Rolling 2008 Vinyl Thread

oh yeah, and last weekend i got the following:

harry nilsson - nilsson sings newman
grace jones - warm leatherette
mott the hoople - all the young dudes
aha - hunting high and low
steely dan - the royal scam

for 12 bucks. old hippie record store owner laughed at me when i came up to the counter with that stack.

34 dollars total gets you a near mint copy here:

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"You can stream it:"

er, not the show i just did. i just mean in general.

Twenty bucks for a (presumably) sealed one here:

http://www.gemm.com/item/RIVERS-c-SAM/CRYSTALS/GML897551796/

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damn dudes gratzi

Listening to "Vance Or Towers," 1975 on A&M. Nice melodic mid-70s pop album, variously calls to mind City Boy, Dwight Twilley, a dollop of Big Star. Lightweight, but with that great 70s production that's hard to resist. They were the prom band in the movie "Carrie," or something like that.

The only vinyl I've got this year was Bun In The Oven 7" by The Runs, a novelty punk single from 1980. German issue with pic sleeve. My wife loves it!

"Listening to "Vance Or Towers," 1975 on A&M."

JEFF YOU ARE MY HERO. i don't know anyone who has even heard that album. i love it to death. and they very much were the carrie prom band. i was obsessed with the album for months a couple years back.

i put a vance or towers track on my sweet smoke for hotheads vol.2 mix if anyone wants to check them out:

The Mystic Moods - Cosmic Sea (Warner Brothers - 1973)

Road - I'm Trying (Natural Resources/Motown - 1972)

Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds - Funk-In-Wagnal (Dunhill - ?)

Hello People - Dinosaur (ABC - 1975)

Cambridge - Faithless Lady (Green Dolphin - 197?)

Alessi - Do You Feel It? (A&M - 1976)

Count Buffalos - Phases (Toshiba - 1976)

Stargard - Starbob (MCA - 1978)

Byzantium - Baby I Can Hear You Calling Me (Warner Brothers - 1972)

Dane Donahue - Casablanca (Columbia - 1978)

Vance Or Towers - Don't It Getcha (A&M - 1975)

Molkie Cole - Sugar Boogie (Janus - 1977)

Tucky Buzzard - Time Will Be Your Doctor (Capitol - 197?)

Hot Chocolate - Hello America (Big Tree - 1975)

Wham! - Superslick (GRT - 1978)

ADC Band - More & More Disco (Cotillion - 1978)

Today, Tomorrow, Forever - It's Your Love (RSO - 1979)

High Inergy - I Just Can't Help Myself (Gordy - 1980)

P-Funk All Stars - Hydraulic Pump Part III (Oh My God I Can't Feel My Face And There Is Cocaine Coming Out Of My Ears And Sly Is Crawling Around On The Floor Get Up Sly Where Am I What Year Is This Records)

http://www.wvvy.org/listen/content/19feb07mix.mp3

Alessi brothers fans will dig Vance Or Towers. I am totally hot for Alessi Brothers/Barnaby Bye. Hardcore power pop! not for wimps or grandmas.

oh yeah

And Sang Freud, you NEED that Molkie Cole album. Friggin' bizarro pop/rock masterpiece. Vinyl doesn't go for much either. I bow down to that band, seriously.

http://www.molkiecole.net/MolkieCole.jpg

http://www.molkiecole.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/normal_PatsBoots.jpg

With a cover like that it's as good as in my collection RIGHT NOW!

FINALLY found a copy of Beach House's debut on vinyl!

Found in a 99-cent bin, circa today:
- Elmore James, I NEED YOU (on the Sphere Sound label, a Bell reissue subsidiary which is considered MAD collectible)
- Consolers, SONGS OF INSPIRATION (raw gospel duo who had a million-and-one releases on Nashboro)

set-list for my first radio show:

string driven thing - heartfeeder

booker t. & priscilla - maggie's farm

lionel hampton - stop! i don't need no sympathy

west - down along the cove

emitt rhodes - really wanted you

gary farr - wailing wall

howard werth & the moonbeams - got to unwind/the embezzler

rick nelson & the stone canyon band - let it bring you along

dirty angels - you got me runnin'

gangsters of love - never is too soon

the savage rose - listen to this tune from mexico

rotary connection - love has fallen on me

danny schloss - in a dream

bull - feelin' pretty good

terence - fool amid the traffic

savage grace - mother's son

brotherhood - doin' the right thing(the way)

charley d & milo - om sweet om

jim & jean - strangers in a strange land

john & beverly martyn - new day

karen alexander - you're my sailor

hues corporation - all goin' down together

mickey newbury - how many times must the piper be paid for his song

shawn phillips - l ballade

arthur - blue museum

john villemonte - i am the moonlight

"let it bring you along" is such a jam. awesome.

bought yesterday @ junk: Songs of the Muskogee Creek. (on Indian House.) It's mostly vocal with some rattle shakin'. Very lulling sort-of polyphonic vocals.

listening:
frederic rzewski - coming together
jon gibson - visitations
marconi notaro - no sub rein dos metazoarios (time lag really does a nice job with their reissues. Usually affordable (that Patron Saints one though, woo, that was like $32 or something.) and they're LEGIT and usually have cool liner notes/inserts.)

