Rolling 2009 Vinyl Thead

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

hey dmr, was it a place on 5th ave? i picked up a james brown LP at some weird vintage shop down there a few weeks ago.

i ordered from Red Onion in DC (great store btw) Reverend D.C. Rice & Congregation "Sanctified Singing" on Herwin.

yeah I think it was on 5th, something like Moonbeams and Motorbikes

i hadn't bought shit for ages but picked up some records last night:

marissa nadler - ballads of living and dying
alice coltrane - ptah, the el daoud
serge gainsbourg - live
texas-mexico border music vols 1 & 2
ludella black and the masonics - from this witness stand

I bought some racords!

wicked witch chaos comp thing - awesome but also maddening, esp on longer trax, wish it had y wood u call it rock
lair of the minotaur war metal battle mastr - not as good as carnage fuckin carnage but still awesome
iron maiden killers - replacement copy in good shape for like five bucks!
attitude problem lp - used copy, sound like GODHEADSILO KARP!!!, from facedowninshit people, but way better

i ordered some shit online to-day, set sale style.

hackamore brick - one kiss leads to another
gene clark - no other
dorothy carter - troubadour

also got a few beat up blue note & prestige LPs... duke pearson, monk & rollins, more eddie lockjaw davis..

love that hackamore brick record

yeah, it's fantastic, no doubt.

also got a copy of the new Sublime Frequencies LP today, "Group Bombino"

thanks for the heads up brotherrrrrrrr

premiers symptomes - air
buhloone mindstate - de la soul

both under a fiver from ebay

Petar Dundov - Sparkling Stars 12"
Peter Visti - Kodex 205 12"
Carl Craig & Moritz von Oswald - ReComposed (New Mixes By Ricardo Villalobos & Carl Craig) 12"
Can - Future Days (Bladerunnermix by Carl Craig) 12"
Galaxy Toobin' - s/t LP

also but forgotten:

alexander tucker - furrowed brow
fripp & eno - evening star for cheap

Got an "LP + junk" (words on the customs label) in the post today, addressed to someone whose name I don't recognise, and we probably get about four previous households' worth of junk mail etc here form time to time. It came from Portland and the name on the return address is also the name of a dude from 3at Sku11 - not a super unusual name, just struck me as odd. I don't like opening parcels (your honour) but I dunno how else I might have a hope of getting this to its actual destination...

surely you can contact whichever guy from eat skull? mcgonig4l to thread?

I guess! He'll either think I'm a good samaritan or a random weirdo depending on if it's his parcel or no

OK yeah it's the dude who does Exiled Records, the address on here is on a side street to the one listed on their site - I'll email him and see what's up. Very odd

also got a copy of the new Sublime Frequencies LP today, "Group Bombino"

― ian, Tuesday, January 20, 2009 7:34 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

is this similar/better/worse/radically different from Group Inerane/ Group Doueh?

had a nice blowout to help the zavvi administrators today. found a different teevee record 'knockout round 2', a compilation of mid 70s hits. david dundas 'blue jeans' swung it for me, and at £2 was a bargain.

the cut-out vinyl was down 50% so £1 a piece. it shames me to list the likes of bruce hornsby, howard jones, fgth, but there will be the odd gem or even just a moment on those i'm sure. some other £1s:

v/a - this is fort apache (compilation with the likes of sebadoh, lemonheads, billy bragg, radiohead)
willie nelson & waylon jennings - outlaw reunion vol.2
richie cole/hank crawford quintet - bossa international
dobie gray - midnight diamond
dave and don grusin - sticks and stones
shadowfax - too far to whisper [yes, gandalf's horse, but a windham hill issue]
jerry harrison - casual gods
mac davis

and at half price two 180g pressings of 'the band' and 'music from big pink' were a tenner each. i was on a roll by then.

even the double cd (*cough*) of pacific ocean blue was 7 and the elvis complete 68 comeback special (limited ed. box) down to 12.

manchester residents might recall a great shop called 'power cuts', home to remainders, cut outs, lost canadian pressings. their sales days were not to be missed, and for a few seconds today it felt like i was back in that dank basement...

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.