Rolling 2009 Vinyl Thead

May I?

Final death throws of ZAVVI meant they were flogging boxes and boxes of cut-outs from god knows when. One of the weirdest lots of stock I've ever seen. All sealed for £2, lots of copies of each. Michael McDonald, Special EFX, Richard "Dimples" Smith, Arthur Prysock, Max by the Rumour, Pieces of a Dream, some Stereo demonstration albums and golden oldies comps from 1954 and 1948. But mostly o_O.

I took one of the copies of a neat 1979 Disco comp called RED HOT DISCO EXPRESS (Tee Vee records) with cool cut-out font revealing red vinyl below. Figured it was worth a pop for the Gino Soccio track and 'What You Won't Do For Love' by Bobby Caldwell ('disco'??). Also a dodgy but fun cover (by Witch Queen) of T Rex's Get It On, cept here it's just called Bang a Gong.

And there was one of those weird guys who stand really close and peer over your shoulder in order to pressure you away from a particular rack that they haven't yet scoured. Watching. Breathing. As you browse for them. It usually makes me want to stand and umm and ahhh over each record in order to wind them up.

I've never known, are these threads for any vinyl you get in 2009, or records released in 2009?

well tbf this would be the first of said threads in which either of those could be the case

Just vinyl stuff you've bought, I guess. New or old. I dunno. It is kind of a weird thread. Could just have easily posted this on one of the other rolling threads, like "I'd buy that for a dollar...", "Recent purchases", etc., but they're all slight variations on 'here's some stuff wot I've bought', basically. Just slightly different. And this one is for records. It serves your aspie needs.

yesterday I got 2 lps in the mail. Brethren Of The Free Spirit and UFO Gestapo.

I also chanced an auction on a stack of 11 random 7" oldies on eBay. Some good, some bad. Best are Let It All Hang Out by The Hombres, Lonely Guitar by Annette, Mathilda by Cookie & His Cupcakes and a neat polka by 'The Greatest Band in Polka Land - Stan Wolowic and the Polka Chips'.

And some other stray 7"s:
Swell Maps - Let's Build a Car
Eddy Current Suppresion Ring - Demon's Demands/I'm Guilty
Mika Vainio & Jim O'Rourke discs from the recent Touch Seven series

I took one of the copies of a neat 1979 Disco comp called RED HOT DISCO EXPRESS (Tee Vee records) with cool cut-out font revealing red vinyl below. Figured it was worth a pop for the Gino Soccio track and 'What You Won't Do For Love' by Bobby Caldwell ('disco'??).

This is (probably still) in my nearest Zavvi as well, is it actually worth the three quid they want for it?

Pfunkboy, how is that Brethren of the Free Spirit record? I like Blackshaw and Van Wissem apart, so I'm inclined to check it out...

If you like the 1st album then you will like this.

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The disco comp has some really cool tracks. Certainly worth three quid.

Richard "Dimples" Smith

You mean Richard "Dimples" Fields, I think (unless two Richards have similar dimples.)

cover (by Witch Queen) of T Rex's Get It On, cept here it's just called Bang a Gong

Maybe because "Bang A Gong (Get It On)" is what T. Rex's version was always called in the States. (Not sure why. A jazz-rock band called Chase had just had a hit called "Get It On" a few months earlier, so maybe that has something to do with it.) (Witch Queen's LP is good sleazy fun, by the way, if you ever see a copy. Only four songs, another of which is their cover of Free's "All Right Now." Strangely, though, I just checked my "W" shelf and can't find my copy; I must have mis-filed it somewhere.)

Aye... that's the 'Dimples' I meant. Think it was the album 'Mmm...', feat this track, which has won me over (think I'll pop back):

Mmm... jazzy lady.

scored another orig music LP the other day!
http://www.akwaabasound.com/Francis_Bebey_Akwaaba.jpg

also recently:
meat puppets II
fugs' first album
big youth - screaming target
culture - harder than the rest
culture - s/t
black uhuru - red
papua new guinea gtr music (on lyrichord)
songs of senegal (lyrichord)
dead c - the white house
guided by voices - propeller
townes van zandt - s/t
don cherry - s/t (brown rice)
steven halpern - zodiac suite
boogie with canned heat
blues control - sub pop singles club 7" (best of series so far, so so so beautiful)
black orphan 7" on ufo dictator
jacuzzi boys - i fought a crocodile 7"
umm and more stuff i forget!

All I've bought recently was at the Hard Skin/Stupids gig just before Xmas - got Make My Tea 7" & Fucking Skins 10" by Hard Skin and the new Stupids 7" Feel The Suck.

i dunno what i have bought lately.

like, i finally grabbed the US girls LP (love it.)
and i got an Ali Farka Toure LP, the "Sprigs of Time" comp on Honest John's, and the sun city girls "napoleon & josephine" 7"

for my b-day, arturo & keegan got me kool keith - sex style, the best of bar carter (yazoo) and a copy of the Charles Manson LP on awareness.

i got a really nice delmore brothers 78 (the frozen girl/bury me out on the prairie), but i should talk about that on the 78s thread.

keegan traded me three more volumes for my Stash Records catalog, and then i bought another one--comps of early blues & jazz with risque content.
"pot, spoon, pipe and jug"
"jake walk blues"
"tea pad songs vol. 1"
"street walking blues"

i won some random crap on ebay too, come to think of it. they just haven't arrived yet.
a blues comp on Herwin--"Sic Em Dogs on Me"-- and from the same seller, a don drumond/skatilites LP on treasure isle.
and a copy of Robert Ashley's "Atalanta" box, even though I think the box has torn corners :\ but it was affordable.

two posts up, that ought to say "best of BO carter."

Is that US Girls LP in the Grouper/Inca Ore style? More song-y?

On a Siltbreeze tip, I finally bought the Sic Alps US EZ LP after seeing a copy in an actual real-world non-internet shop. Had already ordered direct from Siltbreeze ages ago, but it'd been over month or so without confirmation, so I guessed it wasn't coming and went ahead and bought it. And then the mail copy arrived. So I now have a spare. But hey..... thaaaaat's life!

Went nuts in Memphis and bought:
NODZZZ
The Rebel "Northern Rocks Bear Weird Vegetable"
The Rats
A Frames / Climax Golden Twins collab 10"
Tyvek double 7" and another 7"
that newish Times New Viking 7" ep
Amon Duul 2 "Viva La Trance"
Compulsive Gamblers "Crystal Gazing Luck Amazing"
Freddie Hubbard "Best of the Atlantic Years" 2lp comp
Game Theory "Lolita Nation"
an Othar Turner 7" recorded in 1967 (but its not fife! shit)
and The Nerves reissue (my girlfriend actually bought that for me in Seattle)
May be forgetting something.

yo ian did that US girls get repressed? i got the runaround from siltbreeze on that, and then i really wanted my der TPK so i just jettisoned the US girls record from the order. i still want it!

also, on first listen, the der TPK LP is about 70% as good as the first.

New DTPK is only about 30% as good as the first, and I'm only counting the parts where vocalist is not intoning. Intoning parts about 3% as good, give or take 3%.

yeah the intoning is a bit much on the new one, agreed

I also got the new Comet Gain 7" and a couple of Liechtenstein 7"s at the Comet Gain/Liechtenstein/Pains Of Being Pure At Heart gig also just before Xmas. I'd been looking for one of those Liechtenstein singles for months and never seen it anywhere including Ebay, so I was v happy to see it on the merch table for £3.

US Girlz, I dunno if it's been re-pressed. I think we still have it in stock, if you want me to mail u a copy pete. I still need to check up on a replacement propeller for you as well. Anyway, the U.S. Girls record is more song-y than Grouper/Inca Ore stuff that I've heard. There's a Bruce Springsteen cover.

disagree on the TPK, I've been liking Games for Slaves a lot better than the first one. but I heard both of em at the same time so it might just be that the higher fidelity on the new one sounds punchier and Harmful Emotions will take longer to "get." track 3 on the new one is killer.

also, back up a second, Ian likes Kool Keith??

i am a dilettante.

hip hop tourist.

I have most Kool Keith up to Black Elvis. then I dropped out.

Sex Style is pretty twisted

yeah ian would you hold that for me? i havent played propeller since the first time, so if you have a flat copy of that, we can exchange mail!

Also a dodgy but fun cover (by Witch Queen) of T Rex's Get It On, cept here it's just called Bang a Gong.

Witch Queen is also Gino Soccio btw

i was uninspired at the record store today. plus, i was bored. i wanted something great, but...i did finally pick up the mississippi irma thomas thing. i didn't get the der tpk album cuz you guys scared me. and i LOVED the firstsiltbreeze thing. got some miles davis records, python lee jackson album, lonnie liston smith, deodato....um, some classical stuff. some stockhausen. kinda curious about the western mass psych comp with the byron coley linernotes, but didn't know if i really wanted to spend my credit on that. i mean i was thisclose to buying fennesz vinyl, that's how uninspired i was.

i mean i almost bought a CD!!! that's how uninspired i was. kinda want that 7 cd fat possum blues thing with all the old timers on it. i'll bet that's got some cool shit on it. plus, for 7 CDs it's fairly cheap.

man scott, you should go back & the get the Der TPK. I like it a lot.

joseph spence - living on the hallelujah side (Rounder LP, recordings from 74 & 78. Great. Bahamanian guitar.)

is it rounder who put out all the weird ravaged versions of lps on cds? like freedom highway by the staples or avalon blues by mississippi john hurt, but without any of the original tracks? i guess i know their name from then and now.

I have no clue.. I don't think I've ever owned a Rounder CD. Yazoo's CDs are great, and so are County's--usually more tracks than the LPs plus great notes extra stuff.

I picked up three obscure records about an hour ago:

T. Rex. - Tanx ($2)
Black Sabbath - Paranoid ($4)
Gary Numan - Telekon ($2)

got a bunch of dancey 12"s w/ christmas cash

King & Hound edits - Burnin' Up / High Pressure Days
Giorgio Moroder & Harold Faltermeyer - Evolution (reissue) <-- so epic!
Charlie - Spacer Woman (reissue)
Juan Maclean - The Simple Life
Friendly Fires - Paris (Aeroplane & Justus Kohncke rmxs)
Soft Rocks - Umut 2000 / Slowdown

yesss I scored some Peruvian vinyl (5 LPs) at the crazy flea market here in Cusco. More details later, but one is a "Super Disco Salsa" cash-in thing from the 70's with sides that are one long mix, one is a "Best Of Criollos" type thing, and three are records by groups. No rare psych like El Polen, unfortunately. I'll have more chances to look. Some Peruvian dude carrying another LP asked me if I was selling them! So there are other vinyl hounds out there in these parts.

also, on eBay:
Joke Flowers/Victory Acres LP, inspired by ILM on this thread
The Bevis Frond - Sprawl 2LP, replacement cuz my copy skips on the awesome "Boa Constrictor"
United Bible Studies - The Arboreal Observatory LP. My first lathe cut LP! Don't know how many they made but I love love love this band so I snapped it up.

gonna have some good listening party nights when I get home in March.

also s34n, how do you like that Rebel LP? I like it, but think I like the other new LP on Sacred Bones better--Children's Hospital LP is stellar sci-fi/post-punk/gritty mess.

"Compulsive Gamblers "Crystal Gazing Luck Amazing""
^^ great LP. hard to find on vinyl actually!

the latest, christmas-money-enabled batch:

Loren Connors - The Moon Last Night 12" single
Steve Moore - Vaalbara LP on Noiseville
Gang Of Four - Entertainment orig. LP (finally)
Fripp + Eno - Evening Star orig. LP
Francoise Hardy - Francoise... LP
Kraftwerk - Computer World LP (finally)
Cole Medina - Medina's Magic b/w Cole Loves Your Insides Out 12" (repress?)
A Mountain Of One - Ride EP repress
Friendly Fires - Paris 12" (w/ Aeroplane + Justus Kohncke remixes)

New Years Eve is a bad day to go record shopping, I ended up with a lot of obvious (yet necessary) choices. I am absolutely loving the new Steve Moore LP, though, it's far dronier and more abstract than anything I've heard from the guy at this point.

ian im listening to children's hospital right now! so so so good. veers from USofA to squelchy wave-type stuff. my favorite a-frames-related project. whats the rebel LP like?

as a vinyl thread aside, i found a rare iron and wine 7" stuck in a david bowie sleeve this morning, thought lost since 2002. i wanted to sell it so bad for the past three years, but figured i had lost it at my college radio station. shows how much i listen to my warped copy of aladdin sane (and iron and wine)!

finally won an ebay copy of michael hurley's armchair boogie, unwittingly outbidding my buddy josh, a scant few months after being unwittingly outbid by ian on hurley's hi-fi snock uptown.

Someone please feel free to bid on this so I don't (I can no way afford this single with the current Euro exchange rate):

Glueams - Mental

EUR 29.00
(approximately £27.61)

what about dolllllllaz

Switched the co.uk for com and it's $40.37

You can buy it now for a mere $95

Question from a non-collector: is that really what a "VG+ to VG++" cover looks like? I appreciate it's old but it looks pretty beat up

(I know nothing about the band either, just curious)

I thought the cover looked a bit tatty myself tbh

Actually it's not too bad I was looking at the other one they're selling for even more money, which has a tear on it.

Fripp + Eno - Evening Star orig. LP

^really lovely!

This thread bums me out because i am on a spending FREEZE : (

Question from a non-collector: is that really what a "VG+ to VG++" cover looks like? I appreciate it's old but it looks pretty beat up

(I know nothing about the band either, just curious)

― Lurker of Challops (DJ Mencap), Monday, 5 January 2009 17:09 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Looking at it, that's about right:

There's Brand New (unplayed), there's Mint (which often means 'played once, shows no signs of wear), there's 'Excellent' which is 'a slight amount of wear, nothing drastic.

The "VG" is about right: Adding plusses is somewhat meaningless.

Hey, Ian (and DMR), I LOVE the new The Rebel. It's like "The Rebel plays Country Teasers Greatest Hits Live" or something (it was recorded at WFMU, was it a broadcast? Its mostly Teasers songs, too, I think but I'm not super-knowledgeable of their whole back catalogue)Maybe I should have gotten the Children's Hospital, too, I don't remember seeing it at Goner, though.

God I feel terrible and almost took the day off but I dragged ass in to work since I had the last two weeks off. Fuuuuck.

picked up a few things the other day...
Count Basie & his Orchestra - Listen, you shall hear (great recordings from 1937 - I'm really loving this stuff at the moment, though making tentative little steps into it as I don't want to overdo it, and also I don't really know where to start, so I just pick out familiar names)
Tommy Dorsey - Jazz Tribune Volume 1&2 (a great 2 disc set from 35-37, and with excellent newspaper styled liner notes, in french & english)
Millie Jackson - Caught Up (really good record, but even better artwork)
Elvis Presley - Clambake (I actually love all the throwaway soundtracks, and you get great bonus singles on them too - this one has Guitar Man an Big Boss Man)

Few things I picked up this weekend:

Pink Reason & Hue Blanc split 12"
World's Lousy w/ Ideas vol. III
Crystal Antlers EP on T&G
Blue Sabbath Black Cheer - We Like New Blockaders LP
Police - Ghosts In the Machine for 50 cents at a thrift store. Sounds just like it used to.

Steve Moore - Vaalbara LP on Noiseville

i got that too

where can i order the BSBC from?

Dunno about ordering BSBC. Kreation seems to have copies. (But I was foolin with the name. It's called Endless Blockade, so if you have that, you have it.)

ENDLESS BLOCKADE FOR THE PUSSYFOOTER!!!

I like yr fake title more.

"The "VG" is about right: Adding plusses is somewhat meaningless."

VG+ is a standard record/cover rating a la Goldmine. VG as a rating is VASTLY different than VG+. VG+ is much closer to near mint than VG. I would never list that single's cover as VG+ if I were selling it on ebay.

