The Steppes. From the mid/late 1980s, but they sound like vintage 1967. It is just retarded that they were so obscure. Albums are all out of print, but they're just waiting to be discovered. Listen to Tourist From Timenotyet here... then it's very easy to find their discography on the blogs. You will not believe how good these dudes were.
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=308455094
― kornrulez6969, Saturday, 10 January 2009 06:13 (fifteen years ago) link
And after you're done listening to Tourist From Timenotyet, listen to Somebody Waits.
― kornrulez6969, Saturday, 10 January 2009 06:14 (fifteen years ago) link
Hilarious, I was actually thinking about the Steppes earlier tonight as I was ripping a comp with that very song on it. Something in the water. Elvis T. to thread when he sees this.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 10 January 2009 06:25 (fifteen years ago) link
ned, i was just reading your daddy's highway review, an album of which i can't get enough recently. is this thing available on LP?
― choke on my mess of a schlaporito (k3vin k.), Saturday, 10 January 2009 06:42 (fifteen years ago) link
The Hummingbirds - loveBUZZ CD version... i think a Japanese and Australian CD came up, but I don't think it was ever issued in the states. Come to think of it... I must have lent someone my vinyl copy of that and never gotten it back. ARGH! Perfect Aussie big guitar pop from '88 i think. Like Flatmates meets Jesus and Mary Chain or something. "Alimony" is a golden gem.
― okamax,
This was issued in the States - I've owned it twice on CD and once on cassette. I see it in the cheap bins from time to time.
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 10 January 2009 06:42 (fifteen years ago) link
ah. thank you for the correction. i think i assumed that because i think i know 5 people who have ever even heard of this amazingly underrated record.
― okamax, Saturday, 10 January 2009 06:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Funny, I listened to Steppes last week. The have a ton of stuff available at Bomp mailorder. http://www.bompstore.com/servlet/Categories
I've only heard them because Bomp used to have ridiculous clearance sale grab bags of their label stuff.
― james k polk, Saturday, 10 January 2009 07:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Punishment Of Luxury s/t
― 909090909 Rivethed Brikkchin Reverk now DANZ (Mackro Mackro), Saturday, 10 January 2009 07:12 (fifteen years ago) link
lovebuzz was a top 20 album here (in aus) and yet is quite hard to find in shops. they have a 'best of' which is in print but i don't imagine there would be much demand for a proper reissue (could be wrong tho, if there was demos or unreleased h'birds stuff i'd be all over it)
― Lemonade In Hammocks (electricsound), Saturday, 10 January 2009 07:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Giant Sand - The Love Songs (standard answer)
― Calling All Creeps! (contenderizer), Saturday, 10 January 2009 07:14 (fifteen years ago) link
The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle
Been looking for that one in vinyl version for a while now.
― Moka, Saturday, 10 January 2009 07:22 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.bompstore.com/servlet/Detail?no=7993 not trying to be an advertiser here, it's just coincidence that the same mailorder has two of the recent things mentioned here available (they claim what is on the site is available) It's on AmazonUk too.
― james k polk, Saturday, 10 January 2009 07:28 (fifteen years ago) link
whoa, if its true that they have in stock everything they sell over there then this has made my week. I just found two other lps I've been looking for everywhere over there.
Thank you james.
― Moka, Saturday, 10 January 2009 07:35 (fifteen years ago) link
You wouldnt happen to know of some store in North America that has 'scary world theory' by Lali Puna in stock, would you?
― Moka, Saturday, 10 January 2009 07:38 (fifteen years ago) link
tonevendor does
http://tonevendor.com/item/4492
― Lemonade In Hammocks (electricsound), Saturday, 10 January 2009 07:41 (fifteen years ago) link
No, I meant in LP form, it's been out of print for a while. But thank you anyways.
― Moka, Saturday, 10 January 2009 07:44 (fifteen years ago) link
No idea on Lali Puna, but it has been interesting reading about them and finding out who they are. The samples on the label site sound interesting.
― james k polk, Saturday, 10 January 2009 07:58 (fifteen years ago) link
John Cale - Fragments of a Rainy Season
I can't believe new copies of this are selling for $130 on Amazon. I doubt it's anywhere near as rare as the overinflated prices suggest, but I still feel lucky for picking it up for $12 a few months ago.
― aruba (unregistered), Saturday, 10 January 2009 08:12 (fifteen years ago) link
the Robert Crumb That's What I Call Sweet Music: American Dance Orchestras of the 1920s compilation
― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 10 January 2009 08:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Well, hell, I've got that Cale and like it, but never play it.
I've got one or two of those SOS Band titles on vinyl, too.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Saturday, 10 January 2009 10:24 (fifteen years ago) link
i can't find a copy of starshipz and rocketz by g-side anywhere on the net :(
― brimstead, Friday, 28 June 2013 01:22 (ten years ago) link
Sasha and John Dogweed - Northern Exposure
30 For Sale from $26.00
17 used & new from $29.95
― brimstead, Friday, 5 July 2013 05:04 (ten years ago) link
Lol, I’m sure I see that all the time in charity shops.
― Chewshabadoo, Friday, 5 July 2013 07:48 (ten years ago) link
"i can't find a copy of starshipz and rocketz by g-side anywhere on the net :("
Literally registered on here cause of this post. Have been looking for starshipz & rocketz for the longest, and was able to find it in 192 recently, so I can help you out with that.
Ended up finding the album on UK Amazon, 1 final copy in Germany. Came out to around $30 shipped, and it has yet to arrive... Turns out the CD was lost by the Deutsche Post...
― PotentiallyGood, Saturday, 6 July 2013 20:08 (ten years ago) link
Dory Previn's stuff; almost everything is OOP in the States, I think.
