Rolling 2008 Vinyl Thread

many xposts to Ian...

for the record I REALLY need a replacement copy of Singles Going Steady, and if 4 Men W/Beards hadn't reissued it I would be out of luck, probably.

singles going steady is a record you can find in a most college towns for $6 right???

i got a bunch of fre judy collins records.

I went down to Flashback today, but didn't get anything from the mass of DIY punk, it was too rich for my blood. That Visitors 7" is pretty good, but it's £17.99. Got Fad Gadget - Back To Nature 7" instead. And some random 20p singles which my wife will melt into bowls if they suck. I got her a Fixx picture disc.

The Bad Actors single is the 1st one, I just downloaded that to see what's it like. The one I have is their 2nd.

singles going steady is a record you can find in a most college towns for $6 right???

I wish! Haven't seen a copy other than that new reissue in years and years...

Cyanide were pretty shit. I have some Visitors mp3s but I haven't listened to them yet. Neon Hearts rings a bell, maybe a mod band?

-- Colonel Poo, Thursday, April 3, 2008 12:31 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

I keep reading this as Cymande are pretty shit.

Suicide - First Album (Original Red Star Press)
Bert Jansch - Rosemary Lane

the ventures - in space
caetano veloso - transa
silver apples - s/t
esg - the beat 12"
eddie pamieri - lucumi macumba voodoo

the seeds - raw and alive
merle haggard - someday we'll look back
billy cobham - inner conflicts
little walter - hate to see you go
paul butterfield blues band - east/west
long john hunter - ooh wee pretty baby! wild early border town rhythm and blues

eastenburia pic disc
hallelujahs LP
poor school LP (ramirez from universal indians/ex-cocaine with a skronk-riff-jazz-noise group. pretty killer & very heavy.)
new riders of the purple sage - gyspy cowboy (thanks country rock thread; the neil 'homage' is pretty LOL on this!!!)

got the wayfaring strangers comp today. along with the latest soul comp numero has put on vinyl. got the mayo thompson reissue too. had the store hold the newest sublime frequencies vinyl for me cuz i ran out of credit (thailand one). got a ton of classical records as well. and southern rock records. and a cool 60's theodore bikel album i've never heard where he does beatles/stones/etc. it's actually pretty good! he does an awesome cat stevens cover.

the new sublime freq is great.

ornette - the empty foxhole
live/dead
shirley c - adieu to old england

and the store is getting stuff from scorpio now! they had the ananda shankar sundazed/scorpio reissue there.

i didn't get it though.

i am glad i could help.
it's just crazy for vinyl stores NOT to get titles from scorpio. like, VU, byg/actuel, blue note, dylan.. this shit will ALWAYS sell.

empty foxhole is one of my favorite album covers

yo scott, not to get all nerded out but i saw those pics of your shelfs, looks and sounds like you buy a lot of stuff in MV, are you meticulous about filing or is it a mishmosh? what's your system?

wow thanks for the heads-up about new subfreq vinyl scott and ian! it looks great!

ditto

d. charles speer & the helix - after hours (crazy how much i love this record.)
the ventures - in space (with a nod to sandskirt for reminding me that i have this; this is great.)
happy & artie traum - double back

VA - New Wave from the Heart
VA - Beginners guide to COMA
Washington Phillips - What Are They Doing In Heaven Today?
Eddie Gomez, Don Alias, Jan Hammer and Jeremy Steig - Something Else
Breakin 2: Electric Boogaloo OST
Regine s/t
Quantum Jump - Mixing (way slick pop/fusion thing. Cool sleeve.)
Switched on Bach
Junkpile Jimmy - Alberhill
Steaming Coils - Never Creak

"yo scott, not to get all nerded out but i saw those pics of your shelfs, looks and sounds like you buy a lot of stuff in MV, are you meticulous about filing or is it a mishmosh? what's your system?"

