today i got dave burrell's echo. get back reissue stylee, but cheap/used.
― ian, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 03:43 (sixteen years ago) link
I think the new Dead Raven Choir is good! The production seems fuller, even though it's still primarily growling and brittle guitar. There's more violin screech than I remember from his other stuff (of which I've heard admittedly little, only a few records. i think they had "wolves" in the title?)
― ian, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 03:45 (sixteen years ago) link
ha, that describes like six or seven. I have the blistering 3LP box and MP3s of a buncha Jandek-like lonely thump and moan. curious about the new one, is it vinyl-only?
― sleeve, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 05:21 (sixteen years ago) link
RIGHT NOW I AM LISTENING TO POCO FOR THE SCOTT SEWARD.
― ian, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 05:27 (sixteen years ago) link
finally there is another guy at work who likes poco and Tusk and into that general "guys wearing corduroy, plaid, cowboy hats or any combination thereof on the cover" aesthetic. we have talked about poco significantly. he wants me to trade him a terry melcher LP and a Happy & Artie Traum LP (2nd one, "Double Back" just sold on ebay for $20) for royal trux "twin infinitives" but i KNOW I listen to Happy & Artie way more than I'd listen to twin infinitives. BUT.. my happy & artie is not mint, so if I upgrade that and trade my lesser copy??
i am going to try to wrangle a happy & artie traum interview.
― ian, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 05:29 (sixteen years ago) link
guys 'cmon, you gotta talk about vinyl more.
i am listening to the hot wax of "Henry Flynt & Nova'billy." Before was Richard Youngs & Andrew Paine "Mauve Dawn" and this morning on the wake-up tip was a melange of Ian Matthews from the "Later That Same Year" and "Valley Hi" LPs.
― ian, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 18:36 (sixteen years ago) link
I remember that the "Twin Infinitives" LP (besides being very disturbing) sports one of the thickest cardboard sleeves I have ever seen (at least the inital gatefold version did.)
― kwhitehead, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 19:09 (sixteen years ago) link
guys 'cmon, you gotta talk about vinyl more
Sure. Was at the St. Vincent DePaul thrift store last week, and picked up:
Baja Marimba Band - For Animals Only, 'cuz I remembered liking the cover as a kid. Terrible, terrible record, as it turns out. Also includes perhaps the least funny funny liner notes ever written.
Russ Morgan - There Goes That Song Again, for the magnificently awful cover art, which I will modify to suit my sleeveless copy of the 1st Stooges LP. Music is at least as bad as the BMB, but that hardly matters.
Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherazade, which I thought might be nice to have around, the vinyl's in beautiful shape, but it's a flat and lifeless recording. So it goes.
Grand Total: 75 cents, plus tax. Not sure I got my money's worth. For another buck-fifty, I got a CD copy of John Fahey & His Orchestra - After the Ball, which isn't anywhere near bad, and a 30-minute VHS tape of old Roger Ramjet cartoons. They're ... okay.
― contenderizer, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 19:57 (sixteen years ago) link
i would talk about vinyl more but i'm kinda sick. also, i haven't bought anything in, like, a week! i know, right. you know what sounded superduper to me today: my pristine 1st german pressing of roberta flack & donny hathaway. *sigh* it's like donny is in my lap. and roberta too! but it's cool cuz my lap is big enough to box with god.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 20:04 (sixteen years ago) link
still playing weirdo 80's country singles i got in the mail too a week or two ago. choice labels. examples:
crowe brothers
titanic
sun rize
high cotton
rhinestone
ranger
angry armadillo
hole in one
whirlwind
black gold
tall texan
midnight gold
seeds
prairie dust
bell star
hal kat kountry
peppercorn
high tech
equa
burgundy
moonshine
joy-bean
osprey
grinder's switch
natasha dawn
pick hits: steven lee cook's "Please Play More Kenny Rogers", Bruce Poose's "Hopalong Sissy", and "Texas Jeans" by Pepper Martin & His Texas Band.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 20:14 (sixteen years ago) link
now playing: Focus 3. double vinyl. German pressing. sounds great. better than that crappy-ass genesis album i was listening to today.
