Top 10 CDs You Can Find in Any Shitty Mall Record Store from Now Until The Earth Falls Into The Sun

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10) Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
9) Paul Simon - Graceland
8) The Beatles - Rubber Soul
7) Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill
6) Led Zepplin - I
5) The Who - Who's Next
4) The Velvet Underground - & Nico
3) Black Sabbath - Paranoid
2) The Stooges - Fun House
1) Nirvana - In Utero

― LITTLE LAMB [Jon Williams] (ex machina), Thursday, 18 March 2004 03:48 (twenty-one years ago)

As long as a shitty mall record store carries fun house they have a reason to live. do they all carry it? cool!

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 18 March 2004 03:51 (twenty-one years ago)

That's funny, that's identical to my top 10 albums list

― Sym (shmuel), Thursday, 18 March 2004 03:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually:

9) Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks

― LITTLE LAMB [Jon Williams] (ex machina), Thursday, 18 March 2004 03:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Shitty mall record stores don't carry the first Led Zep album. Just dozens of copies of Presence.

― m.e.a. (m.e.a.), Thursday, 18 March 2004 03:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Or worse, Coda.

― m.e.a. (m.e.a.), Thursday, 18 March 2004 03:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Every crap-ass store ever has many copies of these, preferably discounted and on the wall near the back:

10) Elton John - Greatest Hits
9) Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms
8) U2 - The Joshua Tree
7) AC/DC - Back in Black
6) Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA
5) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
4) Garth Brooks - The Hits
3) Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
2) Boston - Boston
1) Meatloaf - Bat Out of Hell

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 18 March 2004 03:58 (twenty-one years ago)

The hipper mall stores, of course, will get tons of copies of such contentious items such as Sonic Youth's Dirty and that first Edie Brickell album, but only because they're so darned cheap and it might boost their alt cred.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 18 March 2004 04:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Sean, also TONS OF WHITE STRIPES SHIT

― LITTLE LAMB [Jon Williams] (ex machina), Thursday, 18 March 2004 04:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Until the earth falls into the sun, though?

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 18 March 2004 04:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I imagine this is where one could always find a copy of Hotel California or The Dead's Terrapin Station.

― jim wentworth (wench), Thursday, 18 March 2004 04:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay - I'm not quitting - I'm just imagining my top 10 albums if I only had shitty mall record stores in North America to find things in.

1) Genesis "Nursery Cryme"
2) Blue Oyster Cult "Blue Oyster Cult"
3) James Brown Greatest Hits thing - they'll have something and it'll be good - I don't know what they're all called.
4) Ennio Morricone "The Mission" soundtrack
5) Ennio Morricone "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" soundtrack
6) Thin Lizzy "Jailbreak"
7) Do they have an "International" section with that cheap Astor Piazzolla compilation?
8) God damn it.
9) Some Sam and Dave, maybe?
10) "Fun House"?

― jazz odysseus, Thursday, 18 March 2004 04:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I think you'll have a tougher time finding Funhouse than you expect.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 18 March 2004 04:34 (twenty-one years ago)

SAVAGES.

― LITTLE LAMB [Jon Williams] (ex machina), Thursday, 18 March 2004 04:40 (twenty-one years ago)

If they don't got Mojo Nixon, then their store could use some fixin'.

― boldbury, Thursday, 18 March 2004 04:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I bought my copy of "Fun House" at a shitty mall record store, as well as a copy of "Loaded" by Velvet Underground that I ended up selling. It was some years ago, though. When I was in Germany, though, I saw "Kanguru" by Guru Guru in shitty mall record stores there, so I guess it depends where your shitty mall is located. Sometimes I would look at those Columbia House ads to see if I could find 11 CDs I wanted - they had a Mahavishnu Orchestra Trident Sessions one! I wanted that. This reminds me - they'd have ABBA and Kraftwerk CDs in a shitty mall, surely, so I'm not so bad off as I thought.

― jazz odysseus, Thursday, 18 March 2004 04:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Some mall stores don't have Kraftwerk.

― LITTLE LAMB [Jon Williams] (ex machina), Thursday, 18 March 2004 04:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Definitely a lot of Greatest Hits all up in there. and shit.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 18 March 2004 05:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Bob Marley, naturally.

― Sengai, Thursday, 18 March 2004 05:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Ten shitty mall purchases (excluding Fopp cause that's cheating)
All, a fiver or less.

10. Shangri-Las Greatest Hits
9. Decade - Neil Young
8. Rings around the world - Super Furries
7. Bewilderbeast (edited Magic in the air version) - Badly Drawn Boy
6. Ramones - Ramones
5. Ramones - Leave Home
4. Ramones - Rocket to Russia (that was a good day...)
3. Illumnations - Paul Weller
2. Between the gutter and the stars - Fatboy Slim
1. The Wumme years - Faust

(Actually, if I'd said 'under three quid' that would only knock NY and the ramones' off the list)

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 18 March 2004 10:00 (twenty-one years ago)

... which wasn't the point of this thread.. (soz)

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 18 March 2004 11:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I bought Funhouse in a shitty mall in Columbus, Ohio too.....but that was in `85. The last time I went to a music shop in a shitty mall, though, I was hard-pressed to find anything that wasn't (a) crappy chart pop, (b) hip hop, (c) standbys like Pink Floyd's The Wall and (d) endless best-of's by deservedly forgotten bands like Poison. You might find Skull Ring in the Iggy section, but Funhouse isn't quite as easy to track down as it used to be.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 18 March 2004 13:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Which fucking malls are you guys going to? Faust? Do you live in the same America I do?

