Rolling 2008 Vinyl Thread

i'm having a siltbreeze day, by the way. listening to the newer stuff. sapat. ex-cocaine. etc.

sale at my local store

picked up:

Eno/Fripp - Evening Star
The Ventures - Super Psychedelics
REM - Murmur

any of you dudes heard the Fripp/Eno or Venture??

i usually don't take expensive bets on stuff i hadn't heard but i need more eno ambient stuff and the idea of a psych ventures record seemed worth the $15 gamble.

the ventures album is cool! hope it was in great shape for 15 bucks!

yeah it looks good. i really trust the dude that runs my shop, he grades real fair and it was VG+, original press etc....it's nice usually for anything over 15 he resleeves and give you poly sleeve on the outside.

if you like that ventures, get VENTURES IN SPACE. goes for maybe $5 or $6.

is that fripp/eno thing good? i kinda figured those 2 in the early 70s was a pretty safe bet across the board. paid 20 for it.

Book fair in St. Louis yielded the following for $1 each...

The Electrosoniks - Electronic Music
Charles Ives/Calvin Hampton/Donald Lybbert/Teo Macero - New Music in Quarter-Tones
Penderecki - Utrenja, The Entombment of Christ
The Unusual Classical Synthesizer
Wound-Up Opera - Music Boxes from the Rita Ford Collection
Christmas and Children: Seasonal and novelty sounds on De Wolfe
Karen Young - "Hot Shot" 12"
The Timelords - "Doctorin' the Tardis" 12"
Cerrone - Cerrone 3 Supernature
Cerrone - Cerrone 4 The Golden Touch
Cerrone - Cerrone's Paradise
Disco Boogie - Super Hits for Non-Stop Dancing - awesome two LP comp on Salsoul, mixed and edited by Walter Gibbons
Umbrellas of Cherbourg OST
James Bond - Thirteen Original Themes
J.R.R. Tolkien - The Silmarillion of Beren and Luthien, read by Christopher Tolkien
Heart - Dreamboat Annie
George Harrison - Dark Horse
Paul McCartney - McCartney II
Nektar - Remember the Future
Poco - A Good Feelin' To Know
David Bowie - changesonebowie
Prince - Parade

Poco & Cerrone = happy days ahead.

listened to the new Ocrilim record today. Mick Barr of Orthrelm/Octis or whatever. I think it's solo. I think all the drums are programmed. There is shred and heaviosity and also annoying guitar noises for annoying guitar noise people.

we should really start a poco and cerrone fan club. they are both gods.

i'm listening to live mc5 right now. starship vinyl. james brown medley. you know the drill.

"Wound-Up Opera - Music Boxes from the Rita Ford Collection"

i seriously thought this said lita ford for a second.

i have an amazing music box album. it's one of my favorite records for real. it's also someone's collection. don't know if it's lita's. i mean, rita's.

pocahaunted - peyote road.

i didn't want to like this band cuz of the kind of stupid band name, but this is actually really nice. now i want the split LP with christina carter too.

First records I've bought in about a year (first music, actually!):
Breeders Mountain Battles (great record, but what's with 4AD's packaging? A Little abstract portrait for each song on ludicrously highquality stock? Geez)
A nice reissue of Miles Davis' Nefertiti. Felt good buying again.

steely dan - gaucho
steely dan - the royal scam
monotonix - whatever its called, the first 23 seconds didnt SOUND like boogie-rock
v/a - last kind words
shocking blue - s/t

and this morning
alice coltrane - universal consciousness
miles davis - tribute to jack johnson

It took me a long time to find a copy of Good Feelin' To Know that wasn't completely caned! People must have played the hell out of that album. Same with the first Quicksilver Messenger Service album; I still haven't found a copy that wouldn't destroy my needle if I tried to play it.

It looks like Avant Garde Project put up the Wound-Up Opera thing - I haven't listened to it yet but you can download it here.

"Same with the first Quicksilver Messenger Service album"

this is SO true. same with the first it's a beautiful day album.

A new little second-hand shop opened near my flat a weeks ago. Only had the chance to pop in for a quick look today, but picked up

Mac Davis - Stop And Smell The Roses
Beach Boys - Sunflower
The Cars - The Cars
Joe Jackson - I'm The Man
Johnny Cash - Ring Of Fire best of (I've been meaning to pick up a record with Were You There for aaaages now)

all for very reasonable prices.

Also picked up the wonderful Secrets Of The Beehive by David Sylvian a week or two ago for £3, and got a Glasgow compilation called The Bird, The Bell, The Fish & The Tree for a non-album Blue Nile song called Regret, which is of course gorgeous.

A tip for early Poco hunters: seek out the eighties "Nice Price" pressings (they have the blue Epic center label instead of the orange 70s style & I believe the covers are glossier as well). I know you guys luv the OG stuff, but I've got both Poco and A Good Feelin'... in these editions. The vinyls nice and they sound fab!

BTW, I picked up Uncle Charlie & His Dog Teddy by The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band at a garage sale this morning.