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/4107SJRX0JL._SS500_.jpg
― scott seward, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 23:08 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm in the middle of packing the records I mentioned upthread, to send to the UK. It looks like it'll be about $350 by priority airmail. Anyone have any tips on freight companies? Fedex corporate rates are good, but we don't have an account with them nor do we intend to open one, really.
― ian, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 23:10 (sixteen years ago) link
i mean, i don't usually have a problem with Impulse!/ABC/Dunhill vinyl. is Trespass famous for being poorly recorded? Or is it a U.K. pressing -vs- U.S. pressing kinda thing? i'd never heard the album until today. my copy is in decent shape. not perfect. it's a radio station promo copy. definitely got played by stoner deejays a bunch.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 23:11 (sixteen years ago) link
why don't you just send them thru the post office?
― scott seward, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 23:12 (sixteen years ago) link
we are sending them through the post office!
― ian, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 23:15 (sixteen years ago) link
there's a weight limit on first class airmail, so we have to do priority cuz each box is gonna be maybe 30 lbs. three cartons inside a 12" cube with layers of peanuts in between all layers. extra cardboard on the sides and in the cartoons.
― ian, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 23:16 (sixteen years ago) link
it's gonna be 3 boxes at approx 30lb and 1 box at slightly less, maybe 20-25.
― ian, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 23:17 (sixteen years ago) link
so what's the deal with fedex then. i'm confused.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 23:22 (sixteen years ago) link
wait, who sampled the song "Focus III"? arghhhhhh, i can hear it, but i can't think.....the organ line specifically.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 23:26 (sixteen years ago) link
got some stuff at home i'm going to pull for a possible DJ set.
ramp - come into knowledge baby huey - the baby huey story andre williams - rib tips and pig snoots johnnie taylor - raw blues
this is all under consideration for a set which would follow some garage rock and girl group stuff a couple other friends are spinning. i might just end up playing some garage as well instead of 70s soul, because i just might not have enough. but then again i might just go to a record store next week and stock up on cheap 7"s and give it a go.
― omar little, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 23:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Wickerman soundtrack is sooo good. The first song, and the one after "Landlord's Daughter." And "Landlord's Daughter" i suppose, but that just makes me giggle. what a silly scene in the movie.
― ian, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 23:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Some nice new releases on my preffered format:
-D Charles Speer "After Hours" - Rural/country sike from Brooklyn, members of NNCK & Sunburned -Raven reissue LP (private Ohio seventies scuzzed out blooze/biker/junkie rock.)
― ian, Thursday, 31 January 2008 20:39 (sixteen years ago) link
i don't mean to brag, but i just arranged a deal w/this dude on another message board to get all these (in near mint cond.) for only $45 :):):):):)
Dr. Dre - Deep Cover 12" Black Sheep - The Choice Is Yours 12" Cocoa Brovaz - Super Brooklyn 12" Grand Master Flash & The Furious Five - Greatest Messages LP KMD - Black Bastards LP Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx LP
― M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, 31 January 2008 20:43 (sixteen years ago) link
dooooood
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 31 January 2008 21:14 (sixteen years ago) link
envy u so hard
envy u, so hard
― omar little, Thursday, 31 January 2008 21:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Playlist for today:
Deodato 2 - eumir deodato Enigma - keith murray headhunters - herbie ascension - coltrane
SO looking forward to the arrival of Crystals sometime this week.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 31 January 2008 21:19 (sixteen years ago) link
okay this is what i might be getting today, not set in stone, may switch things around a little:
cosmic jokers - galactic supermarket (nm orig in shrink) folklords - release the sunshine new reissue LP visitations LP on time-lag mingus mingus mingus mingus mingus fairport convention bbc sessions LP wickerman sdtrk,.
