Great albums out of print as of 4/24/05

Swervedriver - Mezcal Head

..and that other good tim buckley album.

The Magical World of The Strands

the "Afternoon Tea" compilation series

why don't they just reissue "the heather's on fire"? they would be fucking stupid to mess with that tracklist.

Colossal Youth was going to be reissued a few months back, did anything come of this?

The Feelies -- their whole back catalogue, actually.
The Embarassment -- Heyday, other collections.
The Chills -- Kaleidoscope World, Brave Words.
Mofungo -- Messenger Dogs of the Gods.
Volcano Suns -- Bright Orange Years.
The Loft -- Once Around the Fair.
World of Pooh -- Land of Thirst.
39 Clocks -- their catalogue.

No New York.

Although I guess it's technically out of print, the 2LP/CD leftover stock is available here by the people that bought the rights to Grand Royal.

Really? I bought this on CD not that long ago and I dont think it was a secondhand copy...

John Cale - Music for a New Society (although I found a mint copy of this for $17 a few months ago)
The Comsat Angels' first three albums of course
The Au Pairs - Playing With a Different Sex (although I like the remixed/remastered Sense and Sensuality better)
All Kitchens of Distinction albums (in America, although they're available in Britain)

BUT, in most cases, it's the single edits (show some love for the 11-minute fuzzbowls!), and one of my fave MH tracks ("Maggie & Harry") is represented on the comp in its rerecorded slower version ("93 Million Miles...")

That said, the comp (Juggernaut Rides) is nice.

http://search.ebay.com/The-Feelies_Music_W0QQfkrZ1QQfromZR8QQsacatZ11233

No, but the way I usually can tell is by looking on Amazon. If they don't have the "add to cart" link and it's just listed under "amazon sellers," that means the distributor isn't offering the title any more. A lot of times, however, things are "in-print" in the UK but not here (see Richard Thompson's albums, Entertainment, etc.)

Pretend you have a label specialising in reissues. What would you release?

http://tt.net/coyote/projects/8673.html

You don't get cover art. Somehow $15 for a retransferred-in-2003 version without cover art seems like a better answer than a $6 tape or a $70 used copy, but maybe that's just me. Be sure to note that Yung Wu's Shore Leave and the No One Knows EP are available on CD as well.

Vic, thanks for the tip on Liquid Liquid..

And I really can't believe that the This Heat catalogue is OOP right now... You'd think that there would be a steady demand for it-- at least a lot more than 3/4 of the crap in your local record store. Maybe This Heat issues are like Disney-- they keep them somewhat rare to increase value?

Orange Juice was never issued in the US? Damn. I see that Japanese import on amazon, but it's a little more money than I'd like to spend-- i've got the mp3s, so i'm not exactly dying for it. Same with Return on the Giant Slits, Harmonia, etc.

I didn't know Cluster 71 was available.. yoink!

Also, MY BLOODY VALENTINE EPs.. you can actually buy the three-fer on amazon-- it just doesn't exist.

And I think the reason the This Heat albums aren't in print is due to legal/copyright issues.

23 Skidoo - Seven Songs
49 Americans - everything, especially 'We Know Nonsense'
100 Flowers - S/T + Singles
Adam & The Ants - Dirk Wears White Sox (was this recently issued again?)
Au Pairs - Playing with a Different Sex (ok, not brilliant, but deserves to be in print)
Cluster - 71
Comsat Angels - all the early albums, I think
Crash Course in Science's stuff (+unreleased)
Creatures - 'Feast' + 'Wild Thing EP' (maybe this is in print?)
Dalek I Love You - Compass Kumpas
Delta 5 - See the Whirl (+Singles)
Diagram Bros. - Some Marvels of Modern Science (+Singles)
Dow Jones & The Industrials - Hoosier Hysteria (+Singles)
Einstruzende Neubauten - Kollaps
Embarrassment - at least the compendium, though it'd be nice to just have everything reissued in full
ESG - I guess that Souljazz comp covered most stuff. . .
Family Fodder - 'All Styles,' 'Monkey Banana Kitchen,' 'Schizophrenia' etc. etc.
Flying Lizards - The Fourth Wall. S/T?
Front 242 - Geography (?)
Gang of Four - Peel Sessions
Girls At Our Best - Pleasure
Gist - Embrace the Herd
Half Japanese - Half Gentlemen Not Beasts
Jerry Harrison - The Red & The Black (not that great, but it has moments)
Robin Hitchcock - Black Snakd Diamond Role (?)
Human Switchboard - Who's Landing in My Hanger (+ Singles)
Lemon Kittens - everything, pretty much
Liquid Liquid - everything (?)
Maximum Joy - Station MXJY (+ singles)
Massacre - Killing Time
Mekons - S/T, Quality of Mercy is Not Sternen (?)
Monitor - S/T +
MX-80 - is any of their stuff in print? None of it is hard to find. . .
Nasmak - mainly '4our Clicks'
Neonbabies - all the stuff
Colin Newman - is any of it in print in the States? At least 'A-Z' and 'Commercial Suicide'?
Orange Juice - everything (soon to be rectified?)
O-Level - " " "
Our Daughter's Wedding - Moving Windows +
Passions - 30,000 Feet Over China, Michael & Miranda
PigBag - Dr. Heckle & Mr. Jive + singles (UK comp is great)
Plastics - 'Origato Plastico', 'Welcome Plastics'
PragVec - No Cowboys +
Pop Group - is anything in print in the U.S.?
Psychic TV - Force the Hand of Chance
Pylon - everything (is that comp still in print?)
Raincoats - everything (easy to find, other than the S/T)
Rip, Rig & Panic - God +
Ryuichi Sakamoto - B2 Unit, Left Handed Dream
Siouxsie & The Banshees - A Kiss in the Dreamhouse (was for a while anyway)
Slits - Peel Sessions, Return of the Giant Slits
Sonic Youth - S/T EP
Mark Stewart - Learning to Cope with Cowardice, others?
This Heat - everything now, apparently
Three Johns - Atom Drum Bop
The Times - Pop Goes Art
Trio - S/T (great German version available)
Urban Verbs - Early Damage
Voice Farm - The World We Live In +
Y Pants - Beat it Down + (back in print?)

