Rolling 2008 Vinyl Thread

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?)

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?

RIGHT NOW I AM LISTENING TO POCO FOR THE SCOTT SEWARD.

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.

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.

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.)

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.

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.