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scott,
while we're on the subject, Monster Ballads: Classic or Dud?

Luv,
Ian

1. Heaven - Warrant
2. Something To Believe In - Poison
3. High Enough - Damn Yankees
4. Almost Paradise - Mike Reno/Anne Wilson
5. Is This Love - Whitesnake
6. To Be With You - Mr. Big
7. Carrie - Europe
8. Don't Know What You Got Til It's Gone - Cinderella
9. More Than Words - Extreme
10. Headed For A Heartbreak - Winger
11. When I Look Into Your Eyes - Firehouse
12. Wind Of Change - Scorpions
13. I'll Never Let You Go (Angel Eyes) - Steelheart
14. When I See You Smile - Bad English
15. Don't Close Your Eyes - Kix
16. When I'm With You - Sheriff

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Friday, 6 January 2006 03:34 (twenty years ago)

dude, i totally bought Def Leppard's Pyromania yesterday

― jaxon (jaxon), Friday, 6 January 2006 03:40 (twenty years ago)

there was a period a few months back when everytime I got drunk (which is fairly often obv) I found myself putting on Lep's On Through The Night. Damn that record is great.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 6 January 2006 04:08 (twenty years ago)

Skot do you know this?

http://cgi.ebay.com/BIT-A-SWEET-1968-ABC-PSYCH-LP-HYPNOTIC-1-BEATLES-TYPO_W0QQitemZ4816566087QQcategoryZ306QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Sunday, 8 January 2006 01:00 (twenty years ago)

i've seen it for sale in stores before, but i've always passed it up cuz it was always over 20 bucks and i never thought it looked like anything that i should spend that much on. but i've been wrong before!

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 8 January 2006 01:17 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, it kind has a 'hmmm..' look to it. always so tough to tell. But it has an 8 minute song, that could be a positive! I wouldn't buy it at that dude's price, was just wondering what you knew..

I need to sell a bunch of records, man. I can't believe some of the prices on there. Mountain Goats tapes go for like over $100?? who knew? I'm always lazy about listing though. there should be a rolling eBay thread to discus stuff. I need to know the stuff I should be selling.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Sunday, 8 January 2006 01:25 (twenty years ago)

ebay is really glutted. too much stuff. it's a buyers market. i've done okay on some stuff though. i made good money on pretty common guided by voices vinyl on ebay. their fans don't mind paying. meanwhile, you can't give Fall records away.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 8 January 2006 01:43 (twenty years ago)

you can't give Fall records away.

If they're looking for a home...

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Sunday, 8 January 2006 04:23 (twenty years ago)

scott im really jealous you saw the shadow ring live, please tell us what their shows were like, ty

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Sunday, 8 January 2006 23:55 (twenty years ago)

Scott,

Peanut Butter Conspiracy vs. Jefferson Airplane

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 16 January 2006 02:30 (twenty years ago)

i'm not scott seward, but PBC pwns airplane so hard it hurts

― danielle the animal steel (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 16 January 2006 03:29 (twenty years ago)

I DEEPLY LOVELOVELOVE the first two PBC records. I think they are just fabulous in many ways. I have never heard the third album. I would see it on ebay from time to time, but i never took the plunge. I am someone who always liked the airplane, but never really dug in to the the records, you know? this has changed over the last couple of years. i am digging those records more and more. i was always a great society fan and a fan of the first grace-less airplane record, and surrealistic pillow is, of, course, one of those hard to deny "classics". white rabbit being a fave of mine since i was a kid and same with embryonic journey. but now i am a full-on baxters and volunteers fan, for real. a similar thing happened to me in the last couple of years with the byrds too. i have been enjoying the byrds in a BIG way since moving to MVI. I mean, i had byrds albums when i was 10 years old, but i never LOVED them. now i do.

i still wanna hear that 3rd peanut butter album though! it can't be as bad as the 3rd ultimate spinach record, right? (i never understood the spinach haterz! it's a psych snob rule of thumb to dismiss those records, but i have always loved them so - the first 2 . they are sublime and wacky and prog and arty and acid-drenched, and the arrangements are great. who cares if they were phoney baloneys!!??)

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 16 January 2006 04:01 (twenty years ago)

i have always really liked jorma and jack. i enjoy hot tuna a great deal. so much fun to listen to.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 16 January 2006 04:03 (twenty years ago)

ugh. more bad revisionism. JA freakin rools.

I always get Peanut Butter Conspiracy mixed up with Pacific Gas & Electric. one of the things that rocks about Kogan is his JA luv.

