Rolling "I'd Buy That for a Dollar!" Thread 2008

I'll start this off with my latest finds, all from the dollar bin at Record Surplus in Los Angeles:

Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever
The Prissteens - Scandal, Controversy and Romance
Whale - All Disco Dance Must End In Broken Bones
Kate Bush - The Red Shoes
Killer Dwarfs - Dirty Weapons
Firehouse - Hold Your Fire

I haven't listened to everything yet, but Tom Petty, Kate Bush, and Killer Dwarfs were all pretty rad!

i bought this record of little prep school kids doing covers of pipeline and other rockin' instrumentals in the early 60's for a dollar yesterday:

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That's pretty awesome! Where did you find it?

oh, yeah, it was worth a buck. maybe even three!

also, got *the new sound* of les paul on capitol for a dollar. that record is insane and i would have paid at least five bucks for it.

oh also bought a completely hard to find anita o'day album that i was really happy to find cuz i'm a big fan and i've never seen one in person. i would have paid 20 bucks for it. it was in great shape too.

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oh, right, this was at a sale at lillian hellman's old house.

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tons of great 78's, but i just have no room for them. and i would probably never play them. but lots of great jazz and pop from the 40's and 50's.

i won't bother telling you what i got at the dump cuz everything at the dump store is free. got some good stuff though.

3 tapes for 2 bucks each at the flea market:

UGK - Hard to Swallow
Public Enemy - Yo Bum The Show
Outkast - ATLiens

I usually don't like to pay more than a dollar for tapes, but I get all twitchy around classic rap tapes (I'm trying to build the ultimate collection) so I had to cop. Maybe should've passed on the Outkast though.

I just found Richie Hawtins DE9 - Lite mix that he dropped for Mixmag.

Local charity shop - £1.

Well worth it - despite the crappy cover art.

Recently got these all under $4.00

Fesu - "War With No Mercy"
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Caspar Brotzmann - "Home"
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Caspar Brotzmann and Page Hamilton - "Zulutime"
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Er, whoops...pics not showing up?
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Whatever...

On Saturday - Locus Solus by John Zorn on CD for £4.

Oh, also the second Chickenhawks album on half.com for less than a dollar, and it turned out to be signed by Si0ux C1ty P3t3 and Betsy! hoo-wee

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http://www.music4help.com/userfiles/images/pochettes/moyen/moy_00106058.jpg

£1.50 each, charity shop, Southgate. Musique du Monde always put out good stuff, although they're no Ocora.

Ah that's a bit small. It's music from Azerbaijan and China (Peking Opera specifically).

Scott, what is that Lillian Hellman thing exactly? Is it music (properly speaking)? Or is it her reading one of her plays, or?

I got the Nice Enough to Eat Island Records Sampler for £1 yesterday. It's got Mott the Hoople covering Sir Doug Sahm! Also some Dr Strangely Strange, who I was keen to hear.

Also scored some 7"s for 50p each.

Buffy Saint Marie "I'm Gonna Be A Country Girl Again"
The Method Actors "Is This It" (nice post-punk grooves)

Also some German synthpop looking thing from 1981. Song called ZAZZ. Band was called Zauerpumpft or Zauerband aor Zau-something. Wasn't quite what I hoped for, but worth a pop.

I got Quadrophenia for £2.99 from Oxford Cowley Road Oxfam the other week. Bit dirty but a quick scrub worted it out, and not scratched to buggery either. I was dead impressed.

Oh, and Flying Burrito Brothers for £3.99 the week after.

Bobby Darin - That's All - $1
Cover is in excellent condition, the record is not scratched, but it's rather dusty. It looks like it was rarely played, but sat for many years without an inner sleeve.

"<i>I'll start this off with my latest finds, all from the dollar bin at Record Surplus in Los Angeles</i>"

Haha. Man, I was trying to make it down there this weekend. That's my favorite record shop in LA. Fuck Amoeba.

Oh, yeah, and when I was there about a month ago, I put my finds up in the Rolling Vinyl thread.

"Scott, what is that Lillian Hellman thing exactly? Is it music (properly speaking)? Or is it her reading one of her plays, or?"

oh no, i just meant that i bought those records at lillian hellman's old house here. i don't know who has been living there since she died though. they had nice stuff whoever they were.

HAW. I was thinking, "she JUST died? how old IS she?!"

Brits, you pay too much. You might as well bow out of the thread.

Now now, let's be nice to the people whose currency is worth more than the paper it's printed on.

I haven't shopped in the past couple weeks, but these were from that vinyl thread (a couple cost slightly more than a dollar, but not very many):

$20 total today, off a nice guy selling on the sidewalk in the West Village; real curious if Scott has any thoughts about any of the go-go stuff...:

Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers D.C.'s No. 1 Band: Live! (Future Sounds, 1986) They cover songs by Duke Ellington, Lionel Hampton, and James Moody, plus "Woody Woodpecker," "Harlem Nocturne", and "The Message".
E.U. (plus various artists?) Rock Yuh Butt (Go-Go USA/TTED, 1988, sealed). I think this is probably a compilation, since only five E.U. songs are listed on the back, and there are also photos of five other go-go bands, though no songs listed for them. The cover of this one and the Chuck Brown one look extremely cut-rate -- almost cardboard Xeroxes, though at least this one is mostly yellow; maybe a quickie cash-in after "Da Butt" hit?
J.C. Lodge "Telephone Love" (Pow Wow 12-inch, 1988) -- not even sure what genre this is, but I remember somebody listed it in their Pazz & Jop Top 10 singles that year, like Frank Owen maybe
Roxanne Shante "Roxanne's Revenge" (Pop Art 12-inch, 1984) -- already had a copy of this, but didn't want to pass up a chance to own a second copy for so cheap
Slug-Go Slug-Go Live (TTED, 1987, sealed)
The Tams Beach Music From the Tams (Compleat EP, 1983, sealed)
2 Puerto Ricans A Black Man And A Dominican "Do It Properly (The Original)" (Grooveline 12-inch, no year listed) I only had the song on compilations before, plus this one has an 11-minute "Fiece Club Mix"; I'm not sure what the "non-original" ones would be. Grooveline couldn't have been the song's original label, though, could it have?
Stevie Wonder "Gotta Have You"/"Feeding Off The Love of the Land" (Motown 12-inch, 1991) I didn't really want this one, but he just threw it in for free at the end, so I guess I'll listen to it.
Betty Wright "No Pain No Gain" (Ms. B, 1988) I may still own the 7-inch of this; I know I used to.

-- xhuxk, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 00:01 (1 month ago) Link

Vinyl I bought in Texas this week:

dave & sugar - that's the way love should be LP - 75
cents
dave & sugar - stay with me/golden tears LP - $1
lee dorsey - night people LP - $1
dr. feelgood - sneakin' suspicion LP - $2
funky kings - funky kings LP - $1
head east - gettin' lucky LP - $2
long ryders - state of our union LP - $1
mother's finest -another mother further LP - $1
night - night LP - $1
henry paul band - grey ghost LP - $1
ray goodman & brown - II LP - $1
bj thomas - everybody's out of town LP - 75 cents
dave valentin - pied piper LP - $1
(various0 - cruisin' 1960 LP - 75 cents

plus 3 45s w/ pic sleeves for $1 total:

cyndi mizelle - this could be the night/this could be
the night (instrumental)
nu shooz - point of no return/goin' thru the motions
trooper - santa maria/whatcha gonna do about me

-- xhuxk, Sunday, 27 April 2008 00:45 (2 weeks ago) Link

and off-topic, but fwiw, at houston's half price books I also bought copies of the following CDs, all $1 each except in the one case noted: adventures of stevie v adventures of stevie v, bruce anderson brutality, the beloved happiness, t. graham brown lives! ($2), joe dee messina jo dee messina, jamie o'neal shiver, season to risk season to risk, chely wright let me in.

-- xhuxk, Sunday, 27 April 2008 21:39 (2 weeks ago) Link

I have that Season to Risk album, don't pull it out much but "Mine Eyes" is pretty cool.

bamcquern OTM, exactly what I was thinking.

Definitely worth the price, so far:

Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers
J.C. Lodge
2 Puerto Ricans A Black Man And A Dominican
Betty Wright
lee dorsey
dr. feelgood
funky kings
head east
long ryders
mother's finest
night
henry paul band
ray goodman & brown
bj thomas
cruisin' 1960
cyndi mizelle 45
nu shooz 45
trooper 45
bruce anderson
the beloved
t. graham brown
joe dee messina

Definitely not worth the price
both Dave & Sugar LPs (though I'm happy that I now know what Dave & Sugar sounded like)
Stevie Wonder 12" (though it was actually free)

Marginal
Dave Valentin (I'm keeping it, though I'm not sure I could defend it even if you held a gun to my head)

Undecided so far
All the rest (definitely leaning toward "not worth the price" with that Season of Risk CD, though.)

Not sure whether I should open them
All those sealed go-go and Tams records (I want to, but my conscience says maybe it would be better to hold off. I would appreciate advice from collectors.)

By the way, there's a copy of the first Gillette CD for $1 at the Half-Price Books I went to in Houston that I didn't take (since I already have one), if anybody's interested.

Also, I just saw a copy of pretty much every dBs LP ever made (or at least a bunch of their '80s ones, plus a few Alex Chiltons and Traffics and T-Bone Burnetts) for $2 each outside a thrift store on Queens Boulevard in Sunnyside Queens this afternoon. I'm not interested in them myself, I don't think.

Also found in the Record Surplus dollar bin:

Chris Isaak - Forever Blue
Viva Death - S/T
Concrete Blonde - Bloodletting
Crowded House - S/T
Angelo Badalamenti - Twin Peaks OST

And friom the Blowout video parking lot sale in San Diego:

Lush - Split ($1)
Re-Activate - Prevailing Domination demo ($.50)

Worth it so far: Tom Petty, Killer Dwarfs, Chris Isaak, Kate Bush. Re-Activate not so much, although I did get a good laugh out of it.

Heh. TS: Going to the same dollar bins—Camaraderie or Competition?

Princeton Record Exchange, all used CDs, early April (some price tags are missing, and I may also be missing a couple CDs:)

Joe Diffie - Third Rock From The Sun -$1.99 I think
Evangeline - Evangeline - $2.99 (bluegrassy five-woman band on Margarittaville/MCA, 1992)
Firefall - Greatest Hits - $3.99
Lillix - Inside the Hollow - $1.99
Mindy McCready - I'm Not So Tough $1.99 (a couple weeks later, she was on the cover of the NY Post!)
Gary Morris - Hits $2.99
Eddie Rabbit - The Ultimate Eddie Rabbit $2.99 I think
Rancid - B Sides and C Sides - $1.99 (on "Rancid Records" -- is this a bootleg, fan club item, what?)
The Rumour - Purity of Essence $3.99

Actually, what I paid was less than the amounts above, since I got a discount for trade-ins; there's some formula they use, but I don't have it handy.

Evangeline, Firefall, Lillix, McCready, Rabbit, Rancid, Rumour worth the price. (Well, okay, maybe not the Rumour -- we'll see how long that lasts.)

The others we'll see, though so far the Gary Morris sounded so awful I've been afraid to put it back on. The Joe Diffie CD has at least one great song on it.

Stupidly passed up at Princeton: Blackfoot's Tomcattin' CD, for $3.99. It may still be there.

I don't really miss anything about the East Coast except the Princeton Record Exchange.

And, you know, trees.

Well, fwiw, the prices Princeton pay when they buy stuff has gone way down. Though they still take everything I bring, which is cool. (Just probably not worth renting a car to haul it there anymore.)

From Wiki; weird, I'd never heard of the thing:

B Sides and C Sides is a rarities compilation album by Rancid. It was first released online on December 11, 2007, followed by a standard release on January 15, 2008. It contains a number of B-sides and rare songs as well as compilation or soundtrack appearances. The set spans from 1992 to 2004, therefore it doesn't include any songs recorded with current drummer Branden Steineckert.

B Sides and C Sides is also notable as the band's first release since their hiatus in 2004.

Yeah, their buying prices weren't great even when I was still there, I used to take stuff to a small place in Pennsylvania whose name escapes me now. I mostly just loved the $4.99 and under bargain bins.

ebay:
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$1 + $1 shipping

Roxanne Shante "Roxanne's Revenge" (Pop Art 12-inch, 1984) -- already had a copy of this, but didn't want to pass up a chance to own a second copy for so cheap

Okay, this is weird. I just looked at both of my copies, and they're actually different. The one I just bought includes a 4:53 "vocal" version and a 5:01 "instrumental" that aren't on the one I've had for years, and both tracks from that first one "street version" and "instrumental," the latter now called "inst. street version") are on the same side of the new one. Both on Pop Art, both catalog # PA-1406. Is one worth more than the other one?

