Rolling 2008 Vinyl Thread

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.

"or operazione nafta?"

yeah, this one.

i'll have to grab a copy of it next time i'm at work.
i heard the naked on the vague record was kinda goth, so i stayed away.

listening now:
cosmic jokers - sci fi party

funky kings LP isn't bad; sort of endearing wannabe early springsteen meets wannabe early eagles stuff. seems to contain the original version of "swayin' to the music (slow dancing)," though i'd never realized til now that johnny river's hit version was a cover. favorite track so far is also the most ridiculous one, about dumpster-diving a used mattress, putting it on one's roof, and getting lots of sex use out of it up there. not a jules shear number, oddly enough. (he has 3, which don't sound polar-bears-like to me.)

the bj thomas album has a bacharach-david number called "send my picture to scranton, PA"! best song, though, is the title track, about gentrification. cool LP cover. he covers nillson and simon and garfunkel and soul songs, and bacharach/david also produced it. better than the used raindrops keep fallin' on my head i bought by him last year.

lee dorsey album sounds way less new orleans r&b than i'd remembered. title track is the most disco cut, and totally great; the rest reminds me of disco era (c. belle) al green, almost.

nothing on the night album is as great as "hot summer nights," which makes me think i should have bought the used $1 walter egan album i saw this week, too (since he wrote that particular song). the other cut i really like, though, is "ain't pretty enough," which could totally pass for a mid-tempo babe ruth cut in a blindfold test, thanks mostly to stevie lange's vocal similarity to jennie haan.

wondering why i never bought any of those "cruisin'" compilations before. the 1960 one seems really cool -- "alley oop," "you talk too much," "finger poppin time," "tears on my pillow," "because they're young," etc., and i really like the pop-art drive-in comic-book packaging. the series came out in 1970, apparently, on chess-distributed increase records, and each volume (one for each year, 1955 to 1962) is picked and annotated by an apparently famous top 40 dj. the 1960 one is curated by dick biondi from wkbw buffalo; 1956 (which i don't have -- in fact, i don't have any others) by robin seymour for wkmh detroit; 1962 by russ "weird beard" knight of klif dallas, etc. i've seen these in used record stores for decades, but never gave any thought to them, for some reason, and don't remember reading much about them anywhere else. seems to be a more hip version of the oldies but goodies concept, but i'm not sure how popular or widely distributed they were.

best song, though, is the title track, about gentrification

or maybe about moving to the suburbs? i dunno; need to listen to it more to be sure.

the mattress the funky kings swipe, by the way, is carried home on the back of their studebaker. the song comes off as a really goofy, over-the-top springsteen parody, though i'm guessing it probably wasn't intended that way. (pat feeney, who runs main street music in manayunk, philly, tells me it's one of his 30 favorite albums of all time, as is the first polar bears record. he said he even paid $80 for a CD version of the funky kings album a few years ago, which apprarently only came out in japan.)

yo xhuxk, where did you go in texas?

houston ---> various german/czech hill country towns ---> wimberly --- > austin ----> johnson city --- > fredericksburg --- > houston

and off-topic, but fwiw, at houston's half price books I also bought copies of the following CDs, all $1 each except in the one case noted: adventures of stevie v adventures of stevie v, bruce anderson brutality, the beloved happiness, t. graham brown lives! ($2), joe dee messina jo dee messina, jamie o'neal shiver, season to risk season to risk, chely wright let me in.

i have that stevie v cd, but nothing on it comes close to the greatness of the dirty cash (money talks) 12 inch. or even the dirty cash video. with the sound down! my pal cosmo said that bruce willis came into the palmer social club in philly when he was djing once and the only song he wanted to hear was dirty cash. bruno has taste!

"seems to be a more hip version of the oldies but goodies concept"

the series on Roulette? or i guess there were lots of series like that. the early 60's roulette series of 50's stuff is beyond great. not that i have them all, but they have track-listings on the backs of each one. i just found a pristine copy of volume 10 in the Roulette series last week. God, is it ever incredible.

oops, my bad, the Roulette series was called Golden Goodies. I couldn't stop playing the one i bought last week. tune weavers, spaniels, chantels, etc. all of it amazing.

