far as I remember. Artists included Felt, Fantastic Something, Punishment of Luxury, Blurt, Marine etc etc.

http://www.soulsaw.com/modern-eon/

Wonderfully detailed -- the guy who made it said he was a fan who wanted to create a site because he couldn't find one thing elsewhere about 'em! Interesting revelations -- ex-members ended up in Dead or Alive and Apollo 440.

Apparently everything is still out of print, but there's the album, five singles and a variety of compilation appearances out there. Anyone for some mp3s? ;-)

The great problem with Black Secret Technology is that they'd probably re-release the fussy second edition rather than the peerless original issue. I mean the second one is OK but it's not the record I lost my heart to six years ago.

There's some Cale stuff kicking around which needs compilation and re- issue - Jack The Ripper, Animal Justice....it took me forever to find a copy of Sabotage, too.

A LOT of hip-hop history seems to be lost, more so perhaps even than dance music where stuff is constantly being re-mixed.

The Bathers - unusual places to die - from 87? Blue in Heaven: All the Gods' Men - from 84 Peter Blegvad - the 1985 Virgin album with special dilivery track Cactus World News: Urban Beaches - on CD! Cactus World News: No Shelter - never released ! by MCA Clock DVA - Advantage 1983 album Clock DVA - Thirst 1981 album Lotus Eaters - No Sense of Sin - The First Picture of You - know that is a fine track Fiat Lux Hired History EP / Singles '81-'85 Mission of Burma - all albums - Boston band June Brides - There are eight million stories - english band ala The Smiths Passions - Thirty Thousand Feet Over China 23 Skidoo albums - see seperate thread Flux of Pink Indians - the Fucking Cunts Treat us Like Pricks- anarcho agit electro punk Ruefrex - Flowers for All Occasions - Northern Irish band Metal urbain - L'Age d'Or - the French PIL from 1985 The Comsat Angels - Chasing Shadows - 1986 - unavailable on CD? Squirrel Bait - Squirrel Bait - legendary US band pre Slint types The Opposition - Intimacy - 1983 english atmospheric band The Opposition - promises - 1984 english atmospheric band The Opposition - Empire Days - 1985 english atmospheric band SPK - Auto Da Fe - 1984 Shriekback - Jam Science 1984 The Virgin Prunes - If I die, I die - on CD! unavailable at the mo The Lover Speaks - album from 1986 The Sound - Jeopardy - unavailable on CD at the mo Red Guitars - Slow to Fade Swans - Soundtracks for the blind - unavailable on CD at the mo UK Decay - anything on CD - positive punk/goth band from early 80s Ten Ten - (an american band that released an album circa 1986) Torch Song - Wish Thing - William Orbit circa 1984! Time Zone - World Destruction - what a brilliant track Woodentops - a compilation covering their early stuff circa 1985 including Well, Well, Well. The early Woodentops music was so fresh and dynamic

thats just off the top of my head there are hundreds of gems that need to be released

The re release I would most like to see Cactus World News: Urban Beaches - on CD! I have my tape copy for nearly 15 years !but a CD would be much better May sees the 15th anniversary of the album.

also the 1989 album Cactus World News: No Shelter - never released ! by MCA -

Vaughan - Arkane 69 and I are available in a number of stores in London, try HMV Trocadero - few weeks ago both were in stock.

DJ Martian http://djmartian.blogspot.com

For me the essential Sound albums were 'Jeopardy', ' From the Lion's Mouth' and 'All Fall Down' .

Clearly.

Uncle Fester/ Fast N Bulbous - has albums lists going back to 1965! http://www.fastnbulbous.com/rock.htm

In the meantime I found all my Gene Loves Jezebel CD's back. Lots of fans of GLJ are missing: Promise, Immigrant and Discover. Should be reissued within seconds!!!!!

interested in hearing her stuff. don't have mp3. can't find anything.

This Heat!!!!

Both Squirrel Bait & Mission of Burma were given re-issues 2 years ago (on Dexter's Cigar/Drag City & Rykodisc, respectively). The Squirrel Bait CDs were OK - better-than-average hardcore, fast as all of that. Mission of Burma, of course, is the type of band that's featured in the dictionary next to the word "seminal".

