Where is the Love For All These Bands from my "RECENTPROMOS" CD Shelf Who I Am Probably Going to Throw Away Next Week Because They're No Good For Trade Or Even Giving To People You Don't Like

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This is a short list of stuff that I could only get through once, or only a fraction of the way, and not even out of the shrinkwrap, it looked so awful, in one case (*). If they deserve love, they should get a last shot at it, a chance for reassessment.

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Vaz
Drywall*
The 88
The New Lou Reeds
The Grabs
Roue

― George the Animal Steele, Wednesday, 23 November 2005 21:55 (twenty years ago)

And add:

Hanson -- the recent live album

― George the Animal Steele, Wednesday, 23 November 2005 22:00 (twenty years ago)

vaz are labelemates but thats not y i wood listen to them..they serve a nice ham bone of just off enuff chordage to keep th party killed..try it w ice.

― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 22:09 (twenty years ago)

which drywall is it? i liked the drywall incident with the mighty stan ridgway on it.

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 22:14 (twenty years ago)

Vaz always brings it. They're a noise-rock (emphasis on rock) duo from NYC, kind of like a two-man QOTSA. This album doesn't touch the one they did for GSL, but it's darker and murkier.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 23:06 (twenty years ago)

Yep, it's the Stan Ridgway Drywall. Vaz lost me about halfway through the second cut. Maybe I should try again.

― George the Animal Steele, Wednesday, 23 November 2005 23:41 (twenty years ago)

Come to think of it, the New Lou Reeds were a duo too, I thin'. The Vaz CD didn't seem very noisy, just muddy.

― George the Animal Steele, Wednesday, 23 November 2005 23:43 (twenty years ago)

I give all that stuff to the Salvation Army store. Somebody'll buy 'em. ("Yes, this will be good on eBay! When I start doing that, next week for sure!")

― don, Thursday, 24 November 2005 00:27 (twenty years ago)

You're a finer man than I. In agreement re the eBay joke. Mebbe I can sell the Vaz CD for $80 to someone from Japan through Amazon. I learned it's all about margins from the LA Times on Monday, according to the business section. Amoeba makes over half its profit from its overpriced vinyl and used CDs marked up on high margin. That is, you bring something worthless in and they give you $1.25 for it, then they stick an 'Out of Print' decal on it and reprice it at $10 or more. I read only the most brilliant people in the world can pass the Amoeba buyer's exam, the trick being to identify the regional value of the most obscure in any genre and being able to purchase it for a price that's right. That's what the paper said. (Actually, you only have to have one person on staff who receives a boat load of promo CDs to know what's going to be dumped by labels ahead of time.)

Who knew? Sheezus, it's just like eBay. Only those with the advanced DNA needed to handle the equivalent of the Middle Ages bazarre need compete.

They probably have a dozen copies of the 88 and The Grabs, each.

― George the Animal Steele, Thursday, 24 November 2005 07:34 (twenty years ago)

I got that Vaz thing, too...along with a Guitar Wolf tribute CD (and the Guitar Wolf best-of, which I actually played - I used to hate them, but that was before I'd ever heard High Rise or Mainliner and gotten used to the Japanese in-the-red sound; now I kinda dig 'em).

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Thursday, 24 November 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)

That tribute CD was a bit of a letdown I thought

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 24 November 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

RECENTPROMOS

I thought this was Spanish at first.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Thursday, 24 November 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

George yeah that's the way it's worked in the stores where I've worked, none of which were Amoeba, to put it mildly; it already worked that way, but esp. since burners came along. (The eBay note to self was from the guy buying my shit at Sal Army Store, as well as from me.)(sorry for prefanity,Sal!)(Happy Turkeys, fellow collectors)

― don, Thursday, 24 November 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)

¡recéntpromos!

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Thursday, 24 November 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

I actually thought that New Lou Reeds CD was better than any new Lou Reed album in a couple decades (post-Velvets Northern Ohio-style drone with post-talking-blues ranting on top; best tracks "Stranded in Ashland," "Teenage Metalhead," "Gone Fishin'," "Brighton Beach," "Hometown Hero," and maybe "Peter Laughner" though maybe with that one I just really liked its title), but is it possible I was overrating it at the time? Yes, it is possible.

― xhuxk, Thursday, 24 November 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

speaking of unwanted promos .. what to do with 1 trackers ? you bin em/give em away etc .. they are seriously clogging up space in my house.

― mark e (mark e), Thursday, 24 November 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

Princeton Record Exchange takes EVERYTHING, CD-Rs included, though who knows what they do with them. (You just gotta make it to Princeton first.)

― xhuxk, Thursday, 24 November 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

I'm not as thrilled by the new The 88 album as I was by their debut, but I'm also surprised they get so little love around here. Sometimes wonder if they get underrated for appearing on the soundtracks to too many young-adult shows (The OC, etc.).

Pros: lead singer is often a dead ringer for Ray Davies, songwriting ranges from competent to great power pop (often w/heavy Kinks overtones). Check the track "Nobody Cares" from the new one.

Cons: lousy videos, a single from the new album ("Hide Another Mistake") that gets gimmicky w/the production for no good reason, and the audience they seem to be courting probably couldn't care less about the Village Green.

― dlp9001, Thursday, 24 November 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

hmm, I also got a promo of The Grabs and they're not bad... pleasant, gets a bit boring and forgettable, but really worth putting it on at least once... it's Eleni Mandell fronting and the bass constantly makes you think that a Television or a Patti Smith song is about to start (as helpfully pointed out on the sticker)

― alex in montreal (alex in montreal), Thursday, 24 November 2005 17:23 (twenty years ago)

Princeton Record Exchange takes EVERYTHING, CD-Rs included, though who knows what they do with them. (You just gotta make it to Princeton first.)

I am definitely shit outta luck.

My impression was the New Lou Reeds were trying to be an edgier version of the Black Keys, except they didn't play guitar, roll or sing as good. But I don't even need the Black Keys much these days so... I think I recall liking the "Peter Laughner" song the best.
That might have been the one that wasn't electric.

The Patti Smith/Television thing stopped me cold with The Grabs.

― George the Animal Steele, Thursday, 24 November 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

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