2013 scores

you can hear some of the french record here. copy i got today was pristine. looked unplayed. serious audiophile sound.

http://prognotfrog.blogspot.com/2006/08/les-menestriers-domino-fra-1973-224.html

holy wow @ those Weekend records, I never see those.

I picked up that Weekend album too in a bargain bin last year - far superior to Stuart Moxham's post Young Marble Giants effort The Gist, whose LP I found in another bargain been a couple of weeks back..

i like bargain bins.

i got some 78s in the mail yesterday --
ira & eugene yates - powder & paint / sarah jane (columbia)
warren caplinger - my wife's gone to the country / gonna raise a ruckus tonight (champion)
allen brothers - old black crow in a hickory nut tree / no lowdown hanging around (bluebird)
ashley & abernathy - corrinna, corrinna / ashley & green - short life of trouble (perfect)
blind alfred reed - why do you bob your hair girls / always life him up and never knock him down (victor)

Hey guys I finally made time for records today! Found a shop in OKC and picked up
Dennis Lambert - Bags & Things (Dunhill)
Ned Doheny - Ned Doheny (Asylum)
Michael Nesmith & The First National Band - Loose Salute (RCA)

I wonder if it was the same place I scored a few things of a similar ilk while in OKC? Can't remember the name...LOTS of records...baby raccoon in a cage...

Yep though raccoon isn't quite a baby anymore. I wanted to buy so many records there, but they weren't exactly priced to move, sort of above market price. Nice condition of almost everything in the store, so maybe it would've been worth it to buy that minty Easybeats for $75? Forgot what the place was called too.

His prices do kind of suck.

Hungaria - Rock and Roll Party
Checkfield - Distant Thunder
Dr. Buzzard's Savannah Band - Calling All Beatniks!
Tiny Desk Unit - Naples
Kraftwerk - Exceller 8
Ironhorse - S/T
The Human League - Travelogue
Ohio Express - Mercy
Line Lovich - Flex

picked these up in wellington during a stay last week and blew my record buying budget in the first shop i walked into:

joe heaney - come all ye gallant irishmen (mid seventies recording in gaelic and english on philo)
elizabeth cotten - vol.3 when i'm gone (reissue, first cotten i've heard and now i really want to check out what she does with a banjo)
art ensemble of chicago - among the people (nice live recording from 1980)
motihar/sathe/thakur/schweizer/trepte/neumeier/schoof/wilen - jazz meets india (free jazz colliding with classical indian music from 1967, opened it up to find it's even signed by mani neumeier!)
alfred harth - this earth! (eighties ecm release with paul bley, maggie nichols, barre phillips and trilok gurtu, closer to the art song type stuff i've heard him doing with heiner goebbels than the more "out" just music lp)
welfare state/lol coxhill - s/t (after a first listen: awesome!)

and in other news, i had a look through the 20 or so records belonging to the person i was staying with and hidden among the uriah heap and steeleye span records was a copy of what seems to be the rarest of the rare vertigo releases by a very prog looking band called dr z which probably hasn't been played in upwards of thirty years and according to popsike can go for crazy money (and after listening to a track on youtube, it doesn't seem to be for its musical worth), so yeah thought it was a good idea to let her know what she has on her hands so it doesn't end up in a dumpster or similar

i got that lol/welfare state last week too!!!

That is the responsible thing to do, yes.

Some 30 years ago, someone I used to know used to 'melt' up some of the albums his flatmate owned (with his collusion), I said whoa what? and he was 'yeah, but they were all hippie crap, and JJ hated them too", into Flowerpots. I said "yeah, but they're probably worth a fortune, or will be!"

