The thread for discussing the amazing Life Is A Problem comp on MISSISSIPPI records

twelve days with no new MS records??? this is horrible.

although one of the holes in my collection, the evolutionary jass band LP, just went for $57 yesterday on eebs. jeez.

^ let the hole remain

yeah?

downer-indie "jazz band" version of GSYBE!, if that floats yr. boat. mine sank.

you mean jackie-o motherfucker?

i like JOMF

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??? maybe i'm missing something here. get that jefrey & michael came from from the one band to the other.

only JOMF i really know = flat fixed, change and the magic fire music/wow! comp. all seem much wilder, weirder than EJB. plus more emotionally affecting when that's the intent, as on change

EJB have yet to approximate their unbelievable live performances on a record. They probably put on one of the best shows I've seen in the last five years at Halleluwah I, but I just can't get into the CD or tour LP (is that what's supposedly on MS? I had no idea).

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― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ

just got what was going on here

ha: listening to oh graveyard for the first time: i will never be able to listen to the sensational happy travelers theme without expecting a kevin nutt voiceover.

wow this spiritual singers record is pretty great.

any news on the mississippi e-mail list mentioned above?

'last kind words' just got reissued

abner jay LP is amazing & the michael hurley "armchair boogie" LP should be out v v soon.

which side of the 7" do you like better ian

oh sorry i did not respond to your msg last night
i think i like the uptempto kinda rockin one more, but i forget which one it is. depression?

me too i like that one better

um so does anyone have a decent rip of the spiritual singers lp? (i have the lp but would like to have it for portable use as well.) found one online but it's poor quality and all the songs cut off early.

got my armchair boogie today, and no comic book! wasnt there supposed to be one??

hoping armchair shows up in the next few days.
don't you have an original already pete? with a comic??

ok so they nixed the comic book for cost reasons

and yes yes i do have an orig w comic BRAGGIN

the reish looks awesome btw, with new michael hurley labels, and maybe a whole new painting for the back cover?

just got 'i woke up one morning in may'

haven't listened to it yet but the abner jay is really something, all the print outs etc. i have royally decided that it is way uncool for them to have taken the intros out, but that's based on over thinking rather than listening. i don't think regenerating his image or recontextualising him or whatever is worth the judgement call of actually bowdlerising what he created.

can't wait for armchair boogie anyhow.

"um so does anyone have a decent rip of the spiritual singers lp?"

Look in the Jan. archives here: http://bigstates.blogspot.com/

i think i like the abner jay LP about 25% as much as i like the 7"

xp thanks a lot! i'll check it out when i get home.

coming soon:
the rats -- intermittent signals
bishop perry tillis - in times like these

abner jay record is grand. i'd only heard his stuff patchily before but hearing vietnam etc on record makes me like it. i still want the seven inch (and missed out on that second portland seven inch way back, i guess forever: bummer) but haven't seen it anywhere.

i think this is michael hurley props rather than ms props, but armchair boogie's lovely. so nice having penguins to play whenever i please.

ARMCHAIR BOOGIE POLL

abner jay is not social music, nope -- but it is great, and will come with a 7"

did this come with a 7"? mine doesn't have one.

goner is selling LP+7", but thats the only place ive seen... i got my 7" online from exiled, and my LP direct from MS records

anyone know if the perry tillis LP duplicates the material on the CD, "too close" (released by birdman)?

DOES NOBODY KNOW THE ANSWER?

It does not -- entirely different material. The Mississippi record is a much rougher recording than what was used on the Birdman cd.

AND AMATEURIST, THERE ARE PLENTY OF LINER NOTES SO YOU WILL NOT FEEL THE MATERIAL IS BEING TREATED POORLY (I HOPE.)

xoxo
Ian Johnson, official MS records stan

sweet, thanx y'all and sorry for being a bitch on that other thread.

hey not mississippi records but in a similar vein: did you guys check out that "JUNIOR KIMBROUGH" EARLY RECORDINGS thing?

ooooh, no i hadn't seen that. now i will order some copies for the shop. thanks for the tip, am.

this three-week lag between new sets of releases is INFURIATING

where is your record shop ian?

some of my favourite junior stuff's totally different from the elasticated blues stuff. would love to hear him playing alone a little more, what's it like?

saw mississippi alumni tara jane o'neil play a couple of nights ago with a guy playing the abner jay record between sets: made me wish i had that lone seven inch that came out.

ELASTICATED?

our store is in brooklyn. it is not really mine, i don't own it.

which one in brooklyn?

Academy Record Annex, 96 North 6th Street, Williamsburg. Near the Bedford avenue L train stop.
www.academyannex.com

what is a "tip-on" sleeve and why is it worth mentioning in every album description?

it means oldstyle heavy cardboard.

schlump was that the Fontanelle gallery show?