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Most of them came from flea markets or thrift stores or dollar bins in the past year or so. I am ignoring their existence more or more now that they are moved to a secluded corner of the living room plus one of the clasps in the back of the top closing-lid thingie part of my turntable broke, so I have to take it all the way off to play vinyl, a pain in the butt. If there are any that you feel I should have more sense of urgency about, definitely feel free to let me know. (Some of them I used to own before and got rid of, and just got copies again). (Some other ones I've played parts of once or twice, but I wound up changing my mind.)

Tatuzi Akiyama - Don't Forget to Boogie! (this came in the mail, actually)
April Wine - The Nature of the Beast
Anthony Braxton - Five Pieces 1975
Charlie - No Second Chance
Joey Dee & the Starlighters - Hey Let's Twist!
Die 3 Lauser - Im Ginzinger Weinbottich
Gruppo Sportivo - Design Moderne
Rev. Jesse Jackson The Country Preacher - I Am Somebody
The Lemon Pipers/1910 Fruitgum Co. - Checkmate (split album)
Loretta Lynn - When the Tingle Becomes a Chill**
The Motors - Approved By
National Lampoon - Radio Dinner
Carl Off - Carmina Burana (Bavarian Radio Orchestra and Chorus)
Carl Orff - Catulli Carmina (Chor de Deutschen Oper Berlin)
Gilbert O'Sullivan - Himself
Dimitri Schstakowisch - Sinfonie Nr. 4 c-moll op. 43/Sinfonie Nr. 9 Es-dur op. 70 (Moskauer Philharmonie Kyrill Kondraschin)
Sha Na Na - Hot Sox
Sylvester - Step II
R. Dean Taylor - I Think Therefore I Am
The Whispers - Imagination
*Dance Craze: The Best of British Ska Live!* (Chrysalis/2 Tone comp 1981)
*Disco Party* (2 LP Marlin Records comp 1979)
*Fantastic: 22 Original Hits 22 Original Stars* (K-Tel Canada comp 1973)

― xhuxk, Sunday, 23 October 2005 21:12 (twenty years ago)

Dimitri Schstakowisch - Sinfonie Nr. 4 c-moll op. 43/Sinfonie Nr. 9 Es-dur op. 70 (Moskauer Philharmonie Kyrill Kondraschin)

VERY NICE

― Masked Gazza, Sunday, 23 October 2005 21:14 (twenty years ago)

*Dancing The Night Away* by the motors was SO ruling my life last nite. But i forget what album it is on. It was on this virgin comp that i got this weekend.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 23 October 2005 21:21 (twenty years ago)

You're probably not going to like Charlie. They had a slew with arty hot chick/hot lips/hot legs-type covers and were a way frictionless thumpless Brit poppy hard rock band. Aimed straight at FM radio swill, not that it did them any good.

I think I liked Approved by the Motors, but I liked the one with the white cover, not with their faces on it, the best. I no longer remember which one Approved by is.

And April Wine's Nature of the Beast is workmanlike like most of their stuff. Does it have "Faster...Louder" or "21st Century Schizoid Man" on it? Or "If You See Kay" har, har?

― George the Animal Steele, Sunday, 23 October 2005 21:23 (twenty years ago)

that braxton is not so good, if it's the one i'm thinking of..

― Special Agent Dale Koopa (orion), Sunday, 23 October 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)

*Approved By* has the Motors' photo on the cover, does not have "Dancing the Night Away"

April Wine LP has none of those tracks, sigh.

And oops, I left out *Starcastle* by Starcastle.

― xhuxk, Sunday, 23 October 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)

DO NOT play the Starcastle unless you want to hear a wimped-out knockoff of early Yes.

Apparently the Akiyama album is like LaMonte Young playing with Foghat, although the one album I have by him is more abstract guitar work.

Play the Disco Party comp first as it will be the best album in the pile.

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Sunday, 23 October 2005 22:07 (twenty years ago)

I have that 1973 K-Tel comp too! I bought it just for the A Foot In Coldwater song, which I think/hope you'll like (a good Nazareth ballad?). I should listen to some of the rest some time. The Stampeders, Crowbar, and BTO songs are FM radio standards and none are bad IIRC. The Chilliwack song's OK but no "Fly At Night". Lighthouse was one of my last guitar teacher's favourite bands!