Now, I fully realise not every album on the Deram label circa 1971 is worth money. But.

bought punk stuff and put all the crappy stuff out in the store and kept all the good stuff. hahahaha! not entirely true. i put some good stuff out. the troo kult punk stuff will go on ebay. cuZ some of it is too specialized to sell here. just don't judge me too harshly with some of these. i've been a fan of pre-scary skrewdriver for years and always wanted these. hey, i don't own any burzum albums. wait, i do actually own a burzum album...

the oppressed - oi!oi! music! (oppressed) (one of my favorite records of the 80's and i already have it but you never know when you might need a backup...)

slaughter and the dogs - do it dog style (damaged goods) (nice white vinyl repress and i gave up on finding a u.k. decca copy for cheap...)

the infas - sound and fury (panache) (love infa riot and i swear i'm not kidding when i say parts of this album remind me of youth brigade's sound and fury album.)

the anti nowhere league - the perfect crime (gwr) (i might be the only person who actually likes post-yob punk goth pomp ANL. but i liked goth pomp damned records too.)

outcasts - blood and thunder (new rose)

blitz - new age 12 inch (future records)

the last resort - a way of life - skinhead anthems (captain oi!)

james t. pursey - revenge is not the password (turbo)

sham 69 - shams last stand (link) (so amazing...)

the mob - let the tribe increase (lazy dog) (awesome 2xlp comp. so great.)

anti-pasti - caution in the wind (rondelet) (i'd put this in the store, but nobody would buy it. so i'll take it home.)

cockney rejects - the wild ones (a.k.a.) (i may already own this...)

stosstrupp - wie lanf noch... (tough independent) (rock-o-rama repress i think? amazing early 80's stuff)

cotzbrocken - jeden das seine... (rock-o-rama) (original pressing from 1981. just so demented i have to keep it.)

v/a - united skins (boots & braces) ( i know i know but again pre-scary and the other stuff on here is amazing)

cockney rejects - lethal (roadracer) (love this album don't care what anyone says)

skrewdriver - all skrewed up (chiswick) (i know i know but don't blame the rest of the original line-up! that acoustic guitar intro! near mint original pressing! such a great album. what can i say?)

4skins - a few 4 skins more - volume 1 (link) (2 album set and i have both albums already and yes i really love 4skins)

the accursed - laughing at you... (wreck 'em) (from 1984. again, so demented. they were inspired.)

oi polloi - fuaim catha (skuld releases)

skrewdriver - back with a bang! 12 inch (boots & braces) (i know i know but this is one of the greatest sounding punk 12 inches ever made. also pre-scary. i mean, i still want the two chiswick 45s too...and then that's it for me and this band.)

the wall - daytripper (no future) (from 1982. nobody would buy this either. so i will give it a loving home.)

maddeningly, I will have to buy the Mob 2LP reissue at some point even though I have everything on it except the No Doves Fly Here 7", cuz it costs more than the reissued 2LP.

The Whatnauts - Introducing... (Stang)

I have been tracking this down forever. Found recently at a very reasonable price in pristine condition. So, so psyched. And the jackets worn on the album cover are most excellent.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51K7OYHdaXL._SL500_AA280_.jpg

ooooh does yours have that sticker on it??

Midheaven update is burning up my inbox, just placed an order for
VA Assiyo Bellema 12"
Styrenes Essential Styrenes Vol 1 2x7"
Nothing People C'mon Girl 7"

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Sticker, and some shrink intact. It's only February, but quite possibly my big score of 2013.

I swear there's only one guy left in Toronto who's worth a damn: a flea market shop that mostly sells CDs and DVDs, but in the past year has been keeping a couple of hundred records out. Everything's in excellent shape, and he prices stuff like it's 1980--not because he's clueless, he knows a lot about music, but stuff is priced to sell, not sit there. I got Springsteen's debut for $5 (I'm not even a casual fan--haven't bought a Springsteen record since Tunnel of Love) and Stephen Stills' second for $6 today. What was hard was leaving behind two things I already have: the New York Dolls second for $7 and Neil's On the Beach for $5, both with original inner sleeves.

Any of you guys like Happy the Man? Found a copy of their first album today for a dollar at the swap meet. Couple of pieces I like so far on Side One.

they had their moments.

Neil's On the Beach for $5

that's a super bargain. On the Beach was hard to find for a while before it had been reissued.

