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

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:

http://www.suncitygirls.com/discography/covers/78rpm.gif
SCG 78. I try to avoid buying purely fetish objects, but it's hard

http://www.tediumhouse.com/media/album/covers/bufms25____.jpg
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.

michael hurley & pals - armchair boogie (original with comic)
third ear bad - music from macbeth
pentangle - history book
alan stivell - chemins de terre
margareta soderberg with arbete och fritid & pojkarna pa storholmen - karingtand
various - bird in the bush, industrial muse, sea songs & shanties topic sampler 7
tim hart & maddy prior - folk songs of olde england vol. 1
steeleye span - hark! the village wait, individually & collectively
ashley hutchings & john kirkpatrick - compleat dancing master
moulton morris men - where the pavement ends
davey graham, dan ar bras, dave evans, duck baker - irish reels, jigs, hornpipes & airs
mr fox - complete mr fox
robin williamson & his merry band - american stonehenge
jacques higelin - crabouif, higelin & areski
dagmar krause - angebot & nachfrage
hp lovecraft - hp lovecraft ii
butthole surfers - brown reason
wooden wand & the vanishing voice - xiao
my cat is an alien - listen before black falls
fursaxa - myccorhizae realm
peter walker - rainy day raga
albert ayler - bells
wicker man soundtrack
broselmaschine - s/t
limbus 4 - mandalas
vocal music from mongolia (jean jenkins field recordings)
woody guthrie - this land is your land, library of congress recordings
sandy denny - north star grassman & the ravens

on the corner is great.

xp nice haul!

steeleye span - below the salt
the psychedelic schafferson jetplane lp
wipers - is this real (re)
lula cortes & ze ramalho - paebiru
arthur conley - sweet soul music
kris kristofferson - jesus was a capricorn
swamp dogg - greatest hits
swamp dogg - rat on

change - the glow of love
change - miracles
double fantasy - universal ave
scritti politti - cupid + psyche 85
taka boom - night dancin' 12"
luther rabb - make a little move (on the one)

picked these up today:

joan jett - bad reputation german import w/ cover i had never seen before ($1!)
holly and the italians - the right to be italian ($1!)
gun n roses - appetite for destruction (banned cover - $1!)
rolling stones - flowers (mono copy)
anti-nowhere league - long live the league (import)
muddy waters - electric mud
beau brummels - best of - 64 to 68

michael hurley & pals - armchair boogie (original with comic)
third ear bad - music from macbeth
pentangle - history book
alan stivell - chemins de terre
margareta soderberg with arbete och fritid & pojkarna pa storholmen - karingtand
various - bird in the bush, industrial muse, sea songs & shanties topic sampler 7
tim hart & maddy prior - folk songs of olde england vol. 1
steeleye span - hark! the village wait, individually & collectively
ashley hutchings & john kirkpatrick - compleat dancing master
moulton morris men - where the pavement ends
davey graham, dan ar bras, dave evans, duck baker - irish reels, jigs, hornpipes & airs
mr fox - complete mr fox
robin williamson & his merry band - american stonehenge
jacques higelin - crabouif, higelin & areski
dagmar krause - angebot & nachfrage
hp lovecraft - hp lovecraft ii
butthole surfers - brown reason
wooden wand & the vanishing voice - xiao
my cat is an alien - listen before black falls
fursaxa - myccorhizae realm
peter walker - rainy day raga
albert ayler - bells
wicker man soundtrack
broselmaschine - s/t
limbus 4 - mandalas
vocal music from mongolia (jean jenkins field recordings)
woody guthrie - this land is your land, library of congress recordings
sandy denny - north star grassman & the ravens

― no lime tangier, Monday, April 5, 2010 1:14 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark

how much money do you fuckers have anyway?

big dipper - boo-boo
mike oldfield - hergest ridge
zee - identity
tears for fears - i believe (a soulful re-recording) 10"

johnny nelson - ralfi pagan presenta johnny nelson, el principe de la salsa
pigbag - the big bean 12"
vasant rai - spring flowers
caravan - the best of caravan from 1970-1974
bill quist - piano solos of erik saties
jon and vangelis - the friends of mr. cairo
paul horn - visions
paul horn - special edition
harvey mason - earth mover
dexter wansel - vpyager

voyager, rather

last month or two:

j&ts - battle of the orchids
stephen david heitkotter
men-an-tol - through the quoit
voice of the seven thunders

and some 45s
new how/boyracer split
va - golden age comp
royal headache
circle pit
bed wetting bad boys
kitchens floor
straight arrows
j&ts - room 8

i dig kitchens floor's album. what is the 7 inch like?

yer typical chugging lo-fi gubbins, not sure how it compares to the LP though as i haven't heard it..

the how was pretty fun at the SF slumberland show

you guys are making these names up again. kitchens floor. i'm so sure.

the psychedelic schafferson jetplane lp

how is this, ian?

what is this, ian?

where did you mention this, ian?

skot: link4u http://www.myspace.com/kitchensfloor

it is mentioned on the rolling psych/drone/freak thread.

it's awesome, kinda?? it's kinda raga-psych, explicit sandy bull *& spacemen three influences (they say so right on the sleeve.) chilean hippy kids. if their myspace page is to be believed, they found a kilo of coke & re-sold it to buy awesome vintage gear?

Wow that band is pretty good! I want to hear more

i totally read "chilean" as "from a chill place or a state of chilling"

jesus christ amoeba was insane-o last night with good records

the young big bill broonzy 1928-1935 (yazoo)
a collection of mountain banjo songs & tunes (county)
possesion and poetry in madagascar (ocora)
bohannon -- dance your ass off
anthology of african music: ba-benzele pygmies (unesco)
musical instruments 4: flutes and horns (hugh tracey's music of africa series)

moving has depleted my records-fund while i wait for the old security deposit, etc, so i seriously left 10-20 amazing african records in the bins. all the good ocora/unesco shit was priced like $18-25, so i dont feel like it's the deal of the century or anything, but if you want some really beautifully recorded african music, check out the SF amoeba international section this weekend!

maaaaaaan.