Skot I'm so happy to hear that yr Byrd love is growing! you might become a full-on Byrdmaniac just yet!

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Monday, 16 January 2006 04:21 (twenty years ago)

the first Hot Tuna album is great, although I've never heard any of the later ones. they do "How Long How Long Blues" on that first one right? you just know Jorma was a big Scrapper Blackwell fan. all the cool kids were.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Monday, 16 January 2006 04:22 (twenty years ago)

peanut butter conspiracy were great, stormy! primo west coast pop psych with gorgeous harmonies and awesome playing.

you need more tuna than that too! all the early stuff is great. the live stuff is great as well. electric, acoustic, i like it all.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 16 January 2006 04:27 (twenty years ago)

ugh. more bad revisionism.

no revisionism, just a preference.

― danielle the animal steel (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 16 January 2006 04:29 (twenty years ago)

i never really liked JA that much.

― gear (gear), Monday, 16 January 2006 04:31 (twenty years ago)

it's cool that people love baxter's/volunteers so much... i've listened to both more than a few times and it all just sounds kinda cluttered and unmusical to me. i'm a poppist though, so of course i think surrealistic is fabulous.

― danielle the animal steel (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 16 January 2006 04:31 (twenty years ago)

It's not bad revisionism. Peanut Butter Conspiracy were a more dynamic band - probably better players on the whole. They had a better singer. The Airplane were more countercultural and I like 'em OK, but I don't think there's any denying that they could be a little dumb and a little dull.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 16 January 2006 04:32 (twenty years ago)

do you have the great society stuff, jody?

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 16 January 2006 04:35 (twenty years ago)

no, i know i should.

― danielle the animal steel (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 16 January 2006 04:35 (twenty years ago)

yeah, I need to hear Peanut Butter Conspiracy again... never owned any albums. I remember listening to them at the college radio station when I was there, and just thinking sort of 'eh' ... but that was probably 10 years ago. I will seek out!

but I do love JA. and believe me, I used to hate them too. With a passion! but I dunno, one day it just clicked with me. I guess when I learned to listen to the musicianship a little better ... Jorma, Jack, yes .. really phenomenal. I mean ... "Bear Melt"? more like "FACE MELT"!!! and I got over my Grace hate. now I'm a Grace luvver! she was crazy and insane and great.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Monday, 16 January 2006 04:37 (twenty years ago)

and yeah, they were totally goofy, politically and otherwise -- that's definitely part of the attraction.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Monday, 16 January 2006 04:39 (twenty years ago)

but we all love marty singing "miracles", right?

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 16 January 2006 04:41 (twenty years ago)

i love grace in the background of "miracles". so dreamy.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 16 January 2006 04:42 (twenty years ago)

Honestly, I think the PBC albums are maybe a little patchy (a while since I've listened to them all the way through), but they have moments of awesomeness that you hear and you think, "This cuts the Airplane."

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 16 January 2006 04:44 (twenty years ago)

Maybe the second album is stronger as a whole?

I've got this old compilation album called First Vibration from 1969 that was put out by some organization called The Do It Now Foundation. It's got this weird anti-speed painting on the cover and an anti-speed message on the back and it's got "Aritificial Energy" by the Byrds on it and "Amphetamine Annie" by Canned Heat and "The Pusher" by Hoyt Axton. Anyway, it's got this Peanut Butter Conspiracy track on it called "Roses Gone" which is not on either of the first two PBC albums and it's GORGEOUS.

Sandy Robinson was like this fifties, Connie Francis or something type holdover singing for a psych band.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 16 January 2006 04:56 (twenty years ago)

Scott,

What do you think of Nasdijj?

Mahalo,
Steve Shasta

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 18:37 (twenty years ago)

hey scott,
if i told you this band sounded like "a vintage touch & go band with elements of east bay ray and the misfits" would you be interested?
best,
ian

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 18:41 (twenty years ago)

Scott,
What do you think of Nasdijj?

Mahalo,
Steve Shasta

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 26 January 2006 19:11 (twenty years ago)

Scott,

How can I grow up to be like you?

