Rolling 2008 Vinyl Thread

david bowie - young americans
pink floyd - meddle
zz top - tres hombres

it has been a long time since i posted on this thread, and i will invariably miss a ton of things i got and can't remember right now off the top of my head but i'm pretty bored at work so here is what i have gotten lately and been listening to:

son of earth - pet
dewey redman - tarik
john phillips - wolfking of LA
bobby dylan - highway 61 (2nd copy, nicer shape)
peter green - the end of the game WLP
art blakey/jazz messengers - meet you at jazz corner of the world vol. 1
flying saucer attack/roy montgomery LP
ed askew - little eyes
the tower recordings - futuristic folk of the tower recordings, vol 1 (someone trade me a vol. 2)
robert wilkins - the original rolling stone
ashtray navigations LP on siltbreeze
ghost - lama rabi rabi
karen wolf LP (private femme country)

god there has to be more than that, but i can't remember them right now.

oh, a suni mcgrath 7"

mike at the record store asked me to price the vinyl so i brought a box home and did that last night. it was fun! cleaned them up, bagged them, and priced them.

and today at the dump - where everything is free - i found some good stuff to sell at the store, so i took that stuff home and did the same! i kept the classical boxed-sets i found at the dump though. including a great box of archival budapest quartet recordings from the 30's. and i kept the folkways woodie guthrie album of sacco & vanzetti songs. but the rest i figured the store could sell and i didn't need any of it: prince, roches, lauri anderson, robert fripp, an afrika bambaattaa album from 1988 that sounds pretty clunky despite having cool people on it. um, some other stuff. a double album for peter gabriel's womad thing on PVC that is actually kinda cool considering holger czukay and nusrah fatty khan are both on it.

the thing that's been blowing my mind this week though - speaking of string quartets - is my boxed-set of schubert's string quartets done by the melos quartet. it's on dgg. sounds AMAZING. from 1975. they simply ATTACK their instruments with bloody knives! AHHHHHHH! KILL! KILL!!! sorry. but i love it to death.

if you ever see it cheap somewhere, pick it up:

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i'm actually still debating whether i should keep the bambaataa album or not. i never see it, but on the other hand, i tried to play it and it sounded kinda lousy to me. maybe i'll try it again. i can't even find a copy on-line for a picture. it's called *the day*. george clinton, mudbone, bootsy, yellowman, and a zillion other people are on it.

you wanna hear something funny/weird? i don't think i've EVER seen a copy of the planet rock album. or i can't remember seeing one. i know for a fact i've never heard the whole album.

Vladislav Delay's Anima 3LP came in the mail this morning, got it at firesale price from Eric Anomalous. If any record of mine could ever be described as "burbling", this is it.

pink floyd - ummagumma
makers - this is the answer 7"

Freddie Hubbard & Ilhan Mimaroglu - Sing Me a Song of Songmy
Great Plains - Colorized
The Band - Music from Big Pink
Chicken Shack - Collection 2LP
Camper Van Beethoven - Key Lime Pie

vol 1-3 of killed by death
polvo/erectus monotone split 7"
barbara manning - in NZ
billy bao - dialectics of shit
the incredible string band - the hangman's beautiful daughter
robert fripp - exposure

Capt Beefheart - Clear Spot
Caetano & Gal - Domingo
Spoon - Girls Can Tell

nice to see someone putting jandek vinyl out again since jandek doesn't want to anymore, but 20+ dollars? one of the virtues of new jandek records in the 80's was the fact that they sold for 6 or 7 bucks. and they sounded and looked great!

doing just the one jandek LP is kind of silly IMO. are they going to do them all? just "the good ones"? like, either do it right or don't do it at all.

i got a nancarrow record today.

didn't get that beefheart sundazed thing of alternate takes and stuff i saw today cuz IT was 30+ bucks! yeesh. looked cool though.

i actually got almost all my records free today cuz i've been pricing vinyl at home for the store. just paid for the eat skull album and art of lovin' reissue (mainstream/scorpio).

finally got that michael yonkers circling the drain album that i've been staring at for two years. glad i did cuz it sounds cool!

and the milk 'n' cookies reissue! love that thing! never had an original copy.

i don't know if they are doing them all. the one i saw was the first jandek album. if they did them all and they were all, like, 10 or 12 bucks, i would buy them. i sold all my old ones years ago when i was poor.

the dennis wilson sundaze reissue is like $40!

