Rolling 2008 Vinyl Thread

I remember that the "Twin Infinitives" LP (besides being very disturbing) sports one of the thickest cardboard sleeves I have ever seen (at least the inital gatefold version did.)

guys 'cmon, you gotta talk about vinyl more

Sure. Was at the St. Vincent DePaul thrift store last week, and picked up:

Baja Marimba Band - For Animals Only, 'cuz I remembered liking the cover as a kid. Terrible, terrible record, as it turns out. Also includes perhaps the least funny funny liner notes ever written.

Russ Morgan - There Goes That Song Again, for the magnificently awful cover art, which I will modify to suit my sleeveless copy of the 1st Stooges LP. Music is at least as bad as the BMB, but that hardly matters.

Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherazade, which I thought might be nice to have around, the vinyl's in beautiful shape, but it's a flat and lifeless recording. So it goes.

Grand Total: 75 cents, plus tax. Not sure I got my money's worth. For another buck-fifty, I got a CD copy of John Fahey & His Orchestra - After the Ball, which isn't anywhere near bad, and a 30-minute VHS tape of old Roger Ramjet cartoons. They're ... okay.

i would talk about vinyl more but i'm kinda sick. also, i haven't bought anything in, like, a week! i know, right. you know what sounded superduper to me today: my pristine 1st german pressing of roberta flack & donny hathaway. *sigh* it's like donny is in my lap. and roberta too! but it's cool cuz my lap is big enough to box with god.

still playing weirdo 80's country singles i got in the mail too a week or two ago. choice labels. examples:

crowe brothers

titanic

sun rize

high cotton

rhinestone

ranger

angry armadillo

hole in one

whirlwind

black gold

tall texan

midnight gold

seeds

prairie dust

bell star

hal kat kountry

peppercorn

high tech

equa

burgundy

moonshine

joy-bean

osprey

grinder's switch

natasha dawn

pick hits: steven lee cook's "Please Play More Kenny Rogers", Bruce Poose's "Hopalong Sissy", and "Texas Jeans" by Pepper Martin & His Texas Band.

now playing: Focus 3. double vinyl. German pressing. sounds great. better than that crappy-ass genesis album i was listening to today.

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I'm in the middle of packing the records I mentioned upthread, to send to the UK. It looks like it'll be about $350 by priority airmail. Anyone have any tips on freight companies? Fedex corporate rates are good, but we don't have an account with them nor do we intend to open one, really.

i mean, i don't usually have a problem with Impulse!/ABC/Dunhill vinyl. is Trespass famous for being poorly recorded? Or is it a U.K. pressing -vs- U.S. pressing kinda thing? i'd never heard the album until today. my copy is in decent shape. not perfect. it's a radio station promo copy. definitely got played by stoner deejays a bunch.

why don't you just send them thru the post office?

we are sending them through the post office!

there's a weight limit on first class airmail, so we have to do priority cuz each box is gonna be maybe 30 lbs. three cartons inside a 12" cube with layers of peanuts in between all layers. extra cardboard on the sides and in the cartoons.

it's gonna be 3 boxes at approx 30lb and 1 box at slightly less, maybe 20-25.

so what's the deal with fedex then. i'm confused.

wait, who sampled the song "Focus III"? arghhhhhh, i can hear it, but i can't think.....the organ line specifically.

got some stuff at home i'm going to pull for a possible DJ set.

ramp - come into knowledge
baby huey - the baby huey story
andre williams - rib tips and pig snoots
johnnie taylor - raw blues

this is all under consideration for a set which would follow some garage rock and girl group stuff a couple other friends are spinning. i might just end up playing some garage as well instead of 70s soul, because i just might not have enough. but then again i might just go to a record store next week and stock up on cheap 7"s and give it a go.

Wickerman soundtrack is sooo good. The first song, and the one after "Landlord's Daughter." And "Landlord's Daughter" i suppose, but that just makes me giggle. what a silly scene in the movie.