Oh - and the Fire Engines' _Fond_ would be nice, too. And _No New York_. A proper Delta 5 re-issue. And Mo-Dettes, too. Swell f***in' Maps??!? And Gang of Four's _Entertainment_ - not for me, but for the kids that can't afford sick eBay markups.

This Heat!!!

As far as things needing proper reissue, I will put my Free Improv hat on and say: a proper and systematic reissue of the Incus, Ogun and FMP catalogue from the '70s. I know the Incus stuff is gradually cropping up in different places but masterpieces like Kenny Wheeler's Song For Someone desperately need salvaging. Ogun will put out stuff whenever they can afford to do so (apparently they get finance from some Japanese fans) and I wish the Albarns or Yorkes of this world could put their money where their mouth is, etc. etc. Also, can someone at BMG please get their act together and put their early '70s jazz albums out again properly - i.e. first two Brotherhood of Breath albums, the Westbrooks (NOT the crap warbly Beat Goes On "remasters" of "Metropolis" and "Solid Gold Cadillac"), Tony Oxley's "Ichnos," etc.

(which is not an attack on DW itself, more an attack on the way the BBC has reinforced the base-level RW-DW connection by only reissuing the two recent Doctor Who CDs. Which are great, but hardly representative. But, of course, they'll cry, DW is a Marketable Brand Name whereas the RW isn't. Yada yada ...)

we need slade, dexys, and the go-betweens. you can't get ONE slade record in this country. WTF? oh, scott walker too. prince's records suffer from being some of the first put on cd plus if only he and warner brothers could put their heards together, maybe he'd put out some of the unreleased tracks on them -- soultion: give the job to rhino to do. springsteen should be reissued; hard to believe that, when clapton is reissued every other year, springsteen has yet to receive the treatment once.

Also, Les Baxter/Bas Sheva 'The Passions' should be officially re-released on cd (not that bootlegged stuff).

And Peggy Lee 'Mirrors' (for crying out loud).

VIRGINIA ASTLEY.

right?

xoxo

STOCKHOLM MONSTERS - "Alma Mater".

(Sudden thort - what if Norman IS THAT GEEZER? But no else he would have started mentionng VA a lot earlier, phew....)

In the wake of tragic events this week, I suppose it'd be appropriate to reissue "BBC Radiophonic Music" (aka "the pink album").

Riverside soundman: "are you happy with the mix, miss astley?"

Miss astley: "(tirade of barrack-room language)"

Riv sndman: "which aspects could do with some iimprovement pleas, miss astley"

Miss astley: "(tirade of barrack-room language)"

etc etc

It made me like her all the more....(sigh)

xoxo

I grew up among many aged neighbours who had been V.Astley types when young (ie in the 1920s): all behaved much as Norman suggests, esp, when tight = all the time. The most barking made an express point of welcoming young newcomers to the village wearing orange-peel teeth...

staying in the same ballpark, its a shame that the individual artists whose tracks make up numerous lounge/exotica compilations are rarely deemed worthy of a dedicated release.

it would also be nice to see some bbc radiophonic workshop recordings made available, particularly after the very sad news of delia derbyshire's passing.

Everything by D.N.A.

The early Scritti Politti records, pre-_Songs to Remember_.

The Factory reissue program ground to a halt when Factory went tits- up. Les Temps Modernes are slowly working their way through some of the catalogue - they've done Section 25, Tunnelvision, the Names and Crispy Ambulance now and The Wake's first album is due soon. Where possible they stick singles on the albums as extra tracks. Some of the catalogue may never be re-issued. The master tapes for the Stockholm Monsters material are lost, for example. Rev-ola did ACR reasonably well, but I guess those CDs are now deleted.

A good Factory singles comp, sweeping up the rest of the catalogue would be classic, although there is some highly dodgy material too - remember the godawful 'ACR-in disguise' Kalima? Palatine didn't do a bad job of collecting together some of the best of the rest - the Distractions, Marcel King, Wendys.....

