The Death of the Musical Holy Grail?

re: upthread ~ I did find an LP copy of Biosphere - Cirque one month after I posted.

there are a handful of fave boogie 12”s that are particularly hard to find. at least one of them stats lists as “never sold” on discogs, but I know where to get a bootleg. won’t have the full sound though... eh, I’ll probably spring for it anyway

what are your favorite rare boogie 12"s? i've been getting into boogie lately

After thelategreat changed my life a few years ago (I still owe you something for that, man!), the idea of a "holy grail" in terms of music recordings has become even more nebulous to me.

It's possible that my favorite album ever made is still unheard by me and I just don't know about it yet.

rushomancy ~ here are some examples of what I spin/rate:

Idiater Edwards - Loving Sweet Devotion
Jagg - Take Time
Stinger J - Pretty Face
Brenda Hilliard - Give Me All Of Your Love
Jeanie Tracy - Can I Come Over And Play With You Tonight

some of these have been reissued or bootlegged

discogs (especially people's lists), rym (ditto) and youtube are my main sources for learning about boogie & italo-boogie, but I also rate the websites:
http://www.danceclassics.net and Greg Wilson's http://www.electrofunkroots.co.uk

awesome, thanks for the recommendations - i already know (and love) "take time", so i have no doubt your other recommendations are great as well! this massive comp called "boogie times - the great collectors" looks promising...

that Boogie Times series is great - there are at least 18 volumes. so far I've been turned on to around 40 tracks from those comps: some directly, some elsewhere. boogie collecting (on vinyl) is ridiculously expensive now. many reissues/bootlegs just don't cut it (though the Jagg and Idiater ones are strong) - the magic is usually in the original pressings.

Idiater Edwards - Loving Sweet Devotion

this is a jam

buncha stuff on oska tapes, a few japanese things i may never hear or encounter online. old enough to be resigned to that & feel no unquenchable thirst.
Mr Spock: "After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but is often true.”

I suppose my holy grail would be the Lilys 'Send in the Subs' CD-R, I can barely get a decent quality rip of it never mind an actual hard copy.

Oska!!! <3 fond memories there. I have the Mellow Fuzz tape if that happens to be one of them, at least I think I still have it

das ist fisch more than anything else!

I knew, in 1994, that the day would come when I would regret not ordering more of the Oska catalog from Jon

that day is today

*Jod

Just ordered one of my Holy Grails from Discogs.

The Bad Brains' second album, Rock For Light, is their greatest achievement on record, to my ear. I think it's even better than the "yellow tape." It was only in print on CD for a couple of years in 1986/7 on the tiny PVC label in the US and on the Line label in Germany. It was reissued by Caroline in 1991, but it was re-sequenced and sped up, so the songs were faster but HR's vocals were chipmunky and embarrassing. I've been trying to get a copy of either the PVC or the Line CD with the original mix for years, but have never had the money when one popped up.

Well, I just bought a very rare 2CD set from Line (again, I didn't even know this edition existed until about a week ago) that has the original mix of Rock For Light on Disc 1 and I Against I on Disc 2. $55 and worth every penny as far as I'm concerned.

v cool—if only there was some kind of "fix" for I Against I