Rolling 2007 Vinyl Thread

wow, what a record!

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sooooooo nice. and it features Jacqui McShee to stunning effect! it came out in 1980, but jeez, you would think it was 1970.

Recently:
Lush - Gala
Lush - Split
Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele 2LP. (I couldn't find an explicit version of this forever, but I got it at last.)

ANYWAY, big star sound-wise, awesome. their transfer of the masters is impeccable. so deep and rich. i highly recommend it. i think this is the 3rd or 4th variation of 3rd that i have owned and hopefully this will be it. just based on this, i might shell out for the metal box reissue. the chris bell sounds great too, but it has been a long time since i have heard the ryko cd of that stuff so it's harder for me to make a comparison between the two.

as far as saying nice things about CDs goes, i have said before and i will say again, that the original twofer CD of the first two Big Star albums - american version, dunno about other countries - is STILL all these years later one of the best sounding CDs that i own. that thing is a wonder! amazing sound. you could use that thing as a reference disc at hi-fi stores. and i rarely can say that about cd reissues of old analog stuff.

Ian Gillan Band - S/T
Godeigo - Magic Monkey
Yukihiro Takahashi - Saravah!
New Horizon - Circus (features all of YMO as session players)
Goro Ohmi & Big Mouth - Guin Saga
Zeni Geva - How To Kill

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I am posting SEALED RASCALS LPS on EBAY

Pressing: JVC Records, Tokyo Japan, Using "Super Vinyl" - An ultra high resolution vinyl compound developed in Japan by JVC.

sounds sweet. very punchy and brassy.

If this means anything to ya, from what I understand, the Chris Bell LP is the exact same master as the Rykodisc CD. The original master tapes for this stuff are either lost or no longer exist.

recently:

Arthur Lyman - Authenic Hawaiian Favorites
Steely Dan - Aja
Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic
Karen Young - Hot Shot 12"

and:

Siouxie & the Banshees - Peek-a-boo (instrumental)
mixed with
Busta Rhymes - Light Your A** On Fire (instrumental)

yah, it's very deep. layers and layers...

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Recently purchased:

Earth 2 2LP
Stereolab - Refried Ectoplasm 2LP (sounds fantastic, maybe my favorite of theirs)
Beefheart - Lick My Decals LP (nice new 180 gram pressing)
Monkees - 40 Timeless Hits From... anthology 2LP (cool extended "Porpoise Song" and some rare stereo mixes)
Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard - Hazel & Alice LP
Szell/Debussy/Ravel LP 'cause I wanted some Debussy & didn't have any

now playing: Rafael Toral "Violence Of Geography" LP

leftover sandbox question: any vinyl junkies here who have used the Last preservative fluid stuff? Yea or nay?

Brian Eno - Another Green World
Brian Eno - Discreet Music
Pentangle - Cruel Sister
Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat

all together for a mere €15

now on: Kate & Anna McGarrigle's Dancer With Bruised Knees

the first track on each side is warped :( but it was cheap.

The Belle Stars "Iko Iko" 12-inch
Ducks Deluxe Don't Mind Rockin' Tonite LP
Fun Fun "Mega Hit Mix" 12-inch
Fun Fun "Gimme Some Loving" 12-inch
Girlschool Nightmare At Maple Cross LP
Hanson & Davis Can't Stop LP
Jellybean Jellybean Rocks The House! double LP
Scarlet Riviera Scarlet Riviera LP
J.M. Silk "I Can't Turn Around" 12-inch
Taffy "I [heart symbol] My Radio" 12-inch
Lyn Todd* Lyn Todd LP
Trans-X "Iche Liebe Dich (I Love You)" 12-inch
Zwol Zwol LP

* -- totally punk-disco apparent drag queen from 1980 on Vanguard, produced by Bobby Orlando, covering "Rebel Rebel" & "Pinball Wizard"!

