Rolling 2008 Vinyl Thread

hahahaha

This copy ROCKS! It's vibrant and energetic with great bass and dynamics, both of which are crucial to the reproduction of this music. The vocals are present with wonderful immediacy, exactly what you need to drive a powerful song like "Big Shot", while making the intimate moments of a song like "Honesty" that much more captivating.

This copy had all the elements we look for - life, energy, bass definition, top end extension, transparency and spacial resolution. It all adds up to just one thing: MUSICALITY.

The Piano Is Key

On the best copies of the album the sound of the piano was solid, full-bodied, with both weight and warmth, just like the real thing. The copies of the album with a piano that sounded lean or hard always ended up having problems with the other instruments as well. (This should not be surprising; the piano was designed to be the single instrument most capable of reproducing the sound of an entire orchestra.)

i think the hot stamper dude is some kinda genius.

i just picture these guys sitting on the floor with a thousand copies of hotel california taking copies on and off their stereos saying, "nope, not this one. nope, another dud. nope. nope. nope. HOT STAMPER!!!!!"

ian basically refused to gchat with me about hot stampers :(

i love shit like this, mentioned upthread:

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oh dude omar you can still get a lot of those volumes direct from arhoolie us between $5 and $20, with some higher due to low number of remaining copies. email them for a catalog/pricelist!

: O

i am ON it~!

tracking down small independent labels (especially those still putting out music on CD) can be shockingly fruitful.

i actually just found about the arhoolie stuff today. great syncronicity.

http://www.sevensquared.com/poser/images/twins.jpg

This "Earth Free" reissue on Void is really hitting the spot. Private rural psych. Nice stuff. I also gave the Cooley-Munson "In Debt" LP another chance, and I've warmed up to that one too.

new today:
blind teddy darby - st. louis country blues 1929-1927
amon duul - this is... (uk pressing of "psychedelic underground")
blue sky boys LP on county (1963, first time singing together in 12 years. great stuff. i love the blue sky boys. they may be the kings of the close harmony brother duos.)
v/a - heather & glen (tradition LP. field recordings by A Lomax and others of traditional Scottish music)

heavy rotation:
michael hurley- hi fi snock uptown
flying saucer attack - further
inner dialogue

1929-1937, that ought to say.

right now: isb - 3000 layers of the onion or whatever that is called
just a sec ago: cosmic jokers - galactic supermarket got a great og copy cheap at the fayre

ok i will read that thread now
is the one 69 hitting it up?

5000 spirits/layers of the onion has some great songs on it.

not gonna make the fair this year i think. for the best.

p.s. this old audiophile cab driver guy i know gave me a ride home today, and the whole drive he talked about how i should hang my stereo & speakers from the ceiling with bungee cords. then he asked me if i was jewish, and things got weird but i explained that my mother was jewish but i did not practice.

so, i'm sorry audiophile community, you're not all bad.

One of the cats is LOVING the Amon Duul record right now. the car door noises & piano on side 1 is freaking her out.

checking this thread again -- i never told you this ian
but my landlord is russian emigre jewish
he freaked out when we moved in and saw all the records
i told him he was welcome to go through them and after looking thru a bunch he asked if i had any mobile fidelity sound labs
i dont think he has a big collection but he started talking about all this turntable shit i didnt understand i think he has a sick audiophile set up at his home

i bet he's a bro.
you should ask him out for a beer.

My best finds of 2008 (besides the nobody-heard-of-it cheesy-cover lo-rent mostly Xtian weirdo stuff, which if I ever get a scanner maybe I'll post some of the funnier ones) were Reflections in a Crystal Wind by Richard and Mimi Farina with the plastic still on and Wee Tam by the Incredibe String Band for $1 each. I haven't had much time to do a lot of digging this year, though.

8 days left
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Terminals - Touch
clockcleaner - Babylon Rules (wanted it on vinyl)
Neil Young - American stars n bars
Sutherland Bros. Band

lots of stuff

Skinny Puppy - Testure 12"
Fad Gadget - Gag
Fad Gadget - Incontinent
Shango - Shango Message 12"
Miquel Brown - Black Leather 12"
Hypnosis - Pulstar/Blade Runner 12"
Ministry - All Day 12"

:D

Otis Redding - Love Man (so good)
The Congos - Heart Of The Congos (ditto)
Trouble Funk - Hey Fellas 12"
Grails - Doomsdayer's Holiday (shipped today)
Legendary Pink Dots - 25th Anniversary single
Legendary Pink Dots - All The King's Men 2LP (newly out on vinyl)
Dead Moon - Live Evil 2LP

I also sold a Jay Reatard 7" and bought the Albert Ayler Holy Ghost box with the proceeds, LOL.

this last week in the mail i got the jerusalem & the starbaskets 'howling' elpee and the melodie du kronk album

both completely fantastic

also got the new elephant micah 45 but yet to listen to it

"I also sold a Jay Reatard 7" and bought the Albert Ayler Holy Ghost box with the proceeds, LOL."

