Your Holy Grail

I'm still looking for Pavement's The Slow Century DVD, but I don't think it really exists. Anybody confirm?

Cool answer: Chega de Saudade by Joao Gilberto, in the Brazilian original.

That semi-mythical (for me anyway, I'm assuming its less so to, say, mark s) Slits LP I mentioned in another thread. The Les Rallizes Denudes LP. A copy of the not-even-that-obscure "Ambient 4: Isolationism" comp. which has eluded me for two years now. Derrick May's "lost" album. And of course every 1971-75 Miles bootleg I can get my greasy little mits on.

Nitsuh, have you heard a tape or mp3 of that MBV record? It just that it's a bit, well, crap.

I'm still waiting patiently for the cast recording of the Indie Rock Summer Stock musical, though. (Ethan, shut up.)

Simillarly, the debut album by Belfegore (originally released on Elektra) never saw compact disc release. Why not? I have a reasonably decent CD-R of it, but I'd love to see if finally see the light of day officially. Not holding my breath, of course.

There are also two records that have disappeared from my collection that I'm *dying* to get back: a Gato Barbieri (I think, I lost it so long ago) record called I've Got a Flat Tire on My Ass and Johnny Rios and Nuevo Boogaloos-Bang Bang.

Fila Brasilia-"Old codes, new chaos"

My Holy Grails are: 1) Attack on Precinct 13 soundtrack. 2) supposedly there exists a 13-minute I Feel Love mix. Not sure if it really exists but that makes it even more of a Holy Grail, right? 3) an unnamed track Garnier & co used to drop back in 95/96. Huge track, indeed so huge when it kicked you felt like you were buried under a block of beats, it also had a lot of scratching. Never found out what is was. I hate it when that happens.

No New York - I disliked it at first. It's not great but it's OK.

Omar - is this the 1982(?) Cowley mix you're talking about?

Both the first This Heat alb (David R) and 'Entertainment' by The Gang of Four (Sterling) are fairly easy to find on CD in this country - don't tell me yr being vinyl purists?

My picks:

"Lovelee Sweet Darleene" 12" by MBV - is this the same one Nitsuh was on about, or do you mean the German mini album? If the latter it should be relatively easy to get cos it was reissued about 6 or 7 years ago. "Dunedin Double" compilation album, w/ Verlaines, Sneaky Feelings, etc. "Mummy You're Not Watching Me" by the TVPs, again, this should be easy to get, but i never seem to find it.

THE MYTHICAL UNRELEASED DEMO OF LLOYD COLE SINGING 'IF YOU DON'T CRY'.

Oh man -- a friend of my Dad made me borrow this about 12 years ago and it freaked me out. I've never been the same. He also had a 7" EP with "Disco in Frisco" and a cover of "Night Moves." Knowing what I know now, I shouldn't have returned them. I still need to get the Rhino Handmade compilation.

Now I don't have a holy grail. I'm sad about that.

"The New Record By" is what I would imagine it'd sound like if the singer from the Monochrome Set fronted a band comprised of half the Jesus and Mary Chain and half the Primitives.

Shoegazery, jangly stuff from California. blurry photo of the band on the front. very of its time. I think i only listened to it once after finding it. some of it was good, some not quite as good. the odd thing is that
trk 2. Catherine (see also PCU soundtrack)
trk 6. Katherine

twelve tracks and two of them are practically named the same?

now I don't think I have a holy grail.

I used to have this. It's "interesting" but not all that great. Came with an original bonus 7" if I remember correctly. I forget what was on it. In the end I sold it (and all the other singles) and just kept the CD of 'Cut'. Really, for me the only essential Slits release is the Peel Sessions. Which I don't have aargh (except for a taped copy).

i have so many grails

Ninette - Push a little button 7"
for an example

Nice but Dead by Hansadutta Swami. Only two of Hansadutta's albums ever seem to surface - Nothing to Lose but All to Gain, which circulates as mp3s, and The Vision, which I've never heard. But I've never even seen a copy of Nice but Dead, I'm pretty sure; "Guru Guru on the Wall," which MOAS cites as from the Nice but Dead sessions and is claimed to have been a minor radio success in the Phillippines, also is hearable.

Nice but Dead is almost certainly terrible, but I'd love to actually see a copy.

(MOAS is "Monkey on a Stick," the history of the decline of the Hare Krishnas, btw.)

A friend got rid of that NTLBATG LP because said it created "bad vibes' in his house. And this friend is not prone to hippie-dippie prattle.

Isn't there a book about this dude, too?

A long, long time ago I tuned into some live internet thing (possibly on dial-up) and caught a Bic Runga show where she did a Royal Trux cover. That may be the only thing that I've spent significant time looking for but never found.

Isn't there a book about this dude, too?

the only mass market book I'm aware of that covers Hansadutta is Monkey on a Stick, and he's a more minor character than Kirtananada, his buddy who ran the West Virginia temple and who ended up doing federal time. but MOAS is where the accounts of Nice But Dead come from.

That's the book I was thinking of!

wow, this is amazing: http://www.harekrsna.org/guru-photos.htm

this guy

http://www.harekrsna.org/bogus-gurus/keit-ham8a.jpg

Kirtanananda
murder Swami

ok wow the homophobia gets pretty rancid the further down the page you get

that's the Hare Krsnas, who are a splinter group who consider themselves the actual heirs to ISKCON as it existed under Srila Prabhupada before he dropped his body. When he went back to Godhead, ISKCON was split into global zones and each zone was appointed an acarya. The Hare Krsnas believe that these regional acaryas were, at maximum, to initiate devotees in Srila Prabhupada's place -- that is, on his behalf, and that these new devotees would then be disciples of Srila Prabhupada, just initiated by people acting in his stead. The regional acaryas, as that link indicates, got up to all sorts of nonsense, though some of them seem to have been all right -- Satsvarupa Dasa was pretty full of himself but I'm unaware of any serious reservations about him. I attended an evening class with Hridayananda once and he was as mellow a dude as you'd want to hear about sastra from.

The Hare Krsnas as you'll note are pretty intensely homophobic, their presence on Usenet back in the day was really intense and foul .OK well if anybody wants to talk more about the post '77 ISKCON schisms holler