2013 scores

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.

― scott seward, Monday, 11 February 2013 14:58 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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

found a surprisingly good country 78 in the thrift store today!
mcclung brothers 'it's a long way to tipperary' / 'when i wore a tulip and you wore a big red rose' on brunswick. recorded almost exactly 86 years ago. march 7, 1927 in new york city.

also got some LPs --
willis alan ramsey s/t (dupe, for discogs)
paul siebel - woodsmoke & oranges (dupe, for discogs)
richard thompson - alvie more or less (dupe, for discogs.)
plus things by bill staines, jimmy spheeris, bud freeman, eddie drennon etc

Saturday elpeees
Eat Skull III
The World of Arthur Russell
Dave Van Ronk "Songs for Ageing Children"
The Cryan' Shames "Sugar and Spice"
Cyrkle "Neon"

excuse me THE Cyrkle

ty segall - twins
nas - illmatic
misfits - legacy of brutality

Found a NM mono version of Impulse's The New Wave in Jazz in the cheapo bins at A-1. A live date featuring Coltrane, Shepp, Ayler, Tolliver, Moncur III, Murray, Tyner, Hutcherson, Elvin and others. Great session.

Also:
Clipse - Lord Willin'
DJ Chuck Chillout - Rhythm is the Master
The Jones Girls - Get as Much Love as You Can

saw a young dealer dude i know at a place that shall remain nameless and he was all like haha glad i got all the good stuff before you got here haha. and i said haha right good to see you. and after he left i bought a 600 dollar blue note rekkerd for five bucks. he must have missed that one. kids today...

juvenia 2000 - en mi barrio

(there seems to be no documentation of this record on the internet)

saw a young dealer dude i know at a place that shall remain nameless and he was all like haha glad i got all the good stuff before you got here haha. and i said haha right good to see you. and after he left i bought a 600 dollar blue note rekkerd for five bucks. he must have missed that one. kids today...

― scott seward, Monday, March 11, 2013 2:39 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

<3

scored a copy of the 5 LP Virgo Four box this weekend. House rules the nation!

traded a guy my wilburn burchette 'occult concert' for these --
richard crandell - in the flower of our youth (orig)
klaus schulze - timewind
fields ward LP on rounder
timothy & ms. pickens w/ natural act.

i like the the burchette, but i never listened to it. and it wasn't selling on discogs, even when i marked it down a bit. wanted the timothy & ms. pickens for a while. it's not the most consistent record in the world and there is some definite melodrama & oversinging going on, but i'm glad to have it. timewind cuz i was kinda missing the klaus schultze records i used to have.. i never had timewind. but i should hafe kept X and Mirage. I don't even remember when I sold them, but they must have gone at some pt cuz they ain't there anymore.

annie's in chicago so i dug for records all weekend!

steely dan -- +fours EP
scott fraser -- architecture (a surprising highlight!)
other music -- prime numbers
the cure -- pornography
orchestre regional de kayes (cheap MS reissue copy)
michael naura -- vanessa
sarah webster fabio -- soul aint: soul is (only the cover for $1 at flea market but just in case i find the record someday!!)
bionic boogie
john villemonte -- people like you (RE)
eddie gale -- quiet times and inner peace
the psychedelic saxophone of charlie nothing (my splurge of the weekend, but all used LPs were 25% ofF and it is in PERFECT shape for $75)
steiker/chengges -- straywinds (awesome weirdo private poetry/atmospheric jamz thing $2 thrift score!)
kate bush -- running up that hill 12"
marion brown -- recollections (swiss solo LP from 85 -- really pretty!)
azar lawrence -- bridge into the new age
walter zuber armstrong -- alpha and omega (siiiiiick 70s spiritual flute jazz (but not solo flute) from vancouver guy)
kraftwerk -- the man-machine shitty $1 copy
organic sound LP (howard roberts bay area thing)
cowboy -- why quit when youre losing 2LP
clifford jordan -- starting time (jacked cover but great OG record for cheap)
under the coconut tree LP
mal waldron/marion brown -- songs of love and regret
archers of loaf icky mettle OG cause whatever i love this shit
castro valley high sound of music (unfortunately its a recording of the high school class's performance of TSoM, not some funky 70s HS talent show LP. it was sealed so i didnt know, but castro valley isnt the funkiest place, so i shouldve known)
sir douglas quintet -- 1+1+1=4
mission of burma -- signals calls and marches
bobby bryant -- swahili strut
mike quatro jam band -- paintings
milton marsh -- continuum
jonas hellborg axis
godheadsilo -- the scientific supercake LP
negative trend 12"
metheny/coleman -- song x (never heard this somehow?? stoked to.)
michael nesmith -- loose salute
eno/mobius/roedelius -- after the heat
shirley collins -- a favourite garland (late press on import)
norman greenbaum -- petaluma