The Jandek reissue is $16 straight from Jackpot. Their reissue of the Wipers LP was kinda pricey too IIRC. They do use nice heavy jackets though.

records: they are too expensive.

that's crazy. what's up with that shit?

THE PRICE OF OIL. THE WEAKNESS OF THE DOLLAR. PRODUCT BEING MANUFACTURED FOR A NICHE AUDIENCE.
i dunno a lot of things.

there is a really expensive hippie-jazz record i want.
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That's the cover of the reissue.. the original has a plain white sleeve with weird folk art-styled bright green printing, pictures of dolls and some writing in a "whimsical" script.

He later recorded for Shandar with Alan Silva, Sunny Murray, Bob Guerin et al! it has got some nice upbeat, trancey piano.

oh yeah, oil. but still...

Yeah it's totally stupid. I just don't buy a lot of new vinyl, especially when it's being manufactured overseas (not that Sundazed issues are, but a lot of $30 psych boots are.) I like labels that try to keep things cheap and still deliver a really high quality product, like Mississippi.

yeah, i'm a cheapskate. pricing records for the store is a good way for me to keep stocked up on free ramsey lewis and santo & johnny records. and old benny goodman comps! those early sides are phat!

i'm less concerned with the rising cost of new vinyl than i am with europeans & japanese always outbidding me on ebay.

i only get those numero group comps and others like them thru trade mostly. i could never afford to buy that stuff on a regular basis. they are just so pretty, i can't resist them. but even that stuff is 20+ and not 40 dollars for heaven's sake.

i haven't bought anything on ebay in a while. the stuff i bid on isn't stuff that those people want anyway. obscure 70's country 45s and such. i always forget when things end on ebay. that's how i lose out. and then i go and find that what i wanted went for peanuts!

i have a load of small press 70s (and a few eighties i think, i have to check) country 45s! yours if you want em!

playing this week:

ramsey lewis - routes

ramsey lewis - tequila mockingbird

yusef lateef - the gentle giant

lonnie liston smith - loveland

boston - don't look back

benny goodman - benny in brussels vol.2

spyro gyra - s/t (OMG, "pygmy funk"!!)

the great soloists 1929-33 featuring benny goodman

benny goodman plays selections featured in the benny goodman story (how meta!)

this is hugo montenegro

the hi-lo's - suddenly it's the hi-lo's

john cougar mellencamp - big daddy

santo & johnny - around the world with...

carly simon - another passenger

the modernaires - juke box saturday night

frank virtue & the virtues - guitar boogie shuffle

george jones & gene pitney - together!

jimmy lunceford in hi-fi

lonnie liston smith - love is the answer

shelly manne & his friends(andre previn, leroy vinnegar) - modern jazz performances of songs from lil' abner

precious - definition of a track (big beat 12-inch)

hank mobley - reach out!

swingle II - love songs for madrigals and madrigals (madrigals + ARP synth!)

santo & johnny - come on in...

minor detail - s/t (80's irish synthpop. never heard of them. i dig it!)

milk 'n' cookies - 2lp reissue

boston - third stage

benny goodman & his orchestra - the early years 1934-35

eat skull - sick to death

the art of lovin' - s/t

teddy wilson - and then they wrote...

michael yonkers - circling the drain

the last 3 or 4 years or so you could get deals on ebay July/August
no more
i guess euro man summering in the Greek isles now has an iPhone RSS feed in addition to his yacht and mountain of cocaine.

Price of oil is falling, dollar is rising, both because the world economy is cooling down (well that's what they say on NPR so). Not so many pressing plants left though. Is that the acoustic Michael Yonkers album? What's it like?

price of vinyl is directly tied to "coolness" of vinyl, let's not kid ourselves.

i guess euro man summering in the Greek isles now has an iPhone RSS feed in addition to his yacht and mountain of cocaine.

heh

"Is that the acoustic Michael Yonkers album? What's it like?"

no way! total one-man guitar destructo noize.