Some nice new releases on my preffered format:

-D Charles Speer "After Hours" - Rural/country sike from Brooklyn, members of NNCK & Sunburned
-Raven reissue LP (private Ohio seventies scuzzed out blooze/biker/junkie rock.)

i don't mean to brag, but i just arranged a deal w/this dude on another message board to get all these (in near mint cond.) for only $45 :):):):):)

Dr. Dre - Deep Cover 12"
Black Sheep - The Choice Is Yours 12"
Cocoa Brovaz - Super Brooklyn 12"
Grand Master Flash & The Furious Five - Greatest Messages LP
KMD - Black Bastards LP
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx LP

dooooood

envy u so hard

envy u, so hard

Playlist for today:

Deodato 2 - eumir deodato
Enigma - keith murray
headhunters - herbie
ascension - coltrane

SO looking forward to the arrival of Crystals sometime this week.

okay this is what i might be getting today, not set in stone, may switch things around a little:

cosmic jokers - galactic supermarket (nm orig in shrink)
folklords - release the sunshine new reissue LP
visitations LP on time-lag
mingus mingus mingus mingus mingus
fairport convention bbc sessions LP
wickerman sdtrk,.

ok so "crystals" came in just now but i'm a little confused as to how exactly this counts as "sealed" what with a snip out of the corner, a slit halfway down the side, and a big hole in the shrinkwrap on the front.

still a deal though, i've seen VGs go for upwards of $35.

hearing it now.

listening to newly acquired beautiful copy of "A Step Further" by Savoy Brown .. but as much as I enjoy collecting brit blues stuff (and indeed like some Youlden vocals) ... hearing the attempt to emulate Fleetwood Mac on "Life's A One Act Play" is depress-o. I think 'Looking On' is the only alb i'll ever truly love by these guys

been buying so much crap since tha '08 i don't know where to start though ... good times. mostly dollar bin stuff but hella fun. lotsa Sundazed/Scorpio type reishes too

just today:

Where? - Ron Carter & Eric Dolphy
2001 - Deodato

xpost fuck I wish I could find Grouper vinyl, was that mailorder?

-- sleeve, Thursday, 24 January 2008 01:20 (1 week ago) Bookmark Link

I think that 7" was possibly just off Boomkat in the UK. I ordered the 'Wide' LP after finding it on rateyourmusic listed as being put out on Sacramento label Weird Forest. I'm just off to pick it up from the post sorting office. Well, I think it's that..if not it's my other recent import purchase:

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Kemialliset Ystävät's self/untitled from last year. Cheaper ordering direct from Fonal (£15ish inc postage) than buying their other stuff in stores for £20 or more.

Also picked up the Bug ft. Warrior Queen's 'Poison Dart' original 12" the other week.

been buying mostly dollar bin stuff but hella fun. lotsa Sundazed/Scorpio type reishes too

Like what?

I've acquired a few Scorpio reissues, too - only problem is, some of them I don't DJ in the club because the bass has been mixed down (like that excellent rock-funk album by Brothers Unlimited on Capitol).

Some 45's I acquired yesterday (haven't played them yet):
- Marie Knight "Miracles"/"I Can't Sit Down" (credited to "Marie & Rex") (Carlton): Knight used to sing with Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and Rex Garvin has recorded some cult-fave soul records himself

- Five Americans - "Scrooge"/"Ignert Woman"; "Call On Me"/"Virginia Girl"; "Con Man"/"Lovin' Is Livin'" (all on Abnak): totally underrated garage-rock band from Texas...their big hits included "Western Union" and "I See The Light"

- Rocky Burnette - "Tired Of Toein' The Line"/"Boogie Down In Mobile, Alabama" (EMI America): "Tired" was Burnette's one hit, a fusion of rockabilly and power-pop. I have the album, but bought this 45 because the flip side isn't on the LP.

- Timi Yuro - "Something Bad On My Mind"/"Wrong" (Liberty).

Now these, I don't know much about, I just bought these 'cause they looked interesting and were cheap as dirt:

- Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan - "Big Black Bird"/"The Autumn Song" (Wayside) (the few songs I've heard by this duo seemed too corny for the room, but since a few people are going nuts over a recent reissue, thought I'd try this out for 50 cents)

- Freddy - "Forsaken, Forgotten Forever"/"The Boss Is Not Here" (MGM)

- Prediktors - "Sails & The Sea"/"Summer Holiday" (Imperial)

- Harper & Rowe - "Wake Me When It's Over"/"Here Comes Yesterday Again" (World Pacific)

- Flanagan - "Go My Way"/"Spin Spin" (Smash)

just discovered this thread. someone got SONNED (not me):

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Well, better to have broken shelves than broken records.

