Rolling 2008 Vinyl Thread

hahahaha! i was gonna start a new vinyl thread the other day actually.

for the "record":

Rolling 2004 Vinyl Thread

Rolling 2005 Vinyl Thread

Rolling 2007 Vinyl Thread

don't know what happened in 2006!

I got a good turntable for the first time in my life. I have always had really poor ones and when the last one broke I just let it go. The records have been sitting in their cabinets. Then I got some test pressings I had to approve and so I was like "ok, better get a turntable, don't be a dick." I got a Rega P-1. It is so goddamn cool. I got more pleasure listening to music today. fuckin', Black Sabbath Never Say Die on the good turntable sounded awesome, and it's not even that great of an album. And then I got some really shitty news that even a good turntable couldn't fix, but I played a Debussy record anyway. The end.

"I got a Rega P-1."

that's what i just got! well, in october for my birthday. but it still feels new to me.

lousy book and record fair last week, only picked up

michael jackson - thriller
michael jackson - bad
bruce springsteen - born to run

through the mail
sunburned hand of the man - weekend at burnie's

I've been doing a lot better so far this year than last - mainly because I've got a few pay cheques in since a period of joblessness, and I'm in Glasgow now which has a handful of decent places to get records. So, off the top of my head, so far this year I've got

Cliff Richard - Wired For Sound
Big Dish - Satellites
Blur - Parklife (not sure why I did this, I hate Albarn, but theres 2 good songs on there I think, it was £1, and I'm a sucker for moderately recent vinyl in a charity shop)
Harry Nilsson - Skidoo (should be here soon, bought it from eBay)
Beautiful South - Welcome To The Beautiful South
Chic - Real People
Donna Summer - Once Upon A Time
Chic - C'est Chic
Bruce Springsteen - Lucky Town
Michael Jackson - Dangerous
Q-Tip - Amplified
Dusty Springfield - Dusty In Memphis

I think a couple of those might have been '07 - sometime over the holiday period - but I'm not sure which. Actually, looking at the list, it's not too great. There's only a couple I'm still listening to, say, 1 week later, but it's nice just to get back into the habit of buying things. Having lived away from any good record shops, my record collection was looking very, very similar to the way it was when I was in college around 5 years ago.

sunburned hand of the man - weekend at burnie's

is this good? I keep forgetting to try to find the Four Tet produced one

a few days ago in my first vinyl buying excursion of 08 I picked up Psychedelic Horseshit "Magic Flowers Droned" and a used copy of Vangelis "Opera Sauvage"

I haven't gotten to flip through a record store yet this year, but after hearing (and loving) some Sic Alps stuff at the tail end of the year, I mail ordered and just received the following:

Sic Alps - Pleasures & Treasures LP
Sic Alps - Semi-streets 7"
Sic Alps - Strawberry Guillotine 7"
Sic Alps - The Soft Tour in Rough Form 12"
Wooden Shjips - Sol '07 7"

When I do get to the store, I've got my eye out for some of those Aretha Franklin gospel-era records.

I got my 1st vinyl of the year in the mail yesterday. Ulver - Shadows Of The Sun.
I've not even bought anything in 2008, this was pre-ordered the week before christmas.

backwards same firk - true blues & gospel
fahey - vol. 2: death chants...
the braun brothers - cowboy blues (private country boogie rock)
sightings - absolutes

listening also to awesome new double LP comp "Obsession" of international psych/prog 67-72 (i believe.) Biased, cuz it was compiled by my boss, but do check it out ya'll. ULTRA RARE FUZZ MONSTERS START TO FINISH.

got an older Edward Ka-Spel LP from Forced Exposure, a score since it has been out of print for quite some time. we are having our 20th annual record convention here in Eugene on Feb. 10th, I will be buying a lot more vinyl then.

sunburned hand of the man - weekend at burnie's

is this good? I keep forgetting to try to find the Four Tet produced one

don't waste money on the one Four Tet produced, it's awful. I can't believe they let Four Tet mess with their jams, takes out all the spontanity. Bad bad move

Weekend at Burnie's is a bit dissapointing, lots of vocal messing around, not enough wide eyed freeform jams for my taste. it's a good record in a dada sort of way

DMR, feel free to stop by the shop to listen to both Weekend @ Burnie's and the other new LP, limited to 200 I think, on Ecstatic Yod.

I will feel free. You have freed me.

FUCK YOU DON'T PATRONIZE ME

I just moved north of downtown, so my fave spots are now further away. :(

Haven't made the time to swing by yet, but I'm looking forward to my first purchases soon.

claire hamill - october
delta 72 - the r&b of membership
sea and cake - the fawn
tom waits - real gone
three dog night - suitable for framing
mary weiss - dangerous game
quintron - are you ready for an organ solo?
jack-o and the tearjerkers - don't throw your love away

ULTRA RARE FUZZ MONSTERS START TO FINISH

think I need to hear this shit too

it's pretty dope! the only names on it i recognized were Erkin Koray and Os Novos Bahianos.

what other Sunburned LP??

Taste of Never?
http://www.flippedoutrecords.com/sutaofnelpec.html

yes i think that one, guess i got the edition wrong.

oh man I am on a vinyl buying fucking binge now that I got this sweet goddamn turntable

enjoying music more than I have in so long, all these records I hadn't heard in ages, the fun of putting them on...this weekend rules

guys should i pay $48 + shipping for a sealed copy of Sam Rivers' Crystals y/n

i just had my first radio show on the community low-power FM station that maria started on the island. it was fun! *Ten Tons Of Wax* with your host Scott the Custodian. My set wasn't long enough though. I was supposed to play for 3 hours and I only played for 2. I had a set all worked out and I thought it would be plenty long enough. We desperately need new turntables. Using two of my old hokey turntables. One of which went insane during my show and I had to replace it with another one. Next time I'll let people know when I'm on. You can stream it:

http://wvvy.org/

LOTS of people who have shows are playing records. Which is nice. There is some dude who has a cool show and he used to drum for dinosaur jr. i forget his name. he plays a lot of 45s.

oh yeah, and last weekend i got the following:

harry nilsson - nilsson sings newman
grace jones - warm leatherette
mott the hoople - all the young dudes
aha - hunting high and low
steely dan - the royal scam

for 12 bucks. old hippie record store owner laughed at me when i came up to the counter with that stack.

34 dollars total gets you a near mint copy here:

http://cgi.ebay.com/SAM-RIVERS-33-LP-crystals-Impulse-Funk-Jazz_W0QQitemZ300158866327QQihZ020QQcategoryZ306QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQtrksidZp1638.m118.l1247QQcmdZViewItem

x-post

"You can stream it:"

er, not the show i just did. i just mean in general.

Twenty bucks for a (presumably) sealed one here:

http://www.gemm.com/item/RIVERS-c-SAM/CRYSTALS/GML897551796/

x-post

damn dudes gratzi

Listening to "Vance Or Towers," 1975 on A&M. Nice melodic mid-70s pop album, variously calls to mind City Boy, Dwight Twilley, a dollop of Big Star. Lightweight, but with that great 70s production that's hard to resist. They were the prom band in the movie "Carrie," or something like that.

The only vinyl I've got this year was Bun In The Oven 7" by The Runs, a novelty punk single from 1980. German issue with pic sleeve. My wife loves it!

"Listening to "Vance Or Towers," 1975 on A&M."

JEFF YOU ARE MY HERO. i don't know anyone who has even heard that album. i love it to death. and they very much were the carrie prom band. i was obsessed with the album for months a couple years back.

i put a vance or towers track on my sweet smoke for hotheads vol.2 mix if anyone wants to check them out:

The Mystic Moods - Cosmic Sea (Warner Brothers - 1973)

Road - I'm Trying (Natural Resources/Motown - 1972)

Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds - Funk-In-Wagnal (Dunhill - ?)

Hello People - Dinosaur (ABC - 1975)

Cambridge - Faithless Lady (Green Dolphin - 197?)

Alessi - Do You Feel It? (A&M - 1976)

Count Buffalos - Phases (Toshiba - 1976)

Stargard - Starbob (MCA - 1978)

Byzantium - Baby I Can Hear You Calling Me (Warner Brothers - 1972)

Dane Donahue - Casablanca (Columbia - 1978)

Vance Or Towers - Don't It Getcha (A&M - 1975)

Molkie Cole - Sugar Boogie (Janus - 1977)

Tucky Buzzard - Time Will Be Your Doctor (Capitol - 197?)

Hot Chocolate - Hello America (Big Tree - 1975)

Wham! - Superslick (GRT - 1978)

ADC Band - More & More Disco (Cotillion - 1978)

Today, Tomorrow, Forever - It's Your Love (RSO - 1979)

High Inergy - I Just Can't Help Myself (Gordy - 1980)

P-Funk All Stars - Hydraulic Pump Part III (Oh My God I Can't Feel My Face And There Is Cocaine Coming Out Of My Ears And Sly Is Crawling Around On The Floor Get Up Sly Where Am I What Year Is This Records)

http://www.wvvy.org/listen/content/19feb07mix.mp3

Alessi brothers fans will dig Vance Or Towers. I am totally hot for Alessi Brothers/Barnaby Bye. Hardcore power pop! not for wimps or grandmas.

oh yeah

And Sang Freud, you NEED that Molkie Cole album. Friggin' bizarro pop/rock masterpiece. Vinyl doesn't go for much either. I bow down to that band, seriously.

http://www.molkiecole.net/MolkieCole.jpg

http://www.molkiecole.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/normal_PatsBoots.jpg

With a cover like that it's as good as in my collection RIGHT NOW!

FINALLY found a copy of Beach House's debut on vinyl!

Found in a 99-cent bin, circa today:
- Elmore James, I NEED YOU (on the Sphere Sound label, a Bell reissue subsidiary which is considered MAD collectible)
- Consolers, SONGS OF INSPIRATION (raw gospel duo who had a million-and-one releases on Nashboro)

set-list for my first radio show:

string driven thing - heartfeeder

booker t. & priscilla - maggie's farm

lionel hampton - stop! i don't need no sympathy

west - down along the cove

emitt rhodes - really wanted you

gary farr - wailing wall

howard werth & the moonbeams - got to unwind/the embezzler

rick nelson & the stone canyon band - let it bring you along

dirty angels - you got me runnin'

gangsters of love - never is too soon

the savage rose - listen to this tune from mexico

rotary connection - love has fallen on me

danny schloss - in a dream

bull - feelin' pretty good

terence - fool amid the traffic

savage grace - mother's son

brotherhood - doin' the right thing(the way)

charley d & milo - om sweet om

jim & jean - strangers in a strange land

john & beverly martyn - new day

karen alexander - you're my sailor

hues corporation - all goin' down together

mickey newbury - how many times must the piper be paid for his song

shawn phillips - l ballade

arthur - blue museum

john villemonte - i am the moonlight

"let it bring you along" is such a jam. awesome.

bought yesterday @ junk: Songs of the Muskogee Creek. (on Indian House.) It's mostly vocal with some rattle shakin'. Very lulling sort-of polyphonic vocals.

listening:
frederic rzewski - coming together
jon gibson - visitations
marconi notaro - no sub rein dos metazoarios (time lag really does a nice job with their reissues. Usually affordable (that Patron Saints one though, woo, that was like $32 or something.) and they're LEGIT and usually have cool liner notes/inserts.)

2008 has been good so far

Electric Wizard - Come My Fanatics
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless

Which loveless did you get? Should I go after the original issue or one of the reissues? I heard somewhere that the mastering is all gone wrong on the original.

Buyers have requested their payment total on 118 items.
I am awaiting payment for 181 items.
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Groundhogs - Who Will Save the World?
Run DMC - Run's House/Beats to the Rhyme
Various - Wattstax, Vol. 2
Kris Kristofferson - The Silver-Tongued Devil & I
Harlan T Bobo - I'm Your Man

the nick drake fruit tree vinyl reissue is really nice.

Just got this absolute gem for $1.98 at the local used book/record store: http://www.discogs.com/release/76716

Kraftwerk - Ralf & Florian
various - A Jazz Piano Anthology (Columbia 2LP)
Steve Hackett - Defector, Spectral Mornings
Debbie Harry - Kookoo
Garçons - Divorce
Clockcleaner - Babylon Rules

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/631526.jpg

Love this. Acid dulcimer/hand percussion/chanteuse from '78. Pre-Mediaeval Baebes.

Also rocking my world today is Dave Burrell (and a cast of thousands) "La Vie de Boheme"

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/760890.jpg

wtf @ that Nick Drake reissue not including the "Time Of No Reply" album ( which I think is out of print now on Ryko) and putting in a DVD instead.

i have the old fruit tree vinyl box. i actually bought five leaves and then bryter layter and THEN was so insane for the dude that i went back to the store (Tower Records in Philly on South Street, actually) and bought the box! i don't feel the need to upgrade. haven't listened to them in years, but that's only cuz i played those albums 492837463632738383838388383 times over a period of 2 or 3 years and kinda overdid it. i gave my brother my single copies. never should have done that. could have used them as analog back-up.

SWM interest include pink label islands and crisp corners, no seam splits.

also, the pictures i tried to post upthread clearly didn't work. the dulcimer psych record is "Waillee Waiilee" by Dorothy Carter.

wtf @ that Nick Drake reissue not including the "Time Of No Reply" album ( which I think is out of print now on Ryko) and putting in a DVD instead.

-- sleeve, Tuesday, January 22, 2008 1:37 AM (15 hours ago) Bookmark

yeah that's the one bummer...the doc is cool, but i don't really think there's anyone who really knew nick drake well enough to really have any insight, and yeah, i've watched it once and probably won't watch it again, whereas the album i would listen to a lot.

electric fetus in mpls just added vinyl and they have GOOD prices (dudes must not ebay stuff as a side thing)...but yeah got some scores yesterday:

The Velvet Gentleman: Music of Eric Satie - The Camarate Contemporary Chamber Group

In San Francisco - The Cannonball Adderly Quintet

Inception - The McCoy Tyner Trio

Brothers and Sisters - The Allman Bros. Band

154 - Wire

good prices, the Eric Satie was only $2, and is awesome...essentially a small chamber group, strings, oboe, flute, and acoustic guitar, but they have a Moog as well...interesting because they don't use the Moog as their main gimmick, like Switched On, it's just another instrument in the mix, so right in the middle of a real pastoral section of flute and acoustic guitar w/string pads all of a sudden some odd electronic bleat comes charging through...

also the Allmans was only $4 and really good cond. polybagged and had the original insert....they have new vinyl cutouts and so the Wire is the 180G Four Men w/Beards reissue for only 9.99....

http://www.wfmu.org/365/2003/images/257.jpg

http://www.wfmu.org/365/2003/257.shtml

in addition to murari, i also got
dave burrell - high won low too
and charlie & ira louvin on pickwick subsidiary Hilltop. a little beat, but free.

listening to the first two Happy & Artie Traum records on Capitol. Some of my favorite semi-obscure folk-/country-rock lps.

kate bush-kick inside (the hot japan-only cover)
that's euro beat 4
david sylvain-brilliant trees
2 pounds for all three, all very close to mint.

I love japan.

JD Emmanuel - Wizard's Incantation
Raven - Back to Ohio Blues
Neuronium - Supranatural
Die Kreuzen - Century Days

Found a good shop near my house that has tons of (very disorganized) vinyl. I need an afternoon to sift through it all. My first run through got me:

Stranglers-Live Xcert
Miles Davis-Miles in the Sky
XTC-Beeswax

I have a feeling this place is a real treasure trove.

WHITE NOISE: AN ELECTRIC STORM

Finally! This is the version with the white cover with lots of multicolored ears on it, not the lightning bolts cover.

http://cgi.ebay.com/THE-MISFITS-PLAN-9-1009-HORROR-BUSINESS-ULTRA-RARE_W0QQitemZ190191145132QQihZ009QQcategoryZ306QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Got

Tim Hecker - Atlas (10")
Fennesz - Plays EP(10")
Lenka Clayton - Qaeda Quality Question Quickly Quickly Quiet (12")
Grouper - Tried (7")

Got a few bits second hand at the weekend, a nice birdsong LP and a better condition copy of The Muppet Show LP than my 32 year old one. Oh and the Midnight Express OST. Yeay!

The Cure - Japanese Whispers

six bucks, I'm happy even though I already have The Walk.

xpost fuck I wish I could find Grouper vinyl, was that mailorder?

