Rolling 2008 Vinyl Thread

The Happy Sad I have is all skippy! First track on both sides virtually unlistenable!

:( :( ;_;

Blue Afternoon by Tim Buckley is the shit. My Happy Sad is in bad shape, as well. I Sent off for that Peter Grudzien reissue. I also decided to pick up the Wooden Wand 10" that is a reissue of the subscription only cd that they did for three lobed. My ex-bandmate is all over it, I figured it would be nice to have. I miss that guy.

last nite i had a dream that i (bought/found/stole) records at this (place)... i kept misplacing my stash. so much anxiety. you should have seen the covers! so beautiful. then i woke up.

I have this exact same dream, one of thousand variations on it, at least once a month, if not once a week. Always w/ sadness on waking. Recently, it involved finding a bunch of mysterious Cop Shoot Cop singles somewhere, which when played sounded more like The Jesus and Mary Chain. One of the imaginary dream songs was very nice and stayed stuck in my head for most of the following day before disappearing.

the worst are the ones where i don't have time to look/people are hurrying me up/i don't have any money/i can't actually SEE clearly what i'm looking at. your standard interruptus type dream. so maddening.

yeah I have those too. positive version: flipping through crazy records that I've NEVER SEEN BEFORE that all look REALLY COOL. negative version: flipping through college radio stacks and stacks and stacks and I can't find what I'm looking for while my last song ends and I've got DEAD AIR ZOMG.

currently in an all-vinyl weekend, there are two events here in town. Last night there was this microbrew festival that is a benefit for a local radio station and they always have a music donation drive and then sell random stuff for super cheap (i.e. a dollar per record regardless of condition). I got in line early and came away with about 25 records... two Ian Matthews (inspired by ian upthread, "If You Could See Thro My Eyes" is really great!), a Peter Lang on Flying Fish (good but I dunno about his voice), the Bongos LP, Japan's Tin Drum, Prince's For You, B-52's Mesopotamia, a few later Yes albums I didn't have, some nice mint Ali Farka Toure and Thomas Mapfumo recs, etc. They bring new stuff in today but I don't wanna pay $10 entry fe again.

Tomorrow is the 20th annual Eugene record convention and I am splitting a table with a friend. Last years was insane.

<I>some nice mint Ali Farka Toure</I>

!!! Wow, jealoustown. Listening to Maher Shalal Hash Baz, an eighties/nineties Tori Kudo group. Earlier it was Lee Hazlewood "Requiem For An Almost Lady."

was listening to steve hillage and other new age boners while drinking a kombucha trying to depressurize from the hell of assembling a new bed.

now i have bro la tango's heart beating as one on. best idea i've had in a week. why do i ghettoize indie rock to the lowest, hardest to reach expedit cube?

today i got
trans am- illegal ass 12"
mouse on mars- couche cair naif 12"
king kong- funny farrm lp
plush- found a little baby 7"
grateful dead- blues for allah lp
history of the jams lp

psyched on all the cheap used 90s indie at academy

^^^ i sold those to you this afternoon.

crepey

thank you, ian

So I'm doing the database thing, putting all the vinyl into a spreadsheet, and rediscovering some old buys in the process. Right now i'm listening to "Texas Punk Vol. 5: McAllen (1965-1967)." I'm not a big proto-punk/garage rock dude, I mainly bought it at the time because all the bands came from my tiny South Texas hometown. Liners include the following gem:

"All the selections on this LP were recorded on 2-track mono machines, yet nearly two decades later they sound as fresh and exciting as if released in 1985!"

picked up pharoah sanders - love in us all from Good Records today. you'd think for an Impulse title it'd be easier to find. he had just murdered a collection with multiple copies of that and some more o_O things.

my head is still spinning from that fucking record convention, but here are highlights...

Harry Partch "The Bewitched", at least VG+ on Gate 5 (!!!) for 50 bucks. My friend said "I think they missed a zero on that price."

Half Japanese "Loud" and 'Horrible" for 10 bucks each.

Coil 12" singles I sold and later regretted.

the first self-released Waitresses 7" on Clone Records from Akron, 1977.

Idiot Flesh on vinyl!!!

Roy Harper "Flat Baroque & Berserk"

etc.

I walked away with about $25 more than when I started, so I basically traded a bunch of records.

another good 2008 vinyl trend: more used copies of nice reissues by labels like Sundazed and 4 Men With Beards.

^^^ OTM! Used International Submarine Bands & Incredible String Bands turn up ALL THE TIME.

sleeve, just curious, what did you bring to sell? banged up stuff you don't really listen to or recent chud that are must-owns?

just picked up

Futurama - Bebop Deluxe

and it is a fucking overproduced JOY. like all your ELP albums playing simultaneously.

tonight's listening:

Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking
Tom Jobim - Jobim
Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality
Manuel Gottsching - E2-E4
Spirit - Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus

now playing:

Dillard & Clark - Fantastic Expedition of

BEST ALBUM EVER? maybe.

maybe! I wish I had found that one today!

long xpost to sanskrit, I brought some duplicates and some things I didn't care about, also some vinyl in fairly beat shape. I was a flake and didn't write any of it down but...

didn't care about: that new C Heeman In Camera record (don't like), that Oz Days single LP boot (now redundant), , Ear Trumpet, Naux, Misfits & Joy Division boots, um now I'm drawing a blank.

too scratchy: 2 Legendary Pink Dots LPs, Great Lost Kinks LP

duplicates: Lydia Lunch Queen Of Siam, Chrome new Half Machine LP reissue, Jazz Butcher Sex & Travel, etc.