― ian, Thursday, 31 January 2008 21:40 (sixteen years ago) link
ok so "crystals" came in just now but i'm a little confused as to how exactly this counts as "sealed" what with a snip out of the corner, a slit halfway down the side, and a big hole in the shrinkwrap on the front.
still a deal though, i've seen VGs go for upwards of $35.
hearing it now.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 31 January 2008 22:16 (sixteen years ago) link
listening to newly acquired beautiful copy of "A Step Further" by Savoy Brown .. but as much as I enjoy collecting brit blues stuff (and indeed like some Youlden vocals) ... hearing the attempt to emulate Fleetwood Mac on "Life's A One Act Play" is depress-o. I think 'Looking On' is the only alb i'll ever truly love by these guys
― Stormy Davis, Friday, 1 February 2008 06:39 (sixteen years ago) link
been buying so much crap since tha '08 i don't know where to start though ... good times. mostly dollar bin stuff but hella fun. lotsa Sundazed/Scorpio type reishes too
― Stormy Davis, Friday, 1 February 2008 06:42 (sixteen years ago) link
just today:
Where? - Ron Carter & Eric Dolphy 2001 - Deodato
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 2 February 2008 08:05 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost fuck I wish I could find Grouper vinyl, was that mailorder?
-- sleeve, Thursday, 24 January 2008 01:20 (1 week ago) Bookmark Link
I think that 7" was possibly just off Boomkat in the UK. I ordered the 'Wide' LP after finding it on rateyourmusic listed as being put out on Sacramento label Weird Forest. I'm just off to pick it up from the post sorting office. Well, I think it's that..if not it's my other recent import purchase:
http://www.boomkat.com/media/stock_images/FR50_Cover.jpg
Kemialliset Ystävät's self/untitled from last year. Cheaper ordering direct from Fonal (£15ish inc postage) than buying their other stuff in stores for £20 or more.
Also picked up the Bug ft. Warrior Queen's 'Poison Dart' original 12" the other week.
― Mister Craig, Saturday, 2 February 2008 09:19 (sixteen years ago) link
been buying mostly dollar bin stuff but hella fun. lotsa Sundazed/Scorpio type reishes too
Like what?
I've acquired a few Scorpio reissues, too - only problem is, some of them I don't DJ in the club because the bass has been mixed down (like that excellent rock-funk album by Brothers Unlimited on Capitol).
― Rev. Hoodoo, Saturday, 2 February 2008 14:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Some 45's I acquired yesterday (haven't played them yet): - Marie Knight "Miracles"/"I Can't Sit Down" (credited to "Marie & Rex") (Carlton): Knight used to sing with Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and Rex Garvin has recorded some cult-fave soul records himself
- Five Americans - "Scrooge"/"Ignert Woman"; "Call On Me"/"Virginia Girl"; "Con Man"/"Lovin' Is Livin'" (all on Abnak): totally underrated garage-rock band from Texas...their big hits included "Western Union" and "I See The Light"
- Rocky Burnette - "Tired Of Toein' The Line"/"Boogie Down In Mobile, Alabama" (EMI America): "Tired" was Burnette's one hit, a fusion of rockabilly and power-pop. I have the album, but bought this 45 because the flip side isn't on the LP.
- Timi Yuro - "Something Bad On My Mind"/"Wrong" (Liberty).
Now these, I don't know much about, I just bought these 'cause they looked interesting and were cheap as dirt:
- Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan - "Big Black Bird"/"The Autumn Song" (Wayside) (the few songs I've heard by this duo seemed too corny for the room, but since a few people are going nuts over a recent reissue, thought I'd try this out for 50 cents)
- Freddy - "Forsaken, Forgotten Forever"/"The Boss Is Not Here" (MGM)
- Prediktors - "Sails & The Sea"/"Summer Holiday" (Imperial)
- Harper & Rowe - "Wake Me When It's Over"/"Here Comes Yesterday Again" (World Pacific)
- Flanagan - "Go My Way"/"Spin Spin" (Smash)
― Rev. Hoodoo, Saturday, 2 February 2008 14:33 (sixteen years ago) link
just discovered this thread. someone got SONNED (not me):
http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/2804/timberrrdw7.jpg
― sanskrit, Saturday, 2 February 2008 15:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Well, better to have broken shelves than broken records.