"excellent" isn't an actual record rating. it's a word that popped up with ebay.

standard record ratings are: still sealed (which some people will call mint), mint, mint-/near mint, vg+, vg, good, good+, poor, and fair.

usually Good seems to be a synonym for "totally fucked"

Hey, Ian (and DMR), I LOVE the new The Rebel.

I don't know what this record is (or Children's Hospital either), u saying I would like it? what's it like? I need some new rock

the rebel is one of the dudes from the Country Teasers. The new LP was recorded at FMU and features the touring line-up from last year--mostly Country Teasers members. They are often compared to the Fall. I like them. Wordy. Children's hospital is more of a weirdo-punk thing, but if yer diggin the new der TPK I'd give it a listen.

v/a - oh graveyard you cant hold me always
pandit pran nath - earth groove
canned heat - living the blues
canned heat/john lee hooker - hooker 'n heat
some other canned heat record cause why not
v/a - raiders of the lost dub
gregory isaacs - cool ruler

Courtesy of the Zavvi clearout:

lyn collins - think (about it)
new york dolls - s/t
kraftwerk - the man machine
edwin starr - 25 miles
marvin gaye - what's going on
archie bell & the drells - tighten up
curtis mayfield - superfly

oooooh tell me more about 'oh graveyard...' and 'earth groove'

theyre the newest releases from mississippi records, outta portland. the PPN is a straight reissue, and it's awesome. id never listened to him before, but he sings two long ragas with tabla and sitar accompaniment, and he coughs toward the end of the second side. then starts again.

oh graveyard you cant hold me always is the newest mississippi records blues comp -- theres a lot of talk about it on the MS recs thread...

Zavvi clearout got me the Red Hot Disco Express comp mentioned upthread (down w/ most of this), New York Dolls s/t, Kraftwerk 'Trans Europe Express', Curtis Mayfield 'Superfly OST' and The JBs 'Food For Thought', total price £17.

Today: bought the Suicide / Lydia Lunch 10" from the Suicide series that Blast First just did. Two versions of 'Frankie Teardrop'. Lydia's version is pretty badass. Also got a 7" which has Human League and Manicured Noise tracks on either side, remixed by the guy from Lemon Jelly - he seems to be sticking his fingers in some interesting pies despite being, you know, from Lemon Jelly, and this seems to have a cool thing going on. Might investigate Manicured Noise a bit more

Witch Queen's LP .. I just checked my "W" shelf and can't find my copy; I must have mis-filed it

Yep, I'd filed it under "Which Queen." Before White Stripes. What the hell was I thinking? Anyway, I have it now -- whew.

love - forever changes (sundazed reissue)
talking heads - stop making sense
rod stewart - sing it again rod (in a whiskey glass shaped sleeve, with a shocking cover of 'pinball wizard' with black beauty style string
edwin starr - 25 miles

notorious byrd bros
yoko ono - approximately infinite universe (so so fucking awesome)
marshall mcluhan - the medium is the massage

don howland - the land beyond the mountains

I once gave someone Approximately Inifinite Universe as a gift and now I wish I'd kept it :/

tight tight record

anyone heard the relatively recent reissue of tim buckley - starsailor? does it sound good?

the four men with beards one? i haven't heard it, but their stuff generally sounds good. From the master tapes i think.

awesome. thanks!

thelma houston - jumpin' jack flash/sunshower

found a vintage store i'd never been in in Park SLope bklyn the other day and bought some relatively cheap stuff ($3-$6)

vangelis - heaven and hell
tangerine dream - ricochet
hall and oates - war babies
grateful dead - shakedown street
jerry garcia - run for the roses <--- didn't like this. all the rest were cool though

John Cale - Paris 1919
Byrds - Notorious Byrd Brothers
Labradford - Mi Media Naranja

hey dmr, was it a place on 5th ave? i picked up a james brown LP at some weird vintage shop down there a few weeks ago.

i ordered from Red Onion in DC (great store btw) Reverend D.C. Rice & Congregation "Sanctified Singing" on Herwin.

yeah I think it was on 5th, something like Moonbeams and Motorbikes

i hadn't bought shit for ages but picked up some records last night:

marissa nadler - ballads of living and dying
alice coltrane - ptah, the el daoud
serge gainsbourg - live
texas-mexico border music vols 1 & 2
ludella black and the masonics - from this witness stand

I bought some racords!

wicked witch chaos comp thing - awesome but also maddening, esp on longer trax, wish it had y wood u call it rock
lair of the minotaur war metal battle mastr - not as good as carnage fuckin carnage but still awesome
iron maiden killers - replacement copy in good shape for like five bucks!
attitude problem lp - used copy, sound like GODHEADSILO KARP!!!, from facedowninshit people, but way better

i ordered some shit online to-day, set sale style.

hackamore brick - one kiss leads to another
gene clark - no other
dorothy carter - troubadour

also got a few beat up blue note & prestige LPs... duke pearson, monk & rollins, more eddie lockjaw davis..

love that hackamore brick record

yeah, it's fantastic, no doubt.

also got a copy of the new Sublime Frequencies LP today, "Group Bombino"

thanks for the heads up brotherrrrrrrr

premiers symptomes - air
buhloone mindstate - de la soul

both under a fiver from ebay

Petar Dundov - Sparkling Stars 12"
Peter Visti - Kodex 205 12"
Carl Craig & Moritz von Oswald - ReComposed (New Mixes By Ricardo Villalobos & Carl Craig) 12"
Can - Future Days (Bladerunnermix by Carl Craig) 12"
Galaxy Toobin' - s/t LP

also but forgotten:

alexander tucker - furrowed brow
fripp & eno - evening star for cheap

Got an "LP + junk" (words on the customs label) in the post today, addressed to someone whose name I don't recognise, and we probably get about four previous households' worth of junk mail etc here form time to time. It came from Portland and the name on the return address is also the name of a dude from 3at Sku11 - not a super unusual name, just struck me as odd. I don't like opening parcels (your honour) but I dunno how else I might have a hope of getting this to its actual destination...

surely you can contact whichever guy from eat skull? mcgonig4l to thread?

I guess! He'll either think I'm a good samaritan or a random weirdo depending on if it's his parcel or no

OK yeah it's the dude who does Exiled Records, the address on here is on a side street to the one listed on their site - I'll email him and see what's up. Very odd

also got a copy of the new Sublime Frequencies LP today, "Group Bombino"

― ian, Tuesday, January 20, 2009 7:34 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

is this similar/better/worse/radically different from Group Inerane/ Group Doueh?

had a nice blowout to help the zavvi administrators today. found a different teevee record 'knockout round 2', a compilation of mid 70s hits. david dundas 'blue jeans' swung it for me, and at £2 was a bargain.

the cut-out vinyl was down 50% so £1 a piece. it shames me to list the likes of bruce hornsby, howard jones, fgth, but there will be the odd gem or even just a moment on those i'm sure. some other £1s:

v/a - this is fort apache (compilation with the likes of sebadoh, lemonheads, billy bragg, radiohead)
willie nelson & waylon jennings - outlaw reunion vol.2
richie cole/hank crawford quintet - bossa international
dobie gray - midnight diamond
dave and don grusin - sticks and stones
shadowfax - too far to whisper [yes, gandalf's horse, but a windham hill issue]
jerry harrison - casual gods
mac davis

and at half price two 180g pressings of 'the band' and 'music from big pink' were a tenner each. i was on a roll by then.

even the double cd (*cough*) of pacific ocean blue was 7 and the elvis complete 68 comeback special (limited ed. box) down to 12.

manchester residents might recall a great shop called 'power cuts', home to remainders, cut outs, lost canadian pressings. their sales days were not to be missed, and for a few seconds today it felt like i was back in that dank basement...

haha.... I also took a copy of that Grusin Bros LP. Something about it took my fancy, but - ***SPOILERS*** - it's mostly cringeworthy. Sounds like the an Andy Sedaris movie OST. Or maybe that's a good thing.

I just got Rodney O and Joe Cooley's 'Me and Joe' LP in the mail, except you know when people chuck in a bunch of beat up records as padding? Well the dude who sent it was kind enough to stick in a trashed/bashed copy of Bobby Hutcherson and Harold Land's 'San Francisco' LP. It's scratched to fuck, but plays without skips or jumps, and I got as much out of it as the Rodney O record, so props to N RIZZI, RIVERSIDE IL., 60546

since my wife got laid off i can't buy no mo records but this thread makes me want to go to a store really bad

Some other recent LPs...

Kooley C and DJ KJ - Out Time Has Come <<< awesome!
Simply Saucer - Cyborgs Revisited <<< finally
METAL MOO COW compilation with tracks by Fearless Iranians from Hell, Meat Joy, Offenders, Heather Leather
H.P. Lovecraft - At the Mountains of the Madness (twofer)
Damnation, The Damnation of Adam Blessing <<< near mint original promos for $10
Neil Merryweather - Space Raiders <<< ALWAYS BE YOU
Scorpions - Fly to the Rainbow <<< cool, but not quite Lonesome Crow
Blackfoot - Striker <<<< Cub Koda harmonica action
Grifters - One Sock Missing

From the jumble sale:
Fyyralyyra s/t <<<< pretty crazy Finnish medieval/jazz/Oriental/folk fusion thing from 1977
Flipper - Blow'n Chunks
Carla Bozulich - Evangelista
Cramps - Good Guys Don't Always Wear White/Five Years Ahead of My Time 7"

And I bought the Zerfas album for £8 in Ray's Jazz in Foyles. They had a bunch of psych stuff and other oddities for half price. Some Guerssen reissues. A Godz LP. Emitt Rhodes' American Dream. Even a K. Salvatore LP. And the shop has now moved upstairs and now occupies a much bigger space. They have tonnes of cheap second hand jazz records, actually. Loads of Woody Herman. Do I need a Woody Herman LP?? Are the earlier big band records better? They had his Light My Fire LP. I'm always up for new covers of Light My Fire.

Kooley C and DJ KJ - Out Time Has Come <<< awesome!

huh what's this? old hip hop?

i sold 'one sock missing' years ago and regret it to this day. not an awesome album but sounds great from the first scratchy track.

re: grusin, i'll give it a go, my favourite is the soundtrack to that de niro/streep love film (remake of brief encounter) i think called 'falling in love'. but it was never released as a soundtrack so you have to sit through the film to get the music...

digging the howard jones tonight...

Old hip hop, yeah. From Miami, maybe?? There's a great creepy/ominous track called 'I'd Like to Get To Know You Better'

http://www.koolkeith.co.uk/btf/kjkooley.jpg

Actually... wow. I don't know how many links are working, but the site that image is from looks like it might have been some kind of hiphop download goldmine.

http://bustthefacts.blogspot.com/2006_12_01_archive.html

(and Kooley C was a PappaWheelie tip)

(of course)

I'm not really a vinyl guy, but I just got the Eluvium vinyl box because it was so pretty.

splurged on some stuff at dope jams in brooklyn today (never been before, pretty cool place)

group bambino lp
black cock - liftoman 12"
black cock - frog scene 12"
24 carat black lp (reissue)

numero group info i got today in the mail:

NUMEROPHON VINYL ONLY IMPRINT

And for Vinyl fiends, Numerophon is an LP-only imprint focused on the rediscovery of primitive American and ethnic recordings. Impeccably designed, housed in thick jackets, and pressed on durable 150 gram vinyl, you'll know a Numerophon album when you see it, the same way you knew Folkways after that first thrift store find.

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vangelis - heaven and hell
jon hassell - aka darbari java/magic realism
andreas vollenweider - caverna magica
phantom slasher - skullvolley ep

all but the phantom slasher i picked up for ridiculously cheap on the bottom racks of the new age section at amoeba, which i had for some reason never previously explored

god that numerophon label is going to be such a money hole for me. how to get numerophon to send the store "sample" copies?

i got an elisabeth schwartzkopf lp of mozart songs today.

Piper at the Gates of Dawn - Pink Floyd
Doowutchyalike - Digital Underground
Nuggets - V/A

hey dmr, how much were the black cock records at dope jams? the one time i went there, everything seemed very overpriced.

also the Group Bombino record is great.

dope jams wanted $25 for a copy of Dylan's "Desire." :( wish i knew more about house or techno though, there's probably great stuff there.

also, they sell salvia and witch craft supplies

stuff seemed a little expensive but in the realm of normal imo

bombino was 25, the black cock reissues (they had 4 of em, I bought 2) were 15 each ... yeah pretty pricey for a 12" but I've seen em on mail order sites for 14 pounds british. normal domestic 12s were mostly 8.99

this sounds like awesome deal:

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the black cock reissues (they had 4 of em, I bought 2) were 15 each

turntablelab is selling them for 9...

ugh. i'd never seen em before

oh well

not like I was gonna schlep all the way out to that store very often anyway

yeah, didn't mean to rub your face in it, i just kinda hate that store.

recent purchases:

the fantastic expedition of dillard & clark (clean 1st press)
matthews southern comfort s/t (think i'm complete on the necessary ian matthews now)
the reverend d.c. rice - sanctified singing with traditional jazz accompaniment 1927-31 (herwin)
v/a - echoes of the ozarks vol. 1 (old-time fiddle music & ballads.) (county.)
v/a - from the tatra mountains: classic polish-american recordings from the 1920s (morning star records.)

someone in my building was getting rid of records so i grabbed a couple of clean beatles LPs (seventies pressings.) and a couple opera jams.

and i've been LISTENING to my robert ashley LPs all week. and the "wharf rat" on skulls & roses.
and i compiled my top new LPs of 2008 list (well, not a list but my roommate asked me what new music i liked so i had to pull out a bunch of LPs) and it looks like this:

pigeons - virgin spectacle (black dirt records)
children's hospital - alone together (sacred bones records)
u.s. girls - introducing... (siltbreeze)
the dead c - secret earth (ba da bing)
amolvacy - ho-ho-kus (blackvelvetfuckere)
joshua burkett - where's my hat? (time-lag)
black forest/black sea - s/ LP (music fellowship)
d. charles speer & the helix - after hours LP (black dirt)
factums - the sistrum (sacred bones)
hunchback - pray for scars (don giovanni)
ignatz III (kraak.)

pigeons - virgin spectacle (black dirt records)

i heard something off this (something about glass?, maybe?) on fmu forever ago and always meant to follow it up (white glass?, maybe that was it), but the record was too expensive. is it great?

it is totally great. we've got it at ac@demy. i don't think it's super expensive. around $20 maybe. you can listen before you buy. it's all sung in french, and half of it is really gorgeous rustic indie stuff and the other half is noisier, more chaotic stuff.

I love that Pigeons LP too. really nice stuff.

Hey rolling vinyl fans, anyone want to give me some advice?

I've started volunteering at Cancer Research, going through all their media section and some records popped up that I'm pretty certain will be worth quite a bit more than the £3 or whatever they sell for in the shop. These are records that caught my eye:

The Beta Bad - Champions Versions EP
The Beta Band - The Patty Patty Sound EP (the last of the three EPs wasn't there)
Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible (Picture Disc Version)
Radiohead - My Iron Lung (it was specifically numbered as if it was part of a limited amount or something, I dunno if that means anything)
And two Super Furry Animals 7" - Moog Droog EP and what I wrote down as 'Llanfairpwllgwyngetc.'

Any of them worth anything? Worth sticking on ebay or something? I told the manager to at least leave them out back for while I ask around, it seems it would be a waste if they went for a couple quid if they are worth a tenner plus. All for charity, and so on.

(All in pretty good condition from first look, obviously not sealed but no scratches, no problems with the covers etc.)

Llanfair EP is on sale for a fiver at Discogs; that surprised me slightly but there were probably a fair amount pressed and SFA have never been especially collectible anyway

THB pic LP, meanwhile, is £25 on aformentioned site

Cheers!

hello will probably be on here much more often now that i have finally unpacked my player and vinyl for the first time in 3 years (o_O)

just ordered the Torche - Meandrethal on lizard skin vinyl - looks so hawt.