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Thursday, 26 January 2006 19:26 (twenty years ago)

"What do you think of Nasdijj?"

i have one of those books! i've never read it though. i'll have to read that article.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 26 January 2006 19:32 (twenty years ago)

"a vintage touch & go band with elements of east bay ray and the misfits"

hmmm, maybe.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 26 January 2006 19:34 (twenty years ago)

"How can I grow up to be like you?"

i have no idea. i wouldn't recommend it. i lucked out. i have a lot to be thankful for, and i basically spent most of my adult life working shitty jobs, masturbating, drinking, and listening to lots of records. not exactly a recipe for success. the love of a good man/woman can go a long way.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 26 January 2006 19:37 (twenty years ago)

I have a good woman. A really good one.

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Thursday, 26 January 2006 19:38 (twenty years ago)

Cool!

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 26 January 2006 19:46 (twenty years ago)

i kinda dig it. more than the actual album even. the actual album is okay too when the band gets going, but Hnk3 isn't the grandest of songwriters around. i'm assuming he wrote most of them. but the waterfall/henhouse/sound fx/phone message disc is a hoot.

-- scott seward (skotro...), February 1st, 2006 10:02 AM. (scott seward) (later)

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I love you, Scott.
-- Ned Raggett (ne...), February 1st, 2006 10:05 AM. (Ned) (later)

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Thursday, 2 February 2006 03:10 (twenty years ago)

Ned loves me.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 2 February 2006 03:17 (twenty years ago)

He's sweet like that. You're sweet too, Stormy. Don't get me wrong. You're practically a candied apple, you're so sweet.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 2 February 2006 03:18 (twenty years ago)

aw thanks! I never liked candied apples as a kid. I hate it when my face gets sticky.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Thursday, 2 February 2006 03:52 (twenty years ago)

I hate it when my face gets sticky.

so many jokes, so many jokes

― team jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 2 February 2006 04:35 (twenty years ago)

Scott, do you like It's a Beautiful Day - 1st record w/ "White Bird" on it, anyway?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 11 February 2006 00:08 (twenty years ago)

i asked you a question in the rap you tube thread, but it got burried. do you know Little Boy Blue - i'm looking for a track called Dreamweaver

― team jaxon (jaxon), Saturday, 11 February 2006 00:13 (twenty years ago)

I like the first It's A Beautiful Day album especially. I don't own any of their records anymore. It's hard to find nice used copies. well, not HARD, i could buy them on ebay, but the ones i see around in thrift stores and such are always beat up. damn hippies. same with quicksilver records. And Lighthouse records! What the fuck were people doing with their Lighthouse albums!!?? I sold my copies at my ill-fated record store in Philly many moons ago.

Nope, never heard of it, jaxon. Jaxon, I'm very disappointed in your non-love for America Eats Its Young. So many great songs on that thing.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 11 February 2006 00:20 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I think I must have had the first two albums at one point or another when I was a teenager. And I was just thinking about how I haven't even seen copies of those in dollar bins in a while.

What do you know? A four star review of the first album on AMG. Surely, that was another hippie record that must have gotten one or two stars in the old Rolling Stone record guides.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 11 February 2006 01:10 (twenty years ago)

re Little Boy Blues: they were a garage-y rock band that put out stuff like this http://www.garage45s.com/littleboyready.mp3

but then for this album they went all doomy organ psych with a bit of jazz and funk. if you listen to this track from diplo's psych/funk mix at 4:15 you can hear it. it's fucking massive.

― team jaxon (jaxon), Saturday, 11 February 2006 01:21 (twenty years ago)

"White Bird" is easily one of the best songs of the 60s... you gotta love that violin. I have this awesome Hot Tuna bootleg w/ Papa John Creach where they do this "Pretty As You Feel" that sounds ALMOST as awesome as "White Bird" but not quite.

So true about those covers too. It's like, every copy you would find of the first one would ALWAYS have the blue color flaking off leaving white splotches all over the place, so it looked like the lady was standing in snowstorm or sumthin. It took me forever to find a decent one. Same thing with Marrying Maiden -- all the open white space would always be all browned and dirt-laden and shit; took forever to find a nice sparkly white one

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Saturday, 11 February 2006 01:24 (twenty years ago)

xpost - or you can hear it sampled here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MlBQFy4FFo

― team jaxon (jaxon), Saturday, 11 February 2006 01:26 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

scott, so i'm record shopping today and i held in my hands an Eric Mercury album. forget the title, but i think it was from 73 and he was on a black background w/a silver helmet with wings on it.

i don't remember why i once wanted to buy this. i even had it scribbled on my list in my wallet.

i think it was on recommendation from you once, but can't remember.

so i put it back

help me out. did you recommend this?

― jäxøñ (jaxon), Sunday, 25 June 2006 03:57 (nineteen years ago)

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