I Love Vinyl! Recent Haul/Score/Purchase Thread (2010)

xpost AFAICT you can't totally go wrong with the dude. I guess I only have a scatter of like 5 or 6 albums between Seven Bridges Road and Switchblades Of Love ('93 or 94?) but I haven't found anything even hinting at dudness yet!

(Beginning w/ Rock Salt & Nails actually but anyway...)

mark stewart & the maffia - learning to cope with cowardice
v/a - balearic sound volumen uno
colourbox - s/t
little annie - short and sweet
yarbrough & peoples - heartbeats 12"
rod - just keep on walking 12"
thompson twins - lies 12"

i got a lot of things this week.. i can't remember everything, prob. from memory:

flower traveling band - satori (original)
michael cacy - gathering (private folk-rock)
laura cantrell - when the roses bloom again
michael yonkers - lovely gold
ex & tom cora - scrabbling at the lock
eddy detroit - immortal gods

uhh, some more stuff too.

'Immortal Gods' is so great. I already have the CD but may just need to swap it out for that new reish

it's so affordable in comparison to an orig that i found it hard to resist.

wowsa, i'm assuming you got a pretty good deal on that original copy of 'satori'?

v.v. jealous of satori

the satori has some scuffs but plays pretty clean, surface noise between tracks kinda thing. luckily it's not a quiet LP and it's a good pressing. sounds better than the radioactive lp anyway. it was $50.

(but i worked 7 hrs on sunday and took records instead of money so..)

how did that come to the store? someone brought it in to sell?

yeah, this friend of Dave L's has a japanese father who happened to have two flower travelin' band LPs laying around the home. there was also a copy of Made in Japan but I think Erin has that one on hold.

My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything

and will be picking up my copy of Loveless either tonight or tomorrow.

i'd say $50 for satori is a deal!

i've been curious about that ex & tom cora thing, are you guys liking it?

i havent been -- the ex is tedious IMO

oh so anyway other than that german house box and the section 25 album i got last night and the tom ardolino album i also got stuff by live skull (haven't had a copy of the pusherman ep in years), athletico spizz 80, elektrics, hammersmith, sandalwood, jack traylor and steelwind, philisteens, people's choice (moulton action), feedtime.

i really like the ex & tom cora!!

Michael Head and the Strands - Magical World of the Strands

<3 <3 <3 this and bravo on finding the LP

the only tom cora album i have is this one and i really like it a lot:

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i passed on the jobriath s/t album last night for 8 bucks. i gave my copy to chuck years ago and though i kinda want one for historical reasons i never really played it much...so, there ya go.

Mclusky - The Difference Between Me And You Is That I'm Not On Fire
Can - Future Days
Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians - Queen Elvis
Buckingham Nicks - Buckingham Nicks gatefold
Tangerine Dream - Stratosfear
Cortney Tidwell - Don't Let Stars Keep Us Tangled Up 12"
Cortney Tidwell - Boys
Voice Of The Seven Thunders - S/T (w/a very nice #'d print to go along)

Mclusky - The Difference Between Me And You Is That I'm Not On Fire

oh fuccccck nice this album starts out so so so great

oh hey btw jon w1lliams linked to the NEU! vinyl boxset yesterday on facebook -- anyone know any specifics about it?

like i mean WHEN not WHAT

The Ex & Tom Cora rekkerd is GRRREAT! both of the albums they made together are among the best stuff the Ex is associated with. and some of the best stuff of the 90s PERIOD

pick it up psychegawsple!! don't listen to 69. I can't recommend it highly enough. you won't be disappointed

saw them together at the Lounge Ax in Chicago mid-90s. one of the best shows ever

i mean, theres a lot of things i dont like on first listen, then come to love. the ex just sounds kinda bloodless or something??

wow! "bloodless" is like the farthest adjective from my mind I could ever use to describe them. their whole 20+ year existence is like the polar opposite of that! but not tryin to fite or anything. we like what we like. but don't you like Dog Faced Hermans?? kinda the same vibe

i like DFH pretty good. they remind me a little more of TFUL282 than the ex, though?

plus the ex is too POLITICAL

well I love all three of those bands. I actually think The Ex sound more urgent/frenetic than DFH (and of course Andy from DFH went on to join The Ex.) actually saw them like three weeks ago here in Chicago (first show since G.W. Sok left the band) and they were still on fire

plus I'm on board with The Ex's politics, so..

newish blue The Ex best-of double LP is ace, still in heavy rotation crate. srsly re-try, now more than ever

i guess urgent/frenetic sounds too STRIDENT to me or something? i dont know, there's no real good rubric for what i immediately like, etc! probably ill be jockin the ex so hard in 6 months, ordering vintage ex shirts on ebay etc

jockin' the ex

done that a few times havent we all amirite

yeah I hear you .. nobody likes to be PREACHED at, but w/ The Ex, I dunno it just kinda works. as part of the whole package. plus they are just so lovable and genuine about it, they aren't like I dunno "Rage Against the Machine" or somethin

I love the Ex. I'm OK with political music though - love anarcho-punk stuff like Crass, Conflict etc. The 1st Ex album sounds a bit like early Crass.