I haven't heard Grouper (isn't their a Xiu Xiu connection? I think that's what put me off.) but it looks like fusetronsound.com has an LP and a 7". Tell your local store to get in touch with him for lots of wholesale distribution.

these are the records I brought home today:
white noise - an electric storm (US Island pressing with non-lightning bolt cover!)
tim buckley - greetings from LA (jaxon's recommendation, i think? loving it so far.)
cluster - sowiesoso
meat puppets - up on the son
richard thompson - (guitar, vocal) 2LP
philip glass - music with moving parts
louvin brothers - family who prays (VG?)

and a nothing people 45, and a urinals EP boot thingamabob.

i luv records.

what's the most affordable/safest way to ship approx 115 LPs to the UK from the US? Cost-effective is the word.

I'd guess insured surface mail.

I think Grouper had a split w/Xiu Xiu but they (she) are far more worthwhile. I have a 3" CD that I like a lot.

since my local store just had their Caroline rep cut by EMI I might as well tell 'em about Fusetron.

btw guys just bought that copy of Sam Rivers Crystals that Thus Sang Freud linked to upthread, and i'm in the running for a half-decent copy of pacific ocean blue, so i'm amped about that.

Fusetron is a very, very specialized distro when it comes to wholesale; he won't have nearly the catalog of a Caroline or an ADA or whomever, but it's all pretty top-notch, hard to find experimental/psych/synth/industrial/noise/etc.

ian that wmfu link convinced me, i'm buying that murari record too.

don't pay too much! It's no Virgin Insanity or anything.

I am listening to the Papa Nebo record. The only one, as far as I know?
Buy it sealed for $6! Well-done country rock with oddly sophisticated sounding fiddle!

http://cgi.ebay.com/PAPA-NEBO-SEALED-ATLANTIC-8280-1971-LP-MINT_W0QQitemZ320202207058QQihZ011QQcategoryZ306QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQtrksidZp1638.m118.l1247QQcmdZViewItem

I got a line on two affordably-priced Pentagram singles from the 70s. Wish me luck. I want them so bad...

xpost - Grouper is from here in Portland. She's really great. It's easy to catch her sets in parks and coffee shops now and then.

We also have Tara Jane O'Neil and Inca Ore in residence.

Ok now I'm just bragging again.

That Raven album is fantastic, BTW. Also trying to obtain a copy of Tommy James's Tales of Trauma LP reissue (which is likely also to have been lovingly fucked with), although the CD contains extra tracks. Why'd ya do it, Tommy?

Just got the Fatal Microbes/Poison Girls split 12" on Small Wonder. I think the Fatal Microbes tracks are the same as the ones on the 7" which I've already got, but Small Wonder records is my one attempt at completism, so never mind.

"Piano Lessons", such a fantastic song!

Small Wonder is a great completist project.

Gnarly, surely you mean Tommy Jay and not Tommy James? Columbus Discount is also releasing some recent Rep recordings!

I'm not far off getting all the Small Wonder records now. Still need the Cure 7" though which won't be cheap. Although it's cheaper than the Carpettes' Small Wonder 7" which I did manage to get on Ebay (for more than I'd normally pay for a single, but my wife likes that one so we "went halves" on it)

Tommy Jay and not Tommy James

yah. doof!

Haven't bought much used vinyl lately, just new stuff (including Dec. 07):

Dead Raven Choir - Surely My Firstborn, etc. (sound of raking, yelling at leaves)
Parts & Labor - Mapmaker (I arrived late, but current 07 favorite)
Parts & Labor - Stay Afraid (cuz Mapmaker is so damn great)
The King Khan & BBQ Show - 1st LP reissue (why no game pieces?)
Deathspell Omega - Fas: Some, Latin, Bullshit (not as good as Kenose)
Slayer - The Blood Before the Reign (demos, near drumless, lotsa vox)
Zoroaster: Dog Magic (SHITTY cover art tho)
Zoroaster: 1st EP reissue (shitty scan of great CD art WTF)
Lollipop: 'Born Dead' 45 (all the porn I own is record covers)
Sic Alps: 'Strawberry Guillotine' 45 (best SA so far, least until...)
Sic Alps: 'Description of the Harbor' 12" (2nd best of 07?)
Liquorball: Hauls Ass (upsets everyone in the house, except me)
Times New Viking: Matador 45 (does not bode well for LP)

"(sound of raking, yelling at leaves)"

hahahahaha! you are my new best friend!

I got an order from Hells Headbangers yesterday, hot stuff

ooh, vinyl. cool. love that label.

got an e-mail yesterday with the subject: do you write about vinyl?

i said: hell yeah.

would love to get more new vinyl to review.

this is fun

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2180/2203175307_0a81250b5a.jpg?v=0

<I>Times New Viking: Matador 45 (does not bode well for LP)</I>

I think the new LP is totally, totally great. I'm not a HUGE fan of the "need more money cuz i need more drugs" cut, but there's no denying it's catchy as hell.

Today I traded a big stack of mediocre soul/funk/pop 45s for some store credit, and will probably end up taking home those bob trimble reissues or something.

got the Hive Mind LP on NO Fun today, looks amazing although i'm not a fan of those wrap around type sleeves. i hate the plastic things with sticky glue stuff on them that they are in as well

Xpost: Yeah, I'm gonna buy the new one anyway, love the 1st two. I assume the EP = also rans.

the money/drugs song is on the LP, and i guess the "single" as they've been playing it live pretty constantly for a while. I definitely want to check out that Hivemind. The Hivemind splits with Workbench (i.e. M1ke Bernste1n of Religious Knives/Double Leopards) are great pieces of work.

I just bought two Fred Neil LPs (reissues) off my co-worker for $4 apiece until I can find original copies--Sessions and Bleecker & McDougal.

Concert by the Sea - Cal Tjader
Requiem: Complete Atlantic Recordings - Lennie Tristano (! so amped)
Trident - McCoy Tyner
Live in Japan - Joe Henderson

goddamn trident rips

yesserday i picked up:
bobb trimble - harvest of dreams
gato barbieri & dollar brand - confluence
richard young & alex neilson - beating stars
ya ho wa 13 - the operetta (used, so affordable. this this is like shadoks-level crazy priced new.)

...in addition to those fred neil records.

listening to cluster right now. good wake-up music. (fall asleep music was the gorgeous heavy vinyl triple LP of Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid.)

picked up a few prince singles: get offf, i could never take the place of your man/hot thing, and glam slam.

the only problem is that when i was changing records, i pressed the start/stop button and nothing is happening! does that mean the belt broke just now? :/

okay, it's "working" now, but playing waaay slower than it's supposed to. and while screwed & chopped prince sound hot as hell, i'd like to be able to listen at normal speed do. does this sound like a motor problem?

i'd never seen this thing before!

http://cgi.ebay.com/AUDIOPHILE-LED-ZEPPELIN-COMPLETE-45-rpm-CASE-SEALED_W0QQitemZ290199213889QQihZ019QQcategoryZ306QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

WOW. I wonder when that was issued??

TINGS I AM LISTENING TO AND/OR PUTTING ON HOLD AND/OR BUYING:

Dead Raven Choir - Surely My Firstborn Will Be Blind
Robert Ashley - The Bar
Ivor Cutley - Scenes From a Scottish Sitting Room Vol. 2
Tommy Jay - tall tales of trauma (comp of 70s/80s recordings on Columbus Discount Records)
Richard Youngs - Summer Wanderer

ooh new Dead Raven Choir...

I was in Seattle this weekend and got to go to Wall Of Sound today. I was very happy:

Jazz Butcher - Bath Of Bacon
" - Sex And Travel
" - Live In Hamburg (been looking for 20 years)
A Primary Industry - 7 Hertz EP (ditto)
Evolutionary Jass Band - tour LP 2007
Melt-Banana - Bambi's Dilemma

today i got dave burrell's echo. get back reissue stylee, but cheap/used.

I think the new Dead Raven Choir is good! The production seems fuller, even though it's still primarily growling and brittle guitar. There's more violin screech than I remember from his other stuff (of which I've heard admittedly little, only a few records. i think they had "wolves" in the title?)

ha, that describes like six or seven. I have the blistering 3LP box and MP3s of a buncha Jandek-like lonely thump and moan. curious about the new one, is it vinyl-only?

RIGHT NOW I AM LISTENING TO POCO FOR THE SCOTT SEWARD.

finally there is another guy at work who likes poco and Tusk and into that general "guys wearing corduroy, plaid, cowboy hats or any combination thereof on the cover" aesthetic. we have talked about poco significantly. he wants me to trade him a terry melcher LP and a Happy & Artie Traum LP (2nd one, "Double Back" just sold on ebay for $20) for royal trux "twin infinitives" but i KNOW I listen to Happy & Artie way more than I'd listen to twin infinitives. BUT.. my happy & artie is not mint, so if I upgrade that and trade my lesser copy??

i am going to try to wrangle a happy & artie traum interview.

guys 'cmon, you gotta talk about vinyl more.

i am listening to the hot wax of "Henry Flynt & Nova'billy."
Before was Richard Youngs & Andrew Paine "Mauve Dawn"
and this morning on the wake-up tip was a melange of Ian Matthews from the "Later That Same Year" and "Valley Hi" LPs.

I remember that the "Twin Infinitives" LP (besides being very disturbing) sports one of the thickest cardboard sleeves I have ever seen (at least the inital gatefold version did.)

guys 'cmon, you gotta talk about vinyl more

Sure. Was at the St. Vincent DePaul thrift store last week, and picked up:

Baja Marimba Band - For Animals Only, 'cuz I remembered liking the cover as a kid. Terrible, terrible record, as it turns out. Also includes perhaps the least funny funny liner notes ever written.

Russ Morgan - There Goes That Song Again, for the magnificently awful cover art, which I will modify to suit my sleeveless copy of the 1st Stooges LP. Music is at least as bad as the BMB, but that hardly matters.

Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherazade, which I thought might be nice to have around, the vinyl's in beautiful shape, but it's a flat and lifeless recording. So it goes.

Grand Total: 75 cents, plus tax. Not sure I got my money's worth. For another buck-fifty, I got a CD copy of John Fahey & His Orchestra - After the Ball, which isn't anywhere near bad, and a 30-minute VHS tape of old Roger Ramjet cartoons. They're ... okay.

i would talk about vinyl more but i'm kinda sick. also, i haven't bought anything in, like, a week! i know, right. you know what sounded superduper to me today: my pristine 1st german pressing of roberta flack & donny hathaway. *sigh* it's like donny is in my lap. and roberta too! but it's cool cuz my lap is big enough to box with god.

still playing weirdo 80's country singles i got in the mail too a week or two ago. choice labels. examples:

crowe brothers

titanic

sun rize

high cotton

rhinestone

ranger

angry armadillo

hole in one

whirlwind

black gold

tall texan

midnight gold

seeds

prairie dust

bell star

hal kat kountry

peppercorn

high tech

equa

burgundy

moonshine

joy-bean

osprey

grinder's switch

natasha dawn

pick hits: steven lee cook's "Please Play More Kenny Rogers", Bruce Poose's "Hopalong Sissy", and "Texas Jeans" by Pepper Martin & His Texas Band.

now playing: Focus 3. double vinyl. German pressing. sounds great. better than that crappy-ass genesis album i was listening to today.

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I'm in the middle of packing the records I mentioned upthread, to send to the UK. It looks like it'll be about $350 by priority airmail. Anyone have any tips on freight companies? Fedex corporate rates are good, but we don't have an account with them nor do we intend to open one, really.

i mean, i don't usually have a problem with Impulse!/ABC/Dunhill vinyl. is Trespass famous for being poorly recorded? Or is it a U.K. pressing -vs- U.S. pressing kinda thing? i'd never heard the album until today. my copy is in decent shape. not perfect. it's a radio station promo copy. definitely got played by stoner deejays a bunch.

why don't you just send them thru the post office?

we are sending them through the post office!

there's a weight limit on first class airmail, so we have to do priority cuz each box is gonna be maybe 30 lbs. three cartons inside a 12" cube with layers of peanuts in between all layers. extra cardboard on the sides and in the cartoons.

it's gonna be 3 boxes at approx 30lb and 1 box at slightly less, maybe 20-25.

so what's the deal with fedex then. i'm confused.

wait, who sampled the song "Focus III"? arghhhhhh, i can hear it, but i can't think.....the organ line specifically.

got some stuff at home i'm going to pull for a possible DJ set.

ramp - come into knowledge
baby huey - the baby huey story
andre williams - rib tips and pig snoots
johnnie taylor - raw blues

this is all under consideration for a set which would follow some garage rock and girl group stuff a couple other friends are spinning. i might just end up playing some garage as well instead of 70s soul, because i just might not have enough. but then again i might just go to a record store next week and stock up on cheap 7"s and give it a go.

Wickerman soundtrack is sooo good. The first song, and the one after "Landlord's Daughter." And "Landlord's Daughter" i suppose, but that just makes me giggle. what a silly scene in the movie.

Some nice new releases on my preffered format:

-D Charles Speer "After Hours" - Rural/country sike from Brooklyn, members of NNCK & Sunburned
-Raven reissue LP (private Ohio seventies scuzzed out blooze/biker/junkie rock.)

i don't mean to brag, but i just arranged a deal w/this dude on another message board to get all these (in near mint cond.) for only $45 :):):):):)

Dr. Dre - Deep Cover 12"
Black Sheep - The Choice Is Yours 12"
Cocoa Brovaz - Super Brooklyn 12"
Grand Master Flash & The Furious Five - Greatest Messages LP
KMD - Black Bastards LP
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx LP

dooooood

envy u so hard

envy u, so hard

Playlist for today:

Deodato 2 - eumir deodato
Enigma - keith murray
headhunters - herbie
ascension - coltrane

SO looking forward to the arrival of Crystals sometime this week.

okay this is what i might be getting today, not set in stone, may switch things around a little:

cosmic jokers - galactic supermarket (nm orig in shrink)
folklords - release the sunshine new reissue LP
visitations LP on time-lag
mingus mingus mingus mingus mingus
fairport convention bbc sessions LP
wickerman sdtrk,.

ok so "crystals" came in just now but i'm a little confused as to how exactly this counts as "sealed" what with a snip out of the corner, a slit halfway down the side, and a big hole in the shrinkwrap on the front.

still a deal though, i've seen VGs go for upwards of $35.

hearing it now.

listening to newly acquired beautiful copy of "A Step Further" by Savoy Brown .. but as much as I enjoy collecting brit blues stuff (and indeed like some Youlden vocals) ... hearing the attempt to emulate Fleetwood Mac on "Life's A One Act Play" is depress-o. I think 'Looking On' is the only alb i'll ever truly love by these guys

been buying so much crap since tha '08 i don't know where to start though ... good times. mostly dollar bin stuff but hella fun. lotsa Sundazed/Scorpio type reishes too

just today:

Where? - Ron Carter & Eric Dolphy
2001 - Deodato

xpost fuck I wish I could find Grouper vinyl, was that mailorder?

-- sleeve, Thursday, 24 January 2008 01:20 (1 week ago) Bookmark Link

I think that 7" was possibly just off Boomkat in the UK. I ordered the 'Wide' LP after finding it on rateyourmusic listed as being put out on Sacramento label Weird Forest. I'm just off to pick it up from the post sorting office. Well, I think it's that..if not it's my other recent import purchase:

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Kemialliset Ystävät's self/untitled from last year. Cheaper ordering direct from Fonal (£15ish inc postage) than buying their other stuff in stores for £20 or more.

Also picked up the Bug ft. Warrior Queen's 'Poison Dart' original 12" the other week.

been buying mostly dollar bin stuff but hella fun. lotsa Sundazed/Scorpio type reishes too

Like what?

I've acquired a few Scorpio reissues, too - only problem is, some of them I don't DJ in the club because the bass has been mixed down (like that excellent rock-funk album by Brothers Unlimited on Capitol).

Some 45's I acquired yesterday (haven't played them yet):
- Marie Knight "Miracles"/"I Can't Sit Down" (credited to "Marie & Rex") (Carlton): Knight used to sing with Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and Rex Garvin has recorded some cult-fave soul records himself

- Five Americans - "Scrooge"/"Ignert Woman"; "Call On Me"/"Virginia Girl"; "Con Man"/"Lovin' Is Livin'" (all on Abnak): totally underrated garage-rock band from Texas...their big hits included "Western Union" and "I See The Light"

- Rocky Burnette - "Tired Of Toein' The Line"/"Boogie Down In Mobile, Alabama" (EMI America): "Tired" was Burnette's one hit, a fusion of rockabilly and power-pop. I have the album, but bought this 45 because the flip side isn't on the LP.