Um, no they didn't. But I am very demanding on this point.

What did you have in mind?

Well for starters, a proper "Sextet" reissue with Waterline, Funaezekea, the Sir Horatio record and the '81 Peel Session as bonus tracks.

But why stop there? Why not an ACR version of "Heart And Soul" covering the Factory years?

Me too; me neither.
I think only of those less fortunate ;-)

As to what I'd like to see reissued, growing up in the mid 80s has left me hunging for the second Freur LP on CD and how about Portion Control? None of their stuff is available and hasn't been for years. I've not looking at audiogalaxy to see if there are any MP3s of theirs about - I'd love to hear the single "Rough Justice" again after all these years. Can anyone help?

Oh, and Rev-Ola did a shite job on ACR. Crap remastering (so quiet), no extra tracks and huge gaping holes. A decent singles compilation, moping up early stuff and single-only stuff would have been nice (maybe it's me, but the 7 inch single version of "Knife slits water" is by far my favourite)

I was listeing to In Full Gear last night, specifically cuz I love the remixes of "Talkin' All That Jazz" that were tacked onto side 4. How can you hate those remixes? That seems so wrong (although I did skip the instrumental remix).

for all you guys who don't have a copy they need to rerelease captain beefheart's "lick my decals off, baby" it's SO miles better than troutmask replica

This (along with the other Warner Bros. Beefheart records) was re-issued on 180gm, analog mastered, virgin vinyl late last year, early this year. You know they won't go out of their way to do that hi-level of reissuing for the CDs, so you'll have to take that or leave it.

And why can't they rerelease all of Bushmiller's "Nancy and Sluggo" in lovely packaging, as they are doing now with Peanuts or five years ago with Krazy Kat?

FINALLY someone else with a brain!!!!i

I had all these and then in some clearout madness, got rid. Fool! I managed to get a copy of Seeds 2 'Art' which is wonderful, but you never see them around anymore. I really, really, really want Seeds 1 'Pop'. Oh well.

At least the one I have is the best one- Marine, Homosexuals, Past Seven Days, Nightingales, Blurt.....wow!

There's a worrying amount of Cactus World News love going on up-thread. Worlds Apart and that first single were fine, but the other stuff I heard were just strumpty-strum Greenbelt singalongs. Or did I miss something?

But I'd like to give SERIOUS props to Marine, mainly for the song Animal In My Head that I think is only on the Crepuscule Fruit of the Original Sin comp. The best.

The Nightingales compilation was pretty good, though a bit top-heavy, but that may just be the problem of chronology as I like the earliest stuff best, though it's all worthwhile. Now what would be REALLY amazing is a Prefects CD, that would just be the best.

does this sound like some kind of violent euphemism to anyone else?

"yeah, shorty tried to take over, but he got reissued!"

Dan - do you know the Disco Students - 2 singles out in 1979 on Yeah,Yeah, Yeah called (goes off to check in Recd collector rare recds guide....) right,... 'Boy with A Penchant For Open Necked Shirts' and 'South Africa House'. The only reason I mention it is that they're playing again now, after 24 years off! We played with them in London a couple of weeks back. They were *interesting*....oh alright, terrible!

PYG

dammit !

Does the good Dr. C - or any others who've picked it up since its reissue last year - have any thoughts on how the Passage's "Degenerates" stands up? It's something I'm interesting in hearing.

To add a few bloody obvious choices ("On The Beach" and "No Other" were reissued; surely these will be):

Tim Buckley: Starsailor
Talk Talk: Laughing Stock
John Cale: Music For A New Society

Anyone know if plans are afoot regarding these?

c'mon, everyone wants to hear "dazed and confused" before zeppelin got to it.

Also, at least the first four Killing Joke LP's NEED remastering badly.

'farewell aldebaran' (judy henske & jerry yester)

and those pre-'songs to remember' scritti tracks could still do with a nice compilation job.

Bootleg

....still nothing on the horizon for these?

modern eon - fiction tales
belfegore!
the lucy show
the screaming blue messiahs - gun shy

AND IT WAS DONE.

