Dollar Bin gems. great albums you'll always find there.

i know threads have been started like this, but those are more "ooh, look what i found for so cheap". these are regulars that are good.

herb albert's "rise". sampled by biggie for "hypnotize"

Just copped the joe jackson @ reckless during my lunch break today, along with santana's first record

also bought boz scaggs greatest hits for 1.99 there last week

bob james has tons of dollarbin records!! are any of the others good? i'm not wild about the taxi theme.

mr marcelo - brick livin
moochie mack - broke pimpin
anything on kane & abel's most wanted records

Others I've seen in dollar bins:

Joe Jackson - Look Sharp
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Donald Fagen - The Nightfly

any Juliana Hatfield album from the mid-90s

Best Dollar Bin album = Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band - s/t

bob james has tons of dollarbin records!! are any of the others good? i'm not wild about the taxi theme.

the big breakbeat Bob James lp's are 1 (Nautilus) and 2 (Mardi Gras), there's also some good shit on Lucky 7

chicago transit authority
martin denny
thin lizzy - jailbreak, johnny the fox
nilsson schmillson

The Breeders - Last Splash
If you haven't heard this album yet, it's worth a dollar or two. Solid record, great follow-up to Pod though definitely more poppy. One of the best bargains I could recommend in used bins these days.

The Church - Gold Afternoon Fix
The Church - Priest = Aura
Two pretty great albums from a consistently enjoyable band. I see both of 'em turn up used all the fucking time and they're totally worth your money.

Depeche Mode - Songs of Faith and Devotion
Their worst '90s album, but it's worth a dollar nonetheless.

The Jesus and Mary Chain - Honey's Dead
For some reason, I see this album come up used as often as all the others combined, yet I think it's one of their best, track for track. A definite progression in the JAMC sound, and much better than Automatic.

Mercury Rev - Boces
Not as good as the debut, but mindblowing in places nonetheless.

Ministry - Psalm 69
Too often comes into used shops for such a solid album.

New Order - Republic
The album is sort of not very good, but the singles are all glorious, especially "Regret" which is one of the best songs of the '90s in my book. Love it love it love it.

REM - Monster
Not great, but unfairly maligned and not as bad as it's made out to be. Particularly I think "...Kenneth?" "Tongue" and "Let Me In" are all gems on this album.

Ride - Carnival of Light
Granted, it's not up to earlier standards, but I think "Birdman" in particular is one of the best things they ever did, very majestic. Some other good songs here and there. Certainly worth a few bucks.

Sugar - File Under: Easy Listening
Fantastic album, and it's in every used bin on the planet.

bob james has tons of dollarbin records!! are any of the others good? i'm not wild about the taxi theme.

the big breakbeat Bob James lp's are 1 (Nautilus) and 2 (Mardi Gras), there's also some good shit on Lucky 7

-- dmr, Friday, August 31, 2007 3:19 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

hah lol @ me forgetting both of those o_O

Loads of Stravinsky, Bartok, Shostakovich. Plus loads loads more classical LPs.

dan,
name me one dollar bin record i shd buy/play next time i dj
thnx
-- deej, Tuesday, August 28, 2007 7:34 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark Link

not that it has to fit into what I would play out per se - thin lizzy is a good recommendation for the right kind of party or whatever - but classical music? REM?

somebody do like stephen's list for rap music!!

all the hurricane fennessey jokes today reminded me of how easy it is to get dollar bin cds of hurricane g's 'all woman', a pretty dope album even w/o any e double beats, and other def squad shit is usually found there too, especially this shit
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/24/Def_Squad_Presents_Erick_Onasis.jpg/200px-Def_Squad_Presents_Erick_Onasis.jpg

Black Grape - "It's Great When You're Straight... Yeah"
which I've always felt best represented what the Mondays were trying to do the whole time.

man if youre djing you can always find gems in the dollar bin... 00s cash money, jeezy shit, def jam promos, indie rap, whatever

the thing with rap is that pretty much any 2+ year old rap that came out since maybe '99 is dollarbin material if its not part of some established artist's catalog

maybe even '97

yeah exactly

i was talking about cds more than vinyl

earwax records in atlanta has like 20 bins of QUARTER RECORDS which is insane.... so much early 90s south & west coast shit

and 10 for $1... its like dumpster diving for old project pat and k-solo shit basically

jt money... pmd's solo joint.... kokane.... 'suicidal failure' by cage.. fuck yeah

i copped that foxy brown 'candy' b/w '730' 12" for like a $1 yesterday ... '730' is a straight track, superdramatic prog. candy is kind of weirdo ilx-bait neptunes+kelis and is ok.

serg was telling me he found that new boys n da hood single for like 50 cents ... a lot of southern shit doesn't make its way up here but when it does, even brand new, it's cheap as hell if its not a huge single. i got some of those trillville/scrappy 12s that way

I TASTE JUST LIKE CANDY... SO DANCE... WITH... ME

hated that joint

perhaps if you were aware it comes on PINK VINYL

'730' is really great though.

what about dollar bin cds?/ ha we kinda get the reverse shit down south where i'll be pawing thru endless no-name dollar 2002 promo singles by dudes named t-mack and ice pimp and young cee and shit and then find like shrinkwrapped little brother or high & mighty albums

next time i dj

ok scratch martin denny but the rest of those still stand

that chicago LP has "I'm a Man," Nilsson has "Jump Into the Fire"

another favorite of mine is s/t Black Oak Arkansas with "Hot and Nasty," that turns up everywhere

