"I'd buy that for a dollar!" Great purchases for a buck or less

WATERLOO, Jan 12, $1 each
Live Wire – Live Wire (A&M 1979) -- sounds like dire straits crossed with herman brood.
Tex and the Horseheads – Life’s So Good (Enigma 1985) -- wish they had better tunes, playing, and singing, but I'll probably keep this anyway.

BREAKAWAY Jan 26, $1 each
Peabo Bryson – Crosswinds (Capitol 1978)
Andrae Crouch & the Disciples – Keep On Singin’ (Light 1972) -- already had this, but with a different cover; both look really cool.
Tim Curry – Fearless (A&M 1979)
ZZ Hill – Thrill On The Hill (Rare Bullet 1984)

RECYCLED READS Jan 26 (books), $1 each
Bill C. Malone – Country Music USA (2002 – second revised edition)
Dave Marsh et. al. – The Rolling Stone Record Guide (1979 – first/red edition) -- my second copy; am still using other one, though, which is pretty much torn to pieces.

END OF AN EAR March 2, 2013, 50 cents each (LPs unless noted otherwise)
B.T. Express – Do It ‘Til You’re Satisfied (Yegrin South Korea 1974) -- in green Xeroxy bootleggy looking cover.
Central Line - Don’t Tell Me/Walking Into Sunshine/Shake It Up {Larry Levan Mixes} (Mercury 12” 1981)
Chip Chip – Never Say Goodbye (ZYX 12” 1987)
Sparky “D” – Sparky’s Turn {Roxanne You’re Through} (Nia 12” 1985)
Sparky Dee Vs. The Playgirls – The Battle (Nia 12” 1985) -- she sure changed the spelling of her name fast.
El Roacho – The Best Of El Roacho’s Greatest Hits (Columbia 1973) -- "debut recordings...never before released," ha.
The Evasions – Wikka Wrap (Sam 12” 1981) -- had this already; will give this copy away; there was actually one more in the bin, too.
Foundation – Voyage (Fartblossom Enterprizes EP 1986) - produced by Brian Baker
Cynthia Gooding – Queen Of Hearts: Early English Folk Songs (Elektra 1953) -- VERY thick pressing; was that common then?
Head East – A Different Kind Of Crazy (A&M 1979) -- they sure did like pancakes.
Hubert Laws – The Chicago Theme (CTI 1975)
MFSB – MFSB (Philadelphia International 1973) -- w/ presumably instrumental versions of "Freddie's Dead," "Family Affair," "Back Stabbers."
Roger Miller – 1970 (Smash 1970)
T.S. Monk – Human (Mirage 1982)
The Motors – The Motors (Virgin 1977)
Elliott Murphy – Night Lights (RCA 1976)
Plastic Bertrand – L’Album (Attic Canada 1980)
Maryla Rodowicz – Sing-Sing (Pronit Poland 1976) -- w/ provocatively posed gatefold.
Roxanne Shante – (Cold Chillin’ 12” 1989)
Trooper – Two For The Show (MCA/Legend 1976) -- still "sealed for your protection," but I'll probably open it anyway.
Dwight Twilley – Scuba Divers (EMI 1979)
Ben Vereen – Ben Vereen (Buddah 1976)
(Various) – Danae Jacovidis – At Midnight Medley/Tantra – Hills Of Katmandu (Disconet promo 1979) -- first side is DJ mastermix of '70s songs by spinners, lamont dozier, bionic boogie, timmy thomas, george mccrae, love unlimited orchestra, buddy miles, t-connection.
(Various) – New Rock New Bands New Albums (Phonogram West Germany 1980) -- w/ the kids, faith band, original mirrors, duke jupiter, ian mclagan, def leppard off their debut LP, etc.; includes swell-looking german-language promotional zine about all the bands.

Oops -- The Roxanne Shante 12-inch is "Live On Stage."

Same old record convention. Slowly but noticeably getting more expensive--what was $2 when vinyl was at low ebb a few years ago is now $5, what was $5 in now $10, etc. So I didn't buy much. (Truthfully, I only hit the same three or four tables every year, although I found a good soul/R&B this time.)