If you've never heard Carmina Burana before, you should definitely listen to that. But I'm guessing that you know the piece and just wanted a particular recording/performance.

― Sundar (sundar), Sunday, 23 October 2005 22:11 (twenty years ago)

Starcastle has Terry Luttrell, the first vocalist for REO Speedwagon, and the guy who appeared on the first REO album, which was midwest boogie. Listen if you want to hear the big change to Brit prog, amazing since REO and Starcastle were both Champagne bands, I think.
Makes sense, the Illini frat party goers would've thought both were aces. "Lady of the Lake" was the Yes rip that got played on FM some. I had the album. Never sought to replace it with CD.

So what Stampeders song was on the K-Tel? "Hit the Road Jack?"

― George the Animal Steele, Sunday, 23 October 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

"Wild Eyes". I just put on the record. I forgot to mention that BTO's "Let It Ride" contains a one-chord predecessor to the "Paradise City" riff. I remember it bugged me when I first heard "Paradise City" (Gr 5 or 6).

― Sundar (sundar), Sunday, 23 October 2005 22:23 (twenty years ago)

(The Chilliwack song is "There's Something I Like About That", the Crowbar is "Oh What a Feeling", the Lighthouse is "Sunny Days").

― Sundar (sundar), Sunday, 23 October 2005 22:24 (twenty years ago)

"Sunny Days" was one of the ones they had success with, along with "One Fine Morning." I like Lighthouse, still have their live record which works better than Chicago's live monstrosity.

― George the Animal Steele, Sunday, 23 October 2005 22:28 (twenty years ago)

Ha ha, not on mine, Sundar! The Stampeders song on mine is "Minstrel Gypsy"; no Chilliwack or A Foot in Coldwater (who I never heard of til now) or BTO on it at all (though "Let It Ride" has been one of my favorite BTO tunes since high school - they were HUGE in suburban Detroit in my freshman year 1974-75, maybe the most popular rock band in the school, kids these days have no idea I swear). I bought it for "Swamp Witch" by Jim Stafford (which just *sounded* promising) and "Bongo Rock" by the Incredible Bongo Band (whose album I unbelievably retardedly got rid of 10 or 15 or 20 years ago). Also has "Hocus Pocus," "Brother Louie" (Stories version), "Litte Willy," "Uneasy Rider," "Rocket Man", etc -- but it definitely says made & litho'd in Canada; lists Winnipeg & Montreal addresses.

>If you've never heard Carmina Burana before, you should definitely listen to that. But I'm guessing that you know the piece and just wanted a particular recording/performance.<

Actually, I just buy any super-cheap versions I see. I know NOTHING about "particular recordings" of classical type music; I'm completely uncultured when it comes to that.

xp: No Lighthouse or Crowbar on my K-Tel comp, either. And very low Canadian content!

― xhuxk, Sunday, 23 October 2005 22:33 (twenty years ago)

haha "Sunny Days" is way more familiar than I thought it would be. Do radio stations still play this?

xpost: Oh, that's funny. I guess mine is actually called Canadian Mint: 22 Original Hits/Original Stars not Fantastic: 22 Original Hits/Original Stars.

I'd uploaded the AFIC song here when we were doing the 70s poll: http://www.geocities.com/sundar_subramanian2001/FootInColdWater1.mp3

At the people didn't seem to like it as much as Chilliwack's "Fly At Night":
http://www.geocities.com/sundar_subramanian2001/FlyAtNight1.mp3

― Sundar (sundar), Sunday, 23 October 2005 22:40 (twenty years ago)

"At the time"

― Sundar (sundar), Sunday, 23 October 2005 22:43 (twenty years ago)

haha "Sunny Days" is way more familiar than I thought it would be. Do radio stations still play this?

I haven't heard since I was a teenager. Chicago endured. Lighthouse and Chase didn't. Who remembers Chase's "Get It On"? But I've no Chicago in the collection anymore, just Lighthouse Live.

― George the Animal Steele, Monday, 24 October 2005 01:36 (twenty years ago)

"plus one of the clasps in the back of the top closing-lid thingie part of my turntable broke, so I have to take it all the way off to play vinyl, a pain in the butt."

chuck, you should leave the cover off anyway, your records will sound better. dust turntable accordingly. i use swiffers. although i do leave the cover on when not in use. covers can mute sound. cause reverberations, etc...(especially if you like to play music loud like i do)

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 24 October 2005 01:48 (twenty years ago)

"DO NOT play the Starcastle unless you want to hear a wimped-out knockoff of early Yes."

