Give me your opinion on these 1 dollar CD finds...

The Big Daddy Kane so rules - I can't believe how great "Thing" sounds...I haven't had time to get to "daddy's home" yet.

>Haino Keiji - Tenshi No Gijinka
yowling & percussion. pretty good.

>Amps for Christ - The Oak in the Ashes
nice noisy folk with some poppier elements creeping in. the odd jesusousness and pure, raw sound is still intact.

>Skullflower - Last Shot to Heaven ($2)
uh...if you decide you don't want this, i'll double your money for it. i've been trying to find this since the 90s. hell, i'd triple your money.

>Collections of Colonies of Bees - s/t
if this is literally recordings of bees, i have to find a copy.

I'm not giving up the Skull - but I sympathize with your searching. I went through a 10 year search for Vermonster once, only to end up paying 17 bucks when I found it - and I swear to you I'm not kidding that 2 weeks later I found it and "generic indie store" for 7.99 used. That killed me. I'll burn you a copy, if you want.

Wow, I didn't know this even existed. Anyway it's all good, especially Tint Children.

...Tiny children.

Now I'm going to put on Tiny Children and go to sleep, thanks for the tip.

Anyway, most of that stuff sounds great. That's the worst american music club album but it's still great.

The only satisfaction I could gain from revealing the locations is that a bunch of you guys could go in and tell the insufferable clerks at one of the locations what a bunch of un-hip hipsters they are for giving a bunch of good music away for nothing. I actually had to cut a couple of searching sessions short because their chatter really got to me. There was only one time when one of them actually kind of raised their eyebrow that something good may be in the dumping pile...and that was the Hamell on Trial CD. Other than that, they sneared or ignored me, only taking time out to get annoyed when I re-arranged their stacks and blocked an aisle.

I listened to the Crispy Ambulance on the way to work - it's definately worth the buck!

I couldn't agree more. I'm actually ashamed to tell what I found at the St Vincent de Paul thrift store (not a hip thrift store for those of you who don't know) 2 blocks from my house earlier this summer because I think I'm waaay over my "you lucky bastard" limit...

Wow, you are correct. Thanks, I'm glad you led me to that.

"Oh, go on... "

Since you asked. The first six Television Personalities LP's from "and don't the kids..." through "Privilege" and the Salvador Dali ep, pretty much mint, all for a buck. Just tossed into the middle of all the usual beat up Tom Jones and religious records.

I know a lot of people don't like the TVP's, but that was a big deal to me.

*finally cries*

Send Dan Treacy a cheque too!

Now this just makes me hopping mad jealous. I'll never forget being at a record convention back in '89 or '90 when I was desperately trying to find TVPs stuff and I asked this one vendor if he had anything by T.V. Personalities and he told me he had a Hulk Hogan picture disc!!

Honestly, posting a list of CDs you bought so some people can fuck you up the ass with compliments, and then refusing to give out the location? What a prick.

R U GOWING 2 STIK W/ THE SAYME PHAKE LOGIN 4 EACH ATTAK, OR KREEATE A NEW WUN EACH TYME???

(half of this post is true)

I thought that I was doing well when I got a cassingle of 'What the World Is Waiting For'/'Fool's Gold' for a dollar

Fucking Fuck!

Good question - I don't recognize most of what they play, but they were playing Ziggy Stardust once...

That is the worst AMC album, but there's a few good tracks nonetheless. search 'Fearless', 'Cape Canaveral', 'Love Doesn't Belong'.. the slower songs, generally. If you love Eitzel, you'll be happy with it; it's the production and pop songs that are iffier. It's worth having.

The Sloan albums are grand. on BtB search the Jay songs: 'Don't You Believe A Word', 'Waiting for Slow Songs', 'Take Good Care of the Poor Boy'. Pretty Together is their weakest, but the Andrew songs are GOLD: search 'In the Movies' and 'The Great Wall'. I also like 'It's In Your Eyes' and 'Who you Talkin' To'

The 1st track on the Ride album is NICE, as is the final track on the Graeme Downes album. There's another swooning ballad on the GD that's just gorgeous, but I can't recall the name. And _Tinkers to Evers to Chance_ is !!!!! - I haven't listened to it in forever, but give "Regenisraen" & "Erica's Word" (or "Nine Lives to Rigel Five") a spin if you feel like skipping around. And Mia Doi Todd!!! That's a record you should give some quality time to.