Tad - Salt Lick MLP - £2, about an hour ago. You don't see Tad vinyl around much, in my experience at least.

It is true that UK equiv to dollar bin 'culture' falls pretty short but I guess people everywhere are pretty keen to offload their unwanted crap

General UK decline down to predictable factors, viz.
(a) ebay;
(b) second hand/charity shop staff taking the pick for themselves and leaving out screeds of free monthly mag CDs, Mark Owen, PopIdol: The Big Band Album, Cathy Davey etc. for mug punters.

As ever, real treasures to be found in shops run by lovely 61-year-old Val Doonican fans to whom it's all this modern pop music and you can't make out the words &c.

>>lee dorsey - night people LP - $1

Just pulled this out the other night for the first time in ages. Nice LP, really like "Draining."

Inadvertently left this one off my Princeton purchases list:

Womack and Womack - Conscience CD, $1.99.

It's great, though not as great as their first two.

I got the Kay Huntington record for $2!!!

second hand/charity shop staff taking the pick for themselves

My mother, who works in a Scope shop, would be appalled at that kind of behavior. But what they do do is of course show records and books to a friendly dealer who tells them what they are worth. This seems fair enough. Why shouldn't they try and get a good price for their stuff?

because it completely nullifies the point of having a charity shop, buddy.

When I worked in Oxfam we were allowed to buy stuff that was donated as long as someone else priced it, and it had to be logged in a book.

That branch didn't sell records anyway as there wasn't room, they all got sent to the Marylebone branch.

The big problem with charity shops these days is they price all records as if they're mint, and they almost never are.

"because it completely nullifies the point of having a charity shop, buddy."

OTM!

My cheapo list (last 6 months, all £2.50 or less):

king of the slums - once a prefect 12"
va - buried alive #2 CD
see saw - everyone knows this is not hot 7"
we are going to eat you - heart in hand 12"
ex-girl - back to the mono kero CD
wolfhounds - rent act 12"
va - cooking hows and whys LP
perspex whiteout - cool to be afraid 12"
flowchart - the spirit of kenny g 12"
zeni geva - disgraceland 7"
roxy music - stranded LP
shonen knife - let's knife CD
a-frames - police 1000 7"
a-frames - complications 7"
cabaret voltaire - red mecca CD
maggots - monkey time! CD
va - rock stars kill CD
split - sparkalepsy + unconvinced - 7"
count bishops - speedball + 11 CD
split - cannanes + timonium - population 2 12"
bellrays - the red, white & black CD
tahiti 80 - fosbury CD

(I took out Ebay stuff - this is all from shops, although some of it was in sales)

ebay really did a number on thrift stores. that and antiques roadshow. the bastards.

some thrift stores just don't get the hoarding impulse. if you sell your records and vhs tapes for two or three dollars and it's all common stuff i won't buy ANY of them. but if your records and vhs tapes are one dollar i will buy 20 or 30 of them!

The best is when a college radio station or something unloads a bunch of albums at once, and the store can't sell them for full price because they have the stickers and stuff on it, so the CDs get tossed in the dollar bin. I've gotten some great stuff that way.

Oxfam is ridiculously overpriced these days. But charity shops do tend to be slim pickings on the whole. Particularly the neat, orderly ones. You wanna find the one with the crazy lady and the crap piled high.

I recently found the Xpressway Pile=Up LP for a quid in one such squalour pit.

Goodwill on Steinway in Astoria this afternoon:

Limpopo - Crazy Russian Folk and Rock 'N Roll Music CD (Rainbo, 1994; recorded in L.A. -- mostly remakes, apparently, of songs they individually identify as "Russian funk" and "Ukranian song" and "organic strawberry song" and "Russian Folk Rap Rhymes" etc.) -- $2.00

Salvation Army, a block away:

Missy Elliott "Get Ur Freak On (Grand Unified Mix)" 12-inch (apparently. that's what the sticker stuck on the label says, anyway; the white label itself just says son_of_u✧✧✧@hotm✧✧✧.c✧✧ on both sides; does that mean son_of_ugly bootlegged his own remix, maybe?)-- $1.00
Joe Ely Live Shots - $1.00
Stanley Holloway Champagne Charlie - $1.00
Rainbow The Best Of Rainbow (2-LP best-of on Polydor U.K. from 1984) - $1.00

Limpopo = Gogol Bordello ten years early. Fast songs, very punky, very catchy, very danceable if you like squatting down and kicking your knees out a lot, very cool. Mixed at Californina Institute of the Arts, 1991. All four band members play balalaikas (among other instruments); Igor (Oleg) Bernov's is an "enormous bass balalaika," and he is also credited with "off key vocals." Igor Yuzov is on "melodramatic emotions," "ankle bells," etc. Also: there are trombones. And accordions.

Missy Elliott 12": Weird. I don't think I get techno remixes of, like, pretty much anything. How often have they ever improved a song? I don't know. The instrumental side is completely worthless. The non-instrumental side at least retains Missy, though, and sticks in pieces of "Le Freak" by Chic. Not bad.

Joe Ely: Wow, touring with the Clash (whole thing is recorded on their tour in England) made him rock a lot harder; I had no idea. This is almost a pub-rock record; no wonder former 101er Joe Strummer (who is pictured about five times on the sturdy cardboard inner sleeve, though he doesn't actually seem to be credited as playing anything) liked Ely so much.

Stanley Holloway: He is reciting (more reading them than "singing") ancient and apparently bawdy Cockney music hall drinking "songs" from the 1800s. In theory, this should be awesome. So far, though, it's hard to listen to, with not nearly the energy Stan gives his two great songs on My Fair Lady, at least judging from the one side I made it through.

Rainbow: Don't know yet.

I don't think I get techno remixes of, like, pretty much anything. How often have they ever improved a song?

Well, okay, lots of times, probably. Even if 99.999 percent of them are useless. {I do like Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons – “Beggin’ (Piloski Edit)."}

The Prissteens - Scandal, Controversy and Romance

I actually reviewed that record when it came out; see link below. (I got rid of my copy of the CD -- or at least I put it in storage -- years ago. I guess they beat the Gore Gore Girls to the Shangri-Las/Sonics hybrid, but the Gore Gores are still a lot better, I think.) (Pretty sure the Prissteens later evolved into The Husbands, who I also gave an okay review to once, in Blender or somewhere.)

http://www.laweekly.com/music/music/the-six-strings-mystique/7385/

Killer Dwarfs - Dirty Weapons

They were okay, but I don't own any of their CDs anymore, except maybe the CD single of "Hard Luck Town" (off Method To The Madness, which sounded like their best one to me - to Popoff, too.)

"The big problem with charity shops these days is they price all records as if they're mint, and they almost never are."

OTM! Most of them can't afford (I'm guessing) to get a specialist to price them, but they can afford to buy one of those price guide books, and then decide that if a first pressing in mint condition is worth £20 they can charge £16 for whatever scraggy repressing someone's eaten their toast off.

I have a bunch of CDs I'd like to take to a charity shop, since anywhere that would give me money for them has closed, but if I sell 'em in my small village nobody likes the music I do (this might be a bit unfair because occasionally something good turns up and I am amazed that it could happen here; maybe someone else would feel the same about whatever I unload, but it seems unlikely) and if I take them into town the staff stick a £4.99 price on anything and then chuck it in a skip when it hasn't sold three months later.

My only sub-£2 purchase lately has been the album by PS I Love You of novelty "where the fuck is Kevin Shields" song "fame" (which I disliked at the time but grew on me on repeated listening to the Rocketgirl compilation) and I didn't even make it to the end of track 1. Errr, anyone want it?

So, "charity shops" are the UK equivalent of "thrift stores", I'm guessing? (If not, what are they?)

Are used record stores basically extinct in the U.K.? (I'm getting that idea, from what's being said above, and if so, it's a shame -- when I was in Europe in the '80s, I found tons of cool stuff extremely cheap the couple times I visited London.)

The big problem with charity shops these days is they price all records as if they're mint, and they almost never are

This seems to be pretty much the case with used record stores in Manhattan, for whatever it's worth. The prices in those places are just plain retarded. But guys on the sidewalk and thrift stores in the outer boroughs can turn up good finds. (And I've never even tried Staten Island, which I've heard has an insane number of really amazing thrifts.)

fwiw, that Limpopo CD I found is on cbbaby:

http://cdbaby.com/cd/limpopo1

Are used record stores basically extinct in the U.K.? (I'm getting that idea, from what's being said above, and if so, it's a shame -- when I was in Europe in the '80s, I found tons of cool stuff extremely cheap the couple times I visited London.)

Yep, Charity shops would be your thrift stores. There's still plenty used record shops though. Certainly they're fewer than before, but I'm guessing thats pretty much the same most everywhere. Theres also quite a few dedicated charity shops for records (and others for books too), for example Oxfam Music. These places have nothing but records, and are the worst offenders for over-priced, common as much, scratched to hell stuff. As was said further upthread, if you put most of the stuff at 1 or 2 pounds, I'd walk out having spent £20 most weekends, but I find it very hard to justify that for 3 records so I usually just don't buy any.

Does anyone else struggle to buy just one records? Often I'll pick something out that I think I'll get, but if I can't see another couple I want then I'll put it back, as though the weight of expectation would be far too great if this were to be the only record I bought all week. Anyone?

Firehouse -- not really worth it, although pretty damn hilarious in how they're somehow even less subtle than Poison in their come-ons.

Purchased yesterday, also from the Record Surplus dollar bin:

Chris Isaak - Always Got Tonight (at this rate, I'm going to find all of his albums in there, considering I found Heart-Shaped World prior to starting this thread)
Unkle - Psyence Fiction
Annie Lennox - Medusa

xp I'm sort of like that, too. There has to be at least one record I want a lot. If I find one of those, I'll frequently pick up a couple more that I just-sort-of-want along with it. In other words, marginal thrift store purchases are more possible if there is a less marginal purchase to drag them along.

Also totally agree with what Scott said above about thrifts pricing records at $2. For that price, for LPs, I'll usually buy none. So they probably make more total money off of me if they price LPs lower.

Yeah, when I go CD shopping I've noticed that I tend to go for quantity over quality, i.e. get a bunch of iffy stuff from the bargain bin as opposed to a single more expensive album that I know is good.

LPs, a buck each, at a small warehouse in Greenpoint:

Amazing Rhythm Aces - Toucan Do It Too
Delbert McClinton - Love Rustler
Wendy Waldman - Which Way to Main Street
Golden Goodies Vol 17 (with Stranded in the Jungle by the Cadets!)
Holly Beth Vincent - Holly and the Italians
Artful Dodger - Babes On Broadway
Ellen Shipley - The Ice Age
Ellen Shipley - Call Of the Wild
Maria Muldaur - Southern Winds
Jody Harris - It Happened One Night

Amazing Rhythm Aces: Pleasant southern studio rock. The main singer has an odd catch in his throat; reminds me a little of John Hiatt. They veer into straight country on a couple of songs, but mostly it's smooth piano-based southern rock lite.

Wendy Waldman: I kind of liked this one. The early 80s studio sound (chorused strats, big drums) sounds like a misguided attempt to ride some sort of Stevie Nicks wave, but behind it is a singer songwriter with a girl-group heart.

Delbert McClinton - What a voice, and there's some action in a couple of the funky uptempo ones, but mostly this sounds like something that might be playing in the bar before the main act comes on.

Wow, where in Greenpoint!? (I've been meaning to make another trip over the Newtown Creek Bridge to The Thing one of these days soon, and maybe I should make two stops. I actually paid a shameful $5 for my copy of that Holly & the Italians debut at a different store in Greenpoint last year -- It was worth it, but clearly I should have shopped around.)

Wow, where in Greenpoint!?

On Morgan Street near Nassau

They're a couple who run a record business on ebay. I guess I must have bought something from them, because they sent me an email.

Morgan ave that is. And here I was so proud I was able to title that link.

I think the one I got today is the second Holly and the Italians album, or rather a solo album by Holly Beth Vincent whose title is "Holly and the Italians."

allmusic explains it here

weird - i'd never even heard of that one. (though it does have a fabulous poodle on it, which counts for something.) makes me feel better about paying $5 for:

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:jxftxq95ldde

they are both great. holly rules. and five bucks is a small price to pay for a holly vincent album. though for sure she is probably easily found in dollar bins across the nation.