2008 has been good so far

Electric Wizard - Come My Fanatics
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless

Which loveless did you get? Should I go after the original issue or one of the reissues? I heard somewhere that the mastering is all gone wrong on the original.

Buyers have requested their payment total on 118 items.
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Groundhogs - Who Will Save the World?
Run DMC - Run's House/Beats to the Rhyme
Various - Wattstax, Vol. 2
Kris Kristofferson - The Silver-Tongued Devil & I
Harlan T Bobo - I'm Your Man

the nick drake fruit tree vinyl reissue is really nice.

Just got this absolute gem for $1.98 at the local used book/record store: http://www.discogs.com/release/76716

Kraftwerk - Ralf & Florian
various - A Jazz Piano Anthology (Columbia 2LP)
Steve Hackett - Defector, Spectral Mornings
Debbie Harry - Kookoo
Garçons - Divorce
Clockcleaner - Babylon Rules

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/631526.jpg

Love this. Acid dulcimer/hand percussion/chanteuse from '78. Pre-Mediaeval Baebes.

Also rocking my world today is Dave Burrell (and a cast of thousands) "La Vie de Boheme"

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/760890.jpg

wtf @ that Nick Drake reissue not including the "Time Of No Reply" album ( which I think is out of print now on Ryko) and putting in a DVD instead.

i have the old fruit tree vinyl box. i actually bought five leaves and then bryter layter and THEN was so insane for the dude that i went back to the store (Tower Records in Philly on South Street, actually) and bought the box! i don't feel the need to upgrade. haven't listened to them in years, but that's only cuz i played those albums 492837463632738383838388383 times over a period of 2 or 3 years and kinda overdid it. i gave my brother my single copies. never should have done that. could have used them as analog back-up.

SWM interest include pink label islands and crisp corners, no seam splits.

also, the pictures i tried to post upthread clearly didn't work. the dulcimer psych record is "Waillee Waiilee" by Dorothy Carter.

wtf @ that Nick Drake reissue not including the "Time Of No Reply" album ( which I think is out of print now on Ryko) and putting in a DVD instead.

-- sleeve, Tuesday, January 22, 2008 1:37 AM (15 hours ago) Bookmark

yeah that's the one bummer...the doc is cool, but i don't really think there's anyone who really knew nick drake well enough to really have any insight, and yeah, i've watched it once and probably won't watch it again, whereas the album i would listen to a lot.

electric fetus in mpls just added vinyl and they have GOOD prices (dudes must not ebay stuff as a side thing)...but yeah got some scores yesterday:

The Velvet Gentleman: Music of Eric Satie - The Camarate Contemporary Chamber Group

In San Francisco - The Cannonball Adderly Quintet

Inception - The McCoy Tyner Trio

Brothers and Sisters - The Allman Bros. Band

154 - Wire

good prices, the Eric Satie was only $2, and is awesome...essentially a small chamber group, strings, oboe, flute, and acoustic guitar, but they have a Moog as well...interesting because they don't use the Moog as their main gimmick, like Switched On, it's just another instrument in the mix, so right in the middle of a real pastoral section of flute and acoustic guitar w/string pads all of a sudden some odd electronic bleat comes charging through...

also the Allmans was only $4 and really good cond. polybagged and had the original insert....they have new vinyl cutouts and so the Wire is the 180G Four Men w/Beards reissue for only 9.99....

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in addition to murari, i also got
dave burrell - high won low too
and charlie & ira louvin on pickwick subsidiary Hilltop. a little beat, but free.

listening to the first two Happy & Artie Traum records on Capitol. Some of my favorite semi-obscure folk-/country-rock lps.

kate bush-kick inside (the hot japan-only cover)
that's euro beat 4
david sylvain-brilliant trees
2 pounds for all three, all very close to mint.

I love japan.

JD Emmanuel - Wizard's Incantation
Raven - Back to Ohio Blues
Neuronium - Supranatural
Die Kreuzen - Century Days

Found a good shop near my house that has tons of (very disorganized) vinyl. I need an afternoon to sift through it all. My first run through got me:

Stranglers-Live Xcert
Miles Davis-Miles in the Sky
XTC-Beeswax

I have a feeling this place is a real treasure trove.