Beta Band "Champion versions" went for £50 or thereabouts recently (cf: Popsike)

Great! And also, where should I sell these things? Ebay? Somewhere else? It seems a bit complicated given that it isn't for me, so I'm gonna go back and talk to them first about it all after I've done a bit of research.

for those who heaven't seen it:

http://www.roboticempire.com/store/images/store/meanderthal_lizard225.gif
http://www.roboticempire.com/store/images/store/meanderthal_2ndpress_spread.jpg

My guess is that eBay would have the biggest potential amount of ppl looking at it but Popsike would more likely attract more collector-y types who'd be more likely to pay what the record is actually worth?

xp

it is totally great. we've got it at ac@demy. i don't think it's super expensive. around $20 maybe. you can listen before you buy. it's all sung in french, and half of it is really gorgeous rustic indie stuff and the other half is noisier, more chaotic stuff.

that sounds good. i think i heard the rustic stuff; i still have a one minute clip off boomkat or something that went round and round despite being the least fulfilling way of listening to shitty quality music ever. talking of acadamie, am i totally too late to get the zola jesus stuff anywhere? hearing her on fmu reminded me i meant to buy one of the singles (maybe if one had rester on it).

maybe will pop in if you're getting the two new mississippis sometime?

i think both zola jesus singles are gone gone, but there's at least one LP forthcoming. I'll let you know when we get the MS records in, as per usual.

what are those new mississippi comps? i'm totally losing track over here.

spiritual singers reissue, and http://www.goner-records.com/cart/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=4282 that, a last kind words sequel apparently.

last kind words is the blind spot in my first-wave MS comps. i have it, but i dont jam it all the time. maybe woke one morning... will bring me around to it! the spiritual singers LP is right up my alley, though. psyched to death for that one.

Just ordered Standing on the Verge of Getting it On and Let's Take it the Stage Funkadelic G/F's from Amazon.

Picked up Station to Station at a recent Amoeba mission.

last kind words is the blind spot in my first-wave MS comps

it's great! check the lottie kimbrough guitar thing and lulu jackson's careless love. all my lps are a long way away so i haven't heard it for a while, but it's a nice one. it's pretty similar to the recent fight on one.

I just picked up this Stephen O'Malley 12" on Table of the Elements from Other Music today. Everything that label releases is so beautiful looking...I'll report back with how it is later once I get home and listen to it.

whoa long time no update!

traded in some stuff, and got:
southern folk heritage series: white spirituals
southern folk heritage series: roots of blues
southern folk heritage series: blue ridge mountain music
dead c - golden/canine tour 12" (clear vinyl, spins inside-->out)
elvin jones/richard davis - heavy sounds
the bengal minstrel: music of the bauls (nonesuch)
bali gamelan (archiv)
faith/void YESSSSSS
ratas del vaticano s/t
panda bear - person pitch

lots of termbo-ish stuff in the mail to me, too...

My guess is that eBay would have the biggest potential amount of ppl looking at it but Popsike would more likely attract more collector-y types who'd be more likely to pay what the record is actually worth?

xp

― I'm Throwing Small Arms Around Powys (DJ Mencap), Monday, 26 January 2009 18:10 (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I should clarify: Popsike is an archive of ebay completed auctions. Vinyl only. Cuts off at £20 I think (£30 possibly)...

The Stephen O'Malley 12" turned out to be kind of disappointing. Really not as good as I had anticipated.

How does everyone feel about the Group Bombino record on Sublime Frequencies? As good as Group Inerane?

yeah after a few spins I like it better than Inerane I think. the second side is insane. (side 1 acoustic stuff is nice too)

recent buys:
wavves lp on woodsist
"funky alternatives" comp. lp from the 80s (23 skiddoo, DAF, tackhead etc)
cage & aviary - television train 12" on d.f.abroad

the last song on group bombino is WILD

Royal Trux - Twin Infinitives reissue
Hospitals - Hairdryer Peace
Deutschland: A Compilation Of New German Music w/ Pyrolator, Der Plan, Palais Schaumburg, Die Krupps, etc
BYO: Something to Believe In eary hardcore comp
Tom Verlaine s/t
Akitsa/Prurient split
Alice Cooper - Killer
Angry Samoans - Inside My Brain/Back from Samoa reissues
Zero Boys - History of...
Nicodemus - The Strange Saga Henryetta Flagetta
Gauze - Fuck Heads
Dagmar Krause - Supply & Demand
JFA - Valley of the Yakes

Some 7"s...
Carbonas first 7" repress
Nikkie Light Crusade (aka Leslie Q) - Solipsism

And a great party 12" by THUNDERSTICK:
http://www.metal-archives.com/images/1/4/3/4/14348.jpg

...the masked drummer who plays in a cage

i've tried not to buy so much stuff this week, but i ended up with a few more records in the house anyway.

freestyle band s/t LP
yank rachell - complete recordings in chronological order vol. 1
a nicer copy of the Backwards Sam Firk "True Blues & Gospel" on Adelphi
josquin des pres 'missa hercules dux farrariae and four instrumental & vocal motets"
palestrina 'missa papae marcelli'
"Notre Dame Organa: Leoninus and Perotinus Magister'
janos starker 'dvorak cello concerco/faure elegie for cello and orchestra'
v/a 'favorite country blues piano & guitar duets'

JFA - Valley of the Yakes

oh man so so so so tite

How does everyone feel about the Group Bombino record on Sublime Frequencies? As good as Group Inerane?

B SIDE SMOKES. some of the craziest e-gtr playing i've ever heard.

in recent month or so?

bought an LP called "sack heil" by a german person called harald SACK ziegler because it was odd-looking, odd-sounding and cheap. pretty great homemade arty/dada garage pop, kinda cute, often abrasive, mostly WTF. plus good tunes

also saxon "the eagle has landed", which rules

also wetnurse LP on seventh rule, which doesn't sound like anything else, plus rules

also comp of foul-mouthed 20s/30s lady blues singers on sub-rosa, very nice

and also exc comp of oddball gospel musics from whenever on mississippi, "oh graveyard..."

also hammers of misfortune "fields" & "church of broken glass" & "the august engine" (former 2 awesome, latter 1 not so much)

also a wierd "remixed" version of professor longhair "rock & roll gumbo" on dancing cat records, apparently an imprint of windham hill. (???) said remixing said to consist of bringing up the pieaner and adding horns to one track. fun to have around

also a copy of 1st jim carrol band lp, which i love more than is reasonable, but though it looked good, doesn't sound any better than wot i already had (noisy, worn)

also drain LP "pick up heaven", which it turns out it sucks, but only cost a couple bucks

also snakeflower II lp called something or other - who are snakeflower the II? sounds like nuggets + voidoids + modern strokes/american death ray + maybe some surf guitar stuff. pretty almost great

also lover! "gathered in th graveyard" LP on some kind of otherworldly mystery label, which is good, but not as good as awesome rob's house 45

also singals by music such as nobunny, lover! and i dunno, maybe others. none especially great, except that one rob's house lover!, which is. oh, and idle times on woodsist, which is super great, but also on woodsist, so should be looked at askance

I will probably make a trip to Goner this weekend during my emergency visit to Memphis to try and figure out why the hell my brother has wrecked two cars in the last month and a half, gotten two DUI's, and can't seem to move out of my parents house. I think I need to get some of Rich C's LOVER! output.

i just ordered group bombino, vv excited

How does everyone feel about the Group Bombino record on Sublime Frequencies? As good as Group Inerane?

B SIDE SMOKES. some of the craziest e-gtr playing i've ever heard.

― GOTT GOTT ELEKTRON (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, February 6, 2009 11:52 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
gott otm, but i really love trancing out and chilling to the acoustic side.

Bought Red Aunts' #1 Chicken a few weeks ago for a buck. Just about the best buck I ever spent.

Today splurged on brand-new vinyl x2: Wolf Parade At Mount Zoomer and Neil Diamond's Home Before Dark. Both were advertised to include a download of the album. Only one had a valid URL to head to for that purpose. And it wasn't Sub Pop who dropped the ball. Hey Columbia: FUCK YOU I'M STEALING IT.

god since my self imposed record buying ban this thread hurts so bad

no neck blues band - recorded in public and private
v/a - pioneers of the cajun accordion
Rev. Louis Overstreet, his guitar & his four sons.
two poor boys - complete recordings of joe evans & arthur mcclain 1927-31

Haul from Goner
Children's Hospital Alone Together (thanks for the recc, Ian!)
Group Bombino
Zero Boys Vicious Circle
Clean Compilation (for my GF)
Two LOVER! 7"s ("I'm not a Gnome" and uh another one)
Nobunny "Give it to Me"/"Motorhead with Me"

I just ran in and ran out on my way out of Memphis. Oh and I picked up
Yeti 6, as well.

I go to America, come back with lots of records:

drunks with guns - zombie 7"
shoes - present tense LP
low - venus 7"
crabapples - crabapples for change 7"
of montreal - id engager 7"
los campesinos! - the international tweexcore underground 7"
tyvek - sidewalk 7"
barbaras - summertime road 7"
split - tsunami + velocity girl 7"
steward - the man with the tiny hands 7"
steward - adam, marco, me 7"
transistor six - post office tower 7"
fairways - darling, don’t you think 7"
cub - betti cola 2x7"
skeptics - sensible shoes 10"
no age - teen creeps 7"
black moth super rainbow - zodiac girls 7"
nicky & the corvettes - yummy yummy yummy 7"
freeze - guilty face 7"
low - santa's comin' over 7"
arthur lee - unissued 1965 demos 7"
jon spencer blues explosion - get with it 7"
va - sides 1-4 2x7"
man or astro-man? - inside the head of mr atom 7"
john yoko - papa was a rodeo 7"
split - buddy system + lusine icl 7"
wolfie - heavy lady 7"
fitz of depression - tv tattletales 7"
fastbacks - run no more 7"
3D's - beautiful things 7"
lilys - nobody 7"
split - phantom pregnancies + rent boy assassin 7"
va - taking a chance on chances LP

(bottom half of the 7"s from the dollar bin)

zombie singal is excellent

friend was having a record sale so i broke my ban on buying:

Yellowman - Jack Sprat
Jack Handy - Live at the 1964 Monterray Jazz Festival
Deep Purple - Book of Talyiesin
13 & God - 12 inch Why? remix single
Ali Farka Toure - Africa Blues
The Ventures - Surfin'
double LP of some African techno type stuff i can't remember
Gallon Drunk - In the Heart of Town (awes)
Luv n' Haight - mini comp of Ubiquity records stuff

bought mount eerie - "lost wisdom" on blue marbled vinyl and zombi - "spirit animal" on double white vinyl this past weekend

<3 the cover to the yellowman record i bought:

http://i22.ebayimg.com/06/i/001/24/c7/47f1_1.JPG

lol awesome

hard to top this one though, my personal fave

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5187RQ4XPVL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

Rev. Louis Overstreet, his guitar & his four sons.

this is so great

Zero Boys' Vicious Circle = one of the ten best 80's hardcore albums ever, no lie.

History Of... is pretty amazing as well.

Yeah, I've listened to both of them and had to make a choice.
There are always tough decisions to be made at the record store ;_;

I go to America, come back with lots of records:

drunks with guns - zombie 7"
shoes - present tense LP
low - venus 7"
crabapples - crabapples for change 7"
of montreal - id engager 7"
los campesinos! - the international tweexcore underground 7"
tyvek - sidewalk 7"
barbaras - summertime road 7"
split - tsunami + velocity girl 7"
steward - the man with the tiny hands 7"
steward - adam, marco, me 7"
transistor six - post office tower 7"
fairways - darling, don’t you think 7"
cub - betti cola 2x7"
skeptics - sensible shoes 10"
no age - teen creeps 7"
black moth super rainbow - zodiac girls 7"
nicky & the corvettes - yummy yummy yummy 7"
freeze - guilty face 7"
low - santa's comin' over 7"
arthur lee - unissued 1965 demos 7"
jon spencer blues explosion - get with it 7"
va - sides 1-4 2x7"
man or astro-man? - inside the head of mr atom 7"
john yoko - papa was a rodeo 7"
split - buddy system + lusine icl 7"
wolfie - heavy lady 7"
fitz of depression - tv tattletales 7"
fastbacks - run no more 7"
3D's - beautiful things 7"
lilys - nobody 7"
split - phantom pregnancies + rent boy assassin 7"
va - taking a chance on chances LP

(bottom half of the 7"s from the dollar bin)

― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 17:58 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I am on one of these records!

Err... is it... the last one? Or the one above it?

Black Lips - Let it Bloom
Wooden Shjips - Volume 1
Wooden Shjips - Wooden Shjips
The Rapture - House of The Jealous Lovers (Morgan Geist mix)
AIR - Moon Safari

The last one. (xp)

I was about to say I have that LP but I was thinking of 'Elastic Jet Mission' tho I guess there is a degree of Slampt bands crossover maybe...?

Elastic Jet Mission is the better of the two LPs imo.

Elastic Jet Mission is a bit harder to find unfortunately.

Yeah? It even got a second pressing. 1st w/spray painted covers, second w/printed.

Well, last time I saw it on Ebay it went for about £30. Maybe that was the spray painted one though.

I often find Slampt records dirt cheap in LA for some reason.

I bought the spray painted one off some random dude for a fiver. It's good but I wouldn't turn down a £25 profit if circumstances required, tbh

Zero Boys' Vicious Circle = one of the ten best 80's hardcore albums ever, no lie.

History Of... is pretty amazing as well.

― sleeve, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 19:31 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Apparently Craig Finn is writing a piece on the Zero Boys for the Guardian (as in the UK paper with its own zing thread), published this Friday. Actually looking fwd to that!

disagree on the TPK, I've been liking Games for Slaves a lot better than the first one. but I heard both of em at the same time so it might just be that the higher fidelity on the new one sounds punchier and Harmful Emotions will take longer to "get."

― dmr, Friday, 2 January 2009 19:46 (1 month ago)

on another listen, the new der TPK is growing on me. i still sort of cant handle the vocals being so prominent on this one...

track 3 is my jam

i like that one and the last one best

"two poor boys - complete recordings of joe evans & arthur mcclain 1927-31"

this is amazing stuff. if i remember correctly, some of those sides are almost impossible to hear. cuz, there is, like, one copy left of the 78 and it ain't feeling so well. but this just adds to the whole ghostly vibe. but maybe this was just the copy i had. is it a german pressing?

i got first little feat - nice clean copy which i needed - and hoy hoy double album little feat, and a ned doheny album, and poco's rose of cimarron from 1976 - which is GREAT and just proves that i probably do need to own all their post-crazy eyes 70's stuff - and a funky cedar walton album from the 70's.

"rose of cimarron" is such an awesome epic rusty young song.

anyone into the whole west coast cali 70's thing, needs those three 70's ned doheny albums IMMEDIATELY. S/T, Hard Candy, and Prone.

SCORE SCORE SCORE

from my Peru thread:

In the afternoon we went to the used market in Santiago for several reasons. We wanted to find a new Swiss Army knife for Laurie, since hers was stolen by a scumbag taxi driver about a week ago. Nino and Adela have a booth there and they sell knives, plus we wanted to talk to them concerning several items of business (school exchange stuff, visiting, etc.) As we wandered around waiting for them, I encountered a booth full of vinyl records! My eyes bugged out when looked through them and I realized that the woman had run a store in Cuzco, probably 25 years ago. The 12” LPs were beat up garbage, but she had two or three hundred 45’s that were totally unplayed mint Peruvian pressings of stuff from 1977-1982. B-52s, Go-Go’s, Fleetwood Mac, disco stuff, oh my goodness. I ended up buying about 25 of them for a little under four bucks. Then later on we found ANOTHER stall selling all-Peruvian records, I got an LP of solo guitar by various artists and another LP of ceremonial dances and songs. Needless to say, I was very pleased.

a more complete rundown, most of these were unplayed:
The Ventures - Secret Agent Man/007-11 (mono)
Shocking Blue - Eve & The Apple/When I Was A Girl (they were HUGE in Peru)
ELO - Last Train To London/Dreaming Of 4000
Inner City Express 7" from 1977, forget titles
3 Boney M 45's (gift for friend)
Alice Cooper - Clones/Model Citizen
Maynard Ferguson - Theme From Star Trek/Theme From Rocky
Lindsey Buckingham - Trouble/I'll Tell You Now
Incredible Bongo Band - Bongo Rock/Bongolia (more info plz ILM)
The Hotlegs - Neanderthal Man/You Didn't Like It Because You Didn't Think Of It (mono, seems to be a pre-10CC Godley/Creme band, more info plz ILM)
B-52's - Mesopotamia/Throw That Beat... (!!!)
2 Go-Go's 45s (Lips/Beat and Vacation/Beatnik Beach)
Fleetwood Mac - Sara/Over My Head
The Blasters - I'm Shakin'/No Other Girl
Dick Hyman - Give It Up Or Turn It Loose (as played on the Moog, title of B-side under a radio station sticker)
I also got six huaynos 45s (kind of like the country music of Peru) with great labels, names like Discos Ilusion, Discos Machu Picchu, Horoscopa, and Volcan) and 1 cumbia 45.

