Rolling 2008 Vinyl Thread

scott u can paypal me the old tables

bought a few records on vacation in paris, xchange rate with the euro is fuuuucked but I think I still found a couple deals.

ashra - blackouts
catherine ribeiro + alpes s/t
dynastie crisis s/t (awesome french funk-psych, got this for 20EUR, googled it and it came up on some collector scum site going for 60)
fela kuti - zombie (french pressing)
suicide s/t
senor coconut - behind the mask (w/ villalobos rmx)

then when I got back I hit a stoop sale in brooklyn and got a buncha patrick adams type disco records, fatback band, stylistics, and it's a beautiful day s/t (four bucks! seen this going for 30). not a bad haul.

looks nice!!
how was the trip??

it was great! got back friday night (greeted by amazing nyc weather, hello roof deck season)

oh shit, would have given you a call saturday but we thought you were still outta town! we should hang out and listen to records and drink some beers this week, or something. i still have that ya ho wa dvd if you want to borrow it!

given that i love the album and that its unavail on the DC website, should i buy the newest howling hex LP for $20 at a store i know has it?

or wait for a deal on ebay

oh shit, would have given you a call saturday but we thought you were still outta town!

thats cool we were in jet lag / decompression mode anyway

we should hang out and listen to records and drink some beers this week

big time, just say when! I'm off work tomorrow but probably going to see destroyer .... maybe thursday's good

and yeah I'd still like to see that ya ho wa dvd. I can swap you the stones movie.

damn it I need to change my needle. it's been more than a year and far more than 500 hours.

then when I got back I hit a stoop sale in brooklyn

opera man on union?

i need a new needle. do you guys get yours online or in a store? the place i used to go to closed down.

opera man on union?

haha yeah I guess so, I don't know the guy. opera man? it seemed like a regular thing but I had never been by his spot. had a bunch of $2-$4 records on the sidewalk and some more expensive jazz stuff on the steps. the It's a Beautiful Day record is a little scratchy but I was psyched to find it, I had never heard it (just knew that it's supposed to have beats / samples / whatever). some of it's pretty heavy! a little like Babe Ruth maybe.

but yes it was the guy at 7th and union

i get my needles on amazon via J&R, of all places. with amazon's free shipping i usually just order two and it's easier than actually going to J&R and having the guy take forever to find what i need.

^^ thats what i usually do, but this time i bought one new off ebay for like ten bucks

opera man hooked me up with bumblebee unlimited a few years ago. that's probably the only thing i've bought off him. a friend pulled a sir lord baltimore discography off him for cheap last summer.

nice, I didn't find anything as good as Bumblebee but he had a lot of disco kind of on the border between commercial and spacey (eg Mike Theodore "High on Mad Mountain," track 2 on side 1 is pretty electronic). p.s. I put some of that Dynastie stuff on Leo thread if anyone's interested.

traded in a ton of records and some new promo CDs and got that malcom x philip cohran thing on mississippi, warsaw/JD comp on DMM Cutting, moondog double vinyl on honest jons, a scorpio/sundazed copy of vu's loaded (don't know what happened to my copy years ago and i got rid of the double cd thing a long while back as well), and the thailand sublime frequencies thing. (i can understand some people being let down after the first two SF records, but this stuff is still good. and deeper than some "haha thailand discovers the fuzzbox!" kinda comps. not that i have a problem with those kinds of comps either. i'll take fuzz anyway i can get it.)

i would have gotten away with no money changing hands, but rufus really wanted a kidz bop cd so i ended up spending ten dollars in the end.

went mississippi-crazy:
life is a problem
i dont feel at home in this world anymore
orchestre regional de kayes (awesome, hadnt heard about this one yet)

also:
galaxie 500 - fourth of july 12"
richard and linda thompson - first light
fleetwood mac - s/t (1975)

ordered online:
jay reatard - blood demos 7"
howling hex - XI

My most recent vinyl acquisition was Duke Ellington's Indigos, which is fabulous. But strangely, the liner notes mention a song called "The Sky Fell Down" that isn't actually on the record ... Anybody know what's up with that?

research shows that it is on the CD reissue as a bonus track ... guess it got fropped from the original at the last minute.

found a pretty killer private country record today--Steve Haggard "Slain By An Angel." It's got a tribute song to Gram Parsons on it, AND he does Still Feelin Blue.

Also jamming:
the repress of Silver Apples first LP
basho - seal of the blue lotus
white witch s/t
v/a - memphis and the delta: the fifties
whitehouse - total sex

Just got:

The Doors: 7 LP Box Set
Steven R Smith The Anchorite.

Re: Whitehouse, I wonder if Bird Seed will come out on vinyl?

Okay. At the thrift store today, I grabbed a copy of this one, and I'm trying to figure out the cover artist:

http://www.audiophileusa.com/covers400water/37377.jpg

I've got a Lionel Hampton Album (Hamp In Paris) with an equally lurid pastel cover by the same guy. The illegible signature looks a little bit like TJackson, but probably isn't. A little help?

NOW PLAYING:

http://www.wirz.de/music/biograph/grafik/60044.jpg

god that looks amazing.

i just picked up a Charlie Poole comp on Biograph; they do great work. Big fan of their Mississippi Sheiks/Beale Street Sheiks LP.

it's great. i don't know what the hell happened to betsy. i should google.

um, now playing, family dance party, you understand:

http://www.supermusica.com.ve/artists/b/bananarama/discography/images/poplife.jpg

i can't front though. the cover of long train runnin' on pop life kills me every time. so cool. (actually, the whole album is really good. for latter-day bananarama, anyway. i didn't follow them past their way gay-friendly disco album with the more more more cover on it. that album wasn't so hot.)