I've played that Holly Vincent 2nd LP so much I've worn mine out; dense, downbeat, beautiful record.

Another Record Surplus day on Sunday, picked up:

I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus by Firesign Theater $1
Four Seasons of Love by Donna Summer $1
An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May $1
Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks at Cannes $1
Mott by Mott The Hoople $1
Get the Knack by The Knack $1
Welcome to the Pleasuredome by Frankie Goes to Hollywood $1
The Button-down Mind of Bob Newhart $1
Love Transfusion by The Rockets $2
10cc s/t $8
Angst in my Pants by The Sparks $8

The Rockets albums were always things that I kinda liked when living in Ann Arbor, but run around $12-15 at all the used stores there, so it was nice to see them at their actual worth to me—about $2 each. Most of the rest of the stuff were things that I'd heard before, and these were pretty good quality (not scratched) LPs, so what the hell? That Mott album's worth it for the opener alone.

An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May? That sounds rad (for the Elaine May, especially).

You'd never pay $8 for that 10cc album here in Lee County. You used to live in Ann Arbor? Where do you live now?

You'd never pay $8 for that 10cc album here in Lee County

Wait, so you'd pay more there, or less? I bought mine years ago, presumably for a couple bucks if not deutschmarks, but I have no idea how much it costs now. Seems like it'd be findable in $2 bins, though.

I'd be surprised if that Mott album wasn't the best one up there (though I love the Knack one, and others. The Donna Summer one is the '70s album by her that I care the least about, but still a must-own. Only Rockets album I have is the '79 one with "Oh Well" and "Turn Up The Radio", but I'd buy any others in a second if I saw them for that price.)

speaking of the Rockets, I would buy the Back Talk LP if I saw it, for the title track alone...

out of the 25 cent bin at my local, I recently picked up:

Shalamar - Big Fun
Gordon Lightfoot - Gord's Gold
Leo Kottke - s/t
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
Nicolette Larson - Lotta Love
Gerry Rafferty - City To City
Raydio - s/t
Chaka Kahn - Watcha Gonna Do For Me

no great shakes, but for a quarter a pop...

also got Ruby Starr - Scene Stealer for 2 bucks...

Los Zafiros - Bossa Cubana CD. Comp of 60`s-era Cuban band I`d never heard of before, but it`s pretty great - elements of doo-wop, calypso, balladry, rock n`roll and bossa nova. 99p, charity shop in Kentish Town. Bargain!

Found at Amoeba Los Angeles yesterday, all CDs:

Gruntruck - Push ($3)
Hacride - Amoeba ($3)
Roxy Music - Stranded ($5)
V/A - Powerpuff Girls: Heroes and Villains ($5)
Roxette - Look Sharp! ($6)
Tangerine Dream - Thief ($6)
Tangerine Dream - Stratosfear ($6)

OK, sort of negated the premise there, but this time around I have some true bargain bin action, all from the Record Surplus Dollar Bin:

Junkyard - Put It on 10 and Pull the Knobs off
Junkyard - XXX
Dangerous Toys - Pissed
Magnapop - Rubbing Doesn't Help
earthlings? - earthlings?
U2 - Rattle and Hum
Peter Gabriel - Us
Tribe - Sleeper
Skinlab - Revolting Room
Sugar - Beaster
Donald Fagen - Kamakiriad
The Pinheads - the Good, the Bad and the Pinheads
Squeeze - Singles -- 45s and Under

Yesterday I got Joe Sample's Rainbow Seeker (jazz goes pop schmoovness) and a sealed disco record from 1978 called Shoot Me (With Your Love) on Orbit Records. Quid each.

Yesterday I got:

Broken Dog - Throw Everything Away 7" 50p
Weeds (UK) - China Doll 7" £2 (this one was Bimblified recently I believe)

Jeff—Man, that Magnapop album's not one that I'd buy even for a dollar. If you'd asked, I woulda just emailed you the two good songs.

How's the Skinlab? I used to like those guys when I was more hardcore than I am now.

And that Squeeze will likely be the best out of the bunch (though I admit that I've never listened to Junkyard albums, only singles, if they're the Go-Go Junkyard.)

$1 each, Salvation Army, Astoria

Raydio - Rock On
Rachel Sweet - Protect The Innocent
Tommy Tutone - 2

But oops (as I sort of suspected, but wasn't positive, and figured I'd take the $1 gamble) I already own the Rachel Sweet LP. (I assume I trust the lowest not highest of these ebay prices right?):

http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?from=R40&_trksid=m37&satitle=%27rachel+sweet%27+%27protect+the+innocent%27

Passed up $1 copy of Wall of Voodoo Seven Days in Sammytown since Stan Ridgeway didn't seem to be on it. (Is that like post-Ian Hunter Mott? If anybody vouches for it, I'll check for it next week.)

And oh yeah, in reference to something said here a couple weeks ago, a woman who'd gotten to the LPs just before me had already pulled out a $1 copy of an 10cc LP (whichever one has white "10cc" lettering against an orange background, I think it was.)

Heh yeah I had that Magnapop album and sold it, it was pretty shit. The only album of theirs I'd stick up for is Hot Boxing. The eponymous album has a couple of good songs but overall isn't up to much either.

xxposts

xp Hmmm...My two Rachel Sweet LPs have the same sleeve, but one's label is Stiff-Columbia US while the other is Stiff UK. Song listings look exactly the same. Which one should I keep, and which goes?

The first five albums on that list were actually only $.50 each, so I thought I would take a shot. I mean, hell, if I sell the Magnapop back somewhere else, I can probably get more than I paid for it. And I think this is a different Junkyard, these guys are the late 80s blues rock Junkyard that Chuck likes. I guess these two albums are pre-major label odds and sods and an unreleased record. As for Skinlab, it's actually a replacement copy, since I'm not sure what happened to my old copy. That particular album was their Static-X nu-metal move. I remember there being some catchy songs on it, but I'm not sure if it's something I would recommend for more than a dollar.

Is Junkyard the band Brian Baker was in post-Minor Threat?

Yes, yes it was.

i went to this old distro warehouse in montreal this past weekend and bought a lot of dance music (obviously) ... most of it's .99 cents, or a dollar a kilo

rah band - clouds across the moon 12 (.20)
sade - smooth operator 12
ten city - devotion 12
donna summer - i feel love one sided 12
master c & j - in the city 12 on state street (unfortunately rather beat up)
vivien vee - alright 12 on delirium
flash and the pan - midnight man 12
jomanda - got a love for you 12

cerrone love in c minor lp
theo vaness lp
diana ross the boss lp
the bee gees spirits having flown lp
revelacion lp
el coco dancing in paradise lp
sylvester stars lp (have this already but got it for a friend)

Tim Hardin 1 in fairly crumby condition, but still sounds sweet

Got the first Dog Faced Hermans ep for 3 quid. From what I'd read, it sounded like they didn't really nail it until Those Deep Buds, but this kicks ass. "Enzymes do the protein maaaarch!"

Also got a pair of Red Nichols and his five Pennies LPS (quid each) and Hank William Greatest Hits Vol 1 on MGM, also a quid.

At a flea market in the park a few blocks from my home(in Philly) this weekend, I got John Anderson's "Wild and Blue" vinyl for $2, which I'm excited about. Not perfect shape but good enough. Other $2 LPs I bought the same day - "Van Halen II" and, in especially good condition, Bruce Springsteen's double-LP "The River".

Those are all great records. Always dug the packaging of The River.

i found five go-betweens albums (all the pre-reunion lps apart from send me a lullaby) on vinyl for a dollar each at a flea market in newberrytown, pa (of all places) yesterday. i think i may have been drooling as i handed over my $5.

Finally bought one of the $2 LPs that kept calling out to me every time I pass by them on the sidewalk on Queens Blvd (around 46th or so I guess) a few times a week -- T-Bone Burnett's Proof Though The Night, which I haven't heard in a couple decades and am actually curious again about. Passed up everything else, though -- a real good example of the rule where, if these were $1 or 50 cents instead of $2 or $3 each, I would have probably brought home a big pile: Sonny Rollins on Impulse, nice looking Monk and Mingus LPs, Suzanne Vega's debut, John Parr LP with "Naughty Naughty," Lou Gramm LP with "Midnight Blue," some three-LP Shostakovich box, Costello's Trust and Punch The Clock (which I used to like but honestly can't imagine ever particularly choosing to play again -- have no interest at all in Goodbye Cruel World or Imperial Boredom, which were also there.) If anybody's just getting into Leonard Cohen (who I never cared about) and lives in the general vicinity of Sunnyside Queens, they should consider stopping by there, though -- they have a few by him.)

god bless moonshine 140+bpm series

Xhuxk, if you don't own a copy of "Midnight Blue," all my illusions are shattered. Report back on T-Bone, please.

I've only ever had the 45 (which is great, obviously)! But yeah, finding out what the rest of the album is like may well be worth the gamble. (It's either cherry red...or midnight blue. I guess.)

$45 total today, back staircase and cavernous basement of The Thing, in Greenpoint, Brooklyn (I'm going to spread this over a few posts):

Kurtis Blow Kurtis Blow (Mercury, 1980 -- first rap album ever, maybe? Christgau B+. Includes BTO cover)
Arthur Blythe Da Da (Columbia, 1986 -- Christgau B)
Alicia Bridges The AOR Mini-Album (Polydor promo EP, 1978 -- never heard of this before: an EP targeted specifically to rock stations by a disco artist with a butch blonde punk haircut, crazy!)
Gene Chandler Get Down (20th Century Fox, 1978-- The Duke of Earl goes disco?)
Alec R. Constandinos Winds Of Change (Casablanca, 1979 -- narrated by Peter Ustinov, based on a story by Ovid: prog-disco concept album?)
The Deadly Nightshade F&W (Phantom, 1976 -- all-woman -- all-lesbian, maybe? -- power trio. I'm pretty sure they're not supposed to be very good, but they look really badass on the cover, plus they apparently do songs about Mary Hartman and an Irish bar, and they cover "Little Old Lady From Pasadena")
Lita Ford Out For Blood (Mercury, 1983 -- don't remember even even seeing this before, and the cover is off the hook; on the back, Lita has eight arms to hold you plus a ripped T-shirt that says "Punk You!", but this is clearly supposed to look metal, except I guess in pre-hair-metal 1983 nobody knew the difference or something? Weren't Motley Crue even considered sort of punk too at first, when they were on an indie label? How come nobody ever talks about that? Including me?)
Millie Jackson Get It Out'cha System (Spring, 1978 -- covers songs by Latimore, Bobby Womack, and Kenny Rogers; does an original called "Logs And Thangs"; the back cover photo is a toilet seat.)
The Joneses "Sugar Pie Guy" (Mercury 12-inch, 1983 -- I'm pretty sure Michael Freedberg has called this one of the great lost disco singles of the early '80s, but who the hell were the Joneses? The back cover shows six men and two women, and one of the men has an amazing Afro and one is clearly the patriarch of the group, or pimp, or something.)
Menace Doghouse (Jump Street, 1989 -- never heard of this one before, but Menace is a guitar player who looks very post-Prince/Time new wave, and the album is produced by Bill Laswell and Keith LeBlanc, and Bootsy and Nicky Skopeletis are on the album, and the last song is called "Doggy Dub," and Menace thanks David Dinkins among many other folks)
Pat Metheny Group American Garage (ECM, 1979 -- another one purchased primarily because the cover looks so cool, especially Methany playing with his long-haired '70s garage band on the back cover)

^^^Bastard. How is this possible?!

continued:

Joey Miserable And the Worms (Nightcrawler, c. 1985 apparently -- never saw this before, though I'm pretty sure I heard of these guys, though I don't know where. Looks totally self-released, either way. An old-style white r&b band from Brooklyn, I guess? They cover a couple early '50s r&b songs -- one credited to the Treniers -- and do originals such as "Pooper Scooper" and "Gerbil On the Wheel of Love" and "Worm Symphony #1569 in the ?Key of X," wtf? A subject for future googling, obv)
The Moments "Baby Lets Rap Now (Pts 1 and 2)" (Sugarhill 12-inch, 1980 -- The Moments made a rap record??? On Sugarhill? Weren't they already called Ray Goodman and Brown by then? Do they rap in falsetto? Or maybe they just talk pretty instead.)
Mott Drive On (Columbia, 1975 -- post-Ian.)
Murari Murari (Desire Tree, 1979 -- this would not have caught my eye if Scott, I think, had not posted its photo on some other thread and raved about it there a while back. Liner notes: "Five residents of Murari Sevaka Farm - the transcendental bhakti-yoga community near Lynchburg, Tennesse." Plus recruitment pleas. How rare is this thing?)
New York City Band New York City Band (American International Records, 1979 -- not a real band, I'm guessing, and if it is, I doubt they look as tough as the multi-racial tough '70s NYC guys on the back cover, but still -- apparently John Travolta made a movie in 1979 that I never heard of until now called Sunnyside, which is also the name of the neighborhood I live in in Queens, and this the movie's soundtrack. How bad can it be if they cover "Bo Diddley" on it? Pretty bad, I know, but still, I was curious and could not pass it up)
Paris Connection Paris Connection (Casablanca, 1978 -- Alec R. Costandinos again; he must have made 20 Eurodisco albums in, like, three years! I've liked most of what I've heard, too. French people apparently help him out on this one.)
Ph.D. Ph.D. (Atlantic, 1981 -- maybe the least promising record in the pile, still, I was curious: A two-guy synth-pop duo on a major in new wave '81, and the synths -- ARPs and Wasps and Fairlights and mini-Moogs -- sound pretty proggy, plus the title "Little Suzi's On The Up" sounded familiar, though I just checked my Whitburn books and neither the album nor the single charted, hmmm.)
Piper Piper (A&M, 1976 -- white label promotion copy. With Billy Squier. Who redid "Who's Your Boyfriend" on his debut solo album a few years later. So now I have both Piper albums, cool! Though I don't think I have the Sidewinders LP anymore.)
Racing Cars Downtown Tonight (Chrysalis, 1976 -- another gamble, since they might suck. Not in Xgau's or Popoff's '70s books, nor in Jasper and Oliver's metal encyclopedia, yikes. The album did his #198 in Billboard, though, for whatever that's worth. Still, a longshot, I guess.)

continued:

Charlie Rich Lonely Weekends (Sun -- not sure what year, but this looks like a classic even if I have most if not all the songs on other records.)
Southwind What A Place To Land (Blue Thumb, c. 1971 -- they're supposed to stink, too, right? Pre-Eagles country rock, featuring the future Moon Martin, who looks pretty much like he would in his new wave days a few years later, and I like his new wave albums a lot so that's why I bought this. Great Christgau joke from 1980: "Ther is no substance to reports that he'll join Jules Shear in a cult supergroup called Pop Pile." Which is a coincidence, since I bought that Funky Kings LP this year, too!)
Richard & Linda Thompson Sunnyvista (Carthadge, 1983; came out in UK in '81, though, and I think I bunch of older albums were finally issued here after the critical success of Shoot Out the Lights. Any way, I used to own this, and remember loving "Saturday Rolling Around." It has a great LP cover, and this one is in mint condition!)
John Whitehead I Need Money Bad (Mercury, 1988 -- uh, classy looking adult soul guy with Doug Wimbish and Skip McDonald and Keith LeBlanc backing him up, and I really like the song titels "I Need Money Bad" and "Secondary Lover" and "Stone Hearted People." No Xgau grade, though, and Xgau usually catches good adult soul guys. Album didn't chart...)
Various The Best Of Disco/Dance Music 7 (Rams Horn, 1985 -- with Boys Town Gang covering "When Will I See You Again," Paul Hardcastle covering "Papa's Got A Brand New Pigbag" wtf wtf wtf, Robey covering "One Night in Bangkok," plus Jocelyn Brown, Michael Zager, Betty Wright, Man Parrish, Skyy, a few people I never heard of, and "The Prince Mix" by a band called The All-Stars)
(Various) Sound D'Afrique (Mango, 1981 -- Xgau A-, but I like French people more than he does)

That's it!

But it doesn't even include the stuff I passed up because my pile was getting too big and I didn't want to be a pig and spend too much money. I am already regretting not getting the UB40 EP Little Baggariddim, since Xgau gave it an A- and I have an EP fetish and I understand "One In Ten" is supposed to be a definitive Thatcher era England song and there are apparently two toasts and I don't have any other UB40 records and an EP seems about right for them. I also almost got another copy of Strafe's "React" 12-inch, which I think might be his only major label 12-inch and maybe the only record with a photo of him on the cover; I already own it, have for years, but I don't think it shows up in stores much and maybe it's worth money*. I passed up Alexander O'Neal's Hearsay (with "Fake" and "Criticize"), of which there were two copies in the store, since I was convinced I'll come across it again though maybe I won't in which I'll be pissed at myself. Passed up a copy of Desmond Dekker's 1981 Stiff LP which I didn't know existed, since when I opened it up it was cracked in half. And passed up the sleeve of the Jimmy James and the Vagabonds Atco LP from the '60s I guess since it had no record at all inside. And didn't need Lee Dorsey's Night People or the Love & Kisses LP with naked Lady Godiva or whoever on the cover since I already have those. Among other things I saw... Oh yeah, there was a Karen Young 12-inch from 1982 where she covers "Expressway to Your Heart" by the Soul Survivors, one of my favorite songs ever, but for some reason $2 seemed to much for that. And so on...

* -- Actually, this link suggests that Strafe 12-inch isn't super rare, so I'm glad I skipped it (unless I should believe the higher prices here):

http://www.musicstack.com/album/strafe/react__lpz_6:22__psz__10:52_rpz_

first rap album ever, maybe?

Actually, the first Sugarhill Gang album was 1979, I think, so probably not. (And there may have been live convention freestyle LPs on Disco-O-Wax or whatever before Kurtis's LP too, who the hell knows.)

(Almost definitely the first major label rap LP, though.)

John Travolta made a movie in 1979 that I never heard of until now called Sunnyside,

Oops, actually JOEY Travolta. Which might explain why I never heard of it!

Also, it apparently only played in theatres for three days, and the soundtrack is supposed to be one of Luther Vandross's first albums as a lead singer.

some other interesting stuff I learned by googling:

John Whitehead is of McFadden & Whitehead "Ain't No Stoppin Us Now" fame, and put out I Need Money Bad after serving a prison sentence for tax evasion.

Ph.D's "Little Suzi's On The Up" is supposedly one of the first songs ever to get played on MTV.

Deadly Nightshade F&W = "Funky and Western."

Menace played guitar on Madonna's "Burning Up."

The Lita Ford LP cover I got is a version that was quickly "censored" by Mercury and replaced by a version with much less blood and spiderwebs on it.

Somebody from WFMU on the Murari album (so maybe I had seen this before, rather than a post by Scott?):

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

In the clear fuzzy light of the next morning, some other records I remember passing up (I swear, the catacombs full of vinyl down there is so humongous that you are really making decisions on your feet, almost subsconsicously): A Deaf School LP I already own but which I'm sure is worth more than $2 (Dave Marsh called them a cross between Roxy Music and the Sex Pistols once, how cool is that?); a lovely looking gatefolded Bobby Bland/BB King live LP on Impulse from 1976 (I love Bobby Bland but don't have much use for BB and generally hate live albums); an album by this '80s Vancouver AOR-I-guess band called 54-40 that I've never heard but that Martin Popoff is always raving about (one of his favorite non metal bands apparently); the Shalamar LP Go For It from 1981 (another Xgau A-) with really cute bios of the three members on the back like for instance one where Jody Watley says one or her hobbies is collecting "pop-art cards," whatever those are; The Steve Martin Brothers or whatever it's called from 1980 where I guess he's telling jokes on one side and playing banjo songs like "Sally Goodin" on the other side; at least a couple copies of some Timelords 12-inch....And several thousand other things. I swear, anybody who lives in New York owes it to her/himself to spend a day at this place. And anybody who visits New York should really make this place part of the trip.

(Though if you do, please wear a dust mask. Lots of crate-diggers bring little portable turntables with them too, but I'm not that dedicated, jeez.)

theo vaness lp

And oh yeah, there was a copy of this I almost bought, too! The self-titled one. Though I owned it before, and always though Bad Bad Boy was way better. Maybe I still should've picked it up, though.

Cool Costandinos consumer guide here; I'm noticing in other places on the web that the two LPS I bought and the one I passed up because I already had a copy (by Love & Kisses) are considered fairly rare, and are all selling in the $15 0 to $20 range? I never know who to trust on that kind of thing, though:

http://www.warr.org/costandinos.html

Listening notes so far:

--T-Bone Burnett (from a couple days ago) a surprisingly okay guitar record (Thompson, Townshend, Ronson, Cooder) with a few good songs and one great one ("The Sixties.") He gets subdued to often, but the guitarists often kick his butt when he does.
--R & L Thompson LP a much better guitar record and much better record in general. More upbeat than Shoot Out the Lights, I'm thinking right now. And "Saturday Rolling Around" is a fun dance jig, almost funky in a British clog-dancing sort of way.
--Deadly Nightshade almost mind-boggingly shitty so far; not all that funky or western -- and closer to show-tuney than folky, despite the discofied program music of the Mary Hartman theme (which may or may not be a cover); covering "Dancing in the Streets" is entirely pointless, maybe not worse than Bowie/ Jagger but definitely a lot worse than Van Halen's.
--Kurtis Blow very good so far, despite very samey first side; he sings "Takin Care of Business" rather than rapping it, but his band (who Ed Christman at Billboard has told me were amazing live in those days) gets to jam out on the breaks (as opposed to "The Breaks," though I guess they jam there, too.)
--The Moments do not rap. The sing in high voices about, like, wanting to rap (as in talk) with you. Did Sugarhill put out a couple records like that, where the "rap" in the title was the old meaning not the new one? That's kinda funny, if they did.
--New York City Band is good! Especially when Luther is singing! Though I have no idea when Sunnyside was the "ghetto" he says it is in that song; I always thought it was a working class Irish bedroom 'hood! Ireally want to see the movie now, though.
--Murari are much more tuneful and professional-singer-sounding than I would have expected -- folk hippies going Nashville country (where they recorded, maybe?), way more listenable than say Deadly Nightshade (who almost look like they could be a metal band on their LP cover by the way, especially given their very goth-metal name). Murari's words are recruitment song poems about getting away from the hustle and bustle of the city in this utopian rural community they've set up, with at least a few hare krishna chant parts so far. I wonder how many fans took them up on the offer.

re:costandinos/ vaness

sumeria "golden tears" is a good one. i totally left bad boy behind and just got the self titled one.

Yeah, I have that, too; it's real good. The 45 of Sumeria's "Cosmic Traveler"/"Golden Tears" (Polydor France, 1977) has this androgynous space-glam alien band on the cover, playing futuristic keyboards and guitars and stuff -- pretty much affirming the Roxy/ Bowie influence on Eurodisco if there was any doubt.

And speaking of glam influences, and Theo Vaness, the front cover of Bad Bad Boy has always reminded me of the back cover of Lou Reed's Transformer; not sure how intentional that was.

OK, big list of stuff from the Record Surplus dollar bin in the past two weeks:

They Might Be Giants - Lincoln
They Might Be Giants - Apollo 18
The Fixx - Calm Animals
Big Stars - #1 Record/Radio City
Drywall - Work the Dumb Oracle
Porno for Pyros - Good God's Urge
ABC - the Lexicon of Love
Teenage Fan Club - Grand Prix
Ofra Haza - Desert Wind
Transport League - Superevil
Jesus Jones - Liquidizer
Disgust - Brutality of War
Gus Gus - This Is Normal
Sammy Hagar - Sammy Hagar (1987)
Fine Young Cannibals - the Raw & the Cooked
Sakura Wars - OST
Sak0ura Wars 2 - OST (I'm a sucker for random anime soundtracks)

I am going cheap record buying crazy, what is wrong with me these days?

Anyway, same Sunnyside Queens thrift store sidewalk where I bought T-Bone Burnett last week, for $2:

Various Goofy Greats (K-Tel, 1978). Weird selection -- lots of '60s bubblegum (Ohio Express, 1910 Fruitgum Co, Lemon Pipers, Lovin Spoonful, George Baker Selection) along with "Snoopy Vs the Red Baron," "Alley Oop," "The Lion Sleeps Tonight," "Surfin Bird," "Mr. Custer", "Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor," plus a few songs I don't think I ever heard of before (e.g. "Mah-Na-Mah-Na" by Piero Umiliani for instance, and "The Birds And Bees" by Jewel Atkins.) Maybe by the late '70s all those '60s bubble hits sounded like novelty hits. Weirder is that there are clearly drawings of Ahab the Ahab and Tarzan on the cover, but seemingly no songs about them (not sure what the Tarzan one would be, actually), so maybe the song list changed somewhere along the line and they were too lazy to change the cover. Still, probably a good purchase, and probably at least a few songs I never owned before. Pretty sure I used to see commercials for this one on TV back in the day. Song list doesn't look as great as Funny Bone Favorites (Ronco, same year) though. Probably not even close.