i am so not meticulous. it drives maria crazy. i just moved a couple thousand records downstairs, so the two big ikea shelves and the two smaller ones are filled now with records and i've been debating some sort of order. maria started a low power fm radio station here on the island and she does a show every week so she is always raiding my collection. a to z would take too long. plus, the bedroom upstairs is filled with records too, so it wouldn't work very well. in philly i used to have records by decade. that worked pretty good. i might do genre though. have all my classical in one spot. i just spent the last couple weeks going thru everything and getting rid of the stuff that was too beat to play. it was fun! i have some great records i never knew about!

wayfaring strangers comp is VERY good. what a great job they did.

ian, do you have the kottke album on symposium? circle round the sun? god i love that album. my brother in law turned me on to that one. he has impeccable taste. high brow stoner taste. my favorite kind. he doesn't buy that much vinyl, but whatever he buys is always really good/high quality. like his weed.

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i don't have that one! i'm not the hugest kottke fan; only into that one record on Takoma (the first?) and i also like the one with donald duck on the cover, because it is the record that got me into the sweet, sweet fingerpicking.

my dad used to be a big kottke fan, so i have all the takoma releases, but not that symposium one. ill look around for it.

scott and ian, have you heard his "eight miles high" cover? not his most fingerpicky, but maybe my favorite LK thing.

wow, i went to the thrift store today and someone had dropped off an old pair of cerwin vega xl 9 speakers. they are so friggin' huge. they must weigh a ton. 400 watts! i don't know what they wanted for them, but i can't afford them whatever the price is. and i'd have to buy an amp for them too. i think they can actually cause structural damage to your house.

um, not vinyl-related. sorry. but i never see behemoths like those at the thrift store.

i never knew the mimi farina & tom jans would actually be pretty cool. '71. the baroque-y stuff is kinda bland, but the more country stuff is nice. with good harmonies.

also listening:
fleetwood fucking mac - then play on (i am branching out)
pigeons s/t
the muskrats - progressive country sounds
the goose creek symphony - welcome to goose creek

$20 total today, off a nice guy selling on the sidewalk in the West Village; real curious if Scott has any thoughts about any of the go-go stuff...:

Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers D.C.'s No. 1 Band: Live! (Future Sounds, 1986) They cover songs by Duke Ellington, Lionel Hampton, and James Moody, plus "Woody Woodpecker," "Harlem Nocturne", and "The Message".
E.U. (plus various artists?) Rock Yuh Butt (Go-Go USA/TTED, 1988, sealed). I think this is probably a compilation, since only five E.U. songs are listed on the back, and there are also photos of five other go-go bands, though no songs listed for them. The cover of this one and the Chuck Brown one look extremely cut-rate -- almost cardboard Xeroxes, though at least this one is mostly yellow; maybe a quickie cash-in after "Da Butt" hit?
J.C. Lodge "Telephone Love" (Pow Wow 12-inch, 1988) -- not even sure what genre this is, but I remember somebody listed it in their Pazz & Jop Top 10 singles that year, like Frank Owen maybe
Roxanne Shante "Roxanne's Revenge" (Pop Art 12-inch, 1984) -- already had a copy of this, but didn't want to pass up a chance to own a second copy for so cheap
Slug-Go Slug-Go Live (TTED, 1987, sealed)
The Tams Beach Music From the Tams (Compleat EP, 1983, sealed)
2 Puerto Ricans A Black Man And A Dominican "Do It Properly (The Original)" (Grooveline 12-inch, no year listed) I only had the song on compilations before, plus this one has an 11-minute "Fiece Club Mix"; I'm not sure what the "non-original" ones would be. Grooveline couldn't have been the song's original label, though, could it have?
Stevie Wonder "Gotta Have You"/"Feeding Off The Love of the Land" (Motown 12-inch, 1991) I didn't really want this one, but he just threw it in for free at the end, so I guess I'll listen to it.
Betty Wright "No Pain No Gain" (Ms. B, 1988) I may still own the 7-inch of this; I know I used to.

(That Betty Wright record is a 12-inch too, btw.)