― goodoldneon, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 02:44 (nine years ago) link
That's a shame. I happened to hear one of her songs last week -- one about a woman who jumps off the Hollywood sign -- and I was reminded of how good a writer she was.
― banjoboy, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 04:13 (nine years ago) link
hollindagain by animal collective
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 05:55 (nine years ago) link
I thought someone like Bgo still had that Dory stuff out. Remember looking through a label site some months back & finding a couple of 2fer cds. Think it was Bgo anyway. But yeah she does sound like a prime candidate for somebody like Water or Light in The Attic to cover.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 06:10 (nine years ago) link
I still haven't found that Lali Puna LP I asked for in this thread 5 years ago.
Other ones that I haven't found and need to be reissued in vinyl already:
Massive Atrack - MezzanineStereolab - Dots and Loops (supposedly will get reissued soon)My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (haven't they promised it for years now?)Can - Ege Bamyasi (and their whole discography, really)
― Moka, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 08:20 (nine years ago) link
Also all the Kraftwerk and Stone Roses vinyls I've found are crazy expensive / imported.Why!?
― Moka, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 08:21 (nine years ago) link
Oh and all Kompakt Total compilations should never be put of print.
― Moka, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 08:22 (nine years ago) link
Oh and Pink Floyd's Meddle and Piper too! It's weird that such a popular rock band hasn't reissued all of their discography already.
― Moka, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 08:25 (nine years ago) link
The new Kraftwerk CDs are already oop too.
― Randall "Humble" Pie (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 08:26 (nine years ago) link
Entered tonevendor out of curiosity and right now they're selling PF's piper and the stone roses vinyl at a good price. So you can scratch those.
― Moka, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 08:28 (nine years ago) link
Also kraftwerk vinyl at $11 which is awesome. Still no luck on finding Computer world at a reasonable price though.
― Moka, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 08:30 (nine years ago) link
I've never understood the idea of buying albums that originally came out in the CD era (the 1990s or later) on vinyl. They won't sound better than on CD, but the vinyl will cost you at twice as much. Is the bigger cover art really worth the hassle?
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 12:00 (nine years ago) link
They won't sound better than on CD
This is arguable
― goth colouring book (anagram), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 12:12 (nine years ago) link
Can - Ege Bamyasi (and their whole discography, really)
All the albums were reissued in a vinyl box set last year and are in the process of being released individually. I'm seeing plenty of new copies of Ege Bamyasi in every record shop lately.
― Eyeball Kicks, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 12:13 (nine years ago) link
I don't think it is? I know that some CDs released in the 80s sound worse than vinyls, but that's because CD mastering was in its infancy back then, and vinyls were still the primary market, sotechnicians were still making some mistakes and dodgy choices. But in the 90s CDs became the primary format, so the sound engineering and mastering was geared towards that format, and the dodgy mastering jobs gradually disappeared. So unless an album was deliberately mastered to sound worse on CD than vinyl, any album released after CDs became the dominant format won't sound better on vinyl.
(xpost)
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 12:22 (nine years ago) link
I have a couple of those Dory Previn 2fers on BGO... it may have been about 3 years ago I bought em though. Hearing just a little of her solo stuff made me want to hear everything immediately. She's definitely under appreciated.
― Josefa, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 16:04 (nine years ago) link
the vinyl will cost you at twice as much
I shouldn't even bother to reply to this, but:
ISLAJA S U U CD MONIKA MONIKA 081CD $15.50
ISLAJA S U U LP MONIKA MONIKA 081LP $17.50
that's a brand new 2014 release, gtfo with this "twice as much" bullshit
― sleeve, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 16:35 (nine years ago) link
Well, I was talking specifically about the OOP albums mentioned above, most of which I presume are easily and cheaply available on CD.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 16:40 (nine years ago) link
New albums are a different case (though even with them the vinyl versions still tend to cost more), but this thread isn't about new albums.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 16:41 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, gtfo with this "twice as much" bullshit
Psychedelic Pill by Neil Young with Crazy Horse (2012): $55.90 Vinyl Psychedelic Pill by Neil Young with Crazy Horse (2012): $13.88 Audio CD
Another Self Portrait (1969-1971): The Bootleg Series Vol. 10 by Bob Dylan (2013): $60.38 Vinyl
Another Self Portrait (1969-1971): The Bootleg Series Vol. 10 by Bob Dylan (2013): $18.88 Audio CD
― Duke, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 19:24 (nine years ago) link
It's actually "thrice as much"
Sorry to be facetious, but the extortionate price of many new vinyl releases puts me off big time.
― Duke, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 19:25 (nine years ago) link
fwiw, original list price of Psychedelic Pill on its release date was around $90.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 19:27 (nine years ago) link
I've found that CD's and LP's cost around the same, maybe a couple of dollars more unless it some sort of weird special version which I personally don't like. Just a week ago I bought Linda Perhacs - Parallelograms and it costed me around $30 dollars because it's some sort of reissue with demos and unreleased tracks which I personally don't care for.
I always hated cd's so I don't have many around my house. I only buy vinyl for albums that I love and mp3s for singles or standalone tracks. This isn't really an opinion regarding quality of vinyl vs cds but I really like how my turntable and my vinyl shelf look in my house, they look much better than any stereosystem I had before.
It's perfectly valid to buy things because you think they look cooler than the other options.
― Moka, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 19:33 (nine years ago) link
Speaking of vinyl prices vs CD, from an observation I made just now at my local record store:
new Jenny Lewis CD: $12.99new Jenny Lewis LP: $25.99
― Bus Sex Teen Busted After Queef Beef (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 19:37 (nine years ago) link
Neil young is a super extreme gouger, not a relevant example
― brimstead, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 19:49 (nine years ago) link