I'd be very surprised if you've never heard "Mah-Na-Man-Na" before.

Disgust - Brutality of War

I'd be very surprised if you've never heard "Mah-Na-Man-Na" before.

Doh! I just never knew how it was spelled, or that it was actually ever a hit -- I just always thought of it as "the Phenomenon song from the Muppet Show" or something. Was it a TV theme before then, or what? (Oh wait - I just checked Joel Whitburn. It only went to #55 in the States, in 1969: "from the movie Sweden Heaven and Hell, and background music used on TV's Benny Hill Show.") I'd heard "The Birds and The Bees" plenty before too, actually; just never really thought of it as a "novelty song."

Amazed how much I like "Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron" by the Royal Guardsmen; it really rocks -- how good was their other stuff?? I've never explored them at all.

Also, "Alley Oop" by the Hollywood Argyles is one of the greatest records in human history (or, in this case, prehistory), I am increasingly convinced.

Kim Fowley will be pleased.

However, calling Deaf School a cross between the Sex Pistols and Roxy Music is a stretch. Arty UK band, very few hooks, certainly no loud guitar. So you weren't missing much.

The Lita Ford record's on the high side of mediocre. Better than the last two or three Runaways records, not as good as what she later got mileage on.

First Piper record is better than the second. By quite a bit, in my estimation. Both have just been reissued on foreign CD.

Next time your out look for Earl Slick Band's Razor Sharp. Worth a buck or so alone for the lyrics to the title cut and the way in which they're sung.

My bargains over 2 days of bargain bin searching in London...

3 quid
Stump - A fierce Pancake

2 quid
OMD - first album
Japan - Tin Drum
Japan - Quiet Life
Duran Duran - First Album
John Martyn - Grace and Danger
Throwing Muses - House Tornado
The Sundays - The Sundays
Stump - Quirk Out
Scritti Politti - Songs to Remember
Cud - When In Rome Kill Me
Adam and The Antz - Dirk Wears White Sox

1 quid
Pop Will Eat Itself - Now For A Feast
Housemartins - People Who Grinned Themselves To Death
Pigbag - Dr Heckle and Mr Jive
Throwing Muses - first album
Style Council - introducing
Thomas Dolby - The Flat Earth
Erasure - Circus
MC5 - Back In The USA (a bit scuffed)
Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids
Mataya Clifford - Star Fell From Heaven
Cud - Leggy Mambo
Blue Aeroplanes - Spitting Out Miracles
Julian Cope - Saint Julian

50 pence
Dead or Alive - Mad Bad and Dangerous To Know
Gary Numan - Pleasure Principle
Jon and Vangelis - Short Stories

30 pence
Scritti Politti - Cupid and Psyche 85

.99 vinyl:

Ramsey Lewis Trio, Hang On Ramsey!
Laurindo Almeida, Classical/Current ("Electronic Excursions," according to the front cover; German pressing)
David Sancious, The Bridge (He's all over my favorite Springsteen album and I've never heard his own stuff, so I owed him)
Woody Shaw, Rosewood

New York City Band is good! Especially when Luther is singing!

Or, maybe only when Luther is singing. Though the mostly instrumental disco version of "Bo Diddley" can be lived with, I suppose. (And I still haven't decided how good the Luther stuff is. I may just be a pushover due to the Sunnyside angle.)

First Piper record is better than the second. By quite a bit, in my estimation

Yeah, I think Popoff agreed with you on that. Me, I still have yet to get around to playing the debut...

Record Surplus dollar bin again!

Oceansize - Music for Nurses EP
Low - Long Division
Rockers Hi-Fi - Rockers to Rockers
Orange 9 Mm - Driver Not Included
Charlie Parker - the Best of the Bird
The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy & the Lash (2004 reissue)
Dolls Head - Frozen Charlotte
V/A - Ken Burns' Jazz sampler (usually when I try new genres I start with compilations and go from there)

haven't decided how good the Luther stuff is.

Second side (the one that ends with "Sunnyside") is actually really good, to my ears. Reminds me of a grittier version of his later work with the band Change. Not that good, but still good.

John Whitehead ...put out I Need Money Bad after serving a prison sentence for tax evasion

And the album very clearly peaks with its opening song and title track, which is about that very issue. (The funniest line -- not intentionally -- is when he considers robbing a bank, then remembers it's against the law -- doh!) Still, well-sung soul songs about being short on dollars are pretty much good by definition. (When was the last r&b hit like that, btw? There must be some I've missed, right? Or are they extinct?) Anyway, rest of the album is mediocre, with two or three tracks a little better than that. I suppose I'll keep it for the title cut.

Not that good,

Meaning "not as good as Change." But turns out I like most of the first side, too -- the Bo Diddley cover is cool, and I like when the rock/metal guitar takes over "Ride That Wave." "Got To Have Your Body" is about as awful as its title suggests, though.

Whitehead album just has too many ballads. Grooves okay when the energy picks up a little, though (as in the last couple songs on the second side.)

So, as far as my The Thing haul from two weeks ago goes, here's where I stand so far on those records.

The ones I'm liking the most:

Arthur Blythe Da Da
Millie Jackson Get It Out'cha System
The Joneses "Sugar Pie Guy"
Mott Drive On
Piper Piper
Charlie Rich Lonely Weekends
Southwind What A Place To Land
Richard & Linda Thompson Sunnyvista
Various The Best Of Disco/Dance Music 7

And the ones I'm liking the least:

The Deadly Nightshade F&W
Menace Doghouse
Joey Miserable And the Worms
Murari Murari
Racing Cars Downtown Tonight

The rest of the pile is somewhere in between. Only album I've absolutely given up on is Menace, but the other ones on that list are on very shakey ground.

Bought two more, $2 each, outside that Sunnyside thrift store on Queens Boulevard:

Jean Michael Jarre Oxygene (Polydor LP, 1976)
Vaughan Mason and Crew Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll (Brunswick LP, 1980)

They had other Jarre ones too (Equinox, or something like that?), but thought I'd start with Oxygene. (I remember some prog rock kids liking it in high school.)

I already owned a copy of the Mason LP; bought this second copy (in way better condition than my first one) on a hunch -- and judging from the prices it's going for at the link below, my hunch was probably right. (Hadn't even intended to stop, and saw the corner of the LP, which I recognized, sticking up from the middle of the cardboard box underneath the table full of paperback books as I was walking by.)

Anyway, if somebody can tell me whether to trust these $100 - $300+ prices, I'd be much obliged:

http://www.musicstack.com/album/vaughan_mason/bounce,_rock,_skate,_roll

Most interesting thing about that Jean Michael Jarre album: Spans (definitely on the first side, maybe on the second side too) that sound a lot like the synth pulse rhythm that Giorgio Moroder came up with for Donna Summer's "I Feel Love" a year later.

Least interesting thing about Mott's Drive On: After listening to it a few times, I went to file my copy, and found out I'd already owned one.

Anyway, I spent another $18 today at The Thing in Greenpoint, picking up a couple things I'd passed up two weeks ago, plus other stuff. I worry this is becoming an addiction again; I can go months without buying any vinyl at all. Anyway, here's what I got:

Blackfoot - Tomcattin' (Atco, 1980)
Carla Bley - Heavy Heart (Watt/ECM, 1984)
Fingerprintz - Distinguishing Marks (Virgin, 1980)
Gruppo Sportivo - Copy Copy (Attic Canada, 1980)
Local Boys -- Moments of Madness (Island, 1983 - feat. Andy Fairweather Low, who I barely know)
Alexander O'Neal - Hearsay (Tabu, 1987)
Osibisa - Osibisa (Decca, 1971)
UB40 - Little Baggariddim (A&M EP, 1985)
Was (Not Was) - Born To Laugh At Tornadoes (Geffen, 1983 -- Made my top ten albums list that year. However, I passed up buying a copy of the debut LP by Latin freestyle singer Safire, which made my top ten albums list five years or so later)
(Various) - Jive Presents Acid House (Jive/Zomba, 1989 -- and not really very acid house, I don't think, but I still like the roster of artists: Lisa M, Wee Papa Girl Rappers, Children of the Night feat. Ranking Roger, Mr. Lee and the Chi-town Posse, Big Fun, Rhythim Is Rhythim)

Killer Dwarfs - Dirty Weapons

Hey, these guys used to hang out at my parents' parties in the 80s... I remember being young and afraid of the "angry" music (my parents played me primarily Beatles and Bowie)

French 7" of "One for you, One for me" by La Bionda for 25p at a church summer fair in Chiswick on Saturday. Probably not remotely rare, but I was pleased to find it only days after acquiring that new Disco Italia compilation on CD.

Today, I chose not to buy a Pieces of a Dream LP for a quid.

Fingerprintz - Distinguishing Marks (Virgin, 1980)

Mediocre Brit art-pop, emaciated and grooveless, without the weird hooks of, say, Yachts or Jules & the Polar Bears. But people who love XTC more than I do (i.e., beyond their first three albums), and fans of more recent indie-geek tedium, might well like it.

All the other LPs in that last The Thing batch I got are keepers, though. (Probably should have gone with the Champaign LP with "How Bout Us" or Sa-Fire's aformentioned debut LP instead of Fingerprintz.)

(Actually, when I bought that, I was probably confusing Fingerprintz with Fischer Z -- heavier, weirder, and way better new wavers who put out two albums on United Artists circa 1979 - 1980.)

So I gathered together all the various CDs I had lying around my apartment that I had yet to file or listen to, realized that I had close to a hundred, decided that I have an addiction and need to stop buying CDs, and promptly went to the Record Surplus and bought a whole lot more from the dollar bin. I have a problem. Here's the list:

Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
Aztec Camera - Love
the Bouncing Souls - Anchors Aweigh
Kate Bush - the Sensual World
the Creatures - Boomerang
Dirty Vegas - S/T
DJ Shadow - the Private Press
Eurythmics - Be Yourself Tonight
Bryan Ferry - Boys and Girls
General Public - All the Rage
Debbie Gibson - Anything Is Possible
Hooters - One Way Home
INXS - X
Chris Isaak - San Francisco Days
the Jesus Lizard - Shot
the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Orange
the KLF - the White Room
Lush - Spooky
the Orb - UFOrb
Quicksand - Slip
the Roots - the Tipping Point
Spandau Ballet - the Singles Collection
the Sugar Cubes - Life's Too Good
the Sundays - Reading, Writing and Arithmetic
This Mortal Coil - It'll End in Tears

Haven't heard all of those, but seems like you should listen to (at least The Private Press, The Sensual World (both pretty sensuous), Life's Too Good (Bjork when she poprocked, valuable team player)The Tipping Point (kinda uneven, but good n smokey) If you like Kate, then Tori, but not one after the other, cos Tori might suffer; Love is where AzCam started getting a little too mushy, I think, but worth checking out since you got it; ditto the Ferry; Jesus Lizard should flush mush;KLF's The White Room should burn some calories.

I think somebody has been unloading their collection of 80s synth pop or something. No complaints here, since I'm benefiting from it. I enjoyed the Bryan ferry album. Very peaceful, but peaceful is something that my collection needs.

Some 20p 7"s:

707 - Mega Force
Imagination - Body Talk
Bloodstone - Funky Park

And Flat as a Pancake's Head East for a quid

Band is Head East, "Flat as a Pancake" the LP, but you maybe knew that and just mistyped.

Gah. I had read, but I didn't know in the store until I saw the actual record. I was sold by the cover TBH, and it obviously scarred it's inital appearance into my skull. I will admit to having never heard of 'em until then! First track is an pretty unashamed AC/DC knock-off, but great!

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41KBKZD6Y1L._SS500_.jpg

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robocop

i was slow the other day and some mfer snagged a $1 copy of mob rules right before my very eyes, i hope it was scratched all to hell.

I went to an Estate sale yesterday and got a nice old 45 box for 2 bucks.

So I haven't done much shopping in recent weeks, but I did pick up a cassette copy of the Fabulous Poodles' Mirror Stars for $1 in a thrift shop here in Sunnyside yesterday. First cassette I've bought in many, many years -- just really needed to have that album in some format again. (I've got two other Fab Poos LPs on vinyl, but this was the first one I'd heard, their definitive one, etc.)

