Rolling 2008 Vinyl Thread

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).

>>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)

TIMELESS Flight, and I love it, but it really isn't a patch on the first three LP's.

ah okay so it's not terrible or anything? is it different than the early stuff stylewise?

The first two Cockney Rebels = over-the-top theatrics and glamminess, got more sedate as time went by. Kinda like the difference between Bowie on "Hunky Dory" and Bowie on, I dunno, "Young Americans?"

john fahey - of rivers and religion
sandy denny - northstar grassman and the raven

got that gene clark roadmaster album. first side is sweeeeeet. haven't listened to the rest yet. first 3 songs are like listening to awesome byrds tunes that i never knew existed.

got 4 men with beards reissue of white light while i was at it. i needed a good copy of that.

Most of Roadmaster is totally amazing and essential. First side especially.

4 men with beards makes the best vinyl i kinda just want to buy everything they've ever put out. mostly all classic records

black and whites 7"
nothing people 7" (i forget the name, but now i have three of them)
pink reason 7" with scared shitless on it
carbonas tour 7"
blank dogs 7"
kkbbq 7" (god i cant remember any of the names)
no age - nouns
carbonas - s/t
huggy bear/bikini kill split LP
MS records malcolm X memorial LP
thank you LP
human eye - s/t

Bought a bunch of 7" singles/EPs over the past couple weeks (most of 'em noted on the lolling punk thred):

XYX - "Sistema de Terminacion Sexual" 4-song thing (S-S)
Hiroshima Rocks Around - song/"Raw AIDS" (S-S)
Jay Reatard - two Matador 45s
Intelligence - Plastic Idol 45
Pink Reason - thing 69 mentions w/ "Scared Shitless"
Blank Dogs - Daggerman 45 w/ teh very wonderful "Stuck Inside the World"
"The World is Lousy with Ideas #5" comp 45, w/ Catatonic Youth, Christmas Island & D. Melchior
Jail Weddings - Revenge 45
Other stuff I can't remember now...

Also bought the new Factums LP, on which I'm trying to withhold judgement, 'cuz initial impressions are unfavorable.

Vreid I Krig LP
Couple reissued Mississippi LPs: Last Kind Words and the Washington Phillips thing
Couple James Blackshaw LPs
Billy Bao - Dialectics of Shit LP

...what else?

oh yeah i hope the new jay 7" comes to my house today!

listened to my buddy's copy, b-side >>>>> a-side

^^^ True for both the JR 45's Matador's put out.

i like see-saw better than screaming hand i think

To each his own. I've been singing the chorus of "Screaming Hand" to myself for several weeks now. Just ridiculous catchy, one of my favorite songs so far this spring.

anyone heard the night marchers yet? i think it's out....

i picked up iron maiden's "number of the beast" at a moving sale this weekend. i cranked that fucker up until the window panes were shaking.

oh right i forgot i ordered that pierced arrows record! ooh i hope thats at my house too!

i got alice coltrane - radha-krsna nama sankirtana in the mail today

I was outbid on an E. C. Ball LP. And the Ruts first album. But I scored cheap 7"s by Restricted Code and Milk n Cookies (Little Lost and Innocent), both of which are excellent.

milk n cookies are a+, saw them last year at southpaw and they were fucking great.

Restricted Code is FANTASTIC! Both singles and various other compilation and even unreleased stuff...all awesome.

This single is First Night On/From the Top. Can't remember which is which, but one of them starts slowly with some spoken vocals, then instantly burns up in a flash. It is indeed caps lock fantastic.

i bought that ruts D.C. album recently, pretty good new wave w/dub tinges

i really like the cockney rebel i bought....don't quite know what to make of it actually, very odd record.

The other Ruts album I've been trying to track down is that Rhythm Collision Dub, if not solely for that one supposedly storming almost Liquid Liquid-like jam.