- Timi Yuro - "Something Bad On My Mind"/"Wrong" (Liberty).

Now these, I don't know much about, I just bought these 'cause they looked interesting and were cheap as dirt:

- Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan - "Big Black Bird"/"The Autumn Song" (Wayside) (the few songs I've heard by this duo seemed too corny for the room, but since a few people are going nuts over a recent reissue, thought I'd try this out for 50 cents)

- Freddy - "Forsaken, Forgotten Forever"/"The Boss Is Not Here" (MGM)

- Prediktors - "Sails & The Sea"/"Summer Holiday" (Imperial)

- Harper & Rowe - "Wake Me When It's Over"/"Here Comes Yesterday Again" (World Pacific)

- Flanagan - "Go My Way"/"Spin Spin" (Smash)

just discovered this thread. someone got SONNED (not me):

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Well, better to have broken shelves than broken records.

Oh man. I have dreams about my shelves collapsing. The brackets holding the boards onto the frame are all bendy in places, though they've given me no problems so far....

"Harper & Rowe"

i love their album on World Pacific, but it might not be for everybody.

"I think 'Looking On' is the only alb i'll ever truly love by these guys"

my faves have always been Raw Sienna, Lookin' In, Street Corner Talking, and Hellbound Train. and i love them a LOT.

"Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan"

it's funny, i found a pristine vinyl copy of Birds Of A Feather right around the time that it was reissued on CD and I definitely went crazy for it. The album as a whole is just so strange and entertaining. The sound, the song, their voices. One of my fave finds at the dumptique (the dump store here where everything is free).

anyway, i'm still listening to the stack of rekkerds i picked out last night to play:

Software - Digital-Dance:Magic Sounds From Percussion Island

Get Ready Rock Steady (Coxsone comp)

Henry Mancini - Charade Soundtrack

Al Melgard at the Chicago Stadium Organ

JR. Walker and the All Stars - Soul Session

Klymaxx - Meeting In The Ladies Room

Ska Authentic Volume 2 Presenting the Skatalites

Ashish Khan - Young Master of the Sarod

there are days when i think i could seriously become one of those soundtrack people. i'm always so jealous of genre specialists. makes life so much easier.

JR. Walker and the All Stars - Soul Session

I believe this album was all early instrumentals recorded before Jr. made it to Motown and recorded "Shotgun." One look at the cover, featuring Jr. stripped down to his undershirt honking away on the sax sez it all. I don't think he was rockin' the T-shirt as a fashion statement, he was likely working up a serious sweat.

Anyway, this album is as raw as Motown ever got, right up there with the Contours' album.

Haha, re: pic. Someone didn't read the IKEA instructions properly, should be 90 degrees the other way. Ooops.

I need to ship 116 items. Purchase and print shipping labels through PayPal

-- ian, Monday, January 21, 2008 12:45 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Link

i'm guessing with the quantity you're sending out that printable address stickers are a must. and i'm also guessing that with exchange rates so bad, 2/3 of sales are going to Europe/Japan. but is there any way to automate the customs forms process? because doing 80 by hand would really suck.

we have a stamp for the address, but that's the best we got.
on all priority international packages (over 4 lbs) the forms are BIGGER and more irritating and on carbon paper. I ended up shipping mose approx 116 items in four 12" cubes, doubled boxes alternating with layers of packing peanuts. Total cost? About $400.

great new Vinyl Anachronist column:

http://www.furious.com/perfect/vinyl63.html

just picked these up at the used record store:

Sandy Denny - Like an Old Fashioned Waltz
Go Gos - Beauty and the Beat
The English Beat - I Just Can't Stop It

" I'm currently seeing a very cute blonde woman who also happens to have a master's in American Literature and loves the Beatles and actually knows Big Star's story..."

Almost made me not want to go on reading that article, Sleeve! But, yeah, it's a good one, bragging aside.

also listened to some/all of today:

dylan - nashville skyline

dylan - john wesley harding

arthur lyman - leis of jazz

arthur lyman - hawaiian sunset vol.1

arthur lyman - hawaiian sunset vol.2

esquivel - infinity in sound (even in living stereo though, just wasn't feeling it today. haven't listened to esqy in years, that martin denny thread got me going.)

elmer bernstein - the silencers soundtrack

sylvia plath - plath reads plath

now playing: allman brothers - brothers and sisters (i could use a nicer copy)

today i've been listening to:
monoshock - walk to the fire
v/a - obsession (world psych/prog comp 2LP)
lee perry/upsetters - the quest
fahey - transfiguration of blind joe death
texas-mexican border music vol 13: norteno acordeon, part 3
raven reissue LP

listening to Donna Summer - The Wanderer which I picked up for a buck in RI over xmas. its ok

Got outbid on ebay for a Grief lp :(

listening to another white whale that just came in the mail today:

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notable recent pickups:
Pierre Henry - Variations for a door and a sigh
Archie Bell and the Drells - There's going to be a showdown

$56?!?!?
xp to 'skrit

i've seen it go as high as $75. a patient person could snag it for $15-$20 though, i'm sure. i just offloaded $450 of cruddy psych lps so i deserve a little treat.

i've seen it go over a hundred. i was gonna bid on it once a year or two ago and then i remembered that i'd never actually heard it.

what cruddy psych!?

i finally went stir crazy and broke down and went to record store. for the price of a 56 dollar Pythagoron album, i got:

new dead raven choir

john fogerty blue ridge rangers album

susan christie reissue

ian matthews - stealin' home

the hollies - moving finger

new riders - marin county line

times new viking matador single (OOP! Rare Freakbeat Fancy Dancer!)

but i didn't get the new times new viking album. i don't know why.

GIANT CRAB COMES FORTH type shit, i'm sure.
FEVER TREE ON UNI.

my wife told me to turn it off because it sounds like the emergency broadcast system, which is not entirely untrue.

scott the stuff i let go was more poppy psych and british invasion stuff. i don't care if something is mono or not so let the collectros battle it out.
savage resurrection was rad though. got em in a brooklyn heights basement a few months ago.

bad hippie stuff i have sold on the ebay for cash money:

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actually good u.k. folk records that i found at the thrift store and sold to a very happy man in korea:

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marginally good private press "spiritual" jazz album i had in not great condition that i was happy to sell AS IS to some dude in Italy:

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and f.y.i. THIS is the foggy album you want to find at the thrift store:

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That Pinkiny Canandy thing looks wild.

listening to these vinyl viands:

gene clark with the gosdin brothers
little kenny wilson & his band of renown "Flying Together" ('75 folk/pop/sike private, reminds me a lot of the Jimmy Campbell record. the jam on this one is "$2.50")
COB "Spirit of Love"

got a nice condition copy of The Essential Radio Birdman 2LP for only $10

and also Ennio Morricone - Film Music Vol. 1

<i>gene clark with the gosdin brothers </i>

i love this record so much : )

I was in the snobby record store the other day and dude was trying to hard-sell me on this jazz record. It was a reissue of someone like (but not) Johnny Hodges and it had Buddy Rich on drums, and he was all "Oh man, what's the price on that, $20? That must be a mistake because it's worth waaay more than that. See, it's a JAPANESE pressing. If you don't buy it I'm going to mark it up for sure. No? Worst mistake of your life, man."

wow, that dude sounds like a real winner.

further listening: royal trux "pound for pound" and jack rose "raag manifestos" (cuz i want to hear the track with ian nagoski.)

i'm thinking of selling me jack rose LPs. they're all going for like $75 on ebay right now!

aw, it actually looks like prices have gone down from about a month ago, except on sealed or test press copies :(

picked up some seven inches

bantam rooster
a-bones
68 comeback
hentchmen
ettes/fondas split

A-Bones! They live 'round the corner from me, and B1lly might join my buddy Mike & I for burgers this evening.

Now playing: Washington Phillips "What Are They Doing In Heaven Today?"

awesome!

also, which '68 comeback record did you get? some of those sell for moderate dough, these days.

i found the 7" for 'do the rub'/'cadillac man'. $2.99, i think?

i see a copy on ebay for the same price so i guess it's not too rare!

i'm djing some garage rock at a bar and i needed to stock up on some shit hence all the sftri-type acts. i might buy some more because i'd prefer to do all 45s.

Do the Rub really is great, though. One of my favorite '68 Comeback tracks.

I didn't say it was a nice dance...

yeah, i'm not sure which ones are the most desirable ones. i believe the ones with greg cartwright are the most desirable? you know, put oblivians in the listing and watch the price shoot up kinda thing...

xpxp

check if your local shop has the Romance Novels 45 on Hozac; it's great contemporary lo-fi garage punk. I have a moderate flirtation with that kind of stuff, cuz a couple of guys I work with are really into it.

i will check it out. amoeba's garage stuff mostly runs to the shittier end of sftri/estrus, but i did find all that stuff in there so maybe there's some hope. i totally regret not picking up some of that cartwright/oblivians-related vinyl when i had a chance to a few years ago, esp the compulsive gamblers stuff which is really hard to find now.

You liked the Romance Novels 45, Ian? Couldn't get into it, and I've liked just about everything else on the label. Especially Blank Dogs & Static Static.

I actually haven't heard the 2nd Romance Novels, only the first, but that one I really liked.

Blank Dogs... well, LOL is all I can say, I guess.

I'm not into synthy punk, really.
The best Blank Dogs is the 1st 12" i'd say (2nd press coming soon)

I like the 1st 12-inch, but mostly for the tape fhuzz and "Ambulance". For tunes, I prefer the 2nd 12 and the singles. Especially "Outside Alarmer". Not really suitable for 'garage rock at a bar,' I guess.

Another suggestion for Gear would be the 1st Nothing People 45 on s-srecords, the one with "Twinkie Defense" which is some bastard child of the 13th floor elevators and hawkwind.

Haven't heard it. Sounds cool. What about that Duchess & the Duke 45 w/ "Reservoir Park" & "Mary"? Too pretty, I guess.

this weekend:

Ian Matthews - Valley Hi (replacing my $1 beater with a minty fresh one)
A.R. Kane - Up Home EP
Harry Nilsson - Nilsson Schmilsson
Milton Nascimento - Miltons
Martin Denny - Quiet Village
Julius Hemphill - Dogon A.D. (this took me a suprisingly long time to find! I live in St. Louis so always figured I'd find the private press at a garage sale or dumpster. Great album.)

god i LOVE Valley Hi!

I would like to have more early A.R. Kane stuff - in addition to 69 and the "Lolita" 12-inch, which I've already got and love. Any S/D recs?

search: When You're Sad 12"

<i>god i LOVE Valley Hi!</i>

oh my god, me too. "These Days" cover is so good.

I would like to have more early A.R. Kane stuff - in addition to 69 and the "Lolita" 12-inch, which I've already got and love. Any S/D recs?

I think the Up Home 12" is my favorite A.R. Kane release. The track Up especially - I sold the Luaka Bop best of a few years ago and would get serious cravings for Up. It's more majestic than anything else I've heard by them. And the mix of Baby Milk Snatcher is better than the album version, in my opinion.

Cool, thanks for the recs. Course, these things never seem to turn up in the States, but it's still nice to know what to look for.

new Asmus Tietchens LP on Swill Radio, "Teils Teils"

i got a promo 45 in the mail. i'm all for that. even if its crappy. this one doesn't look so promising, but you never know. on the good friends label. (???)

http://www.myspace.com/goodfriendsrecords

whhooopdee dooooo.

shirley collins - adieu to old england on TOPIC, bitches.

i played the a-side of that single. pretty bad! oh well.

now playing: burton green ensemble - acquariana

so far today, a side each of:
matt valentine & erika elder - ragas & blues
roy orbison - crying
pearls before swine - the use of ashes

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Haha the dude in this photo is an acquaintance

(from way upthread but I felt like noting it)

I order Teils Teils. But what I *really* want is the Vinyl-On-Demand Asmus-o-rama!

And everything else on the label!!

Except it's all ££££££!!!

There was a 2lp reissue of Peter Grudzien's The Unicorn in this week's Time Lag update. It's 40 dollars. Is it worth it?

Topic cover of Adieu To Old England = 100x better than the CD reissue. I wish I had some Shirley vinyl.

Anyone familiar with Silicon Teens' Music For Parties? Worth buying? I've only heard a few tracks which I liked but didn't know if the whole album holds up. But I loves me some Daniel Miller.

the Tietchens box set on VOD is so worth it. White vinyl as well = double worth it

i need a way to steal the Broken Flax box though, and the M.B. one

There was a 2lp reissue of Peter Grudzien's The Unicorn in this week's Time Lag update. It's 40 dollars. Is it worth it?

-- Trip Maker, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 17:31 (38 minutes ago) Link

Considering it's already unavailable and gone from most distributors, YES! Yes! Yes! The 2nd LP is really amazing stuff from various periods. Awesome down & out fucked up cowboy vibes.

I've emailed Nemo to see if it's still available. Been hearing about this one for years.

Now playing:
UN LP on Siltbreeze.

before that:
Bexar Bexar one-sided 12". Field recording of a fireworks display with some minimal piano. Real positive kinda vibes.

I listened to The Futuristic Folk of the Tower Recordings last night.
I'll probably pull out Tonight! One Night Only! MV and EE in Heaven lp and the first Strapping Fieldhands lp (and a bunch of other stuff) for the radio show tonight.

This morning I am listening to Moby Grape "Truly Fine Citizen" and Fleetwood Mac s/t. "Rhiannon" is helping the indigestion.

Tim Buckley - Greetings From LA and Happy Sad.

woooooow ^ so envious man

didn't get em both today, but listening to 'em.
greeting from LA isn't super hard to find. people seem more likely to get rid of that one than the others. (by people, i guess i mean "psych/folk" collectors.)

Yeah I just did a search on eBay and I guess I've just never looked for it before. Nonetheless, envious that you got to it before me!

envy is a quality unbecoming a steendriver.

today got

Feliciano! - Jose Feliciano
Riot - Joe Bataan (one of the awesome awesome Fania reishs)
Happy Sad - Tim Buckley :D :D :D

envy is a quality unbecoming a steendriver.

this made me lol, for real.

Welcome to L.A. is a real fucked up harrowing deathtrip...i always thought if there was a midground between santana and U.S. maple that was it.

i don't have happy sad, i have goodbye and hello though and it's great

last nite i had a dream that i spent $155 on records at this huge outdoor record convention. the guy gave me a deal on them because he knew my brother. i kept misplacing my stash. so much anxiety. you should have seen the covers! so beautiful. then i woke up. record dream #32453.

The Happy Sad I have is all skippy! First track on both sides virtually unlistenable!

:( :( ;_;

Blue Afternoon by Tim Buckley is the shit. My Happy Sad is in bad shape, as well. I Sent off for that Peter Grudzien reissue. I also decided to pick up the Wooden Wand 10" that is a reissue of the subscription only cd that they did for three lobed. My ex-bandmate is all over it, I figured it would be nice to have. I miss that guy.

last nite i had a dream that i (bought/found/stole) records at this (place)... i kept misplacing my stash. so much anxiety. you should have seen the covers! so beautiful. then i woke up.

I have this exact same dream, one of thousand variations on it, at least once a month, if not once a week. Always w/ sadness on waking. Recently, it involved finding a bunch of mysterious Cop Shoot Cop singles somewhere, which when played sounded more like The Jesus and Mary Chain. One of the imaginary dream songs was very nice and stayed stuck in my head for most of the following day before disappearing.

the worst are the ones where i don't have time to look/people are hurrying me up/i don't have any money/i can't actually SEE clearly what i'm looking at. your standard interruptus type dream. so maddening.

yeah I have those too. positive version: flipping through crazy records that I've NEVER SEEN BEFORE that all look REALLY COOL. negative version: flipping through college radio stacks and stacks and stacks and I can't find what I'm looking for while my last song ends and I've got DEAD AIR ZOMG.

currently in an all-vinyl weekend, there are two events here in town. Last night there was this microbrew festival that is a benefit for a local radio station and they always have a music donation drive and then sell random stuff for super cheap (i.e. a dollar per record regardless of condition). I got in line early and came away with about 25 records... two Ian Matthews (inspired by ian upthread, "If You Could See Thro My Eyes" is really great!), a Peter Lang on Flying Fish (good but I dunno about his voice), the Bongos LP, Japan's Tin Drum, Prince's For You, B-52's Mesopotamia, a few later Yes albums I didn't have, some nice mint Ali Farka Toure and Thomas Mapfumo recs, etc. They bring new stuff in today but I don't wanna pay $10 entry fe again.

