Rolling 2008 Vinyl Thread

did some shoppin yesterday, already posted this on noise but like everybody seems to hang out over here now so here ya go. all used LPs except the john philips reissue

cj and co. - devil's gun <-- cool disco lp with dennis coffey and mike theodore involvement
shawn phillips - contribution <-- i like this guy, 70s phasered out folk-rock
sparks - no. 1 in heaven <-- think I finally found the sparks album that made me "get" them
mountain live - the road goes ever on (<3 "long red" <3)
john philips s/t (wolfking of l.a.)

sleeve how was the SCG show??? times new viking is playing across town the same night, and im def committed to SCG first, but if i can scoot and hit both, ill do it

Lots of talk on the Sun City Girls thread about the Brothers Unconected set list, which looks awesome.

john philips s/t (wolfking of l.a.)

oh wow i didn't know they'd reissued this? is it recent? thumbs up?
i've always wanted to hear that record.

Lots of talk on the Sun City Girls thread about the Brothers Unconected set list, which looks awesome.

-- Trip Maker, Wednesday, May 21, 2008 6:32 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

oh sweet ill check it out there

it is recent, I heard about it in the other music weekly email. there's a cd and an lp on two different labels, this is the one I got

http://www.forcedexposure.com/Labels/harte.recordings.html

seems pretty cool, country-folk-rock stuff, only listened to side 1 so far

xpost to m@tt

thx dmr.

i've been digging if i could only remember my name by crosby recently so i was hoping it was sorta in that vein.

Took a wander at lunch....

Best of Earth & Fire - Doesn't contain Hazy Paradise (my favourite track from Ghost's Hypnotic Underworld), but I'm hoping there's some other good stuff on it. All I've heard before is Song of the Marching Children, which is totally recommended.

Juicy Lucy Who Do You Love £2.99, Vertigo, and a version of Who Do You Love. Couldn't refuse. Turn outs it's ex-Misunderstood and it's greasy/heavy as ya like!

Also got the Opal Early Recordings LP and a Vice Squad 7" EP with a cool track called Rock n Roll Massacre.

x-post to Matt

>>i really like the cockney rebel i bought....

Yay, another member of the fan club!!

I just picked up an Isabel Antena LP, "Tout Mes Caprices." A little disco, a little samba, and a cover of Zappa's "Village of the Sun."

i've been digging if i could only remember my name by crosby recently so i was hoping it was sorta in that vein.

it's kinda like that, yeah ... maybe not as dark ... a lot of it almost sounds like the Gram Parsons solo records, or mid-70s Dylan, tons of pedal steel all over it. it's pretty great!

http://glen.utdallas.edu/Glen/CDs/Bob%20Dylan/Bob%20Dylan%20Desire.jpg http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51BXPA0EBTL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

lol, cover connections!

xpost to God Punch:

Sun Supreme is pretty much improv wank so far, 13 minutes into side 1. Not BAD, exactly, and better than the Square 9 LP, but pretty unmemorable.

From the former competitor, the overpriced, records-fucked-to-hell comic/record store (was there a long time looking for items in that intersection of having personal value and being the right price; almost everything was $5 or under), plus the top two editions from some place down the street from Amoeba.

Blossom Dearie - The Special Magic
Jacques Brel - "Ces Gens La b/w "Jacky" & "L'Age Idiot" (with pic sleeve)
Faces - A Nod Is As Good As a Wink
Quincy Jones - Smackwater Jack
Adam and the Ants - Prince Charming
McCartney II
Johnny Guitar Watson - Listen
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Jazz Goes to College
Bob Wills & Tommy Duncan - Hall of Fame
Bix Beiderbecke - 1924
Thelonius Monk - Monk's Miracles
Phil 'n' the Blanks - s/t
The Psychedelic Furs - s/t
Pylon - Gyrate
New Order - "Thieves Like Us" b/w "Lonesome Tonight" (I think I recall having another with a different b-side)
New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies (Italian pressing for $5 for some reason, even though all of his crap new wave starts at $10 - pretty nice dude, though)

Dollar stuff:
Peggy Lee - Is That All There Is? (some Capitol Records comp from the 80s)
Billy Squier - The Tale of the Tape
Richie Havens - "The Great Blind Degree"
Rod Stewart - Sing It Again Rod
Impressions - The Best Impressions: Curtis, Sam & Fred
Hank Crawford - Hank Crawford's Back
Ralph Sutton & Jay McShann - The Last of the Whorehouse Piano Players
Miriam Makeba - The Many Voices of Miriam Makeba
Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly
Bix Beiderbecke - Bix Beiderbecke Story: Bix and His Gang, Volume 1

Plus a couple of jazz records of stuff I'm sure I have as a gift for a friend of mine, a weird-looking Charlie Christian/Lester Young ex-library LP and a Mugsy Spanier/Sidney Bechet LP.

