Rolling 2008 Vinyl Thread

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.

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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!

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

xpost - Grouper is from here in Portland. She's really great. It's easy to catch her sets in parks and coffee shops now and then.

We also have Tara Jane O'Neil and Inca Ore in residence.

Ok now I'm just bragging again.

That Raven album is fantastic, BTW. Also trying to obtain a copy of Tommy James's Tales of Trauma LP reissue (which is likely also to have been lovingly fucked with), although the CD contains extra tracks. Why'd ya do it, Tommy?

Just got the Fatal Microbes/Poison Girls split 12" on Small Wonder. I think the Fatal Microbes tracks are the same as the ones on the 7" which I've already got, but Small Wonder records is my one attempt at completism, so never mind.

"Piano Lessons", such a fantastic song!

Small Wonder is a great completist project.

Gnarly, surely you mean Tommy Jay and not Tommy James? Columbus Discount is also releasing some recent Rep recordings!

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)

Tommy Jay and not Tommy James

yah. doof!

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)

"(sound of raking, yelling at leaves)"

hahahahaha! you are my new best friend!

I got an order from Hells Headbangers yesterday, hot stuff

ooh, vinyl. cool. love that label.

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.

this is fun

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<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.

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

Xpost: Yeah, I'm gonna buy the new one anyway, love the 1st two. I assume the EP = also rans.

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.

Concert by the Sea - Cal Tjader
Requiem: Complete Atlantic Recordings - Lennie Tristano (! so amped)
Trident - McCoy Tyner
Live in Japan - Joe Henderson

goddamn trident rips

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.)

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? :/

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?

i'd never seen this thing before!

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WOW. I wonder when that was issued??

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

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

today i got dave burrell's echo. get back reissue stylee, but cheap/used.

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?)