Looking through this woman's stock was like finding a time capsule of a record store from 1983, there wasn't anything past '82 there.

Incredible Bongo Band - Bongo Rock/Bongolia (more info plz ILM)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incredible_Bongo_Band

studio band led by Michael Viner that spawned one of the most famous & ubiquitous hip-hop breakbeats of all time (Apache). that 45 is probably worth some dough.

Dick Hyman - Give It Up Or Turn It Loose (as played on the Moog, title of B-side under a radio station sticker)

that's an awesome find too, I just recently got a reissue of DJ Harvey's bootleg version (Black Cock - "Give It Up")

Search results for “incredible bongo band”.

Section 1. Soul

Incredible Bongo Band
Bongo Rock: (Pride 1973)
* "Apache" (Drums)
2 Live Crew - "Megamixx"
Apache - "The Beginning"
Breeze - "Watch the Hook"
Busta Rhymes - "What the Fuck You Want!!"
Busy Bee - "Old School"
Chubb Rock - "3 Men at Chung King"
Coldcut - "Say Kids, What Time is It?"
Dee Patten - "Who's the Bad Man"
Digital - "Metro"
DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince - "Live at Union Square"
Double D & Steinski - "Lesson 1"
Double D & Steinski - "Lesson 2"
Double D & Steinski - "Lesson 3"
Everlast - "Syndicate"
Faith Evans ft Black Rob - "Love Like This"
Freddie Foxx - "Stop Look & Listen"
Freestylers - "Breaker Beats Pt 2"
Future Sound of London - "We Have Explosive"
Geto Boys - "Do it Like a G.O."
Goldie - "Inner City Life"
Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five - "Freelance"
Hammer - "Turn this Mutha Out"
Insane Poetry - "The House That Dripped Blood"
J. Majik - "Your Sound"
Jive All Stars - "No Stoppin'"
Jurassic 5 - "Jurass Finish First"
Kool G Rap - "Men at Work"
Kool Moe Dee - "Way Way Back"
KRS-One - "Who are the Pimps?"
Leaders of the New School - "My Ding a Ling"
LL Cool J - "You Can't Dance"
MC Paul Barman - "Burping and Farting"
Ministere Amer - "Le Droit Chemin"
Missy Elliot - "We Run This"
Moby - "Machete"
Nas - "Made You Look"
Roxy Breaks - "Apache Rock"
Run-DMC - "What's it All About?"
Schoolly D - "Housing the Joint"
Sugarhill Gang - "Apache Rap"
Tone Loc - "Ace is in the House"
Ultramagnetic MCs - "MC's Ultra"
Ultramagnetic MCs - "We're Ultra III"
West Street Mob - "Break Dance Electric Boogie"
Young MC - "Know How"
Young MC - "Watch the Hook"
* "Last Bongo in Belgium"
Beastie Boys - "Looking Down the Barrell of a Gun"
Leftfield - "Song of Life"
Massive Attack - "Angel"
Renegade Soundwave - "Blastik 1"

The Return of the Incredible Bongo Band: (Pride 1974)
* "Pipeline"
Group Home - "Suspended in Time"

bottin - no static 12" on italians do it better
nitedog/lovefingers - blackdisco vol. 1 12"
my cousin roy - frozen 12" on wurst

are disco edits the new electroclash

i dig that bottin record. saw mike s. dj here in dc on friday night and he was a good time.

just nabbed a florida's dying order including:

zero boys vicious circle repress
mutating meltdown 7"
this super nifty stupidly extravagant black time one-sided 12" with a rad rad rad etched back face

also just got the puget power 5 comp 7" (intelligence, afcgt, love tan, and spider). really looking forward to listening to this when i get home.

i want to go to there

i dig that bottin record. saw mike s. dj here in dc on friday night and he was a good time.

sweet. never seen him but I'm gonna try to go to glass candy/nite jewel in nyc in march, he's djing between the bands

had not heard of bottin before this record but he's also got a track on that "cosmic balearic beats" sampler

nice interview here with my friend cosmo about collecting vinyl:

http://dustandgrooves.blogspot.com/2009/01/cosmo-baker-brooklyn-ny.html

grabbed the new silver mt. zion and also found "daft club" cheap on ebay

i really need to find a better mn place for vinyl than cheapo.

heh "new" silver mt zion would be about a year old or so. new to me.

my lp12 is being reconditioned by house of linn, so in the meantime been buying from my favourite retailer

http://www.normanrecords.com/records/103664
http://www.normanrecords.com/records/105019

can't bring myself to open the aidan moffat yet, but it looks beautiful.

anyone tried any of the new van morrison reissues?

If you live in Seattle/Tacoma...Disc Connection Records in Tacoma are giving away records this Saturday!

http://seattle.craigslist.org/tac/zip/1049242086.html

Thought it was long gone, but I managed to get a sealed copy of the Dock Boggs Revenant 2LP from 50 miles of elbow room. He's also got the Charlie Feathers 3LP but my bank account couldn't take the hit.

hey gnarly, i ALSO just got a copy of Dock Boggs revenant double LP from 50moer! nuts.

other things recent...

hackamore brick - one kiss leads to another
dorothy carter - troubadour
gene clark - no other (these first three finally showed up in the mail!)

rallizes denudes - live 77 double LP boot
Together LP (private NJ acid folk, male/female vox, actually quite good. my copy is a little noisy but it's an expensive record when clean, so no major complaints here.)
the olympics - something old, something new
v/a - anthology of american folk music volume 4
prince buster - what a hard man fe dead
jackie opel - cry me a river
howling wolf - this is howlin wolf's new record... (nice clean original, cheap.)
harry partch - the bewitched
the jive bombers - bad boy
carlton & the shoes - love me forever
der tpk - games for slaves (finally took a copy home.)
sun city girls - fruit of the womb / the police deception (newest volume in Eclipse's cassette re-issue series. really nice double LP, gatefold, period-photos... getting into heavy noise-prog territory here. awesome.)

AAAAAAAND, if you guys will allow me to self-promote for a minute, the shop I work for just started a record label to reissue old & out of print, rare LPs etc. The first one is now out and it's Ofege's "Try & Love" LP. It was recorded by Nigerian high school students in '73, has great vocal harmonies, killer upbeat riddims and lots of fuzz guitar. It is awesome. $14+s/h if anyone's intersted, e-mail academy✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧ and I will take good care of you. A photo & slightly more info available @ www.academyannex.com

oops, the e-mail address IS
academylps at gmail dotcom

My copy skips on a few tracks on the first side, actually. You notice anything with yours?? Sugar Baby plays OK anyway. Love that tune. Only realised when I stuck it on that Junkpile Jimmy's version was a cover. His double from a year or so ago is unbelievable btw. Any of you guys would love it.

And is that Hackamore Brick a reissue? I know it's kind of a sainted lost record 'n' all, but to be honest, it didn't knocked me out in the way that I thought it might. Slow burner maybe.

I'm also getting a big kick out of a Rome Johnson compilation on Cattle records. He used to be in the Sons of the Pioneers, and this record is some absolutely faultless Western Swing, which I can't seem to get enough of at the moment.

Here's a drawing of Rome:
http://www.debed.com/lanham/Gif/RomeJohnson51.jpg

ha, so strange seeing all the revenant discussion; i was about to chip in and say that there was this one store at the fmu record fair with like two boxes of records, split between all the revenant stuff i thought didn't exist anymore, and things like old OOP bonnie prince billy singles. it's the same place. $35 for anthology four doesn't seem so bad: don't you get a free HARRY SMITH POSTER?

your nigerian record looks interesting, ian

i actually haven't GOTTEN the boggs ish yet, i'm supposed to meet up with adam this week at great jones or something.

hackamore brick isn't a reissue--got a used copy from the time-lag mailing list. I've been looking for it for a few years now, since a friend of mine at work played it for me. It's a pretty all-over-the-place record, but there's something about the guitars & the songs that get into my head. "am/fm/am/pm/all day/all night/ray-dee-oooooh."

went to SF on valentine's day weekend and picked up a few lps:

miles davis - miles in the sky
elmer snowden - harlem banjo
jim hall - it's nice to be with you
root damage (sympathy for the record industry double lp comp)
i woke up one morning in may

psyched for that ofege record - i've heard a track or two compiled and i like it a bunch. any more afro stuff in the works? debating the scg deedlio too.

recent purchases: good copies of transfiguration of blind joe death, central line s/t, the beyond the implode reissue, new captured tracks & sacred bones releases, FINALLY a copy of hot snakes' audit in progress, and the scientists' blood red river.

hey pretzel walrus, ahve you gotten yer capture trax/sacred boners package yet?? or did you get them in a shop? i'll enclose a treat for you if i see it going out. there are two more releases coming up in the next few months... SJOB Movement, and Mebusas.

wow mebusas! that is really awesome!

yeah i got them today, but i think i'm gonna make an academy order @ some point in the near future. will kit. also the lady and i may be making a trip up to nyc soon. MUST HANG!

of course dog

I got the beyond the impload reissue too, which was a relief after my last Siltbreeze order went astray.

Also picked up the Rebel's Sacred Bones LP and Live Aids 7" after seeing them on a triple bill that included a duo of Anla Courtis and one of the dudes from Volcano the Bear. The Rebel was inspiringly excellent live. It's him, his cute wife on drums and a bassist. Made writing catchy songs look very simple indeed.

The Rebel, when playing live in the US, is a diff't line-up, mostly country teasers folks IIRC. And the dude from Volcano the Bear (Aaron) is on that Amolvacy record, which is one of my absolute faves from last year. New LP coming out as soon as they can get a label for it--I guess Blackvelvetfuckere is kinda sleeping.

coming soon:

john doe jr. records & books

greenfield, mass

*an independently owned & operated subsidiary of john doe inc. of hudson on the hudson*

CA ruuuules

in the mail:
blank dogs - seconds
dum dum girls s/t
new pink noise 7"
tyvek sub pop 7" :)
spirit photography 7"
beyond the implode 7"

in the stores:
grifters - organ grinder 7"
guv'ner - knight moves 2x7"
sun ra - astro black
surf city 12"
roland kirk - left and right
roland kirk - i talk w the spirits
zero boys - vicious circle
ty segall LP
juan maclean - happy house 12"
john coltrane/pharoah sanders - live in seattle
sounds of a tropical rain forest in america (recorded in asch's NYC shower LOL!)
culture - baldhead bridge

who is blank dogs???

http://neveryetmelted.com/wp-images/Spartacus.jpg

i am blank dogs.

hey 69 nab me a ty segall and in return i'll mail you all the records you left here when you moved!

grifters - organ grinder 7"

dude what is on this?? thought I had every grifters rekkid but that's not familiar

What's this Beyond The Implode 7" I've seen a few of you got? I've been after the Last Thoughts EP for a while. Never heard their 2nd single.

details here. not sure if there are any left, but there were still copies as of two weeks ago.

Thanks. Pity it's not a full reissue of the EP but good to see some interest in the band I guess.

cool deal ZR

btw dum dum girls is hella tight

whoa according to popsike, the 7.99 orange vinyl copy of siamese dream i got at SF amoeba is like a $50-60 record!

if i didnt love the record so much, id sell it

DISARM

im sayin

Emerson's Old Timey Custard Suckin' Band

Dreamies 'Programs Nine & Ten' (reish; totally bonkers audio collage/pop-psych. two 25 minute long pieces.)

sam & viv: the country gospel tones 'gospel songs country style' (i listened to this expecting it to be really boring jeebus country, but it's good. a husband/wife duo who both sing; he fiddles, she picks. they're competent for sure, and the interplay is nice if not exactly "hot". I don't know what year it's form, but it seems pretty dang early. The sleeve references a regional hit they had in '51, and also a tour in '54. and it's Canadian!)

Mike Gangloff brought a grip of vinyl with him to the T/F festival this weekend. I bought
Charalambides Rose/Thorn
Pelt A Stone for Angus Maclise
Spiral Joy Band Pleasure is the Headlight
Jack Rose Dr Ragtime and his Pals
He had a Jack Rose/Black Twig Pickers collab 7" that one of the dudes with him said was the best thing out of all the stuff that he brought but it was priced at Ten dollars so I didn't buy it. I tried to buy it the next day but Mike had already left town with all the vinyl. Patrick Best and Mikkael Dimmik were playing two more sets for the festival and Pat told me that a 12" with better recording quality was in the works, anyway. All the Pelt/Spiral Joy Band sets I saw this weekend were great.

Got the Abner Jay LP on Mississippi. Glad to have this one without having to shell out for an orig. Nice job with the inserts too!

oh cool beans. it looks like there's a seven inch too; is that included?

someone was telling me stories about abner jay being rosetta tharpe's tour manager recently, i don't know if that's true or not

not included but we also have that in stock.

Fucked Up / Rolo Tomassi / The Bronx - Shred Yr Face tour 7" (respectively: Chain Gang cover, original, Gun Club cover)
Joke / 2000F & J Kamaata 12" (bit of talk about this on the dubstep thread fwiw)
Fucked Up - Year of The Rat 12"
Tight Bro's From Way Back When LP
V/A Taking A Chance On Chances LP (see upthread - sleevenotes give no clue to which band ILX superstar Raw Patrick was in :/ )
Lenny Bruce - Unexpurgated LP
Ed DMX - 2K3 Beats 12"
Starkey - Angel 12"
Iron Maiden - s/t LP
Johnny Cash - At San Quentin LP
Soft Cell - Non Stop Erotic Cabaret LP
Stevie Wonder - Talking Book LP
Brutal Knights - My Life My Fault 7"
Hygiene - Jan 09 7"

Joker not Joke, haha

how is that fucked up year of the rat??

This may not be the appropriate thread to post this, but anyone with more $$$ than myself should check this out:

http://cgi.ebay.com/LOT-OF-30-LOU-REED-VELVET-UNDERGROUND-CALE-RECORDS-CDs_W0QQitemZ270349749320QQihZ017QQcategoryZ306QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

A whole bunch of VU/Eno/Cale/Reed records. 4 hours to go! I'm tempted to go for it even though I know I shouldn't.

oh dip....mmmmmm...i am glad/mad you showed me that!

fuck it.

how is that fucked up year of the rat??

I dunno if I'm super impressed on first couple of listens... it sort of reminds me of the other 12" they did in this series on this label, Year Of The Dog, in that it's a notably 'unpunk' slowburner with ponderous squally guitars... all good except I just don't think FU do those that well. Having said that it has a pretty good chorus and there's plenty of time to get on board with it y'know

Pebbles 3- the acid gallery
13th Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere

during my one day in Lima (Peru) I managed to find a whole mini-mall selling used vinyl. I have almost no space or weight left in our luggage, so I only bought two albums - one of quena (flute) songs that sounded pretty good, on Philips from the 60's or 70's. I checked out some of their rare Peruvian psych (under the counter of course) and talked records with the dudes, they were definitely aware of the collectors market. They had a Traffic Sound LP for $40 that was VG- at best, and also some Telegraph Ave LPs that I didn't price. For the other record I ended up going for a Chilean record by a band called Los Jaivas, called Alturas De Machu Picchu. I think some of the words are by Pablo Neruda, he is credited on the cover as well. Only heard a bit in the store but it was good-sounding piano-driven psych-prog stuff. And since the cover was trashed with stickers and ringwear, it was only 7 bucks. Then I went down the aisle a bit and got a bunch of CDR copies of rare stuff like El Polen.

man the internet really ruined finding great scores

Not in every case.

yeah but it's definitely harder now. ebay pricing is in effect everywhere it seems like.

