Rolling 2008 Vinyl Thread

next i am going to listen to Linda Perhacs.

I wish I could get into this record.
http://www.popsike.com/pix/20040605/4017270197.jpg

NP: Byrds "Fifth Dimension" mono

Heh ian you can probably sell your crappy punk 45s to me... today I bought Youthanasia by the Pigs, fairly obscure UK '77 punk 7".

Maybe I'll post a list later. This is almost all 90s stuff, though, and towards the more dire end of the spectrum.

random scores from Astoria:

Mahavishnu Orchestra - Between Nothingness & Eternity Live
Katrina & The Waves - 1984 LP on Canadian Attic label
Klaatu - Hope (totally mint with embossed cover and lyric sleeve, wow those lyrics look bad)
David Van Tieghem - Safety In Numbers (on Private Music, 1987)
Keith Jarrett/Jack Dejohnette - Ruta And Daitya on ECM
Philip Perkins - King Of The World (interesting SF electronic composer with a buncha self-released 80's LPs)
Primal Scream - Come Together 7"
record-a-disc type thing with someone's 1963 Las Vegas wedding on it.

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/nyc/368733833.html

That Millennium album is cool. You selling any Headcoatees?

No Headcoatees, just some Mighty Caesars on crypt and a Wild Billy Childhish double 7" on like, sub pop or something.

Maybe I'll post a list later.

set sales on ilx would be tite.

LISTENING TO THESE BAD BOYS:
Michael Hurley - Ancestral Swamp
Lee Hazlewood - Trouble Is A Lonesome Town
Don Cherry - Complete Communion
Paddy Killoran - Back In Town
Waylon Jennings - Singer Of Sad Songs
UN LP on Siltbreeze
Jerome Cooper Quintet - Outer and Interaction
Yves & Serge & Victor - Cagibi (this is amazing and a must-check out for fans of the west coast psych/rural twang rock sound. Heavy neil youngisms with also Stones & Dylan feel to some cuts. Home recorded on a two track. Reissue on Guerssen, same people who brought us Dandelion, Linda Perhacs and Damon.)

the hipshakes - not oblivians 7" (goner)

i have a full length (actually full length 12 inch 45) by them...good stuff...title above is funny though cuz they are def. a cartwright tribute band UK division...

there's also a recent hipshakes split 7" with Chicago favorites Cococoma, if you see it around. It's good.

"Reissue on Guerssen, same people who brought us Dandelion, Linda Perhacs and Damon"

bbbbbut they didn't bring me damon. shadoks/ten little indians did!

i've never heard the dandelion album.

Dandelion is pretty cooooool. It's was originally a French private press, same as the Yves/Serge/Victor LP. It's got some total jams on it. I like the YSV record more, though.

And Geurssen DID bring me the Damon LP, though I guess Shadoks did do an issue of it previously. Guerssen ish came with bonus 7"!

just bought the RAVEN LP Back to Ohio Blues

i digs it, a lot

i wish I bought that Takeshi Kosugi album Catch-Wave from that guy at the record fair though, sick album. he charged 40 euro's though and i just couldn't

fuck money

Forty euros, even for the OOP reissue, is not such a bad deal. I'd pay that in a heartbeat (assuming my finances could support it.)

Big fan of the Raven LP--YOU GOTTA GET FUCKED.

ian, when do you listen to all these records?!

all day every day.

work, home.
the only time i don't listen to records is when i am at my girlfriends or watching teevee.

also, i am like scott in that i listen to sides of records a lot and not the whole thing.

