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

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.

Interesting revelation - http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/05/major-labels-re.html ...

I'm not confident it will serve my needs, but could be useful for some...

For the majors, that's a rare savvy deal. Amazon seems like the one place they can reliably use to sell to the older crowd who don't do downloading, don't buy new music, don't hang out in record stores, just want their old favorites, and have major disposable incomes.

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

Oh man that's good news.

i'm not sure if it is out-of-print, but Remy Zero's self-titled album...

Seriously.

I could be wrong but it seems like Australian titles go out of print quickly. Stuff like Kim Salmon solo stuff (Surrealists), Tex Perkins pre-Beasts of Bourbon stuff etc.

Also pre-major Lemonheads stuff seems to have disappeared.

Lucinda Williams s/t album is out of print.

Buckingham Nicks come on already!

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.

I concurred...

from http://acuterecords.com/blog/?p=33

3. The Bizarros–White Screen Movies
What was in the water in Ohio in the 70s? Don’t answer that. The Cuyahoga River may have caught fire, but that was in Cleveland. Whatever was going on in Akron was equally bizarre. Like their counterparts in Cleveland, the Bizarros had a severe case of Velvet Underground fever. This song, the last on their 1979 LP, has that 1-4-5 repetition, chugging guitars and killer droning combo organ that so many of the best Velvets followers mined. It pretty much starts and never lets go. Also like some of their counterparts in Cleveland, the Bizarros have been severely overlooked. Post-VU rock that fell through the cracks of the mid/late 70s. Clearly too accomplished and too adult to be punk-rock, but too angry and too weird to be mainstream.

one thing that concerns me about CreateSpace is that they are using CD-r technology, which is a lot more fragile than proper CD manufacturing, which is more of a stamping process. With CD-rs, little lasers burn holes in a CD, so the material is sensitive to heat. This is why when you leave that CD-R mix in your car during the summer after a few weeks it starts to skip.

yeah that Bizarros album sounds great...are they s1sk-ab1e...

also is the Twinkeyz album any good? is it also out of print?

I think Bizarros are on ss and/or some blogs. They have a pretty extensive website that I think mentioned the possibility of a reissue. If not, maybe I'll get to somehow!

Twinkeyz album is really cool, maybe a bit uneven. There was a great CD that's now out of print, and more recently there was an LP release which doesn't have everything on the CD but has all the key singles and the full LP and some other stuff that maybe wasn't on the CD? Listening to it again for the first time in a while, yeah, it's really fucking good! I only have the Cartoon Land single and would love the Aliens in Our Midst single. I have the LP, which came out on Plurex, Nasmak and Minny Pop's label, but apparently the mastering was really bad, so the more recent CD and vinyl reissues are preferred.

The place to check is here:

http://www.anophelesrecords.com

Any hopes of seeing the SOS Band back catalogue re-released anytime soon? Even as torrents, they are very hard to find.

The Hummingbirds - loveBUZZ CD version... i think a Japanese and Australian CD came up, but I don't think it was ever issued in the states. Come to think of it... I must have lent someone my vinyl copy of that and never gotten it back. ARGH! Perfect Aussie big guitar pop from '88 i think. Like Flatmates meets Jesus and Mary Chain or something. "Alimony" is a golden gem.

Geir: just SOS Band and Too got CD reissues in the past few years, i believe. Not sure about the ones after.

Haven't even search for those. More interested in the three Jam/Lewis titles, really.

The Steppes. From the mid/late 1980s, but they sound like vintage 1967. It is just retarded that they were so obscure. Albums are all out of print, but they're just waiting to be discovered. Listen to Tourist From Timenotyet here... then it's very easy to find their discography on the blogs. You will not believe how good these dudes were.

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=308455094

And after you're done listening to Tourist From Timenotyet, listen to Somebody Waits.

Hilarious, I was actually thinking about the Steppes earlier tonight as I was ripping a comp with that very song on it. Something in the water. Elvis T. to thread when he sees this.

ned, i was just reading your daddy's highway review, an album of which i can't get enough recently. is this thing available on LP?

The Hummingbirds - loveBUZZ CD version... i think a Japanese and Australian CD came up, but I don't think it was ever issued in the states. Come to think of it... I must have lent someone my vinyl copy of that and never gotten it back. ARGH! Perfect Aussie big guitar pop from '88 i think. Like Flatmates meets Jesus and Mary Chain or something. "Alimony" is a golden gem.

― okamax,

This was issued in the States - I've owned it twice on CD and once on cassette. I see it in the cheap bins from time to time.