Rolling 2009 Vinyl Thead

i mean i almost bought a CD!!! that's how uninspired i was. kinda want that 7 cd fat possum blues thing with all the old timers on it. i'll bet that's got some cool shit on it. plus, for 7 CDs it's fairly cheap.

man scott, you should go back & the get the Der TPK. I like it a lot.

joseph spence - living on the hallelujah side (Rounder LP, recordings from 74 & 78. Great. Bahamanian guitar.)

is it rounder who put out all the weird ravaged versions of lps on cds? like freedom highway by the staples or avalon blues by mississippi john hurt, but without any of the original tracks? i guess i know their name from then and now.

I have no clue.. I don't think I've ever owned a Rounder CD. Yazoo's CDs are great, and so are County's--usually more tracks than the LPs plus great notes extra stuff.

I picked up three obscure records about an hour ago:

T. Rex. - Tanx ($2)
Black Sabbath - Paranoid ($4)
Gary Numan - Telekon ($2)

got a bunch of dancey 12"s w/ christmas cash

King & Hound edits - Burnin' Up / High Pressure Days
Giorgio Moroder & Harold Faltermeyer - Evolution (reissue) <-- so epic!
Charlie - Spacer Woman (reissue)
Juan Maclean - The Simple Life
Friendly Fires - Paris (Aeroplane & Justus Kohncke rmxs)
Soft Rocks - Umut 2000 / Slowdown

yesss I scored some Peruvian vinyl (5 LPs) at the crazy flea market here in Cusco. More details later, but one is a "Super Disco Salsa" cash-in thing from the 70's with sides that are one long mix, one is a "Best Of Criollos" type thing, and three are records by groups. No rare psych like El Polen, unfortunately. I'll have more chances to look. Some Peruvian dude carrying another LP asked me if I was selling them! So there are other vinyl hounds out there in these parts.

also, on eBay:
Joke Flowers/Victory Acres LP, inspired by ILM on this thread
The Bevis Frond - Sprawl 2LP, replacement cuz my copy skips on the awesome "Boa Constrictor"
United Bible Studies - The Arboreal Observatory LP. My first lathe cut LP! Don't know how many they made but I love love love this band so I snapped it up.

gonna have some good listening party nights when I get home in March.

also s34n, how do you like that Rebel LP? I like it, but think I like the other new LP on Sacred Bones better--Children's Hospital LP is stellar sci-fi/post-punk/gritty mess.

"Compulsive Gamblers "Crystal Gazing Luck Amazing""
^^ great LP. hard to find on vinyl actually!

the latest, christmas-money-enabled batch:

Loren Connors - The Moon Last Night 12" single
Steve Moore - Vaalbara LP on Noiseville
Gang Of Four - Entertainment orig. LP (finally)
Fripp + Eno - Evening Star orig. LP
Francoise Hardy - Francoise... LP
Kraftwerk - Computer World LP (finally)
Cole Medina - Medina's Magic b/w Cole Loves Your Insides Out 12" (repress?)
A Mountain Of One - Ride EP repress
Friendly Fires - Paris 12" (w/ Aeroplane + Justus Kohncke remixes)

New Years Eve is a bad day to go record shopping, I ended up with a lot of obvious (yet necessary) choices. I am absolutely loving the new Steve Moore LP, though, it's far dronier and more abstract than anything I've heard from the guy at this point.

ian im listening to children's hospital right now! so so so good. veers from USofA to squelchy wave-type stuff. my favorite a-frames-related project. whats the rebel LP like?

as a vinyl thread aside, i found a rare iron and wine 7" stuck in a david bowie sleeve this morning, thought lost since 2002. i wanted to sell it so bad for the past three years, but figured i had lost it at my college radio station. shows how much i listen to my warped copy of aladdin sane (and iron and wine)!

finally won an ebay copy of michael hurley's armchair boogie, unwittingly outbidding my buddy josh, a scant few months after being unwittingly outbid by ian on hurley's hi-fi snock uptown.

Someone please feel free to bid on this so I don't (I can no way afford this single with the current Euro exchange rate):

Glueams - Mental

EUR 29.00
(approximately £27.61)

what about dolllllllaz

Switched the co.uk for com and it's $40.37

You can buy it now for a mere $95

Question from a non-collector: is that really what a "VG+ to VG++" cover looks like? I appreciate it's old but it looks pretty beat up

(I know nothing about the band either, just curious)

I thought the cover looked a bit tatty myself tbh

Actually it's not too bad I was looking at the other one they're selling for even more money, which has a tear on it.

Fripp + Eno - Evening Star orig. LP

^really lovely!