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So the "sticker" is actually part of the cover art. I was worried that this might indicate bootleg/repress, but I checked an old Moments record and it too has the fake sticker. Must have been a Stang Records marketing decision for early 70s releases. So no bootleg, at least I hope that's the case. Far as discogs indicated there is only one (Japanese from 1985) and the run-out on mine matches the orginal.

Record collector nonsense aside, Introducing The Whatnauts is fantastic. I've listened to the B-side like ten times in a row.

I picked up the Wicker Man soundtrack on vinyl yesterday. Forgot how incredible it is through and through. High time I saw the film again too!

xp yeah yeah i actually dont know that whatnauts -- just assumed it was a sticker... glad you love it!

78s that came in the mail today --

clarence green - banks of the ohio / fond affection (columbia)
carolina buddies - the murder of the lawson family / cottage by the sea (columbia)
bill chitwood & bud landress - woah mule / hen cackle (brunswick)
henry whitter - chicken, go behind the barn / western country (okeh)
tom darby & jimmie tarlton - down in florida on a hog / birmingham town (columbia)

i started to sell some 78s online. after all these years. starting slowly. i've always been too paranoid about shipping them. but i get nice stuff and its kinda impossible to sell them where i am.

if you need packing advice let me know. or grading advice. or send me a list of your pre-1936 country records and i will buy them.

78s are fun. there is a record i reallyy want ending on ebay today but it is already at $50 in V condition. so idk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxcHc2KtZjE

^^ one of the best georgia fiddle records of all time imo

Dollar finds:
Shirelles - Greatest Hits
Happy and Artie Traum - S/T
Steve Reid - Nova

Wow, some cool punk finds there Scott. I have Oi! Oi! Music on CD but would like to get it on vinyl one day. FYI, though, Back With A Bang is not by the pre-scary version of Skrewdriver... it's their first single post-reformation.

After lamenting that there were no record shops in my area since HMV and crappy local indie shop closed down, discovered an indoor market in Wood St next stop along from where I live in Walthamstow that has several record shops in it! One of which has LOADS of insanely rare punk/DIY records, loads of Messthetics type stuff, rare Italian HC etc. The prices are reasonable for what they are but mostly a bit out of my price range.

Here's what I've bought recently:

monroes - what do all the people know 7"
bleach boys - stocking clad nazi death squad bitches 12" (love this! been looking for not-insane priced copy for years and then this went up on Ebay for £20 and nobody else bid on it for some reason. It's in great condition as well!)
crusaders - street life 7"
booker t & the MG's - green onions 7"
dry heaves - shoot yourself LP
va - sent from coventry LP
electric vomit - no end 7"
MDC - millions of dead cops LP (UK pressing)
FUK - FUK LP
cramps - smell of female LP
lotus fucker - lotus fucker LP
electro hippies - the only good punk… is a dead one LP
wreckless eric - whole wide world 7"
damned - love song 7" (already have this but my copy is fucked and has horrible surface noise. this one's got a different sleeve and was only £1)
modern eon - euthenics 7"
undertones - jimmy jimmy 7"
zounds - can't cheat karma 7" (good price on this one! bit dirty though)
7 seconds - the crew LP
punishment of luxury - laughing academy LP

i would think that oi! oi! music would be easy to find where you are. its one of the easier oi albums to find in the states, actually. i honestly don't even know what they sell for these days. and yeah i know its new-lineup skrewdriver but still not scary lyrically. i don't know what the actual cut-off point is. same with the comp i got on boots & braces. the 2 skrewdriver songs on there are just oi! anthems and not racist in nature.

do you have the modern eon LP? i like that one.

but yeah chiswick era a whole other thing obviously.

I think that band are banned from being sold on ebay, I have seen a couple ads for Chiswick recs listed under titles only.

Handy tip, there

I only have the Modern Eon LP on mp3. It is good though.

Re: Back With A Bang again, the lyrics aren't "racist" as such, but there is this bit which is at least a dog whistle given where they went on their next single (which was White Power...):

Being patriotic's not the fashion so they say
To fly your country's flag's a crime

people sell the bad stuff using his initials sometimes. i'm keeping the stuff i got. wouldn't put them online.

the sound of that 12 inch though...can't express how friggin' amazing the drums and bass sound on it.

patriotism i can handle. and if you like oi you'll get some of that. was listening to the upstarts yesterday and reminded how much i like their song "england" which i guess at the time didn't go over so well with some people.

