Gnarly, surely you mean Tommy Jay and not Tommy James? Columbus Discount is also releasing some recent Rep recordings!
― ian, Friday, 25 January 2008 16:25 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm not far off getting all the Small Wonder records now. Still need the Cure 7" though which won't be cheap. Although it's cheaper than the Carpettes' Small Wonder 7" which I did manage to get on Ebay (for more than I'd normally pay for a single, but my wife likes that one so we "went halves" on it)
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 25 January 2008 16:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Tommy Jay and not Tommy James
yah. doof!
― gnarly sceptre, Friday, 25 January 2008 17:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Haven't bought much used vinyl lately, just new stuff (including Dec. 07):
Dead Raven Choir - Surely My Firstborn, etc. (sound of raking, yelling at leaves) Parts & Labor - Mapmaker (I arrived late, but current 07 favorite) Parts & Labor - Stay Afraid (cuz Mapmaker is so damn great) The King Khan & BBQ Show - 1st LP reissue (why no game pieces?) Deathspell Omega - Fas: Some, Latin, Bullshit (not as good as Kenose) Slayer - The Blood Before the Reign (demos, near drumless, lotsa vox) Zoroaster: Dog Magic (SHITTY cover art tho) Zoroaster: 1st EP reissue (shitty scan of great CD art WTF) Lollipop: 'Born Dead' 45 (all the porn I own is record covers) Sic Alps: 'Strawberry Guillotine' 45 (best SA so far, least until...) Sic Alps: 'Description of the Harbor' 12" (2nd best of 07?) Liquorball: Hauls Ass (upsets everyone in the house, except me) Times New Viking: Matador 45 (does not bode well for LP)
― contenderizer, Friday, 25 January 2008 17:50 (sixteen years ago) link
"(sound of raking, yelling at leaves)"
hahahahaha! you are my new best friend!
― scott seward, Friday, 25 January 2008 17:57 (sixteen years ago) link
I got an order from Hells Headbangers yesterday, hot stuff
― J0hn D., Friday, 25 January 2008 18:33 (sixteen years ago) link
ooh, vinyl. cool. love that label.
― scott seward, Friday, 25 January 2008 19:13 (sixteen years ago) link
got an e-mail yesterday with the subject: do you write about vinyl?
i said: hell yeah.
would love to get more new vinyl to review.
― scott seward, Friday, 25 January 2008 19:14 (sixteen years ago) link
this is fun
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2180/2203175307_0a81250b5a.jpg?v=0
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 25 January 2008 20:30 (sixteen years ago) link
<I>Times New Viking: Matador 45 (does not bode well for LP)</I>
I think the new LP is totally, totally great. I'm not a HUGE fan of the "need more money cuz i need more drugs" cut, but there's no denying it's catchy as hell.
Today I traded a big stack of mediocre soul/funk/pop 45s for some store credit, and will probably end up taking home those bob trimble reissues or something.
― ian, Friday, 25 January 2008 20:35 (sixteen years ago) link
got the Hive Mind LP on NO Fun today, looks amazing although i'm not a fan of those wrap around type sleeves. i hate the plastic things with sticky glue stuff on them that they are in as well
― rizzx, Friday, 25 January 2008 20:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Xpost: Yeah, I'm gonna buy the new one anyway, love the 1st two. I assume the EP = also rans.
― contenderizer, Friday, 25 January 2008 20:43 (sixteen years ago) link
the money/drugs song is on the LP, and i guess the "single" as they've been playing it live pretty constantly for a while. I definitely want to check out that Hivemind. The Hivemind splits with Workbench (i.e. M1ke Bernste1n of Religious Knives/Double Leopards) are great pieces of work.
I just bought two Fred Neil LPs (reissues) off my co-worker for $4 apiece until I can find original copies--Sessions and Bleecker & McDougal.
― ian, Friday, 25 January 2008 20:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Concert by the Sea - Cal Tjader Requiem: Complete Atlantic Recordings - Lennie Tristano (! so amped) Trident - McCoy Tyner Live in Japan - Joe Henderson
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 26 January 2008 02:50 (sixteen years ago) link
goddamn trident rips
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 26 January 2008 07:29 (sixteen years ago) link
yesserday i picked up: bobb trimble - harvest of dreams gato barbieri & dollar brand - confluence richard young & alex neilson - beating stars ya ho wa 13 - the operetta (used, so affordable. this this is like shadoks-level crazy priced new.)
...in addition to those fred neil records.
listening to cluster right now. good wake-up music. (fall asleep music was the gorgeous heavy vinyl triple LP of Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid.)
― ian, Saturday, 26 January 2008 15:05 (sixteen years ago) link
picked up a few prince singles: get offf, i could never take the place of your man/hot thing, and glam slam.
the only problem is that when i was changing records, i pressed the start/stop button and nothing is happening! does that mean the belt broke just now? :/
― Jordan, Sunday, 27 January 2008 19:54 (sixteen years ago) link
okay, it's "working" now, but playing waaay slower than it's supposed to. and while screwed & chopped prince sound hot as hell, i'd like to be able to listen at normal speed do. does this sound like a motor problem?
