Aquarius Records

White Hills has a new disk up there for sale, they teamed up with San Fran's White Pee. I am ordering now, and very very excited.

man, am i sick of whoever writes the reviews for their updates.

DOOOOOOOOOOOM!
LIMITED EDITION SO ACT FAST BEFORE THEY'RE GONE!
BORIS SHITS GOLD BRICKS!

some excellent lolz on this thread, would chuckle again.

For fans of Sunroof!/VCO/BCM. Sooooooooooooooo good! We could listen to this all week and write paragraph long sentences about it too, the thickest, grimiest, most blown-out bliss we've heard in a long time, so very very recommended!

Argh, how dare they like what they like???

...they like everything. more than everything else. it gets a bit cloying.

yeah, they're trying to sell stuff, i know. but it gets pavlovian with the "BORIS!" "SUPER LIMITED!" "ALREADY SOLD OUT!"

Why would you write negative reviews of albums you are trying to sell?

At least the reviews actually seem like they are written by people who have ya know listened to the records as opposed to just read the one sheet.

And they do write the odd negative (or disappointed) review actually.

as i said, they like every album better than the last album which they liked more than anything ever in the world; it's a bit much and those disappointed/negative reviews are few and far between.

points for: their reviews do read like they've heard the records, yeah, and lack the twatty "i was listening to this when you were in short pants" tone of, say, other music's reviews. (which was really funny when OM started carrying metal and tried to pass it off as something they had always, you know, meant to do...)

Gushing reviews T/S: Aquarius vs. Dusty Groove vs. Other Music!

(Also where is the fake Dusty Groove thread?)

(which was really funny when OM started carrying metal and tried to pass it off as something they had always, you know, meant to do...)

but Aquarius did THE SAME EXACT THING only about 3 years earlier!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111

i wasn't reading their stuff back then, duder, so i didn't know. besides, 2000 = noob, 2004 = POSEUR.

haha yeah see the Dusty Groove thread

I don't really have a problem with enthusiastic music fans writing in constant rhapsodic prose. It makes the times I actually agree with them strangely affecting.

(i think i even stood up for aquarius in some old thread... a few years later i just don't read anything and go for soundfiles, wonderful objective soundfiles.)

"but Aquarius did THE SAME EXACT THING only about 3 years earlier!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

To be fair they did that because they hired a bunch of metalheads and they started writing reviews.

man, am i sick of whoever writes the reviews for their updates.

if I'm not mistaken the guy who revived this thread is one of said writers

so he's like astroturfing for orders?

I dunno what that means (I may be wrong anyway - looks like there's an Andi Mags in NY who's obviously not an Aquarius employee)

i meant "pretending to be a aquarius customer to get people to order whatever he was talking about," but it's probably not him.

AQ guy is Andee anyway.

ah. thanks for clearin that up

I get a kick out of their gushy reviews, but I always take them with a grain of salt. They are trying to sell records. Their enthusiasm is often contagious, but the sound clips serve to temper that in a lot of cases.

The only thing I actually get a little annoyed about is when they say something is "super super limited 700 copies" or whatever, and I listen to the sound file, decide I must have it, order it, and months later see two copies sitting on their shelf. Probably isn't their fault or anything - maybe the discs just didn't sell.

I dig AQ because they still write reviews unlike many of the online mail order companies that regurgitate the same reviews circulating like viruses across the internet.

AQ does need to learn the concept of breaking up text/negative space and increasing its font size. Yes, the reviews would take up more space, but they would be so much easier to read.

I'm a total sucker for the 3-sentence post-it review @ Aquarius.

Probably because I don't have to worry that I'm spending 1/2 my paycheck on a single release. If it sucks, then that's OK.

Other Music got rid of their metal section! It was certainly slim pickins but always nice for a browse.

Also, AQ have always been super-super-super dudes to me! Love to order from them lots. A++++ will buy from again!

But don't answer your cell phone in the store (whoops)

I will own up to that one being my fault.

Haha! Whiney, that happened to me as well. They slowly increased the volume of whatever noise they were playing before holding up a sign that said I needed to go outside. I found the experience fairly obnoxious when they could've just tapped me on the shoulder. Ah well, I still order from them.

I'm still proud of being checkmark #187 on the Aquarius "Who bought copies of the Conet Project box set?" tally poster.

AQ guy is Andee anyway.

-- Herman G. Neuname, Tuesday, July 3, 2007 5:31 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Link

andee = indee

DOOOOOOOOOOOM!
LIMITED EDITION SO ACT FAST BEFORE THEY'RE GONE!
BORIS SHITS GOLD BRICKS!

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For fans of Sunroof!/VCO/BCM. Sooooooooooooooo good! We could listen to this all week and write paragraph long sentences about it too, the thickest, grimiest, most blown-out bliss we've heard in a long time, so very very recommended!

LOOOOOOOOOOOL

from this week's list:

And of course, limited, only 500 copies!
Essential!
So lovely.
Recommended.
SUPER LIMITED! ONLY 300 COPIES!!
LIMITED TO 324 COPIES!!
ONLY ONE PER CUSTOMER!!!
LIMITED TO 116 COPIES, each one hand numbered!!
And as always LIMITED TO 100 COPIES.
Gorgeous.
Recommended!
Recommended.
SO recommended.
Definitely recommended.
Recommended as if you couldn't tell already.
So awesome!
LIMITED TO 100 COPIES!
Highly recommended!
LIMITED TO 500 COPIES.
Simply beautiful.
Only 300 copies.
LIMITED TO 500 COPIES!!
LIMITED TO 500 COPIES. Each tape hand numbered.
So good!
Excellent!
Either way, totally recommended.