This thread bums me out because i am on a spending FREEZE : (

Question from a non-collector: is that really what a "VG+ to VG++" cover looks like? I appreciate it's old but it looks pretty beat up

(I know nothing about the band either, just curious)

― Lurker of Challops (DJ Mencap), Monday, 5 January 2009 17:09 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Looking at it, that's about right:

There's Brand New (unplayed), there's Mint (which often means 'played once, shows no signs of wear), there's 'Excellent' which is 'a slight amount of wear, nothing drastic.

The "VG" is about right: Adding plusses is somewhat meaningless.

Hey, Ian (and DMR), I LOVE the new The Rebel. It's like "The Rebel plays Country Teasers Greatest Hits Live" or something (it was recorded at WFMU, was it a broadcast? Its mostly Teasers songs, too, I think but I'm not super-knowledgeable of their whole back catalogue)Maybe I should have gotten the Children's Hospital, too, I don't remember seeing it at Goner, though.

God I feel terrible and almost took the day off but I dragged ass in to work since I had the last two weeks off. Fuuuuck.

picked up a few things the other day...
Count Basie & his Orchestra - Listen, you shall hear (great recordings from 1937 - I'm really loving this stuff at the moment, though making tentative little steps into it as I don't want to overdo it, and also I don't really know where to start, so I just pick out familiar names)
Tommy Dorsey - Jazz Tribune Volume 1&2 (a great 2 disc set from 35-37, and with excellent newspaper styled liner notes, in french & english)
Millie Jackson - Caught Up (really good record, but even better artwork)
Elvis Presley - Clambake (I actually love all the throwaway soundtracks, and you get great bonus singles on them too - this one has Guitar Man an Big Boss Man)

Few things I picked up this weekend:

Pink Reason & Hue Blanc split 12"
World's Lousy w/ Ideas vol. III
Crystal Antlers EP on T&G
Blue Sabbath Black Cheer - We Like New Blockaders LP
Police - Ghosts In the Machine for 50 cents at a thrift store. Sounds just like it used to.

Steve Moore - Vaalbara LP on Noiseville

i got that too

where can i order the BSBC from?

Dunno about ordering BSBC. Kreation seems to have copies. (But I was foolin with the name. It's called Endless Blockade, so if you have that, you have it.)

ENDLESS BLOCKADE FOR THE PUSSYFOOTER!!!

I like yr fake title more.

"The "VG" is about right: Adding plusses is somewhat meaningless."

VG+ is a standard record/cover rating a la Goldmine. VG as a rating is VASTLY different than VG+. VG+ is much closer to near mint than VG. I would never list that single's cover as VG+ if I were selling it on ebay.

"excellent" isn't an actual record rating. it's a word that popped up with ebay.

standard record ratings are: still sealed (which some people will call mint), mint, mint-/near mint, vg+, vg, good, good+, poor, and fair.

usually Good seems to be a synonym for "totally fucked"

Hey, Ian (and DMR), I LOVE the new The Rebel.

I don't know what this record is (or Children's Hospital either), u saying I would like it? what's it like? I need some new rock

the rebel is one of the dudes from the Country Teasers. The new LP was recorded at FMU and features the touring line-up from last year--mostly Country Teasers members. They are often compared to the Fall. I like them. Wordy. Children's hospital is more of a weirdo-punk thing, but if yer diggin the new der TPK I'd give it a listen.

v/a - oh graveyard you cant hold me always
pandit pran nath - earth groove
canned heat - living the blues
canned heat/john lee hooker - hooker 'n heat
some other canned heat record cause why not
v/a - raiders of the lost dub
gregory isaacs - cool ruler

Courtesy of the Zavvi clearout:

lyn collins - think (about it)
new york dolls - s/t
kraftwerk - the man machine
edwin starr - 25 miles
marvin gaye - what's going on
archie bell & the drells - tighten up
curtis mayfield - superfly

oooooh tell me more about 'oh graveyard...' and 'earth groove'

theyre the newest releases from mississippi records, outta portland. the PPN is a straight reissue, and it's awesome. id never listened to him before, but he sings two long ragas with tabla and sitar accompaniment, and he coughs toward the end of the second side. then starts again.

oh graveyard you cant hold me always is the newest mississippi records blues comp -- theres a lot of talk about it on the MS recs thread...

Zavvi clearout got me the Red Hot Disco Express comp mentioned upthread (down w/ most of this), New York Dolls s/t, Kraftwerk 'Trans Europe Express', Curtis Mayfield 'Superfly OST' and The JBs 'Food For Thought', total price £17.