You can still find crazy bargains if you look hard, true, but the awareness has definitely filtered down pretty far. In an early issue of Bixobal magazine (last year maybe?) one of the guys from Climax Golden Twins talks about going to India to look for 78s and all the store owner dudes were talking about how much the rare Indian-press 78s of Beatles tunes were worth on eBay.

semi-xpost

I've scored tons of great clean vinyl in library sales. Michael Hurley, Alice Coltrane, Daniel Johnston, Sun Ra, Revolutionary Ensemble, Art Ensemble of Chicago, and more, all for fifty cents a piece.

yeah garage sales can still be good.

either people think "oh god who the hell would want these old things?" or have seen some thing about the "vinyl" craze and think "Oh god dudes are going to pay top dollar for my beat up copy of Aja!"

hahaha so true

fucking records man.
also, i like the los jaivas LPs i have--i don't have that one though. their earlier stuff was a bit folkier.

i still find cool records for cheap. but i smell them out like old crusty digger bloodhound. found this album by The Load in a record store a couple weeks back in the dollar bin. PRIVATE PROGPSYCH MONSTER:

http://www.popsike.com/pix/20050327/4714204549.jpg

(cool record when it isn't all brandenburg concerto william tell overture on yer ass and even those moments have their charms. goes for a hundred/hundred fifty)

so, these people i know were kind enough to give me 400 or 500 records they wanted to get rid of in their basement and now i FINALLY own a copy of jorge ben's africa brasil! i'm so happy. i fell in love with "ponta de lanca africano (umbabarauma)", like, 20 years ago and i've NEVER seen a copy of the album. and it's a friggin' PRISTINE brasilian first pressing on Philips. the vinyl would make you weep it's so perfect. it sounds unbelievable too.

also got that cool Michigan Rocks comp from 1977 on seeds & stems records. mc5/stooges/bob seger/mitch ryder/frost/amboy dukes/third power/src/the rationals.

and a nice clean abc/impulse copy of jazz in silhouette by sun ra and a nice copy of revolution of the mind. um, but i'll probably sell those.

out of all the records i'll probably keep 10 or 12. the rest i'll sell.

New ones:

Niela Miller - Songs of Leaving (great.)
Sabir Mateen/Dave Nuss/Matt Heyner - untitled freak jazz LP (s@1)
Delmore Brothers - Sand Mountain Blues (2nd volume on County, this one is late-thirties to forties recordings.)
Georgia Tom - The Accompanist (includes plenty of Big Bill, Jane Lucas, Tampa Red etc.)

this weekend:

nice orig avengers comp LP
john fahey - america
john fahey - fare forward voyagers
the howlin wolf record (electric w pete cosey) (my copy originally owned by TOM DONAHUE :O )

Charles Mingus - Presents Charles Mingus lp
Edan - Beauty and the Beat lp
The Who - Sell Out lp
Everly Brothers - Best of lp
Nina Simone - Wild is the Wind lp
Billy Childish & the Musicians of the British Empire - Loray Head/It Should Be Me 7"

got "Extrapolation" the first John McLaughlin solo album.

man so great, most "tradish" thing I've heard him on, but still very unique and creative, might like it better than Mahavishnu era

I got that bootish looking comp of early GG Allin stuff. Some really great tracks and surprisingly poppy and, uh, happy sounding. Especially on the track '1980's Rock and Roll'. He's like “Come on along it’s a rock and roll party / Bring all your friends and don’t be tardy!". He uses the word Tardy! No raping or butts or scum or anything. Well, not right off the bat. And Wayne Kramer and Dennis Thompson played with the band. I had no idea.

I also found a cheap but slightly popping Maui Album by Merrel Fankhauser and a stack of mystery Lebanese 7"s from the 1970s. Some cool bongo and strings instrumentals.

ohhhhhhh MAUI rules. "i saw yr photograph" is so so so so beautiful.

couple new things:
strokes - is this it YESYES YES
golden triangle 7-song 12" which im not sure is very different from the 6-song 12" i bought last week
v/a - ten years of black country religion (for ian)
nite jewel 12" on IDIB (for pretzel walrus)
mark sultan sub pop 7"
gaunt - kryptonite
peter walker - rainy day raga (pretty good price for a beautiful copy of a rad record)

just preordered the new YYYs LP which comes w/ a free 7" single

gaunt - kryptonite

^^such a great album and underappreciated band

Stuff I got recently:

product - style wars LP (the 1st album on Clay Records - Discharge, GBH etc)
milky wimpshake - one good use for my heart 7"
va - 4 track 4 track 7" (slampt)
dorotea - it's happening again 7"
betty & the werewolves - david cassidy 7"
betty & the werewolves - euston station 7"
school - all I wanna do 7"
more fiends - yo asphalt head LP
passmore sisters - first love, last rites LP
squeeze - packet of three 7" (1st single pre-A&M, bit punky!)

found good stuff cheap at some land-that-time-forgot brooklyn storefront on saturday

roxy music - manifesto
b52s - party mix
maurice - this is acid 12"
toto the one w/ "georgy porgy"
bohannon - the beat 12"
grass roots - 16 greatest hits
mc shan - the bridge 12" (not even that scratchy!)
some mantronix produced pop record on sleeping bag with a good dub version (not feeling the vocal)

^^^ all that for 20 bucks. which I really I woulda coughed up a 20 just for "the bridge" and "this is acid" so the rest wuz gravy.

does that this is acid 12" have the version w and w/o synths?

or yknow the MAIN synth line

got recently:

thee oh sees - help lp
eddie & ernie - turn here 7"
unwound - new plastic ideas lp

oh i cant wait to see thee oh sees on thursday and get that!

does that this is acid 12" have the version w and w/o synths?

yeah it has three versions and one is the well-known one (er at least, the one i knew. and the one I think you're talking abt)

the versions i know are from the trax box (w synths) and the soul jazz acid comp (w/o synths)

yeah this 12" is like, Trax version on side A and U.K. version plus "dream dub" on side B

eddie & ernie - turn here 7"

i saw that the other day and kinda remembered who they are; is the seven inch good?

i've only listened to it through twice but i like it. kinda upbeat/melancholy r&b from 1965 or so. i'm really pining more for the track on one of those dave godin soul comps called "I Believe She Will" but that single seems harder (read: more $$) to come by. absolutely love that song though.

EAT ME U SUCKZXERS

http://www.jeandeux.com

with extra MARIA D studiousness!!!

Is that store being run by Scott and Maria???!?

stay tuned for me winning my #1 wishlist record later this week (im not telling u what it is)

stay tuned for me winning my #1 wishlist record later this week (im not telling u what it is)

is it Africa Dances?

it's Cosmo's Factory, isn't it, P3te? ISN'T IT??????

is it Africa Dances?

― city worker, Wednesday, March 25, 2009 9:24 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark

goddamnit

who is city worker anyway

who is city worker anyway

maybe he's the guy you will copy it for as he's been looking for it too. you have to admit though, it was a good guess.

oh dogg no worries i got you on that tape shit -- ill throw AKWAABA on the b-side and blow ya whole mind

akwaaba is real nice - there's another bebey lp that i can't remember that's super too. it's way less polyrhythmic, but have you heard richard crandell's mriba stuff 69? real nice.

found bo grumpus rekkerd for a quarter yesterday

http://www.woundedbird.com/bo_grumpus/3246.jpg

felixpappopsikestuff

must be nice living in VINYL HEAVEN

akwaaba is real nice - there's another bebey lp that i can't remember that's super too. it's way less polyrhythmic, but have you heard richard crandell's mriba stuff 69? real nice.

― deveraux billings (schlump), Thursday, March 26, 2009 2:52 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark

i havent! ive been interested in more f bebey, too, but havent been sure which to go for...

will try to find out what the bebey record is. it was much in the same vein. i get a little lost with that kind of thing, like hearing vocal or chant records, where there are so many that you could dedicate forever to them, but the bebey ones are nice and spiky and warm sounding.

richard crandell's the first song on this; i don't really have a frame of reference for it beyond minimalist composers etc but it's really hypnotic. and it makes you want to go buy a mriba.

has anyone gotten the van morrison vinyl reissues? if so do they sound great?

i think they were pressed at RTI so probably

some of my fave group vocal records of recent years:

southern journeys: all day singing from the sacrd harp
ethnic folkways: psalms sung in the cameroons

pretzel walrus (or his gf not sure which) has the astral weeks reissue, and it sounds awesome

oooh ill have to look for that ethnic folkways rec

i think i like the sacred harp record a bit better fwiw.
but i am not an africanophile.

(and i am sort of a southeastern us fetishist.)

ive heard the sacred harp record (on CD, was there an LP pressed? (LOL annoying question)), and totally love it

this is the VINYL THREAD pete.
if it was the CD thread i probably would have talked about the doo wop box i just put on my computerz. makes the bitches swoon i hear.

ahhhhhh i was thinking of the southern folk heritage series! whoa more stuff to get

SO MANY RECORDS SO LITTLE TIME.

NO TIME

in ref to above q: gf does have vm aw sounds a+

NO TIME 2 TYPE

too young to shave

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uB-0D-gV8mY/RvxcsXualFI/AAAAAAAAENA/ErXo8oU0tlE/s400/saints

this is my favourite vocal thing. there's the run of stores on maybe fifth and second that have all these enchanting looking folkways kinda TYPICAL KORA MUSIC OF NORTH JAPAN type releases that always look amazing but i wonder if i'd listen to again and again. interesting recommendations anyhow.

yeah im easing into ethnic folkways and explorer series so far, just picking up stuff ive heard about, or which sound up my alley. im sure in six months, ill kick myself for not picking up every eastern european folk-ballad LP while i had the chance :\ such is the curse of being a world-music doofus

i went through a phase of collecting lots of ethnic field recordings, and i still pick up certain things. but i eertainly have way more santur music LPs than I need. Fave labels are def Ocora, Lyrichord, Nonesuch, Ethnic Folkways & the Unesco Collection.

Some other fave ethnic folkways: Music of Mozambique; The Waswahili of Lamu, Kenya (three vol. series); Tribal Music of Australia. There's a series of Tibetan recordings on um, the Unesco label i think, that have some real gems. Epic, dense singing bowl/shawm/percussion drones.

Fave nonesuch LPs: Golden Rain (Balinese Gamelan); Voice of One Thousand Colors (Indian LP featuring the sarangi); and I forget the speecific title, but there's a v good LP of South Indian Carnatic vocal music.

were I nearer my LPs I could probably add more. I have a few Bulgarian Nonesuch LPs that are great.

Went shopping specifically for vinyl for the first time in awhile:

Land of the Loops - Multi-Family Garage Sale/Rotate 7"
Kerosene 454 - Two for Flinching 7"
Mecca Normal - Armchairs Fit Through Doorways 7"
Dau Straun - Dragged Down/Poe Road (live) 7"
Mason Proffit - Wanted!
The Incredible String Band - Liquid Acrobat As Regards the Air
The Incredible String Band - Relics
Gary Numan - Telekon
Sessions II (haven't listened to this yet, but it seems to be some synth-loaded fusion thing that features a bunch of session guys like Ritenour & Grusin - the cover art was too fantastic to pass up)

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dPdWZMpixPo/SUziSpIfI2I/AAAAAAAAAQ0/ooHKHly7aGo/s320/Session_II.jpg

sweet sweet sweet my store just got the armchair boogie reissues in

Forgot to add this to my list:

Jean-Michel Jarre - Magnetic Fields

is it Africa Dances?

― city worker, Wednesday, March 25, 2009 9:24 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark

goddamnit

― 69, Wednesday, March 25, 2009 9:52 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark

got it on the second try!

Yoshi Wada - Earth Horns With Electronic Drone
The Shadow Ring - Live in the USA
Michael Hurley - Snockgrass
v/a - Ten Years of Black Country Religion (thanks pete!)

cmon people are we not buying records this week??

im waiting for the following to arrive:
captured tracks bundle -- 7 or 8 new "punk" records/tapes from blank dogs dude's new label
africa dances B-) <--- not a B minus, but a cool sunglasses dude who knows how to chill
ethnic folkways: music of mali
ethnic folkways: music of chad
ethnic folkways: gambian griot kora duets (mad psyched)
southern folk heritage: negro church music
black dice - repo
world's lousy w ideas, vol 7 and 8
aaaaahhhhh records

nice pickups this AM:

PIL - Flowers of Romance (nice copy only $9)

Uriah Heep - Demons and Wizards

love flowers of romance!

blank dogs - seconds
we the people - too much noise

anybody else excited about drag city's george-edwards group reissue? never heard the original, but drag city has been on a reissue roll with private press-y obscuro stuff, like J.T. IV and death...

don't know george edwards...how is that Death? i've been hearing BIG TALK about it

its really really good. sounds like alice cooper-y detroit rock -- good songs, snarly, good guitars. worth getting, for sure.

kurt vile LP on mexican summer

this week i got, off the top of my head:
soul stirrers vol. 1
zachary cale - walking papers
skullflower on NNF
v/a louisiana cajun music: the first recordings
sun ra - sleeping beauty (mega-rare late seventies Saturn in playable shape.)

kurt vile LP on mexican summer

how is that
sleep said he's playing in nyc this weekend, I have not heard of

the couple songs I've heard off of Death (from Leo thread) are awesome. there was a big story about them in NYT arts a couple weeks ago

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/03/15/arts/15rubi_600.jpg

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/arts/music/15rubi.html

also just made a good deal to buy these from a local dude, i just wanted the blank dogs but he'll give me all these for 10 total so what the they, sounds like interesting stuff:

blank dogs - the fields
john weise - soft punk
sir richard bishop - polytheistic fragments

The Richard Bishop lp is grate.

ian what does that sun ra sound like? i just jammed ASTRO BLACK this morning

i like the mex summer kurt vile LP. it's kinda spacey/raga folk with ambient swooshes and some electric touches. indie?
the new one on woodsist is also good.

pete: "Sleeping Beauty" is nice. I've only listened to it once so far, but it was laid back & groove-oriented overall, one of the tracks had group vocals that were along the usual lines...

whenever i see original saturns under like $50 i think it's a good idea to pick them up, unless the condition is really bad. (will buy scratchy saturns, but will only go so far.)

went to book sale and it was a nitemare with kids and too little room and big smelly people all over me in cavernous basement and then i found the video cart and everything was free on it and we had fun looking for kid videos and stuff and then i noticed that on the video cart were exactly FIVE records. all in excellent minty shape. all original u.k. pressings. they were:

laibach - s/t (with insert)

current 93 - looney runes (with poster)

current 93 - swastikas for noddy

death in june - nada!

death in june/current 93 - split lp

they wanted to charge me a dollar for my two bags of books and videos, but i gave them two. cuz i'm nice like that.

jesus, those DIJ & C93 LPs will go for a bit of dough on teh ebays, if you don't need to keep 'em.

i'm almost more jealous of book sales though. i love book sales. new york booksales seem to blow most of the time. and even if you do find good stuff people want like, a buck or two or more apiece!

nyc book sales are super sketched out and mega bad vibes, even if there is the possibility of some shitty records. show up half assed 15 minutes early and you will face a deep column of schizo book dealers ready to quick draw you with their ISBN scanning guns.

book people are worse than record people imho. slower moving, too.

Went on a bike ride and ended up with a few cheap-o mystery selection discs from the bargain buckets outside Flashback and Haggle Vinyl. The 'rude' Haggle dude wasn't around, sadly, although I did hear someone in the basement of Flashback saying that he "better watch his mouth next time, know wot i mean??". Oi!!