By the way, I saw skot and j0hn d. have Rega P1s, i think hoos does too...anyway...i'm lucky enuff to live where the needle doctor is, and they recommended this cartridge to me...had it installed, it's pretty unreal how much different it is now:

http://www.amazon.com/Denon-DL160-Output-Moving-Cartridge/dp/B000I21PWW

"Guerssen ish came with bonus 7"!"

well so did the shadoks!

shadoks version is ultra-fancy. it's so beautiful. and i think it was the first thing they ever reissued. and it's one of the most expensive reissues i own. i've seen it sell for over a hundred bucks on ebay.

i totally believe that. i only own one shadoks issue, the Wally Gonzalez double LP. I regret missing out on two more, the Fingletoad, Strange and Siho double LP and the Kamijo "Martha" LP. I have both on CD, but I would listen to them way more on LP.

Over the past week or two, I've treated myself to

Altered Images - Happy Birthday
Elvis Presley - Elvis Is Back
Donna Summer - All Systems Go
Macy Gray - The Id
Edwyn Collins - Hope and Despair
ZZ Top - El Loco
Paul McCartney - McCartney
Sisters of Mercy - First and Last and Always
Robert Palmer - Clues
Thomas Dolby - The Flat Earth
Green On Red - This Time Around
Genesis - Abacab
Guns N Roses - Appetite For Destruction
All About Eve - All About Eve

Most of these were quite good, a few that I probably won't listen to once I pop them on the shelf. All in for probably around £25-30, which isn't too bad. Mostly from charity shops or Mixed Up in Glasgow, but had a trip to Preston this weekend and got a good handful in the excellent Action Records there.

I *think* the only Shadoks vinyl I bought when they came out were the Erkin Koray 2LP singles collection thing, and that Speed, Glue, & Shinki 'bengal tiger' album (complete with sweet wrap-around packaging.)

oh and I have the CD of New Tweedy Brothers.

speaking of brothers and shadoks .. anyone can vouch for Estes Brothers?

i can vouch for it not being that great. also it's on world in sound, i think? recommend downloading it before you spend $30+ on the vinyl.

i fuckin hate shadoks, ripoff prices and small editions. also reissuing everything on cd BUT that fucking koray singles thing, GRRRRRRR.

fuck shadoks for their overpriced and shittily remastered bootsreissues

obviously these prices are starting to get ridic .. I'm looking at Lilith with that Caetano vinyl ... they did a batch of the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 6th CV lps at 20 bucks a pop

now this month they just put out the 1st (the w/ Costa 'Domingo') and 5th ('Transa') for a whopping 30!! geez, a 50% increase, thanks!

now, I haven't bought any of them, but figgered I'd get that first batch eventually while still kinda balking at the prices .. but $30 ? nah, my CDs are cool..

Wow! Someone just bought Thomas Dolby's The Flat Earth on vinyl? That rocks. Way to go, scout!

Thanks Bimble. I hadn't heard Dolby before (actually, it turns out I'd heard Hyperactive), but had seen his name recommended a lot for stuff I like. Early impressions are its a really good record - Screen Kiss is gorgeous. For a mid 80's record, it has a real sort of mid-90's pop sound, and I don't mean that as bad as it might come across.

Finally got the Loveless reissue on Plain this week and have been listening to it constantly. It's like hearing the album for the first time again, it all sounds the same but so much clearer and wilder than before. I don't know if they tweaked the bass/drums, but I can certainly hear drums on certain parts of the record that I simply couldn't make out before.

i just got a confirmation e-mail from the dreaded craig moerer. i haven't seen exkurs - fakten sind terror come up in over three years and finally last week some german dude threw one up on der bay for a silly amount. thought i'd check gemm and strangely enough CM had a copy for cheap. i've never bought anything from him before, we'll see what happens.

also bought a ton of stuff before catching ilxors jaxon and dan dj last night. moondog, folkways from razor blade to moog, dodgy looking ou panis et circenses reissue and super cheap syl johnson reissue.

which moondog, dogg?
I've bought something off Craig Moerer before, I think, though I can't remember what it was right now. I remember one time wanting to buy a Michael Hurley LP from him (underpriced at $50) but it was gone in a matter of minutes.

that basic one. i don't know. he is wearing a hat. i guess he always is. not a rare. on Coulumbia.

the dreaded craig moerer

haha...