Tomorrow is the 20th annual Eugene record convention and I am splitting a table with a friend. Last years was insane.

<I>some nice mint Ali Farka Toure</I>

!!! Wow, jealoustown. Listening to Maher Shalal Hash Baz, an eighties/nineties Tori Kudo group. Earlier it was Lee Hazlewood "Requiem For An Almost Lady."

was listening to steve hillage and other new age boners while drinking a kombucha trying to depressurize from the hell of assembling a new bed.

now i have bro la tango's heart beating as one on. best idea i've had in a week. why do i ghettoize indie rock to the lowest, hardest to reach expedit cube?

today i got
trans am- illegal ass 12"
mouse on mars- couche cair naif 12"
king kong- funny farrm lp
plush- found a little baby 7"
grateful dead- blues for allah lp
history of the jams lp

psyched on all the cheap used 90s indie at academy

^^^ i sold those to you this afternoon.

crepey

thank you, ian

So I'm doing the database thing, putting all the vinyl into a spreadsheet, and rediscovering some old buys in the process. Right now i'm listening to "Texas Punk Vol. 5: McAllen (1965-1967)." I'm not a big proto-punk/garage rock dude, I mainly bought it at the time because all the bands came from my tiny South Texas hometown. Liners include the following gem:

"All the selections on this LP were recorded on 2-track mono machines, yet nearly two decades later they sound as fresh and exciting as if released in 1985!"

picked up pharoah sanders - love in us all from Good Records today. you'd think for an Impulse title it'd be easier to find. he had just murdered a collection with multiple copies of that and some more o_O things.

my head is still spinning from that fucking record convention, but here are highlights...

Harry Partch "The Bewitched", at least VG+ on Gate 5 (!!!) for 50 bucks. My friend said "I think they missed a zero on that price."

Half Japanese "Loud" and 'Horrible" for 10 bucks each.

Coil 12" singles I sold and later regretted.

the first self-released Waitresses 7" on Clone Records from Akron, 1977.

Idiot Flesh on vinyl!!!

Roy Harper "Flat Baroque & Berserk"

etc.

I walked away with about $25 more than when I started, so I basically traded a bunch of records.

another good 2008 vinyl trend: more used copies of nice reissues by labels like Sundazed and 4 Men With Beards.

^^^ OTM! Used International Submarine Bands & Incredible String Bands turn up ALL THE TIME.

sleeve, just curious, what did you bring to sell? banged up stuff you don't really listen to or recent chud that are must-owns?

just picked up

Futurama - Bebop Deluxe

and it is a fucking overproduced JOY. like all your ELP albums playing simultaneously.

tonight's listening:

Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking
Tom Jobim - Jobim
Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality
Manuel Gottsching - E2-E4
Spirit - Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus

now playing:

Dillard & Clark - Fantastic Expedition of

BEST ALBUM EVER? maybe.

maybe! I wish I had found that one today!

long xpost to sanskrit, I brought some duplicates and some things I didn't care about, also some vinyl in fairly beat shape. I was a flake and didn't write any of it down but...

didn't care about: that new C Heeman In Camera record (don't like), that Oz Days single LP boot (now redundant), , Ear Trumpet, Naux, Misfits & Joy Division boots, um now I'm drawing a blank.

too scratchy: 2 Legendary Pink Dots LPs, Great Lost Kinks LP

duplicates: Lydia Lunch Queen Of Siam, Chrome new Half Machine LP reissue, Jazz Butcher Sex & Travel, etc.

Fair amount of cheap stuff too. I had a free box! Sold about $8 worth of 78s at 25 cents apiece.

also: nobody bought my recently-released bait.

played last night:

A Distant Shore - Tracey Thorn
The Genuine Electric Latin Love Machine - Richard Hayman

Who the heck is behind the drums on that second one??

i'm banning myself from record stores cuz i wanna get a new fancier needle/cartridge...plus i have 8 zillion records i've only listened to like one time

Oz Days single LP boot (now redundant

You got an orig or somethin?

2CD reissue dude!

http://citiesonflamewithrockandroll.blogspot.com/2007/07/va-oz-days-live-official-reissue.html

Today I got:

split - chesterfields + shop assistants 7" flexi
grenadine - fillings 7"
grenadine - don't forget the halo 7"
grenadine - the barnacle 7"
secret goldfish - punk drone 7"
secret goldfish - somewhere in china 7"
secret goldfish - give him a great big kiss 7"
polythene - kill techno 7"
split - bis + heavenly - keroleen/trophy girlfriend 7"
go team - march 1989 (breakfast in bed/safe little circles) 7"

in the mail (Ebay auctions - all the same seller, which worked out pretty good)

THIS IS THE VINYL THREAD!!! Seriously though, how are the other bands on there? I've had the Rallizes/Taj boot for a while, and always been curious. xp

they kinda suck, you're better off with the single LP (p.s. I knew posting that was gonna be heresy!)

The Acid 7 stuff that I have heard has been cool, if raw. Fuck it, I'm gonna grab that Oz Days.

What I want to grab are the LSD March LPs I missed! Empty Rubious Red has some ultra-fuzzed heady-drone moments that leave me wanting more.

Skeletonwitch Beyond the Permafrost on icy nice blue.

Got really bored with LSD March after a while. Cover of Empty Rubious Red is the best thing about it.

Listening to:
-Times New Viking "Rip It Off"
-Jerry Jeff Walker "Five Years Gone"
-Messiaen "Seven Haikai / La Fauvette Des Jardins"

on deck pile looks somethin like:
-Bobb Trimble "Harvest of Dreams"
-Asmus Tietchens "Teils Teils"
-Acnode One double LP reish (LAFMS/Smegma-related tapes)

from the Mars Volta wiki:

In some U.S. indie stores, a free 5" VinylDisc of The Mars Volta's cover of Pink Floyd's "Candy and a Currant Bun" was given away with purchase of the album. The VinylDisc is a new format that has a digital side and a vinyl side. One side plays in a CD player, while the other side plays on a turntable. The vinyl side contains the Pink Floyd cover "Candy and a Currant Bun", while the CD side contains the audio track for "Candy and a Currant Bun" as well as the "Wax Simulacra" video as enhanced content. It also comes with a removable foam spindle insert to switch between CD & vinyl.

Anyone seen one of these VinylDiscs? How well do they actually work?

I haven't seen that, but it's probably worth looking at.
I know Nautical Almanac was lathe-cutting grooves into CDs a few years back, but those were very difficult to play (and, you know, they did it right onto a CD-R, along the outer rim.)

i was just goofing off and noticed brooklyn's biggest fire hazard made it on to youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnSeGec6jyo

I have yet to go to The Thing; anyone have any good stories? I hear their comics are better than the comics at Junk.

Right now, I'm working on a mix of religious/gay/country/folk private press LPs.

Thought you meant the band The Thing. They are awesome. Can't speak to the store.

http://www.adherents.com/lit/comics/image/Thing_religion.jpg

Anyone seen one of these VinylDiscs? How well do they actually work?

-- jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 11 February 2008 19:16 (3 days ago) Bookmark Link

Yeah, I've seen one. It looks like it works about as well as those 'postage stamp records' from olden days.

was the in camera record the open air one, or the first one?

open air, didn't know there was a newer one.

I mean a "first" one before the open air one, duh.

Anyone know what happened to Marquis Dancehall in Brookln? I heard they closed.

sleeve: yeah, there's another one, which is the one i have. it's far from amazing (lots of creaking sounds, the odd piano gets struck), but i quite like it. i haven't heard open air.

http://www.discogs.com/release/628425

there

Anyone know what happened to Marquis Dancehall in Brookln? I heard they closed.

mark dancehall is gone. before his store closed his workers told me he had bought an apartment in morocco. then after it closed i got an email from him saying he was off to mine turkey for psych records. all i know is he recently dumped 15 grand worth of john fahey/folkways/blues type stuff.

my only regret is i used to stroll eat>academy>marquise. i got skated tim leary lsd for $4 from him and other oddities/ethnic. often i would be too beat to go in, i really should have done that walk in reverse.

Found an awesome looking compilation called The Train to Disaster. Tracks by George Brigman & Split, Slickee Boys, Billy Synth & the Turn Ups, The Left, Velvet Monkeys, and a few others I don't know.

Only had a chance to listen to the track by The Left, which kicks ass. Think they had a complete recordings type reissue recently. Must track down...

Other weekend finds/arrivals...

Philip Cohran - Malcom X Memorial. (Awesome drum sounds. Almost Moondoggin' at times.)
Game Theory - Lolita Nation & Big Shot Chronicles
Jacqueline Taieb - 7AM Lusty yeye 7" with lyrics about Macca.
Merle Haggard - Tribute to Bob Wills
Asmus Tietchens VOD boxed set (WOW)
Unicorn s/t
Royal Trux - Thank You
Lavender Hill Mob LP

Also found a Peach of Immortality LP from 1987, but the guy had no idea where the record was. Shame. And interestingly, I as just reading the history of this group. Had no idea Michael Stipe and Tom Smith shared a history!!!?

The Left comp is called Jesus Loves The Left and is recommended - I only knew one track "Fuck It" from Killed By Hardcore before I got the comp, but there's a load of other great songs on it.

Just spent about two months or so in Berlin, with a slice of Stockholm on the side. Gotta love those flohmarkts, and a host of used/cheap bins full of maxis! And Stockholm gives it up nicely, too. As you'll see, I like my covers.

Some great LPs:

Jean-Yves Labat - M. Frog
Gershon Kingsley - Mister Popcorn and His Sound Machine (with the great "Crackerjack" and "Kohoutek")
B.B. and the Band - We the People
Patty Pravo - Miss Italia (with crazy Italian version of "Come Sail Away")
Lora Logic - Pedigree Charm
Monica Zetterlund - Same (with great Swedish version of "Hit the Road, Jack")
Patrick Cowley comp. with Tantra's "Katmandu"
The Zeet Band - Moogie Woogie
Nancy Sinatra - Woman
Zodiac - Disco Alliance (great Soviet space disco)
Zerrin Özer - Seni Seviyorum (a couple of great disco cuts)
Quartz - Quartz
Ganymed - Takes You Higher (costumed cosmic disco)
Bernard Estardy - La Formule du Baron (reissue, long out of print)
The Rattles - Greatest Hits (for their beaty cover of "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah")

Some 12s:

Black Light Orchestra - A Man and His Harmonica (Morricone disco)
Venus Gang - Love to Fly
Hot R.S. - House of the Rising Sun
Luv You Madly Orchestra - Moon Maiden
Le Jeté - La Cage aux Folles
The Hugo & Luigi Music Machine - Love Theme from "The Godfather" (wow!)
Cosmo Wave and the Space Cadets - Hall of the Mountain King (Grieg goes disco)

And a stack of 7s:

Gainsbourg - Sea, Sex and Sun + My Lady Heroine
Linda Law - Nights in White Satin, but the flip is the one you want "All the Night"
Caterina Caselli - Es la Juventud (Italian version of "Baby, Please Don't Go)
Silvetti - Spring Rain
Gerald Mann - Pac-Man Fieber (in German, even better!)
Preston Epps - Bongo Bongo Bongo
Tumblack - Caraïba (not the great 12", but a pretty good, if crispy, 7-inch version)
Theo Schermann - Marbles in My Head (trippy proto synth pop)
Johan Timman - Close Encounters of the Third Kind (the only real passable disco version to these ears)
Les Rockets - On the Road Again (check the Youtube vid)
Les Clodettes - Chinese Kung Fu
Cozy Powell - Dance with the Devil (and the great flip, "And Then There Was Skin")
The Winstons - Amen, Brother (cheap, cheap!)
Chris Clark - Love's Gone Bad
Danyel Gerard - America (great cover French cover version)
Les Surfs - Clac Tape ("The Clapping Song" in French)
Donna Hightower - C'est Toi Mon Idole ("My Boy Lollipop" in French)
Blondie - llamame ("Call Me" in Spanish)

http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Alley/6115/godzimage/alien.jpg

and of course, our radio show is vinyl only.
My Radio Show

the past two weeks...

at flea markets + thrifts around philly, all $1 each
edith piaf - piaf
prince and the revolution - purple rain
michael jackson - off the wall
michael jackson - thriller
nancy sinatra - movin' with nancy
bruce springsteen - born in the usa
debussy - la mer/nocturnes
hyden - symphonies 101-104 (2lp, really nice Erato label edition)
v/a - 2001: a space odyssey soundtrack
v/a - american gigolo soundtrack (giorgio moroder)
v/a - rosemary's baby soundtrack (my favorite find of the day... love this soundtrack!)

philly record stores:
the left banke - walk away renee lp
teenage fanclub - I don't want control of you 12"
the free design - kites are fun lp
todd rundgren - runt lp
orange juice - flesh of my flesh 12"
pete shelley - homosapien
the go-betweens - tallulah lp
v/a it's different for domeheads lp (creation records)
v/a pop romantique lp
the dickies - stukas over disneyland lp
tv babies - jailbait 12"
the celibate rifles - s/t lp
heroin 12"
barry beam - s/t lp
angel hair/bare minimum split 7"
tickley feather/serpents of wisdom split 7"

yesterday in brooklyn:
scott joplin - piano rags vols. 1 + 2 2lp (nonesuch)
clive pig and the hopeful chinamen lp
nude ants - access 12"
the tyde - twice lp
clikitat ikatowi - august 29+30 1995 lp
elf power - a dream in sound lp
cause co-motion! - who's gonna care? 7"

if anyone can give me any info on TV BABIES, BARRY BEAM, NUDE ANTS or CLIVE PIG, i'd greatly appreciate! all records i listened to on looks alone and are awesome. tv babies and barry beam are synth-y new wave stuff, and clive pig and the hopeful chinamen are pretty strange post-punk. nude ants get pretty nervous and twitchy, playing kitschy almost talking heads-style stuff.

Artist Track Album Label

Steve Reich Come Out New Sounds in Electronic Music Odyssey
Stud Cole Black Sun Stud Cole Pacific Atlantic Tribune
Moby Grape Changes, Circles Spinning Truly Fine Citizen Columbia
Keith Christmas The Fawn Fable of the Wings Polydor
Anne Briggs Tongue in Cheek Sing A Song For You Bo' Weavil
James Darren Goodbye Cruel World 45 Colpix
Geof Morgan Homophobia It Comes With The Plumbing Nexus
Death In June Rose Clouds Of Holocaust Sun Dogs 7" NER
Cult of Youth Eye To Eye 45 Axiomata Product
Gate Opening My Arms Metric Majora
Kites Dirt Peace Trials Load
Nurse With Wound I've Plumbed This Whole Neighborhood Drastic Perversions XXX
The Shadow Ring Fish and Hog Lighthouse Swill Radio
Judee Sill The Donor Heartfood Asylum
16 Horsepower Shametown 45 Ricochet
Dinosaur Jr Hot Burrito #2 "Get Me" 12" Single Warner
Bobbie Gentry Ode To Billy Joe 45 Capitol
Maher Shalal Hash Baz Noon Recess After American Pops From A Summer To Another Summer (An Egypt To Another Egypt) Geographic
Dion Purple Haze 45 Laurie
Jim McCarthy In Search of An Audience Alien ESP
Nick Cave Into My Arms 45 Mute
Richard & Linda Thompson The Calvary Cross I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight crappy Carthage reissue
Cuddly Toys Madman 45 Fresh
The Daily Void (Surprise, Surprise) You've Lost Your Eyes 45 Hozac
The Chameleons In Shreds Here Today, Gone Tomorrow Imaginary
Bobb Trimble Take Me Home Vienna Harvest of Dreams Secretly Canadian
Bob Dylan Don't Think Twice; It's Alright Free Wheelin' Columbia
Cluster Zum Wohl Sowiesoso Sky
Dennis Wilson Friday Night Pacific Ocean Blue Caribou
Unknown Tarab Music of the Waswahili of Lamu, Kenya, Vol. 3: Secular Music Ethnic Folkways
Sibylle Baier Tonight Color Green Isota
John Fahey The Death of the Clayton Peacock Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death Riverboat

i was crazed today and i needed records to calm me down. cuz it's too early to start drinking. anyway, got some good records:

elvin bishop - let it flow (capricorn) (dickie betts! sly stone!)

black ivory - s/t (buddah)

eugene record - the eugene record (WB)

ricardo ray/bobby cruz - 10 anniversario (vaya)

eugene record - trying to get to you (WB)

allan toussaint - southern nights (meters!)

fajardo 76 - la raiz de la charanga (includes moulton mix of "c'mon baby, do the latin hustle"!)

charles tolliver/music inc. - music inc. (strata-east)

deaf school - 2nd honeymoon (WB test pressing)

Obsession 2lp psych comp on Bully (curated by Ian! okay, maybe not. but some dude at Academy put it together, no?)