Looked through the $2 CDs too, and came close to buying copies of Ornette's Change of the Century and the Hollywood Records album by Mitsou from c. 1992, but the wrong discs were inside their covers! Good thing I checked. Last time I was there they had some early '90s Pharycide CD on the shelf; would've bought that yesterday if it was still there, but I couldn't find it. Weirdest item on the shelf: An apparent homemade mix CD-R (w/ no songs listed) called Jonathan's Bar Mitzvah: 1990.

Revived the wrong thread; this really belong here:

Looking at You, Chaz Jankel
Relight My Fire, Dan Hartman
The Best of B.T.O. (So Far)

*belongs

From 2 Astoria thrift stores, last weekend:

Good Rats -- From Rats To Riches LP (Passport 1978) $1

Wild - Wild LP (Columbia 1988) $1 (Zodiac Mindwarpish looking sleaze-rock band featuring one John Wildblood, who a couple years later would change his name to Dizzy Reed and join Guns N Roses, not that I had any idea of that stuff when I bought the album, which just looked dorky to me in a potentially useful way)

(Various) - Gone Fishin' CD (Outdoor Music/Bass Pro Shops 2006) $2 (10 country songs about fishing, by Darryl Worley, Brad Paisley, Marty Stuart, Pam Tillis, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, etc.)

The teddybears shtml album for a quid in Notting Hill MVE!

xpost Plz to solve question once and for all: Are the Good Rats any good?

Teddybears *are* good -- wish Robyn would come to Seattle herself.

xpost Plz to solve question once and for all: Are the Good Rats any good?

yeah, seconding this question because i swear i heard a song by them once that was ok. but most of their albums look terrible.

Are the Good Rats any good?...yeah, seconding this question

Can't speak for their other albums, but on first listen, From Rats to Riches is great. A lot heavier than I would have guessed, and more lyrically and structurally eccentric (almost in a Crack The Sky kind of way) than I figured from supoosed bar band hacks, with sonic influences running the gamut from doo-wop to prog to maybe even punk (this was '78). Flo and Eddie produced, by the way. Favorite songs so far: "Taking It To Detroit" (about how they're gonna play Cobo Hall like "Kiss and Seger" and make it huge, which of course never happened -- well, they may have played Cobo Hall, I'm not sure, but if so I don't think it helped much, and I don't know of this actually getting airplay in Detroit, though after Bowie and J. Geils and Kiss had scored on Detroit radio with hard-rocking Detroit songs, you can see why they tried); "Mr. Mechanic" (probably the heaviest and fastest song on the album, maybe a progenitor of ZZ Top's "Manic Mechanic," though more likely not but it kills regardless); "Victory in Space" (a pomp-rocking plea to the "ladies of the universe"), "Don't Hate the Ones Who Bring You Rock and Roll" (a weird and at least passingly homophobic rocker -- starts out "Son of a bitch let me rip his eyes out/Prancing around like a faggot/Painted up ass like to pull his pants down/Shoot off his works/Then I'd like to bag it -- feed it to a maggot," and you're like what the fuck, but then by the end he's saying "Twisted mothers, twisted brothers, twisted sisters," so I'm wondering whether this was a feud with Dee Snider song! Or maybe I'm misreading it and they were on the same side rather than rivals; I'm not sure. Twisted Sister were a big Long Island bar band too right?); "Local Zero" (a blue-collar Catholic song -- "Who can quit near our daughters' communion" -- that seems both anti-boss and anti-union -- maybe their local was going to go on strike and they were worried about going broke?) Not sure what their day jobs were, but they are pretty homely and beefy regular suburban Joes with beards and Jewfros and sports jerseys on the LP cover, and it's pretty wacky how they're emerging out of dry ice on stage with that big inflatable football on the back. The album doesn't look "terrible" to me; looks awesome. And I'd say the music lives up to the promise. (Like I said, don't know their other LPs at all. University of Missouri's radio station KCOU used to play "Back To My Music" off of Tasty from 1974, and I remember it being a lot more hippie-freak choogly and good-timey in a pleasant but run-of-the-mill way than this album. Not sure how typical that cut was. Also wondering if they got any rock airplay at all outside of New York and maybe Jersey; according to Joel Whitburn, not a single one of their albums even cracked the Top 200, which is pretty astounding for guys who I've always heard had a decent local following, and who clearly kept at it for a decent length of time. Christgau gave Tasty a C- "what can you say about a band admirers claim is the best to emerge from Long Island since Vanilla Fudge"; they don't show up in any of the Rolling Stone Record Guide books, not even the first red one. Jasper and Oliver in The International Encyclopedia of Hard Rock and Heavy Metal love them, though -- "The music is a mixture of raw aggressive metal, often tinged with weird jazzy overtones. It is always of high quality, and they are worth their weight in gold." Doubly impressive, because on the album cover I got, they definitely aren't skinny guys, so that gold would weigh a lot!)

Ha ha, that xgau thing was a reference to this rolling stone review, written by a buddy of mine, which says in part:

The Good Rats are musicians in a time when non-musicians (the Dolls et al) are thought of as brilliant, and Peppi Marchello stands as a lyricist when so many others have put down their pens in favor of words written 20 years ago. If it gets the recognition it deserves, Tasty will establish the Rats as the best thing to come out of Long Island since the Vanilla Fudge.

If I remember the story right, Joe called xgau, who explained that the Good Rats sound to him "like Duke Ellington on speed." There's more of that Ellington-on-speed stuff on the Tasty album, though, than on the later ones.

$9 total, The Thing, Greenpoint:

Bohannon - Keep On Dancin' (Brunswick LP, 1972 -- his first album, maybe? Cover is pretty beat up, but the vinyl looks fine)

Crack The Sky -- Photoflamingo (Lifesong LP, 1981)

Hurby The Love Bug Presents Super Nature -- "The Show Stoppa (Is Stupid Fresh)" (Pop Art 12-inch, 1985 -- actually Salt N Pepa's first single, though they weren't called that yet)

Scope -- The Busted EP (Sperm EP, 1988 -- Never heard of them before, but they look like British early-Beasties wannabes)

Xavier -- "Work That Sucker To Death"/"Love Is On The One" (Liberty 12-inch, 1981 -- pretty sure George Clinton appears on at least the A-side)

Er, actually that Scope EP is 1998, not 1988. Misread the fine print; might not have bought it if I'd read it right, but who knows, maybe I'll like it anyway. Probably not Beasties-like though.

And though the Bohannon LP says 1972 on the outer sleeve, the record's label says 1974. I'm seeing one Swiss website that says it's his third LP, though I don't know how trustworthy that is. He sure does look girly on the cover, though. (Plus it has a song called "Rap On Mr. DJ," several years early.)

i bought all these records for 35 bucks recently. so, less than a dollar for each. some are cool, some are not cool, and some i will take to the record store for trade. all in great shape though:

SPIRIT – Spirit of 76 (never even seen this before. live spirit jamz from 1976)

GRAND FUNK – LIVE (pristine german pressing! upgrade my copy.)

ARETHA FRANKLIN – Young Gifted and Black (trade)

ARETHA FRANKLIN – Hay Now Hey (The Other Side of the Sky) (trade)

HOT TUNA – The Phosphorescent Rat (love this album)

FAT MATTRESS II (great!)

SKY – Don’t Hold Back (doug fieger's pre-knack pop band)

CHURCHILL - s/t (pretty horrible, despite promising cover)

CLEAR LIGHT - s/t (okay, i think i have three copies of this. so, trade. one of my faves though.)

JELLYROLL (awesome funky horns & fuzz!)

JUICY LUCY – Lie Back and Enjoy It (brilliant. needed a copy.)

SUNSHINE COMPANY – Sunshine & Shadows (upgrade my copy. this one is pristine.)

THE CATS – 45 Lives (horrible dutch pop on rare earth)

THE YOUNGBLOODS – Get Together (amazing album and i had a copy for years and never played it!)

TRAFFIC – When The Eagle Flies (trade)

TRAFFIC – The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys (trade)

JIMMIE SPHEERIS – Isle of View (upgrade my copy.)

JEFFERSON AIRPLANE – Volunteers (gatefold and in nice shape, but i'll probably trade it in.)

LED ZEPPELIN – Zoso (trade. glossiest cover i've ever seen on this album! but looks like a normal u.s. press.)

LOVE – Revisited (probably trade. i have everything on it. nice copy though.)

JOHN LEE HOOKER – That’s Where It’s At! (amazing album on stax. fell in love as soon as i put it on.)

GEORGE CARLIN – FM & AM (trade. r.i.p. love you, george.)

ROSSINGTON COLLINS BAND – This Is The Way

JOURNEY In The Beginning 1975 – 1977

ELVIS PRESLEY – IN CONCERT (trade)

GAME – Long Hot Summer (pretty bad. on evolution.)

BOBBY GOSH – Mother Motor (also pretty bad.)

KEITH 98.6/Ain’t Gonna Lie (keith is my man.)

KEITH The Adventures of Keith (one of my favorite albums of all time.)

JACKIE LOMAX – Is This What You Want? (not great. apple was such a fucked up label.)

JONATHAN EDWARDS - s/t (trade.)

JOE DROUKAS and His Crazy Man Band – Goodbye Joe Drake (he crazy!)

DON NIX – Living By The Days (pretty good.)

Ford Theatre presents TIME CHANGES A New Musical (have this too and it's nowhere near as good as their 2nd album.)

TIERRA - s/t

CROWFOOT – Find The Sun

DAVID POMERANZ – Time To Fly

EKSEPTION - s/t

HOOVER - s/t (pretty cool bummer folk dude on epic.)

VARELA A New Plateau (horrible.)

HEARTBREAK MOUNTAIN – Train Leaves Here This Morning (very cool hippie country byrd lovers.)

MOSE JONES – Get Right (also pretty rightous country rockage.)

THE FUGS – s/t (1st pressing in super-clean shape. needed one too.)

CRYSTAL MANSION (crystal mansion should have been called crystal shit cuz they were shitty.)

BRASS MONKEY - s/t (fuzz and stuff on rare earth. about 2 good songs a side.)

CANO Tous Dans L’Meme Bateau (very cool and trippy french-canuck hippie folk)

SIMON & GARFUNKEL – Bookends (unbelievably beautiful first pressing that sounds like heaven or something.)

keep on' dancin' is so amazing, chuck. "dance with your parno" is genius. it's all genius.

here's what i learned about CANO via the prog archives:

"This French-Canadian group (but not Quebecois), is from the Northern-Ontario province where almost half the population is francophone. CANO stands for Cooperative Artistes du Nouvel Ontario and they were based in the city of Sudbury. Formed as far back as 71, and from an ideal semi-hippy-pastoral commune and developing into theater, poetry, writers, and a whole bunch of artisans/craftsmen and a 320 acres Buffalo ranch. This commune attracted people from all over Northern Ontario, Quebec, Acadians from Eastern Canada. One of the branches became the musical group, and recorded in late 75 their debut album after being together for over three years.
Their music exemplifies best the Northern Canadian Pioneering spirit, and lyrically, the songs often make reference to the harsh condition they and their ancestor endured: the voyageurs, the portage from one lake to another, the fur-trading, the wars between the colonizing powers, the life with the Indians etc.. An octet, their music sounds like a folkier and more challenging Renaissance (Haslam-era), but they have clearly their own sound too. Their albums are a mix of mainly acoustic (but hardly excusively so) rock with some powerful atmospheres, and the first two albums are essential listening to Canadian folk rock. Their albums became increasingly electric and more “commercial” and they eventually folded by the mid-80’s after some six albums. Their first three albums have been re-issued on CD a few years back and should still be available."

if i ever make another hotheads mix, jellyroll will surely be on there:

http://www.popsike.com/pix/20061105/160048367676.jpg

Bjork - Homogenic
Black Grape - It's Great When You're Straight... Yeah
St. Etienne - Tiger Bay
Curve - Public Fruit

JIMMIE SPHEERIS – Isle of View (upgrade my copy.)

scott, i handed my favorite old hippy record store owner a copy of this today for him to play. such a great record.

also, do you have a copy of Son of Spirit? i've never seen that one around, but i really want a copy of it

I don't think I've ever heard Jimmy Spheeris! But I'm almost positive I saw an LP by him at the Thing yesterday for $2; maybe I should've picked it up! What are his best albums?

Some other $2 items I passed up yesterday:

Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five - Freedom 12" (already have it on an early Sugarhill comp)
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five - It's Nasty (Genius of Love) 12" (already have it on *The Message* LP)
(Various) - *Seize the Beat: Dance Ze Dance* (have had a copy of it since the year it came out, but I get the idea it's not seen very often these days, since everybody on this board always only talks about the *Mutant Disco* CD.)