NOW PLAYING: Introducing The Beau Brummels. And NO I don't have a mono copy. I have a stero copy. And it sounds great!

UP ON DECK: COME - DON'T ASK DON'T TELL, NICK LOWE - PURE POP FOR NOW PEOPLE, THE SMITHS - HATFUL OF HOLLOW, AEROSMITH - GET YOUR WINGS, LINDA RICH - PATTERNS

JUST LISTENED TO: A GUY CALLED GERALD - 2 songs from the 4 song EP i have. VOODOO RAY & ESCAPE.

jammed out:
mv/ee - gettin gone
nick nicely
pigeons s/t (love this record.)
neutral spirits s/t

I'm thinking of selling most of my records because after 6 months in this apartment we still don't have a place for them. Around this time next year we might be making a big move and do I really wanna move all these etc.

Would it be bad faith to digitize the ones I really like before I sell them?

bad faith? no. a hassle? yes.

NOW PLAYING: ALLEN TOUSSAINT - SOUTHERN NIGHTS (what a great record. so phat it needs it's own zip code)

pulled out Gene Clark's No Other too. Might play that next. OR MAYBE NOT!

in the meantime, listened to Linda Rich. She's okay, but kinda dreary.

i dunno, she's okay. if you like that ultra-sensitive xian folkie kinda thing. you can listen to her first album on waxidermy:

http://waxidermy.com/2006/05/22/linda-rich-theres-more-to-living-than-i-know-so-far/

a hassle? yes.

-- ian, Saturday, April 26, 2008 11:21 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

yeah i've already got everything i need and i've been trying to do 1-2 a day but its def a hassle

i've always wondered, is waxidermy an ILXor? serious good shit on there.

records my friend put out & i got copies of for freeee:
factums - the sistrum
pink noise - dream code

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c321/eraserhead23/sbr004-factumssmall.jpg
http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c321/eraserhead23/sbr004_pinknoisesmall.jpg

there was a factums record at the record store -not that one- and it looked interesting, but i didn't buy it.

wait, ian, did you buy the last siltbreeze thing? now i can't remember the title. something weird. chris at the record store said it was really strange. but i still haven't gotten it.

i'm actually listening to a CD right now. live smithereens thing. i'm just drunk enough to appreciate it.

Vinyl I bought in Texas this week:

dave & sugar - that's the way love should be LP - 75
cents
dave & sugar - stay with me/golden tears LP - $1
lee dorsey - night people LP - $1
dr. feelgood - sneakin' suspicion LP - $2
funky kings - funky kings LP - $1
head east - gettin' lucky LP - $2
long ryders - state of our union LP - $1
mother's finest -another mother further LP - $1
night - night LP - $1
henry paul band - grey ghost LP - $1
ray goodman & brown - II LP - $1
bj thomas - everybody's out of town LP - 75 cents
dave valentin - pied piper LP - $1
(various0 - cruisin' 1960 LP - 75 cents

plus 3 45s w/ pic sleeves for $1 total:

cyndi mizelle - this could be the night/this could be
the night (instrumental)
nu shooz - point of no return/goin' thru the motions
trooper - santa maria/whatcha gonna do about me

white noise
john coltrane - a love supreme
dis masters - black and proud 12" (chuck chillout!)
fastlane records presents dance hall slaughteration
o.v. wright - i don't do windows
bumblebee unlimited - sting like a bee (inspired by upthread post)
extensions from area code 212

"henry paul band - grey ghost LP - $1"

YOU WILL LOVE THIS

"funky kings - funky kings LP - $1"

NOT SO FUNKY REALLY

"dr. feelgood - sneakin' suspicion LP - $2"

YEAH!

"ray goodman & brown - II LP - $1"

THEY RULE!

"that last siltbreeze thing" -- do you mean the factums LP on siltbreeze? or that naked on the vague, or operazione nafta? i haven't heard either of those last two, actually. i'm officially not the biggest siltbreeze fanboy. it's kind of pathetic that i haven't even bothered to listen to 'em. this past year i got a little burned out on the new/weird/punk/wave scene. i did hear, and enjoy, the factums LP on siltbreeze. it's pretty cool. this new one is less bleepybloopy and more feedback/grime/brittle drums. it's really, really nice. the pink noise LP is also a kind of DIY weird-wave thing.

dave & sugar - that's the way love should be LP - 75
cents
dave & sugar - stay with me/golden tears LP - $1

YOU GOT BURNED!

(Actually, see "Country/Disco" thread)

Briana, your country-and-disco thread comments about Dave & Sugar (who I don't think I've ever heard) are exactly what convinced me to buy those two albums!

"funky kings - funky kings LP - $1"

NOT SO FUNKY REALLY

THAT'S WHAT I FIGURED! MORE IMPORTANT QUESTION: DO THEY SOUND AT ALL LIKE JULES AND THE POLAR BEARS (WHOSE FIRST TWO ALBUMS WERE ACTUALLY PRETTY GOOD)?

i don't remember the funky kings record being very good at all, but i'll play it again soon just to make sure. i might have only played the first side.