And J.C. Lodge is reggae (of some sort or other).

i have that betty wright 45! i don't have the EU or chuck brown records though. i'll bet they are good. i've ALWAYS needed a 12 inch of do it properly and i kinda can't believe that i don't own one since it's one of my fave songs.

popul vuh - seligpreisung (real scotched up last nite, sounds like lost gd europe '72 tapes)
john cage - 25th year retrospective concert
os mutantes - s/t
nikki giovanni + ny community choir - truth is on its way (gospel + female last poets style raps)
nobukazu takemura - scope

shadow music of thailand
breeders - mountain battles
the new jay reatard 7"
hedge and donna - s/t (for a friend's birthday)

Research Recordings - The Search for Bridey Murphy: Experiment No. 1

Cole Porter's New Musical "Out of This World", production staged by Agnes deMille

Noel Coward - Bitter Sweet

Mikis Theodorakis - s.t.

Bulat Okudshawa - Lieder

Carol Douglas - Midnight Love Affair

George Formby - "When I'm Cleaning Windows"

Chava Alberstein - Like a Wildflower

Ruth Draper - The Art of Ruth Draper Vol. 1

ВЛАДИМИPA BЫCOЦKOЦ - НА КОНЦЕРТАХ ВЛАДИМИPA BЫCOЦKOЦ: МИР ВАШЕМУ ДОМУ
Vladimira Vysockogo - Na koncertah Vladimira Vysockogo Mir Vašemu Domu
Vladimira Vysockogo In Concert: Peace to Your House

Cerrone - Cerrone IV: The Golden Touch

Cerrone - Love in C Minor

Marie Queenie Lyons - Soul Fever

Heptones - Ting A Ling

Last Poets - This Is Madness

Charles Aznavour - Aznavour

FREE RECORDS:

Gershwin, Porgy & Bess, Hollywood Grand Studio Orchestra

The Art of Debate, Dr Frank E Colbourn

Raphael Corderdos, Trumpet Riffs

Heliotrope Bouquet: Piano Rags, William Bolcom on piano

Joe "Fingers" Carr Plays the Classics in an Allie Roman and His Percussion Pickers sleeve

Breaks 'R' Us on Slangin' Beats

Prince - The Hits I, disc 1

George Feyer - Echoes of Paris

Es singt und klingt zur Weihnachtszeit

nice stuff from the last few weeks:

Funky Junction - A Tribute to Deep Purple ( is this *really* Thin Lizzy?? sure as hell doesn't sound like Phil. unless the slowed and warped his voice. which is totally possible. Or maybe it's Eric? Did Eric sing on any of those glorious first three lps ? I can't recall)

Iron Maiden - Killers (awesome sounding sealed copy from the bay)

William Truckaway - Breakaway (f'n fantastic album, can't stop playing it. all props to Neil Michael Hagerty for the heads up)
got the new Sublime Frequencies thing after work today .. thx for heads up Ian & skot

Quarteto Novo - s/t (ass repro of the cover but apparently legit reish of first alb from Hermeto Pascoal, Airto, et. al. ... looks ass but sound GREAT)

Nilsson's 'Skidoo' OST sealed copy

Eddie C. Campbell - King of The Jungle (sealed ... totally awesome West Side master)

31st of Februrary - S/t ( totally scored a way-cheap, beautiful copy of a normally $100 lp cuz of sellers inaccurate description .. yay!)
Hot Dogs - Say What You Mean ( sealed copy of some Memphis / Ardent /

Terry Manning related thing. Haven't listened yet, totally psyched ... only $5!)

Roy Wizzard - Wizzard's BRew ( sealed copy from same seller as above)
s/t - I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore ( Thank god MS reissues are starting to filter out)

Killed By Death #9 ( already had Ex-Blank-Ex, but this is totally the best)

Point Blank - Second Season ( sealed copy, nice Seger "Beautiful Loser" cover, overall nice record -- more rural than I would have expected)

Mudhoney - Live Mud (real disappointed in this one ... terrible sound, boring setlist, and the boys don't really DO anything with it ... depressing. But I will still go see them again this summer.)