I got a couple of volumes of United Artist's The Very Best Of Oldies series a while back. Those are good too, but more obvious. The usual suspects like Thurston Harris, and Phil Upchurch, Garnet Mimms, etc.

My big revelation of the last few weeks: where has Tom T. Hall been all my life! Got his greatest hits, and now I need more.

Anyway, what I've been listening to today and/or what I will be listening to tonight. Though, I've already started in on the beer, so this is subject to revision:

Mary McCaslin & Jim Ringer - The Bramble & The Rose (Philo - 1978)

Jaime Brockett - North Mountain Velvet (Adelphi - 1977)

Bill Staines - Third Time Around (Catfish - 1974)

Guy Van Duser - Finger-Style Guitar Solos (Rounder - 1977)

Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard - S/T (Rounder - 1976)

Rick Nelson - In Concert (Decca - 196?)

Los Illegals - Internal Exile (A&M - 1983)

The John Cassel Band - Blown Away In The Country (Philo - 1975)

Deserters - Siberian Nightlife (Capitol - 1983)

Champion - S/T (CBS - 1978)

Jambalaya - High Rollers & Other Fine Ladies (A&M - 1973)

Christopher Kearney - Pemmican Stash (Capitol - 1973)

Smokie - Midnight Cafe (RSO - 1976)

This Mortal Coil - Blood (4AD - 1991)

Matthew Fisher - Journey's End (RCA - 1973)

Milton Chesley Carroll - S/T (RCA - 1972)

Rick Roberts - She Is A Song (A&M - 1973)

Ned Doheny - S/T (Asylum - 1973)

Come - Don't Ask Don't Tell (Matador - 1994)

Gene Clark - No Other (Asylum - 1974)

Karen Alexander - Isn't It Always Love (Asylum - 1975)

The Smiths - Hatful Of Hollow (Rough Trade - 1984)

Nick Lowe - Pure Pop For Now People (Columbia - 1978)

Aerosmith - Get Your Wings (CBS - 1974)

Ben Guillemette - S/T (Rooster - 1980)

Starwood - S/T (CBS - 1977)

listening to that gene clark album and specifically the god-like "Strength Of Strings" reminded me of how much freek folk Ivo Watts-Russell and This Mortal Coil had turned me on to way back when. Listening to This Mortal Coil was the first time I ever heard a Tim Buckley song or a Roy Harper song or a Chris Bell song or a Big Star song. And probably others that I can't think of at the moment. and that's why i pulled out blood which i haven't played in years. i all of a sudden needed to hear those bell covers.

xp You should look around for The Essential Tom T. Hall: Twentieth Anniversary Collection -- 2-LP set from 1988. That's the one I swear by, Scott. Best single album is In Search of a Song. Both of them rank with my favorite county LPs ever.

As for Cruisin', what I wrote above was just me going by the track list and liner notes. I didn't realize the albums were actual DJ air checks, but that's what they seem to be according to these links:

http://www.dailyvault.com/toc.php5?review=3203

http://www.epinions.com/content_370728799876

http://leemichaelwithers.tripod.com/cruisin.htm

(I guess the 1963 to 1970 editions came out later, like maybe when the series was re-released on CD?)

i loved those cruisin' covers when they came out.

xp Or okay, maybe not actual actual DJ air checks, but a remarkable facsimile thereof:

The series not only includes the original songs by the original artists from a particular year but also includes a Disk Jockey (D. J.) from a particular radio station all across North America. Included with the music is original radio advertisements (commercials), some public service announcements, radio station jingles, D. J. banter and numerous other goings on to make the record sound like it was recorded right from a live studio broadcast.

my favorite records to listen to in the 70's were armed forces radio broadcasts on double-albums that my brother had. i heard a lot of great stuff for the first time that way. and they had deejay IDs and intros.

got a couple lil things today
roy harper - one of those days in england
steely dan - aja
neil young - zuma (nice old copy w sleeve notes in good shape)
leo kottke - circle round the sun (thread mascot)
pharoah sanders - elevation
herbie mann - memphis underground (w some rad sonny sharrock work)
oh and
abba - the album

listening to new Bobb Trimble LP I got today, Harvest Of Dreams. Worthy of hype, I dig. also scrounged:

Icons Of Filth reissue LP on Get Back

Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A-Changin' with the insert continuing the 11 epigraphs from the back cover. In pretty decent shape also, maybe even VG.

