albums you've bought/borrowed/downloaded in the distant past but only listened to for the first time recently

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This past summer I went to Columbus, Ohio and raided the local record stores. I came back with more music than I could really absorb at the time, so I listened to some of it and shelved the rest.

Yesterday I was in vinyl mode, so I pulled out two of those purchases and played them for the first time: Ian Dury's Lord Upminster and a surprisingly good record by a forgotten Ohio band called The Pleasures Pale (released 1987, and sounding an awful lot like mid '80s Feelies AND mid '80s Smiths).

(The Ian Dury record's gonna need another spin -- the only standout was "Spasticus Autisticus," which I already knew -- but it seems well worth the dollar I paid for it all those months back.)

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― Jody Beth Rosen, Sunday, 29 September 2002 19:10 (twenty-three years ago)

i recently started listening to Chrome 'alien soundtracks' after it sleeping on my hard drive for a few months, and it's pretty fantastic.

conversley, i bought the 12" of the golden boy album about 4 months ago now, listened to it once dismissed it as handbag house but with a quite lovely uber-babe on it (i only bought cuz of the rippin' one's presence). listened to it again yesterday and confirmed my original assumption but with the prefix 'SHIT'.

― _sF_, Sunday, 29 September 2002 19:16 (twenty-three years ago)

went to toronto and bought loads. came back two months ago and i still haven't heard much from there: the Globe Unity Orchestra reissue for instance. Sean gave me a couple of sam shalabi albs and noodles gave me a comedy rec and i still haven't.

all becuz i just keep buying 'stuff' dammit!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 29 September 2002 20:57 (twenty-three years ago)

I too played the Golden Boy album for the first time last night; I'd had it for months. A lot better than I thought it would be--had been unable to put it on through the hype, and am glad I did. Helped, too, that Andy Battaglia and Tracer Hand (at T.H.'s party a few weeks ago) had hipped me to "1234." Terrific song.

― M Matos (M Matos), Sunday, 29 September 2002 21:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Stacks and stacks of vinyl I bought over a year ago I'm just getting around to listening to now. Unlike a lot of the CD singles I buy, it's almost all great stuff. The Vines "Factory" single was a pleasant surprise after hearing the album.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 30 September 2002 05:21 (twenty-three years ago)

a forgotten Ohio band called The Pleasures Pale (released 1987, and sounding an awful lot like mid '80s Feelies AND mid '80s Smiths).

Morrissey-voice & Feelies-guitars, I hope? (although, no doubt, others around here will disagree...) If that's the case then I will need to look out for that record, what's the title, Jody?

― willem (willem), Monday, 30 September 2002 11:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Self-titled. this site has a copy for sale. Otherwise, there's very little online information about this band. All I can find out is that they once went on in place of Guided By Voices at a 1986 gig in Dayton.

― Jody Beth Rosen, Monday, 30 September 2002 12:20 (twenty-three years ago)

...in the legendary (?) Jockey Club, a bill together with GBV, that's also about the only information I was able to track down...
do you have any experience with ordering from Sqauredealonline.com?

― willem (willem), Monday, 30 September 2002 12:47 (twenty-three years ago)

None whatsoever.

― Jody Beth Rosen, Monday, 30 September 2002 12:54 (twenty-three years ago)

I've purchased vinyl LPs in the 80s that I still haven't listened to. Usually the buck-or-under type things you're talking about that seemed like they might be promising. The only one that springs to mind here at work is Gordon Gano's gospel outing, the Mercy Seat.

― nickn (nickn), Monday, 30 September 2002 19:36 (twenty-three years ago)

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