I Love Vinyl! Recent Haul/Score/Purchase Thread (2010)

newish blue The Ex best-of double LP is ace, still in heavy rotation crate. srsly re-try, now more than ever

i guess urgent/frenetic sounds too STRIDENT to me or something? i dont know, there's no real good rubric for what i immediately like, etc! probably ill be jockin the ex so hard in 6 months, ordering vintage ex shirts on ebay etc

jockin' the ex

done that a few times havent we all amirite

yeah I hear you .. nobody likes to be PREACHED at, but w/ The Ex, I dunno it just kinda works. as part of the whole package. plus they are just so lovable and genuine about it, they aren't like I dunno "Rage Against the Machine" or somethin

I love the Ex. I'm OK with political music though - love anarcho-punk stuff like Crass, Conflict etc. The 1st Ex album sounds a bit like early Crass.

Most of my Ex stuff is on CD though. I only have Aural Guerrilla on LP. And the new 7".

amazing free Ex show in NYC Lincoln Center a couple summers ago, in Ethiopian mode -- they are a band I will always go see.

recent record treats:

http://www.suncitygirls.com/discography/covers/78rpm.gif
SCG 78. I try to avoid buying purely fetish objects, but it's hard

http://www.tediumhouse.com/media/album/covers/bufms25____.jpg
I think this will be good, barely scratched the surface

arrg pwnd in html beef

most of my Ex stuff is on CD too! like ALL of my Ex stuff, except for this new Mississippi reissue and a copy of 'Too Many Cowboys' I bought years ago.

there is a record store next to my house that had like every Ex release on CD. so I slowly just bought them up figuring, fuck it, I wanna support this place, plus I just wearied at the idea of hunting down all of the original LPs on eBay or whatever. Plus their CD packaging is pretty rad. Stuff like the '1936' thing, which replicates the original book that the vinyl came with. Or 'Dignity of Labour' which comes in a box with all the orignal inserts, etc...

over the last few weeks:

Sonny Sharrock - Monkey-Pockie-Boo
Dum Dum Girls - I Will Be
Charles Minugs - Tijuana Moods
Tim Cohen - The Two Sides of
v/a - In A Cloud: The New Sounds of San Francisco
The Sandwitches - How to make ambient sadcake
The Sandwitches - Back to the Sea 7"
Bo Diddley - Have Guitar Will Travel
The Cramps - Songs the Lord Taught Us
The Wedding Present - Bizarro
Charles Mingus - Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus
Bob Dylan - Nashville Skyline
Crocodiles/Graffiti Island/Dum Dum Girls/Pens 7"
Roland Kirk - The Inflated Tear
Dum Dum Girls - Jail La La 7"
Olivia Tremor Control vs. Black Swan Network tour lp

<3Roland Kirk - The Inflated Tear<3

the dudes at my favorite SF pizza place were jamming bizarro the other day when i was in there the other day. what a great record!

today:

"I'd buy that for a dollar!" Great purchases for a buck or less

Funky Four - Feel It (The Mexican)
Treacherous Three - Action
Amon Duul II - Yeti (reish)
Black Moth Super Rainbow 12" on Mexican Summer
Charalambides - that Blacktop boot live LP
Magazine - After The Fact LP
LL Cool J - Goin Back To Cali 7"
Mecca Normal/Kreviss split 7"
New Order - Procession 7"

birthday weekend mega-haul:

777 - s/t
kate bush - the dreaming
steve hillage - l
fripp & eno - no pussyfooting
peter baumann - romance 76
laid back - play it straight
eberhard weber - fluid rustle
jan akkerman - s/t
jan akkerman & kaz lux - eli
african image - roots (izimpande)
magazine 60 - don quixote 12"
wim mertens - whisper me
penguin cafe orchestra - music from the penguin cafe
mark isham - film music
solitudes environmental sound experiences vol 2
mike oldfield - crises
dr. buzzard's original savannah band - s/t
roy ayers ubiquity - everybody loves the sunshine
pat metheny group - first circle b/w end of the game 12"
do'a world music ensemble - companions of the crimson coloured ark
meredith monk - turtle dreams
force dimension - deus ex machina
borghesia - surveillance and punishment
nana vasconcelos - bush dance
les negresses vertes - zobi la mouche 12"
quincy jones - the dude
william pitt - city lights 12"