― Jordan, Monday, 28 January 2008 00:11 (sixteen years ago) link
i'd never seen this thing before!
http://cgi.ebay.com/AUDIOPHILE-LED-ZEPPELIN-COMPLETE-45-rpm-CASE-SEALED_W0QQitemZ290199213889QQihZ019QQcategoryZ306QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
― scott seward, Monday, 28 January 2008 02:42 (sixteen years ago) link
WOW. I wonder when that was issued??
― ian, Monday, 28 January 2008 15:15 (sixteen years ago) link
TINGS I AM LISTENING TO AND/OR PUTTING ON HOLD AND/OR BUYING:
Dead Raven Choir - Surely My Firstborn Will Be Blind Robert Ashley - The Bar Ivor Cutley - Scenes From a Scottish Sitting Room Vol. 2 Tommy Jay - tall tales of trauma (comp of 70s/80s recordings on Columbus Discount Records) Richard Youngs - Summer Wanderer
― ian, Monday, 28 January 2008 19:17 (sixteen years ago) link
ooh new Dead Raven Choir...
I was in Seattle this weekend and got to go to Wall Of Sound today. I was very happy:
Jazz Butcher - Bath Of Bacon " - Sex And Travel " - Live In Hamburg (been looking for 20 years) A Primary Industry - 7 Hertz EP (ditto) Evolutionary Jass Band - tour LP 2007 Melt-Banana - Bambi's Dilemma
― sleeve, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 01:36 (sixteen years ago) link
today i got dave burrell's echo. get back reissue stylee, but cheap/used.
― ian, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 03:43 (sixteen years ago) link
I think the new Dead Raven Choir is good! The production seems fuller, even though it's still primarily growling and brittle guitar. There's more violin screech than I remember from his other stuff (of which I've heard admittedly little, only a few records. i think they had "wolves" in the title?)
― ian, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 03:45 (sixteen years ago) link
ha, that describes like six or seven. I have the blistering 3LP box and MP3s of a buncha Jandek-like lonely thump and moan. curious about the new one, is it vinyl-only?
― sleeve, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 05:21 (sixteen years ago) link
RIGHT NOW I AM LISTENING TO POCO FOR THE SCOTT SEWARD.
― ian, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 05:27 (sixteen years ago) link
finally there is another guy at work who likes poco and Tusk and into that general "guys wearing corduroy, plaid, cowboy hats or any combination thereof on the cover" aesthetic. we have talked about poco significantly. he wants me to trade him a terry melcher LP and a Happy & Artie Traum LP (2nd one, "Double Back" just sold on ebay for $20) for royal trux "twin infinitives" but i KNOW I listen to Happy & Artie way more than I'd listen to twin infinitives. BUT.. my happy & artie is not mint, so if I upgrade that and trade my lesser copy??
i am going to try to wrangle a happy & artie traum interview.
― ian, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 05:29 (sixteen years ago) link
guys 'cmon, you gotta talk about vinyl more.
i am listening to the hot wax of "Henry Flynt & Nova'billy." Before was Richard Youngs & Andrew Paine "Mauve Dawn" and this morning on the wake-up tip was a melange of Ian Matthews from the "Later That Same Year" and "Valley Hi" LPs.
― ian, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 18:36 (sixteen years ago) link
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.)
― kwhitehead, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 19:09 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― contenderizer, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 19:57 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 20:04 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 20:14 (sixteen years ago) link
now playing: Focus 3. double vinyl. German pressing. sounds great. better than that crappy-ass genesis album i was listening to today.
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/4107SJRX0JL._SS500_.jpg
― scott seward, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 23:08 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― ian, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 23:10 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 23:11 (sixteen years ago) link
why don't you just send them thru the post office?
― scott seward, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 23:12 (sixteen years ago) link
we are sending them through the post office!
― ian, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 23:15 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― ian, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 23:16 (sixteen years ago) link
it's gonna be 3 boxes at approx 30lb and 1 box at slightly less, maybe 20-25.
― ian, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 23:17 (sixteen years ago) link
so what's the deal with fedex then. i'm confused.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 23:22 (sixteen years ago) link
wait, who sampled the song "Focus III"? arghhhhhh, i can hear it, but i can't think.....the organ line specifically.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 23:26 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― omar little, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 23:32 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― ian, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 23:38 (sixteen years ago) link
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.)
― ian, Thursday, 31 January 2008 20:39 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, 31 January 2008 20:43 (sixteen years ago) link
dooooood
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 31 January 2008 21:14 (sixteen years ago) link
envy u so hard
envy u, so hard
― omar little, Thursday, 31 January 2008 21:18 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 31 January 2008 21:19 (sixteen years ago) link
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,.
― ian, Thursday, 31 January 2008 21:40 (sixteen years ago) link