Just checked, and it looks like that might be the Ruts album you're on about Matt. The song is called Push Yourself. Sounds ace.

gnarly,

i don't think that's on the one i'm talking about...it's called "animal now"

Side A
Mirror Smashed
Dangerous Minds
Slow Down
Despondency
Different View
Side B
No Time To Kill
Fools
Walk Or Run
Parasites

but they also had another one after this one....this one is "kinda" dubby but not super dubbed out as i thought it would be...it's mostly a good solid new wave record with some more echo than usual.

but if they took it farther on the next one i could see them getting into liquid liquid territory

This single is First Night On/From the Top. Can't remember which is which, but one of them starts slowly with some spoken vocals, then instantly burns up in a flash. It is indeed caps lock fantastic.

That's First Night On, has to be one of my alltime favorite songs of any era. The opening accapella/round section is amazing and when it kicks in, goddamn!

Fair enough!

Also wondering if anyone else is familiar with that Method Actors ep I listed above. They were from Athens, and put out a double album called Little Figures - which I don't know - but the A Side track here is called 'The Method', and it's some first class driving/clanging Pylon/Wire slickness with almost Feelies-like wimp-holler vocals. Not hard to find!

I'm familiar with most of their stuff, and their best stuff is totally amazing. Vinyl relatively easy to find and maybe even other formats soon.

I have that Method Actors EP sitting right here in my room, my housemate just lent it to me.

bought at the Brothers Unconnected show:

J Spacemen/Sun City Girls - Mister Lonely LP
Sun City Girls - Live at Sit & Spin LP

bough at local store:

Psychic TV - NY Scum (been looking for this one for over 20 years!)
Cabaret Voltaire - Red Mecca
Pylon - Cool/Dub 7" (can't believe someone sold this!)
Sun Supreme LP (Sun City Girls etc.)
Psychedelic Horseshit - LP on Siltbreeze

Sun Supreme LP (Sun City Girls etc.)

curious how this is. pretty sure it's not gonna be as good as the album they stole the name from.

I will let you know, I got it used which isn't exactly a good sign.

did some shoppin yesterday, already posted this on noise but like everybody seems to hang out over here now so here ya go. all used LPs except the john philips reissue

cj and co. - devil's gun <-- cool disco lp with dennis coffey and mike theodore involvement
shawn phillips - contribution <-- i like this guy, 70s phasered out folk-rock
sparks - no. 1 in heaven <-- think I finally found the sparks album that made me "get" them
mountain live - the road goes ever on (<3 "long red" <3)
john philips s/t (wolfking of l.a.)

sleeve how was the SCG show??? times new viking is playing across town the same night, and im def committed to SCG first, but if i can scoot and hit both, ill do it

Lots of talk on the Sun City Girls thread about the Brothers Unconected set list, which looks awesome.

john philips s/t (wolfking of l.a.)

oh wow i didn't know they'd reissued this? is it recent? thumbs up?
i've always wanted to hear that record.

Lots of talk on the Sun City Girls thread about the Brothers Unconected set list, which looks awesome.

-- Trip Maker, Wednesday, May 21, 2008 6:32 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

oh sweet ill check it out there

it is recent, I heard about it in the other music weekly email. there's a cd and an lp on two different labels, this is the one I got

http://www.forcedexposure.com/Labels/harte.recordings.html

seems pretty cool, country-folk-rock stuff, only listened to side 1 so far

xpost to m@tt

thx dmr.

i've been digging if i could only remember my name by crosby recently so i was hoping it was sorta in that vein.

Took a wander at lunch....

Best of Earth & Fire - Doesn't contain Hazy Paradise (my favourite track from Ghost's Hypnotic Underworld), but I'm hoping there's some other good stuff on it. All I've heard before is Song of the Marching Children, which is totally recommended.

Juicy Lucy Who Do You Love £2.99, Vertigo, and a version of Who Do You Love. Couldn't refuse. Turn outs it's ex-Misunderstood and it's greasy/heavy as ya like!

Also got the Opal Early Recordings LP and a Vice Squad 7" EP with a cool track called Rock n Roll Massacre.

x-post to Matt

>>i really like the cockney rebel i bought....

Yay, another member of the fan club!!

I just picked up an Isabel Antena LP, "Tout Mes Caprices." A little disco, a little samba, and a cover of Zappa's "Village of the Sun."