I've spent fairly stupid amounts of money to get a lot of this stuff, and was lucky enough to buy a lot of it in the UK when the dollar wasn't so weak. A lot of it isn't hard to find or that expensive, but a lot of it as far as I know has never been reissued anywyere.

Yes. All Adam albums from Dirk to Vive Le Rock got a very good reissue over the last year.

Creatures - 'Feast' + 'Wild Thing EP' (maybe this is in print?)

Available on a compilation called A Bestiary of the Creatures that was released about five, six years back -- possibly that is out of print again.

Gist - Embrace the Herd

Was rereleased by Ryko about three years back.

Robin Hitchcock - Black Snakd Diamond Role (?)

Rhino covered the rights to Robyn's early solo stuff and reissued it mid-nineties -- did they let that lapse?

MX-80 - is any of their stuff in print? None of it is hard to find. . .

Atavistic rereleased almost all of it; worse comes to worse just contact Gulcher Records.

Pop Group - is anything in print in the U.S.?

Dan Selzer indicated there's a comp coming up on Soul Jazz. Similarly with Stewart's stuff solo.

Siouxsie & The Banshees - A Kiss in the Dreamhouse (was for a while anyway)

All Siouxsie albums due for a reissue along the lines of the Cure reissues.

i sold this for like $60 not long ago

there is some sort of orange juice reissue out soon on domino but i think it is the pre-album singles.
why don't they just reissue "the heather's on fire"? they would be fucking stupid to mess with that tracklist.

does this mean it's time to sell my copies of those two gatefold postcard lp reissues? i think those are really rare.

The Gist release on Ryko is out of print and hard to find.

i think i still have my copy of this... i hope i do anyway. this was never given a proper release i don't think. i mean i think a few 1,000 copies--if that--were pressed and that was it. i've only ever seen it once in my life and i bought that copy.

duh.

yeah, those mini-LP sleeve things are kind of silly. i like how economical they are, but they are a pain to use.

Doug Sahm-Texas Rock For Country Rollers
Dream Syndicate-Medicine Show
The Complete Buddy Holly
Neil Young-Time Fades Away
Phil Ochs-Phil Ochs' Greatest Hits
Nancy & Lee-S/T
Lulu-Melody Fair & New Routes
Gene Clark-White Light & Roadmaster
Bob Seger-All Pre-Beautiful Loser albums
The Soundtrack to "Z"

Isn't "The Good Earth" the Feelies record produced by Peter Buck? I bought it new at Virgin about 4 years ago.

ESG - ESG

Slovenly are one of my very favourite bands of all time, and I totally endorse this! Never found any of the New Alliance stuff here, so I could really use an extensive comp. And maybe some folk dont know some of their later stuff either? (I have Mike to thank for introducing me to them thru Chemical Imbalance all those years ago and I guess this is my one big chance to thank him for doing me that inestimable favour - sorry to embarrass you Mike, but thanks like about a million times!)

Oh also, what Clock DVA stuff is in print these days?

Weren't Lou Reed's Rock and Roll Heart, The Bells and Growing Up In Public reissued not too long ago? I can't find 'em anywhere. Street Hassle and New Sensations are also scarce.

A lot of 80s noise stuff...
First four Live Skull records
Skullflower's Form Destroyer
Cop Shoot Cop's Headkick Facsimilie (though that went OOP almost as soon as it was released)
Swans - First EP
Drunks With Guns - entire catalog

Although I wouldn't call them great records, Rob Zombie's done a great job of supressing the first two White Zombie albums.

After the Dylan doc aired, I discovered the entire John Jacob Niles is OOP.

Lou Reed - Legendary Hearts
Lou Reed - New Sensations

I'm very much afraid that there's something very seriously wrong with either your speakers or your ears.

