Rolling 2009 Vinyl Thead

everyone should hit up Scott for records before ebay; dude has plenty of stock and grades his stuff honestly. A+++ would ILX again.

meanwhile last Saturday I went out to Long Beach to investigate some guy's Craigslist ad offering a selection of 80,000+ records for sale (not counting the 45s). didn't get murdered or anything (despite the cross street being "Hidden Lane") and yep, 80k records, all being sold between 75 cents and 3 bucks; my buddy spent $40 on something on like 30 records, including 1st pressing monos of the first three Byrds albums. apparently the guy bought out a record store up in San Francisco and hauled it back; now he's buying 200+ records a week in an effort to make the place run like an actual store despite being operated out of the back of his house.

I took a few pictures which I'll upload later. 80000 records looks exactly what you'd expect them to look like. it was fucking nuts.

Just got the Fall's This Nation's Saving grace reissue in the mail.

How is The Fall reissue?

"If this appears, it has nothing to do with the Beggars remastering and I would question what source the vinyl has been mastered from. The original tapes were in Beggars tape library until the beginning of this year and since then they've been sitting in a stack of tapes in a London mastering studio waiting their turn to be remastered."

http://z1.invisionfree.com/forums/thefall/index.php?showtopic=21640&st=200

Makes it seems sort of sketchy.

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.