$2: Elton John: Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy (popular guy from the '70s)
Elton John: Don't Shoot Me, I'm Only the Piano Player
Golden Hour of Donovan (no hits--likely all folkie)
Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Life (the only Neil vinyl I didn't own up until the Budweiser album, so I was happy about this)

$5: Dionne Warwick in Valley of the Dolls
Dionne Warwick: Very Dionne (sealed)
The Supremes (Jimmy Webb produced LP from '72, sealed)

$7: Mister Little Willie John
Little Willie John: Talk to Me
Annisteen Allen: Give It Up (never heard of her--last three all Dutch pressings)

Been buying cassettes at thrift stores for a a couple reasons:
1) Placeholders until I can find certain stuff on CD (or vinyl preferably) and
2) They are dirt cheap! Most thrift stores around town have them two for a quarter (some places even have them ten for a dollar!).

Been finding lots of good ambient stuff this way (including five Harold Budd albums!) and, every once in a while, you'll run into someone's old Elvis or Roy Orbison collection and there's inevitably the great early stuff in there.

One thing I haven't been able to bring myself to do is buy classical on cassette. Just can't do it.

I got a kickass SQUARE DANCE CALLS LP by Carson Robison and His Pleasant Valley Boys.
I got a great 2xLP comp from the 60's called "Them Old Country Songs".
I got Herbie Mann's "Mississippi Gambler" which has a cool cover and it's some weird flute-based 70's fusion so it's the odd man out. It's a little cheesy but I may end up getting into it.

All for $1 apiece at Atlanta's Full Moon Records. I didn't have enough cash so i just told him to charge me $5. The Square Dance record is amazing, I probably played it 6 times yesterday.

Thrift shopping in rural Georgia yesterday, look at this LP score:

Miles Davis "Filles de Kilimanjaro"
New York Dolls s/t (heavily water damaged cover, but it was a dollar)
Tommy James and the Shondells "I Think We're Alone Now"
Various Artists "The Concert for Bangladesh" (3xLP, includes booklet)
Gary Lewis "A Session With Gary Lewis and the Playboys"
Paul McCartney "McCartney II" (ok, this was actually $2 but Bangladesh was $1 for 3xLP, so it counts)
The Rader Family "Ocean Opry: Most Requested Show Songs" (vintage Panama City Beach, FL country)

Also found "Lady Sings the Blues" the autobiography for 50 cents.

Cool, were you near the GA/FL border? I've tried hitting some thrifts around there when I was in the area but didn't find much.

It was conyers/covington.

FL is thrift dreamland.

So I hear

crusin around OKC a town I don't know well, I started hitting thrifts: Country Christian Christmas dominates out here but I scored
an Al Green on Myrrh, "The Lord Will Make a Way")
"Cugat's Favorite Rumbas" which is shit-hot
Astrud Gilberto "A Certain Smile A Certain Sadness"
"Irakere"
and a dozen good classical records including quite a bit of American stuff I haven't heard (Ives songs, Babbitt)

I found great records in OKC these last few months, and last weekend these two Korean records at a Tulsa flea market and the cashier just gave them to me!
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2821/8861176566_0672365049_z.jpg

I've already decided a few of these purchases were mistakes. But some are really good, too (all vinyl til the bottom):

WATERLOO March 9, $1 each
Alpha Band – Spark In The Dark (Arista 1977)
Bronz – Taken By Storm (Bronze/Island 1984)

BREAKAWAY & EPOCH COFFEE SHOP RUMMAGE SALE IN THE PARKING LOT OUTSIDE March 23, $1 each
The Archies – Everything’s Archie (Calendar 1969)
The Crusaders – Southern Comfort (ABC 2xLP 1974)
Patrice Rushen – Patrice (Elektra 1978)
Village People – Renaissance (RCA 1981)

SALVATION ARMY ON I-183, May 9, $1
(Various) – Teen Challenge: Addicts Choir (Word c. 1966)