El Numero eccentric soul 2lp comp

barbara mason & bunny sigler - locked in this position (curtom)

dexter gordon - gotham city (columbia)

billie holiday - lady in satin (columbia)

willie colon - willie (fania)

barretto - rican/struction (fania)

Obsession 2lp psych comp on Bully (curated by Ian! okay, maybe not. but some dude at Academy put it together, no?)

^^ my boss put it together. Would love to hear what you think, Scott.

All ultra rare international psych fuzz monsters.

record store bought a bunch of stuff and they had PRISTINE copies of the first two small faces albums and i couldn't stop drooling. original u.k. pressings. mono. vinyl and covers SO CLEAN. i want them, but i can't afford them. i told them to put them up on ebay. probably do all right. i kept trying to think of stuff i could trade for them. they also got a minty copy of the first frijid pink album. *sigh* can't afford that either. and i need that album. i remember when you could pick that up fairly cheaply and i never bought a copy.

How much are they asking for the Small Faces?

I got a fairly clean DJ copy of the Macondo album for a buck at an Antique Show I really had no business being at.

lol frijid pink, is that the pink cover? (no pun intended) i often come across it and its always unplayable/skated. never a decent copy to be found (if i'm thinking of the right one)

i was at academy in brooklyn on monday. great store, i've never been in there before. some folks were talking it up on another forum and it definitely lived up to the hype, but some serious nerds were hogging the listening station for way too long (FIVE RECORD LIMIT, dweebs!).

Nice find on that Dion Purple Haze. I don't know too much about that guy but it seems like he had a pretty weird career kind of like Del Shannon.

lol, i brought in my turntable to see how much i could get on a trade-in (b/c i want a new one with usb), and the dude dropped it. shit got totally smashed...i didn't expect to get much for it anyway, but still.

"How much are they asking for the Small Faces?"

they aren't asking anything yet. they just have them in boxes with all this other stuff they bought. i told them ebay was their best bet. they go for, like, 80/100 maybe? i was thinking of bringing in a ton of stuff i don't need and possibly trading. i just can't imagine finding nicer copies.

i don't REALLY need the frijid pink album. i just feel dumb for not picking up a copy years ago when it sold for peanuts. i have no idea why it sells for so much now. it's not THAT hard to find. it had a big hit single on it. good distribution.

Now listening to a gorgeous UK Press of the Hangman's Beautiful Daughter.

Other listening:
Pussygutt 2LP on OESB
Frederic Rzewski - Four Pieces (1977)
Jon Appleton - World Music Theater
Bob Lucas/Bill Schwarz/Miriam Sturm - ECLECTRICITY (this is a private LP that has one of the worst songs I have ever heard: "Gerald Ford." It also has some nice fiddle-laced country and a sikey sitar/tabla cut called "Paul McCartney. 1980.)
Anne T. McBride - Islands of Mermaids (hawaiian hippie flower child junk but... you know.)

Also checked out the new Fern Knight LP on Eclipse! Very nice dark-but-not-goth folk.

anyone got any recent Shadoks LP's they wanna comment on?

listening to the Guruh Gipsy album, very cool

and THANKS for the Frijid Pink tip, didn't know them. listening to some tracks up on their myspace. which album to get first then?

first two are cool (s/t and defrosted). i've never actually heard the third album *earth omen*, but i'd love to find a copy. they put out an album in 1975 and i don't know anyone who's heard it. have no idea even what it sounds like. anyway, i can vouch for the first two.

Shadoks are... hit and miss, at best. I haven't been impressed by that many of them, though I'm bummed I spaced on getting the KAMIJO - MARTHA Shadoks issue when it was in stores here. That one's great.

do i need that mourning phase album? they still have a copy at the record store. pricey, but i could trade some dumb CDs for it.

You don't NEED it. How much do you like the Wicker Man soundtrack? It's not as good as that. And it's short IIRC. Under half an hour maybe.

I've the option of buying several Impulse-era Sun Ra LPs, not owning any of them. Any suggestions?

if i were rich i would buy all these shadoks. i want freedom's children box :(

"I've the option of buying several Impulse-era Sun Ra LPs, not owning any of them. Any suggestions?"

buy them all and then listen to them and then eventually sell them and buy some cool psych records.

i am selling my GOSPEL OAK LP. Too blues rock for me to hold onto but w/ some nice ruralsike cuts. I need to sell some other crap too, to buy krautrock and private acid folk monsters.

sometimes i think about selling some of my rare tape music/early electronic LPs on ebay and using the profits to buy a bunch of gear.

aw sweet there's a record fair nearby on sunday

let's hope they got a fix to my heavy hardrocking psychedelic needs

i need
Dust - Hard Attack
Stalker-Forrest Group - St. Cecilia
Pink Fairies - Neverneverland
KAK - KAK
Bubbly Puppy - A Gathering of Promises
Amboy Dukes - Journey to the Center of the Mind

and more! i checked all these out tonight with a little help from my friend called soulseek

i'll probably end up with some worn out Banarama lp's and a Klaus Schulze lp i don't have yet though, at best

Kak is so good, but aren't originals prohibitively expensive these days? Bubble Puppy seem kinda marginal to me. BUT, that 2nd Dust record has really grown on me. Maybe I'll listen to it later tonight.

i have no idea. i'm afraid to search for them on ebay cos i'm totally broke and a sucker for any tag saying heavy psych

i love bubble puppy. i have a nice original copy of that. i've got the kak reissue that came out whenever. same time that they put out gandalf and head shop on vinyl. i love those kinds of reissues. sound great and they are cheap!

i still need a nice copy of the demian album but i'm cheap and don't want to spend a hundred bucks on ebay.

SCORPIO. I think we've had the "Yay Scorpio reissues!" conversation on about 10 different threads. They've been doing really nice reissues of the BYG Actuel LPs lately. And they did that first Fahey record on vinyl. I want them to repress the Gentle Soul reissue. Terry Melcher!

i'm cheap too, it pains me to more than twenty bucks for any lp. seriously

And god I love the Gandalf and Fallen Angels and Kak LPs.
Couldn't get into Mandrake Memorial or Head Shop though! Sorry Scott!

i got my bubble puppy and a ton of other stuff when i traded my perry leopold album to my friend dan. um, like a zillion years ago. but it's memorable to me. perry's album, to this day, being my best salvation army find. (i wasn't that big a fan of it, which is why i had no problem giving it up)

i LOVE that head shop album. and, yeah, mandrake memorial are one of my fave bands of all time, but i can dig it. some people can't get into that organ sound.

i have the gentle soul reissue. found it in boston for five bucks. if i ever have money again i gotta go back to cambridge. they had so much friggin' vinyl when i went there. cheap too! there are like a zillion record stores. and i never even made it to twisted village!

that one trip we took to boston i came home with a TON of great records. great psych records too. and they were just sitting there for 10 bucks or whatever. i couldn't believe it. what do people buy in boston?

bad hardcore.

i'm cutting & pasting this from noize listening thread in case anyone knows anything:

so in the new ugly things review of the trimble records they say that the CDs sound great but that the LPs "suffer from an inferior remix". is this true? cuz dude at the record store is holding both LPs for me (he bought them but didn't dig them for whatever reason so he was gonna sell me his) and i was gonna buy those. BUT i already bought maria the iron curtain cd, so i guess i could just get the other album on cd too if the sound is that much of an issue. i want the best-sounding thing, you know? but is it that noticeable, or is UT dude just being anal? probably nobody has heard both to compare.

I haven't heard both, but I think the LPs sound fine.
You get a download coupon with the LPs so you can always download what is (presumably) the CD mix?

and THANKS for the Frijid Pink tip, didn't know them. listening to some tracks up on their myspace. which album to get first then?

-- rizzx, Friday, February 22, 2008 4:28 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

first two are cool (s/t and defrosted). i've never actually heard the third album *earth omen*, but i'd love to find a copy. they put out an album in 1975 and i don't know anyone who's heard it. have no idea even what it sounds like. anyway, i can vouch for the first two.

-- scott seward, Friday, February 22, 2008 4:40 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

Yeah the first two albums rip. 'Earth Omen' is pretty good! But a different sound. I think they changed lead singers by that one, and maybe another member or two as well. But it's still pretty heavy ... organ-y. Has a bit of a Uriah Heep vibe actually! I've owned the fourth one ('All Pink Inside') for about ten years and MAYBE listened to it all the way through once. It's pretty bad, I think ... kind of a softer boogie band feel if i recall.

Scorpio repros i've picked up lately: Friendsound, Power of Zeus, Saint Steven, Mandrake Memorial s/t. Haven't heard the first two yet but the Saint Steven album really grew on me after a couple of plays.

Mandrake Memorial rule! That big long opening cut on 'Puzzle' where the organ swells up out of the murk is awesome ... top psych tune! Ian have you heard 'Puzzle'?

I have. Puzzle is better than the one that Scorpio reissued, but still didn't grab me too hard.

Now playing: Gipp Forster - Walkin' Real In An Unreal Land.

Have you guys heard the Moondog "Snaketime" LP that Scorpio reissued?? That's a killer record.

that one trip we took to boston i came home with a TON of great records. great psych records too. and they were just sitting there for 10 bucks or whatever. i couldn't believe it. what do people buy in boston?

-- scott seward, Friday, February 22, 2008 5:25 PM

Yeah so true ... I had almost this EXACT same experience on my first two trips to Boston (1996 and 1998.) So much awesome stuff and so cheap. I remember some of the spoils ... second Bull Angus lp and the Tod Dockstader on Folkways for like 8 bucks apiece at Mystery Train ... the Stockhausen 'Hymnen' 2lp on DG for like 10 bucks at some random store i can't remember. hmm i'm blanking on some of the others, but they were awesome trips.

now playing: flatt & scruggs - nashville airplane (i love their dylan covers. it's as good as that awesome stonemans album i have where the stoneman family rips thru creedence covers. which i see you can get on cd now! http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=67386)

i need this:

http://www.musicobsession.com/Pictures/f/l/flattandscruggs355322.jpg

"Scorpio repros i've picked up lately: Friendsound"

when i used to have a bookmark on my computer for paul revere & the raiders ebay listings - which was, like, 1999 or whatever - you used to be able to get originals for five bucks. i bought two of them! total cut-out bin record. nobody cared about it or had heard it. which is kinda weird cuz i think it's on that old nurse with wound list. anyway, definitely one of my fave psych records. and one of my fave krautrock records too! albeit one made in hollywood by west coast dudes.

"Now playing: Gipp Forster - Walkin' Real In An Unreal Land."

hahaha, he's horrible.

i want every scorpio reissue that i don't have. is there anyplace on-line where you can get a good deal buying those? they don't sell them at my record store here. i should ask them to. they should sell shadoks CDs too. those aren't so crazy priced. and i need them to get rev-ola Cds too while i'm at it. i like to shop local.

Scorpio reissues are pretty cheap at Dusty Groove, IIRC. You could probably do a wholesale order if you want to buy enough stuff; I'm happy to send you their catalog spreadsheets and stuff. Webmail me your e-mail and I can fwd em on over.

for that matter, gimme your store's email address and i'll forward THEM the scorpio catalog. If they don't do Scorpio, does that mean they don't have the cheap Velvets reissues, or Fela reissues or anything like that? They have really nice selections in jazz & soul in addition to the rock and psych stuff.

This site seems to be almost exclusively scorpio stuff, and the prices are pretty good:

http://www.vinyl.com/

cool, thanks you guys.

these are my dudes. mike and chris. the ONLY source for vinyl that i have on this rock (besides the thrifts and the dump and yard/estate sales):

http://www.myspace.com/abovegroundrecs

i've helped them out a little. with their new metal section. going thru the boxes of vinyl and separating the good from bad. like a lot of stores, they have a really hard time in the winter. i do what i can to help via money!

you can tell what kind of stuff chris likes from the list of live shows they've had at the store:

IN-STORE PERFORMANCES WE'VE HOSTED: Alasdair Roberts, Keith Fullerton Whitman/Greg Davis/Bird Show, MV/EE & The Bummer Road, Samara Lubelski, Charlie Schmidt, Glenn Jones, P.G. Six, Death Vessel, Willy Mason, Kahoots, Mikey Gunn, Coyote, Sir Richard Bishop, The Robot Ate Me, Christina Carter + Gown, Backwards Sam Firk, Will Pfluger, Six Organs of Admittance, Hush Arbours, Micah Blue Smaldone, Ponies in the Surf, Milo Jones, Noah Maxner, Alec K. Redfearn, Paul Metzger, Harris Newman, Chris Brokaw, Diane Cluck, x.o.4, Shawn David McMillen, Max Ochs, Mike Kerr, Michael Hadyn, ANTi, Whalebone/The Trails, Jana Hunter, J Buster, Loira Burra, Jennifer O'Connor, Adam Howell, Anthony Esposito, Clint Michigan, Meg Baird (& Baird Sisters), Glorytellers, Drawing Guts, Little Claw, Pink Reason,

Micah Blue Smaldone,

^^ I REALLY liked his record on Tequila Sunrise. Kind of a Jansch/Bull hybrid.

Alec K. Redfearn,

^^ also awesome and unappreciated Providence, RI accordion genius.

chris brings michael hurley to the island just about every year too. in a bigger venue.

I tried talking to Hurley when he played here and I felt like I was bothering him, it was kind of a bummer. He played great though! He always does though, I guess.

in my experience he ain't really the talkative type

I heard a rumour that W@rn3R Br)th3ers lawyers nixed any reissue plans of the Raccoon label stuff, by the way.

ian I am also gonna send you my local dealers email for that Scorpio catalog/

all those people stay at ilxor beth parker's house when they come and play. or most of them anyway. the ones who spend the night. nikki sudden stayed at beth's house, like, two days before he died. you could still smell his special nikki smell in the house even after his death.

"Now playing: Gipp Forster - Walkin' Real In An Unreal Land."

hahaha, he's horrible.

horribly awesome, you mean. alright, he kind of sucks, but i like some of the tracks on that LP. bought it mostly because it was on ranwood, same label as the inner dialogue, and that cover is just awesome.

it's even under BOUGHT IT FOR THE COVER in some dude's rate your music list. and it is a great cover. and when i got a copy i was hoping it was worth a zillion dollars and would freak me out. it just kinda bummed me out. though i like the sound effects! xian rod mckuens are by definition freaky, but gipp was more sad than freak.

just got home .. stopped off at the rekkerd store on the way home.. man, the used new arrivals bin was SO depressing. There is just nothing anymore.

ended up picking up new copies of the 2lp reish of the Sonic Youth ep and OM's 'Conference of the Birds.'

when I got home the 31st of February album that i won on eBay was waiting. Nice! I think I'll put that on next. I hope it's good. pre-Allmans!

<I>bought it mostly because it was on ranwood, same label as the inner dialogue</I>

Yeah, same here. And it's cheap. In fact, I didn't even buy it yet, it's in my hold stack. Right now I am listeing to Tusk. Fucking Tusk, man.

Sleeve, I'm kind of surprised the Mississippi people even contacted the Raccoon folks at Warner, since most of what they do is totally unlicensed anyway! (Though I guess those 78s fall under public domain now, maybe? God knows. IANAL.)

There are definitely some sample-worthy bits on that Gipp LP too, man. I mean, like whatever that line is about "26 hours a day."

I tried talking to Hurley when he played here and I felt like I was bothering him, it was kind of a bummer.