Are any of the above ones especially rare or worth $$$? If so, maybe I should go back and buy them anyway.

Grandmaster Melle Mel and Duke Bootee - The Message II 12" (edge was chipped)
Man Parrish - Hip Hop Be Bop 12" on Importe/12 Records (just looked totally scuffed up and unplayable)

They also frequently have interesting vinyl copies of late '90s and '00s hip-hop albums that I'm tempted to buy (for instance, yesterday, a double LP version of Timbaland and Magoo's great *Welcome To Our World*), but I always feel it'd be redudant to buy it if I already have the album on CD. (I always ask myself WWSD? -- As in, what would Scott do? -- but in the end, I tend to go with my own cheapskate instincts.)

That Heartbreak Mountain album looks like a real find, Scott. The only mention of it I can find is a copy on gemm for 300+.

yeah, i can't find any info about it anywhere. i think i might have seen that listing. was it old? i thought i saw an old copy on musicstack for that price. maybe it was gemm.

chuck, i only have 2 spheeris albums, but love them both. dragon is a bit more electric/isle is a bit folkier. both kinda remind me of shawn phillips meets maybe todd rundgren?

http://www.amazon.com/Isle-View-Jimmie-Spheeris/dp/B00004RI8M/
http://www.amazon.com/Dragon-Dancing-Jimmie-Spheeris/dp/B00004RI8O

chuck, i don't know what to tell you. i had three different timbaland & magoo albums on vinyl and i think i got rid of all them. not because i didn't like them, i just never played them. i tend to listen to 90's/2000's rap on tape or cd more than vinyl. it started to get ridiculous when i was buying wu-tang albums and they were so long that they were six album sets. they did sound great though. double albums are one thing, but when i have to get up from my chair 8 times just to hear one album...okay, i'm lazy.

i still listen to 12 inch singles more than anything when it comes to rap. and tapes.

speaking of which, i just bought some 12 inches and they fit on this thread cuz i bought 114 records for 50 bucks:

ICE T, D.J. JAZZY JEFF AND THE FRESH PRINCE, KOOL MOE DEE, SAMANTHA FOX, JOY WINTER, L'AQUAN, MC RAJAH, WHIZ KID WITH YSL, CANDYMAN, MAESTRO FRESH-NES, THE JAZ, D NICE, THE AFRO'S, THE UBC, STARPOINT, PUBLIC ENEMY, STEADY B., LL COOL J, PIA ZADORA, 2 GIRLS, RISSE, SLY & ROBBIE, RAIANA PAIGE, EDWARD ANTHONY LEWIS, YAZZ, ELAINE STEPTER, FORCE M.D.S., NO FACE HALF, HARD II HANDLE, MICHAEL RODGERS, CLUB HOUSE, NIYOBE, STREET TUFF, DESIREE', STACYE AND KIMIKO, RUBY TURNER, JAMES "J.T." TAYLOR, LOOSE ENDS, EARTH, WIND, & FIRE featuring M.C. HAMMER, SHALAMAR, MAC BAND, NO SMOKE, DON'T KNOW YET, AUGUST WILD, HAROLD FALTERMEYER, S.M.O.K.E.Y. D.E.E. AND THE DXJ, KEVIN PAIGE, GOOD QUESTION, KARIYA, PERFECT GENTLEMEN, Z'LOOKE, RUDE BOYS, NAYOBE,JERMAINE STEWART, ERIC B. & RAKIM, MC900FT.JESUS WITH DJ ZERO, FAT BOYS, PARTNERS IN KRYME, FATHER MC, 3RD BASS, MELISSA ROWAN, CHILL, STEREO MC'S, HEAVY D. AND THE BOYZ, TOO TOUGH D. AND DESIGNER M.J., CANDY FRESH, WEE PAPA GIRLS, M.C. TWIST, LEVERT, THEY WHO MOVE FEATURING NADEE JONES, ST. PAUL, EVELYN "CHAMPAGNE" KING, JULIA SANTANA, SET ME FREE, MIA, RADIO ACTIVE, HIROKO, PAT BENATAR, DENIECE WILLIAMS, TONASIA, THE HILL, EDDY GRANT, FATHER M.C., CALLOWAY, LIA, NEWKIRK, GURU JOSH, D'LAVANCE, MISSY MIST, KLYMAXX,THE GLIMMER TWINS, Z'LOOKE, THE WEST COAST RAP ALL-STARS, TECHNO KUT, KOOL ROCK JAY, GROOVE B. CHILL, THE LADY SPICE, CHRIS FINCH, SHE ROCKERS, QUEEN LATIFAH, LIL' LOUIS AND THE WORLD, KING CREOLE AND THE COCONUTS, M.NEGRA, SIEDAH JARRETT, JANE WIEDLIN, STERLING VOID, LIZ TORRES, READY FOR THE WORLD

CANDY FRESH

^^^ my sleeper favorite. I wish every ILXor could find this record for a dollar or less. It's almost possible.

finally found a copy of that Son of Spirit record on ebay for $0.99! :D

has this track on it which is the fucking tits
http://robotsinheat.com/temp/TheOtherSong.mp3

"Second hand" vintage store that I'd never noticed before, and that I would totally have passed by except my wife wanted to check it out, at 48th and Queens Blvd. in Woodside, Queens:

Fates Warning - Perfect Symmetry (Metal Blade/Enigma LP, 1989) - $2
Denroy Morgan - "I'll Do Anything For You" (Becket 12", 1981) - $1
Danny O'Toole - So Long Harry Truman (Atlantic LP, 1975) - $2 (lots of Eagles plus Ronstadt guesting on this one. Great album title. Don't know much about O'Toole except that I've always loved "Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues," which is not on this album)
Princess Pang - Princess Pang (Capitol/Metal Blade LP, 1989) - $2
TNT -- Knights Of The New Thunder (Polygram LP, 1984)

Martin Popoff gives the Fates Warning LP a 7, and the TNT a 7. He doesn't grade Princess Pang, who I never heard of before, but one of the guys wears a top-hat, generally a pretty promising sign for late '80s glam/sleaze/hair bands.

Store had LOTS of other cheesy looking $2 mid/late '80s metal, in great condition, that I passed up, much of it on indie labels like Megaforce -- three early Overkill LPs, for instance. Plus Black N BLue, Bulletboys, Vinnie Vincent Explosion, etc...Judging from Popoff's book (he gives the band a couple 8's), maybe I should've bought the Black N Blue album.

The first Overkill record, Feel the Fire, is actually pretty damn good Metallica knockoff thrash. The vocalist wasn't nearly as annoying as he got later on, and they had some great riffs.

Yeah, Popoff points out that Overkill cover the Dead Boys on that LP, and he calls it "metal of a type that doesn't really exist anymore," both of which comments intrigue me. Maybe I'll go back and pick up the copy at that store. (What would make it cool, I think, is if the Metallica it knocked off was Kill 'Em All. Didn't any early thrash bands do that, thinking Metallica got too fancy with their second album, which they sort of did?)

Turns out Danny O'Toole wrote Gary Stewart's great divorce song "Quits," and the original is on that album I bought. Also turns out the guy in the top-hat in Princess Pang is a girl who only looks like a girly man -- a Swedish girl fronting New Yorkers, apparently, with a real cool voice, and the first side of their album is very catchy, often in a fast late '70s hard rock (even think the band 1994 once in a while, maybe) in hair-metal cat clothes way. Also like the speedier songs on that TNT album; they do too many ballads, but the fast ones are worth the $2. Not sure what I think of Fates Warning yet. Some pretty proggy parts; they may or may not add up to any songs.

Any of you guys know about an all girl metal band called Rock Goddess from 1983? Seen an album by them for a couple of quid in a charity shop, looks kinda Girlschool-ish maybe (hopefully)?

stop calling him danny o'toole! it's danny o'keefe. and goodbye harry truman is really good, but i don't like it as much as his global blues album or his breezy stories album. and i might actually like his american roulette album better too. turns out danny was in the band calliope and i've had the calliope album on kama sutra for YEARS and never knew he was in the band. and i like their album too. especially the songs that danny wrote. but i like goodbye harry truman better than the calliope album.

the one o'keefe album i can't get into - surprisingly, cuz i love all his other solo stuff - is his O'Keefe album with his big hit on it, good time charlie's got the blues.

i have that rock goddess album, col. poo. it's good and surprisingly heavy. i'd buy it for cheap. i probably did buy it for cheap.

Is the Rock Goddess that two disc reissue of their first couple albums? Because I have it, and it is indeed quite Girlschool-ish, and it's pretty good. Totally worth it for a few quid.

the first black n' blue album is great, sounds just like ac/dc

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Romanian orphan relief fund charity shop was giving away records for free. I came away with a dentist-themed merengue album by Calixto Ochoa.

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The Floaters 'Floating into the Future' (Eugene McDaniels produced disco/funk)
Diana Trask - s/t Thought this would be pop/country, like her LP on DOT, but this is more syrupy string-weepy lounge stuff.

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Oh, you've got to split for the Vinnie Vincent Explosion record. Blew a career and a wad in Kiss by having a nervous disposition. Famous for unintentionally hilarious ads of him dressed in pink leather with pink guitar in guitar mags. Plays 300 MPH guitar solos in songs that were worthless crap, backing by a band that would become Slaughter. Neck n' neck with Madame X for one-shot laff-riot found comedy.

Rock Goddess -- poor woman's Girlschool, which is a better proposition than you think. On average, homelier than Denise Dufort, the kinds of girls you'd find in a pub in Macclesfield. "Heavy Metal Rock 'n' Roll" and "Angel" were there best songs and if they're on that album -- buy, buy, buy! The rest of the debut wasn't too shabby either. Cover was a close-in group shot over red background, I think. Have it on CD now, was put out by a Cherry Red subsidiary. In the US, an indie had anthologized them.

Got the first 2 New Fads 12" singles for a quid each at a car boot. both mint and staticcy. Mmmmmm. Staticcy.

$5 total for 4 LPs today at Sway (which I talked about without naming a few posts back, though in that one I'd mistakingly pinpointed it at 48th and Queens Blvd in Woodside, rather than its actual location at 48th in Skillman -- in the same post where I called Danny O'Keefe Danny O'Toole, sorry Scott):

Black N Blue - Black N Blue (Geffen, 1984) (See discussion above).

Jelly - A True Story (Asylum, 1977) (Why because they look interesting. Never heard of them before. Just checked the first edition of the Rolling Stone record guide though, and Marsh gives them 3 stars and says "they look terribly unlikely"! Ha, great minds think alike.)

The Men They Couldn't Hang - Night Of A Thousand Candles (Demon UK, 1985) (same year as the Pogues' debut album, I think, and for a month or two I think they were talked about in the same breath as the new faces of Irish folk punk, or at least I read something to the effect in NME or Melody Maker or somewhere at the time. A third band called the Boothill Footstompers or something like that may have been included in the fad as well. Now watch these guys turn out to be Welsh or something. Instrument credits include bouzouki and "Tibetan anus flute.")

Puhdys - Sturmvogel (Amiga, German Democratic Republic, 1976) (Biggest band in Commie East Germany until the wall came down, or so I've been led to believe. I now own three albums by them!)

just picked up this weirdo private culty xtian psych folk album from goodwill from 73. one song is a rocker that sounds like sleater kinney

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looks like it sells for about $50
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woops, second is supposed to be this

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all teenagers and all wearing matching white robes. creeps

(xp Actually the store is called Stray, not Sway. In case anybody cares.)

When I swung by Record Surplus last weekend, someone had just unloaded a giant stack of metal CDs, so I picked up like 12 awesome discs for a total of $6.50. I'll have a list a little later. The guy apparently really liked guitar shred bands.

99 cents a piece:

Eve Moon -- 1981, EMI, s/t. Had this when I was a kid. Thrown out by mother although don't recall liking it much. Now it grabs me. On the first side, somewhat like Lita Ford before she was Lita, only from New York. Fundamentally, a hard rock record with some of the edge sanded off. A bit Manhattan bar-like, a little torchy, a little R&B. But Eve wants to play guitar and shows it on the cover. Over and out after this, I think. Where did Eve go?

US 1 -- Head East It's a Head East record, sounding like Joe Lynn Turner-era Rainbow without Blackmore. They cover Russ Ballard's "I Surrender" -- which Rainbow covered -- which is probably why I make the connection. Rip off Montrose's "Rock Candy" riff on the second side, played with a Sixties fuzz tone style. No better than fair but up to standard for the genre of Eighties midwest party rock to be performed state and ag & mining college gymnasiums. Is Hinder the new Head East and is their current album US 1? I bet it'll be even more obscure than US 1 in ten years.