* Supercollider, the LA duo from the early 90s
* the very first KC & The Sunshine Band album
* the first three Kraftwerk records
* Bob Seger System
* Alice Cooper's Pretties For You and Easy Action
* A lot of Sun City Girls albums from the late 80s and early 90s (although they're working on it, slowly but surely, I'm guessing.)
* Ut
* Nick Straker Band
* B 52's Mesopotamia EP with the ORIGINAL mix. (no problems with the 1990 one, but the original one was excellent too, albeit VERY different.)
* A lot of classic 1987/1988 era Rhythm King stuff like the first Bomb The Bass, S'Express, Baby Ford, etc.
* The Story Of Chicago House (not to be confused with the recent Soul Jazz reish of Chicago Acid)
* The Plastics
* Pop Group/Mark Stewart/Rig Rig & Panic/Pigbag (though I'm guessing this is being worked on)
* Vanity 6 (though this will happen sooner than early Kraftwerk reissues)
* The Family
* Sheila E.
* Andry Cymone
* and even fucking Mazarati and other (possibly deservedly) forgotten (ex) Prince protogés

Thing is I'm not so sure. What does Soul Jazz have planned beyond that Pop Group/Stewart comp? The Pigbag CD was issued, it's on my Amazon wishlist, I think. Rip, Rig and Panic would be cool, as would Maximum Joy. While on the Bristol tip, I have a standing offer to do 2 Glaxo Babies CDs but it doesn't seem to be going anywhere, unfortunately.

Unless you're talking about reissues newer than 2003.

Which original mix, UK or US? Is the very different mix you're speaking of the Island Records one, which was reputedly released by accident (hence the reason why it's not available on CD)?

I like both mixes.. the latter mix from 1990 I like because it's more consistent with the B 52s' ouevre, but I hate the way it was released, like they wanted to rewrite history. I was shocked when I picked up the vinyl for $3 and heard it.

I think Byrne were trying to use B 52's as his way with competing with the Tom Tom Club at the time. The songs are *completely* restructured, extended, there's weird dub/echo on the vocals, very raw, and it's mostly *just* disco-ey drums and rhythms throughout the EP... it's more of a dub/disco side thing than an ep of B 52's songs.

I can understand why the B 52's weren't happy with it.. it completely derailed what they figured their fans would expect from them, and were very worried it would be all nails and a coffin in one fell swoop... which didn't turn out to be the case.. then again, maybe the Party Mix mini-LP buffered that a little. I'm also guessing it's why Whammy! was far more rocking (despite Ricky Wilson's wanting to work with synthesizers and computers more... I REALLY wish there was a proper book on the B 52's to explain this chapter in their history.)

Anyway, the CD version of Mesopotamia AND the original EP mix both need to be heard. They might as well be called different titles though...

from the mailout ::
In what began as a long-shot inquiry more than two and a half years ago, Words On Music’s dream of working with London’s The Lucy Show has at last come to fruition. Coming this autumn Words On Music will re-release the quartet’s 1986 album Mania – out of print for more than 15 years!

Mania rose to the very top of the North American college radio charts in 1986 by injecting gorgeous, poignant melodies onto a textured soundscape, ricocheting with shimmering guitars from the production of the legendary John Leckie (New Order, Stone Roses, Radiohead, Trashcan Sinatras, Felt). One of the classic post-punk albums, Mania stands tall with the best recordings of the era by The Cure, Echo and The Bunnymen, Jesus and Mary Chain, and New Order. The Lucy Show toured North America twice, in addition to a two-week tour of the UK with R.E.M. in 1984.

The Words On Music re-release of Mania remasters all 10 album tracks, plus 7 additional bonus tracks (5 of which have never been commercially released). The re-release will also include the video to The Lucy Show’s MTV hit “A Million Things.” Mania’s cover art and layout has been designed by Lucy Show singer & bassist Rob Vandeven and will include several rare photographs of the band as well as liner notes written by The Big Takeover editor Jack Rabid.

