Rolling 2008 Vinyl Thread

Oh cool, thanks for posting that link, I was intrigued after you told me about that at the TNV/JR/NA gig!

My favourite Country Teasers records are the aforementioned Satan Is Real Again and the more recent one The Empire Strikes Back.

You came to mind as soon as I heard it actually! The Diks track rules too. The vocalist is almost like Jilted John. And the song about Indigestion is hilarious. Has a line about 'milk of magnesia for his tummy'. Punk as fuck.

Seem to have discovered a run of similarly great regional UK punk albums. Got the 'A Manchester Collection' LP on Object Records. £4.99 on eBay. It's a total knockout, and also not hard to find on a certain blog...

Now trying to find cheap copies of Compilation NE1 and Logical Steps. Hard work.

I have a single by the Negatives (just on mp3), in fact I think it might have been one of the John Peel Record Box ones. Pretty good though anyway.

I'm looking for another regional comp - Bouncing In The Red - it's all Birmingham bands, but not restricted to punk, I think it has some reggae and new wave stuff on it as well.

There was a few bands called the Negatives, from what I've read. Makes sense. Good band name.

Some other recent finds...

Mighty Feeble
Jobs for the Boys (Merseyside comp)
Bobby Brown - Enlightening Beam of Axonda
Bernard Szajner - Some Deaths Take Forever
The Passage - For All And None
Texas Flashbacks Vol 1: Dallas
Bizarros s/t
New Riders - Powerglide
Cowboy - Reach for the Sky
Heavy the World - The Next World
William Truckaway - Breakaway
Red Krayola - Gold Bless...
Big Star - Radio City
John Cale/Terry Riley - Church of Anthrax
Lio s/t

7"
The Pinkies - Open Commune (021 Recs)
The Method Actors - This Is It (somehow ended up with 2 copies of this)
Zoom - Sweet Desperation (Riot Recs)
Contact s/t ep (Object Music) promo edition??
Tom Tom Club - Genius of Love

I was just listening to the Bizarros/Rubber City Rebels split this morning (which is great)

What are Rubber City Rebels like? White Screen Movies from the LP is hilariously good. Absolutely perfect Velvets/Modern Lovers chug. And the dude has the same Mick Jagger-y vocals as Kenne Highland (who I love). Although for most of it, I can't understand what he's saying through the punk croon.

(er, and that line from the Diks song was something about his tummy, "... gonna get some milk of magnesia from my mummy")

rubber city rebels were great!

drunk the other night i kept playing young girls at market over and over cuz it's my favorite song. ANYONE WHO DOESN'T OWN THE BIZARROS ALBUM ON MERCURY NEEDS TO OWN IT YESTERDAY. just in case someone doesn't have it. one of my favorite albums on this earth.

my go to songs the other night were young girls at market and harry may and loud,proud,& punk.

White Screen Movies is on the split LP as well. Great song!

The Rubber City Rebels side is really cool as well, same kind of thing.

Embarrassingly I do not have a copy of the Bizarros album!

"Heavy the World - The Next World"

yayyyyy!!! hahahaha!

i still need the triple LP heavy the world debut.

feel free to contribute to the heavy the world thread. i don't think anyone else on ilm has actually ever heard them:

OMG! I Just Spent 5 Hours LIstening To Baltimore Basement Prog Weirdos *HEAVY THE WORLD*

i've always felt that the rubber city rebels side of the split is better than the bizarros side. but i've always preferred the bizarros album to any rebels album. and i actually like the major label versions better than the clone versions (though i love all their stuff, you know?).

I saw the sleeve amongst the surplus of Magnum etc in the Metal section of the local record exchange. Something about it just looked 'right', and I couldn't quite get my head around the band name. (Heavy as a verb?!?) It wasn't til I got home and looked it up and your blog was the first result. They also had the Dog album.

"Speed Metal Opus"!!

duff edit there... basically it wasn't til I got home and checked it out that I figured I'd go back and get it. It was £3 less by that point too. If the Dog LP goes down much further I might pick that up too, but it sounds like the early stuff is more interesting.

I first heard of the Rubber City Rebels about 8 years ago, and heard an mp3 back then (Napster days) which kinda sucked, so I never thought they were any good. Until this morning. I think both sides of the split are about equal really.

henry cowell - piano works (foooolkways)
charalambides - market square (rainy day standby)
factums - the sistrum

got danny o'keefe's *so long harry truman* and love love LOVE it. that makes three albums by danny that i love: harry truman, breezy stories, and the global blues. probably like the global blues the best. was kinda bummed out that i didn't like the *o'keefe* album that much. that one had his one and only hit on it *good time charlie's got the blues*. i should listen again though. maybe i was in a bad mood. still have never heard his first record. but since i like the later stuff better, i'm on the lookout for his american roulette album from 1977.