^ pretty good finds at on the corner in san jose. seemed obvious that they came across a bunch of semi-embarrassing 80s vinyl purged from some local college radio station's back stock and were selling most of it for 50 cents apiece. i doubt any of it is worth much in resale value- 'KSCU' is written huge on all the covers and there are stickers and comments all over- but i was pretty happy with what i came across. the dj comments on the pat metheny/ecm stuff are worth the price alone

penguin cafe orchestra - music from the penguin cafe
niiiiiice

^ i love that album, so stoked. that wim mertens record is very similar actually, really liked that one too

cool! where is on the corner anyway? i only know the ones on bascomb: streetlight; space cat; and that old record barn place??

on the corner is in campbell technically i guess, on e. campbell near the 17. kind of a gold mine even just for their normal (non-50 cent) stock, which is priced very very reasonably. i hear if the owner is there he's really great about recommendations, being friendly etc.

and ugh, al's record barn is such a bummer- dude closes at like 4 and is a total dick about it (seriously YELLING at people because he didn't want to hit traffic, and there were at least 8 customers in the damn shop). i guess records there used to be half-off sticker prices (which are RIDICULOUS- $15 for a phil collins album kind of thing), but we were told they did away with that just last week (!?!?) so my advice is to completely avoid the place. found a $10 copy of 'no pussyfooting' there tho.

streetlight was ok, but i think i was expecting more.

agreed on all counts. i found a sealed howling hex 2 for under $10 and yoko's FLY for $20 in the past couple months at streetlight, so that definitely wins for san jose. im hittin a scrabble tournament in campbell in may; ill have to check out on the corner.

michael hurley & pals - armchair boogie (original with comic)
third ear bad - music from macbeth
pentangle - history book
alan stivell - chemins de terre
margareta soderberg with arbete och fritid & pojkarna pa storholmen - karingtand
various - bird in the bush, industrial muse, sea songs & shanties topic sampler 7
tim hart & maddy prior - folk songs of olde england vol. 1
steeleye span - hark! the village wait, individually & collectively
ashley hutchings & john kirkpatrick - compleat dancing master
moulton morris men - where the pavement ends
davey graham, dan ar bras, dave evans, duck baker - irish reels, jigs, hornpipes & airs
mr fox - complete mr fox
robin williamson & his merry band - american stonehenge
jacques higelin - crabouif, higelin & areski
dagmar krause - angebot & nachfrage
hp lovecraft - hp lovecraft ii
butthole surfers - brown reason
wooden wand & the vanishing voice - xiao
my cat is an alien - listen before black falls
fursaxa - myccorhizae realm
peter walker - rainy day raga
albert ayler - bells
wicker man soundtrack
broselmaschine - s/t
limbus 4 - mandalas
vocal music from mongolia (jean jenkins field recordings)
woody guthrie - this land is your land, library of congress recordings
sandy denny - north star grassman & the ravens

on the corner is great.

xp nice haul!

steeleye span - below the salt
the psychedelic schafferson jetplane lp
wipers - is this real (re)
lula cortes & ze ramalho - paebiru
arthur conley - sweet soul music
kris kristofferson - jesus was a capricorn
swamp dogg - greatest hits
swamp dogg - rat on

change - the glow of love
change - miracles
double fantasy - universal ave
scritti politti - cupid + psyche 85
taka boom - night dancin' 12"
luther rabb - make a little move (on the one)

picked these up today:

joan jett - bad reputation german import w/ cover i had never seen before ($1!)
holly and the italians - the right to be italian ($1!)
gun n roses - appetite for destruction (banned cover - $1!)
rolling stones - flowers (mono copy)
anti-nowhere league - long live the league (import)
muddy waters - electric mud
beau brummels - best of - 64 to 68