Damn that is some weekend

everybody's gotta come out to cali sometime for a records weekend sometime. we do swaps and thrifts and stores and estate sales and stuff. there's so many records here!

I've been meeting some cool diggers around here lately. There's a couple in a small town about twenty minutes from where I live who do stuff with the Numero group guys (who I also just met). This couple were really innaresting. They buy lps, but only to sell them. All they listen to at home is 45s. Dude bought the Pretty 45 "Mustache in Your Face" out of a car trunk in Kansas City, it's a new Numero relase.

nice!

Dead Moon - Strange Pray Tell
Dead Moon - Stranded In The Mystery Zone
Meat Puppets - 1st (super old school SST pressing w/Thermidor label)
Fleetwood Mac - Kiln House (almost done filling in the back catalog)
Jessika Kenney/Eyvind Kang - The Face Of The Earth
Esplendor Geometrico - Comisario De La Luz/Blanco De Fuerza
Flying Saucer Attack - Outdoor Miner
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - The Funeral Pudding EP
Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight (Glass Fish reissue w/beautiful alternate cover that I love)
Alvarius B/Dylan Nyoukis split LP
V/A - Fanajana LP (Madagascar field recordings on Mississippi)
Grouper - Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill, Sleep (Fragment), Cover The Windows And The Walls
Dadamah - Violet Stains Red
The Three Johns - Some History
Airway - Beyond The Pink 7"/CD
Le Forte Four etc - Boris The Spider 7"/CD
Doo-Dooettes - Think Space 7"/CD

V/A - Experiments in Destiny (Bomp! Comp)
Shoes - Present Tense

Wow, unreleased Dadamah! I hadn't heard about that record.

My quarter spot went up to 50¢, so appalled.
Michael Nesmith & The First National Band - Magnetic South

Oh yeah, also got one of these:
http://i50.tinypic.com/mwqnnc.jpg

It's a book which includes a cardboard flap with a steel needle taped to it and a flexidisk that you spin with your finger.

Bought The Holydrug Couple's "Noctuary" (Sacred Bones) at their show last night at Death By Audio. Chilean psych-rock, worth seeing tonight at Mercury Lounge (with Follakzoid and La Big Vic) if you're into that kinda thing.

got a copy of nancy & lee for a buck at goodwill today. which is nice. i didn't have a copy. had one years ago, but it went somewhere. it's a kinda scuffy copy too, so i will hold on to it and not sell it

sick

dealz while annie got a shiatsu massage:

marcus allen -- petals $1
linda tillery LP $1
jimi -- are you experienced? (VG OG US for $3 but i dont have one so whatever)
black sabbath -- s/t (OG US for $5!)
first two commander cody & LPA records for a buck each
live/dead 2LP w green labels for $2
rosko/james spaulding/ron carter -- my lai LP ($17 but still a pretty good deal!)

i bought like 300 records this weekend maybe?
highlights include
sun ra 'night of the purple moon' (o.g. saturn, water damaged sleeve, $20!)
bukka white 'mississippi blues' (o.g. takoma, from the guy at the antiques market who prices 'with the book' so it was $20 but w/e i am happy with that.)
one-sided bill orcutt 12"
soft machine 7 $1
generic flipper w/ radio station writing on jacket, $4
huge stack of nonesuch explorer series titles really cheap

here is what i think i'm gonna keep for myself from my haul this weekend --
paul parrish - the forest of my mind
martin carthy w/ dave swarbrick
ISB - wee tam (didn't have this one.)
gato barbieri & don cherry on inner city
bill orcutt - way down south
barefoot jerry - watchin' tv
elyse s/t
rockin foo
tommy james - crimson & clover (used to have, love this one)
circle - paris concert (braxton/corea/holland/altschul)
pentangle - reflection
redeye - one man's poison
grateful dead - terrapin station (never owned this one)
jack hardy - the cauldron
george chambers & the country gentlemen - special release (private country/rock)
cunha - songs
jack adkins - american sunset (private ssw)
chris smither - it ain't easy
archie shepp - tree for a quarter, one for a dime
sandy courville & dennis mcgee - la vieille musique acadienne
bukka white - MS blues