Haha

aQ are awesome, They always get me stuff In that I cant find elsewhere and they keep stuff on hold for a month until I can afford to pay and things like that. Always very friendly too.

I like that the recommended list is about three times as long as the "selected new arrivals" this week too. Sign that I am getting old is that I've heard of maybe three or so of the bands on the frontpage.

rules. also, they take paypal now.

am0n perfectly sums up why i hate their new releases list anymore. except the sound samples. those sound samples are SOOOOOOO SWOONSOME, guys.

also: DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM
ACT NOW OR YOU'RE STUCK WITH EBAY

first world problems

not really into the new site design either http://www.aquariusrecords.com/

why the hell are there limited runs of cd-rs? is it that hard to keep a cd burner going?

What do you have against Sum 41?!

http://www.aquariusrecords.com/images/aq_recent_crownedking.jpg

why the hell are there limited runs of cd-rs? is it that hard to keep a cd burner going?

artificial scarcity. if it's not limited edition, is it really worth buying?

I've thought that too, but for the more deluxe cd-r releases I'd guess it's more that you'd make all the artwork in one go. And then crap out the next one.

Unfortunately life interfered in June and I didn't get to stream while it was available as part of that festival. Keep hoping there's news of a wider streaming or way to purchase this outright, but still seems to be limited to one-off screenings now and then. Looks like LA, NY, Arizona, Utah and.... Portugal on the list.

Can't believe it's been three whole years since the first footage came out!

Still waiting to see this. Hope one of these years it gets a proper release on streaming or.... anything. Seems like it's just slowly rolling out one festival screening at a time, every four to five months.

Screening coming up Sunday in North Carolina, with John Darnielle, among others! Wish I was closer, starting to feel really nervous that this is never going to get a release beyond one-off screenings.

https://catscradle.com/event/it-came-from-aquarius-records/cats-cradle-back-room/carrboro-north-carolina/

among others!

*coughs gently*

Ha, I meant that John will actually be at this specific screening!

Ah now that is true!

Okay, good news for folks if you've not seen it yet:

"It Came From Aquarius Records" the feature length documentary about the beloved, esoteric San Francisco record store announces its streaming debut via Amazon Prime begins in July.

yay! i will finally get to see it!

I'm so looking forward to seeing this, though looks like that Amazon thing didn't quite happen yet. This was posted on the official Facebook just yesterday:

This was a nice surprise!! Another ‘best of’ award for It Came From Aquarius Records!! Thanx a time to the folks at #internationaldocumentaryfilmfestival !Look for the film in the coming months in Amazon - deets soon!

Does the doc talk about when Windy and a couple others protested the Job's Daughters*/Sun City Girls (?) show by throwing paint at the performers for performing in yellow face/kabuki?

My memory of this is v. hazy, pretty sure it was Bottom Of The Hill in the 90s, not having any luck finding anything on the internet of course.

*ft members of TFUL282, Caroliner, The Double U, etc.

It was a different TFUL282 offshoot:

http://www.markprindle.com/heavenly.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Iw9-mzMgZc

Wow thank you jabers.... My memory is obviously rather compromised in my convalescence.

But just 👀 at this BK quote:

And I thought, "Here's someone who runs an underground record store, selling odious shit like Pavement and the Mountain Goats, and she considers herself less of an assimilationist than Indians running an Indian music store in Nashville? Or a Cantonese opera singer from Kowloon?"

Well that's all a snapshot in time, isn't it.

Brently went on to be in Neung Phak fwiw

thats not B.O.T.H. tho right?

Chameleon which was on Valencia btw 19th & 20th which turned into Amnesia (anyone remember The Chatterbox?).

In my mind I confused the show with Sun City Girls/3 Day Stubble show at BOTH which was also CONTROVERSIAL.

I think Pants Yell were on this label. Their show at the Cake Shop was an early memory.

So the official Facebook page mentioned some "cool news" coming in September that never materialized, and nothing at all since. It'd be really nice if 2024 was finally the year it was able to be seen without traveling to sparse private screenings.

I'd gladly pay to stream it. And I'd really gladly pay for a reprint of the "new wave music is our specialty" shirt!

Yeah, I'm absolutely ready to pay for watching this in any format.

Heh, guess this thread will be just me bumping it for my periodic disappointment over it seemingly being stuck perpetually in limbo.

Even the official Facebook page for it, which used to update on upcoming screenings and developments has turned into just updates on what the guy who runs it is listening to/reading.

Even a word of encouragement that things are in the works would be nice, but I guess this thing is just kinda dead now.

Ha, and here is said word of encouragement. Looking at August 2024 on a streaming service yet to be determined. From the official Facebook page:

Finally! I can finally say that the Aquarius Records doc will be hitting the streaming networks in August 2024. Locked in a distributor - MVD Entertainment Group - who is helping get this thing out there. Stay tuned for details on the streaming premiere date and what channels will carry it!