WHITE NOISE: AN ELECTRIC STORM

Finally! This is the version with the white cover with lots of multicolored ears on it, not the lightning bolts cover.

http://cgi.ebay.com/THE-MISFITS-PLAN-9-1009-HORROR-BUSINESS-ULTRA-RARE_W0QQitemZ190191145132QQihZ009QQcategoryZ306QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Got

Tim Hecker - Atlas (10")
Fennesz - Plays EP(10")
Lenka Clayton - Qaeda Quality Question Quickly Quickly Quiet (12")
Grouper - Tried (7")

Got a few bits second hand at the weekend, a nice birdsong LP and a better condition copy of The Muppet Show LP than my 32 year old one. Oh and the Midnight Express OST. Yeay!

The Cure - Japanese Whispers

six bucks, I'm happy even though I already have The Walk.

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

I haven't heard Grouper (isn't their a Xiu Xiu connection? I think that's what put me off.) but it looks like fusetronsound.com has an LP and a 7". Tell your local store to get in touch with him for lots of wholesale distribution.

these are the records I brought home today:
white noise - an electric storm (US Island pressing with non-lightning bolt cover!)
tim buckley - greetings from LA (jaxon's recommendation, i think? loving it so far.)
cluster - sowiesoso
meat puppets - up on the son
richard thompson - (guitar, vocal) 2LP
philip glass - music with moving parts
louvin brothers - family who prays (VG?)

and a nothing people 45, and a urinals EP boot thingamabob.

i luv records.

what's the most affordable/safest way to ship approx 115 LPs to the UK from the US? Cost-effective is the word.

I'd guess insured surface mail.

I think Grouper had a split w/Xiu Xiu but they (she) are far more worthwhile. I have a 3" CD that I like a lot.

since my local store just had their Caroline rep cut by EMI I might as well tell 'em about Fusetron.

btw guys just bought that copy of Sam Rivers Crystals that Thus Sang Freud linked to upthread, and i'm in the running for a half-decent copy of pacific ocean blue, so i'm amped about that.

Fusetron is a very, very specialized distro when it comes to wholesale; he won't have nearly the catalog of a Caroline or an ADA or whomever, but it's all pretty top-notch, hard to find experimental/psych/synth/industrial/noise/etc.

ian that wmfu link convinced me, i'm buying that murari record too.

don't pay too much! It's no Virgin Insanity or anything.

I am listening to the Papa Nebo record. The only one, as far as I know?
Buy it sealed for $6! Well-done country rock with oddly sophisticated sounding fiddle!

http://cgi.ebay.com/PAPA-NEBO-SEALED-ATLANTIC-8280-1971-LP-MINT_W0QQitemZ320202207058QQihZ011QQcategoryZ306QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQtrksidZp1638.m118.l1247QQcmdZViewItem

I got a line on two affordably-priced Pentagram singles from the 70s. Wish me luck. I want them so bad...

Yeah, awesome, I would totally buy them.

(I'm not at work today, so i'll let you know tomorrow.)

yeah dude keep me posted. love the a-frames

i think i can record vinyl using my new roland edirol using the line in. if it works it's gonna be sweet.

Oh, and weird-ass, SUPER-crepey French doom/prog/artmusik album called Les Morts Vent Vite by Shub-Niggurath. A bunch of French weirdos circa '86, apparently. Bought it 'cuz it was cheap and I'd never seen it, and 'cuz the cover art is AMAZING (glowy-headed skeleton knight on wild-eyed black stallion abducting willowy virgine by moonlight). Music is kinda amazing, too: harsh, dense, ultra-abstract prog with sheetmetal noize guitar and absolutely elephantine bass morass. Sometimes jazzy, sometimes doomy, sometimes carnival crazy. One of the scariest records of its kind I've ever heard. Univers Zero territory, but out-hysteries Hysterie. On the other hand, marred by operatic, nonsensical (Zeuhl-style) female vocals, and a bit too hilariously HIGH-ART overall to take seriously.

Kinda loved it, but sold it almost instantly cuz it turns out ppl will pay a LOT for it.

...Vent VONT Vite...

got Bohannon " south african man' lp for $4 yesterday at a book shop. Don't really know much about the dude...but a song called 'Rap on Dj' from 74 peaked my interest. pretty hyped to get my stereo working now after searching and reading about him here

Les Morts Vent Vite by Shub-Niggurath

pretty amazing record. for me it beats out univers zero by a mile, and most of the post-magma zeuhl-y stuff too. mutant-sounds posted a pretty crazy LP a while back that was four other projects by the members of s-n.

