Rolling 2009 Vinyl Thead

don't know george edwards...how is that Death? i've been hearing BIG TALK about it

its really really good. sounds like alice cooper-y detroit rock -- good songs, snarly, good guitars. worth getting, for sure.

kurt vile LP on mexican summer

this week i got, off the top of my head:
soul stirrers vol. 1
zachary cale - walking papers
skullflower on NNF
v/a louisiana cajun music: the first recordings
sun ra - sleeping beauty (mega-rare late seventies Saturn in playable shape.)

kurt vile LP on mexican summer

how is that
sleep said he's playing in nyc this weekend, I have not heard of

the couple songs I've heard off of Death (from Leo thread) are awesome. there was a big story about them in NYT arts a couple weeks ago

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/03/15/arts/15rubi_600.jpg

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/arts/music/15rubi.html

also just made a good deal to buy these from a local dude, i just wanted the blank dogs but he'll give me all these for 10 total so what the they, sounds like interesting stuff:

blank dogs - the fields
john weise - soft punk
sir richard bishop - polytheistic fragments

The Richard Bishop lp is grate.

ian what does that sun ra sound like? i just jammed ASTRO BLACK this morning

i like the mex summer kurt vile LP. it's kinda spacey/raga folk with ambient swooshes and some electric touches. indie?
the new one on woodsist is also good.

pete: "Sleeping Beauty" is nice. I've only listened to it once so far, but it was laid back & groove-oriented overall, one of the tracks had group vocals that were along the usual lines...

whenever i see original saturns under like $50 i think it's a good idea to pick them up, unless the condition is really bad. (will buy scratchy saturns, but will only go so far.)

went to book sale and it was a nitemare with kids and too little room and big smelly people all over me in cavernous basement and then i found the video cart and everything was free on it and we had fun looking for kid videos and stuff and then i noticed that on the video cart were exactly FIVE records. all in excellent minty shape. all original u.k. pressings. they were:

laibach - s/t (with insert)

current 93 - looney runes (with poster)

current 93 - swastikas for noddy

death in june - nada!

death in june/current 93 - split lp

they wanted to charge me a dollar for my two bags of books and videos, but i gave them two. cuz i'm nice like that.

jesus, those DIJ & C93 LPs will go for a bit of dough on teh ebays, if you don't need to keep 'em.

i'm almost more jealous of book sales though. i love book sales. new york booksales seem to blow most of the time. and even if you do find good stuff people want like, a buck or two or more apiece!

nyc book sales are super sketched out and mega bad vibes, even if there is the possibility of some shitty records. show up half assed 15 minutes early and you will face a deep column of schizo book dealers ready to quick draw you with their ISBN scanning guns.

book people are worse than record people imho. slower moving, too.

Went on a bike ride and ended up with a few cheap-o mystery selection discs from the bargain buckets outside Flashback and Haggle Vinyl. The 'rude' Haggle dude wasn't around, sadly, although I did hear someone in the basement of Flashback saying that he "better watch his mouth next time, know wot i mean??". Oi!!

Found a 7" in a b&w cover with a track called CLONES by some dude called Grag Vandike. Sleeve has a gaunt androgynous robot/alien cyborg thing on the reverse, so I guessed/hoped for a decent downer synthpop/minimal type thing, and that was pretty spot-on. Great track!

Other sort of find was a 7" of Beach Baby by the First Class. 1974. Turns out to be a sketchy Britisher Beach Boys rip-off. Apparently John Peel was really into it, but I wasn't so sure. I'll give it another spin though. Made wonder if there was any other British bands who really had a go at aping the Beach Boys. Maybe more succesfully. The idea doesn't quite fit.

GREG Vandike! Also...

Death - For the Whole World to See (excited for this)
Leslie Q - Presque Vu!
Rusted Shut - Hot Sex 12" & early stuff
Jazz and Hot Dance in South Africa 1946-1959
Glass Ties - Tight 7"
Wrecks-n-Effect - New Jack Swing 7"
UTFO
Cool C - C is Cool 12"
MC Gemini With Jealous J - Cut It Up Def 12"

That Clone 7" bij Greg Vandike is indeed great! I only recently heard that song, and learned he passed away in 2007. He apparantly was a well known music trader/seller of some sorts in Plymouth, or something? Read somewhere John Peel fancied his music as well.

man that sir richard bishop thing i bought is so beautiful.

hell yeah dude, also hard to find on LP already

i got it for $5 so good deal i guess.

can you recommmend me other stuff he's done in this vein?

i don't know the sun city girls, i know there is a connection though, would i like them?

Matt I'm sure there are some things in the SCG catalog you would like, but they are quite varied to say the least. They recently put out a compilation of singles from the 80's, that's a pretty good entry point.

The Bishop record most like that one is Fingering The Devil, but it's not really in print as far as I know. The CD While My Guitar Violently Bleeds has longer tracks, more like ragas. His 1st record Salvador Kali is also excellent.

since I'm on the vinyl thread...