WATERLOO , May 16, $1 each
American Flyer – Spirit Of A Woman (United Artists 1977)
Barclay James Harvest – Time Honoured Ghosts (Polydor 1975)
Clover –Love On The Wire (Mercury 1977)
The Crusaders – Scratch (MCA 1974)
Duke Jupiter – Band In Blue (Mercury 1980)
Sugar Loaf – Spaceship Earth (Liberty 1970)

FOR CURIOSITY SAKE, MARBLE FALLS, June 1, 2013, $1 each
LPs:
Cabaret Voltaire – Code (EMI Manhattan 1987)
Champaign – Woman In Flames (Columbia 1984)
Faith Band – Rock’n Romance (Village 1978)
Japan – Tin Drum (Virgin 1981)
Les Variations – Café De Paris (Buddah 1975)
Surface – Surface (Columbia 1986)
The Tourists – Luminous Basement (Epic 1980)

CDs:
Debbie Deb – She’s Back! (Pandisc 1995)
Divinyls – Divinyls (Virgin 1990)
Evelyn “Champagne” King – Love Come Down: The Best Of (RCA 1993)
Barrington Levy – Barrington (MCA 1993)
Lords Of Acid – Lust (Caroline 1991)
Mary Jane Girls – In My House: The Very Best Of (Motown 1994)
Nina Sky – Nina Sky (Universal 2004)
Prong – Prove You Wrong (Epic 1991)
Rodney O Joe Cooley - Days Of Way Back (Psychotic 1994)
Rodney O Joe Cooley – F__k New York (Psychotic 1993)

haha would love your thoughts on Japan and the King comp.

I'll be way beyond shocked if, of those two, I don't wind up liking the Evelyn "Champagne" King way more. Must be just a glutton for punishment for buying the Japan album -- I've never much liked much what I've heard by them in the past, and stuff I've read makes me assume they got even more boring as they went on. But their fans consider Tin Drum one of their landmarks, right? And I've never heard it, so maybe I should. Anyway, here's what I wrote on a couple years ago, about an earlier album by them:

Rolling Past Expiry Hard Rock 2011

Btw, that Tourists album I got stars a young Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart, pre-Eurythmics. The Clover album (which I like a lot so far) stars a young Huey Lewis, pre-News. The Alpha Band album stars a young T-Bone Burnett, obviously. The American Flyer album, which totally bored me the one time I played it, has late-Velvet Undergrounder Doug Yule plus, supposedly, various Blues Magoo/Blues Project/Blood Sweat & Tears/Pure Prairie League dudes. The Village People album is their "New Romantic" move, but though they're dressed up like Spandau Ballet on the cover they sound more like they've been listening more to Devo circa "Whip It." (Also, they do three songs about food.) And the weirdest thing up there is probably Teen Challenge: Addicts Choir, in which a young Andrae Crouch leads (often as soloist) "the most unusual choir you have ever heard! Thirty voices of converted drug addicts and delinquents singing the praises of God." It is definitely the only gospel album I've ever seen with somebody shooting up on the cover.

The chinoiserie of Tin Drum bothers me as much as Sylvian's singing these days. I had more fun playing old "bad" Japan -- the brief period when they thought they were the New York Dolls.

I picked up American Flyer's debut a couple months ago and that is pretty boring as well

ANTONE’S, June 1, $1 each
Barooga Bandit – s/t (Capitol 1979)
Blackfoot – Flyin’ High (Epic 1976)
John Fred and his Playboy Band – Agnes English (Paula 1968)
Ish – s/t (Clouds/TK 1979)
Paul Nicholas – s/t (RSO 1977)
Spider – s/t (Dreamland 1980)
Stealin Horses – s/t (Arista 1988)
Tycoon – s/t (Arista 1978)