This public school near me has a weekly fleamarket/thrift sale every weekend and people usually have some records out but I hardly ever find anything if I stop to browse .... yesterday I flipped through some stuff and found Jean-Jacques Perrey's "Moog Indigo" and Perrey & Kingsley's "The In Sound From Way Out." 15 bucks for both. I was pretty psyched, never seen Moog Indigo except as a 30-dollar record on some store's wall. Went home and immediately listened to "E.V.A." real loud.

Apache Dropout Bubblegum Graveyard
Apache Dropout Magnetic Heads
Pretty Mustache in Your Face
Shocking Blue Mighty Joe b/w I'm a Woman
Crazy World of Arthur Brown Fire b/w Rest Cure

I sold lots and lots of hip hop records yesterday (the ones I got from that storage unit) at the Eugene Record Convention (supposedly the biggest on the West Coast??) and treated myself bigtime:

Robert Fripp - League Of Crafty Guitarists Live!
Camberwell Now - The Ghost Trade (awesome Swiss pressing)
John & Beverley Martyn - Stormbringer
Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material
Stiff Little Fingers - Go For It
Oneida - The Wedding
Nick Cave/Bad Seeds - Kicking Against The Pricks
The Jazz Butcher - Edward's Closet
La Dusseldorf - Viva (reissue)
Severed Heads - Clifford Darling
Fleetwood Mac - Then Play On
Iron Butterfly - Heavy
Stevie Wonder - Talking Book (mint upgrade, so nice)
Michael Jackson - Off The Wall (ditto)
Hendrix - Electric Ladyland (ditto, one of those new pressings)
Legendary Pink Dots - Atomic Roses
Bailey, Muir, Parker, et al - The Music Improvisation Company
Gary Numan - Tubeway Army
VA - Darker Skratcher
Edward Ka-Spel - The Blue Room 2LP (I scratched side 3 of my old copy)
Caetano Veloso - S/T ("Tropicalia"? boot on Lilith, used)
Ciccone Youth 12"
Alice Coltrane - Ptah, The El Daoud
Spinanes - Manos
Whitehouse - Thank Your Lucky Stars
Dark Day - Exterminating Angel reissue
White Rainbow - Prism Of Eternal Now 2LP (YES!)
Strawberry Switchblade - S/T LP
Nonesuch Explorers: Real Bahamas Vol 3, The Jasmine Isle, Savannah Rhythms, Guarani Songs & Dances Of Paraguay
VA - Japan Bashing Vol. 1 7" EP
Geraldine Fibbers - Dragon Lady 7"
New Age Steppers - My Love 7"
Weekend - The View From her Room 7"
Fad Gadget - King Of The Flies 7"

Spinanes - Manos

Neat! Fun record.

was listening to the upstarts yesterday and reminded how much i like their song "england" which i guess at the time didn't go over so well with some people.

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You are right. Mensii did lots of interviews denying any racist connotations, and this was before right-wing skinhead bands became a 'thing' as such.

Got this RAD Mexican rock compilation today for three bucks. Man.

http://articulo.mercadolibre.com.mx/MLM-405536187-onda-juvenil-teen-tops-blue-caps-las-moskas-enigma-lp12-_JM

Title track from this might be the best thing on it. (Didn't know some of these bands were from other parts of Latin America.)

http://www.discogs.com/Los-So%C3%B1adores-Vida/release/4122409

Really good cover of "Venus" by Las Moskas.

http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=2832594

checked out Black Gold Records in Carroll Gardens BK last night (shopping around for my new go-to spot, Academy was a hike for me to get to from home anyway so fuck 'em)

it was ... just ok. all used stuff so kind of a crapshoot. think I'll just check their blog and if they post about buying a cool collection I'll swing by. they had a lot of obscure punk and alt-rock but mostly not the kind I'm looking for.