Today: bought the Suicide / Lydia Lunch 10" from the Suicide series that Blast First just did. Two versions of 'Frankie Teardrop'. Lydia's version is pretty badass. Also got a 7" which has Human League and Manicured Noise tracks on either side, remixed by the guy from Lemon Jelly - he seems to be sticking his fingers in some interesting pies despite being, you know, from Lemon Jelly, and this seems to have a cool thing going on. Might investigate Manicured Noise a bit more

Witch Queen's LP .. I just checked my "W" shelf and can't find my copy; I must have mis-filed it

Yep, I'd filed it under "Which Queen." Before White Stripes. What the hell was I thinking? Anyway, I have it now -- whew.

love - forever changes (sundazed reissue)
talking heads - stop making sense
rod stewart - sing it again rod (in a whiskey glass shaped sleeve, with a shocking cover of 'pinball wizard' with black beauty style string
edwin starr - 25 miles

notorious byrd bros
yoko ono - approximately infinite universe (so so fucking awesome)
marshall mcluhan - the medium is the massage

don howland - the land beyond the mountains

I once gave someone Approximately Inifinite Universe as a gift and now I wish I'd kept it :/

tight tight record

anyone heard the relatively recent reissue of tim buckley - starsailor? does it sound good?

the four men with beards one? i haven't heard it, but their stuff generally sounds good. From the master tapes i think.

awesome. thanks!

thelma houston - jumpin' jack flash/sunshower

found a vintage store i'd never been in in Park SLope bklyn the other day and bought some relatively cheap stuff ($3-$6)

vangelis - heaven and hell
tangerine dream - ricochet
hall and oates - war babies
grateful dead - shakedown street
jerry garcia - run for the roses <--- didn't like this. all the rest were cool though

John Cale - Paris 1919
Byrds - Notorious Byrd Brothers
Labradford - Mi Media Naranja

Have not played it yet. But interesting comments in that thread regarding the tapes..

hey y'all there is also an exciting new ILX Vinyl board!

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/NewAnswersControllerServlet?boardid=290040365

where is the recent CD purchase thread?

they still make those things??

Just picked up the Moritz von Oswald Trio LP and the 4 Men with Beards' Vinyl re-issue of Eno/Moebius/Roedelius' "After the Heat".

4 Men with Beards are doing some great reissues.

Alright, well heres some CDs anyway. I went for vinyl but couldn't resist the CD sale.

Aaliyah - Aaliyah
Big star - third/sister lover
Public enemy - fear of a black planet
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Recent CD purchases

the beets is one of the only good records on captured tracks imho.

― ian, Thursday, May 21, 2009

an emusic interview with the label's founder got me sampling some of their (digitally-available) stuff. i like it! well, some of it, at least, especially the 80s-homages, e.g., the soft moon's breathe the fire.

dunno about soft moon, but as far as i can tell, the beets is still one of the only good records on captured tracks imho

picked up 3LP A-frames 333 comp today, listening now. so awesome to hear "new" shit from these guys. some of the c. 2007 demos (from aborted 4th lp?) up there with their best. really like the rough, spare feel overall.

i mean rough & spare compared to other a-frames, tho that's a game of inches

dunno about soft moon, but as far as i can tell, the beets is still one of the only good records on captured tracks imho

really? i'm kinda digging a number of this label's titles (at least the :30 samples), e.g., veronica falls; minks; wild nothings; cosmetics; and beach fossils. basically all stuff that taps into a certain 80s memory bank for me (i am old).

upon further investigation, tho, a lot of the other titles are between unmemorable and crappy.

The Beets are actually my least favorite Captured Tracks band! I really like the Dignan Porch LP they did...Fresh and Onlys are great too. Bitters 12" from awhile back is totally worth every penny too. They're very hit or miss though...

yeah, i like what i've heard of that fresh & onlys disc.

The Beets LP was only just OK. This is what I rate as the best stuff so far:

Tim Cohen - Laugh Tracks LP
Wild Nothing - Gemini LP
Beach Fossils - s/t LP
The Fresh & Onlys - August In My Mind 12"
Thee Oh Sees - Dog Poison 12"

doesn't seem like this type of music benefits tremendously from being on vinyl rather than, say, a disc.

i think of the good vinyl stuff as being 70s funk or lush disco or other electronic music. i don't know enough about vinyl, actually.

drunqk posting last night totally forgot about other GREAT captured tracks. fresh & onlys grey-eyed girls LP way up there, better than the beets (much less impressed with their recent 12"). and i like dog poison a lot, though again, it's a small step down from their best recent work. kid romance 7" is cool. haven't liked the bitters, german measles, brilliant colors, mayfair set, gary war, dum dum girls, silk flowers, etc. haven't, at least, liked the stuff i've heard. but there's so fucking much of it! for a label that's only existed for a year, a year and a half, dude's put out an insane amount of shit. and relative to my tastes, quality control is very low. think i just don't quite get sniper's particular 80s fascinations. liked the early blank dogs stuff well enough, but quickly lost interest in keeping up with the onslaught of half-assed material.

didn't know tim cohen has a new LP out. looking fwd to that, as the two sides of tim cohen was one of my favorites of 2009. still bummed that it was received so harshly in certain circles. deserves to be heard by a lot more people.