Sheet Music -- 10cc "Wall Street Shuffle," a lot better than they were live.

Ha ha, I actually reviewed Eve Moon's album for my college newspaper in Missouri, slagging it (headline: "Bad Moon Rising," har), though when I re-read the horribly written review this year (in which I compared her to a more blues-rock Pat Benatar, Joan Jett, and an all-gal Missouri bar band I'm now also curious about called the Debs) it made me wish I'd kept it the thing. Hadn't thought of her for decades.

Bought for $2 yesterday, an aforementioned Queens Blvd thrift store:

New York Citi Peech Boys, "Life is Something Special" (Island 12-inch, 1982) (Formerly just the Peech Boys, with big-deal NYC DJ Larry Levan plus singer Bernard Fowler -- loks like it's going for more than $2 on line, sometimes considerably more)

Life Is Something Special is pretty great. i think i paid around 6-10 for it

in which I compared her to a more blues-rock Pat Benatar, Joan Jett, and an all-gal Missouri bar band I'm now also curious about called the Debs

Naw, not quite. Not enough catchy-ness on Eve Moon. Which is why I say like pre-Lita Lita Ford. The latter's first solo and Dancing On the Edge, which I just listened to, were a bit lacking in the Dept. of Melody. But Eve Moon is by no means slack. It just doesn't leap out of the speakers and claw ya when you're impatient for an immediate jolt. She thanks Willy DeVille on it and it does have a kind of sub-Mink Deville (only trying to be more classic rock) weary city crawler quality to it.

I like it. But I've been listening to the Fanny box. Eve Moon fits right in with that, only it's harder and more rocking, being almost ten years on.

is US 1 the followup album to whatever album "There's Never Been Any Reason" bcz that song is a masterpiece of overblown 70s craptasticness. So good. The aural equivalent of a really great gas station burrito.

Err, no. "Reason" is from the debut, Flat as a Pancake, in '75. US 1 came in '80 and is rather less effortlessly exuberant. For 99 cents, it's fine. But if you'd paid full mileage in '80, you'd have felt you'd been cheated.

9 CDs, $4 total (= less than 50 cents each, because I'm a cheapskate and I haggled), yard sale in Woodside this morning:

Joe Ely Joe Ely (MCA, 1977) (His debut LP nobody ever talks about)
Joe Ely Musta Notta Gotta Lotta (MCA, 1981) (His most rocking album, as I recall; also, my favorite at one time. Not sure why I ever got rid of it before.)
Mother Hen Mother Hen (Edsel, 1992; rec. 1971) (Featuring ex Byrds and Burritos plus a Joplin looking hippie woman on the cover. Never heard of it before.)
Steve Nieve Keyboard Jungle (Demon, 1986) (Looks like this may have originally come out in '83, judging from the copyright dates. Elvis Costello's keyboard player. Maybe it will sound like ? and the Mysterians if I'm lucky but I doubt it.)
Prince Jammy Kamikaze Dub (Trojan, 1996) (A reissue, judging from the looks of it)
Shrimp Boat Duende (Bar None, 1991) (Know nothing about these guys. Plus, indie rock -- I'll hate them, right? Thought I'd try them anyway)
O.C. Smith After All Is Said And Done (Triune, 1993) (Wasn't much impressed by an '00s album I heard by him, but he was a little younger here, so maybe this better)
Tony Toni Tone' Sons of Soul (Polygram, 1993). (Looks...long. And I've never likled them for more than a single at a time. And even Christgau didn't love this one, apparently. May not make it through the thing.)
Wishbone Ash Nouveu Calls (IRS/No Speak, 1988) (Was "No Speak" an instrumental rock imprint or something? If so, I'll probably be disapppointed)

Among the 50-cent CDs I passed up, maybe stupidly in some cases: A live Lonnie Mack CD dated 1990; an Omar and the Howlers CD from 1990; L'Trimm Drop That Bottom (one of my favorite albums of the '80s but I already own it on vinyl); Cafe Tacuba Reyes (which I never liked in the first place); an apparent 1987 blues-rock CD on Grudge by Charlie Karp and the Namedroppers (Karp apparently being one of the two guys who wrote "Too Bad On Your Birthday" which Ram Jam and Joan Jett do great versions of).

Pretty weird selection for a yard sale -- I swear, this is about a third of the CDs they had there!

I have the Charlie Karp & the Namedroppers CD. "Too Bad On Your Birthday" is on it, as well as "Talk Dirty" which Leslie West covered. Outside of those two tunes, mediocre Long Island or NYC bar band. Never listen to it. Omar & The Howlers -- was it Wall of Pride? If so, the title cut was pretty good, the rest of it kind of a riff on ZZ Top. Have it somewhere, obviously not good enough to have listened to in fifteen years plus.

Nah, looks like the Omar CD was Monkeyland, which AMG lists as 1997; not sure where I got the 1990 from.

And ha ha, I am totally going to be bored by Shrimp Boat, I think. Here's what AMG says: "Precursors of the esoteric sound eventually tagged 'post-rock,' Shrimp Boat was among the key Chicago indie bands of their era, with members later going on to even greater success in groups like the Sea and Cake." I am falling asleep already!

Great song title on the first Ely: "Suckin' a Big Bottle of Gin."

And will always rep for Sons of Soul. Wonder if those people bought it for "Anniversary" or "If I Had No Loot."

Yeah, so far, in the background Tony Toni Tone actually sounds better than I would've guessed -- and more fun than the supposedly great Raphael Saadiq album from this year, (which Xgau loves) for that matter.

Steve Nieve (apparently attempting jazz and classical -- who the hell does he think he is, Joe Jackson?) and Prince Jammy (which sounds exactly the same as approximately 10,000 other dub albums I've heard in my life) are nearly as dull as the Shrimp Boat CD, oh well.

"A live Lonnie Mack CD dated 1990"

oh man this should have been your first pick. you would have loved it.

Need to move this back up, above that other rogue "buy that for a dollar" thread that keeps showing up.

So. Officially not worth the 50 cents-to-$2 I paid for them earlier this year: Racing Cars Downtown Tonight, Jelly A True Story, Scope The Busted EP (actually too warped to even listen to, how didn't I notice that in the store?) Mother Hen Mother Hen, Wishbone Ash Nouveu Calls, Joe Diffie Third Rock From The Sun, Rancid B Sides and C Sides, The Rumour Purity of Essence (though I actually paid a whopping $3.99 for that last one, oops.)

c sides. c sides? that's a warning.

Today: a bunch of bad-but-awesome private-press Canadiana that nobody but me cares about
: a near-mint (mint vinyl; vg+ sleeve) Planet Waves
: 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 by Mindnight Oil, which I thought was a good record for 1986. That it came out in 1982 is mindblowing. Makes me think U2 copped a lot of their post-October schtick (i.e. that what made 'em famous) from the Oilers.
: a couple Gordon Lightfoot records: Don Quixote and Old Dan's Records. Better than I was expecting. Loved his 60s stuff but always presumed his move to Reprise signalled a precipitous decline in quality. Apparently not.
: Bop-Be by Keith Jarrett. Interesting and very classically Bop-py. Not my bag but quality nonetheless, I think.
: Anyone a fan of Acid Casualties? Haven't listened to it yet. 1982 on Rhino (!).

I actually picked up that Midnight Oil album (on CD) in the dollar bin recently. Haven't listened all the way through yet, but I like what I've heard.

Dollar CDs from the KPFT yard sale:

Eliza Gilkyson-Paradise Hotel
Soloman Burke-Soul of The Blues (reissue)
The Greencards-Weather and Water (signed!)
Robbie Fulks-Georgia Hard
Jimmie Dale Gilmore-Come on Back
Hayes Carll-Little Rock
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals-Cold Roses & Jacksonville City Nights

Americana! Most of these were sealed promos.

For $0.00 total (as in FREE), from a pile of used vinyl that somebody had dumped on the sidewalk around a public trashcan in front of the Quizno's across from The Strand bookstore, at 12th and Broadway in Manhattan early this afternoon.(Hint: While I didn't take anywhere near everything there, and while I assume others had picked through the pile before me, I was also not especially picky):

Baltimora "Tarzan Boy" (EMI 12-inch, 1985) (Already own the LP and 45, but I like this picture sleeve. Looks like an Italian pressing, too. "Summer," "Club," and "7-inch" versions)
Cheater Jones Bombshell (TC EP, 1985) (Never heard of them. NYC bar band, lookslike)
Chilliwack Dreams, Dreams, Dreams (Mushroom, 1976) (one of their early, more metal LPs maybe?)
College Boyz "Victim of the Ghetto" (Virgin 12-inch, 1992) (I love that they are victims of the ghetto, but in college anyway. Amazing magic-markered inscription of plain white record sleeve, too: "Cool! Happy funk/disco Hip Hop. Use at parties! At gatherings! Impress your friends & win flattering attention from the ladies! You'll be amazed at how effective this music can be in increasing your status among your peers & ensuring success in the constant search for sexual gratification! [Besides making your radio show the most listened to on 91.3 fm in Trenton.")
Cosmos "Take Me With You" (Polydor 12-inch, 2002) (Looks British. Also very space age. Techno, maybe?)
Jonathan Edwards & the Seldom Scene Blue Ridge (Sugar Hill LP, 1985) (The bluegrass Sugar Hill, not the rap one. Maybe not that Jonathan Edwards either; I'm not sure)
Ronnie McDowell Personally (Epic LP, 1983)
Paul Parker "One Look" (Dice 12-inch, 1987) ("Produced by Paul Parker and Man Parrish" Also, he has a really gay mustache)
Nile Rodgers "Stay Out The Light" (Warner Bros 12-inch, 1985) (Larry Levan coproduced; from B-Movie Matinee, apparently)
Swimming Pool Qs Blue Tomorrow (A&M LP, 1986)
Rahid Taha "Kelma"/"Non Non Non (System 7 Remix)" (Mango 12-inch, 1996)
3rd Bass "Pop Goes The Weasel"/"Derelict of Dialect" (Def Jam 12-inch, 1991) (The A-side's stupid stodgy anti-Vanilla-Iciness always pissed me off, but this has a great picture sleeve, too)
Lidell Townsell & MTF (Mercury 12-inch, 1992) (He's an early Chicago house guy who later crossed over slightly with a different song, right?)
(Various) The Stars Are Out In Texas (RCA, 1986) (Country songs about Texas from Alabama, Waylon, Louise Mandrell, Charley Pride, Waylon again, Jerry Reed, Willie, Guy Clark. Only eight songs total; can't be much longer than an EP)

yesterday, € 2.50 a piece:

Grace Jones Warm Leatherette (Island, 1980)
Alberto Y Lost Trios Paranoias Skite (Logo, 1978. "Produced & Arranged by Chaz "Wünderkind"! Jankel" - which is why I picked it up. Contains covers of Pete Seeger and Sex Pistols - curious)
Donna Summer Greatest Hits (Basart, 1977)
Les Rita Mitsouko Présentent The No Comprendre (Virgin France, 1986)
Jean-Michel Jarre Zoolook (Polydor, 1984)
David Byrne Music for The Knee Plays (EMI, 1985)

I bought Rachid Taha's Diwan 2 earlier this year - terrific album with arabic rockers and more traditional sounding material (i'm no expert though so don't take my word) with great production.

Nice haul. Those are easily my favorite Grace Jones and Les Rita Mitsouko LPs. And that's that's a really cool early Donna Summer best-of, too -- aren't there, like, two or three 1974-1975 songs that were never on any of her other albums? The one I'm jealous of, though, is Alberto Y Los Trios Paranoias; that's one of the first punk parody bands ever, I think; doesn't Nick Lowe figure prominently too? Never ever heard them myself, I don't think, but I've heard about them for three decades now.

My favorite Taha album is Made in Medina from 2001 -- A real rocker, and he's the most rocking Algerian I know.

Youtube folks inform me that College Boyz' lead rapper is "the black guy from 40 Year Old Virgin," which I've never seen.

The Cosmos single I bought apparently has a following, too; there's apparently even a Freelance Hellraiser mashup, and some people say theyr'e nostalgic for dancing all summer to it in Greece, which at least makes it more promising than if they were nostalgic for dancing all winter to it in England.

i have the first alberto album. it's funny and fun. they do a great hawkwind parody. you can watch them on youtube:

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