Words On Music would like to thank Mark Bandola, Rob Vandeven, and Dave Margereson for helping to make this first step in reissuing The Lucy Show’s catalog a reality.

...hoping that last sentence meand that "undone" will get the reissue treatment as well.

I can confirm to you that no Maximum Joy has EVER made it to CD apart from one song on a multi-artist compilation. From what I heard, I would certainly buy a reissue on CD if one were done.

There are THREE distinct mixes...

* There's the original one that was released on Warner Brothers.
* There's the one on Island that got mistakably released that is dubbed all the hell. This might be the ORIGINAL original mix that the band rejected and demanded redone at the time
* There's the 1990 remix that first graced the EP as a two-fer with Party Mix on CD.

I have an original cassette of the two releases. I'm wondering which of the former two this cassette is. Given that it's on WB, I'm guessing the first one.

So, yeah, THREE mixes. Jesus.

But they were reissued, no?

- All the Game Theory albums (or at least the best-of, Tinkers to Evers to Chance)
- Michael Head Presents The Magical World of the Strands
- Moose - ...XYZ and Honey Bee
- Data - Accumulator (Data was Georg Kajanus's early-80s synthpop band with singers Phil and Frankie Boulter, and Accumulator is a compilation of just about everything they released on one CD)

- And R&B artists The System deserve a best-of, if not a comprehensive reissue of their work

You can't give their other albums away but this debut is impossible to find on CD. I have it on vinyl and it's fantastic.

The singer went on to be the head of a major record label, too. You'd think he'd have a little pull.

I second this.

Also wish Ray Charles' True to Life were on CD.

http://www.thisispunkrock.btinternet.co.uk/ps/ushc/1/govissue.jpg

all the early Sir Shina Adewale records--basically a great contemporary band to Sunny Ade in the '70s

Yes, on Cherry Red's excellent Contradictions CD:

http://www.cherryred.co.uk/cherryred/artists/thomasleer.htm

Why not a Fast Product/Pop Aural set? I've got a copy of Mutant Pop and would love to hear more.

There has been and will likely be more. The last time the Mutant Pop material was in print was a UK EMI release called Rigour, Discipline and Disgust from the mid 90s featuring all the early Fast singles and one or two Pop Aural releases.

the index. the 60s garage rock band, i mean. their stuff is SO IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND now. at least their one good album.

also, since it's being discussed on noisedudes, john bender.

Raw Deal (Bothwell's finest punk band, famous for "Bothwell's Burning" - i.e. "London's Burning" by the Clash - and "I'm Gonna Pogo All Over Your Head" - sung to the tune of "Nut Rocker") who eventually transmogrified into the Bluebells.

ahhh, what was lost...

Basehead, Play With Toys

Cosign. This hasn't been done? Such a funny disc, especially the Intro and Outro.

definitely Armand Schaubroeck Steals.

http://www.headheritage.com/unsung/feature/armand_schaubroeck/
http://www.furious.com/perfect/armandschaubroeck.html

pretty much everything by spacemen 3. it really irritates me how awful of a job taang did at putting out the cd version of the "perfect prescription."

also twin/tone reissuing the replacements "let it be" and earlier back catalog would be great.

john bender seconded. i want that shit on vinyl. plus it would be nice if dude wherever he is could make a little bit of money off his wonderful wonderful music, instead of record collectors charging 300 dollars an album

it would be nice to get some reasonably priced reissues of some 90s coil stuff, like the black light district cd and time machines, they're sold for stupid amounts on discogs. doubt sleazy wants to go there though

as milton pointed out, the record that really needs to be reissued is ryuichi sakamoto's Esperanto

it really irritates me how awful of a job taang did at putting out the cd version of the "perfect prescription."

? The 2xCD Forged Prescriptions reissue is amazing (can't remember if that was TAANG! or not though)

seriously this is the best S3 reissue ever

all of the replacements stuff up to tim was reissued with bonus tracks last year

Coil, definitely.

"Out of Cold Storage" box all on vinyl

also... I wonder how much unheard V-3/Jim Shepard stuff there is.

I emailed John Bender but he didn't respond.

