Rolling 2008 Vinyl Thread

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

the obsession comp is awesome. suely & os kantikus = super fuzz tropicalia sweetness. also, everything else is good.

obsession is awesome, my boy pretzel walrus just picked that up

also can we talk about how exciting it is for MORE ENDLESS BOURGIE

i liked that obsession thing but there wasn't much that had my jaw dropping onto the floor if you know what i mean. i mean it's all more pleasant than life-changing or anything. but i should listen to it some more. sometimes i miss things the first time around.

hey, where is ian? did i miss something? is he banned? is he in burma? self-banned?

self-ban :(

please ban me from ILX.

aw, man...yeah, i missed that. wish this was the case:

"if i could only post on the rolling vinyl thread and the country rock thread"

not that i don't, you know, love you guys and all. whoever the hell you are.

yeah dogg

whoa to that ian stuff.

Am I missing a whole bunch of nastiness elsewhere? Folks need to relax, get themselves enriched with some peaceful easy feeling, spend some time on the E-MSWCPP/P/R/F-R/C-R thread, etc.

I found a real nice old country/pop record called Lean It All On Me' by Diana Trask, which is the least pop-star name you could have. Anyhow, it's got a great sound and good songs. On DOT Records, who also put out that odd and excellent vocal-poppy psych album by the Split Level. I got to try hunt down some more DOT.

http://www.lpdiscography.com/t/Trask/trask_lean.jpg

hey, i've got an earlier diana trask album, "miss country soul." it's pretty straight up poppy 60s country, but the "i'd never do you wrong" song is pretty ridiculous (lists lots of things she'd rather have happen to her than doing her man wrong). i think it's all joe tex covers.

During a recent road trip, I hit up a few thrift stores in rural Wisconsin hoping for some hippie records, but only found badly scratched private press religious and children's records from the early 80s...I tend to gravitate to the former, but didn't find anything strange enough to warrant picking up.

Received in the mail while I was away:

The Puritan - The Black Law 12" EP
Leviathan - Massive Conspiracy Against All Life LP

Yeah, it's pretty straight up. I don't have much old country pop like this, nor indeed do I ever hear any. It's refreshing, actually. I've found a lot of records that have this sound but without the songs to keep it memorable.

I also got a pair of old Ralph McTell LPs. He doesn't seem to be on the list of usual suspects whenever anyone mentions solo acoustic stuff, so I wasn't sure if he wasn't worth the effort. But I got a tatty old copy of that fab Contemporary Guitar LP on International Artists, and his track was one of the stand outs. Think maybe he also played on a Wizz Jones LP or too, one of which has just been reissued by Sunbeam. Sounds amazing, that one. And his name is Wizz Jones! Wizz! If he married Diana Trask, he'd still be Wizz Jones, but he could call himself Wizz Trask. No reason why not.

Not International Artists! What am I talking about. It's on Transatlantic. I knew it was something generic sounding.

"I got to try hunt down some more DOT."

you certainly do!

some of my fave records on dot are:

lalo schifrin - there's a whole lalo schifrin goin' on

colours - colours

yankee dollar - s/t

komeda - rosemary's baby soundtrack

val stocklein - grey life

bugsy - bugsy's blues band

womb - s/t

hamilton streetcar - s/t

fear itself - s/t (essential!)

mitch ryder - the detroit-memphis experiment

even though it seems highly unlikely that this is true given that i love anything and almost everything that sounds like them, i am not, believe it or not, a Mount Rushmore fan. It's weird. had both albums. Sold both on ebay for a pittance.

oh, and if anyone wants to sell me a cheap copy of the Mint Tattoo album on Dot, I am all for that.

new musik - straight lines 10" ($1)

http://a730.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/40/l_9624ea024780cd0d66beb12d70a4ed99.jpg

Tell me about Fear Itself!

That Colours record... a budget copy piqued my interest on eBay t'other day. As so often happens with any similarly obscuro trippy-looking psychish records, I figured I'd check it out on AMG, only to find Richie Unterberger sneering at it for being a sub-par Beatles imitation etc. There may well have been a lot of that back then, but I can't help but think some of them might be better or more interesting than he makes out.

I dunno. Cheap on eBay isn't as fun as cheap in the store, anyway. But then you don't tend to see records like that for cheap in the store here.

i haven't heard the colors record, buuut disregarding decades of sneering "oh, that soft-sell pseudo-psych pap" is what makes the occasional LP of that kind of thing so damn good. i'm sure scott is way more of a guru on that than me, though...

fear itself = pretty heavy blues rock with a female vocalist/guitarist. they did a rocked-up, epic "in my time of dying" before zeppelin. avoided big brother shtick, thankfully.

$1 -

eddie harris - instant death
sylvester - step II

yah, fear itself was ellen mciliwene (sp?) doing bobby plant blooze rock. i love that album. great guitars. if you dig that martha velez album with clapton and hendrix and god knows who else on it you will dig fear itself.