Rubinoos - s/t (Wow at their version of I Think We're Alone Now!)
The DBs - Repercussion
T. Rex - Ride a White Swan
William de Vaughan - Be Thankful for What You've Got
Black Oak Arkansas - Raunch n Roll
Leprechaun Catering - Kumquats & Lychees

The Persuaders - Thin Line Between Love And Hate
Burt Bacharach - Reach Out
Kelis - Young Fresh 'N New / Daddy / The Spot 12''
Thelma Houston - Any Way You Like It
Mtume - Juicy Fruit
Herbie Hancock - Sunlight

i've been meaning to ask -- with records shelved properly at home, what is the point of those plastic baggies? they annoy me and get in the way, so i don't use them. it's not like i'm ever flipping through things super fast or cramming albums together.

can someone convince me of their worth?

What about STICKERZ? Are you a sticker-taker-offer? Sometimes they are hard to get off and I end up tearin' the cover.

Bought a copy of Sound of Impact last week, the Big Black semi-boot that Walls Have Ears put out way back when -- numbered, with booklet, woo hoo. Paid too much (c. $30), but I've always wanted a copy, and this is only the second or third I've seen since it came out.

Sounds great. A good deal better than Pigpile. But MAN! is Steve's between-song banter dorky. Clam it cheese, and play another song.

My local record store sell these really nice "hard" plastic covers that keeps the sleeves nice, and more importantly, keeps the corners from bending. No one likes a droopy sleeve corner.

Anyone seen a good vinyl print of Rush's "2112"?

wow Scott, I just found this on Monday! Pristine white label promo copy. Never heard any of it before, I like it much more than I was expecting given that my favorite is Echoes.

GHOST Hypnotic Underworld 2LP
GHOST Snuffbox Immanence LP

from the Drag City webstore. I knew they were OOP, so they either found some more or were repressed. Regardless, I bought them as soon as I could because I slept on them so long before.

(For 7-inches, though, I do keep protective outer baggies, oddly, and tend to distribute them among the records that deserve them most. Which yeah, is stupidly time-consuming sometimes. But 7-inch sleeves, tending toward paper, seem more worth protecting.)

I also hate plastic inner sleeves. Always have. Those get replaced with paper ones as soon as possible, preferably at the used record store via switching with other records before I head home.

A glance at my 10-inch shelf reveals that I own vinyl EPs by both Beaver and Dozer currently encased in outer plastic sleeves as well.

Oh, and I don't have much time for those outer sleeves that predominantly feature on newer limited edition style records. The ones with the super sticky flap. You have to really finesse the record back in. I have no finesse.

But what I really fucking hate are those super stiff plastic jobs with the tuck-in flap. Like those Table of the Elements twelves. ALWAYS break along the sides/bottom, smell like a chemical dump (which is kinda cool, I admit), and are crazy pain to open. Worst thing is, they're usually integral to the packaging, with fancy printing and ceteras, so it's hard to just toss 'em.

A record just goes in a cardboard sleeve, okay? Fucking design man finds some other object to ruin and make useless with his "ideas". Like maybe some Tyvek tableware, right? That'd be cool...

Okay, so the plastic inners. They're easy to hate, right? Crumple up into a wad in the corner, hard to get back in, cheep and grody. Fine.

But you know what really, REALLY sucks? It is the super-shiny, color-printed inner sleeves that are pinch-glued together along the edges. Like in the White Stripes' Elephant or Sonic Youth's Rather Ripped. They don't work. They don't fit. They fucking trap the record in, so you have to kinda wiggle it out. And they have super positive static capacity, so they're always attracting huge dirt clods and dragging them aross the wax. Die now, you suck fuck shit thing.

And I will not talk about teh plastic-lined paper sleeves that you can buy at Academy Records in Brooklyn, because then you will suspect how much of a super-geek I am. For realz.

WIRE 154 [4 Men With Beards]
MY BLOODY VALENTINE Isn't Anything [Plain]
EARTH Phase 3: Thrones & Dominions [Sub Pop]

In the mail:
GHOSTFACE KILLAH Supreme Clientele [Epic]
LUSH Split [4ad]

Certain musics are compatible with this feeling.