Found a 7" in a b&w cover with a track called CLONES by some dude called Grag Vandike. Sleeve has a gaunt androgynous robot/alien cyborg thing on the reverse, so I guessed/hoped for a decent downer synthpop/minimal type thing, and that was pretty spot-on. Great track!

Other sort of find was a 7" of Beach Baby by the First Class. 1974. Turns out to be a sketchy Britisher Beach Boys rip-off. Apparently John Peel was really into it, but I wasn't so sure. I'll give it another spin though. Made wonder if there was any other British bands who really had a go at aping the Beach Boys. Maybe more succesfully. The idea doesn't quite fit.

GREG Vandike! Also...

Death - For the Whole World to See (excited for this)
Leslie Q - Presque Vu!
Rusted Shut - Hot Sex 12" & early stuff
Jazz and Hot Dance in South Africa 1946-1959
Glass Ties - Tight 7"
Wrecks-n-Effect - New Jack Swing 7"
UTFO
Cool C - C is Cool 12"
MC Gemini With Jealous J - Cut It Up Def 12"

That Clone 7" bij Greg Vandike is indeed great! I only recently heard that song, and learned he passed away in 2007. He apparantly was a well known music trader/seller of some sorts in Plymouth, or something? Read somewhere John Peel fancied his music as well.

man that sir richard bishop thing i bought is so beautiful.

hell yeah dude, also hard to find on LP already

i got it for $5 so good deal i guess.

can you recommmend me other stuff he's done in this vein?

i don't know the sun city girls, i know there is a connection though, would i like them?

Matt I'm sure there are some things in the SCG catalog you would like, but they are quite varied to say the least. They recently put out a compilation of singles from the 80's, that's a pretty good entry point.

The Bishop record most like that one is Fingering The Devil, but it's not really in print as far as I know. The CD While My Guitar Violently Bleeds has longer tracks, more like ragas. His 1st record Salvador Kali is also excellent.

since I'm on the vinyl thread...

I went to Mississippi store in PDX last week and got Group Bombino, Kate Bush's Sensual World, The Impossible Shapes' Horus, a great Nonesuch Explorer record with the sounds of African animals, and a reissue (done by MS? I think so) of The Clean's Compilation. They were already sold out of the I Woke Up One Morning comp and the Spiritual Singers LP.

in the mail today:
ofege LP (looks awesome)
gambian kora duets LP

there's already another Bishop album on tap on Drag City ...

http://www.dragcity.com/catalog/records/dc398.html

anybody heard it yet?

new Bishop is great -- electric guitar, w/ band. I'm no expert, but it's very Middle Eastern-y.

sleeve, if you need the spiritual singers LP i got yer back; not sure of our stock on the woke up one morning in may, though.

did that other stuff reach you properly??

xxp
i gotta catch up on my bishop LPs. I only have Improvika!

I really like the new SRB altho I don't have anything else by him. It's like Middle Eastern surf-rock, almost.

In the post today: a new 10" by Thou which has an incredible sleeve and a split single w/ Crom and Agoraphobic Nosebleed which has an amusing sleeve.

yeah, i was thinking the surf rock thing too.

yo ian thanks but I got both of those before, my local store now carries some Mississippi stuff.

excited about new SRB, didn't know at all.

The Freak of Araby, haha .. Out in May, I think.

Oh, I don't think I mentioned but for the first time in AGES i found a good record in a thrift shop! Jackie McClean "One Step Beyond" on Blue Note, VG+ (occasional light surface noise.)

that IS a good find. blue notes in thrift stores are pretty rare in my experience.

yeah, they don't turn up often. especially in playable shape--not that this one is perfect of course.
a guy i knew bought a stack of 'em at the Greenpoint (brooklyn) salvation army and made a profit of several hundred bucks; smooth move.

also oops, mclean not mcclean by bad.

i got a couple of Loren Mazzacane Connors singles last week too. And a better copy of Vincebus Eruptum, and the Klezmorim LP with the Crumb cover (for passover) and in the mail i got the Sun City Girls/Ruins "Dulce" soundtrack.

new NSFW arrival:
psychedelic horseshit -- golden oldies

huh.
just noticed that my copy of axis: bold as love skips but it's on a totally sick break. lovin it.

ian help me out i'm playing loveless right now
and as much as i do love it i equally enjoy your succinct one line description
= "a yuppie couple having an argument?"

Latest vinyl haul = $40 worth of $1 / $1.50 LPs at the Austin Record Convention yesterday:

"I'd buy that for a dollar!" Great purchases for a buck or less

And here's $7.58 I spent at a thrift store last week:

"I'd buy that for a dollar!" Great purchases for a buck or less

the real trick for loveless is just to turn it up as much as your neighbors will allow...
never really spent much time with that record after college.

boston chinks -- coltrane 7"
v/a -- under the coconut tree (orig music caribbean comp LP from GEMM so we'll see if this actually happens)

couple things from SF rasputin, which i like better than the berkeley location so far:
king tuff -- was dead
LCD soundsystem -- confuse the marketplace 12"
human sexual response -- fig 14
SE rogie -- african lady (not my favorite SE rogie, but was only $6 so np)
wavves -- wavvves (these wavves records are pretty good! i don't get the orgiastic pitchfork response or the ridic termbo backlash, but they're fun records!)

btw kudos to chuck for making me feel good about my future by his use of

First time I've owned this in decades

SE rogie -- african lady

getting palm wine guitar on vinyl (for real cheap, just because i've missed out on getting it cheaply a bunch of times) is my main goal in life

Just got Kitchens of Distinction's The Death Of Cool for 2 bucks

getting palm wine guitar on vinyl (for real cheap, just because i've missed out on getting it cheaply a bunch of times) is my main goal in life

― corps of discovery (schlump), Friday, April 10, 2009 12:23 AM (18 hours ago) Bookmark

yeah finding highlife records is def one of my top record goals these days too...

LPs @ 3/$1:

Sherbs The Skill (ATCO 1980)(If I had known these guys were Auzzies trying to crack the lucrative US charts with a new wave makeover I might not have picked up this one. Based on the cover I thought this might be a dark wave opera about Nadia Comăneci. I was wrong. Will file under "basically uninteresting"; however is reminiscent of generic 80s film stks.)

Hawks Hawks (CBS 1981)(not The Band. I guess these dudes were into Sparks but they never really approach such heights. That being said, I probably would not change the station on them.)

The Brass Ring Only Love (Dunhill 1968)(More or less typical Now Sound with the same songs that show up on every other Now Sound LP [Alpert, Webb, Popp, etc.] Good version of The Odd Couple theme. No Moog.)

Upper Perkiomen Schools Highlights of the Spring Concert 1967 (Custom Pressing 1967) (The elementary band has that out of tune and rhythmless sound I go for, the upper grades are just kind of OK)

XTC Black Sea (Virgin 1980)('sup Geir)

Eric Burden & The Animals Winds of Change (MGM 1967) (Tom Wilson production; as 1967 as it gets)

got a couple of those limited Howling Hex LPs today,
and Kurt Vile "God Is Saying This To You.

Yesterday, got the Tar Pet LP and Henry Flynt "Raga Electric."

Today
Kinski - Down Below It's Chaos
Stars Of The Lid - And Their Refinement Of The Decline
Crippled Black Phoenix - A Love Of Shared Disasters
Neil Diamond's Hot August Nights for a buck

love that stars of the lid.

Smog - Knock Knock lp
Gal Costa - s/t (1st) lp
Cave - Hunt Like Devil ep / Jamz ep
The Hunches - Exit Dreams lp
Crystal Stilts - Love is a Wave 7"
Kurt Vile - The Hunchback ep
Gris Gris - Live at the Creamery lp
Bonnie Prince Billy - Beware lp

ian what is the limited-edition howling hex record?

yeah - like, the first few he put out on drag city?

yeah, the first three on drag city. i missed picking 'em up at the time and they sort of became hard to find, right? DC lists the third one as still available on their website, but i'm not counting on it.

city worker: how is the Hunchback EP? I like the Kurt Vile "God Is Saying This..." LP but the idea of a full band "crazy horse style" seems too distant for me to get excited abt. I like the "Constant Hitmaker" LP on Woodsist (which I guess is a straight reissue of the Gulcher CD?) fine.

anni3 was ordering the new bill callahan last week and told me about how the third howling hex was available, so we gave it a shot, too! i wasnt sure if it was part of a limited re-release or something...

i've always seen them around and never expensively, although limited. i think you can get them through hmv if anyone's looking. some of the pop stuff he was doing is great, really vibrant poppin' take on de colores, and almost girl groupy stuff like breakaway that precedes the newer things like faithful sister.

My bro was telling me about Drug Wars, another band that Kurt Vile is in. I want to hear it. Blastitude likes the Hunchback ep, fwiw.

Oh wait I guess they are The War on Drugs.

Aside from one track ("Losing It") it's a bit different from the dreamy and/or fingerpicked vibe of the other two. It's more loud guitars and maybe more spacemen 3 jam than crazy horse style at times. I like it quite a bit so far, but a little pricey for 6 tracks/18 min (I'm a cheapo).

the war on drugs are good. live they're like some suicide/spacemen 3 thing with a drummer who looks kinda like gary farmer and a singer who sings like dylan but not in the shitty way where he's singing like dylan. on record it's a little bit tidier and indier. but they're fun. i picked up wagonwheel blues after seeing them.

;_;

tried to change my lil numark's cartridge the morning and broke a wire. no work turntable for a week.

waaaaaaaaht. that sucks dog. i've never had problems changing the needle on my guy; i gotta switch it out when i listen to 78s!

jammed the "new"(old) NNCK record today, dug it.
also jamming the Henry Flynt reissues on Locust; mostly the Backporch Hillbilly Blues series & Raga Electric, which are all A++ material.

RSD stuff (cross-listed forgive me):

pavement - live in cologne LP (colored edition 1/95!)
jesus lizard 9x7" set
obits 7"
arthur russell - love is overtaking me 2xLP (whats the deal? will the regular be a single-LP?)
sonik youth splits

non-RSD stuff:
nocera - lets go 12"
pixies - surfer rosa
charles manson - lie
the kinks are the village green pres soc'y
god bless the kinks

i think the russell has been out on CD for a while and this is the first LP release limited to 1000 copies. i think.

in honor of rekkerd store day, i bought these records. at an antique store.

spent 120 bucks. i rarely spend that much on records, but i was in the mood. and i'm gonna sell them all after i listen to them anyway.

got:

carmen - fandangos in space (1974 - paramount)

john jacob niles - i wonder as i wander (carols and love songs) (tradition)

voivod - dimension hatross (1988 - noise)

incredible string band - hard rope & silken twine (1974 - reprise)

blue oyster cult - imaginos (1988 - cbs)

diva gray and oyster - hotel paradise (1979 - columbia)

crumbacher - incandescent (1985 - broken) (i couldn't resist. 80's xian synthpop!)

kracker - "kracker brand" (1973 - abc)

ayers rock - big red rock (1974 - a&m)

steel river - a better road (evolution)

jeanie greene - mary called jeanie greene (1971 - elektra)

100% whole wheat - s/t (1977 - avi)

raven - rock until you drop (1981 - neat)

richard & mimi farina - memories (vanguard) (totally minty replacement copy for my old copy)

rockin' foo - s/t (1971 - uni)

jamme - s/t (dunhill)

lalo schifrin - marquis de sade (verve)

sonoma - s/t (1973 - abc)

amazing blondel - england (1973 - island)

punch - s/t (a&m)

l.a. jets - s/t (1976 - rca)

creation - s/t (1974 - atco)

tom cora/david moss - cargo cult revival (1983 - rift)

dantzig twist - marquis de sade (1979 - emi)

carl oglesby - going to damascus (1971 - vanguard)

frost - early frost (1978 - vanguard)

marty thau presents 2x5 (1980 - red star) (red star comp. bloodless pharaohs, comateens, revelons, fleshtones, student teachers)

the bridge - the bridge in blue (1972 - buddah)

the rose of avalanche - always there (1986 - fire) (i really liked the song "velveteen" in 1986. the rest of tha album hasn't aged so well. or isn't as good, anyway.)

"Dimension Hatross" ... any young gun should want that LP at any price

man, it was so great to see Voivod back in the day when they ruled. Snake is my hero

holy shit, this sonoma album has THE fattest fuckin' break beat on it.

the arthur russell album is gorgeous.

btw...holy shit finally got Who Will Save the World? by the Groundhogs....fucking IN LOVE

Saw the Neil Young and Crazy Horse Live at Fillmore 1970 (1st release in the "archives series") at the local chain record store on my annual look through their used vinyl. It took me by surprise. It was priced 27.99, which I figured was probably close to what I'd find it for online, and since it is my favorite Neil Young thing ever, I just decided to shell out for it. Got the Fast Times at Ridgemont High soundtrack, too.
"Waffle Stomp" by Joe Walsh is really something else.

the cowgirl in the sand on that record is totally bonkers!

I love it all! Would like to hear more live NY and Crazy Horse with Danny Whitten.

that 1970 NY & CH album is the best representation of the Whitten band, though if you dig around you can find bootlegs of that tour -- the Cincinnati show is esp. good.

just came in the mail:

bishop perry tillis -- in times like these*
the rats -- intermittent signals*
cold cave -- the trees grew emotions and died
v/a -- under the coconut tree: music from grand cayman and tortola (orig music!)

*bent corners, side-splits :( hopefully MS recs will let me mail back the jackets for new ones...

our whole box of rats recs was kinda beat up. doubled boxed & everything, but it took forever to show up. maybe a local postal worker has a beef with msr

their small-box shipments are wrapped too tight, in boxes too small.

your mom's box is too small :\

you mom reads termbo

your moms mom reads termbo AND williamsboard

you know she just lurks!

yeah, but her box is too small.

I finally got copies of the Everly Brothers' Roots, and Bradley's Barn by the Beau Brummels, both of which I've been hanging on for cheap copies for ages.

Also some 7"s....
K2 with Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock - Noise Tournament Vol 4
Thomas Leer - Private Plane

today at a yard sale for $10:
Spoon - A Series of Sneaks lp
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks lp
Al Green - Let's Stay Together lp
Al Green - I'm Still In Love With You lp
Slim Harpo - The Original King Bee (best of on Rhino) lp
REM - Chronic Town ep
Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding lp
Mickey & Sylvia - Love is Strange 7"
Brenton Wood - The Ooogum Boogum Song 7"
Drake Tungsten - "Six Pence for the Sauces" 7"ep
The Replacements - Alex Chilton 4-song 7"ep
5 Royales - Think/Dedicated to the One I Love 7"
Swingin' Medallions/Sir Douglas Quintet - Double Shot (of my baby's love)/Mendocino 7"

plus picked up This LP Crashes Hard Drives from End Of An Ear
plus Cigarettes - Gimme Cigarette 7" in the mail from S-S Records

bought today:

cowsills - captain sad and his ship of fools

buster - s/t (excellent 70's glampop! their cover of born to be wild is hottttt!!!)

windbreakers - the disciples of agriculture (mitch easter/richard barone byrds jangle i've never heard. french pressing.)

david riordan & rob moitoza - sweet pain too (suxx, but i'm on a david riordan kick. we've all been there.)

barry allen - s/t (fat funky horn fuzz rock on uni courtesy of randy bachman.)

tropea - short trip to space (i should have a t-shirt that sez: "will buy anything on marlin/t.k.")

cyril havermans - cyril (aching hippie folk rock backed by the band Focus.)

aliotta haynes jeremiah... - Lake Shore Drive (a.k.a LSD. it would probably sound better on LSD. i'm sorta fond of these guys for no good reason. I still listen to the Ampex album I have of theirs and I can't honestly say why.)

klaatu - sir army suit (needed clean copy. found one. for two bucks. took me awhile.)

wackers - hot wacks (not a huge fan. but, again, two bucks for wlp.)

crust - s/t (trance syndicate buttholes thing.)

hard meat - s/t (nice clean copy. i could listen to this kinda shit till the cows come home.)

ratchell - s/t

nonoyesno - lederhosenverbot (some weird helios creed-involved EP. sounds like helios creed.)

the scene is now - total jive (didn't much like them when i was younger. like them more now.)

berlin airlift - s/t (1982 powerpop.)

got

some kurt vile records HOPPIN THE OLD BANDWAGON YET AGAIN
princess nicotine
popol vuh - tantric songs

sent away for the new captrued tracks bundle -- ill be thrilled if its 1/2 as good as the last one

how much for the Princess Nicotine?