Oh man. I have dreams about my shelves collapsing. The brackets holding the boards onto the frame are all bendy in places, though they've given me no problems so far....

"Harper & Rowe"

i love their album on World Pacific, but it might not be for everybody.

"I think 'Looking On' is the only alb i'll ever truly love by these guys"

my faves have always been Raw Sienna, Lookin' In, Street Corner Talking, and Hellbound Train. and i love them a LOT.

"Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan"

it's funny, i found a pristine vinyl copy of Birds Of A Feather right around the time that it was reissued on CD and I definitely went crazy for it. The album as a whole is just so strange and entertaining. The sound, the song, their voices. One of my fave finds at the dumptique (the dump store here where everything is free).

anyway, i'm still listening to the stack of rekkerds i picked out last night to play:

Software - Digital-Dance:Magic Sounds From Percussion Island

Get Ready Rock Steady (Coxsone comp)

Henry Mancini - Charade Soundtrack

Al Melgard at the Chicago Stadium Organ

JR. Walker and the All Stars - Soul Session

Klymaxx - Meeting In The Ladies Room

Ska Authentic Volume 2 Presenting the Skatalites

Ashish Khan - Young Master of the Sarod

there are days when i think i could seriously become one of those soundtrack people. i'm always so jealous of genre specialists. makes life so much easier.

JR. Walker and the All Stars - Soul Session

I believe this album was all early instrumentals recorded before Jr. made it to Motown and recorded "Shotgun." One look at the cover, featuring Jr. stripped down to his undershirt honking away on the sax sez it all. I don't think he was rockin' the T-shirt as a fashion statement, he was likely working up a serious sweat.

Anyway, this album is as raw as Motown ever got, right up there with the Contours' album.

Haha, re: pic. Someone didn't read the IKEA instructions properly, should be 90 degrees the other way. Ooops.

I need to ship 116 items. Purchase and print shipping labels through PayPal

-- ian, Monday, January 21, 2008 12:45 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Link

i'm guessing with the quantity you're sending out that printable address stickers are a must. and i'm also guessing that with exchange rates so bad, 2/3 of sales are going to Europe/Japan. but is there any way to automate the customs forms process? because doing 80 by hand would really suck.

we have a stamp for the address, but that's the best we got.
on all priority international packages (over 4 lbs) the forms are BIGGER and more irritating and on carbon paper. I ended up shipping mose approx 116 items in four 12" cubes, doubled boxes alternating with layers of packing peanuts. Total cost? About $400.

great new Vinyl Anachronist column:

http://www.furious.com/perfect/vinyl63.html

just picked these up at the used record store:

Sandy Denny - Like an Old Fashioned Waltz
Go Gos - Beauty and the Beat
The English Beat - I Just Can't Stop It

" I'm currently seeing a very cute blonde woman who also happens to have a master's in American Literature and loves the Beatles and actually knows Big Star's story..."

Almost made me not want to go on reading that article, Sleeve! But, yeah, it's a good one, bragging aside.

also listened to some/all of today:

dylan - nashville skyline

dylan - john wesley harding

arthur lyman - leis of jazz

arthur lyman - hawaiian sunset vol.1

arthur lyman - hawaiian sunset vol.2

esquivel - infinity in sound (even in living stereo though, just wasn't feeling it today. haven't listened to esqy in years, that martin denny thread got me going.)

elmer bernstein - the silencers soundtrack

sylvia plath - plath reads plath

now playing: allman brothers - brothers and sisters (i could use a nicer copy)

today i've been listening to:
monoshock - walk to the fire
v/a - obsession (world psych/prog comp 2LP)
lee perry/upsetters - the quest
fahey - transfiguration of blind joe death
texas-mexican border music vol 13: norteno acordeon, part 3
raven reissue LP

listening to Donna Summer - The Wanderer which I picked up for a buck in RI over xmas. its ok

Got outbid on ebay for a Grief lp :(

listening to another white whale that just came in the mail today:

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