? The 2xCD Forged Prescriptions reissue is amazing (can't remember if that was TAANG! or not though)

This was on Space Age Recordings.

all of the replacements stuff up to tim was reissued with bonus tracks last year

sorry, i should have specified that i meant replacements and spacemen 3 on vinyl. totally agree with the 2xCD of forged prescriptions rocking hard.

I don't know at which point in the recording process the drum sounds got fucked up for the first few Band of Susans albums, but I'd kill to have reissues that sound like the last few BoS albums.

You know, this thread, and the similar "Albums that shouldn't be out of print" thread, should be forwarded to Reportoire, Ace, Cherry Red and Demon/Edsel.

And 4 men with beards label too, right?

The first two My Dad is Dead albums. Though unfortunately they add up to 82:00 combined, so a single cd wouldn't work.

the similar "Albums that shouldn't be out of print" thread,

ah, I knew I had ranted about some of these before:

Zoviet France
H.N.A.S.
all the early F/i cassettes, there are at least half a dozen
Legendary Pink Dots - first four albums, now oop on Soleilmoon
Velvet Underground Quine Tapes
everything on Rhino Handmade that's oop

Method Actors on Acute early 2010

The second Human Sexual Response album, 'In A Roman Mood,' is a lost treasure and should be reissued please. Also, the Delta 5 album, 'See The Whirl,' which is honestly not that great but I still love them so. I think the Rolling Stones catalog from 'Sticky Fingers' onward should be remastered at once, without all that crazy unlistenable compression on the latest reissues.

That second Human Sexual Response LP (which rocks harder than the first) contains the all-time queasiest lyric: "Even a boy-girl remembers the frog-slot." From "Blow Up."

Method Actors on Acute early 2010

Oh Christ, really?? I just discovered them last year - can't wait!!

So many things really. But looking through what I've digitized myself lately:

World of Pooh
Rote Kapelle
Y Trwynau Coch
Micronotz
Eric Hysteric and the Esoterics
Last Words
Mud Hutters
Neats
Suede Crocodiles
Breaking Circus
B People
Wild Stares
The Girls
Sunday Painters
Sorry
Yo
Impatient Youth
Distractions
Alternative

I already had all the Distractions stuff digitized...prob not as well as you did.

Or not--my Distractions 7"s are a little long in the tooth.

not terribly relevant to this thread but one of my tatts is the factory columns from the b-side of "time goes by so slow"

The long-lost Gary Walker & the Rain LP had just been reissued, on Pete & Bob's Eclipse label...by chance I happened to find an earlier CD pressing in a used bin this weekend (weird; it's the only non-bootleg CD I own that has absolutely zero info about who released it!)...it's pretty fun, in a dumb kind of way...not nearly as weird as Stanley makes it out to be (not really hearing the "heavier Revolver"), but I can see why he talks it up...most of these tracks would fit very nicely on any of the comps he's curated in the last few years...

^would love to hear this, "francis" is one my all-time favourite 60s 45s

the final Distractions single, self-released via Rough Trade and missing a member, was totally mangled in mastering or something. Did you work some magic on those songs? The songs are underrated.

"The long-lost Gary Walker & the Rain LP had just been reissued"

i have a really old vinyl boot of this that i've played probably a hundred times over the years. it's a favorite of mine. i've been thinking of getting the cd just to see how much better it sounds. it's funny that gott punch brings up the index on here cuz i think the same guy put out the old 90's index boot and the gary walker boot. (and lots of other stuff i used to buy in philly back then)

there was an official index vinyl r-r in '07 or '08 but it seems to be all gone now

super. i love the world of psych reissues that seems to exist just outside of like... everything i read and everyone i know.

No, no magic. Don't even think I did that one.

I should re-rip. I got my Project pre-amp and a new cartridge so I can rip some stuff for DJing, so I'm in a ripping mood.

Oh, and add to all that everything that hasn't been reissued from the Ron Johnson catalog. Big Flame's been done, and I think you can get some Stump on an import, A Witness too, but all the rest. Death by Milkfloat. Jackdaw with Crowbar. Great Leap Forward. And so on. Maybe just do a cd of the First After Epiphany comp, with tons of bonus tracks. And there's always Kilgore Trout, my favorite mid-eighties UK guy.