Yeah, I did this too when I saw him five or six years ago. I wouldn't say it felt like I was *bothering* him, more like Sleeve said -- it was just kind of hard to engage him. I tried talking to him about Vermont cuz I love Vermont and was genuinely curious whether or not he and I had hung out in some of the same towns and his impression of his time there. but he just didn't have a lot to say.

do i need that malcom x/funky jazz/60's/radical/whatever/reissue record on mississippi? they have that at the record store.

just tell me no. i don't need any records right now.

i need to SELL some records. seriously. before i even think about buying more. i need to justify my habit somehow. i ain't got no money honey.

Scott ... yeah you need that Phil Cohran record. both of his records, in fact! I have two originals of the Malcolm X record... I missed putting one up on the bay before that reish came out. Oh well. it should still probably pull some decent scratch.

Yeah that Pjil Cohran rules, duder.

Want to trade me your dupe of the orig, Stormy? Doubt I have anything you need, but you never know.

My policy is to buy anything Mississippi puts out, ask questions later.

hmm .. I could consider a trade! though to be honest I've never really been a big trader. do you have the 1st Salvation lp on Probe ? or the Sonic Arts Union lp ??

I am bummed that I never picked up those Mississippi comps of the old 78 stuff. I never even saw 'em ANYWHERE! sheesh. they are gonna end up like those Group Doueh and Group Inerane lps and sell for like a hundred bucks, aren't they?

Those comps are being repressed! Most of them, anyway.

I wish I had the Sonic Arts Union LP! That's on MY want list too.

I will trade you my girlfriend for a week.

Can I interest you in Argentine psych rarities?

i've been playing this record lately, nice lil' 50's jazzzzzz session with max leading on bass, and i had no idea that he's the same dude who played with zappa on a ton of records! he's on hot rats!

http://www.popsike.com/pix/20060117/4823122918.jpg

shows what i know. he played on a ton of records, period.

http://www.united-mutations.com/b/max_bennet.htm

Someone needs to press Mike Hunchback's solo LP, "Outta My Head" on LP. He's onto some serious Columbus, Ohio vibes in a stew with Alice Cooper, Gene Clark and vintage Touch & go.

"solo CD .... onto LP"

this week's vinyl, first bunch from tequila sunrise in philly, second from princeton record exchange in nj.

maximum joy - unlimited (1979-83) 2lp
giorgio - e=mc2 lp
the damned - the black album lp
mi ami - 12" on white denim
david bowie - station to station lp (my friend gave me his extra copy)
===
altered images - pinky blue lp
the housemartins - london 0 hull 4 lp
franklin bruno - a bedroom community lp
leon redbone - from branch to branch lp
kraftwerk - the telephone call/der telefon anruf 12"
sylvester - don't stop 12"
shannon - give me tonight 12"
carol jiani - hit n run lover 12"
paul parker - right on target 12"

saturday:

three times dope - original stylin'
doug e fresh and the get fresh crew - oh my god!
alliance - we could get used to this
sugar hill hang - sugar hill gang lp
spoonie gee - the godfather of rap
whistle - whistle
ambassadors of funk - monsterjam

I went Goodwillin' and came up with three records by the Maines Brothers, kinda slick sounding but nice Texas country music on some self-released label from 1978-81. There was also a 1985 LP they made for Polydor but I passed. Got a private press country record from Bend, Oregon with an ARP 2600 synth credited (!!!), but it sucked. A Disney "101 Dalmatians" book/single with the Cruella De Ville song, a must have. In other store action on my lazy Saturday, I found an SF Seals LP, Prince's "Raspberry Beret" 12", some record on Tacoma by dudes I can't remember now called "Live At McCabe's" (I know the real McCabe IRL so I had to have it to show him), and some weird 1981 comp LP/mag called Recorder with tracks by Robert Fripp and The Thompson Twins.

First block is new, second block is listening.

Roddy McDowall Reads the Horror Stories of H.P. Lovecraft
Monoshock - Walk To The Fire
Marlin Greene - Tiptoe Past The Dragon
Jon Appleton - World Music Theater Of...
Amadu Bansang Jobarteh - Master of the Kora
Blastius To Una Turtavu - Guitar Songs of Papau New Guinea
Lejaren Hiller - Portfolio For Diverse Performers (plus some other stuff on the b-side that i don't care much about)
Eclectricity LP (private '80 hippie psych with what might be the WORST song I've ever heard--"President Ford.")

Euphoria - A Gift From
Lejaren Hiller - Avalanche/Nightmare Music
Skip Spence - Oar
Robert Ashley - Automatic Writing

The Euphoria record remains wildly underrated by ILM.

saw sooo much good stuff at the record fair i visited yesterday. only bought far east family band's parallel world though. the thing with these fairs is, those people know their stuff, so virtually no cheapo finds

The old WFMU fair trick is to go mid-day and onward on Sunday and, no matter what you're looking to by, ask the dealer if they can "do a little better on this one." (Many of them will have signs already advertising price slashing, so you're not really being that rude.)

Flash & the Pan - S/T debut: sucks, see thread
Naked Raygun - Basement Screams reissue w/ demos: great, but I still hate "Potential Rapist" w/ a burning passion
Steppenwolf - 7: only cuz the cover, worth a dollar
Jens Lekman - new one: used & cheap, for the GF
Wipers - Youth of America reissue: already got a copy, but this is nice & I want Greg to have money
Boris - "Statement" 7-inch: rock music

Oh, and

Cough Supressant Alcoholics: "Metal Is Not Dead" 7-inch: sluggish drug noise

yeah i did get that far east record half price hah

DEAD MOON - DEFIANCE.

ian, send me that scorpio info. i'm gonna send it along to the record store dude. actually, what the hell, their e-mail is:

abovegroundrecords

@

yahoo.com

mine is:

skotrok

@

earthlink.net

if you e-mail those dudes just tell them that scott seward wanted them to have the info. thanks!

it's funny cuz today in a box at the record store i found a used copy of the October Country reissue that Scorpio did! i've been thru every box and bin in that store and i still find stuff that i missed.

"The Euphoria record remains wildly underrated by ILM."

i still have never heard it. that's one of the reissues i wanna get.

Will forward all the info when I'm at work tomorrow, Scott.

picked up happy & artie traum - hard times in the country - in your honor today, ian.

yo scott -- i've been to that above ground place. granted, i was 14 and not into records then. it was my only time on the island and probably on illumination night or something.

i'm curious, how does that shop restock its used section? do they ferry stuff over from the mainland or are retiree label executives dying off at a good clip?

that's not their best record, but i hope you like it, scott!! the first two records, on Capitol, jesus--those are some of the best major label country rock records of the era!! Ken Lauber does one of their songs on his "Contemplation (view)" LP.

I was also listening to another scorpio reissue tonight that i LOVE--The Fallen Angels "It's A Long Way Down." Great west coast-sounding psych-rock bummers.

"do they ferry stuff over from the mainland or are retiree label executives dying off at a good clip?"

i've been living off of the remains of ashford & simpson's business manager for years now. the record store bought boxes of his old records years ago when he died and most of it is still there. i bought some more of his old salsa records today. i've gotten lots of cool r&b and weird major label stuff from him. he had a great house. we went to his estate sale. if you ever need 20 sealed ashford & simpson records let me know.

but people bring stuff in. you'd be surprised. pretty good turnover for such a small population. lots of old hippies!

hell, i just brought in a big stack of good sellable records today. i like to help keep things going.

a while ago, someone brought in three big boxes of cool classical and spoken word records and they didn't really want them, so i asked them to offer the people 30 bucks and i'd take them. and they did and i did! they do nice stuff like that for me.

Tommy Jay's Tales of Trauma is predictably awesome. The song 'I Was There' is a knockout, with these great chick-whispered backing vocals.

And back to the excellent Train to Disaster comp I mentioned upthread, there's an amazing German language punk cover of White Rabbit by some dude called Ronnie Urini. It's called Alice und Wunderland. And the George Brigman track is killer. Definitely gotta check out some of his post-Jungle Rot stuff...

Anyone checked out the Spanish psych reissue label Wah Wah? That Musica Dispersa LP in particular sounds great, from what bits I've heard on WFMU.

http://www.forcedexposure.com/labels/wah.wah.records.spain.html

Actually, this Ronnie Urini guy looks like he's quite a character. Apparently he's an Austrian underground/punk musician who played with the Doors, the Ramones and the Velvet Underground. He even has an IMDB page, with his sole credit being an appearance in the film Vampyros Sexos.

Wah Wah does high quality stuff in general, but the Musica Dispersa didn't blow me away. They're the label that just did a big batch of kosmische folk stuff. Emtidi, Holderin, Broselmaschine.

Was it Wah Wah who re-issued that Miguel Cantilo record? I can't remember now.

Dunno. I had my eye on Broselmaschine too though. They also rereleased Astrud Gilberto with Stanley Turrentine, which I love. Deodato produced on CTI. 2 stars, sez AMG!

nice vinyl reissues:
gene clark - white light
yves, serge & victor - cagibi (french 70s rural psych with neil young-isms)

How are those new(-ish?) Beefheart reissues? I saw ...Decals... and the rest in shop the other day and nearly fainted.

Cool new releases:
Bruce Russell - 21st Century Field Hollers & Prison Songs (this sounds more like Graham Lambkin's solo records than it does the Dead C; very demanding listening.)
Pigeons LP on Black Dirt (Carter Thornton plus members of the Sea Donkeys make pastoral psychedelia with folk & country overtones. Lush femme vox in French and English, very very recommended.)

Actually, this Ronnie Urini guy looks like he's quite a character.

gnarly s

Had a 45 on Sympathy years back, as Ron Urini & the Wild Bunch: "Wild Venus on Wheels" b/w something or other. Squareish retro garage-punk, but with a certain novelty value deriving from the fact that his "venus" comes out "wenus". In other words, typical Sympathy stuff.

kraftwerk - computer world lp
kraftwerk - trans europe express lp
the boys - the boys lp
close lobsters - foxheads stalk this land lp (!!!!!!!!)
the wedding present - anyone can make a mistake 12"

michael hurley - long journey
carly simon - greatest hits vol. 1 (like 80% awesome)
hoover s/t (NOT THE DISCHORD BAND HOOVER)
takehisa kosugi - violin solo
sandy bull - demolition derby (underrated; has "coming together" "tennessee waltz" and "last date" which are all awesome.)
the reel world string band s/t (private(?) bluegrass/old-timey-ish country record by feminists.)
the dead c - the operation of the sonne
v/a - a collection of mountain songs 1927-1930
muhal richard abrams - live at montreux 1978

i also listened to a rather late (1988) Jerome Cooper LP a few days ago that was surprisingly awesome. Had Joseph Jarman and William Parker on it amongst others.

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s43557.jpg

How are those new(-ish?) Beefheart reissues? I saw ...Decals... and the rest in shop the other day and nearly fainted.

-- C. Grisso/McCain, Tuesday, February 26, 2008 6:10 PM

AWESOME

decals on 180 gram makes me so happy

recent vinyle:

headache - sweat 7"
islands, world court, alig fodder 45s on tomlab
barbara feldon - 99 7"
systematics - rural 12" with moldy cover
fixed up - one night stand 7"
rabbits wedding - coming like summer 7" (minting up)
mothers - drives me wild 7"
rabbits wedding - showtime 12"
buckingham nicks - s/t lp (aus pressing & always nice to have a spare as a backup)
tuff monks - after the fireworks 7"
grooveyard - s/t 12"
grooveyard - avalanche of love 7"
itchy rat - save the labels for tins of peas 7"
cows - woman inside 7"
moving parts - chevy 7"
flaming hands - wake up screaming 7" (to replace the horribly distored "unplayed" copy i bought a few months previous)
a happy family - things are fine 7"
mv+ee, pet politics and tranko 45s on great pop supplement
jfk & the cuban crisis - end of the affair lp
clive langer - even though 7" (looks mint, plays vg-. fuck you creation for using recycled vinyl)
kevin hewick - ophelia's drinking song 7"
durutti column - danny / engima 7"
hellmenn - herbal lunacy 12"
green - s/t lp

a couple of others i can't remember offhand

Blue Sabbath Black Cheer - for the sickly weaklings LP
Nattefrost - Satan's Terrorist / Necronaut 1 (used & cheap)

re: electricsound - damn,that cows 45 is great!

yeah i slept on picking up most of those insipid vinyl 45s when they were easy to get.. so i'm making up for lost time

hoover s/t (NOT THE DISCHORD BAND HOOVER)

you really like this album though? I remember really digging the first track but then the rest never grabbed me. yellow-label Epic is always such an adventure

I do really like that album, Stormy.
The song about needing a woman to take care of him, the faux-hippy 8 minute closer... love it. I think the dude's got a nice voice, too, if a bit generic. It's easy to listen to.

I think the YANOSKA LP is on yellow label Epic too. That one's pretty much a clunker, except for the "LOL times they are a changin" feeling when there's a whole song that denigrates a woman and repeatedly calls her a whore. ahead of its time!

Mention of Dischord reminded me - I saw a copy of The Kids Will Have Their Say by SSD in a record shop this week, for £12, which would be a deal I think since it goes for a ton on Ebay, but I think it might be a bootleg cos Dischord was spelt Discord on the back, plus it was in far too good condition. They had Get It Away as well which made me more suspicious. £12 is too much for a bootleg!

Try coming to America where you'll routinely see needle-drop psych bootlegs for $30 or more! Evil evil evil.

Got Peter Grudzien's "The Unicorn" in the mail this week and it is incredible. The bonus lp, "The Garden of Love," is easily just as good, maybe even better.

glad you're enjoying it, man. that's such an amazing record. i regret not getting the double LP when i had the chance (but not the ready cash.) Just have to stick with my CD for now.

horace silver - cape verdean blues
frank zappa - waka/jawaka promo
nick drake - byrter layter (homeless guy sold it to me, weird)

FYI vinyl junkies, drag city has put Red Hash out on LP with bonus 7", heavy-style jacket, lyric sheet etc. And also done a new edition of Corky's Debt To His Father on LP.

FYI vinyl junkies, drag city has put Red Hash out on LP with bonus 7", heavy-style jacket, lyric sheet etc.

Great news. What took them so long?

I'm gonna need that Corky's Debt lp for sure.

the bonus 7" on the higgins is just the cd bonus tracks, right?

I believe so.
The Corky's Debt LP has bonus tracks too; i'm not sure what the Drag City CD issue is like.

haha ... I saw the Corky's thing at my local record store tonite .. the "bonus" 7 inch is a recording of John Cage's 4'11" !

well, one side is. The other side is an actual song, but i don't remember what the title is. (disclaimer: haven't actually listened to the bonus 45 yet.)

hmm .. actually the joke might be on me .. when I saw the original blurb on the DC website that they were going to rerelease it, I just assumed the bonus 7" would be the Saddlesore stuff.

but I just looked at the DC website again and apparently the 7" is not just "4'11"" but also some track named "Woof" !

crap .. maybe I will need to trade in my old Drag City vinyl issue for this new one after all...

finally got
Wolf Eyes - River Slaughter

and

Aaron Dilloway - Chain Shot

last scores:

Dylan - Biograph 5LP box set (not bad for $30)
Led Zep - somehow, a sealed copy of Physical Grafitti, how does that happen??
Judas Priest - Stained Class

sell the copy of physical graffiti on ebay if you haven't opened it already!

http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/9859/serbto1.jpg

l to r: serbian bob, ian

l o fucking l.

like you never made a buck off flippin an LP mr "this shit will fund my paypal for a year!"

;) ;)

http://cgi.ebay.com/LED-ZEPPELIN-PHYSICAL-GRAFFITI-200-GRAM-SEALED-VINYL-LP_W0QQitemZ370025168122QQihZ024QQcategoryZ306QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.com/LED-ZEPPELIN-Physical-Graffiti-STILL-SEALED-no-barcode_W0QQitemZ140207669540QQihZ004QQcategoryZ306QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

I mean, I dunno what pressing you have, but..

And how does it happen? Stores go out of business with unsold stock back in the day, stock languishes in storage spaces until freed from bondage by the vinyl mongers.

did i officiallyy ooffeerr the 2008 version of this thread a discount if u mention ilx at th store?
well i do offer
come on in
http://www.freewebs.com/johndoerecords12534/

i gotta get up there sometime...