I got a Whatnauts 'Help Is On the Way' 12" and Yura Yura Teikoku 'Soft Death'/'Robot Deshita' remixes 12".

Dollar bin merenegue scores. Copped mostly on the strength of the awesome album art.

http://i.imgur.com/jykuv.jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dHyArdP0KhM/S1XoJ0ztbqI/AAAAAAAAD20/MxO-c4t4K1Q/s320/ChicasPaisA.jpg

woaaaaaaah

i traded a bunch of old cds to amoeba for that billy bragg/wilco reish, it was worth it. sounds great.

gene is white light demos. townes is unreleased studio and demos, early 70s. both on omnivore.

oh lol i misread gene clark for guy clark. jeeze.

fwiw I like the Wilco record and have had it on CD since it came out but I'm never gonna pay 40 bucks for something like that. "pressed at the world's top pressing plant" just doesn't mean anything to me ... maybe one day I'll be an audiophile like that but up to this point I'm just not.

really I guess my beef is somewhat with the price of new records in general, regular old double LPs are routinely 25 bucks now.

Hey Ian, there's an old warehouse here filled with junk and they have a crate of 78's, mostly still in sleeves. I almost just want the sleeves, labels like King, Coral, Vocalion, 4Star, and Columbia. Artist like Eddie Arnold and his Tennessee Plowboys, Lefty Frizzell, Hank Locklin, but there are a few odd ones, like artist with bagpipe accompaniment and whistling with string band. Some look unplayed, some are scuffed, and I don't know how much scuffing affects playback on 78's? They are a dollar each, are they worth buying? Or, would you want me to buy them for you? The guy said he would make a deal on the whole lot, probably $20?

@dmr. yeah, man, i'm right there with you re: not being an audiophile and not giving a shit about the plant but my point is that at least those wilco records legitimately cost more to manufacture than the other shit that's going for $30 single lps and $45 double lps or whatever.

i'd buy em all for $20. it's hard to tell w/o knowing the names of the artists, but lefty is great, early hank locklin can be good etc. scuffing is not a big deal on 78s tbh.

at least those wilco records legitimately cost more to manufacture than the other shit that's going for $30 single lps and $45 double lps or whatever

yeah I hear you. and I did not know about the particularities of the pressing so that was news to me.

I'll take photos of the labels with Tera's iphone next time I'm there.

Colonel Poo, 45 Grave's Autopsy totally kicks ass, love it way more than Sleep In Safety (which I do still wish I had a copy of).

Yep, I didn't know until I received the record that Pat Smear was on it, I've had mp3s of it for about 10 years, that's how long it's taken me to find a cheap copy of it.

went out record shopping with pete today! it was fun!
i feel strange guilt and compulsion with records now. I might have to give it up. I buy things I know full well I am never oging to listen to more than once or twice every ten years. I dunno.

v/a - they all played maple leaf rag (ragtime comp on Herwin.)
gary bartz - juju street songs
pharaoh sanders - oh lord, let me do no wrong (1987? cheap.)
david murray quartet - morning song
daniel lentz - point conception
waylon jennings - cold hearted woman
v/a - folk music in america volume 12: songs of local history and events
dunn & mccashen - mobius

a few days ago -
lloyd mcneill - elegia
v/a - yesterday, perhaps: songs of the kitchen cynics (p.g. six, tom rapp, alasdair roberts, sharron kraus, josephine foster..)

where did you two go? next-time-i'm-down-there-related... also, i've wrestled w/ this strange guilt/compulsion re: records for some 25 years now. can't seem to resolve it, yet...

I love the Kitchen Cynics cover of Tom Rapp's "Stardancer" so much.
I've got a few KC cd's, I think, but nothing has hit me quite the same as that one tune.

is that on the first rapp tribute? i remember there being some good stuff on there, need to pick that up sometime. the 2nd/3rd tribute double has some nice stuff too, especially like the galbraith cover of everybody's got pain.

Yep, Volume One of For the Dead In Space.
There are a couple of really great tunes on it, including the Tower Recordings "I Saw the World."