1977 was a bad year, a year to distrust.

been playing this all week:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/18/Rick_Nelson_Rudy.jpg

*gypsy pilot* is so awesome. and so is *this train*.

i can't BELIEVE that the record store had a copy of *Rick Sings Nelson* FOREVER and i never bought it. and now it's gone. what the fuck was i thinking? i need that album. and i need a copy of *windfall* too. i want a stone canyon band boxed set, actually.

yeah, but the global blues came out AFTER 1977 and it RULES.

oh, also, continuing my ian/iain matthews completism project, i got valley hi and go for broke the other day. go for broke is BONKERS. what with all the synths and everything. the record store got a decent copy of if you saw thro' my eyes and i told them to put it on ebay. american vertigo copy, but still...they go for a bunch. sadly, i want that record, but i couldn't front. and i still need tigers will survive and journeys from gospel oak.

they got a beautiful first u.k. press of the christine perfect album too and i told them to put that up too.

dude, valley hi is the fucking jam. best version of "these days" EVER.

just finished up side 2 of Glass Harp, and now listening to the Youngest Son LP. Canadian high school private saddo folk.

ian, how much would you pay for a copy of gene clark's roadmaster album? the store has a dutch copy and i don't have it and i guess on line it sells for money. it's all demos and stuff, right? byrds stuff? i feel like i should get it cuz i might not see it anytime soon.

http://popsike.com/pix/20060131/4829341910.jpg

how many covers does it have? wiki has this cover for it:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/68/GeneClarkRoadmaster.jpg

i actually don't know anything about that record! no one trades in gene clark records. they never show up, it's really sad.

amazon reviewer sez

This CD is made up primarily of sessions Gene Clark, co-founder of the Byrds, did on A&M records, which were abruptly cancelled by the record company. Several years later, some of the songs from these sessions, along with two Gene Clark songs recorded by the original Byrds, "One In a Hundred" and "She's the Kind of Girl" were released in Holland - where Clark has always had a strong following - under the title, ROADMASTER. Needless to say, the entire entire album is Gene Clark in his prime, once again ahead of his time with a soulful mix of country, folk, and rock sounds. Songs from this CD such as "Here Tonight" and "In a Misty Morning," have become underground classics, while the two Byrds tunes are considered by many to be the best reunion work the original group ever did. A classic.

so it sounds pretty great.
you should get it.
and if you don't like it, i'll trade you my copy of "tigers will survive."

i think i gotta get the vinyl. that second cover is the cd cover. i can't believe it was only released in holland. allmusic raves about it too.

it's a really nice clean copy too. i've NEVER seen that album. but then i don't live in holland do i?

Those crazy Dutch, with their windmills and their Gene Clark and their fucking vit de dogs.

listening to this today too. jaunty rural rock. great picture in the gatefold of the band playing on the back of a truck to a field full of longhairs. HUGE amps:

http://www.soundfinder.jp/image_item/529143_1_30229190.jpg

hey, moon martin was in southwind! learn something new every day. did you know that moon martin wrote doctordoctorgivemethenewsigotabadcaseoflovingyou? he really did.

xgau southwind review:

Southwind: Ready to Ride [Blue Thumb, 1970]
I welcome this group just because it existed--there ought to be a hundred warm, competent, eclectic bands putting ten rock and roll songs on albums, but there probably aren't more than twenty. Later, however, I re-examined the warm, competent songs in question and noticed that the two good ones were by Johnny Cash and Hank Williams. So say eclecticism with certain, er, tendencies, and rest assured that not a one of the guys plays pedal steel. C

also playing: kenny rankin - mind-dusters

the only kenny rankin album i own. pretty cool stoned crooner 60's stuff with strings. the song *cotton candy sandman* is pretty hot.

After seeing Midnight Cowboy at Film Forum a couple weeks ago I had to pick up the sound track, mostly for John Barry's "Florida Fantasy". Such a good scene, such a diverse and exciting movie too!

ian would you care to comment further on the problems with vinyl reissues of Easter Everywhere? You mentioned on the Bull Of The Woods thread that the new reissues weren't so hot. I almost bought one so I was wondering, the last good-shape original I saw was $80.