ELECTRIC guitar destructo noize.

Great, when's it from?!

it's fairly recent. one of those limited-edition things, but the record store here has had two copies for ages.

new-ish:
monte dunn & karen cruz
the music of conlon nancarrow vol. 3 (anyone spare copies of 1 & 2?)
the new age - all around (this is the patrick kilroy group and it's pretty good. the liner notes are AMAZING and super long and detailed with lots of great photos/concert fliers etc.
ayler - spirits rejoice (reissue, but $0.33 at a yard sale.)
augustus pablo - ital dub
johnny clarke - originally mr. clarke
ranking dillinger - none stop disco style

the dennis wilson sundaze reissue is like $40!

-- ian, Saturday, August 9, 2008 4:00 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Link

?!? yikes.

the CD is kinda pricey too though .... 30 for two discs but with a cool package and big book. I went ahead and got it since I've never heard Bambu sessions. didn't dig those a ton on first listen but the POB outtakes were good .... "Holy Man" inst. and one other one ....

The LP version is three LPs and tri-fold cover with notes and whatnot, but still, daaaaaamn.

yeah i was praying for the usual sundazed $17.99 thing but i still might pick this up one of these days though tbh i hate spending that much on one record even if it's something i've been eagerly awaiting.

ian, feel free to post on the new age thread i started. if you have anything to say about it. i think you and gottpunch and elvis telecom are the only ones on here who have heard it:

The New Age - All Around - Patrick Kilroy - Susan Graubard - Jeffrey Stewart

definitely one of my fave releases in years.

milk 'n' cookies - 2lp reissue

I didn't know this had been reissued! All I ever heard is Little, Lost and Innocent, but what a knockout tune. The opening bassline of the single played at the wrong speed sounds like the beginning of a great pigfuck record.

guys i wanted to let u know me & my buddy dave are doing the radio show again tonight which is all the vinyl LP records all the time. we are probably gonna end up playing mostly country & post-psych folk-rock. 8pm eastvillageradio.com.

my buddy dragged me (lol) record shopping this morning after breakfast:

v/a - steel guitar classics (old-timey records.)
v/a - real original cowboy songs (title might not be exact. it's one of those RCA 20's-30s country comps.)
duster bennet - justa duster (some awesome jame, some boring blah blahs)
tim buckley s/t (nice gold label in shrink copy.)
woodbine - roots (small label grateful dead kinda acoustic country-pop. pretty decent. sounded better on the listening station tbh.)

also, i am trading a friend the Dandelion reissue on Guerssen for a copy of the 1st David Blue LP.

Wolves In The Throne Room - Two Hunters 2LP
Howlin' Wolf - rocking chair album, 1984 Chess reissue
Kallabris - Shanghai 12"
Acid Mothers Temple - In C
Gene Clark w/Gosdin Brothers (Sundazed reissue)

metallica - master of puppets
miles davis - in a silent way
jethro tull - this was
arthur blythe - elaborations
mission of burma - VS. fancy edition
nomo - ghost rock
nomo - new tones

oh also some comments on those things (xpost to myself)

Kallabris is much more beat driven than I expected from them. Wolves In The Throne Room is superb. Will from Middian (R.I.P.) is playing with them now and will be on the new 2LP they're recording.

I want that VS fancy edition pretty bad, but keep finding more essential stuff used.

Went to Rebellion (big punk festival) last weekend and got these:

neon - bottles 7" (A side is on of those KBD-style England Belongs To Me comps)
neon - don't eat bricks 7"
normal - warm leatherette 7"
menace - screwed up 7"
girls at our best! - pleasure LP
cardiacs - a little man and a house and the whole world window LP

Got this off Ebay:
ex-girl - endangered species LP

And today I found this in the Music & Video Exchange for 50p!
world domination enterprises - I can't live without my radio 12" (yes it's an LL Cool J cover!)

i'd never heard in a silent way before. wow.

i'm kinda glad i never heard it before or i probably wouldn't have found tortoise and/or krautrock shit as mindblowing as i thought it was the first time i heard that stuff back in the day.