michael hurley & pals - armchair boogie (original with comic)
third ear bad - music from macbeth
pentangle - history book
alan stivell - chemins de terre
margareta soderberg with arbete och fritid & pojkarna pa storholmen - karingtand
various - bird in the bush, industrial muse, sea songs & shanties topic sampler 7
tim hart & maddy prior - folk songs of olde england vol. 1
steeleye span - hark! the village wait, individually & collectively
ashley hutchings & john kirkpatrick - compleat dancing master
moulton morris men - where the pavement ends
davey graham, dan ar bras, dave evans, duck baker - irish reels, jigs, hornpipes & airs
mr fox - complete mr fox
robin williamson & his merry band - american stonehenge
jacques higelin - crabouif, higelin & areski
dagmar krause - angebot & nachfrage
hp lovecraft - hp lovecraft ii
butthole surfers - brown reason
wooden wand & the vanishing voice - xiao
my cat is an alien - listen before black falls
fursaxa - myccorhizae realm
peter walker - rainy day raga
albert ayler - bells
wicker man soundtrack
broselmaschine - s/t
limbus 4 - mandalas
vocal music from mongolia (jean jenkins field recordings)
woody guthrie - this land is your land, library of congress recordings
sandy denny - north star grassman & the ravens

― no lime tangier, Monday, April 5, 2010 1:14 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark

how much money do you fuckers have anyway?

big dipper - boo-boo
mike oldfield - hergest ridge
zee - identity
tears for fears - i believe (a soulful re-recording) 10"

johnny nelson - ralfi pagan presenta johnny nelson, el principe de la salsa
pigbag - the big bean 12"
vasant rai - spring flowers
caravan - the best of caravan from 1970-1974
bill quist - piano solos of erik saties
jon and vangelis - the friends of mr. cairo
paul horn - visions
paul horn - special edition
harvey mason - earth mover
dexter wansel - vpyager

voyager, rather

last month or two:

j&ts - battle of the orchids
stephen david heitkotter
men-an-tol - through the quoit
voice of the seven thunders

and some 45s
new how/boyracer split
va - golden age comp
royal headache
circle pit
bed wetting bad boys
kitchens floor
straight arrows
j&ts - room 8

i dig kitchens floor's album. what is the 7 inch like?

yer typical chugging lo-fi gubbins, not sure how it compares to the LP though as i haven't heard it..

the how was pretty fun at the SF slumberland show

you guys are making these names up again. kitchens floor. i'm so sure.

the psychedelic schafferson jetplane lp

how is this, ian?

what is this, ian?

where did you mention this, ian?

skot: link4u http://www.myspace.com/kitchensfloor

it is mentioned on the rolling psych/drone/freak thread.

it's awesome, kinda?? it's kinda raga-psych, explicit sandy bull *& spacemen three influences (they say so right on the sleeve.) chilean hippy kids. if their myspace page is to be believed, they found a kilo of coke & re-sold it to buy awesome vintage gear?

Wow that band is pretty good! I want to hear more

i totally read "chilean" as "from a chill place or a state of chilling"

jesus christ amoeba was insane-o last night with good records

the young big bill broonzy 1928-1935 (yazoo)
a collection of mountain banjo songs & tunes (county)
possesion and poetry in madagascar (ocora)
bohannon -- dance your ass off
anthology of african music: ba-benzele pygmies (unesco)
musical instruments 4: flutes and horns (hugh tracey's music of africa series)

moving has depleted my records-fund while i wait for the old security deposit, etc, so i seriously left 10-20 amazing african records in the bins. all the good ocora/unesco shit was priced like $18-25, so i dont feel like it's the deal of the century or anything, but if you want some really beautifully recorded african music, check out the SF amoeba international section this weekend!

maaaaaaan.

just back from the Chicago Independent Radio Project record fair, got there way late, was hungover, only hit two vendors, still got some good finds, will drink less tonite and go back tomorrow for sure:

Buffalo Springfield - s/t (real clean VG+ copy on 1841 Broadway for 6 bucks! totally excellent starter until I have enough spare cash to actively hunt down a "Baby Don't Scold Me" version)
Meredith Monk - Turtle Dreams
Muhal Richard Abrams - Lifea Blinec (on Arista, never even knew this record existed! god bless Michael Cuscuna)
David Bedford - The Odyssey
Raszebrae - Cheap Happiness or Lofty Suffering (one of the few records from xhuxk's book that I *don't* own! we shall see....)
Jack Traylor and Steelwind - Child of Nature (after just talking about it the other week -- there it was! 4 bucks. i'm psyched to hear it)
Kensington Market - Avenue Road
Billion Dollar Babies - Battle Axe
Lol Creme/Kevin Godley - Consequences (like xhuxk, I've been on a big 10CC binge myself the last couple weeks, always wanted a copy of this, one of my good record collecting buddies swears by it so we shall see. beautiful box...)
Roy Orbison - Mystery Girl (sealed copy, 3 bucks)

stupidly didn't bring enough cash, and saw a few fishes that i left in the pond even in the short time I was there. going back tomorrow for sure

johnny osborne - truth & rights
sweeney's men - the tracks of sweeney
guv'ner - hard for measy for you

and some soul 45s.

king sunny ade - syncro system
jean-luc ponty - cosmic messenger
boogie boys - city life / a fly girl 12"
jimmy cliff - the harder they come
eddie kendricks - the hit man
debarge - rhythm of the night
romanelli - connecting flight
the jets - s/t
klymaxx - never underestimate the power of a woman 12"
theo parrish - falling up (technasia rmx) 12"
fleetwood mac - tusk

got stuff for the store today and a couple of things for me. got lots of dollar 45s. rock, soul, etc. nice stuff at the flea market. i actually spent the most money today on this one woman's childhood 45s.

anyway:

danny o'keefe - american roulette (only have a test pressing of this and needed a regular copy cuz i am number one danny fan)

badings/raaljmakers - evolutions & contrasts (nice to find for a dollar! cool electronic 60's stuff on limelight)

joe diorio/wally cirillo - soloduo (jazz guitar dude i've never heard of. 70's. spitball records!}

prelude - after the gold rush (trio on island from 1974. don't think i've ever heard it)

martin bisi - creole mass

shawn phillips - furthermore

clyles & lenny - it isn't the same (guitar and violin duo on columbia. never heard them. with poster!)

nemperor label sampler (don't even know why i bought this. i have the tommy bolin and lenny white tracks featured here and don't really care much about the rest.)

menace - doghouse (laswell, le blanc, bootsy, etc)

tyrone tystick brunson - sticky situation (siked to get this for a dollar. classic track "new wave disco punk funk rock")

riot - fire down under

meadowlark lemon - my kids ("po' folks disco"!)

fats domino 2lp greatest hits

universe city - s/t

dynasty - adventures in the land of music

back street crawler - s/t

milton nascimento - milton (needed this. two bucks!)

the dingoes - five times the sun

backstreet crawler - the band plays on

frijid pink - s/t (have this but i can't pass up a minty copy for six bucks. this record used to sell for money!)

heads hands & feet - s/t (double album)

freddie king - 17 hits (federal singles. very cool for 2 bucks)

oliver lake - life dance of is

feelies - only life

odyssey - hollywood party tonight

flux - uncarved block (actually paid 12 bucks for this from the people who used to own main street music in northampton. they still sell at shows and online. they were at the flea market. plus, it's unopened and i have worn my original copy OUT. one of my fave albums of all time. 12 bucks seemed worth it. bought the feelies record from them too. couldn't remember if i had it on vinyl! i think i do. oh well. it's a minty promo. i can always use a spare or something.)

found a sealed melvins album at the flea market today. that's always good to sell. got lots of clean classic rock for the store there too. and those cool singles. good day overall.

what label is that oliver lake on?

never gotten into danny o'keefe, but i've listened to a few of his records.
"Stoo" of "Stooz Records" (old store in the east village) is #1 Prelude fan.

Prelude's After the Goldrush was a big hit in Britain in '73, so their records are relatively plentiful and cheap over here - Owlcreek Incident is well worth a pop if you see it.