Bought The Holydrug Couple's "Noctuary" (Sacred Bones) at their show last night at Death By Audio. Chilean psych-rock, worth seeing tonight at Mercury Lounge (with Follakzoid and La Big Vic) if you're into that kinda thing.

Haha I learned yesterday that C00per Cr4in played synth in Follakzoid at the Mercury Lounge show. He did sound at their gig with Psychic Ills at the Empty Bottle in Chicago and hit it off with them. Their synth dude had to get back home, so they asked Coop if he could help out. They flew him out just for the one show. He said it went really well, though. I'm sure a collaboration is on the horizon at some point.

Digging Follakzoid and HolyDrug Couple fwiw.

ian, nice find on that chris smither. it's a surprisingly great album for being mostly covers in the mid-80s, and it's also super tough to find in the wild. one of the few legitimately good records on adelphi. do you dig that rockin foo, though? i wanted to but the vox rub me the wrong way.

There are plenty of good records on Adelphi! Well, at least all the Suni McGrath records, and tbe Gerry Goffin double, and Patrick Sky's dirty record. and I like the Sam Firk too.
Rockin' Foo is okay, for a buck I can't go wrong. Also, no one wants to buy that record so I may as well hold on to it.

do you fuck w. Jack Hardy, Moe?
Even his eighties records are pretty good I think. Some people peg him as working in the Leonard Cohen style, and I guess he does fall in that school of songwriting about characters/places. Hell of a voice imo, and a great songwriter.

re: adelphi, yeah, fair enough... i guess my problem is that i only ever see the endless garbage hippie string band dreck.

re: hardy, i have only ever seen that first one talked about by klausman, i think. or maybe you? i got the impression that copies turned up in NYC fairly regularly but i've definitely never seen one on the west coast. it sure looks up my alley. will happily trade you for your next double of any of his.

yeah, they're definitely NYC records. i was surprised to find 'the cauldron' in RI. think you'd dig 'em. will keep my eyes open.

Digging Follakzoid and HolyDrug Couple fwiw.

I like Follakzoid less ... they sound like other stuff I like but it's kinda "basic krautrock 101" imo. Still was glad I saw em.

really couldnt hang w follakzoid or holydrug couple for their first records. they sort of put me off ordering sacred bonez stuff for a while tbh...

Ha that's funny cuz they are getting me interested in Sacred Bones again. I find the Men very boring.

you and me both

yeah I just posted on the Men thread today haha. new one is not so good. Leave Home was solid though

i got some dope 78s from my friend john today, including a narmour & smith record that came from Crumb's collection.

Got a nice og copy of The Four Tops on Top ('66 - has "Shake Me, Wake Me" on it) for a dollar at the swap meet yesterday. Another great sounding Motown mastering job!

someone brought a copy of the mountain bus album into the store. some radio station graffiti on the cover, but the vinyl is clean. gonna keep it. also a super-clean WLP copy of the eclection album on elektra. sounds amazing. also a copy of the Just Vandy album. cover ain't so hot cuzza the radio thing - stickers/writing - but the vinyl is really clean. i might keep it. nice record, but not like a mind-blowing record. femme folk from 1972.

http://www.popsike.eu/pix/20130214/350714207249.jpg

same label that put out the mason album:

http://www.popsike.eu/pix/20080620/140242920556.jpg

i've wanted that mountain bus for years but can never bring myself to spend money on it.
i'd be happy with an affordable copy of the akarma reissue at this point.

paying a lot of money for old akarma vinyl is just ridikkilus to me.

yeah, it's dumb. but if i found a copy for $20 i wold buy it, i guess. especially cuz the mountain bus one comes with a bonus LP.