It's a long story, but apparently there was some sort of fuck up by Track Records (who were probably somewhat distracted by the fact that they were rapidly going down the pan at the time) which resulted in the original vinyl release sounding horribly muffled; almost as if there was someone holding a pillow either over your ears or in front of your speakers.

I'm told this didn't affect the original cassette release - and I've even heard it suggested that the masters used for the vinyl were actually the wrong ones!

If the sound reproduction - not to mention the distribution - of the original album hadn't been so piss poor, then I strongly suspect that the story of Johnny Thunders; the Heartbreakers; and maybe even (who know?) the entire punk scene in both the UK and the USA; would have unfolded very differently.

That's not to say that the original L.A.M.F. couldn't be advantageously remastered, because I rather suspect it could; but in the meantime, L.A.M.F. The Lost '77 Mixes sounded like a complete revelation to my ears, after having lived with that original vinyl since it first came out.

I excitedly purchased The Lost '77 Mixes as well, listened to it a few times, and put it back on the shelf. While it's definitely preferable to the abortion that is LAMF Revisited, it's not a life-changing punk record for me. The original mix is dirty back alley rock n roll, and I wouldn't want it cleaned up anymore than I'd want Junkyard or Right Now! or Enter The 36 Chambers cleaned up.

The fact remains that L.A.M.F. is out of print, and it will probably never make the transition to CD because of its reputation as being the nadir of audio fidelity. Being a fan of punk + indie music, I've heard way worse recordings than the original L.A.M.F. (waaaayyy worse) and anybody scared off should really give it a listen before they judge. Maybe I'll YSI the thing...

.... as if it really should - as if it really ought to - sound so much better.

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To me it sounds / sounded as if someone had fucked up the bass EQ; or one of the speaker cones had blown; or someone had draped a duvet over one of the speakers; or you had an earful of wax - or maybe full of water from when I took that shower earlier....

Unfortunately no amount of dicking about (at least none that IIII ever achieved) with either the equipment or a cotton wool bud ever actually managed to put that right, and ultimately only added to the frustration.

Of course you're also absolutely right that people should make up their own minds if and when they get the opportunity rather than just believing what they read.

Always.

About everything.

I'll bet one whole shiny new penny that more than half of them will agree that L.A.M.F. sounds horribly and frustratingly muffled 'though.

Still, great cover pic http://blog.drecom.jp/avallo/img/14/Heartbreakers-LAMF-.jpg

The same recording (and supposedly the same mix / master) as the album - but fuck does it sound better!

Never heard the Chinese Rocks 12", but your tip has certainly put me on the hunt!

Raw Power by The Stooges

I have the original UK cassette and it sounds fine to me. Haven't heard the vinyl so I've nothing to compare it to, but it doesn't exhibit any of the well-documented problems often attributed to the original LP.

I haven't played either of then for a while now, but IIRC Jungle's 'LAMF Revisited' doesn't sound *hugely* different to the Track cassette.

(more on it here - http://stereosociety.com/drumiseverything.html )
(May be the best British pop-jazz record of the early 80s.)

Did Drunks with Guns ever get reissued?

nope

:/

some updates:

Wall of Voodoo - Dark Continent = reish in 2009
Feist - Monarch = apparently feist put this out on vinyl just this past may
Misfits - 12 Hits From Hell = lol
Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers - L.A.M.F. = box set from jungle records is supposed to have original track records mix on it
Dog Faced Hermans - Hum of Life = LP reish in 2009
first four Live Skull records = hahahaha
Skullflower's Form Destroyer = nope, this and xaman still OOP, tho IIIrd gatekeeper was reish'd by crucial blast in 2007
Cop Shoot Cop's Headkick Facsimilie = nope
Swans - First EP = think gira's given up on this one
Drunks With Guns - entire catalog = nope
first two White Zombie albums = these were part of the let sleeping corpses lie boxset in 2008, soul-crusher has aged really well and I wish I had repped for it during the 80s album poll

soulcrusher sounds like the birthday party trying to make a metal album

xpost Lick My Decals is avail on Amazon MP3; haven't heard it, but others from them sound good, for MP3s. There's no legit CD version, far as I know, unlike most if not all of his original releases.

Been on a kick going to find a few that I haven't heard in years that I had as a teenager. Other than a boxset, it doesn't look like the Samhain stuff has been printed since the first CDs, which considering the enduring popularity of the Misfits is surprising. Danzig owns those records, so I figure if he wanted them out they would be. Voivod's early catalog is largely out of print and that I would guess is possibly caught in other companies own them and don't care to put them out. I might have to break out and get the MP3s on that one.

Samhain- Initium
Voivod- Nothingface (It's out there as MP3s though...)

One of my favorite albums of all time, Troublegum by Therapy?, is out of print as far as I know. At least in the US.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/B000008LIX/ref=sr_1_1_olp?ie=UTF8&qid=1359844877&sr=8-1&condition=used

seriously - i'll buy it and send it over if you want ...

Thanks, but I'll spare you the penny. I still have my copy.

(It is listed used for a penny on the US Amazon site.)