Bumping this thread for y'all to mock (or otherwise comment on) my recent dollar bin purchases. I've been listening mainly to jazz vocalists singing the great American songbook, and a smattering of "dad blues." Not ilm favorites, and a couple are actively hated, but since these are genres my wife appreciates as well I've been spinning them a lot, as we're together more since Covid. Recommendations for similar things to look for appreciated.

Carmen McRae - For Lady Day Vol. 1
Cassandra Wilson - Sings Standards
Dianne Reeves - A Little Moonlight
Diana Krall - From This Moment On
Madeleine Peyroux - Careless Love
Robert Plant/Alison Krauss - Raising Sand
Neville Brothers - Yellow Moon
Eric Clapton - Cradle to the Grave
George Thorogood - Born to be Bad
Terry Garland - Trouble in Mind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBAEFgTaaD4

i am going to out myself for something by admitting this —though i'm not sure what exactly— but there's a madeleine peyroux that i legitimately love. the one with the dark blue-ish cover. that's a very nice album.

rockist baggage aside, raising sand is good.

i wish there was some sort of cheap dollar bin type places near us. really enjoy scouring the stacks and looking at yesteryear's cutouts and billion sellers.

this is the one i was thinking of. if i saw that in a dollar bin, it would be an instant purchase.

yellow moon is one of my favorite records ever. imo it laid a foundation for mannie fresh's work in the next decade, embracing obviously nonacoustic and digital sounds and using them to create a distinct murky vibe. title track is aaron's best song and the production is lanois' best as well.

For some reason I had Madeleine Peyroux conflated with Melody Gardot. I had Gardot in my head when Peyroux was mentioned and it took Austin's link to clarify that for me.

I know many of those from working for a chain bookstore and the Madeleine Peyroux was very listenable. You could probably slot Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris' All the Roadrunning into that list.

Maybe 'chain bookstore rock' should be a genre. I would definitely pick up a second Peyroux disc, and I didn't even know about the Knopfler/Harris collab; I've never seen one. I may start investigating the Bonnie Raitt CDs.

Things I have been leaving behind: 10,000 Maniacs (own them on vinyl, never play them) and Natalie Merchant solo (she sold a bazillion copies of her first couple, and they all got given to Goodwill) and Cowboy Junkies (my interest really wanes after Trinity Sessions.)

Yeah, that first Madeleine Peyroux, Dreamland, the one linked w blue cover, is really enjoyable. Her stul is often compared to Billie Holliday's, but she kind of discreetly darts away as soon as she bends the notes, doesn't linger too long on the resemblence. I bought it mainly because James Carter, Cyrus Chestnut, Marc Ribot, then was impressed by her singing *and* the way they and the others supported the singer, without showboating.I don't own Careless Love but remember liking it, and think it's her best-selling.

My fave Raitts are just about all the ones from the 70s (that I've heard): Bonnie Raitt, Give It Up, Takin' My Time, The Glow (although that seemed a bit Ronstadty, in the mid-70s sense), Sweet Forgiveness, Home Plate, and then 1982's Green Light.( Also no doubt worth checking is one from 70s that I haven't heard,Streetlight, which I'm told is more uneven than expected, but I've heard good tracks from it, and producer is Allen Toussaint, so hey.)
Don't know a lot of the later albums too well, but Luck of the Draw is cool, and Fundamental got some good reviews, though I didn't hear the whole thing; Road Tested is good if you like live albums, and her almost-latest, Slipstream, really gave me that 70s-Raitt buzz---the most recent that I know of (blanking on title and year), seemed like a let-down, but/and I didn't listen that much ("I Knew," with title and her guitar pretty much the whole song, is quite a keeper tho)

her *style* is often compared to Billie etc

Thanks! I'm pretty well versed on Bonnie's Warner Bros. years, have or had many on vinyl. Those never show up in the dollar bin. It's all the Capitol stuff, Nick of Time and beyond, that I'm always finding.