Guys, how come PF Sloan records don't turn up for me like they should?

yesterdaze harvest
Poor School - Holy Master
Tusco Terror/Emeralds split

both on Ectastic Peace

Listening to these:

George Gerdes - Son of Obituary (nice country rock w/ lots of Stray Gators)
Popol Vuh - Hosianna Mantra
Carter Thornton - Ten Fingers...
Michael Hurley - Armchair Boogie

IAN DO YOU HAVE ALL THE COWBOY ALBUMS YET????? YOU NEED THEM. I THINK. REACH FOR THE SKY, 5'LL GETCHA TEN, BOYER & TALTON, AND S/T COWBOY ALBUM. ALL OF THEM ON CAPRICORN. I THINK.

I DON'T HAVE ANY OF THEM DUDE.
I DID JUST GET THAT MEDIOCRE SAILCAT LP THOUGH, "MOTORCYCLE MAMA. " IT WAS FREE.

SON OF OBITUARY IS ROCKIN MY FRIDAY MORNING WORLD.

Scott, you should hear the D. Charles Speer LPs for a modern take on the classic early seventies post-psychedelic country rock sound. New one on Black Dirt, the same label that just put out the AMAZING Pigeons LP, which is like, pastoral brunch psych with Mutantes moves and French vox.

double decker records, allentown, pa finds:

the piano music of erik satie lp
stiv bators - the church and the new creatures lp (french compilation)
biff bang pow! - love is forever
career suicide/jed whitey split lp
altered images - happy birthday lp
OMD - organisation lp
OMD - architecture & morality lp
todd rundgren - faithful lp
yellow magic orchestra - s/t lp
new order - power, corruption and lies lp
new order - low-life lp

dinosaur l - go bang #5/clean on your bean #1 12" (rinked but cheap, still cool to hear minor differences of versions)
dexter wansel - life on mars
historia da musica popular brasileira - gilberto gil
island of sanity - new music from new york city (i love my '80s east village skronk, but this is almost unlistenable)

island of sanity - new music from new york city (i love my '80s east village skronk, but this is almost unlistenable)

^^ i bet i can find something to trade u for it. private new age bangers???

i have that island of sanity thing. i never thought it was that bad. it has lots of stuff on it. it's not as good as dexter wansel's life on mars though.

i had lots of store credit from all the CDs i've been bringing in to the record store and yesterday i got the red hash vinyl and wolfmangler 2lp thing. also crappier dollar stuff out of boredom. well, not all crap. i got a good dr.feelgood record and a kinda cool 415 Records comp from early 80's with forgotten garage punk bands on it like the mutants and the symptoms and the readymades. got a power pop album by 4 out of 5 doctors from 1980. also got two HORRIBLE albums by 70's krisna rockers JIVA. they were friends with george harrison. man, are they bad. i knew they would be, but i was still curious.

i also found a very cool mystik sike record in one of the boxes in the store and i gave it up to chris who works there. i can't even remember the band. but the record goes for, like, 200 bucks. i found them a rare sealed detroit electro-boogie twelve inch a couple weeks ago in another box. also goes for 200 bucks. they are my pals. i want them to make money. i told them i want a finder's fee from now on though. they've got these big boxes of crud under their shelves and occasionally i find gold.

THE VAMPS - Disco Blood <-- campy brazilian horror disco with some electronix thrown on top for good measure
Times New Viking - Rip It Off <-- had the mp3s for a while, picked up the vinyl, basically my favorite shit right now

BURTON GREEN ENSEMBLE on ESP
TOMMY JAY - TALL TALES OF TRAUMA
INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER - SOV GOTT ROSE MARIE
HUMAN EYE LP ON ITR
USA IS A MONSTER - MASONIC CHRONIC
PHILLIP GLASS - MUSIC IN SIMILAR MOTION