END OF AN EAR, June 8, 50 cents each
Ambrosia – s/t (20th Century 1975)
American Tears – Branded Bad (Columbia 1974)
Cochise – Rauchezeichen (Folk Freak West Germany 1979)
Cri-Cri – Homenaje A Cri-Cri (RCA Victory Mexico ???)
Moms Mabley/Pigmeat Markham – The Best Of Moms And Pigmeat (Chess ???)
1910 Fruitgum Co. – Simon Says (Buddah Mexico 1968)
Pontiac Brothers – Doll Hut (Frontier 1985)
Rank and File – s/t (Slash/Warner Bros. 1982)
Svart Snö – Smock ‘n Roll (Prank 1995)
Timmy Thomas – Why Can’t We Live Together (Glades 1972)
Lu Waters’ Yerba Buena Big Band – s/t (Good Time Jazz 10-inch c. 1952)
White Witch – A Spiritual Greeting (Capricorn 1974)

BREAKAWAY, June 15, $1 each
Millie Jackson – I Had To Say It (Spring 1980)
Rosalie Sorrels – Always A Lady (Philo 1975)
Sylvester – Stars (Fantasy 1979)
Cris Williamson – The Changer And The Changed (Olivia 1975)

BREAKAWAY, June 22, $1 each
Blues Image – Open (Atco 1970)
Freddie Fender – The Fabulous Freddie Fender: His All Time Favorites (SMI 2xLP 1976)

i've heard almost all of those records - including tycoon, spider, stealin horses, ish, and barooga bandit - and my faves would have to be the rosalie sorrels, timmy thomas, white witch, ambrosia, and blackfoot. but millie jackson and sylvester are always good too. and i like that blues image album. the Ish album i play quite often.

I hated the Rosalie Sorrels at first. (Only just played it yesterday.) She just seemed way too mannered/quirky/whatever. Weird, but not in a listenable way, I thought. By the second side, though, I was started to like her better, so who knows.

Timmy Thomas, White Witch, and Blackfoot albums are kind of amazing -- like those way more than I expected to. Of the others you named, Tycoon is the biggest surprise so far: Post-Foreigner disco-pomping mustache AOR pop; catchy stuff, what's not to like?

i love rosalie! she's one of my fave singers. she talks like that too.

Why Isn't Rosalie Sorrels Hip With Hepcats??? She's Great!

no, i like tycoon okay. but they aren't entirely memorable. good when i'm playing them, but kinda out of sight out of mind.

timmy thomas album just one of the great albums of the 70's.

i like Foxy more than Tycoon. ISH was the lead singer of Foxy.

Oh yeah, sure, course - Foxy were great! And Ish was also the guy behind Company B, and the new wave group OXO ("Whirly Girl.") I've even got a 2-CD career retrospective by him called Ishology, from 2005. Have a feeling this solo LP I just found isn't close to his best work, though -- Haven't played it yet, but I think I used to own it before. Seemed like something I should re-investigate, though.

Tycoon's "Such A Woman" actually rang a bell in my AOR memory banks, though I doubt I'd heard in the past 34 years.

I bought that White Witch years ago because of a recommendation in some heavy metal book. I should pull it out and give it another listen.

I was just researching Spider last night. It's the band of Anton Fig and Holly Knight (songwriter for the stars)

recommendation in some heavy metal book

Coincidence! (#266, to be exact.)

That Timmy Thomas album is a like a mini-There's a Riot Goin' On, by the way. (If that's common knowledge, I never realized it before.)

Combined total = £2:

Crown Heights Affair - Dream World (lp)
Nick Edwards - Plekzationz (test pressing lp)
Basteroid/Konfekt/Metope/Ada - Rabimmel/Ra(Bammel)/Rabum/Bum Bum (12")
Julian Jonah - Welcome to the Disco (EP)
Alex Gopher - Party People (WORST THING EVER)

Nashville dollar finds:

Joe Simon, Greatest Hits (Sound Stage 7)
Graham Parker and the Rumor, The Parkerilla and Stick to Me
Don Bowman, Our Man in Trouble (recently dead cornpone-country-insider comedian who sent up his association with Chet Atkins)
Bernard Herrmann, Conducts Music from Citizen Kane et al
Thad Jones/Mel Lewis, Suite for Pops 1975 Horizon/A&M
Carly Simon, Anticipation
Anne Murray, Talk It Over in the Morning and Highly Prized Possession
Larry Hosford, Cross Word (1976 Shelter LP)
Jackie DeShannon, New Image
Lovin' Spoonful, Daydream
Henson Cargill, Comin' on Strong 1968 Monument
Matthew Fisher, Journey's End sealed
Chacksfield Plays Simon and Garfunkel and Jimmy Webb
Xhuxk, I also recently bought Timmy Thomas' 1972 Glades LP, Why Can't We Live Together, which is definitely one of the greatest drum-machine statements of all time. I've heard at least one of his late-'70s albums, and I also liked.

From the free bins at Poo Bah:
Glen Campbell - Greatest Hits
Capitol Disc Jockey Album - September 1967

Both appear to be in decent condition.

Anything cool on the Capitol album?

Just picked these up for fifty cents each:

Ray Charles Live at Newport
Beck Bogert Appice (think this is a required buy for white men my age)
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
Big Jim Sullivan - Plays Gilbert O'Sullivan (WAY better than you'd think, at least if you like cheesy funky instrumental jams)

The Capitol sampler has a couple tracks by Peggy Lee, and a version of "Cry Me A River" by Tina Mason (never heard of her before), which is why I picked it up. From the jacket (emphasis theirs):

"The tracks in this specially prepared album have been ARRANGED IN A SEQUENCE which will enable you to program the selections ONE AFTER THE OTHER in the order produced on this LP. In other words, INSTANT PROGRAMMING from the FIRST THROUGH THE LAST track. Side one designed for middle-of-the-road good-music programming, side two for EASY LISTENING."

I haven't played it yet.

My most memorable:

George Harrison - All Things Must Pass - vinyl - $1 at a WFMU garage sale
Sparklehorse - It's a Wonderful Life - promo CD - 99 cents at a record shop before it was officially released

In other words, INSTANT PROGRAMMING from the FIRST THROUGH THE LAST track.

I would listen to this radio show.

End Of An Ear, Aug 3, 50 cents each vinyl

Enuff Znuff – Mother’s Eyes (Atco EP 1991)
Executive Slacks – Nausea (Fundamental 1985)
Executive Slacks – Fire & Ice (Fundamental 1986)
Jo Jo Gunne – Jumpin’ The Gunne (Asylum 1973)
Lazer / Thrust – Solidarnösc Rock For Poland (Erect split LP 1982)
Lucifer’s Friend – Mean Machine (Elektra 1981)
Flora Purim – Carry On (Warner Bros. 1979)
R.E.O. Speedwagon – R.E.O. (Epic 1976)
Snowblind – Snowblind (Mausoleum Belgium 1985)
(Various) - Heavy Duty Breaks (Illuminated 1984)

Sig’s Lagoon, Houston, today, 50 cents each vinyl

The Art Museums – Rough Frame (Woodsist 2010)
James Booker – New Orleans Piano Wizard: Live! (Rounder 1981)
Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis – The Heavy Hitter (Muse 1979)
Funkapolitan – s/t (Pavillion 1982)
Beaver Harris 360 Degree Music Experience – Beautiful Africa (Soul Note Italy 1979)
Coleman Hawkins & His Orchestra – 1940 (Alamac)
Jimmie Lunceford and His Orchestra – Lunceford Special (Columbia)
Mothers Finest – Live (Epic 1979)
James Newton – African Flower (Blue Note 1985)
Ohio Players – Fire (Mercury 1974)
Jerry Reed – The Man With The Golden Thumb (RCA 1982)
Sensational Alex Harvey Band – Live (Atlantic 1975)
Phoebe Snow – Second Childhood (Columbia 1976)
Joe Stampley – Take Me Home To Somewhere (ABC 1974)
Wendy & the Rockets – Dazed For Days (A&M 1983)
(Various) – Daffy Dances (K-Tel Canada 1975)
(Various) – Glasnost (MCA 1988)
(Various) – Hits of the Forties Vol. 2 (Capitol Special Markets 1976)

Ex Slacks! Yay!