― Rev. Hoodoo, Saturday, 2 February 2008 15:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh man. I have dreams about my shelves collapsing. The brackets holding the boards onto the frame are all bendy in places, though they've given me no problems so far....
― ian, Saturday, 2 February 2008 15:34 (sixteen years ago) link
"Harper & Rowe"
i love their album on World Pacific, but it might not be for everybody.
― scott seward, Saturday, 2 February 2008 15:54 (sixteen years ago) link
"I think 'Looking On' is the only alb i'll ever truly love by these guys"
my faves have always been Raw Sienna, Lookin' In, Street Corner Talking, and Hellbound Train. and i love them a LOT.
― scott seward, Saturday, 2 February 2008 16:01 (sixteen years ago) link
"Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan"
it's funny, i found a pristine vinyl copy of Birds Of A Feather right around the time that it was reissued on CD and I definitely went crazy for it. The album as a whole is just so strange and entertaining. The sound, the song, their voices. One of my fave finds at the dumptique (the dump store here where everything is free).
― scott seward, Saturday, 2 February 2008 16:05 (sixteen years ago) link
anyway, i'm still listening to the stack of rekkerds i picked out last night to play:
Software - Digital-Dance:Magic Sounds From Percussion Island
Get Ready Rock Steady (Coxsone comp)
Henry Mancini - Charade Soundtrack
Al Melgard at the Chicago Stadium Organ
JR. Walker and the All Stars - Soul Session
Klymaxx - Meeting In The Ladies Room
Ska Authentic Volume 2 Presenting the Skatalites
Ashish Khan - Young Master of the Sarod
― scott seward, Saturday, 2 February 2008 16:09 (sixteen years ago) link
there are days when i think i could seriously become one of those soundtrack people. i'm always so jealous of genre specialists. makes life so much easier.
― scott seward, Saturday, 2 February 2008 16:12 (sixteen years ago) link
I believe this album was all early instrumentals recorded before Jr. made it to Motown and recorded "Shotgun." One look at the cover, featuring Jr. stripped down to his undershirt honking away on the sax sez it all. I don't think he was rockin' the T-shirt as a fashion statement, he was likely working up a serious sweat.
Anyway, this album is as raw as Motown ever got, right up there with the Contours' album.
― Rev. Hoodoo, Saturday, 2 February 2008 16:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Haha, re: pic. Someone didn't read the IKEA instructions properly, should be 90 degrees the other way. Ooops.
― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 2 February 2008 18:03 (sixteen years ago) link
I need to ship 116 items. Purchase and print shipping labels through PayPal
-- ian, Monday, January 21, 2008 12:45 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Link
i'm guessing with the quantity you're sending out that printable address stickers are a must. and i'm also guessing that with exchange rates so bad, 2/3 of sales are going to Europe/Japan. but is there any way to automate the customs forms process? because doing 80 by hand would really suck.
― sanskrit, Saturday, 2 February 2008 18:23 (sixteen years ago) link
we have a stamp for the address, but that's the best we got. on all priority international packages (over 4 lbs) the forms are BIGGER and more irritating and on carbon paper. I ended up shipping mose approx 116 items in four 12" cubes, doubled boxes alternating with layers of packing peanuts. Total cost? About $400.
― ian, Saturday, 2 February 2008 18:51 (sixteen years ago) link
great new Vinyl Anachronist column:
http://www.furious.com/perfect/vinyl63.html
― sleeve, Saturday, 2 February 2008 20:08 (sixteen years ago) link
just picked these up at the used record store:
Sandy Denny - Like an Old Fashioned Waltz Go Gos - Beauty and the Beat The English Beat - I Just Can't Stop It
― o. nate, Saturday, 2 February 2008 21:26 (sixteen years ago) link
" I'm currently seeing a very cute blonde woman who also happens to have a master's in American Literature and loves the Beatles and actually knows Big Star's story..."
Almost made me not want to go on reading that article, Sleeve! But, yeah, it's a good one, bragging aside.
― ian, Saturday, 2 February 2008 21:34 (sixteen years ago) link