The Doors - Waiting For The Sun LP. almost mint mustard yellow label version, five bucks.

George Harrison - Wonderwall Music. totally beat up and edge-warped, but the last 10 minutes of each side are quite listenable, and those are my favorite parts. it was a dollar.

buncha Mississippi recs coming in the mail this week. Still waiting on my Vinyl On Demand records, argh.

I never knew those Cruisin' comps had extra bits of period radio ephemera added to them!

...11 epiTAPHS...

Twinkeyz - Alpha Jerk
Sheriff Lindo & The Hammer - Ten Dubs that Shook the World
499 2139 Decent Peter Waterman contrived power pop compilation with the Lambrettas 'Go Steady', Escalators 'Carscape'
Keith Hudson - Flesh of My Skin Blood of My Blood
Noah Howard - The Black Ark
MOEV - Zimmerkampf
The Baby Huey Story
Last Kind Words
'Jericho Go' comp with Swimming Pool Q's, Pylon, Love Tractor, etc

Ian, those covers on Sacred Bones are beautiful. I've enjoyed the Nice Face 7" they put out. The two tracks I heard from the Pink Noise LP remind me a lot of those Homework comps that Hyped 2 Death puts out. Can't decide if I should pick this up. Maybe I'll find a "limited" version at Amoeba.

Also, I overheard this guy in the record shop talking about how he had "about twenty-seven to twenty-eight thousand records. Mostly classical."

He then said he'd wasted his life. :(

huh, I didn't think the Nice Face 7" was officially released yet. But they're good stuff. I like both the new LPs, and he's got another single coming out soon, aside from the Nice Face--Dead Luke. Dead Luke 7" is kind of a novelty in that it has an electro/punk version of teh troggs "I Want You" that's suitably creeped out/wasted. I'm not sure the new Sacred Bones titles have gotten distribution yet. I think, of all places, Matador Direct will be distributing them. He's distributed some stuff through Revolver too, but I don't think he's sent any out to them yet. also FWIW the jackets are all hand screened and numbered and blah blah blah. and the factums record comes with a bonus single.

Listening to NRPS "Gypsy Cowboy"

So guys I'm re-organizing my records a little.
Previously the bottom level of my shelving has been used for boxes of 45s, but I think I have to move them to the top of the shelves and expand the LPs down. My secondary shelf is too jam packed with things--that's the shelf that has the specialized stuf on it (jazz, pre-war, international, 20th century.) I think I'm gonna integrate the 20th century stuff into the main stacks, so that I can expand the jazz to a second shelf. I may also integrate some of the pre-war stuff into the main shelving unit. But maybe not. I like to keep it all together cuz it's probably about 50% comps, and to have those comps grouped together without the single artist discs seems silly.

good stuff at the thrift store today. got this:

http://popsike.com/pix/20071215/300182870506.jpg

private prog. went for 90 euros last year on ebay.

got a super original copy of Let It Be (i just traded in my reissue)

nice mono copy of revolver

nice copy of bayou country

nice copy of the kids are alright

2 copies of introducing the beatles. a not so nice early mono version with the old veejay logo and a very nice later stereo copy

decent yellow submarine

nice original abbey road

very clean later apple pressing of the white album (and two numbered copies in not great shape. i'll take them to the record store)

nice magical mystery tour (but no booklet. might just switch the vinyl from my copy with the booklet)

super clean copies of beatles 62/66 and 67/70

super clean - like UNPLAYED - satanic majesties with clean 3d cover

copy of jim kweskin/mel lyman/lyman family america album (which i needed)

victor bailey album

2 album country set

nice merle haggard album (the way it was in '51)

marshall tucker band - carolina dreams

ozard mountain daredevils

alan stivell's double album celtic symphony

alan parsons - pyramid (didn't have this for some reason)

clean copy of dark side (going to the record store)

some 80's indie thing from a band called Three Colors (boston band? ska? who knows)