Fair amount of cheap stuff too. I had a free box! Sold about $8 worth of 78s at 25 cents apiece.

also: nobody bought my recently-released bait.

played last night:

A Distant Shore - Tracey Thorn
The Genuine Electric Latin Love Machine - Richard Hayman

Who the heck is behind the drums on that second one??

i'm banning myself from record stores cuz i wanna get a new fancier needle/cartridge...plus i have 8 zillion records i've only listened to like one time

Oz Days single LP boot (now redundant

You got an orig or somethin?

2CD reissue dude!

http://citiesonflamewithrockandroll.blogspot.com/2007/07/va-oz-days-live-official-reissue.html

Today I got:

split - chesterfields + shop assistants 7" flexi
grenadine - fillings 7"
grenadine - don't forget the halo 7"
grenadine - the barnacle 7"
secret goldfish - punk drone 7"
secret goldfish - somewhere in china 7"
secret goldfish - give him a great big kiss 7"
polythene - kill techno 7"
split - bis + heavenly - keroleen/trophy girlfriend 7"
go team - march 1989 (breakfast in bed/safe little circles) 7"

in the mail (Ebay auctions - all the same seller, which worked out pretty good)

THIS IS THE VINYL THREAD!!! Seriously though, how are the other bands on there? I've had the Rallizes/Taj boot for a while, and always been curious. xp

they kinda suck, you're better off with the single LP (p.s. I knew posting that was gonna be heresy!)

The Acid 7 stuff that I have heard has been cool, if raw. Fuck it, I'm gonna grab that Oz Days.

What I want to grab are the LSD March LPs I missed! Empty Rubious Red has some ultra-fuzzed heady-drone moments that leave me wanting more.

Skeletonwitch Beyond the Permafrost on icy nice blue.

Got really bored with LSD March after a while. Cover of Empty Rubious Red is the best thing about it.

Listening to:
-Times New Viking "Rip It Off"
-Jerry Jeff Walker "Five Years Gone"
-Messiaen "Seven Haikai / La Fauvette Des Jardins"

on deck pile looks somethin like:
-Bobb Trimble "Harvest of Dreams"
-Asmus Tietchens "Teils Teils"
-Acnode One double LP reish (LAFMS/Smegma-related tapes)

from the Mars Volta wiki:

In some U.S. indie stores, a free 5" VinylDisc of The Mars Volta's cover of Pink Floyd's "Candy and a Currant Bun" was given away with purchase of the album. The VinylDisc is a new format that has a digital side and a vinyl side. One side plays in a CD player, while the other side plays on a turntable. The vinyl side contains the Pink Floyd cover "Candy and a Currant Bun", while the CD side contains the audio track for "Candy and a Currant Bun" as well as the "Wax Simulacra" video as enhanced content. It also comes with a removable foam spindle insert to switch between CD & vinyl.

Anyone seen one of these VinylDiscs? How well do they actually work?

I haven't seen that, but it's probably worth looking at.
I know Nautical Almanac was lathe-cutting grooves into CDs a few years back, but those were very difficult to play (and, you know, they did it right onto a CD-R, along the outer rim.)

i was just goofing off and noticed brooklyn's biggest fire hazard made it on to youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnSeGec6jyo

I have yet to go to The Thing; anyone have any good stories? I hear their comics are better than the comics at Junk.

Right now, I'm working on a mix of religious/gay/country/folk private press LPs.

Thought you meant the band The Thing. They are awesome. Can't speak to the store.

http://www.adherents.com/lit/comics/image/Thing_religion.jpg

Anyone seen one of these VinylDiscs? How well do they actually work?

-- jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 11 February 2008 19:16 (3 days ago) Bookmark Link

Yeah, I've seen one. It looks like it works about as well as those 'postage stamp records' from olden days.

was the in camera record the open air one, or the first one?

open air, didn't know there was a newer one.

I mean a "first" one before the open air one, duh.

Anyone know what happened to Marquis Dancehall in Brookln? I heard they closed.

sleeve: yeah, there's another one, which is the one i have. it's far from amazing (lots of creaking sounds, the odd piano gets struck), but i quite like it. i haven't heard open air.

http://www.discogs.com/release/628425

there

Anyone know what happened to Marquis Dancehall in Brookln? I heard they closed.

mark dancehall is gone. before his store closed his workers told me he had bought an apartment in morocco. then after it closed i got an email from him saying he was off to mine turkey for psych records. all i know is he recently dumped 15 grand worth of john fahey/folkways/blues type stuff.

my only regret is i used to stroll eat>academy>marquise. i got skated tim leary lsd for $4 from him and other oddities/ethnic. often i would be too beat to go in, i really should have done that walk in reverse.

Found an awesome looking compilation called The Train to Disaster. Tracks by George Brigman & Split, Slickee Boys, Billy Synth & the Turn Ups, The Left, Velvet Monkeys, and a few others I don't know.

Only had a chance to listen to the track by The Left, which kicks ass. Think they had a complete recordings type reissue recently. Must track down...