30 clams

good sound, smells like it was previously owned by the marlboro man LOL PRINCESS NICOTINE

haha

FROM A SMOKE-FREE HOME

30 sounds about right ... curious if the SF CD the exact same as the LP

its not! im unsure whether the LP has "my darling's love arrow," cause anni3 and i just listened to side 2 and i expected it to end with that one, but no dice...

princess nicotine is a sweet score, pete!

for me since the last update that i can remember:
la monte young well-tuned piano box
bud powell - piano interpretations (verve)
derek bailey - music and dance
group bombino LP (had it on hold for a while, brought home.)
v/a - goin back to tifton (blues & rags, field recordings from ALBANY of all places.)
bishop perry tillis - in times like these...
robbie basho - grail & the lotus
v/a - really! the country blues (origin jass library)
keith jarret - restoration ruin (pretty amazing jazzy/funky rock album)
yo la tengo - i can hear the heart...
v/a - instrumental music of the southern appalachians (field recordings, on Tradition)
bukka white - parchman farm (the complete early recordings)
the nihilist spasm band - record
george edwards group - 38:38 (for fans of Trimble, Warlus et al.)
henry flynt - raga electric

i like that GE group rec!

i've been pretty lax on the vinyl acquisitions lately.

the handsome family - honey moon

picked up 20 7"s for £5 at a boot sale. mostly randoms. amongst the better picks:

Hank Mizell & Bobo - Jungle Rock
Fashion - Streetplayer-Mechanik
Pigbag - Gettin Up
T.T. Ross - Jealousy
Olympic Runners - The Bitch

picked up some more thrift store stuff

Manzanera - K-Scope <-- pretty nice. sweet bassline on "Gone Flying"
Climax Blues Band - Sample and Hold <-- sucks
Steve Kahn - Tightrope <-- cheesy fusion but has one or two decent songs (track called "Some Punk Funk" doesn't live up to the title)
Instant Funk - No Stoppin' That Rockin' 12"
couple others I haven't listened to yet, a DJ Magic Mike / Sir Mix-a-Lot 12" and a Wayne Shorter lp

there are three reissues by a new label called Monk--single LP retrospectives on Dock Boggs, Charley Patton, and Charlie Poole. If I didn't have the material already I'd pick 'em up. The covers are decent looking, but the LPs are a bit on the pricey side--$25 apiece, I guess cuz they're from a european label. I haven't opened one up yet to see if the liner notes are any good/existent. the info on the back covers was scant.

i gotz no record money right now : (

there are three reissues by a new label called Monk--single LP retrospectives on Dock Boggs, Charley Patton, and Charlie Poole. If I didn't have the material already I'd pick 'em up. The covers are decent looking, but the LPs are a bit on the pricey side--$25 apiece, I guess cuz they're from a european label. I haven't opened one up yet to see if the liner notes are any good/existent. the info on the back covers was scant.

― ian, Tuesday, April 28, 2009 5:23 PM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark

totally did a double-take at aquarius the other day when i saw the dock boggs, like HEY WHY DIDNT MISSISSIPPI RECORDS EMAIL ABOUT THIS??

lol that was my same impulse; the boggs looks a lot like a MS release.

totally did a double-take at aquarius the other day when i saw the dock boggs, like HEY WHY DIDNT MISSISSIPPI RECORDS EMAIL ABOUT THIS??

ha ha. i wandered into kims seeing charley patton in the window and was way entranced. i don't know if i really want the patton stuff on record (though whatever they were playing in store sounded real nice), but i didn't know there was a charlie poole one.

Stuff I bought since the last time I linked to stuff I bought:

"I'd buy that for a dollar!" Great purchases for a buck or less

"I'd buy that for a dollar!" Great purchases for a buck or less

Thrift shopping yesterday, found all of these for a dollar apiece:

David Bowie "Labyrinth Soundtrack"
"Switched on the Beatles" as performed by the New World Electronic Chamber Ensemble
Iron Butterfly "Metamorphosis"
Black Sabbath "Black Sabbath"
Jerry Lee Lewis "Sings the Country Music Hall of Fame Hits Vol. 2"
Sonny & Cher "Look At Us"
Mott the Hoople feat. the Brain Caper Kids "Brain Capers"
Run D.M.C. "King of Rock"

finally got alan lomax's NEGRO CHURCH MUSIC on atlantic. so rad.

also put a few lil chestnuts on ebay, in hopes of getting together some money for my next big purchase.

how is that pavement live thing?

also LOL

Item location: Washington, DC, United States

HAHAHA whoops forgot to tell eBay.

its the same concert u sent me like two years ago from cologne

i got:
texas-mexican border music vol. 7
texas-mexican vorder music vol. 9
uncle dave macon comp lp on RBF

TVZ Live at the Old Quarter reish. I'll probably give it to my bro for his birthday.

was it esquire who put that on their 100 essential man-records?

lol

texas-mexican border music vol. 7
texas-mexican vorder music vol. 9

this series is pretty dope

i have vol 1 or 3, and i cant really get into it. too much harmonica? not enough gtr? too lively?

tvz live @ old quarter is totally fucking amazing.
also, yeah, i love the tex-mex border series!

enjoying the new time-lag "red records" ish that came in the mail--

Mountainhood - thunderpaint the stone horse electric (kinda mumbly psych folk stuff, heavy on the strummed guitar but with harmonium, flute, bedroom percussion. tape hiss is key.)
Mountainhood - wings from a storm (replace the acoutsic guitar with piano, and the vocals might reach even new keening heights on this one. one epic track on side 2 that gets almost Popol Vuh, piano & tapes and what sound like nighttime forest recordings..)
Wovoka - I & II (fingerpicking, dulcimer, reverb, mostly instrumental. second LP adds hand drums & fuzz guitar... really good.)

is there a complete list of the Tex-Mex border series online? There's at LEAST like 19 volumes. not even halfway there :(

howling hex -- return of the third tower LP (thought this was long-OOP but it just showed back up on drag city's site!)

they may have gotten a box returned when T&G closed their distro operation? who knows.

TYVEK LP - corny cover, good jams ("Building Burning" version 2 hits hardest so far)
EAT SKULL LP - sounding pretty good, need more listens
Les Baxter HELL'S BELLES - reish of fuzzed out bikesploitation soundtrack

some good $1 finds over the past week:

john coltrane - kulu se mama
jackie mclean - it's time
herbie hancock - maiden voyage
melvin van peebles - br'er soul
canned heat - living the blues
al green - gets next to you
al green - is love
thelonious monk - alone in san francisco
nitty gritty dirt band - uncle charlie and his dog teddy
john mayall - blues in laurel canyon
john mayall - crusade
james brown - black caesar
csny - deja vu
mose allison - i don't worry about a thing
mose allison - the word from mose allison
donovan - a gift from a flower to a garden
eric dolphy - in europe vol. 2
stevie nicks - the wild heart
gary numan - telekon

that canned heat record has some lame moments, but also some good boogies!

my ebay sales did pretty well... t-minus seven hours till i can redirect those funds

yeah, 69, it's a pretty solid record (esp for $1!)

eric dolphy - in europe vol. 2

i think i have this, at least i think it's vol 2. does it have two group songs and then two solo dolphy? god bless the child and one other?

anyway the one i have is absolutely gorgeous

i think god bless the child is on vol 1? i don't actually have that one. this one is really great too, though. there's some particularly choice dolphy flute playing on two tracks.

i'm not an expert but so far i have not heard anything dolphy did be not-awesome

i had a copy of OUT THERE in my hands yesterday, but passed. i fucked up, right?

i think that is supposed to be pretty classic

nothing to do with this thread other than satisfying the clientele but:

woah someone told me you can get se rogie on youtube.

hey schlump did i just sell you something on ebay?

that golden triangle 12"?

my big (if not cheap) score w recent ebay proceeds:

http://www.discogs.com/image/R-1475339-1222468131.jpeg

oops should be a pic of michael hurley's FIRST SONGS on folkways

how much? i had one of those once. sold it a couple years back when i needed $$ ;_;

check ebay completed listings...

but i'm lazy! oh ok ... hmm, nice piece! a got a little bit less for mine, but that looks like a little bit better copy (my record was NM but the cover was sort of VG++)

pete will you photocopy the insert for me pretty please? i can at least read along when i listen to my CD ;_;

sure!

that golden triangle 12"?

ha, nuh uh. ebay is off limits pretty much. i am basically perpetually broke, but come in here because mississippi/all the bullshit limited record things allow me to break my own rules, throw caution to the wind and buy things because otherwise i'll never have the chance. i dip in ebay sometimes to narrowly lose out on great drag city t-shirts of the nineties but it's more a payday trip to somewhere in NY for records right now. that hurley seems like a nice thing to own; i really oscillate between thinking of records as possessions (glass half empty), or as vessels for art (glass half full), and michael hurley records really put something out into the room when you play them.

agreed!

i only ask cause i see you posting on this thread and the dude's last name was 5chlump

i will hold a bidding duel with this imposter to assert ownership of my moniker. the idea of selling ebay stuff to people i (tenuously by internet) know creeps me out, like i should suddenly become all apologetic about postage charges etc.

heres a little trick i use: if you just put the TO address as the return address with no postage on the record, itll get there safe and free every time

haha wait, is that true?? that can't possibly work can it?

it is a paradox of sorts.

newest ebay scores:

Prince - Paisley Park/She's Always in my Hair UK 45
Sonic Youth - EVOL (SST)
De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising Picture Disk
Fela Kuti - Zombie
Madvillain - Madvillainy
Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle (93 OG Pressing)
Parliament - Funkentelechy vs. the Placebo Syndrome (sealed)

kathi mcdonald - insane asylum
pink floyd - meddle
fairport convention - liege and lief

USF rec fair scorezzzz:

royal trux -- liar/money for nothin 7"
TFUL282 -- lovelyville YESSS
v/a -- caribbean island music (nonesuch exp, recorded by josh storm rbts)
pharoah sanders -- village of the pharoahs
james blood ulmer -- tales of captain black YESSS
sam rivers -- streams YESSS
v/a -- flute music of the andes (maybe itll sound like that one thing from the aguirre soundtrack worth $4)
captain beefheart -- doc at the radar station (will always be my favorite CB record)
roy harper -- when an old cricketeer loses his erection
carla bley -- tropic appetites

gf scores:
sub pop sassy 7" (sebadoh, beat happening, velocity girl, codeine)
close lobsters -- 2nd LP
we've got a fuzzbox... LP

omar i passed on a copy of that kathi mcdonald today -- it looked sweet, but i know nothing about it.

also josh storm rbts = john storm roberts

oh also three more things i forgot

moby grape -- s/t YESSS
buffalo springfield again
and duh the best thing i got...

CONTACT HIGH W THE GODZZZZ ORIGINAL COVER ON ESP

yeah, i got the kathi mcdonald for $1 so i decided to go for it. produced by david briggs, w/nils lofgren and some other interesting players. it's not too bad, she's this "bluesy howler" type. the playing is pretty restrained, maybe a little too much so, but i'm glad i picked it up. she used to be one of the ikettes, i guess?

oh also anni3 got

v/a the blues in memphis 1927-1939 (on OJL)

sorry this update is annoying now

xp ahhh bluesy howlers are hit and miss w me... the cover looks so rad though.

yes!

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listened to godz last night on top of a mountain outside woodstock high on boo and vino and it felt like heaven licking my ear.

godz are one of my favorite bands ever. i prefer godz II to contact high, but they're both just so amazing.

also, awesome that you got the first moby grape! and great that annie got blues in memphis on OJL. You guys are such a cute couple.

im traditionally a GODZ 2 man, but was psyched to find this one for a pretty good price.

also tropic appetites sounds amazing.

my shitty local record store had a $2 overstock sale today, got some decent shit. will post later

classic 70s shitgaze?

lies/money for nothing 7" has been on my list forever. never heard the original of MFN and when i did i was all dire straits?

classic 70s shitgaze?

― 69, Sunday, May 10, 2009 9:56 PM (1 hour ago)

u kiddin me shitgaze started with sick to death

waiting in office this morning:

eat skull -- wild and inside (this record is really very good. sorry kevin, i think its better than sick to death!)
tyvek -- s/t
v/a -- southern folk heritage - american folk songs for children
drunkdriver -- knife day 7"
cold cave -- painted nails 7"
kurt vile -- hunchback 12"

the raspberries - fresh
cyndi lauper - she's so unusual
eno & byrne - my life in the bush of ghosts
donald fagen - the nightfly
stevie wonder - innervisions
______________
$21.40

nice! bush of ghosts really came down in price after the CD reissue...

yeah i was kinda O_O when i saw that raspberries record...i couldnt even find that shit on the internet. is that rare at all?

it's also awesome, i listened to side 1 yesterday

man i know nothing about the raspberries, can't help you.

challops alert:

she's so unusual > thriller

and yeah matt bush of ghosts was marked at $5, which is probably less than a better record store would have it at? i feel like all the expensive stuff my place has is stuff i'm not interested in but the good stuff i always find in crates under the shelves for cheap

$5 is a really good deal if it's in good condition IMO...seems more like a $10 record

yeah actually all five of those were marked at five bucks but there must have been a special or somethin. walked out of there a happy kid

"i feel like all the expensive stuff my place has is stuff i'm not interested in but the good stuff i always find in crates under the shelves for cheap"

this is most record stores for me.

Today and in the mail:

v/a - The World is Lousy With Ideas vol 8 LP
The Bitters - Wooden Glove EP
Woods - Songs of Shame LP
Woods - Sunlit 7"
Brilliant Colors - Highly Evolved 7"
Sneakers - Children into People 7"
The Fresh & Onlys - Imaginary Friends 7"
The Fresh & Onlys - I'll Tell You Everything 7"
Kurt Vile - Constant Hitmaker LP
Intelligence - Fido, Your Leash Is Too Long 7"
Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish I Were An Eagle LP
Ganglians mini-LP
Eat Skull - Wild and Inside LP
Death - ...For All The World To See LP
Bishop Perry Tillis - In Times Like These LP

city worker, did you order a bunch of that stuff from Captured Tracks?

I picked most of it up at Sound on Sound in Austin today. And the World is Lousy record in the mail from Almost Ready. But that Captured Tracks stuff I bought sounds great.

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good $1 stuff:

gene clark - two sides to every story
graham nash - songs for beginners
pink floyd - meddle
hall and oates - private eyes
chulas fronteras - soundtrack
brian auger's oblivion express - closer to it
isaac hayes - hot buttered soul
cat mother and the all-night newsboys - albion doo-wah
triumvirat - illusions on a double dimple
wilma lee and stoney cooper - s/t

awesome mail day!

ganglians LP
psychedelic horseshit 12"
oh sees 7"
sore eros LP (unsolicited from friend!)
five new MS tapes! (solicited from other friend, sent along w some almost-totally-punched buy-five-get-one-cards from SF businesses!)
new harpers re-directed from my old DC office

harpers is putting out LPs now? smart choice given the declining interest in print...

wokka wokka!

re-listened to that Sore Eros record now, cuz of you Pete. I'm diggin it more than the first time. I think the first time I listened I was at work and only half paying attention.

man i love this BEETS record

is that starving weirdos album on bo weevil coming out on vinyl? if it does you should get it cuz it's really good.

i got a 45 of theirs in the mail that i really like. from last year, maybe? anyway, it's good.

i've been getting some nice vinyl in the mail due to my spamming for my new column. it's nice.

picked up a few lil things:

v/a -- marvellous boy (GREAT! first thing ive really loved on honest jon's)
fresh & onlys -- s/t
sir richard bishop -- freak of araby
PIL -- flowers of romance (may already have it, but i dont think so LOL)
we move together (later-era ESP record -- nice, minimal stuff)
bley/gilmore/motian/peacock -- turning point
swamp dogg -- have you heard this story??

also ordered new captured tracks bundle and two new sublime frequencies LPs!

the beets is one of the only good records on captured tracks imho.

the new single or the LP?

i like the woods single, DDG 12", bitters 12", and beets LP best. i like the blank dogs 12" pretty well, but it aint my favorite one.