You're right, these are the best; they're sturdy, records slide easily in and out, they fit right in the outer sleeve, they protect the vinyl. But I only have a few of 'em. The plastic inner sleeve is the bain of my existence. It's a pet peeve of massive proportions.

also, you folks who don't use plastic covers are nuts. you must not play your albums very much. just sliding them in and out causes more damage (over time) to my covers than I can tolerate (especially on the bottom edge). At this point I have bags for every LP. And many of my older bags are all torn up on the bottom edge - that would have been the record cover without a bag!

And besides, when LP covers are split at the bottom, that's why God invented Scotch tape, right? (And the solution to playing any of your albums too much is easy: Buy more albums! Like, duh.) (Though to tell the truth, I actually don't think all that many of my LP covers are in all that much worse shape than when I bought them.)

oddly, i hate plastic outers but like the inners, even if they're confoundingly round shaped. it always seems like the inner plastic almost has an anti-static quality to it, perhaps just paper is more frictive.

Only 12-inch plastic outer baggie things I ever keep are for records.. where the sleeves are basically made of paper or detached flimsy cardboard

weird, i do this too. any silkscreened cover or folder type, like Pixeltan or 70's Dylan or Stones bootlegs, it's just paper so i throw it in plastic for support.

srsly you folks who don't use outer sleeves are just askin' for some drunk teenager to puke on your LPs

no one is puking on my privates.

you can leave the album outside the cover in a sleeve. record freaks do this so that they don't damage their covers. i do this when i send people records that they won from me on ebay. i have some records like that. but i do get a little nervous having a record out in the open like that. even in a sleeve. within a plastic sleeve. but i've got kids. and i'm a little messy. if i were rich and really anal, i'm sure i would have everything all perfect.

um, I meant that if you are (for example) using a wooden shelf for your records, when you slide a record back into the stack the PLASTIC is sliding across that possibly-less-than-smooth surface. As opposed to your cardboard record sleeve, leading to split seams and such.

I also carry records around a lot, to a radio station and DJ gigs, and this may explain my preference for bags. Never had anybody puke on one, but I have seen spilled drinks that would have been much worse w/o a bag.

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herbie mann - reggae (1974. with albert lee and mick taylor! it is by far the best herbie mann/mick taylor/albert lee reggae album that i own.)

the savage rose - your daily gift (via ebay. original pressing on gregar records. an RCA affiliate.)

the funky kings - s/t (1976. not really funky. produced by paul rothchild. featured jules shear. featured the tune "slow dancing". but who had the hit with slow dancing? it wasn't these guys. was it? olivia newton john? someone.)

cowboy - 5'll getcha ten (superior country-rock on capricorn! really really good. and i have cowboy's 1977 capricorn album, so i know from cowboy. this one is way better. this one is from 1971. just solid in every way.)

irene reid - two of us (nice soulful stuff from 1976 on t.k. subsidiary glades. irene made a pretty well-regarded jazz/standards album in the 60's. this one isn't as well known, but it's very nice.)

the persuasions - we came to play

the farm - spartacus (hah! it was a dollar. i made it thru most of side one. i thought of gareth.)

Victory - s/t (debut by german scorpions-esque cockrockers.)

ray simpson - tiger love (1978. love the song "slinky". ashford & simpson's lawyer/manager died here on the island and i am still coming across stuff from his house at the record store. most of it sealed and a dollar.)

stein ingebrigtsen - stein (70's swedish pop. nice swedish-language cover of rhinestone cowboy.)

der tpk - harmful emotions (new on siltbreeze. 500 copies. awesome stuff. tpk is short for teenage panzer korps.)

ghost - in stormy nights (double vinyl. different track order from the cd and a vinyl only track that is a weird mix of their cromagnon cover. drag city vinyl is always good.)

greezy wheels - radio radials (on london from 1976. goofy/folk/country/fiddle/rock/hippie stuff.)

west, bruce, & laing - why dontcha (needed this! thank you island of plenty!)

gas mask - their first album (great cover. forgettable horn rock a la blood sweat & tears.)

i traded in crap CDs, so i paid about 20 bucks for this stuff. minus the savage rose which i bought on ebay whilst drunk.

and the chilton song on the Hoehn album is great and very chilton-y. plus, he sings back-up and it sounds like he's playing guitar too.