― David Allen (David Allen), Thursday, 18 March 2004 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

No, I live in a different america, called England.... England...

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 18 March 2004 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I am so tired. I apologize.

― David Allen (David Allen), Thursday, 18 March 2004 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I bought the 8 Eyed Spy album at a mall in Swansea, Massachusetts in 1984. It was in the dollar bin. They also had that cool 12 inch by Echo & The Bunnymen where they do "All You Need Is Love"/"Villiers Terrace" live. I loved that thing. I need another copy. It might have been early 1985.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 18 March 2004 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

do shitty mall "record" stores still exist? what are the top ten CDs you can find in any Wal-Mart?
Funhouse was extremely rare in the 70s. By decade's end some UK import copies were floating around. But it was hard to find even in Michigan at that point!

― lovebug starski, Thursday, 18 March 2004 14:13 (twenty-one years ago)

You should be able to get

A seventies Joni Mitchell Album
A (Reinhardt/Grapelli)Hot Club of France collection.
A sixties Bob Dylan record.
A Motown Hits selection.
A Charlie Parker record.
A Handel record.
A Pavarotti or Domingo selection; old stuff.
A Billie Holiday Collection (go for pre-1943)
A Best of the Kinks, of some sort.
Elgar's second symphony.

― Bunged Out (Jake Proudlock), Thursday, 18 March 2004 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

(I don't know anything about shitty American malls: I'm thinking, like, Woolworths.

― Bunged Out (Jake Proudlock), Thursday, 18 March 2004 14:21 (twenty-one years ago)

My last mall purchase was LL's 'Walking with a Panther'.

― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Thursday, 18 March 2004 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I agree, funhouse is hard to find in mall shitty record stores

― Cacaman Flores, Thursday, 18 March 2004 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I was listening to my 'Fun House Sessions Excerpts' Minidisc.

AlexNY, wasn't it you who wanted a 'rough guide'? The track listings are on it after all...

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 18 March 2004 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

sean c totally OTM about actual records that can be found in actual malls.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 18 March 2004 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry, just found the tracks in the middle, I hadn't done. (takewise)

1. Fun House TAPE GLITCH FRAGMENT

2. (0:10)
3. 1970 (2:25)
4. 1970 (6:04)
5. Lost in the future (5:42)
6. Loose (4:14)
7. Slidin' the blues (4:50)

8. Loose TAKE 16
9. Down On The Street TAKE 10
10. Loose TAKE 25 (FALSE START)
11. T V Eye TAKE 7
12. 1970 TAKE 5
13. Fun House TAKE 4
14. Dirt TAKE 5
15. Freak Later Titled L A Blues TAKE 1

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 18 March 2004 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

'the wumme years' for five pounds? the box set?

― tom west (thomp), Thursday, 18 March 2004 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Two, mate. Seriously. Bought two.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 18 March 2004 17:12 (twenty-one years ago)

(should add, sold the spare one)

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 18 March 2004 17:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm wondering if VU is that easy to find in shitty mall record stores, too. (What are we talking about here? Sam Goody?)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 March 2004 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

The VU, Stooges and Ramones may be available in some mall record stores, but not the really shitty ones. Hell, I'd probably have to drive a hundred miles to find Billie Holiday or the Kinks.

― Salmon Pink (Salmon Pink), Thursday, 18 March 2004 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I couldn't find Graceland at a mall record store once, no joke.

― mike h. (mike h.), Thursday, 18 March 2004 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)

sean c totally OTM about actual records that can be found in actual malls.

Sean & fact checking cuz BOTH totally OTM, except for (maybe) Bryan Adams' Reckless in place of the Garth Brooks.

It's obvious that at least two of we three are from the part of North America where Faust boxed sets don't exactly grow on (maple) trees.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 18 March 2004 18:17 (twenty-one years ago)

nevermind the malls -- you could walk into either of the two huge virgin record stores in new york city right now and very possibly NOT find the 10 records on little lamb's initial list. but they'll most definitely have all of sean's list (though i'd suggest one of shania twain's two trillion-sellers in place of garth).

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 18 March 2004 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I've actually found some incredible stuff in mall stores, yopu just have to be crazy and look through every single disc.

Especially those FYE/Strawberries/etc stores--their used section has had some incredible shit.

― John 2, Friday, 19 March 2004 02:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Newbury Comics Rules OK!

― LITTLE LAMB [Jon Williams] (ex machina), Friday, 19 March 2004 02:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I recently purchased Aphex Twin's 26 Mixes For Cash at the Sam Goody in the local mall. But that's because I had a gift card (a belated X-mas present fro my aunt).

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 19 March 2004 03:45 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Eagles greatest hits 71-75
2. Michael Jackson thriller
3. Pink Floyd the wall
4. Led Zeppelin iv
5. Billy Joel greatest hits vol 1 n 2
6. AC/DC back in black
7. Shania Twain come on over
8. The Beatles white album
9. Fleetwood Mac rumours
10. Whitney Houston the bodyguard soundtrack

anyone notice a pattern?

― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Friday, 19 March 2004 03:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Oooooh how Garth has fallen! I was thinking Shania may be the way to go for one choice, but Garth won.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Friday, 19 March 2004 04:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Garth is #13, after Boston s/t and Alanis. Shocked Shania is the #1 released in the 90's.

― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Friday, 19 March 2004 05:39 (twenty-one years ago)

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