$2 at Other Music the other night netted me:

Peanut Butter 12" (special mix by Larry Levan)
T.J. Swann-Peewee Mel-Barry B.'s "Are You Ready?" 12"
Maggotron "Return to the Planet of Bass" 12"
Universal Robot Band's "Dance and Shake Your Tambourine" 12"
Badazz "Honk Honk Beep Beep" 12"
a hand-numbered, hand-stamped copy of Ghost Note "Holy Jungle" 12"
a hand-numbered, silk-screened copy of this Vastkustska Ryggdunkarsallskapet (Pugh Rogefeldt disco edit) 12"

oh yeah i also randomly got

america's most wanted -- armed & dangerous 12"

(LOL getting h1gh and reading waxidermy's buy-it-now alert thread. the oakland A's hats were irresistible)

how'd you get Freak of Araby when it's not due out until next week??

i guess [redacted] sells things early to edge out the competition

african scream contest - good but not great, doesn't quite live up to the promise of the title. I probably have too many of these comps now

^speaking of which, this just arrived on vinyl, after a long wait. it's great.

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african scream contest - good but not great, doesn't quite live up to the promise of the title. I probably have too many of these comps now

― dmr, Friday, May 22, 2009 3:00 AM (13 hours ago) Bookmark

i havent heard this one -- is it afro-funk? i think pretzel walrus likes it. sometimes, i cant get past the lame-o covers on those comps, which i know is grade-a retarded.

what bugged me about african scream contest was the misuse of the word "psychedelic". cuz none of it is, really. but it's still pretty good stuff. and the exaustive history lesson/liners are cool too.

you know what reissues ive been staring at uncontrollably for the past few weeks? BITCHES BREW and IN A SILENT WAY. i have all the sessions CDs, so i never got them on LP, but they just look SO BEAUTIFUL.

African Scream Contest is definitely not psychedelic, but it is really really good.

was the misuse of the word "psychedelic". cuz none of it is, really.

yeah exactly! but it's still pretty cool. just not as good as Love's a Real Thing or Ghana Soundz

shit i totally pwned myself this weekend. won a couple original music LPs at the end of last week, then asked the seller if hed consider changing a couple more (ones with no bids yet) to buy-it-nows. he agreed, but i checked at 9am yesterday, and theyd sold 20min earlier, 10min after becoming buy-it-now. thats what i get for trying to monkey with the system!

oh well. i at least got

FROM THE COPPERBELT (zambian miner songs) LP
AFRICAN ACOUSTIC vol 1 (gtr music from tanzania, zambia, and zaire) LP

and also

ONEIDA -- secret wars LP

from r3d d3v1l records in san rafael (lil overpriced, but niiiiiice stuff in nice shape -- apparently the dude pays pretty well on resale of stuff, too, so i can dig that paradigm):

alice coltrane -- transfiguration (back into alice-fever after a brief cooldown)
african head charge -- my life in a hole in the ground (91 repress on on-u sound)
african head charge -- off the beaten track (92 repress on on-u sound)
s.e. rogie -- mother africa (like african lady before it, just a bit too slick)
eddy current suppression ring 7" on IRON LUNG (totally awesome, have really come to love these guys)

picked up the first Crazy Horse album (w/o Neil), good stuff...the whitten songs are fucking amazing

^^ always been interested, now will pull trigger

yeah it's cool, like at worst it is very enjoyable 70s rock, at its best (usually the whitten stuff) it's kinda special...

it's crazy (sic) how the Rhino Handmade thing of the Crazy Horse stuff sold out immediately .. bummer. they gotta repress that shit

I love that Kathi McDonald "Insane Asylum" record upthread. The title track is the Koko Taylor classic redone by as a duet with Sly Stone. Lots of great session credits: John Cipollina, Ronnie Montrose, Papa John Creach, Pointer Sisters...

I saw her touring with Long John Baldry a bunch in the 80s/90s.

it's crazy (sic) how the Rhino Handmade thing of the Crazy Horse stuff sold out immediately .. bummer. they gotta repress that shit

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i picked up a nice orig press for $15, seems like i see it around fairly often

xxp why (sic)

Picked up a bunch of non-indie underground punk and rock thread fodder in Seattle:
Worlds Lousy vol 8
Tyvek
The Rats "intermittent Signals"
Factums "The Sistrum"
that same Eddy Current Suppression Ring single 69 mentioned above.
Pink Reason "Borrowed Time" 7"
also got King Sunny Ade's AURA for five bucks. Three tracks a side, 1984, seemed like it would be worth it. I love "Juju Music" and "Synchro Sound" and every other early 80's King Sunny I've heard, come to think of it.

Love that Factums record.

There was an Illes record (the Hungarian prog band) record on the wall at this one store, priced at ninety bones. It was in this minimal sleeve, just the name of the band stamped on the front and few notes on the back that looked scrawled by hand. "Dedicated to Angela Davis." Really wanted to hear it but not prepared to drop that kind of cash on a record, even if I'll probably never see it anywhere else.

wow I never knew those African Head Charge LPs were repressed.

the other day I found the Slits untitled early sessions LP on Y records for 4 bucks, been looking for that since the late 80's. also got Martin Rev's 1st (?) solo LP on Lust/Unlust which is great.

african head charge -- my life in a hole in the ground (91 repress on on-u sound)
african head charge -- off the beaten track (92 repress on on-u sound)

on closer inspection, i realize that i actually got the off the beaten track sleeve, but the environmental studies LP. bummer, cause i cant imagine ill find the other parts, cause the storeowner said no one had gotten in touch on the other end. agggh, records plague number two of the week!

got some 12 inches in the mail today. i love getting big boxes of records in the mail. a couple are for me and the rest is for the store:

FULL FORCE-GIRL IF YOU TAKE ME HOME...NEW ORDER-ROUND AND ROUND...SAMANTHA FOX-TOUCH ME...STACY Q-TWO OF HEARTS...NYC CUTTER-DJ CUTTER...PUMPKIN-KING OF THE BEAT...M.O. FLEX AND THE FBI CREW-ROCKIN' IT...DIGABLE PLANETS-REBIRTH OF SLICK...ME PHI ME-PUT SHO' HANDS 2GETHA...FINESSE & SYNQUIS-BASS GAME...VAUGHN MASON & KRUSH-ELECTRIC BODY...SHANNON-MY HEART'S DIVIDEND...CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT-MISFIT...C&C MUSIC FACTORY-THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO HMM...DEJA-YOU AND ME TONIGHT...SWING OUT SISTER-BREAKOUT...MCA & BURZOOTIE-DRUM MACHINE...BUSY BEE-MAKING CASH MONEY...COMPANY B-FASCINATED...FRESH 3MC'S-HAVE YOUR HEART...CAPTAIN ROCK-CANT ROCK TO THE FUTURE SHOCK...SYBIL-FALLING IN LOVE...THE SYSTEM-DONT DISTURB THE GROOVE...SUBJECT-THE MAGIC THE MOMENT...JEFF LORBER-FACTS OF LOVE...MIDNIGHT STAR-OPERATOR...CALLOWAY-I WANNA BE RICH...GEORGIO-SEX APPEAL...FAT BOYS-JAIL HOUSE RAP...YOUNG MC-BUST A MOVE...L L COOL J-YOU'LL ROCK...TREACHEROUS THREE-YES WE CAN-CAN...RHYTHM MAKERS LTD.-PARTY RAP...PHORTUNE-STRING FREE...LEVEL 42-LESSONS IN LOVE...BOOGIE DOWN PRODUCTIONS-YOU MUST LEARN...ABC-THE NIGHT YOU MURDERED LOVE...GLORIA ESTAFAN-RHYTHM IS GONNA GET YOU...MEL & KIM-SHOWING OUT...AFRIKA BAMBAATA & SOUL SONIC FORCE-RENEGADES OF FUNK...SYLVESTER-DON'T STOP...CRASH CREW-BREAKING BELLS...FORCE M.D.S-LET ME LOVE YOU...YOUNG BLACK TEENAGERS-TAP THE BOTTLE...VAL YOUNG-SEDUCTION...TREACHEROUS THREE-BODY ROCK...LIVING IN A BOX-LIVING IN A BOX...LEVEL 42-SOMETHING ABOUT YOU...CRASH CREW-WE ARE KNOWN AS M.C.S...THREE TIMES DOPE-FUNKY DIVIDENDS...BOOGIE BOYS-CITY LIFE...BREEZE-L.A. POSSE...PRETTY POISON-CATCH ME I'M FALLING...PAUL HARDCASTLE-RAIN FOREST...CAMEO-BACK AND FORTH...BREAKFAST CLUB-RIGHT ON TRACK...BIKOP FEAT. THE GREAT PESO-SHE'S WILD...G.L.O.B.E. & WHIZ KID-PLAY THAT BEAT MR. DJ...M.C. MIKER “G” & DEEJAY SVEN-HOLIDAY RAP...HAMMER-2 LEGIT 2 QUIT...DIVINE SOUINDS-WHAT PEOPLE DO FOR MONEY...PUMPKIN-HERE COMES THE BEAT...GURU BEATS-WHO YOU STEALIN' FROM...KID N' PLAY-DO THIS MY WAY...DUMB GUYS-RAP O MATIC... LOVE BUG STARSKI-DO THE RIGHT THING...IMAGINATION-JUST AN ILLUSION...INFINITY FEAT. GRAND MIXER-GRAND MIXER CUTS IT UP... EXPOSE-LET ME BE THE ONE...JOESKI LOVE-PEE WEE'S DANCE...PSEUDO ECHO-LIVING IN A DREAM...DOUG E FRESH-JUST HAVING FUN...KENNY DOPE-BOOMIN' IN YA JEEP...TEARS FOR FEARS-SHOUT...DAVY DMX-THE DMX WILL ROCK

that's a party right thar

i opened up the store for the first time last night for three hours. felt good. sold some records. which is good, cuz i got a lot of records to sell.

scott, please keep me apprised of any western MA private press folk or country records you see. the more marginal the better!

also scott, i know i promised to send you the LP we put out but i wanted to wait for you to move cuz i didn't know where to mail it. send me your address? dr.carl.sagan at gmail

scott seward

77 conway st. first floor

greenfield, MA

01301

you want any local/private bluegrass stuff?

yes, yes i do.

here's what i got at the thrift store this morning. (9 a.m. i never sleep.)

wayne stewart & friends - aspen skyline (sierra/briar records. serious vassar clements hootenany jamz)

hank wilson's back vol.1 (shelter)

david grisman quintet (kaleidoscope records 1977)

norman blake - blackberry blossom (flying fish 1977) (a fave of mine)

leo kottke - s/t (chrysalis 1976)

silly wizard - live in america (green linnet 1985)

ray charles - a man and his soul (abc)

mance lipscomb - texas sharecropper and songster (arhoolie)

john mccutcheon - the wind that shakes the barley - hammer dulcimer music (june appal recordings 1977)

roy acuff - the voice of country music (capitol)

mance lipscomb - texas blues and 3 other songs (arhoolie) (french arhoolie pressing!!!)

doug kershaw - ragin' cajun (warner bros. 1976)

the seldom scene - act two (rebel recording co. 1973) (hardcore picking)

the best of dorothy love coates & the original gospel harmonettes (specialty)

amarcord nino rota (i remember nino rota) (hannibal 1981) (that thing with carla bley and others)

music with 58 musicians vol.1 (ecm) (cool ecm comp with art ensemble of chicago and others)

leon russell - carney (shelter 1972)

fairport convention - rising for the moon (island 1975) (minty italian pressing)

gene parsons - kindling (warner bros. 1973)

the braswell brothers - mile one (hardcore private country/bluegrass from florida. no label.)

elvis - elvis country (rca 1971)

jerry lee lewis - rockin' rhythm & blues (sun)

bruce cockburn - in the falling dark (columbia 1976)

arwen mountain - five of a kind (chelsea house 1977) (more obscure bluegrass)

ccr - creedence gold (fantasy)

dave guard & the whiskeyhill singers (capitol) (judy henske's debut. nice copy, too.)

red clay ramblers - hard times (flying fish 1981)

norman blake - directions (takoma 1978)

bill staines - the whistle of the jay (folk-legacy 1979)

and a couple of emmylou records and a stones record and a chuck berry 2 album comp.

massachusetts is serious bill staines territory. his records are everywhere. some of his early records are supposedly worth money, but i don't think anyone actually buys them. i'm not a huge fan either.

Dang. I may have never seen an LP on Specialty, or ECM, in all my years of thrifting! I just keep coming up with those "Firestone Presents The Great Sounds Of Christmas" comps on Columbia.

no ecm, really? i thought they were common everywhere. or at least the friggin' koln concert and shit like that.

I actually own Koln Concerts! Think I swiped it from a radio station, though. Yeah, my local thrifts are huge on MOR dreck, I very rarely find obscure stuff.

Thrift shops in MA seem to pwn those in NY.

Also, re: Bill Staines-- I really like his record with Guy Van Duser! And Guy Van Duser's solo LP "Stride Guitar" as well.

also, fave Norman Blake is "Fields of November"

what do folks know of that BIG LEGAL MESS label? they have some memphis gospel comp that looks interesting.

the junior kimbrough "early recordings" 10" would be a must-buy except that it seems very overpriced for an EP.

dude scott where do you live? if i could find a haul like that in a midwest thrift store ... well i wouldn't would i?

a lot of early flying fish stuff is just terrific rootsy singer/songwriter stuff. most of which has never been reissued i don't think.

wait scott-- you run a record store?

yeah, i just opened one in greenfield. i have to advertise and do the flier thing and all that. and, um, get a sign for the front of the store. cuz hardly anyone knows i'm here yet. i gotta spam amherst and northampton too with propaganda. all the vinyl dudes will know soon enough.

so you're in western mass?

i decided to go with the "soft" opening. cuz i still got chubb rock tapes to price and stuff. it's a small store, but it looks nice. i like it.

i bought 3500+ rap singles + other stuff on craigslist and i'm still wading thru all that. that was a good deal! lots of good stuff for 500 bucks. craigslist is cool. i make a phone call and three hours later a dude and his girlfriend kiki are unloading a panel truck full of records into my store.

yes, god's country! no more martha's vineyard for me! i love it here. noize night at the bar tonight! can't remember who is performing though.

here it is. be there or be square!

Chris Corsano
Exusamwa
lecture by Dr. Abby Drake
DJ Angela Weirdo Sawyer
videos by Carrie Bren

MPBE #18 Wed, May 27th, 9pm Five Bucks!
at the Rendezvous
78 3rd St
Turners Falls, MA 01376

i just got a record from no fun in the mail. and a john weise cd. the album is by noveller. dunno what that is. i'm gonna play it.

^^ angela sawyer dj : awesome !

Chris Corsano
Exusamwa
lecture by Dr. Abby Drake
DJ Angela Weirdo Sawyer
videos by Carrie Bren

What is going on in that little town?

like the song on the new Nels Cline record -- sounds like "Thurston County"

rendezvous bar in turner's is cool. richard bishop is coming in a week or two and it is where you will find me singing l'trimm songs on karaoke night.

you guys should make sure not to miss the show of the season in nyc:

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chris corsano was great! if he plays near you, go see him.

i priced records and listened to records and sold records and talked about records all day. all is right in the world.

I'm ordering you a new needle as a record-store-opening gift.