Albums that shouldn't be out of print...

Browsing on Amazon again, and found out that the first Queens of the Stone Age album is OOP. Inexcusable.

Sonny Sharrock, Ask the Fucking Ages

Boredoms - Soul Discharge

Van Morrison - Veedon Fleece

Mo-dettes - The Story So Far

Also someone should reissue Loop's stuff and the early Spectrum things and the Pop Group domestically.

My thoughts exactly.

Wrens -- Secaucus
Feelies -- everything

Let's hear it for North Jersey. [Me? No, I live in California.]

Go Team - everything, or at least Archer Come Sparrow and the 7"s.

seriously,
I guess T. Vail ain't with it.

NNCK's Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones but Words Will Never Hurt Me

-- Drooone, Friday, March 16, 2007 5:46 AM (4 months ago) Bookmark Link

this is still in print.

Wrens -- Secaucus

Reissued last year.

It seems the CDO format may now solve some of these problems:
http://www.thedisckiosk.com

i saw this yesterday Geir when digging around for OOP Blancmange albums.
are they legit cds then, and they just reprint a copy when ordered ?

it's no fun when you can just get whatever you want, whenever you want...

The Buzzcocks' Another Music in a Different Kitchen and A Different Kind of Tension are way the hell out of print on CD (though oddly, Love Bites from the same reissue series is still out there and easy to find), as is Rock 'n' Roll With the Modern Lovers. Hopefully whoever put out the US CD of The Modern Lovers will get to work putting out the rest of Richman's catalog, but I'm not holding my breath.

Love Unlimited - Under the Influence of...

Barry White's group. Lovely (har har) album, for real. I saw it at an antique store today for only a dollar and started to do a victory dance, but it turned out to be so scratches so persistent and deep that even a dollar seemed like a ripoff.

Got the recent reissue of Chrome's "Third from the sun", now I need "Blood on the Moon".

The Swervedriver catalog
Still out of print in the U.S.
Easy Action and Pretties for You Alice Cooper

you cant hide your love forever - Orange Juice.

I believe "Fegmania" and "Element Of Light" by Robyn Hitchcock are currently out of print. A shame...

Josef K's discography beyond the recent comp "Entomology" really needs to be (re-)reissued.

all the hyman/light/mottola stuff touched on in the Bug In The Bass Bin thread

Volcano Suns' "The Bright Orange Years" goddamn it.

I would imagine those R Hitchcock titles are oop pending the (imminent, I believe) release of the second instalment following on from last year's I Wann Go Backwards set.

My latest nomination:
Lots of Loving / Jah Life Killa by Ranking Dread

The Iggy Pop CDs from New Values to Zombie Birdhouse.

Volcano Suns are doing reissues of (I think) all their stuff this coming year.

Let Them Eat Jellybeans still not out? What's the hold-up? My copy has gone to the big vinyl store in the sky and I am stupid and didn't transfer it.

My picks are all by local (Boston/Providence) bands from the 80s, so maybe that doesn't count.
Someone please put "Get Wise" by the Flies or Lifeboat's debut EP on CD. Lifeboat even got an A- from Xgau, so I think it's worthy.

New Values got reissued in '00 by Buddha and is still available. Couple of extra tracks on it.

Guess Pylon's Chomp will get the treatment shortly since Gyrate did.

Buddha did the other Arista Iggy albums too, though I think they--like alotta stuff Buddha re-released--have gone OOP after Buddha folded during the Sony/BMG merger. New Values may have survived.

Emitt Rhodes ABC/Dunhill catalogue

From what I can tell, the whole Connells discography is out of print. Maybe that's just because they were on TVT? And I suppose you can find all those records dirt cheap at this point. But they're great, at least through One Simple Word and maybe Ring. And I heard their "big" single, "74-75", on the radio in the south of France last summer, so evidently someone remembers them! (it was right after a Mika song and a Green Day cover of John Lennon; take that for what it's worth). Anyway, three cheers for the Connells; maybe I'll start (or revive?) a thread sometime.

I realize it's in the nature of Brazilian albums to go in and out of print, but there are a lot of them, notably by Jorge Ben:

O Bidu Silencio no Brooklyn
s/t ('69, Rogerio Duprat)
Ben

I'm not sure the last two were ever even on CD, which is bizarre for major label releases by a famous artist.

I wish I could get ahold of that first Nara Leao box set, too.

Hey, my wife went to Junior High School with the Connell brothers:)

The Bizarros s/t album. It's got the best last three tracks on an album that I can remember. Not to damn it with faint praise, of course. I like the rest of it too. But Lady Dubonette, Mind's a Magnet and White Screen Movies are instant classics from the first time you hear them. Must have been in the crowd with Rocket from the Tombs at the Ohio Velvet Underground Shows, because White Screen Movies has that cyclical organ-led infinite rock momentum down pat.

And speaking of Brazilian albums, someone has to reissue the Lo Borges s/t as well. The sneakers album.

Let Them Eat Jellybeans still not out? What's the hold-up?

However I can help you with digital copies...

New Values got reissued in '00 by Buddha and is still available. Couple of extra tracks on it.

The Waitresses studio catalogue.

I'd love to see that Caroline Blue Plate twofer of the Mallard albums get reissued.

The entire Peter Gabriel years catalog (well, except "From Genesis To Revelation") by Genesis is currently out of print. Will only last until the last batch of remasters is being released this autumn though.