Given that they do it so well (esp. on that first album), exactly why they are kinda awesome.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 24 October 2005 01:50 (twenty years ago)

National Lampoon - Radio Dinner

I wish some pomo game show producer would make a real "Catch It and You Keep It."

― M. V. (M.V.), Monday, 24 October 2005 01:54 (twenty years ago)

Radio Dinner has some good laughs on it.

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 24 October 2005 01:57 (twenty years ago)

I'd like to hear that R. Dean Taylor album.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 24 October 2005 02:00 (twenty years ago)

It has "Gotta See Jane" and "Indiana Wants Me" on it.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 24 October 2005 02:08 (twenty years ago)

I saw Tetuzi Akiyama the other night, expecting 3 pluck/min and silence, which he did for the first half (and nicely too), but then kicked out with some rocking ZZ Top meets Henry Flynt shit later. Total surprise. Some of the grey older dudes seemed to leave in disapproval actually, but it was fucking ace.

The merch stall chap reckoned that Boogie thing was the closest thing on record, anyway.

― MESTEMA (davidcorp), Monday, 24 October 2005 07:52 (twenty years ago)

R. Dean Taylor should drop by here sometime; we surely do L-U-V him.

ABTMotors is their second; it has "Airport," a great knockoff of that whole "My Baby Loves Lovin'"/Tony Burrows 1970 Top 40 thing.

George, I remember "Get It On" very well. (I was 8!) Bill Chase and several other members of the band died in a plane crash, according to Greil Marcus, who also notes that they were on the way to Vegas.

Lighthouse, of course, launched SNL/film-music macher Howard Shore.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 24 October 2005 08:23 (twenty years ago)

Starcastle, ugh. Does anybody remember Lake? They blew, too.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 24 October 2005 08:24 (twenty years ago)

Radio Dinner includes "Magical Misery Tour," which is definitely worth playing if you haven't heard it (vicious and funny John Lennon parody mostly constructed out of quotes from his early-'70s interviews, set to a Plastic Ono Band type orchestration), and a little Bob Dylan-goes-K-Tel riff whose title I forget.

― Douglas (Douglas), Monday, 24 October 2005 09:46 (twenty years ago)

*Tatuzi Akiyama - Don't Forget to Boogie! (this came in the mail, actually)

Chuck, I gave this record to you!
or rather, dropped it off one day. it is more ZZ Top/Henry Flynt than the other descriptor. although it also has a high guitar practice as field recording aspect to it, too.

― Beta (abeta), Monday, 24 October 2005 12:53 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah. I definitely tried playing that once, and either didn't hear enough ZZ Top or enough Henry Flynt, I'm not sure which. Actually, I think the ZZ/Foghat claims are probably baloney. But I will try again!

― xhuxk, Monday, 24 October 2005 13:02 (twenty years ago)

Awww man, I've been looking for that Akiyama record! I heard a track from it recently that just slayed me.

― mcd (mcd), Monday, 24 October 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

Radio Dinner includes "Magical Misery Tour," which is definitely worth playing if you haven't heard it (vicious and funny John Lennon parody mostly constructed out of quotes from his early-'70s interviews, set to a Plastic Ono Band type orchestration), and a little Bob Dylan-goes-K-Tel riff whose title I forget.
-- Douglas

"Remember those fabulous '60s?"

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 24 October 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

forgot about this track! and yeah, it's great.

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 24 October 2005 14:10 (twenty years ago)

genius is pain! tony hendra used to be funny.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 24 October 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, my first rock band hard two guys in it also in the high school marching band. The marching band learned it for a football game. The guys couldn't stop talking about it or the album it came off.

― George the Animal Steele, Monday, 24 October 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

"I was the Walrus. Paul wasn't the Walrus. I was saying that to be nice, but I was actually the Walrus."

― M. V. (M.V.), Monday, 24 October 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)

"I think Mick is a joke with all that dancing"

― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 24 October 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

R. Dean Taylor - I Think Therefore I Am

I just got this. You should play it. Especially the Taylor compositions on it even beyond "Indiana Wants Me" and "Gotta See Jane": "Woman Alive" and "Back Street."

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 07:16 (twenty years ago)

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