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

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.

ah. thank you for the correction. i think i assumed that because i think i know 5 people who have ever even heard of this amazingly underrated record.

Funny, I listened to Steppes last week. The have a ton of stuff available at Bomp mailorder. http://www.bompstore.com/servlet/Categories

I've only heard them because Bomp used to have ridiculous clearance sale grab bags of their label stuff.

Punishment Of Luxury s/t

lovebuzz was a top 20 album here (in aus) and yet is quite hard to find in shops. they have a 'best of' which is in print but i don't imagine there would be much demand for a proper reissue (could be wrong tho, if there was demos or unreleased h'birds stuff i'd be all over it)

Giant Sand - The Love Songs (standard answer)

The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle

Been looking for that one in vinyl version for a while now.

http://www.bompstore.com/servlet/Detail?no=7993 not trying to be an advertiser here, it's just coincidence that the same mailorder has two of the recent things mentioned here available (they claim what is on the site is available) It's on AmazonUk too.

whoa, if its true that they have in stock everything they sell over there then this has made my week. I just found two other lps I've been looking for everywhere over there.

Thank you james.

You wouldnt happen to know of some store in North America that has 'scary world theory' by Lali Puna in stock, would you?

tonevendor does

http://tonevendor.com/item/4492

No, I meant in LP form, it's been out of print for a while. But thank you anyways.

No idea on Lali Puna, but it has been interesting reading about them and finding out who they are. The samples on the label site sound interesting.

John Cale - Fragments of a Rainy Season

I can't believe new copies of this are selling for $130 on Amazon. I doubt it's anywhere near as rare as the overinflated prices suggest, but I still feel lucky for picking it up for $12 a few months ago.

the Robert Crumb That's What I Call Sweet Music: American Dance Orchestras of the 1920s compilation

Well, hell, I've got that Cale and like it, but never play it.

I've got one or two of those SOS Band titles on vinyl, too.

i can't find a copy of starshipz and rocketz by g-side anywhere on the net :(

Sasha and John Dogweed - Northern Exposure

30 For Sale from $26.00

17 used & new from $29.95

Lol, I’m sure I see that all the time in charity shops.

"i can't find a copy of starshipz and rocketz by g-side anywhere on the net :("

Literally registered on here cause of this post. Have been looking for starshipz & rocketz for the longest, and was able to find it in 192 recently, so I can help you out with that.

Ended up finding the album on UK Amazon, 1 final copy in Germany. Came out to around $30 shipped, and it has yet to arrive... Turns out the CD was lost by the Deutsche Post...

Dory Previn's stuff; almost everything is OOP in the States, I think.

That's a shame. I happened to hear one of her songs last week -- one about a woman who jumps off the Hollywood sign -- and I was reminded of how good a writer she was.

hollindagain by animal collective

I thought someone like Bgo still had that Dory stuff out. Remember looking through a label site some months back & finding a couple of 2fer cds. Think it was Bgo anyway.
But yeah she does sound like a prime candidate for somebody like Water or Light in The Attic to cover.

I still haven't found that Lali Puna LP I asked for in this thread 5 years ago.

Other ones that I haven't found and need to be reissued in vinyl already:

Massive Atrack - Mezzanine
Stereolab - Dots and Loops (supposedly will get reissued soon)
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (haven't they promised it for years now?)
Can - Ege Bamyasi (and their whole discography, really)

Also all the Kraftwerk and Stone Roses vinyls I've found are crazy expensive / imported.
Why!?

Oh and all Kompakt Total compilations should never be put of print.

Oh and Pink Floyd's Meddle and Piper too! It's weird that such a popular rock band hasn't reissued all of their discography already.