Most of my Ex stuff is on CD though. I only have Aural Guerrilla on LP. And the new 7".

amazing free Ex show in NYC Lincoln Center a couple summers ago, in Ethiopian mode -- they are a band I will always go see.

recent record treats:

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SCG 78. I try to avoid buying purely fetish objects, but it's hard

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I think this will be good, barely scratched the surface

arrg pwnd in html beef

most of my Ex stuff is on CD too! like ALL of my Ex stuff, except for this new Mississippi reissue and a copy of 'Too Many Cowboys' I bought years ago.

there is a record store next to my house that had like every Ex release on CD. so I slowly just bought them up figuring, fuck it, I wanna support this place, plus I just wearied at the idea of hunting down all of the original LPs on eBay or whatever. Plus their CD packaging is pretty rad. Stuff like the '1936' thing, which replicates the original book that the vinyl came with. Or 'Dignity of Labour' which comes in a box with all the orignal inserts, etc...

over the last few weeks:

Sonny Sharrock - Monkey-Pockie-Boo
Dum Dum Girls - I Will Be
Charles Minugs - Tijuana Moods
Tim Cohen - The Two Sides of
v/a - In A Cloud: The New Sounds of San Francisco
The Sandwitches - How to make ambient sadcake
The Sandwitches - Back to the Sea 7"
Bo Diddley - Have Guitar Will Travel
The Cramps - Songs the Lord Taught Us
The Wedding Present - Bizarro
Charles Mingus - Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus
Bob Dylan - Nashville Skyline
Crocodiles/Graffiti Island/Dum Dum Girls/Pens 7"
Roland Kirk - The Inflated Tear
Dum Dum Girls - Jail La La 7"
Olivia Tremor Control vs. Black Swan Network tour lp

<3Roland Kirk - The Inflated Tear<3

the dudes at my favorite SF pizza place were jamming bizarro the other day when i was in there the other day. what a great record!

today:

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

Funky Four - Feel It (The Mexican)
Treacherous Three - Action
Amon Duul II - Yeti (reish)
Black Moth Super Rainbow 12" on Mexican Summer
Charalambides - that Blacktop boot live LP
Magazine - After The Fact LP
LL Cool J - Goin Back To Cali 7"
Mecca Normal/Kreviss split 7"
New Order - Procession 7"

birthday weekend mega-haul:

777 - s/t
kate bush - the dreaming
steve hillage - l
fripp & eno - no pussyfooting
peter baumann - romance 76
laid back - play it straight
eberhard weber - fluid rustle
jan akkerman - s/t
jan akkerman & kaz lux - eli
african image - roots (izimpande)
magazine 60 - don quixote 12"
wim mertens - whisper me
penguin cafe orchestra - music from the penguin cafe
mark isham - film music
solitudes environmental sound experiences vol 2
mike oldfield - crises
dr. buzzard's original savannah band - s/t
roy ayers ubiquity - everybody loves the sunshine
pat metheny group - first circle b/w end of the game 12"
do'a world music ensemble - companions of the crimson coloured ark
meredith monk - turtle dreams
force dimension - deus ex machina
borghesia - surveillance and punishment
nana vasconcelos - bush dance
les negresses vertes - zobi la mouche 12"
quincy jones - the dude
william pitt - city lights 12"

^ pretty good finds at on the corner in san jose. seemed obvious that they came across a bunch of semi-embarrassing 80s vinyl purged from some local college radio station's back stock and were selling most of it for 50 cents apiece. i doubt any of it is worth much in resale value- 'KSCU' is written huge on all the covers and there are stickers and comments all over- but i was pretty happy with what i came across. the dj comments on the pat metheny/ecm stuff are worth the price alone

penguin cafe orchestra - music from the penguin cafe
niiiiiice

^ i love that album, so stoked. that wim mertens record is very similar actually, really liked that one too

cool! where is on the corner anyway? i only know the ones on bascomb: streetlight; space cat; and that old record barn place??

on the corner is in campbell technically i guess, on e. campbell near the 17. kind of a gold mine even just for their normal (non-50 cent) stock, which is priced very very reasonably. i hear if the owner is there he's really great about recommendations, being friendly etc.

and ugh, al's record barn is such a bummer- dude closes at like 4 and is a total dick about it (seriously YELLING at people because he didn't want to hit traffic, and there were at least 8 customers in the damn shop). i guess records there used to be half-off sticker prices (which are RIDICULOUS- $15 for a phil collins album kind of thing), but we were told they did away with that just last week (!?!?) so my advice is to completely avoid the place. found a $10 copy of 'no pussyfooting' there tho.

streetlight was ok, but i think i was expecting more.

agreed on all counts. i found a sealed howling hex 2 for under $10 and yoko's FLY for $20 in the past couple months at streetlight, so that definitely wins for san jose. im hittin a scrabble tournament in campbell in may; ill have to check out on the corner.