i helped out my pal mike at the record store a couple days this week. he's trying to get his vinyl in order for the summer customers. (plus, he just bought a small collection of groovy r&b stuff and he wanted help with that.) today, i put boxes of dollar records together that he'll put outside. he's got so much stuff in boxes underneath his shelves that nobody even gets to. i've been pushing him to put stuff outside now that the weather's nice. i just figure it's like a calling card for anyone with lots of vinyl to sell. people like to browse in the sun. and it's a good way to get rid of stuff taking up space. anyway, he's been paying me in records. here's what i've taken:

kool & the gang - everybody's dancin'

bobby womack - the poet

the friends of distinction - love can make it easier

brick - stoneheart

carl carlton - s/t

jackie wilson - it'a all a part of love

johnnie taylor - eargasm

the three degrees - new dimensions ("the runner" is one of my fave moroder 12 inches, but i've never heard the full album)

the sutherland brothers and quiver - lifeboat

tin tin - s/t (60's psychpop tin tin, not 80's kiss me tin tin)

slave - showtime

millie jackson - feelin' bitchy

rhyze - to the top

motown magic disco machine vol.2

the impressions - finally got myself together

duke ellington - the unusual ellington

3 albums from Verve's jazz at the philharmonic series (brown, webster, hawkins, etc)

the changing face of harlem - the savoy sessions (lotsa stuff from 1944 produced by savoy's buck ram. hot lips page, charlie parker, ben webster, etc.)

the purpose - s/t (cool afro-hippie soul blues band from 1968. don't know ANYTHING about this group. ABC label.)

frank foster - here and now

bohannon - dance your ass off

frankie smith - children of tomorrow

sweet linda divine - s/t (beat junkies know about this album)

and a cool black gospel album called Over These Walls by a choir of inmates from the Kansas State Penitentiary in the 70's.

sleeve was that from house of records???

Scott you're living in clover there!

i have that inmate gospel record, scott. in fact i have a few -- and that's a "category" i'd not really considered before hmmmm.

prepping for a monthly country dj gig, got these from the dollar bin:

ferlin husky - true, true lovin'
george jones/tammy wynette - golden ring
mel tillis - detroit city
mickey gilley - encore
chet atkins - for the good times and other country moods
ray price - san antonio rose

also found

mose allison - mose allison sings
grinderman

sleeve was that from house of records???

no, it was from the Museum of Unfine Art downtown by the post office.

$1 records:

roy wiggins - tribute to my buddy george morgan
marty robbins - today
hank thompson - where is the circus?
desert rose band - s/t
tanya tucker - would you lay with me (in a field of stone?)
lone justice - s/t
roger miller - greatest hits
elvin bishop - let it flow
hank snow - hello love
floyd tillman - sings his greatest hits of lovin'
del reeves - live at the palomino club
slim whitman - country memories
larry gatlin - the pilgrim
loretta lynn - just a woman
rose maddox - rosie
mel tillis - southern rain
stonewall jackson - a tribute to hank williams
ferlin husky - wings of a dove
david houston and tammy wynette - my elusive dreams
statler brothers - best of
country funk - s/t
don gibson - s/t
bobbie gentry and glen campbell - s/t
trinidad steel band - s/t
softies - it's love
john and anne ryder - i still believe in tomorrow

v v cheap stuff!

Borghesia - Surveillance and Punishment
My Life with the Thrill,,, - A Girl Doesn't Get Killed By A Make-Believe Lover
à;GRUMH... - Rebearth
Midnight Star - Operator
Colonel Abrams - Music is the Answer

Rebearth is the weirdest a:Grumh album, I miss those records.

Totally. I was expecting typical à;GRUMH... EBM/goth stuff, but was treated to chants and drones. Was a surprise!

my portishead vinyl is really fucking warped and it pissed me off.

i wonder if i could return it. of course, i don't usually save record store receipts.

you should totally return that shit ASAP. the copy of Red Mecca I referenced above was warped to hell and I just returned it. lots of record stores write down everything sold in a day, also maybe you have a credit card entry if you didn't pay cash?

Picked up some records in Memphis over Memorial Day Weekend:
Tommy Jay's Tall Tales of Trauma
Los Llamarada The Exploding Now
Matmos Supreme Balloon (lp only bonus track "hashish master" features Terry Riley!)
The Oblivians Soul Food

how's the Tommy Jay?

Hashish Master's a pretty sweet bonus track, bought the vinyl for that reason (great artwork too)

I traded some stuff in to Kim's and got a British reissue of the Andwella's Dream LP (Love and Poetry) plus Iron Butterfly's Heavy (awesome) and Black Sabbath 4. Iron Butterfly is the shit! "Soul Experience" off of Ball and "Iron Butterfly Theme" and "Get Out My Life Woman" off of Heavy are all major jams.