Anywhere I can check this out before I buy it? The descriptions sound great.

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Terence – “An Eye For An Ear” – It’s almost painful for me to put Terence on a tape and not have the song be “Fool Amid The Traffic”, you know what I mean? I mean, you can see my predicament, right? Wait, what do you mean you don’t know what the hell I’m talking about? Fool has it all! The wail of that fuzz lead! If you ate that song you would not only be stronger, faster, and brighter, you would feel from your scalp to your fingertips to your toes a revelatory sense of permanence and rock-hard glow of solidity that could put Mount Everest to shame. But “An Eye For An Ear” need not step to the back for any song. It sings of itself mightily from the first blast of drums, horns (Ah, the horns. My trail of breadcrumbs has transformed itself into a trail of spit shaken from the valve of a horn. Those brass sections are reclaiming their place in the story of the rock and the roll. Their shrill bravado masking the fear that they will be forgotten…), and piercing six-string that perfectly accompany Terence’s blustery conviction that the world…the world is what, Terence?...That the world is…Going. Up. In. Flames.

I had them both on cd, but they were only $2.95 so I got them.

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Oh well, probably not coming out.

someone seriously needs to get this:

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AWESOME intricate baroque pop album. HIGHLY recommended. especially sealed for that price.

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Jimmy Campbell – “In My Room” – I don’t even know if Jimmy’s Half Baked album on Vertigo is rated, let alone under or over or sidewaysdownrated by Mojologically-inclined historians of post-mod squad baroque pop, and I don’t really know if there is anything I can do –singlehandedly- to remedy this situation, nor do I know whether I even feel up to the task. My new motto, when I’m in my cups, is: “Screw it. I’ve got a copy.” Let them eat Badfinger. Or Eric Carmen. Or Al Stewart for all I care. I dig and I dig until I can’t dig anymore. I climb thru windows. I get down on my knees. I go thru the mold and muck of forgotten cellars. I reach out and up. My hands -literally- bleeding to find a piece of that sweet soothing sound that my dreams are not only infested with, soaked in, trembling within, but that my very soul requires to make light of the fear-crazed eyes I have seen in the past. In hospital beds. On the streets. In the mirror. “In My Room” is great. And not to be confused with Fatty Sandbox’s pity party of the same name.

Charley D. And Milo – “Om Sweet Om” – If you mainline The Notorious Byrd Brothers into the vein marked “Precious Cargo” on a thrice-monthly basis cuz dirty feet and sun-kissed domes connect you to your fresh-faced id and remind you that the here is now and possibility is only another word for sofa, then you probably already own the Charley D. And Milo album. It’s next-level growth-chart stuff and reason enough to inhale/exhale your way thru jams traffic and romantic.

kool labels...

friend just tipped me off to this one.. awesome obscuro seventies prog/avant, seems to be all/mostly ripped from LP. lots of european stuff i've never heard of before.

OH MAN. so i was at a thrift shop in bangor, maine yesterday and they had 15-packs of 7 inches for 4 bucks. i only bought one cause i didn't have enough cash on me and they don't take card, but when i brought it home and opened it up i realized i got the following:

i fought the law/little annie lou - the bobby fuller four (!!!)
hurdy gurdy man/teen angel - donovan
loves me like a rock/learn how to fall - paul simon
superman/a man i loved - barbra streisand (ok this one kinda sucks)
for what it's worth/do i have to come right out and say it - buffalo springfield
my sweet lord/isn't it a pity - george harrison
there's a kind of hush/no milk today - herman's hermits
summer in the city/butchie's tune - the lovin' spoonful
small town woman/miss america - mark lindsay
hooray for hazel/need your love - tommy roe
la, la, la/time - bobby sherman
autumn rhapsody/cry - ronnie dove
walk away renee/i haven't got the nerve - the left banke
the night they drove old dixie down/when time is stolen - joan baez
draggin' the line/bits and pieces - tommy james and the shondells (!!!)

however, when i went back today to buy the rest of them SOMEONE HAD ALREADY GOTTEN THEM. so mad! kicking myself for not making my friend drive me to the ATM to get more cash! 4 bucks!