Rolling 2007 Vinyl Thread

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I am posting SEALED RASCALS LPS on EBAY

Pressing: JVC Records, Tokyo Japan, Using "Super Vinyl" - An ultra high resolution vinyl compound developed in Japan by JVC.

sounds sweet. very punchy and brassy.

If this means anything to ya, from what I understand, the Chris Bell LP is the exact same master as the Rykodisc CD. The original master tapes for this stuff are either lost or no longer exist.

recently:

Arthur Lyman - Authenic Hawaiian Favorites
Steely Dan - Aja
Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic
Karen Young - Hot Shot 12"

and:

Siouxie & the Banshees - Peek-a-boo (instrumental)
mixed with
Busta Rhymes - Light Your A** On Fire (instrumental)

yah, it's very deep. layers and layers...

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Recently purchased:

Earth 2 2LP
Stereolab - Refried Ectoplasm 2LP (sounds fantastic, maybe my favorite of theirs)
Beefheart - Lick My Decals LP (nice new 180 gram pressing)
Monkees - 40 Timeless Hits From... anthology 2LP (cool extended "Porpoise Song" and some rare stereo mixes)
Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard - Hazel & Alice LP
Szell/Debussy/Ravel LP 'cause I wanted some Debussy & didn't have any

now playing: Rafael Toral "Violence Of Geography" LP

leftover sandbox question: any vinyl junkies here who have used the Last preservative fluid stuff? Yea or nay?

Brian Eno - Another Green World
Brian Eno - Discreet Music
Pentangle - Cruel Sister
Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat

all together for a mere €15

now on: Kate & Anna McGarrigle's Dancer With Bruised Knees

the first track on each side is warped :( but it was cheap.

The Belle Stars "Iko Iko" 12-inch
Ducks Deluxe Don't Mind Rockin' Tonite LP
Fun Fun "Mega Hit Mix" 12-inch
Fun Fun "Gimme Some Loving" 12-inch
Girlschool Nightmare At Maple Cross LP
Hanson & Davis Can't Stop LP
Jellybean Jellybean Rocks The House! double LP
Scarlet Riviera Scarlet Riviera LP
J.M. Silk "I Can't Turn Around" 12-inch
Taffy "I [heart symbol] My Radio" 12-inch
Lyn Todd* Lyn Todd LP
Trans-X "Iche Liebe Dich (I Love You)" 12-inch
Zwol Zwol LP

* -- totally punk-disco apparent drag queen from 1980 on Vanguard, produced by Bobby Orlando, covering "Rebel Rebel" & "Pinball Wizard"!

Rubinoos - s/t (Wow at their version of I Think We're Alone Now!)
The DBs - Repercussion
T. Rex - Ride a White Swan
William de Vaughan - Be Thankful for What You've Got
Black Oak Arkansas - Raunch n Roll
Leprechaun Catering - Kumquats & Lychees

The Persuaders - Thin Line Between Love And Hate
Burt Bacharach - Reach Out
Kelis - Young Fresh 'N New / Daddy / The Spot 12''
Thelma Houston - Any Way You Like It
Mtume - Juicy Fruit
Herbie Hancock - Sunlight

i've been meaning to ask -- with records shelved properly at home, what is the point of those plastic baggies? they annoy me and get in the way, so i don't use them. it's not like i'm ever flipping through things super fast or cramming albums together.

can someone convince me of their worth?

What about STICKERZ? Are you a sticker-taker-offer? Sometimes they are hard to get off and I end up tearin' the cover.

Bought a copy of Sound of Impact last week, the Big Black semi-boot that Walls Have Ears put out way back when -- numbered, with booklet, woo hoo. Paid too much (c. $30), but I've always wanted a copy, and this is only the second or third I've seen since it came out.

Sounds great. A good deal better than Pigpile. But MAN! is Steve's between-song banter dorky. Clam it cheese, and play another song.

My local record store sell these really nice "hard" plastic covers that keeps the sleeves nice, and more importantly, keeps the corners from bending. No one likes a droopy sleeve corner.

Anyone seen a good vinyl print of Rush's "2112"?

wow Scott, I just found this on Monday! Pristine white label promo copy. Never heard any of it before, I like it much more than I was expecting given that my favorite is Echoes.

GHOST Hypnotic Underworld 2LP
GHOST Snuffbox Immanence LP

from the Drag City webstore. I knew they were OOP, so they either found some more or were repressed. Regardless, I bought them as soon as I could because I slept on them so long before.

(For 7-inches, though, I do keep protective outer baggies, oddly, and tend to distribute them among the records that deserve them most. Which yeah, is stupidly time-consuming sometimes. But 7-inch sleeves, tending toward paper, seem more worth protecting.)

I also hate plastic inner sleeves. Always have. Those get replaced with paper ones as soon as possible, preferably at the used record store via switching with other records before I head home.