The Tommy Jay record is really good. We listened to it in the car on the way to Memphis. Saw it at Goner and thought "what the hell?" Sorta sounds like Ariel Pink meets Peter Grudzien, but it's kind of all over the place.

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i just called the store and they'll take back the portishead w/o a receipt because they just sent back their entire vinyl stock of that album for being warped...he said it was some mass scale manufacturing problem, pretty much all of the standard double LPs are warped...he said he opened all of them just trying to find one decent one...

i guess that deluxe box set that's 60 bucks the vinyl is okay because it was pressed at 150 gram for that, but everything else is pretty much fucked everywhere....

really sucks i like the album a lot but fuck this i'm getting back my money and probably buying the kill 'em all reissue.

yeah weird i was just going to say i read on another board that the entire portishead run is warped. apparently the manufacturing plant was careless and sleeved and shrinked the entire run while the pressings were still hot.

major label vinyl is killing the collector geek industry!

i returned mine and swapped it for something else.

i went to the store this morning and they were totallly cool about it...like sanskrit said i guess it was an industry wide problem

anyway they had new copies they'd just gotten in and gave me a new one no questions asked, didn't even have a receipt.

also picked up:

Rush - 2112

Tim Buckley - Happy Sad

Bonnie Prince Billy - Lie Down in the Light (damn best joint by him in a minute!)

Akemi Kuniyoshi-Kuhn - Motion e Motion (don't know a thing about who this is...is very obtuse solo piano pieces, feels maybe like it's improv, sort of weird mix of modern classical/debussy/satie type stuff and ECM jazz improv type stuff...very chilly but very cool)

also picked up, but not on vinyl:

various - nigeria disco funk special: the sound of the underground lagos dancefloor 1974-79

^^HOLY SHIT THIS IS AWESOME

I got SPK's Machine Age Voodoo LP, mostly off the strength of the Metal Dance 7". Not quite what I hoped for. In fact, the version of Metal Dance
is completely different. None of the edge or ass of the 7" version.

I also got Young Loud and Snotty by the Dead boys. First time I've heard 'em, but I knew some of the songs from Rocket From the Tombs. Gotta say, first impression is that the Rocket from the Tombs versions are superior.

i clown on zappa people, they're just so monotone and annoying. probably the only two things of his i like are hot rats and waka jawaka.

am jamming hot rats rite now and forgot how much it shreds.

apostrophe dawg

oh yeh i had a apostrophe/overnight sensation two albums on one cd as a teenager. then it got scratched and they didnt sell the double album cd anymore in stores. in my mind its still one album. i guess that had its moments.

the music improvisation company - s/t (derek bailey and friendz)
tommy james and the shondells - crimson & clover
roy ayers - lots of love

notorious byrd bros
tracey ullman - you broke my heart in 17 places
sarah vaughn - linger awhile
cluster - zuckerzeit

thanks to a b-day gift certificate from my in-laws, these used albums:

Pebbles Vol. 3
The Bob Seger System - Ramblin' Gamblin' Man
The Grifters - Crappin' You Negative
Magic Hour - No Excess Is Absurd
Moby Grape - Wow
Bill Cosby - Hooray for the Salvation Army Band!

argh I want that Tracy Ullman album so bad and I never ever see it.

i found it in the $1 bin at amoeba :)!!!!!!

just bought (expensive) C93 Black Ships Eated the Sky

love this album though and had a gift voucher.

LPs
Hank Williams - Greatest Hits Vol 2 (MGM)
US Saucer - My Company is Misery
Grand Prix - Samurai
Brian McMahon - An Inch Equals a Thousand Miles
New Bomb Turks - Destroy Oh-Boy!!

7"
Silicon Teens - Memphis Tennessee
D. Clinton Thompson - Driving Guitars
Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments - Punk Rock Secret
Twinkeyz - Aliens In Our Midst

notorious byrd bros. is so crewcial

michael hurley et al - have moicy! (nice nice copy, was so psyched to find it in a DC store)
the thermals - more parts per million
jean-michel jarre - equinoxe
pierced arrows - str8 to the <3 (YES YES YES)

Library sale (library sales sadden me):

Gluck - Orfeo Ed Euridice on London
Carter: 8 Etudes, Quintet; Henze: Quintett on Candide
Elliott Carter - Sonata for Flute, Oboe, Cello & Harpsichord, Sonata for Cello & Piano on Nonesuch
The Young Giuseppe di Stefano
Franck Symphony in D Minor on London
Burt Bacharach - Reach Out ----- is this good? I'll find out soon, I guess.

pierced arrows - str8 to the <3 (YES YES YES)

got this today thx to a timely heads up from ian

also another rare-sike-of-the-world comp. called OBSESSION

that obsession comp is in the mail en route to me

it looks cool. haven't listened yet

the only name I recognized was Ersen because of the Finders Keepers comp

http://www.finderskeepersrecords.com/images/sleeve_ersen.jpg