I love all the dollarbin classic rock breakbeat shit

730 has a great synth line IIRC.

i guess in east point or whatever brand new cormega & cocoa brovaz LPs have the same weight in the game as a 3-track 2003 promo by some bonecrusher protege but its still weird to see

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd900/d934/d93419b2rl6.jpg
i have no idea if this is good but i see it a lot in used cd bins for cheap

i dont know why i've never checked it out, tracklist looks promising

The Amoeba in SF has all sorts of random hardcore/breakcore/rave comps and albums for $1 or so. I get sort of intimidated trawling through the hip hop clearance area though since there are enough headz in SF that if it's $1/$2 at Amoeba and it hasn't been picked up then I fear it's probably not very good haha. Still there are always some good finds.

Gunfighter Ballads by Marty Robbins

I just found a Spank Rock promo DJ mix. Not a bad pick up.

that tash album is a classic man!! if you get lucky it comes with a loud records sampler in the case too with joints from project pat, beatnuts, raekwon, etc

dan,
name me one dollar bin record i shd buy/play next time i dj
thnx
-- deej, Tuesday, August 28, 2007 7:34 AM (3 days ago)

oops! obviously didn't see that when i replied. too quickly read the thread title, skipped the whole post though.

its cool, most of yr suggestions were fine! don't be too genre restrictive or anything

tony touch - the piecemaker

we do get a fair amount of rap a lot shit up here ... i got devin's 'its a shame' real cheap, also a copy of some mid-period big mike album

bob james has tons of dollarbin records!! are any of the others good? i'm not wild about the taxi theme.

the big breakbeat Bob James lp's are 1 (Nautilus) and 2 (Mardi Gras), there's also some good shit on Lucky 7
-- dmr, Friday, August 31, 2007 8:19 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link

except those are usually 5-10$

Heads from 82 has a great track called Macumba that's totally afro cosmic. sounds kinda like Brian Brigg's "AEO pt 1&2"

yeah I was gonna say, the good bob james you can't find in the dollar bin

I found "lucky 7" for a buck tho. I think I had "heads" but it was too scratchy and I got rid of it.

I see these for a quid quite often:

Pretenders - 1st album
Human League - Dare

the commodores' greatest hits

Whipped Cream & Other Delights will always be, to me, the quintessential dollar-bin album. But that's not really what the thread's about, is it? (Plus I've never even HEARD the damned thing in full.)

Toto's "Georgy Pory"

And I always find The Jets in the dollar bin (Rocket 2 U!).
And then there's the Edgar Winter LP with the Tom Moulton produced "Above and Beyond" (it's got a white cover and a pic of E.W., I believe).

occasionally, I'll spot some Deodato in the dollar bin too, bu not as much these days.

big three LP supremes best-of

oh good call. all of those collections with that style of cover turn up all the time, I just got the stevie wonder 3lp a couple weeks ago.

http://www.vinylzart.com/images/AlbumCovers-StevieWonder-LookingBack(1977).jpg

i guess that's not exactly hidden gems, anyone with sense would buy a stevie wonder album for a buck

the verlaines 'ready to fly'

Some kinda "beardo" suggestions:

Michael Franks "Art of Tea" LP is smoov and nice and can be had for cheap. Also, I've been picking up any bargain JJ Cale LPs I see and have been loving them.

haha. i was just about to post michael franks.

also recently picked up JJ Cale's first one "Naturally..." for pretty cheap. not sure why he's getting the beardo love. it's cool, but doesn't really fit the mold to me.

i'll have to second the dr buzzard ... and a lot of other august darnell stuff (kid creole & the coconuts) can usually be found in vinyl dollar bins. also, laid back's keep smiling lp is in every dollar bin in toronto (apparently harder to attain in europe - see djh boards) and has 2 tracks to satisfy either your upbeat electro side (white horse) or yr downtempo/ balearic/ harvey geek side (fly away walkin in sunshine).

stepping out is a wicked song.

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drg400/g401/g40136mwqe4.jpg

fire

I don't think I've even been to a used CD store that didn't have PM Dawn's "Of the Cross..." for cheap.

reckless on broadway has like 3-4 copies of quincy's 'the dude' too

i haven't heard the rest of the Dude, but it has that MF Doom sample on it. and apparently a cover of a chaz jankle song that i don't even like the original of

the dude is a pretty great album, if for 'ai no corrida' alone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7Vi40fVC-0

yeah, that's actually the chaz jankel song i was talking about. i like that way more than the original.

that first heatwave album prob qualifies for this thread

xpost - ok, i take that back. just listened to it again, it's not bad. but i do like the quincy version better.

I got these CDs for a dollar on Monday:

Top Gun - Original Soundtrack
AC/DC - Back in Black
Talking Heads - Sand in the Vaseline (disc 1)

good thread - finally copping that michael franks record

There's about 50 copies of Emmylou Harris's Last Date in my favourite dollar bin. A great live album, nearly (but not) as good as At the Ryman.

All the Cars records are always in them bins and are worth a buck each.

Lindsay Buckingham's Law and Order and the Buckingham-Nicks reissue always turn up.

DJing? Can't go wrong with Me Lost Me Cookie At The Disco. http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/2008/07/23-End/SesameDiscoLP.jpg