:)

San Antonio has more thrift/junk shops and flea markets than any city I've ever been to, we have visited at least 30 in our two trips there and there are still more.
Richard Vale & the Gem - Where Am I Going (No Label) Second or first record by these really cool cordovox/drums loungers!!!!
Mike De Leon Band - Elegante! (Antonio) Mix of Spanish and english lounge funk
The Center Line - Sayin' It.....Together (Vanco) organ combo does beatles and other cool standards
Tullio De Piscopo - Stop Banjo (Bagaria) 12" club mix!
Al Swan - Swan Songs (No Label) odd instro easy lounge with Bryce Roberson producing!
Harmonium - S/T (Celebration) Canadian prog folk
Colin Blunstone - Ennismore (Epic)
Erik Satie - The Irreverent Inspirations of (Angel)
Tony Joe White - ....Continued (Monument)
Dennis De Souza - Christmas Moods (Caimit)
Chet McIntyre - Sings 'N Swings at the Piano (Mac)
The Temprees - 3 (We Produce)

jack clement - all i want to do in life (<-man this sounds so nice)
michael nesmith - loose salute
matthews southern comfort - later that same year
peter green - in the skies
arlo guthrie - hobo's lullaby
the blue nile - walking across the rooftops
mac gayden - skyboat

Those are all great records! I'm glad you like Jack Clement, it's really a nice country record.

Was looking through some dollar Latin albums at the swap meet today and there was this '60s organ record that I bought. Turns out that it's this guy:

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/lafayette-mn0002155574

So good! Band with twangy twelve-string guitar, versions of "A Man and a Woman," "Green Grass," "You Won't See Me," some Roberto Carlos songs. Version of "Black Is Black" that almost sounds like Booker T.

Mexican pressing on Okeh - didn't know there was a Mexican division of Okeh!

xp yeah for sure! been buying a lot of stuff from yr barefoot jerry thread & loving it all.

yesterday -

mickey newbury - i came to hear the music
dennis linde - s/t
dennis linde - trapped in the suburbs
aretha franklin - spirit in the dark
harry nilsson - nilsson sings newman
doug kershaw - devil's elbow
barefoot jerry - barefootin'
beatles - revolver (mono)
bob dylan - new morning
the everly brothers - songs our daddy taught us
michael nesmith - and the hits just keep on comin'
john martyn - one world
neil young - zuma

Man that's a great pile of records, and the hits just keep on comin'!

Hey just sayin, email me at lolvalstein at gmail dot com, I have a few duplicates of records I think you'll like and I'll just send them to you, no charge.

woah! that would be amazing. email sent

Portland OR and elsewhere

Die Kreuzen - Pink Flag 7"
Rudimentary Peni - Cacophony (new remaster)
Aube - Cerebral Disturbance (beautiful pic disc)
Folk Music Of Yugoslavia (Nonesuch Explorer 042)
Athletico Spizz 80 - Do A Runner LP
A-Frames - Black Forest LP
Klaus Schulze - Body Love
Dead Moon - Trash & Burn (new LP of 1987-2001 outtakes)
v/a Teenbeat 100 7" EP
Sun City Girls - Live From Planet Boomerang 2LP
Sun City Girls - Djinn Funnel
Sandy Bull - Introducing... LP on Vanguard
Blues Control & Laraaji - FRKWYS Vol. 8
Waitresses - Bruiseology
Daniel Bachman - new LP and tour 7"
Legendary Pink Dots - The Curse Of Marie Antoinette (another gorgeous pic disc)
v/a Shadow & Substance LP

found some amazing music over the last few months and got some really great deals too!