A glance at my 10-inch shelf reveals that I own vinyl EPs by both Beaver and Dozer currently encased in outer plastic sleeves as well.

Oh, and I don't have much time for those outer sleeves that predominantly feature on newer limited edition style records. The ones with the super sticky flap. You have to really finesse the record back in. I have no finesse.

But what I really fucking hate are those super stiff plastic jobs with the tuck-in flap. Like those Table of the Elements twelves. ALWAYS break along the sides/bottom, smell like a chemical dump (which is kinda cool, I admit), and are crazy pain to open. Worst thing is, they're usually integral to the packaging, with fancy printing and ceteras, so it's hard to just toss 'em.

A record just goes in a cardboard sleeve, okay? Fucking design man finds some other object to ruin and make useless with his "ideas". Like maybe some Tyvek tableware, right? That'd be cool...

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Terence – “An Eye For An Ear” – It’s almost painful for me to put Terence on a tape and not have the song be “Fool Amid The Traffic”, you know what I mean? I mean, you can see my predicament, right? Wait, what do you mean you don’t know what the hell I’m talking about? Fool has it all! The wail of that fuzz lead! If you ate that song you would not only be stronger, faster, and brighter, you would feel from your scalp to your fingertips to your toes a revelatory sense of permanence and rock-hard glow of solidity that could put Mount Everest to shame. But “An Eye For An Ear” need not step to the back for any song. It sings of itself mightily from the first blast of drums, horns (Ah, the horns. My trail of breadcrumbs has transformed itself into a trail of spit shaken from the valve of a horn. Those brass sections are reclaiming their place in the story of the rock and the roll. Their shrill bravado masking the fear that they will be forgotten…), and piercing six-string that perfectly accompany Terence’s blustery conviction that the world…the world is what, Terence?...That the world is…Going. Up. In. Flames.

I had them both on cd, but they were only $2.95 so I got them.

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Oh well, probably not coming out.

someone seriously needs to get this:

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AWESOME intricate baroque pop album. HIGHLY recommended. especially sealed for that price.

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Jimmy Campbell – “In My Room” – I don’t even know if Jimmy’s Half Baked album on Vertigo is rated, let alone under or over or sidewaysdownrated by Mojologically-inclined historians of post-mod squad baroque pop, and I don’t really know if there is anything I can do –singlehandedly- to remedy this situation, nor do I know whether I even feel up to the task. My new motto, when I’m in my cups, is: “Screw it. I’ve got a copy.” Let them eat Badfinger. Or Eric Carmen. Or Al Stewart for all I care. I dig and I dig until I can’t dig anymore. I climb thru windows. I get down on my knees. I go thru the mold and muck of forgotten cellars. I reach out and up. My hands -literally- bleeding to find a piece of that sweet soothing sound that my dreams are not only infested with, soaked in, trembling within, but that my very soul requires to make light of the fear-crazed eyes I have seen in the past. In hospital beds. On the streets. In the mirror. “In My Room” is great. And not to be confused with Fatty Sandbox’s pity party of the same name.

Charley D. And Milo – “Om Sweet Om” – If you mainline The Notorious Byrd Brothers into the vein marked “Precious Cargo” on a thrice-monthly basis cuz dirty feet and sun-kissed domes connect you to your fresh-faced id and remind you that the here is now and possibility is only another word for sofa, then you probably already own the Charley D. And Milo album. It’s next-level growth-chart stuff and reason enough to inhale/exhale your way thru jams traffic and romantic.

kool labels...

friend just tipped me off to this one.. awesome obscuro seventies prog/avant, seems to be all/mostly ripped from LP. lots of european stuff i've never heard of before.

OH MAN. so i was at a thrift shop in bangor, maine yesterday and they had 15-packs of 7 inches for 4 bucks. i only bought one cause i didn't have enough cash on me and they don't take card, but when i brought it home and opened it up i realized i got the following:

i fought the law/little annie lou - the bobby fuller four (!!!)
hurdy gurdy man/teen angel - donovan
loves me like a rock/learn how to fall - paul simon
superman/a man i loved - barbra streisand (ok this one kinda sucks)
for what it's worth/do i have to come right out and say it - buffalo springfield
my sweet lord/isn't it a pity - george harrison
there's a kind of hush/no milk today - herman's hermits
summer in the city/butchie's tune - the lovin' spoonful
small town woman/miss america - mark lindsay
hooray for hazel/need your love - tommy roe
la, la, la/time - bobby sherman
autumn rhapsody/cry - ronnie dove
walk away renee/i haven't got the nerve - the left banke
the night they drove old dixie down/when time is stolen - joan baez
draggin' the line/bits and pieces - tommy james and the shondells (!!!)

however, when i went back today to buy the rest of them SOMEONE HAD ALREADY GOTTEN THEM. so mad! kicking myself for not making my friend drive me to the ATM to get more cash! 4 bucks!