Cerrone 3 is all time <3 <3 <3 awesome .... and 4 is pretty good too

I don't know if I've ever seen a copy of McCartney II on lp. pretty nice finds

I saw a couple copies of McCartney II in the new shop today. Is it worth a go if I (begrudgingly) love the first McCartney album? Also, I could pick up a copy for dmr if you're looking for one.

you're in the UK? that's ok I won't make you ship it to the States. but pick one up for yourself and if you don't like it I'll buy it off you!

saloon 7"
'68 comeback 7"
conrad schnitzler 12"
figurines 12"

you're in the UK? that's ok I won't make you ship it to the States. but pick one up for yourself and if you don't like it I'll buy it off you!

-- dmr, Saturday, 3 May 2008 20:35 (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

I'll pop in tomorrow and pick it up, and definitely let you know what I think. Am I right in thinking that there was a bit of time between McCartney and McCartney II? Being someone who loves to hate Macca but also loves the McCartney record - is Ram the natural second record I should be getting?

maybe so .... McCartney II is a little different, almost a lo-fi bedroom pop record? it's pretty weird. in a good way.

There's about 10 years between McC's 1 and 2. 2's great, yeah it's a little home recorded synthy thing, but you might be better off with "Ram" (which RULES btw).

I'm afraid I only had a fiver in my pocket, and picked up the Das Boot and Subway soundtracks, which I forgot to get first time around. I'll get Mc2 next weekend if it's still there though.

The Das Boot soundtrack is superb.

three tracks ripped from private press vinyl available here:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/eiyhkh

Geof Morgan - Homophobia
Sly Boots - Pass Through Like The Lightning
Martha & Richard Shaw - East Tennesee Hash House.

I guess the Geof Morgan is not technically private, but some sort of micro indie press from '80.
The Shaws track is from a series of 45s they distributed via mail as christmas gifts in the seventies, and it's not about drugs; it's about a diner.

steely dan - countdown to ecstasy
mamas and the papas comp
donovan - sunshine superman
OMD - organisation

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traded in a bunch of stuff - vinyl and CDs - and got:

new riders - home home on the road, gypsy cowboy

skullfukkkkk and europe 72 (super-clean copies which i needed. new riders albums likewise super-clean)

eat a peach (ditto. nice and minty)

jack bruce - songs for a tailor

sons of champlin - welcome to the dance (as far as i'm concerned the sons mostly blow, but i'd never heard this album so what the hell)

and the sacred mushroom album! yay! despite their album cover's promise of sitars and moonbeams, sacred mushroom were more garagey heavy blues rock than anything else. which is fine by me. and they did live in a group house called the mushroom house and they DID call themselves the mushroom people. so, props!

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Ian, have you seen the Bruce Haack documentary? I was surprised to hear about his focus on children's music (he was on Mr. Rogers in 1968) even during the time when Electric Lucifer was being recorded.

Just got a 7" on Holocene by Sholi. The band covers a Persian pop song by Googoosh, and a song by Joanna Newsom...I'm greatly enjoying the former.

I haven't seen the doc, though I'd known about his rare early children's records. Electric Lucifer is pretty cool, but definitely over the top and very, very direct.

whoa, Holocene has a label now? as in the Portland Oregon club Holocene?

guys i am dying to know your reactions to homophobia by geof morgan. there's another song on that record called "my penis."

Ralph Lundsten - Cosmic Love
Best of Richard and Mimi Farina
Strapping Fieldhands - Neptune's World
Country Teasers - Destroy All Human Life
Roberta Flack - Feel Like Makin Love
Mirrors - Another Nail in the Coffin

picked up yesterday at half-price books for just under $25:

paul revere and the raiders - revolution lp
the kingsmen - on campus lp (mono)
the nice - immediate story vol. 1 2xlp
three johns - a.w.o.l. 12"
three johns - men like monkeys 12"
rem - fables of the reconstruction lp

bob dylan - the basement tapes
guv'ner - the hunt (<3<3<3)

eric b and rakim - paid in full
exuma - exuma II
durutti column - LC
bulent arel + daria semegen - electronic music for dance

Just got:

Roland Kirk: Volunteered Slavery
Buddy Collette & Chico Hamilton: Tanganyika
Horace Parlan: Us Three (2 x 45rpm reissue on Music Matters)
Hank Mobley: Soul Station (2 x 45rpm reissue on Music Matters)
Steve Reid Ensemble: Daxaar
Erykah Badu: New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)

Oh, and today in the mail:

ES - Sateenkaarisuudelma LP
Shearing Pinx - Haruspex 7"

i listen to things like:
pocahaunted - peyote road
flying saucer attack - further
the dead c - white house
john prine s/t
low - things we lost in the fire
fresh maggots
Un LP

Television Personalities And Don't the Kids Just Love It
Groundhogs Thank Christ for the Bomb
Groundhogs Hogwash
Gruppo Sportivo Mistakes

All on loan from the radio station so I can tape them.

Got some latin and krautrock re-issues:

Willie Colon - La Mala
Willie Colon - Cosa Nuestra

Cluster - Cluster II
Harmonia - Deluxe

I got a shitty turntable and a bunch of vinyl, but the needle seriously needs replacing...any needle reccomendations?

What kind of turntable is it (brand, model number)? What is your budget?

needledoctor.com is probably worth a browse, wesley.

Its a technics sl-b200

budget is from 50-150 bucks