great turnaround! jesus loves you.

red sovine - 'the country way'
kitty wells - 'greatest hits'
buck owens - 'if you ain't lovin'/you're for me' twofer

Found Piranhas (UK) self-titled LP for a quid yesterday.
Johnny Vomit & the Dry Heaves 7"

george harrison - wonderwall music (pretty cool oddity!)

sly & the family stone - there's a riot goin' on

various - harder they come soundtrack

sweet - desolation blvd.

walter becker, donald fagan, denny diaz - you gotta walk it like you talk it...or you'll lose the beat (weird sorta proto steely dan session stuff done for some movie soundtrack...it's okay, a few times you start to hear what would be come greatness, but mostly only for the hardcore)

I'd love to get hold of the new Cold Sun reissue, but jeeeez.... why so pricey??

yeah, i'm basically soured on buying psych reissues. the cold sun wasn't an issue for me personally (IIRC it's kinda doorsy?) but the thought of paying $30+ for a bootleg (which is what a lot of these are--not the Cold Sun, I don't think, but a lot of pricey psych import reissues are totally unlicensed)--but the thought of paying $30, $40, whatever, for a boot, is just irritating.

All picked up cheap at a flea market last weekend:

John Phillips - Wolfking of LA
Silicon Teens - Music for Parties
Christine McVie - The Legendary Christine Perfect Album
Herb Alpert - Rise 12"
Giorgio Moroder - From Here To Eternity
Chic - C'est Chic
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly OST
Cerrone V
Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
Irwin the Disco Duck Dance Party

this last week in the mail i got the jerusalem & the starbaskets 'howling' elpee
I'm playing synth on the last track, "Everybody's Dig Accounted For."
It was recorded live at KCOU 88.1fm during a session that went out over the air in real time. JATSB are about to go on a tour, they don't have many copies of The Howling left. It's an incredible record. Yeah, I guess I'm biased, considering Jeremy's been one of my best friends since I was 12.

^yeah people shouldn't sleep on getting the howling. that track in particular is a bunch of fun.

John Phillips - Wolfking of LA

^^^how is this...have always been curious

oh, it's GREAT.

Claude Delcloo & Arthur Jones "Africanasia" is sometimes my favorite LP in the BYG Actuel series. For people who like the Don Cherry "Mu" records, you really ought to hear this jammer.

havent ever heard MU actually (LOL actuel-ly), how does it compare to brown rice or eternal rhythm?

serge gainsbourg - 'histoire de melody nelson' and 'cannabis'
france gall - 'poupee de cire'
fleet foxes - s/t
cactus - s/t

I traded for some nice free jazz LPs today.

got:
art ensemble - certain blacks
marion brown - afternoon of a georgia fawn
cecil taylor - conquistador!
revolutionary ensemble - vietnam

i traded in maybe six records, and the dude gave me more than i expected for them. so i got those. woo.

and i, peter, haven't heard Brown Rice or Eternal Rhythm, so I can't compare! Mu is stripped down duo stuff with a lot of exotic instrumentation and ed blackwell just killing it.

oh and YESTERDAY, i got
v/a - reefer madness (Stash records comp of illicit substance themed jazz & blues of the 20s & 30s)
nurse with wound - soliloquy for lilith

of and the NWW is not the boxed set version but the single LP issue of parts V/VI.

yesterday picked up:

guided by voice - propeller (reissue)
philip glass - dance pieces
justin hinds & the dominos - jezebel (ace old school roots reggae shizz)

bach goldberg variations / George Malcolm: Harpsichord Record One
^could listen to this all day
Shawn Phillips - Collaboration
Sutherland bros & Quiver - each for the sky

Helmut Lachenmann - Gran Torso /Guero / Pression
Cherry Red Seeds 2 comp
Memphis Minnie - Blues Classics
Lou Reed - Coney Island Baby
Storm Bugs - Up the Middle, Down the Sides
Storm Bugs - Supplementary Benefit

7"s:
The Bubble Busters - You're So Fine
M C Squared - I Know You/Everybody's Talkin
Strutz - We Are So Fine
The Passage - XOYO
Some Blurt singles

Linda Lewis "Lark" beautiful acoustic hippy soul album from 1972 that got sampled on a Midfield General record in the 90s that I've been after for ages.
Holger Czukay "Movies" and "On the Way to the Peak of Normal"

I downloaded one or two Linda Lewis tracks last week, actually. Really nice stuff, and not what I was expecting at all. I'd always seen it in my Dad's collection, but presumed it to be some Linda Ronstadt type thing rather than being soulful Minnie Ripperton stuff. And that track 'Frame' sounds remarkably contemporary. I can imagine some singer-songwriter-y chick doing it. (not intended as a diss, of course!)

http://www.messandnoise.com/images/3000329/350x350-c.jpeg
got this in the mail last a few weeks ago.
Love this record.

everyone's raving about these fuks in Aus atm, i'm going to d/l this now.