Today's Trip To Reckless Records: Classic or Dud?

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Here's what I bought:

Pete Rock and CL Smooth - Mecca and the Soul Brother
The Afghan Whigs - Black Love
The Pet Shop Boys - Behavior
My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
The Non-Prophets - HOPE
Mouse On Mars - Audiotacker
D'Angelo - Voodoo

I also went to Myopic Books and got some shit to read:

Studs Terkel - "The Good War"
Studs Terkel - Talking To Myself: A Memoir of My Times
Chinua Acebe - Things Fall Apart
Raymond Carver - Where I'm Calling From
John Cheever - The Stories of John Cheever
John Cheever - Falconer

― ben welsh (benwelsh), Saturday, 13 December 2003 20:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Plus I went to Underdog and got a bacon char-dog with everything.

― ben welsh (benwelsh), Saturday, 13 December 2003 20:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Let me know how the D'Angelo works out for ya.

I'm going to Rasputin's on my lunch break. What will I find, I wonder?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 13 December 2003 20:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd suggest picking up some W.G. Siebald and, if you haven't exhausted Phillip Roth yet, more of his work. Don't know if I can help you on the music because I wouldn't even look at the prices on a couple of those CDs you bought -- sorry.

― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Saturday, 13 December 2003 20:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Black Love has some fine, fine tracks. "Blame, etc." ; "Going To Town" and "Double Day" are splendid. Some of the slower stuff is good to fuck to.

I've heard good things about Isn't Anything, but I'm not one of the many Loveless fanatics here, so I dunno if I should venture to get it. Let me know how it goes.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Saturday, 13 December 2003 20:35 (twenty-one years ago)

John Cheever & char-dogs 4 life.

― adam michel (adam michel), Saturday, 13 December 2003 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

How's Aquarius doin', guys? it seems like the record store no one talks about anymore.

― donut bitch (donut), Saturday, 13 December 2003 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I just got done listening to "Black Love". It's my first exposure to the Whigs. It wasn't what I expected from what I'd been told about them. I expected something with more pop hooks, structures, etc. I'm reserving judgement for now but I liked it okay.

"Gentleman" is supposed to be the masterpiece, right?

― ben welsh (benwelsh), Saturday, 13 December 2003 21:05 (twenty-one years ago)

It's supposed to be, yeah. But it's Black Love with more grunge and fewer pop hooks. Check out 1965

― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Saturday, 13 December 2003 21:29 (twenty-one years ago)

What's a char-dog?

― Sean (Sean), Saturday, 13 December 2003 21:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I will vouch for Things Fall Apart.

― Elyn (elynbeth), Saturday, 13 December 2003 22:20 (twenty-one years ago)

What on earth is grunge about Gentleman (besides Dulli's goatee in one of the videos)?

― Andy K (Andy K), Saturday, 13 December 2003 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean Gentlemen

― Andy K (Andy K), Saturday, 13 December 2003 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Autoditacker is very good. That Reckless currently has like three used copies of Iaora Tahiti, though, which it seems like is turning into the consensus favorite (or maybe it was just the Pfork 90's list). I thought about picking it up when I was there last night. (Instead: Schneider TM, Zoomer, and the Sundays, Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic, which I've heard a million times but never owned.) Hmm, I also bought that collected Cheever book at Myopic.

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 13 December 2003 23:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Kudos on John Cheever! Read "The Geometry of Love" first. That's my favorite.

― Kate Silver (Kate Silver), Saturday, 13 December 2003 23:15 (twenty-one years ago)

What's a char-dog?

Charbroiled.

Re: "Voodoo"

I just listened to it and I must say I dug. ?uestlove's drums and Raphael Saadiq's bass are right up front to provide some deep grooves. D'Angelo just sorta floats over it like some wispy hybrid of Al Green's Falsetto and more R&B-ish Prince. It sounds a lot like all those other neo-soul philly releases that ?uest and Roy Hargrove are involved in but with D'Angelo being all sexy instead of whoever else. I liked the track "Spanish Joint" a lot. It reminds me a lot of that Common album "Like Water For Chocolate". I'm only one listen in, but I'm ready to endorse it.

Question: Do people outside of Chicago give a shit about Studs Terkel?

― ben welsh (benwelsh), Saturday, 13 December 2003 23:44 (twenty-one years ago)

How's Aquarius doin', guys? it seems like the record store no one talks about anymore.

although i read the Aquarius list, and would go in there every once in a while, i hardly ever bought anything there because it was always a few bucks more than every store in the city. i know support local business and yada yada, but i dunno. and now i've just not been interested in the kinda stuff they sell lately. they're idea of what's good hip hop is just plain awful. (anticon and antipop)

― JaXoN (JasonD), Saturday, 13 December 2003 23:44 (twenty-one years ago)

ben, i heard the Roy Hargrove solo cd and it is the worst piece of smooth jazz poop i've ever heard

― JaXoN (JasonD), Saturday, 13 December 2003 23:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Also: Is there some sort of pronounciation guide available for Mouse on Mars album and song titles? They make Sigur Ros look simple.

ben, i heard the Roy Hargrove solo cd and it is the worst piece of smooth jazz poop i've ever heard

Are you talking about that "RH Factor" thing? My friend recc-ed that to me not too long ago.

― ben welsh (benwelsh), Saturday, 13 December 2003 23:46 (twenty-one years ago)

"Autoditacker is very good. That Reckless currently has like three used copies of Iaora Tahiti, though, which it seems like is turning into the consensus favorite (or maybe it was just the Pfork 90's list)."

Yeah, I thought that was a bizarre choice on Pitchfork's part (among many). That's my least favorite MoM full length.

― r, Sunday, 14 December 2003 00:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Classic, just for Mouse On Mars and D'Angelo.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Sunday, 14 December 2003 01:07 (twenty-one years ago)

It took a few listens to for me to really hear how singular and deep the grooves are on Voodoo. The drums and the bass and especially the vocals are never perfectly together, they're always offset on different parts of the same beat just enough that the feel is really nasty. Pretty cool use of Pro-Tools in a musical way.

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 14 December 2003 01:11 (twenty-one years ago)

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