King of the Slums needs something, too.

TAD

Agree on Alternative, I've got the Crass Records 7" but the LP is a bit pricey for me.

Warning Label Records were supposed to be reissuing B People but it doesn't seem to have materialised yet.

they also announced Monitor a few years ago.

Bizarros

-arros

-arros

TAD

this stuff REALLY needs remastering too. tad's records are one of the few times where i honestly believe the vinyl sounds ridiculously better than the shoddy 80s mastering on the cd versions

so get buzy Sub Pop!

And there's always Kilgore Trout, my favorite mid-eighties UK guy.

I saw them once (w/ Ut and Band of Susans or something like that). Main bloke Chris was also in AC Temple IIRC.

and bear too, who had some great moments

Oh to have seen Kilgore Trout..."Quality Control" will always be an all-time fave. Between the two 12"s, the 4x4 comp tracks, the Take 5 comp track, and the split with the Stretchheads, you could get somewhere--those all add up to 47 minutes in iTunes land. and something tells me Chris is the kind of guy to have zillions of things recorded in his bed-sit that nobody else has ever heard....

King of the Slums deserves a double cd comp, but who has the rights to Midnight now?

K. Trout were also on the Rorschach Blot Test comp with AC Temple and Dustdevils. Dunno if those tracks were unique to that comp though, never had anything else by them.

Great Leap Forward for sure. Of the Ron Jonson stuff that's the one I'd be into getting. And why not Big Flame too, since the Drag City CD was about 15 years ago now and is stupidly priced (160 quid on Amazon!). I want the MacKenzies too.

Also the mention of Rote Kapelle reminds me that not a lot of the InTape label has been made available, other than. Probably due to lack of interet I guess but Marc Riley and Robert Lloyd's stuff is great.

tad's records are one of the few times where i honestly believe the vinyl sounds ridiculously better than the shoddy 80s mastering on the cd versions.

Was God's Balls ever properly released on CD? The Salt Lick CD doesn't count, as 3 or 4 of the songs are missing.

it was not

If anyone wants a Big Flame cd, there's one at Other Music (New York shop--you might have to go to their site and email them) used for about $8. Had no idea it had become one of those ebay cds or I would have grabbed it earlier today.

Speaking of which, the cd of King of the Slums' "Barbarous English Fayre" has hit that annoying territory (as did the Shop Assistants and Au Pairs before they were reissued). Game Theory, of course, though that will likely never be rectified. The Ropers first full length is headed that way, too. Come on Slumberland...

Hansten Klork by Metabolist really needs to be reissued, don't quite know what label would take a chance on the missing link between This Heat and Magma, mind. Here's their myspace page : http://www.myspace.com/metabolistband

I tried tracking Metabolist down ages ago but had no leads. Interesting...

Back when I was thinking of going just all digital I emailed Big Flame via myspace and they said they were doing it themselves or something.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Metabolist-7-Identify-Tiz-Hoz-Nam-1980-Dromm-Records_W0QQitemZ140342542939QQcmdZViewItemQQssPageNameZRSS:B:SRCH:US:101

somebody should reissue the Virgo Four album

Method Actors CD is coming along. I expect you will hear a lot about them when it's out. I think like The Lines but in a different way, one of those bands who people are like "oh yeah, I heard that, it's ok", but when you finally sit down to really listen to it, it just becomes more and more apparent how totally killer it is. Sometimes when I work on releases, the more I listen to them the more I get sick of them, but other times I just get more and more into them. The genius of this band and this release will blow people away!

http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/5272/r12237031226272548.jpg

I wish someone would reissue this album. On of the most underrated soul albums of the 70's.

Mylo's Destroy Rock N Roll is a classic over 10 years old and is really hard to find on vinyl.

Nicky Hopkins' Tin Man Was A Dreamer

WC And The Maad Circle ‎– Ain't A Damn Thang Changed

guessing it's due to uncleared samples?