The Get Back issue sounds pretty muffled and the individual instruments aren't particularly well-defined. Granted I'm happy with my reissue, cuz I'm not gonna spend the cash for an original, but the mono orig I DID hear sounded just brilliant.

thanx, I'm probably going to stick with my Charly/Decal CD reish from forever ago.

btw speaking of orig mono all those Purple Chick Beatles things are totally kicking my ass these days. Incredible how their sound just fills up the whole space.

That should be on teh Beatles remaster thread though. OK, back to vinyl.

Bought 3 records from DFA in the last month, all been (well, one disk of a 2XLP for one of them) somewhat warped. Fucking shit.

I bought the Red Cross bootleg 7" and there is a skip on their SOURCE for one track. Lame.

plus it skips over teh best line, about Quaaludes ("Rich Brat").

one of the albums from the new portishead 2xlp i bought is totally warped. i can play it, but it bugs the hell out of me and you can hear it in the first song on side c. i'm gonna return it and get something else. would it be unethical of me to give maria the code to the free download of the album that comes with the album? nah, probably not.

i didn't end up liking it that much anyway. those guys on that thread really had me going. even milton!

thanx, I'm probably going to stick with my Charly/Decal CD reish from forever ago.

since, supposedly, all of the reissues of "easter everywhere" - including the "bona fide" international artist box set version - were done from original vinyl copies, i'm guessing we're all SOL until charly gets around to appraising the recently-found 13th floor elevators master tapes.

Got a little Smokey Robinson & the Miracles collection for £1, and finally got round to picking up McCartney II for £2. Waterfall is gorgeous, worth the whopping price tag all on it's own. Did anyone cover this? It sounds vaguely familiar, but I'm not sure that I know this version.

Couple more 7" records showed up today:

Oren Ambarchi - Destinationless Desire (Touch)
XYX - Sistema de terminación sexual (S-S)

Went into town and picked up the new re-issue of Figure 8 - Elliott Smith. Hmmm, not only does it not seem to be a particularly good album, it also sounds like a bit of a duff press. Does anyone know this album well? Are all the vocals meant to sound particularly fuzzy and like they're clipping too much?

Also picked up another Mac Davis record, Thunder In The Afternoon, which doesn't sound anywhere as good as the last one I got (and that wasn't exactly classic either) but it was only £1. And I picked up Vangelis' Chariots of Fire soundtrack for £1, and Malcolm Middletons Blue Plastic Bags 7" for the King Creosote b-side. Then when I got home I found my Fence delivery of a KC 7" and Pictish Trail/Found split 7" was just sort of hanging out the front of my post box. I was pleased not to have a trip to the post depot, but would have been kind of pissed if someone had pinched them. This happens quite a lot - I really should start mailing things to work instead.

listening to beechwood sparks on bomp vinyl. i dug those dudes. and i love the tyde album i have by them too. or at least some of the tyde was beechwood sparks, right?

hey we had a 3rd birthday party for my boy cyrus today and i met this dude at the party who maria knows and he used to play drums for dinosaur jr (i told him i missed the era when he played with the band since bug was the last dinosaur album i bought - though i may have seen him play a show at an ice skating rink in torrington connecticut). anyway, even cooler to me was that he was in the FU's! though he was in the band early on and only played on the first album. i'm gonna pull out My America tonight in any case. i love that record. he went to high school with lou barlow. dude has good stories. from touring with the FUs and playing for two people to opening for bob dylan and neil young with dinosaur. there's some extremes for you. he has a radio show now on maria's radio station and he plays cool old punk stuff.

I just picked up:

Black Mountain - In the Future 2LP

Portishead - Third (hope I like this...and that it's not warped, that would suck)

Alice Cooper - Killer ($8, not super great shape, but I hardly ever see Killer around)

Aerosmith - Rocks ($4, again not great shape, but it's hard to find good copies of Rocks, been looking forever)

Steve Harley/Cockney Rebel - Fearless Flight (always wanted to check these dudes out...Allmusic says this one is kind of a dud though, maybe i messed up)

Boxhead Ensemble - The Last Place to Go (never heard of this, but it's a double LP of music they played live at screens of some Dutch movie or something...anyway...Mick Turner, Jim White, Edith Frost, others...plus Ken Vandermark on various instruments....I pretty much love everything that has Jim White playing drums so it can't hardly be bad IMO)

^^^The movie was Dutch Harbor. It's about crab fishing in Alaska. Saw a screening of it with the Boxhead Ensemble doing a live score. Very meditative (nearly fell asleep).