JT IV - cosmic lightning (FUCKING AWESOME)
animal collective/black dice - wastered 12"
v/a - music and dances of occidental africa
v/a - texas/mexican border music vol 1 (saw ian mention it in here, not feelin it too much on a cursory listen)
bohannon - phase 2
blank dogs - the fields 12"
wavves - s/t
maureen tucker - life in exile after abdication
sex vid - communal living (so so so good, best thing ive heard of theirs)
sad horse - MS records north portland 7" series vol 2 (good)
roland kirk - the inflated tear <3<3<3
tony williams' lifetime - emergency!
mx-80 sound - crowd control
mx-80 sound - hard attack
the rats - s/t
why are we building such a big ship? - no blood no blooms (MS records distro, for fans of gogol bordello, ehhhh)
bricolage 7"
sexy kids 7"
los llamarada - take the sky
los llamarada - whatever the first one is called

on the way:
der TPK - games for slaves
the sneaky pinks - loner w a boner 7"

JT IV - cosmic lightning (FUCKING AWESOME)

isn't it? anyone know where i can actually purchase a fucking copy? "out of print at label," my local only got one copy for a guy who works there, blah blah blah. pretty lame when it's easier to download something than buy it a week after it comes out.

imho the JT IV record has a couple jams but is largely forgettable, and the VU cover is downright awful.

JT IV - cosmic lightning (FUCKING AWESOME)

isn't it? anyone know where i can actually purchase a fucking copy? "out of print at label," my local only got one copy for a guy who works there, blah blah blah. pretty lame when it's easier to download something than buy it a week after it comes out.

check near the bottom of the page for new releases 11/17/08 on the other music mail order page

If you've had no luck getting the JT IV, GottPunch, I put one aside for you. E-mail me and I'll hook it up if you need one.

i never saw it here at the store and they usually get drag city stuff.

got the bachs reissue on void today. used to have the vinyl reissue that came out a zillion years ago, but i must have sold it. got two albums of rare 20's red nichols and miff mole sides. they rule. and i bought a used copy of the first trans am album. cuz i like trans am. and i no longer have the cd.

why oh why do i keep staring at that fancy deluxe copy of the last earth album? i'm such a sucker. so pretty though...

(i haven't even heard the album either. i'm gonna help out at the store on friday. i might have to get it...)

I've not been buying many records cos I'm saving for my trip to LA next month but have got these:

cop shoot cop - any day now 12"
ashley von hurter & the haters - s/t 10"
see see rider - she sings alone 12"

From the 50p bin:
joan jett & the blackhearts - I love rock'n'roll 7"
split - carpet bombers for peace + conflict - salt in the wound 7"

And from the band last night (yeah whatever, I like them)
vivian girls - wild eyes 7"
vivian girls - tell the world 7"

What's the Bachs LP like, Scott? I'd been looking for discussion about it elsewhere around here, but no luck.

oh yes im interested in that bachs talk too

So it seems the pound has finally gone so far beyond shite that it's becoming nearly impossible to buy any US vinyl. I've bought two or three thing in the past few weeks, thinking 99 cents is cheap for an album, but then the shipping just kills any notion of a steal. And new stuff? Forget it! It's just so frustrating that so much stuff is typically only offered by US sellers.

Ho hum.

Recent UK finds...
Jowe Head - Pincer Movement
Rose Tattoo - Rock n Roll Outlaws
Wild Stares - All We Want 7"
Tyrannosaurus Rex - Unicorn/Beard of Stars double LP
Tyrannosaurus Rex - first two albums double LP
Vanilla Fudge - Near the Beginning

the bachs album is great. some people consider it one of the GREATEST garage rock albums of all time, but i don't know if i'd go that far. they are one of the few garage/party bands from that time to record an album of all original material and the songs are very cool. the cheapo production with the massive echo is pretty hypnotic, especially on their slow bummer tracks with the awesome jangly guitars. still, they were a band that definitely could have benefited from a big label studio budget. i can't help but wonder what the songs would have sounded like with added harmonies and rock studio touches.

when oh when will someone reissue those 1st 2 A-Frames singles, to say nothing of the LPs...

"Radiation Generation" is the best KBD-style blowout I have heard this decade.

Shub Niggurath iz also the bestest.

FUUUCK YOU I CAN BUY TONS OF OTHER COOL SHIT FOR $55

COLD SUN: Dark Shadows LP + 10" (RFR 030LP) $55.00
2nd pressing now available of the deluxe vinyl version. Packaged in a luxury
foldout cardboard cover, like Dragonwyck, Phantasia or Mystic Siva, and
contains an extra 10" bonus record and an extended booklet/insert with liner
notes by Jello Biafra plus rare photos and other surprises. 10"
tracklisting: A1. "Live Again"; B1. "Mind Aura."

cold sun is like the doors with more fuzz guitar.

but is it worth $55? somehow I have my doubts.

yeah man, i wouldn't pay that much for it. i'm sure you can find it on a blog somewhere to check out & see if it's your speed. not for meeeee.

Don't think Cold Sun is really all that Doorsy. It's quite a grower, and hard to peg. Think you'd like it, Ian. Fuck $55 for pretty much anything though.

this thread RIP