I just got:

Sole Fusion - "We Can Make It" strictly rhythm
Dj Pierre - "Muzik" strictly rhythm
Sterling Void & Paris Brightledge - "It's All Right" dj international
Abicah Soul featuring Cei Bei- "Love is Just a Call Away" jellybean soul
The 28 East Boyz - "Someone"/ "Need You" high resolution records
Inner City - "Whatcha Gonna Do With My Lovin" remixes / "Set Your Body Free"
"Zayas, Davis & Hernandez - "I Will Do" wheel records
Morel's Grooves Part 4 - "Talk To Me" strictly rhythm
Victor Simonelli - "Do You Feel Me" bass line records
Inner City - "Aint Nobody Better"
The D.A.M. Project fea. Debbie Ames - "Live it Up" Thumpin! records
Nacho Marco - "The Sweetest" ep

and Kenny Dope "House Breaks" volumes 2 and 3

listening to:

gil scott-heron - reflections
folkways afro-american drums
miles at fillmore
kongas - africanism
milton - clube da eqquina
ann mcmillan - gatewaty summer sound (abstracted processed animal sounds)

got a bunch of Prince singles today and some old Preservation Hall records!

spent my sunday afternoon digging at beautiful world syndicate, a shop a couple blocks away from my place in south philly. traded some stuff in and most of this was in the $3 range, so i wasn't hit too hard at all, but came home with a great stack of mostly stuff i plan to play out.

plastic bertrand - ca plane pour moi lp (sire)
lizzy mercier descloux - fire 12" (ze)
afrika bambaataa @ soul sonic force - planet rock 12" (tommy boy)
shannon - let the music play 12" (emergency)
devo - theme from doctor detroit 12" (promo)
ajax - mind the gap 12" (wax trax--test pressing)
caution - u.f.o. 12" (roy b.)
patrick cowley featuring sylvester - do ya wanna funk 12" (megatone)
depeche mode - megamix 12" (onu-sound)
azul y negro - la noche 12" (mercury, spain)
daft punk - digital love 12" (virgin)
universal order of armageddon - the switch is down 12" (kill rock stars)
the hipshakes - not oblivians 7" (goner)
guyver one - s/t 7" (inchworm)

Listening to stuff like:

The Millenium Begin
Bread s/t (thanks Bread thread!)

selling stuff like, my billy childish records, some GG allin, the rosalie sorrels record i have that isn't very good (sorry seward bros. that other one is real good, but this one is pretty meh.) selling my Gospel Oak record, too blues rock not enough CSNY aping. Selling my Leonda LP (which I might listen to and re-consider) but it never grabbed me. Selling a bunch of crappy punk 45s. Selling some late-period charlie feathers (Sorry Billy).

next i am going to listen to Linda Perhacs.

I wish I could get into this record.
http://www.popsike.com/pix/20040605/4017270197.jpg

NP: Byrds "Fifth Dimension" mono

Heh ian you can probably sell your crappy punk 45s to me... today I bought Youthanasia by the Pigs, fairly obscure UK '77 punk 7".

Maybe I'll post a list later. This is almost all 90s stuff, though, and towards the more dire end of the spectrum.

random scores from Astoria:

Mahavishnu Orchestra - Between Nothingness & Eternity Live
Katrina & The Waves - 1984 LP on Canadian Attic label
Klaatu - Hope (totally mint with embossed cover and lyric sleeve, wow those lyrics look bad)
David Van Tieghem - Safety In Numbers (on Private Music, 1987)
Keith Jarrett/Jack Dejohnette - Ruta And Daitya on ECM
Philip Perkins - King Of The World (interesting SF electronic composer with a buncha self-released 80's LPs)
Primal Scream - Come Together 7"
record-a-disc type thing with someone's 1963 Las Vegas wedding on it.

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/nyc/368733833.html

That Millennium album is cool. You selling any Headcoatees?

No Headcoatees, just some Mighty Caesars on crypt and a Wild Billy Childhish double 7" on like, sub pop or something.

Maybe I'll post a list later.

set sales on ilx would be tite.

LISTENING TO THESE BAD BOYS:
Michael Hurley - Ancestral Swamp
Lee Hazlewood - Trouble Is A Lonesome Town
Don Cherry - Complete Communion
Paddy Killoran - Back In Town
Waylon Jennings - Singer Of Sad Songs
UN LP on Siltbreeze
Jerome Cooper Quintet - Outer and Interaction
Yves & Serge & Victor - Cagibi (this is amazing and a must-check out for fans of the west coast psych/rural twang rock sound. Heavy neil youngisms with also Stones & Dylan feel to some cuts. Home recorded on a two track. Reissue on Guerssen, same people who brought us Dandelion, Linda Perhacs and Damon.)

the hipshakes - not oblivians 7" (goner)

i have a full length (actually full length 12 inch 45) by them...good stuff...title above is funny though cuz they are def. a cartwright tribute band UK division...

there's also a recent hipshakes split 7" with Chicago favorites Cococoma, if you see it around. It's good.

"Reissue on Guerssen, same people who brought us Dandelion, Linda Perhacs and Damon"

bbbbbut they didn't bring me damon. shadoks/ten little indians did!

i've never heard the dandelion album.

Dandelion is pretty cooooool. It's was originally a French private press, same as the Yves/Serge/Victor LP. It's got some total jams on it. I like the YSV record more, though.

And Geurssen DID bring me the Damon LP, though I guess Shadoks did do an issue of it previously. Guerssen ish came with bonus 7"!

just bought the RAVEN LP Back to Ohio Blues

i digs it, a lot

i wish I bought that Takeshi Kosugi album Catch-Wave from that guy at the record fair though, sick album. he charged 40 euro's though and i just couldn't

fuck money

Forty euros, even for the OOP reissue, is not such a bad deal. I'd pay that in a heartbeat (assuming my finances could support it.)

Big fan of the Raven LP--YOU GOTTA GET FUCKED.

ian, when do you listen to all these records?!

all day every day.

work, home.
the only time i don't listen to records is when i am at my girlfriends or watching teevee.

also, i am like scott in that i listen to sides of records a lot and not the whole thing.

By the way, I saw skot and j0hn d. have Rega P1s, i think hoos does too...anyway...i'm lucky enuff to live where the needle doctor is, and they recommended this cartridge to me...had it installed, it's pretty unreal how much different it is now:

http://www.amazon.com/Denon-DL160-Output-Moving-Cartridge/dp/B000I21PWW

"Guerssen ish came with bonus 7"!"

well so did the shadoks!

shadoks version is ultra-fancy. it's so beautiful. and i think it was the first thing they ever reissued. and it's one of the most expensive reissues i own. i've seen it sell for over a hundred bucks on ebay.

i totally believe that. i only own one shadoks issue, the Wally Gonzalez double LP. I regret missing out on two more, the Fingletoad, Strange and Siho double LP and the Kamijo "Martha" LP. I have both on CD, but I would listen to them way more on LP.

Over the past week or two, I've treated myself to

Altered Images - Happy Birthday
Elvis Presley - Elvis Is Back
Donna Summer - All Systems Go
Macy Gray - The Id
Edwyn Collins - Hope and Despair
ZZ Top - El Loco
Paul McCartney - McCartney
Sisters of Mercy - First and Last and Always
Robert Palmer - Clues
Thomas Dolby - The Flat Earth
Green On Red - This Time Around
Genesis - Abacab
Guns N Roses - Appetite For Destruction
All About Eve - All About Eve

Most of these were quite good, a few that I probably won't listen to once I pop them on the shelf. All in for probably around £25-30, which isn't too bad. Mostly from charity shops or Mixed Up in Glasgow, but had a trip to Preston this weekend and got a good handful in the excellent Action Records there.

I *think* the only Shadoks vinyl I bought when they came out were the Erkin Koray 2LP singles collection thing, and that Speed, Glue, & Shinki 'bengal tiger' album (complete with sweet wrap-around packaging.)

oh and I have the CD of New Tweedy Brothers.

speaking of brothers and shadoks .. anyone can vouch for Estes Brothers?

i can vouch for it not being that great. also it's on world in sound, i think? recommend downloading it before you spend $30+ on the vinyl.

i fuckin hate shadoks, ripoff prices and small editions. also reissuing everything on cd BUT that fucking koray singles thing, GRRRRRRR.

fuck shadoks for their overpriced and shittily remastered bootsreissues

obviously these prices are starting to get ridic .. I'm looking at Lilith with that Caetano vinyl ... they did a batch of the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 6th CV lps at 20 bucks a pop

now this month they just put out the 1st (the w/ Costa 'Domingo') and 5th ('Transa') for a whopping 30!! geez, a 50% increase, thanks!

now, I haven't bought any of them, but figgered I'd get that first batch eventually while still kinda balking at the prices .. but $30 ? nah, my CDs are cool..

Wow! Someone just bought Thomas Dolby's The Flat Earth on vinyl? That rocks. Way to go, scout!

Thanks Bimble. I hadn't heard Dolby before (actually, it turns out I'd heard Hyperactive), but had seen his name recommended a lot for stuff I like. Early impressions are its a really good record - Screen Kiss is gorgeous. For a mid 80's record, it has a real sort of mid-90's pop sound, and I don't mean that as bad as it might come across.

Finally got the Loveless reissue on Plain this week and have been listening to it constantly. It's like hearing the album for the first time again, it all sounds the same but so much clearer and wilder than before. I don't know if they tweaked the bass/drums, but I can certainly hear drums on certain parts of the record that I simply couldn't make out before.

i just got a confirmation e-mail from the dreaded craig moerer. i haven't seen exkurs - fakten sind terror come up in over three years and finally last week some german dude threw one up on der bay for a silly amount. thought i'd check gemm and strangely enough CM had a copy for cheap. i've never bought anything from him before, we'll see what happens.

also bought a ton of stuff before catching ilxors jaxon and dan dj last night. moondog, folkways from razor blade to moog, dodgy looking ou panis et circenses reissue and super cheap syl johnson reissue.

which moondog, dogg?
I've bought something off Craig Moerer before, I think, though I can't remember what it was right now. I remember one time wanting to buy a Michael Hurley LP from him (underpriced at $50) but it was gone in a matter of minutes.

that basic one. i don't know. he is wearing a hat. i guess he always is. not a rare. on Coulumbia.

the dreaded craig moerer

haha...

Guys, how come PF Sloan records don't turn up for me like they should?

yesterdaze harvest
Poor School - Holy Master
Tusco Terror/Emeralds split

both on Ectastic Peace

Listening to these:

George Gerdes - Son of Obituary (nice country rock w/ lots of Stray Gators)
Popol Vuh - Hosianna Mantra
Carter Thornton - Ten Fingers...
Michael Hurley - Armchair Boogie

IAN DO YOU HAVE ALL THE COWBOY ALBUMS YET????? YOU NEED THEM. I THINK. REACH FOR THE SKY, 5'LL GETCHA TEN, BOYER & TALTON, AND S/T COWBOY ALBUM. ALL OF THEM ON CAPRICORN. I THINK.

I DON'T HAVE ANY OF THEM DUDE.
I DID JUST GET THAT MEDIOCRE SAILCAT LP THOUGH, "MOTORCYCLE MAMA. " IT WAS FREE.

SON OF OBITUARY IS ROCKIN MY FRIDAY MORNING WORLD.

Scott, you should hear the D. Charles Speer LPs for a modern take on the classic early seventies post-psychedelic country rock sound. New one on Black Dirt, the same label that just put out the AMAZING Pigeons LP, which is like, pastoral brunch psych with Mutantes moves and French vox.

double decker records, allentown, pa finds:

the piano music of erik satie lp
stiv bators - the church and the new creatures lp (french compilation)
biff bang pow! - love is forever
career suicide/jed whitey split lp
altered images - happy birthday lp
OMD - organisation lp
OMD - architecture & morality lp
todd rundgren - faithful lp
yellow magic orchestra - s/t lp
new order - power, corruption and lies lp
new order - low-life lp

dinosaur l - go bang #5/clean on your bean #1 12" (rinked but cheap, still cool to hear minor differences of versions)
dexter wansel - life on mars
historia da musica popular brasileira - gilberto gil
island of sanity - new music from new york city (i love my '80s east village skronk, but this is almost unlistenable)

island of sanity - new music from new york city (i love my '80s east village skronk, but this is almost unlistenable)

^^ i bet i can find something to trade u for it. private new age bangers???

i have that island of sanity thing. i never thought it was that bad. it has lots of stuff on it. it's not as good as dexter wansel's life on mars though.

i had lots of store credit from all the CDs i've been bringing in to the record store and yesterday i got the red hash vinyl and wolfmangler 2lp thing. also crappier dollar stuff out of boredom. well, not all crap. i got a good dr.feelgood record and a kinda cool 415 Records comp from early 80's with forgotten garage punk bands on it like the mutants and the symptoms and the readymades. got a power pop album by 4 out of 5 doctors from 1980. also got two HORRIBLE albums by 70's krisna rockers JIVA. they were friends with george harrison. man, are they bad. i knew they would be, but i was still curious.

i also found a very cool mystik sike record in one of the boxes in the store and i gave it up to chris who works there. i can't even remember the band. but the record goes for, like, 200 bucks. i found them a rare sealed detroit electro-boogie twelve inch a couple weeks ago in another box. also goes for 200 bucks. they are my pals. i want them to make money. i told them i want a finder's fee from now on though. they've got these big boxes of crud under their shelves and occasionally i find gold.

THE VAMPS - Disco Blood <-- campy brazilian horror disco with some electronix thrown on top for good measure
Times New Viking - Rip It Off <-- had the mp3s for a while, picked up the vinyl, basically my favorite shit right now

BURTON GREEN ENSEMBLE on ESP
TOMMY JAY - TALL TALES OF TRAUMA
INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER - SOV GOTT ROSE MARIE
HUMAN EYE LP ON ITR
USA IS A MONSTER - MASONIC CHRONIC
PHILLIP GLASS - MUSIC IN SIMILAR MOTION

I love Times New Viking. They are a dope fucking band. Did you make it to Don P's last week, dmr?

yeah they were great! we got there late though and only saw their last few songs ;___;

the headliner at that show was a GBV tribute band (lol)

Yeah, I saw the TNV guys earlier that day and they said it was a GBV tribute band and like, doug gillard solo or something?? weiiiiird stuff. How did the "Indie Rock Music Blah Blah My Life" book look? Awful?

I did not encounter the book. the gbv band was kinda fun actually (up to a point). they got gillard up on stage with em for a couple songs. dude from fiery furnaces did a solo set at that show too. which is why I was surprised that I missed a bunch of TNV! usually on a four-band bill the third band ain't leaving the stage by 10:45. (shit started at 8 I think.)

the one show where I get there appropriately late they decide to run it efficiently. jeez. oh yeah how was Roky?

It was awesome. His voice is still incredible. Sounds almost just like the records. And loud, and the band is tight, and they did more non-Evil One songs this time--Starry Eyes, The Interpreter, Bermuda, a few Elevators tunes (You're Gonna Miss Me, Splash 1.)

Great weekend in Chicago yielded a nice score:
The Folk Spectre The Blackest Medicine
Sapat Mortise and Tenon
The Bad Trips s/t
Times New Viking Rip It Off
Psychedelic Horseshit Who Let the Dogs Out 7"

The show with Horseshit and TNV was a lot of fun. Basement show, capacity crowd. So wore out from driving up on Friday, practicing and playing a show on Saturday, then driving back on Sunday. It was well worth it, though. Made the gas money back. And I'm stoked on the records I picked up. Took a chance on that Folk Spectre without really knowing what to expect, but I really dig it.

Last night's vinyl purchases:

Lindsey Buckingham & Stevie Nicks - Buckingham/Nicks
Rick Nelson - Garden Party
A Certain Ratio - Early

recent:

ZZ Top - Fandango!
Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul
Bill Fay - Tomorrow, Tomorrow, & Tomorrow
Rush - Signals
Os Mutantes - s/t (180G reissue)

GOOD NEWS : )

"While we're finishing up the new album, we told the dudes at the record company we thought it might be cool to dust off the old tapes and get all retro with some vinyl re-releases... First up are the first two albums (duh!?), 'Kill 'Em All' and 'Ride the Lightning', coming out on April 15 in North America and pretty fucking close to that in the rest of the world.