scott walker - scott
bert jansch - birthday blues
young tradition - s/t compilation
shirley & dolly collins - anthems in eden, for as many as will
davy graham - large as life and twice as natural
paul brady, andy irvine, matt molloy, donal lunny, etc - the gathering
bothy band - out of the wind into the sun
silly sisters - no more to the dance
ivor cutler - prince ivor
mandrake paddle steamer - overspill
hawkwind - astounding sounds, amazing music
michael chapman fully qualified survivor, millstone grit
john fahey - christmas guitar volume one
steve reich - the desert music
tom rapp - sunforest
neil young - live rust
gary and randy scruggs - the scruggs brothers
lee hazlewood - a house safe for tigers
penguin cafe orchestra - s/t, mini album
gong - flying teapot, angels egg, live etc
john martyn - london conversation, solid air
nick drake - five leaves left, time of no reply
blind boy grunt & the hawks - the basement tapes volume 1
velvet underground & nico - down for you is up
roland kirk - the inflated tear, volunteered slavery
ornette coleman double quartet - free jazz
albert ayler - vibrations
charlie haden - liberation music orchestra
richard davis - muses for, with understanding
max roach - we insist! max roach's freedom now suite
john coltrane - ascension, infinity
muhal richard abrams - life(a) (b)line(c)
cecil taylor - innovations
miles davis - on the corner
stockhausen - gesang der jünglinge/kontakte, kontakte/refrain, prozession
brigitte fontaine, areski, art ensemble of chicago - comme a la radio
karin krog - jazz moments with
karin krog & dexter gordon - some other spring (blues and ballads)
karin krog & bengt hallberg - two of a kind
karin krog, warne marsh, red mitchell - i remember you
john surman, karin krog, pierre favre - such winters of memory
mangelsdorff, favre, kühn, hampel - solo now
catherine ribeiro + alpes - le rat débile et l'homme des champs
flora purim - nothing will be as it was... tomorrow
maria bethânia – pássaro proibido
annette peacock - the perfect release
van morrison - astral weeks, moondance, his band and the street choir, tupelo honey, saint dominic's preview, hard nose the highway, it's too late to stop now, veedon fleece, a period of transition, wavelength

Everything I bought in 2013 (plus a few that were bought for me):

LPs:
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Associates - Sulk
Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
Bill Evans Trio - Everybody Digs Bill Evans
Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Safe as Milk
Cleaners From Venus - Midnight Cleaners
David Bowie - Scary Monsters
David Kilgour - Here Come the Cars
Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo
Devo - Freedom of Choice
Dexys Midnight Runners - Searching for the Young Soul Rebels
Dexys Midnight Runners - Too-Rye-Ay
Fugazi - End Hits
Guided by Voices - Under the Bushes Under the Stars
Hawkwind - Hall of the Mountain Grill
Herbie Hancock - Thrust
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Joni Mitchell - Court & Spark
Kurt Vile - Wakin on a Pretty Daze
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Nas - Illmatic
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
Phil Seymour - S/T
Pixies - Doolittle
PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love
PJ Harvey - White Chalk
Public Image Ltd. - Flowers of Romance
Roxy Music - S/T
Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
Scott Walker - Scott 4
Soft Machine - Third
Steely Dan - Countdown to Ecstasy
Steely Dan - Aja
Talking Heads - Fear of Music
The Beatles - Revolver
The Fall - The Wonderful & Frightening World of...
The Impressions - This Is My Country
Van Morrison - Veedon Fleece
Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger
XTC - Black Sea
XTC - Skylarking

Singles/EPs:
Balam Acab - See Birds
Cocteau Twins - Sunburst & Snowblind
Cocteau Twins - Echoes in a Shallow Bay
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - If Fingers Were Xylophones
Guided by Voices - Chasing Heather Crazy
Jay-Z - Izzo (H.O.V.A.)
The Shins - Phantom Limb
Tortoise - Why We Fight
The Verve - On Your Own
Washed Out - Life of Leisure

shirley & dolly collins - anthems in eden, for as many as will
wait WUT?!
where does one stumble across records like this?

for some reason I have no lime tangier pegged as a New Zealander, but he might be Northeastern US.

stumbled across them via a south korean ebayer for a very reasonable sum ;-)

only time i've actually found any shirley in a shop was a reissue of sweet england early last decade after reading about her in the mid-nineties in the electric muse: folk into folk rock book (which i heartily recommend). still remember the wtf is this look from the guy when i took it to the counter.

Ok that's a relief! Congrats on finding them! I found reissues of Folk Roots, New Routes and No Roses in Barcelona a few years ago and it was unspeakably exciting.