I don't think I ever even heard them before. They are also on that Heavy Duty Breaks comp (produced or assembled or whatever by Youth from Killing Joke) -- or at least they're credited on the label.

That Glasnost comp is late '80s Soviet rock bands, fwiw -- presumably mediocre, but figured I'd give them a shot.

really, you never even heard their famous gary glitter cover? they were from philly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgTHmlVmP78

i used to have all their albums but i don't anymore. they did some cool stuff. definitely one of the better american industrial rock bands. and they were pioneers of sorts here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXDt7jR6TxM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLvCkj9qpQs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDyPTG9uDwA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srmoSEs7GH0

Bought about 1000 records for $400 from a guy with a garage full of 'em last week. Real straight-up dollar-bin stuff, most of which I turned around on the weekend for a small profit, but kept a bunch of stuff I didn't yet have in my collection, among them:
Minty copies of All Mod Cons and London 0 Hull 4
some J Geils I hadn't yet bought for a dollar (tho somehow I missed "Showtime" & got scooped by my own customer!)
The first two Sylvain Sylvain albums
A couple of T-Bone Burnette records
About all the Hall & Oates anyone could ever want
ZZ Top - Fandango

Also finally took the opportunity to listen to Carole King's "Tapestry" - not gonna be my cuppa on a regular basis, but was surprised by how "Rumours"-like it was in the way that I seemed to know every damn song on the thing without ever having consciously listened to it. I can see why it sold so many copies.

Some nice hitherto-unknown-to-me discoveries, too:

Eiichi Fujii Trio - Blues for Powell
Melodic, acrobatic fast-tempo trad bop. Very enjoyable party jazz.

The Headboys - S/T
Skinny-tie pub rock from Scotland. A quite-good power-pop record - better than The Knack by a mile.

Three records by Angel City
Australian hard rock band, solid fist-pumping stuff.

A great comp on Arion Records called "Songs and Dances of Morocco". Very little of the ululating that bugs me about so much Arabic music, lots of great intricate hypnotic instrumental stuff.

Same show I've mentioned before. Getting iffier for me every time--my vision's a little time worse every year, so trying to inspect records in (intentionally, I'm sure) less than perfect light becomes less and less reliable. Also couldn't find two of the tables I always go to.

3/$5 -- John Cougar Mellencamp: Scarecrow (good start--already had it at home)
John Cougar Mellencamp: The Lonesome Jubilee

(Those are the only two pop records I bought from this guy. His pop stuff looks fine at first, then you get home and look closer. His old jazz, though, tends to be immaculate.)

Merritt Brunies & His Friars Inn Orchestra, 1924-26
McKinney's Cotton Pickers: Volume 2 (1928-1929)
McKinney's Cotton Pickers: Volume 3 (1929-1930)

(Damn, didn't realize I was without Volume 1--don't think it was in the pile.)

The K.C. Five and the Stompin' Six
Tabbo Smith: Volume One, 1928-1929
Tabbo Smith: Volume Two, 1929-1938
New Orleans Rhythm Kings/Original Memphis Melody Boys: Dixieland in Chicago

$5 -- Bee Gees Greatest (the RSO disco-heavy double)

$10 -- James Taylor (debut on Apple--best thing I got all day, great shape, bought it off a guy I used to work with in a downtown record store)

Also a couple of DVDs for $5, American Graffiti and The Brood.

Highlight of the day was an absurd conversation with my old publisher, who got out of the book business a few years ago and now has a table at the show every year.

Geoff: "So how are your parents?"
Me: "Dead!"
Geoff: (looks a bit puzzled; he met them once a long time ago, he knows this and has obviously forgotten, he's getting a little on himself) "Oh...and your mom? Where is she living now?"
Geoff's son: "They're dead, dad--she lives underground now. I don't think this conversation could get any more awkward."

Didn't bother me at all, it was very funny.