5 bucks total. including a few things maria got.

even the pricing at your thrift store makes me jealous.
at thrift stores i've got access to, even in suburban rhode island, the records are usually at least a buck or two apiece.

<i>listening to new Bobb Trimble LP I got today, Harvest Of Dreams. Worthy of hype, I dig. also scrounged:</i>

i've almost bought trimble like 3 times...the cover with him and the machine gun really caught my eye. what is he like?

trimble's like big star + syd barrett kinda.

i prefer harvest of dreams, which is NOT the one with the gun.

cool thx. SOLD.

if you like one of 'em you'll probably like both though. it's just a matter of degrees. i think harvest of dreams is kinda the weirder one.

i am listening to "music of the english-scottish border" on folkways.

that missouri album is totally not prog by the way. that's what i get for taking the word of german ebay dealers. it's total 70's missouri rock. not a bad thing, but way normal. i might have to put it up fer sale.

man, the mono veejay - even in the shape of the copy i just got - just poops all over the horrid stereo version. stereo sounds like the bottom of a tin can.

i forget why they changed the track-listing on that veejay album. please please me on the mono turns into p.s. i love you on the stereo. and something else turns into love me do.

i'm gonna bring the victor bailey and the merle and the who and the red & blue albums to the record store too.

HEY IAN, i forgot, i was digging thru a box at the store and they had some album by the woodstock all-stars or something like that - that might not actually be the name - anyway it was happy & artie traum and eric anderson and some other people. ever see it?

"even the pricing at your thrift store makes me jealous"

they make up prices for me. i am a good customer. same thing at the other thrift store. which is nice.

now playing:

http://popsike.com/pix/20070516/320114918902.jpg

WOODSTOCK MOUNTAIN REVIEW, is the album i think yer thinking of, scott. they may have had more than one record, i'm not sure. the one i have is called "back to mud acres." it's not terrible but it's nowhere near as awesome as the two Happy & Artie records on Capitol.

Now playing: Vibracathedral Orchestra "Ragged & Right"

oh i just checked, it's REVUE.

okay, gotcha. if it's a dollar, i'll pick it up.

and i was backwards on those veejay records. the STEREO copy is the first edition with the two songs they later had to take off for legal reasons. i might sell the copy i got. it's in nice shape and they go for money. and i hate the way it sounds.

i always forget beatles lore.

hahaha, okay, apparently outside of Germany that Missouri album is a dime a dozen. ebay is littered with their corpses. oh well. i've certainly never seen the thing. i guess i'll keep it for the archives.

i've seen that missouri record a few times. basement rock for basement rock dudes.

well that certainly describes me pretty good!

ya gotta wonder why the hell someone paid 90 euros for a copy.

i broke down and paid cash money for a copy of the new age reissue from newbury comics on their ebay site. seemed like the best price. or the best i could find anyway. i tried to have the record store order it from forced exposure, but FE was out of it. i was hoping i could just trade for a copy. cuz i'm poor. but i don't want it to disappear and i REALLY need a copy.

i might trade in the nice copy of let it be i got today too. i'm not that fond of let it be.

i'm keeping yellow submarine though. i'd forgotten how much i love that one side. george's long jam on there is the bomb.

i picked up a nice copy of after the goldrush and a not horrible/playable copy of absolutely free and the kingsmen on campus at the other thrift store last week. those will go to the record store too. those are the things they can sell good. basically, if i can find average classic rock records every so often, i can get good trade-in value cuz that's what the kids want here.