I went to Mississippi store in PDX last week and got Group Bombino, Kate Bush's Sensual World, The Impossible Shapes' Horus, a great Nonesuch Explorer record with the sounds of African animals, and a reissue (done by MS? I think so) of The Clean's Compilation. They were already sold out of the I Woke Up One Morning comp and the Spiritual Singers LP.

in the mail today:
ofege LP (looks awesome)
gambian kora duets LP

there's already another Bishop album on tap on Drag City ...

http://www.dragcity.com/catalog/records/dc398.html

anybody heard it yet?

new Bishop is great -- electric guitar, w/ band. I'm no expert, but it's very Middle Eastern-y.

sleeve, if you need the spiritual singers LP i got yer back; not sure of our stock on the woke up one morning in may, though.

did that other stuff reach you properly??

xxp
i gotta catch up on my bishop LPs. I only have Improvika!

I really like the new SRB altho I don't have anything else by him. It's like Middle Eastern surf-rock, almost.

In the post today: a new 10" by Thou which has an incredible sleeve and a split single w/ Crom and Agoraphobic Nosebleed which has an amusing sleeve.

yeah, i was thinking the surf rock thing too.

yo ian thanks but I got both of those before, my local store now carries some Mississippi stuff.

excited about new SRB, didn't know at all.

The Freak of Araby, haha .. Out in May, I think.

Oh, I don't think I mentioned but for the first time in AGES i found a good record in a thrift shop! Jackie McClean "One Step Beyond" on Blue Note, VG+ (occasional light surface noise.)

that IS a good find. blue notes in thrift stores are pretty rare in my experience.

yeah, they don't turn up often. especially in playable shape--not that this one is perfect of course.
a guy i knew bought a stack of 'em at the Greenpoint (brooklyn) salvation army and made a profit of several hundred bucks; smooth move.

also oops, mclean not mcclean by bad.

i got a couple of Loren Mazzacane Connors singles last week too. And a better copy of Vincebus Eruptum, and the Klezmorim LP with the Crumb cover (for passover) and in the mail i got the Sun City Girls/Ruins "Dulce" soundtrack.

new NSFW arrival:
psychedelic horseshit -- golden oldies

huh.
just noticed that my copy of axis: bold as love skips but it's on a totally sick break. lovin it.

ian help me out i'm playing loveless right now
and as much as i do love it i equally enjoy your succinct one line description
= "a yuppie couple having an argument?"

Latest vinyl haul = $40 worth of $1 / $1.50 LPs at the Austin Record Convention yesterday:

"I'd buy that for a dollar!" Great purchases for a buck or less

And here's $7.58 I spent at a thrift store last week:

"I'd buy that for a dollar!" Great purchases for a buck or less

the real trick for loveless is just to turn it up as much as your neighbors will allow...
never really spent much time with that record after college.

boston chinks -- coltrane 7"
v/a -- under the coconut tree (orig music caribbean comp LP from GEMM so we'll see if this actually happens)

couple things from SF rasputin, which i like better than the berkeley location so far:
king tuff -- was dead
LCD soundsystem -- confuse the marketplace 12"
human sexual response -- fig 14
SE rogie -- african lady (not my favorite SE rogie, but was only $6 so np)
wavves -- wavvves (these wavves records are pretty good! i don't get the orgiastic pitchfork response or the ridic termbo backlash, but they're fun records!)

btw kudos to chuck for making me feel good about my future by his use of

First time I've owned this in decades

SE rogie -- african lady

getting palm wine guitar on vinyl (for real cheap, just because i've missed out on getting it cheaply a bunch of times) is my main goal in life

Just got Kitchens of Distinction's The Death Of Cool for 2 bucks

getting palm wine guitar on vinyl (for real cheap, just because i've missed out on getting it cheaply a bunch of times) is my main goal in life

― corps of discovery (schlump), Friday, April 10, 2009 12:23 AM (18 hours ago) Bookmark

yeah finding highlife records is def one of my top record goals these days too...

LPs @ 3/$1:

Sherbs The Skill (ATCO 1980)(If I had known these guys were Auzzies trying to crack the lucrative US charts with a new wave makeover I might not have picked up this one. Based on the cover I thought this might be a dark wave opera about Nadia Comăneci. I was wrong. Will file under "basically uninteresting"; however is reminiscent of generic 80s film stks.)

Hawks Hawks (CBS 1981)(not The Band. I guess these dudes were into Sparks but they never really approach such heights. That being said, I probably would not change the station on them.)

The Brass Ring Only Love (Dunhill 1968)(More or less typical Now Sound with the same songs that show up on every other Now Sound LP [Alpert, Webb, Popp, etc.] Good version of The Odd Couple theme. No Moog.)

Upper Perkiomen Schools Highlights of the Spring Concert 1967 (Custom Pressing 1967) (The elementary band has that out of tune and rhythmless sound I go for, the upper grades are just kind of OK)

XTC Black Sea (Virgin 1980)('sup Geir)

Eric Burden & The Animals Winds of Change (MGM 1967) (Tom Wilson production; as 1967 as it gets)

got a couple of those limited Howling Hex LPs today,
and Kurt Vile "God Is Saying This To You.

Yesterday, got the Tar Pet LP and Henry Flynt "Raga Electric."

Today
Kinski - Down Below It's Chaos
Stars Of The Lid - And Their Refinement Of The Decline
Crippled Black Phoenix - A Love Of Shared Disasters
Neil Diamond's Hot August Nights for a buck

love that stars of the lid.