"There will be two versions...one like the original on a single disc spinning at 33 1/3, the other a two disc, 180-gram vinyl, 45 rpm package all in a double gatefold. The music was half speed mastered from the original analog tapes at Mobile Fidelity to bring you audiophile quality. Both versions will be available in the online store here and over at MetClub.

"Oh, and in case you were wondering, 'Master' and 'Justice' will obviously be next and should be coming out on vinyl in June."

I really dig the Folk Spectre LP as well, it's good some nice wasted bedroom vibes. The kind of music I would like to be able to make, but can't pull it off as convincingly.

Buckingham/Nicks is a great record.

Bill Fay - Tomorrow, Tomorrow, & Tomorrow

i forgot to say, this record is kind of blowing my mind, so unique and cool and sort of spooky and sad...reminds me a BIT of robert wyatt, in spirit not execution or style

I got that Who Let the Dogs Out 7" at the Psychedelic Horseshit and Pink Reason show in London last week. Hadn't tweaked how much of a ringer that Pscyh Horseshit dudes' voice is for Ron House. Great shows from both bands, anyway. Pink Reason did an Agent Orange cover. Only bummer was that in a typically duff bill-making move from regular American-band-importers Upset the Rhythm, the long anticipated 'special guests' turned out to be fucking Yeasayer. The guitarist looked remarkably like Yanni, and the music wasn't far off either. And of course, that meant that 80% of the crowd there were blatantly there for Yeasayer only, so the 15 minute PH jam at the end resulted in widespread boos and heckling. Dicks! I threw beer for the first time in my life.

I need Bill Fay records. I've heard a few cuts here and there (thanks ex-roomies) but his LPs seem pretty scarce in the wild.

I'm still listening to "Son of Obituary."
I'm cleaning my room up a bit and boxing up all the worthless/unlistenable/dumb LPs that have collected over the past two years or so. So many dumb 12"s I picked up just for the names or covers. So many boring Anita Kerr records with earth toned chixx on the cover.

xpost FUCK THE PH/PR HATERS. Seen great shows out of both, but then, they weren't opening for yeasayer.

I need Bill Fay records. I've heard a few cuts here and there (thanks ex-roomies) but his LPs seem pretty scarce in the wild.

i should have said, this one i bought was a brand new drag city reissue, looks like it's fairly recent so you should be able to find it pretty easy...i don't really know much about his other stuff, kind of bought it on a whim, i even get the sense this isn't considered his best by a long stretch...

Oh huh! I didn't know they were doin that on vinyl as well; just noticed the Red Hash & Corky's Debt LPs in the last catalog. Will have to look harder.

is that red hash thing good? i literally had it in my hand then decided on os mutantes instead....

Red Hash is very good.
But, as it's on Drag City, it's probably not going anywhere too soon...

It was out on CD a few years ago, so I think there should be tracks floating around ye olde internet for your sampling pleasure.

Anyone familiar with a 3LP compilation called 'Maximum Beatbox' on Fidel Bastro records? Saw a copy at lunch. Not a hip hop comp. Chrome Cranks, Country Teasers, Bill Direen.... interesting lineup, and it had a velcro fastener, but can't seem to find any mention online. Looks good.

the lp of red hash is actually sold out at source already. ltd 500, apparently.

red hash is excellent. first heard it via my bro-in-law's original copy high out of my mind on top of a mountain outside woodstock new york years ago and thought it was godlike and was worried that if i heard it again i would be disappointed but i picked up the vinyl reissue and its just as good as i remember. and the drag city reish SOUNDS amazing. great job that they did.

Wowsville. Is the Corky's Debt LP limited too, then? I guess it would make sense...
Right now I'm listening to The Reel World String Band on "VetCo." Private feminist old timey string band revival. Loving the version of Uncle Dave Macon's "Mourning Blues."

Scott or Dan, do you guys know if originals of Red Hash came with the bumper sticker?

I will second / third / fourth the love for Red Hash (although I think I will skip the vinyl, bought the drag city CD version a couple years ago)

yeah the mayo is apparently also limited.

the best of carly simon vol. 1

flatt and scruggs 20 greatest hits
budos band - s/t
space - just blue

i almost bought 'time to fly' by david pomeranz because of the presence of some interesting early 70s jazz dudes but his rep for pap terrified me.

The Last - Last Train to Hagerstown
Jazz at the Black Lion comp. (I now have some Stephane Grapelli!)
The Cool Notes 12"
Laser Pace - Granfalloon
some African jazz 12"

daft punk - homework 2lp
rocketship - a certain smile, a certain sadness lp
the pastels - up for a bit with the pastels lp
camera obscura - let's get out of this country lp
v/a - ultimate breaks and beats lp

my copies of the Mayo Thompson and Gary Higgins represses came today. They look good! But now I'm afraid to open them because of all this limited edition crap.

LISTEN HERE:
Lula Cortes & Ze Ramalho - Paebiru (expensive reissue, but so fucking necessary.)
notorious byrd brothers.
MEV/AMM split (literally started drooling when i saw this.)
moondog - the viking of sixth avenue
folklords - release the sunshine
robbie basho - falconer's arm, part 2

lula cortes = $15 on cd

fuck shadoks, as always

This ain't the Shadoks version (which sells for about $150 on ebay now.) It's a new legit reissue on uhh.. some label that begins with a B. It's not quite as pricey as a shadoks issue.. should be in stores for maybe $35-39, on the low end. Totally worth it, considering how many more listens I'll get out of the LPs than a CD; don't listen to CDs at all these days.

do i need that mayo thompson thing? i'm not a huge fan or anything. but they do have a copy at the record store.

i got a buttload of classical rekkerds yesterday. listening to those. HANS WERNER HENZE WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ALL MY LIFE!!!??? listening to his 5 symphonies on pristine white label promo dgg vinyl last night was a revelation. now i wanna hear the operas he did with auden.

scott, that mayo record is IMHO better than any red krayola record. i am not a fan of the 2nd red krayola LP, which may come as a shock to some people. it never "hit me" and i sold my copy.

now playing: moby grape '69

Philadelphia OST
Rickie Lee Jone debut, for a friend as it was so cheap

Hey Drag City, if you're gonna be repressing vinyl then:

1. Plz make more than 500.

2. Last two Charalambides recs on vinyl ASAP please.

2. Last two Charalambides recs on vinyl ASAP please.

^^^ these were Kranky, right? Does Kranky get the T&G distribution? More urgent and key is reissues of the Siltbreeze LPs!!

now playing:
raekwon - only built 4 cuban linx
pharoahe monch - internal affairs
gza - liquid swords

oops, my mistake. They were on Kranky. that's what I meant to say.

I think I wrote them asking them why vintage burden wasn't on an LP, and it had something to do with the track lengths not working out well for LP sides.

is the new siltbreeze thing good? um, can't remember title. something in french, maybe?

there are twoooo new ones.
Naked on the Vague and Operazione Nafta. I think the second one looks more interesting, but haven't listened to either. Naked on the Vague has been referred to as "the death star version of times new viking" if that'll sell ya.

baden powell - os afros sambas og one not that crappy 80s one
gilberto gil - one of those musica popular brasiliera thingies
donald byrd - royal flush
nitty gritty - turbo charged
syl johnson - is it because i'm black?

Gene Clark - White Light (reissue sounds excellent.)
Fahey - San Bernardino Birthday Party & Other Excursions
Sadat X - State of New York Vs. Derek Murphy (meh.)
F. Rzewski - Four Pieces 1977/Ballad: Whose Side Are You On?
Pharaoh Sanders - Karma

Xpressway Pile-Up

mongo santamaria - mongo '70
sun ra - angels and demons at play
pepe braddock - burning 12"
alice coltrane - ptah the el duder
caetano veloso - araçá azul
incredible bongo band - bongo rock
the groupies - rad s/t exploito spoken word
esg - says dance to the beat of moody 12"
iasos - inter-dimensional music

this just in from the black dog

" First some bad news, the pressing plant we use to do our limited
edition records has gone into liquidation. We did offer to put that
job through with them if it would help, but they just couldn't do it
for us. Another sad day for vinyl but the fight goes on.
We couldn't find another plant that does the old school vinyl weight
(174gram) but we have found another that will do 142 gram, which is
the next best thing and they claim anything over this is "just a
waste". We still loved the old "EMI" weight though.
Anyway, this now means that the vinyl version of Radio Scarecrow
will be pressed at 142g, not the previously advertised 174g. If
anyone wants a refund because of this change please get in touch and
we'll gladly give you one.
"

this also affects the whole DS:93 project, but they are going to get that back on track.

so looks like the love of vinyl still aint quite enough to pay the bills.

what's the black dog? and what's radio scarecrow?

man, i've gotten a ton of stuff over the last couple weeks. i did end up trading for that first frijid pink album. i needed it. plus, the copy is pristine.

the black dog

and radio scarecrow is their rather wonderful new album.

LISTENING TO FLEETWOOD FUCKING MAC'S FUCKING RUMOURS LP RECORD.

lol ian.

I am listening to my new vinyl copy of Shock City Shockers Volume 2 that I bought from The Boredoms at their show. I am pretty pissed off that the ambient remix of "Be Sure To Loop" is apparently CD-only and not included on the vinyl. But the remixes of "Open Your Eyes" and "Mountain Book" rule. I think Yoshimi might be my favorite musician of the new century so far.

they also had copies of that Suncidal Cendencies or whatever pic disc and I wanted it so bad but I had to resist so I could eat this week.

sleeve, check your email.

listening to these:
idea fire company - the island of taste
gene clarke - white light
jo kondo - (can't remember the exact title. it's silver with blue text IIRC, pretty simple cover. pieces for piano & percussion, mostly.)
black forest/black sea - s/t LP (i wish their first three records were available on LP as well. or that split with christina carter, mmmmhmm.)
stud cole s/t (you all need this LP if you haven't heard it. it will appeal to everyone. it has what they call... universal appeal. CD's on norton and he might still have some of ltd LPs to distro as well.)

got scott walker 2 & 3 reissues yesterday. so pretty. the store actually had an original u.s. copy of scott 3 on smash for ten bucks in good shape, but i opted for the fancy new version. glad i did.

also got boscoe numero group reissue cuz i apparently can't pass up any numero vinyl when i see it. they have my number for sure.

got a ton of hippie folk/bluegrass shit too. 70's rounder stuff. bill staines. jaime brockett. that kinda stuff. lotsa dollar records. and harry partch boxed set for cheap. (clean copy but a little warped. plays fine.)

delusion of the fury?
can't say i'm a big scott walker fan, but i'm glad four men with bears are putting out good stuff, instead of uhh.. Aretha Franklin and Television LPs. Affordable, too.

passed on moondog 2lp thing. probably should have got it, but i got sticker shock. though it is pretty.

special ordered THE NEW AGE reissue/comp on RD Records from the record store, but Forced Exposure, who they ordered it from, was out of it and now I'm sad, because I really want a copy. Someone is selling one on ebay for 35 bucks. i just can't afford to spend real money on anything. i've been trading vinyl/CDs to get new stuff.

yeah, delusion boxed-set. i found it in a dusty box at the record store in their storage spot. i'm always digging.

i dig scott. but i'm pretty goth. plus, scott records are fucking audio fucking heaven. some of the best recordings ever for sound loverzzzz.

i've been selling/trading CDs like crazy. being poor will do that to you. probably 500+ in the last month. pretty soon i'll be down to metal promos and my swans CDs. what more do you need? (actually not true. i've got heaps of 60's comps/boxes that i would never trade/sell.)

passed on moondog 2lp thing. probably should have got it, but i got sticker shock. though it is pretty.

The Moondog reissue to get is the "Snaketime Series" one, with the red cover. It's late fifties recordings and the LP reish should only cost about $12, tops.

(not that the double LP doesn't rule too, of course. It does.)

http://cgi.ebay.com/HARRY-PARTCH-Delusion-of-the-Fury-SEALED-box-3-LP-book_W0QQitemZ140213154037QQihZ004QQcategoryZ306QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Yowza.

Cheap!

http://www.audiophileusa.com/item.cfm?record=14898

i got it for 10 bucks in trade. but like i said, it's noticeably warped. or at least the two performance albums are. the partch disc where he discusses all his instruments is fine. i don't think anyone played it. pretty dusty and attic-y though. i would never sell a warped album on ebay unless it was super-rare. like i said, plays good though. sounds amazing really. i just need to clean it a little more.

when i was digging thru records last time at the store i pulled out another 100+ dollar record languishing in a box. can't even remember what it was. i gave it to mike the owner to sell. see, we both benefit from my digging.

everyone should chip in and get you a record de-warper for your next birthday.

doesn't academy east have one? i have one or two things i'd like to flatten but they're just minor lip warps that you can't really hear.

also got boscoe numero group reissue cuz i apparently can't pass up any numero vinyl when i see it. they have my number for sure.

-- scott seward, Saturday, 22 March 2008 22:04 (Yesterday) Link

numero rules, not bragging here but i sold something to one of the founders who emailed me months later that it will be reissued. i'm sure along with securing permissions they got access to the masters if they exist, but who knows? will spill the beans if it ever happens.

picked up/listening to:

bruce haack - electric lucifer
iggy pop - tv eye 1977 live
esso steel band - bermuda gold
a grip of sealed early stones and grateful dead from the flea
i think i will keep anthem

i have one or two things i'd like to flatten but they're just minor lip warps that you can't really hear.
e-mail me.ty

Where'd you score the Haack? Repress? Want.
You should also keep Workingman's Dead, S/T & American Beauty, but that's just my opinion.

today i got 5 LPs on Argo of steam locomotive recordings.

are there any good techniques for DIY dewarping other than a hot pad, some flat metal plates, and a cinderblock? my copy of Curtis Live needs just a teeny bit of readjusting.

i just traded in a buncha dead vinyl. they sell lots of klassik rock to the kids who are getting into rekkerds for the first time, and i am happy to load them up with stuff. i can always find those records. i couldn't part with my pristine german press of who's next for some reason.

i can't beat sanskrit's numero deal, but that online label IS putting that laser pace album out cuzza me (as a download at least), so that's my good deed for the year. i tried to sell them on putting out bitter blood street theatre stuff. they deserve their day in court.

Where'd you score the Haack? Repress? Want.

i think it must be OG, unless the first pressing was private. columbia two eye grey label. $25 on eBay. but it was one of those weird junker dudes who must have been burned once on chargebacks and he didn't take paypal, which probably informed the final price. i haven't written a check and mailed a letter for a win in like five years.

You should also keep Workingman's Dead, S/T & American Beauty, but that's just my opinion.

yeah, i have these, and a bunch others up until the Disco Dead era. i will slit the Anthem and mint up as that is a favorite. it's funny how for years they used to be a four letter word and now all of a sudden all these indie rockers are professing their love for them.

blame marijuana.
those stones should fill yer paypa for a while...

how much are record de-warpers? how do they work?

i always want to get a record cleaner, one of those vacuum ones that looks like a really bulky turntable box thing. but they are hella expensive. my friend has one and swears it can make the worst vinyl playable again.

i went to a show last nite -- vampire hands -- a local band but anyway it was cool if you bought the vinyl (which had cool hand screenprinted art) you got not only the CD in the sleeve, but also the front card and the tray card, so all you have to do is get an old jewel case, and youve got the complete CD too, not bad for $12, good idea more band should do.

stud cole s/t (you all need this LP if you haven't heard it.

totally true, stuff is amazing and slept on.

blame marijuana.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLXMkdAXDZw

I think record de-warping machines are even more expensive than record vacuums. The "home remedy" for dewarping is usually a (very, very) low temp oven and some plates of glass, or some plates of glass and the sunshine. Never tried it myself.

Stud Cole, for anyone who might want more background, is some crazy rockabilly dude hiring a teenage garage band to back him up on his semi-psychotic songs of love, desire and Satan, and then overdubbing wailing fuzz(y) guitar and more crazy vocal tracks. Shit is epic. Cusp of the 70s, I think... wanna say 69, but not positive.

yesterday's haul... great stuff for CHEAP

the judy's - washarama lp (!!!)
brother j.t. - music for the other head lp (sealed on siltbreeze)
piano music of erik satie, vol. 1 lp (aldo ciccolini)
fats waller - ain't misbehavin lp
stereolab - iron man 7"
tullycraft - true blue 7"
red monkey - get uncivilised 7"
tsunami - 24 hour service 7"
the sugargliders 7" (on sarah records--sealed)