Dave Van Ronk - sealed copy of his S/T early 70s lp on Polydor. damn I love Dave.

pretty much stuck on the Truckaway and the Maiden though. those are getting the repeat plays.

sanskrit, did you plunk down the $30 for the Transa? Man, i really want all three of those new reissues ... not so down with the price increase

re Kottke: yeah that 'Circle Round the Sun' was his 2nd. the Takoma one was the third. He had a rare first one called "12 String Blues" which still hasn't been reissued .. that's the one I'm dying to hear. For the longest time I thought 'Circle Round the Sun' was super rare but actually there's been a copy in my local for weeks now. I thought about buying it and flipping, but I checked Popsike and it looks like the average is way less than i paid for it a decade ago. oh well. maybe somebody found a box and dumped it on the market. Great fucking record.

sanskrit, did you plunk down the $30 for the Transa? Man, i really want all three of those new reissues ... not so down with the price increase

-- Stormy Davis, Friday, 11 April 2008 05:08 (8 hours ago) Link

nah dude. not that i wouldn't, it's worth it. i got an og for like $15 but the gatefold is a little thrashed, the record is fine. got them from this guy who goes down to brazil with his wife to see family, everytime they go he brings back suitcases of records, pays for his whole vacation! he hand delivered them to me in bryant park, it felt like a drug deal. also got veloso's '71 s/t, the first gilberto gil, lo borges s/t, and a ronnie von, title escapes me.

what is the third reissue? i haven't seen transa in the stores, but i definitely noticed a '68 s/t reissue at academy east.

on a major grateful dead kick still.
this morning: aoxomoxa. is it true that the first press of this record has a different mix? with a noisier version of "what's become of the baby?"?

also listened to times new viking "rip it off" - still sounding good.

I always heard that Anthem was the one with two different mixes. The white cover and the purple cover.

sans, actually i got it wrong .. there are two new reissues. First they did a batch a while back of the three s/t plus Araca Azul. those went for like $20. just recently they "filled in the gaps" with Domingo and Transa, but bumped the price up to $30

man, I've been trying to get that lo borges s/t for so long. it's always serious $$$.

There are two different mixes of Aoxomoxoa.

yeah, found this which explains it all nicely

man, white sleeve anthem DOES look a lot nicer.

LOLOLOL never saw this before:

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i am mad pissed the charlemagne palestine "voice studies" 2LP did not come in with our forced exposure order.

john fahey - blind joe death
codeine - the white birch (finally! why isn't this record in print?)
laurie and marty (high school kids private folk LP, seems to be almost all covers. they do a killer "baby blue.")

Most Recently:

Ilyas Ahmed "The Vertigo of Dawn" LP (Time-Lag)
Lebron Brothers "Psychedelic Goes Latin" LP (reissue)

Pumice "Providence" 7" (8mm)
Them, Themselves, or They "Angel Dust & Magick Wands" 7" (Malt Duck)
Peter Wright "Magpie Attack on the Black Road to Albert Town" 7" (Dirty Knobby).

Arriving soon:

Cilibrinas Da Eden "s/t" LP (Nosmoke)

A bunch of 7"s from Alas Alak Alaska, Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, Golden Triangle, Nice Face, Shearing Pinx, Whitman, etc.

Hoping to pick up soon:

Blank Dogs "On Two Sides" LP (Troubleman)
Nalle "The Sirens Wave" (Locust)

Also I just bought a new turntable (J.A. Michell Gyro S.E. w/Tecnoarm), but I haven't picked up a cartridge yet. I'm selling my Music Hall MMF-5.

don cherry & friends - complete communion
fahey - vol 6: days have gone by
basho - seal of the blue lotus (VG)
michael hurley, jeffrey fredericks and the unholy modal rounders - have moicy (signed by Pete Stampfel!)
sun ra - sun song
gid tanner & his skillet lickers comp on Rounder
v/a - rare blues of the twenties (historical LP01!)

I enjoy the Ilyas Ahmed record quite a bit. Some nice smokey rustic action. I also really like the Joshua LP on time-lag, haven't heard the Woods Family Creeps one.

Also, I wouldn't hold your breath on the Blank Dogs LP; I don't think the covers have even begun to be printed yet.