I included that Headboys LP mentioned 2 posts up in this, fwiw:

http://www.spin.com/articles/blame-the-knack-fake-new-wave-feeding-frenzy-essentials/

And there's plenty of Angel City talk on ILM's now defunct Rolling Past Expiry Hard Rock threads.

RECYCLED READS, Sep 14, 50 cents each
Thomas Dolby -- The Flat Earth (EMI EP 1984)
Billy Joel – Streetlife Serenade (Columbia 1974)
Billy Joel – Turnstiles (Columbia 1976) -- assumed these two B.J. LPs were awful, just like everybody always says they are, and sure enough they are -- guess I just had to verify that for myself.
Kano – “I’m Ready”/”Holly Dolly” (Emergency 12” 1980) – oops, already had this.
Randy Newman – Land Of Dreams (Reprise 1988)
Betty Wright – Mother Wit (Ms. B 1987)
(Various) – Good to Go (Island 1986)
+
Ken Emerson – Doo Dah!: Stephen Foster And The Rise Of American Popular Culture (Simon & Schuster hardcover 1987, $2)

ANTONE’S, Oct 6, $1 each
Firesign Theatre – Not Insane (Columbia 1972) -- totally incoherent; the old Rolling Stone Record Guide reviewer who liked all their other albums way more was right. I felt so ripped off that I wound up passing up 3 of their probably better albums for $1 each today.
Jackson Southenairs – Lead Me (Malaco 1983)
Merilee Rush – s/t (United Artists 1977)
Shannon – Let the Music Play (Mirage 1984)

AUSTIN RECORD CONVENTION, today, $1 each + $5 entrance fee
ADC Band – Long Stroke (Cotillion 1978)
T-Bone Burnett – Truth Decay (Takoma 1980)
Chilliwack – Lights From The Valley (Mushroom 1978)
Bruce Cockburn – The Trouble With Normal (Gold Mountain 1983)
Freddie Fender – Are You Ready For Freddy? (ABC 1975)
Aryln Gale – Back To The Midwest Night (ABC 1978)
Hurricane Jones - s/t (MSI 1981)
Les Variations – Moroccan Roll (Buddah 1974)
Harvey Mandel – The Snake (Janus 1972)
Manfred Mann’s Earth Band – Nightingales And Bombers (Warner Bros/Bronze 1975)
Microdisney – Crooked Mile (Virgin 1987) - Still slightly curious what British critics used to see in these guys; even more curious about why every dozen years or so I pick up one of their albums for a dollar when I know it's going to make me shrug just like the last one did.
Giorgio Moroder – From Here To Eternity (Casablanca 2xLP comp 1985)
Ohio Express – Chewy, Chewy (Buddah 1969)
Mitch Ryder – How I Spent My Vacation (Seeds & Stems 1978)
Bob Seger System – Mongrel (Capitol 1970) -- backup copy, but I was only about 98% sure I already had this.
Michael Stanley Band – You Break It…You Bought It! (Epic 1975)
Ultravox – Vienna (Chrysalis 1980)
Was (Not Was) – What Up Dog? (Chrysalis 1988)

so glad you finally picked up the arlyn gale album! best record show albums definitely adc band, chilliwack, arlyn gale, les variations, bob seger, harvey mandel.

all the firesign records BEFORE that one are way better. including the double album of their radio show stuff. so, the first four albums and the double radio show comp. are really good.

i listened to a bad proctor and bergman album last week too. What This Country Needs. live at the Bottom Line. pretty unfunny. their first duo album is much better.

Picked up Sir Army Suit by Klaatu today so I can play "Mister Manson" when I DJ. Fifty cents. Probably overpaid.

xpost. Microdisney have a few great tracks scattered around (Birthday Girl, Peel version of Everybody is Dead, etc.) and the idea that they were the new Steely Dan might have seemed appealing at the time...that's my guess. At this point I feel as if it was a good concept for a band, but the music needed to be better. And either I don't get the nuances of the lyrics because I'm from the wrong country, or they aren't as good as people thought they were either.