COLOURS were NOT great. just okay. worth five bucks or whatever. i play them every blue moon. i like that kinda dreamy pop stuff.

actually i should dig that colours album out and play it and tell you EXACTLY what i think of it. they had a second album too, but i don't think i have it? or maybe i do.

this martha velez album:

http://popsike.com/pix/20040415/4007754830.jpg

(which i dig but not as much as the fear itself album)

http://cgi.ebay.com/FLOWER-TRAVELLIN-BAND-Satori-JAPAN-Mini-LP-CD-Ltd_W0QQitemZ150250081227QQihZ005QQcategoryZ307QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1638Q2em118Q2el1247

anyone know what they mean with mini lp?

It's a CD in cardboard slipcase.

oh right, don't like those

went shoppin' on sunday picked up:

http://assets4.pitchforkmedia.com/images/image/15121.trainer.gif

http://bluestormmusic.com/store/images/fleetwoodmac_kilnhouse.jpg

http://es.geocities.com/onesdecrom/speechless.jpeg

^but my rollins is in way better shape than this pic

oops this rollins

http://image.blog.livedoor.jp/uknw80/imgs/d/b/db385ab8.jpg

jesus fuck i suck at this...that is the bulgarian choir thing i got...

THIS ROLLINS!!!!!

http://www.ecrater.com/26865/47af41d531fec_26865n.jpg

plaid is cool. i don't know shit about techno or warp records or house bobbins or balaeric revivals or beardos or none of that type of shit. but i like this record.

i guess it's a comp of early singles and EPs and stuff. maybe it's "drum and bass"??

so listening to that COLOURS album on Dot, i would totally recommend it to someone into heavily orchestrated exploito love bead pop. great songs, great production and arrangements, great harmonies. i dig it. TOTALLY beatles-esque. like TOTALLY. which i always like. but i basically love every band that ever aped the beatles. some sitars. you know, there are tons of records like it, but it holds up. i would even say if i you saw a nice copy for ten bucks to pick it up. if you like that kind of thing. plus, it's got chuck blackwell on drums and carl radle on bass, those are good things. it's actually on the same quality level as that daughters of albion sunshine pop album that chuck blackwell also played on back then.

oh, and when i recommend that WOMB album on Dot above there, just so you know, it's one of the worst psych albums ever made by man. like, monumentally bad. i put an MP3 up of the most epic and jaw-dropping WOMB track on ILM, The Happy Egotist, and the link still works if you want to torture yourself:

http://dutchtoenglish.com/womb%20-%20the%20happy%20egotist%20('69).mp3

YOU WILL NOT BE THE SAME PERSON YOU WERE IF YOU LISTEN TO IT THOUGH. IT WILL BLOW YOUR MIND TO SHREDSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!

anyway, it's one of the worst rock records ever, but totally worth owning.

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.

-- gnarly sceptre, Thursday, 29 May 2008 16:23 (1 week ago) Link

Shit! I just did the same thing two days ago. :(

That record is quite an unexpected shock to a person who knows their other work. But I do think it's quite a bit better than conventional wisdom would have it. 'Junk Funk', 'High Anxiety', and 'With Love From China', at the very least, are pretty good for what they are - blatant pop moves by synth people.

I just spent 45 euros on Linda Law All the Night from some guy in France. I've never spent this much on a record, let alone a 7". It's a present, but I feel vaguely ill.

Other stuff I bought last week:

Peter Gabriel 4
The History of Fairport Convention
Herbie Hancock Future Shock
Gregory Isaacs comp
Thank God It's Friday OST - which I only got for the DC LaRue track, but it's only the short version :(
The JBs Rock Groove Machine 12"

I cashed in a bunch of stuff at the Exchange and then instantly blew it on a whole bunch more, including RIOT's Narita and SAGA's Heads or Tales, both featuring some particularly of-the-era illustration on the sleeve.

http://www.connollyco.com/discography/saga/heads_hi.jpg
http://image.blog.livedoor.jp/metal_issy/imgs/a/5/a58b5048.jpg

The Saga record is pretty hard going, but that Riot record is pretty awesome, actually. They have an Iommi in the band. No relation, I presume??

no relation, i'm pretty sure. but riot are fucking great. despite their weird seal-headed mascot.

They seem to have followed Budgie's lead for animal related folk-art-y inpetitude in metal illustration. Props!

what's the best Budgie record? always been curious about them but never heard em

I've been buying way too many records lately

Double- Blue
Phil Lynot- Solo in Soho
Dwight Twiley Band- Sincerely
Flo and Eddie- Flo and Eddie
Flo and Eddie- Moving Targets

I also pre-ordeed the GAS double lp. Can't wait to zone out to that on my couch