on this thread i talk briefly about some of the 250+ tapes i bought on ebay. exciting, huh?

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listening to:

Sola - Blues In The East (Axiom - 1994)

Trad Chinese folk courtesy of Liu Sola + Laswell funkisms courtesy of Bill Laswell, James Blood Ulmer, Henry Threadgill, Fernando Saunders, Jerome Bailey, Amina Claudine Myers.

I like it! And it's a concept album. First side is a long piece entitled *The Broken Zither*. I love zithers! Sola reminds me of Kate Bush sometimes. If Kate Bush were Chinese and hung out with Bill Laswell. I could maybe do without the griot beat poetry from Umar Bin Hassan, but, hey, it was the 90's. Those were wild times.

― scott seward, Thursday, 1 March 2007 15:26 (seventeen years ago) link

i'll bet this thing sold, like, ten whole copies.

― scott seward, Thursday, 1 March 2007 15:26 (seventeen years ago) link

http://music.hyperreal.org/labels/axiom/pics/sola.jpg

― scott seward, Thursday, 1 March 2007 15:33 (seventeen years ago) link

shows what i know:

The album climbed to number nine on the Billboard world music charts in 1995.

― scott seward, Thursday, 1 March 2007 15:36 (seventeen years ago) link

next:

Super Mix 1991 No.2

The cover of this tape is an illustration of a robotic arm reaching out of a large broken egg. There is a rainbow ribbon inside the egg with the robot. The tape is Israeli. All the songs are preformed by, presumably, Israeli musicians. Track-list: Sadness part 1, Justify My Love, Cult Of Snap, Swing, The Power, Mentirosa, Turtle Power, Oops Up, Tom's Diner, Freedom, Rockin' Over The Beat, It's On You, Ritmo De La Noche, Don't Miss The Partyline, This Beat Is Technotronic, Get Up(Before The Night Is Over), Venus.

OY!

― scott seward, Thursday, 1 March 2007 15:52 (seventeen years ago) link

I think I actually prefer the Israeli Snap to the actual Snap.

― scott seward, Thursday, 1 March 2007 15:53 (seventeen years ago) link

fake tom's diner is pretty bad. even by fake israeli cover tune standards.

― scott seward, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:04 (seventeen years ago) link

'Chinese music always sets me free
Angular banjoes
Sound good to me'

― Charlie Howard, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Now playing:

Tim Weisberg - Night Rider

Best-of from suave 70's flutesman. I don't have much use for Tim. Sad, I know. I mean, the 70's were lousy with flutes, if you are digging deep enough to hit Tim Weisberg, you may have dug too far. Plus, i kinda always hated the cover of that Fogelberg/Weisberg album whenever i saw it. And I have see it a lot! And I have no desire to ever hear it. The Frampton voice box action on "Katie" is kinda cool. But the song itself is horrible. Tim's faux-Loggins voice is nothing to write home about either. Original vinyl issue from 79/80 looked like this:

http://www.coolforever.com/temp/timweisberg_nightride.JPG

On the 1986 reissue, Tim is riding on the OTHER SIDE OF THE ROAD! Spooky. Plus, there is no exclamation point after the title. Even MCA had lost their Weisbergian enthuisiasm.

― scott seward, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:20 (seventeen years ago) link

how do you get to hear all this music, scott? i'm amazed

― Charlie Howard, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link

check the thread-title, charlie!

― scott seward, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:24 (seventeen years ago) link

haha, nonetheless amazed you get to listen to it all quasi-properly, with all the doom/stoner/death/sludge/drone/black metal you got in regular rotation. kudos

― Charlie Howard, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:29 (seventeen years ago) link

i bought about 70 tapes from a guy last year on ebay. i think he said he was a DJ. why on earth would a Dj use tapes? anyway there were tons of Kickin' Techno, Killer Techno, Speed Limit BPM and other comps, Doug Lazy, etc. And, weirdly, a Sterolab tape - I forget which album off hand. Awesome!

― artdamages, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:50 (seventeen years ago) link

was playing:

Betsey - S/T (Metal Blade - 1988)

Betsey used to be Bitch. Remember Bitch?

http://www.vinylworld.dk/images/heavy%20(14).JPG

maybe they thought they could sell more records as Betsey? anyway, Betsey has a good rock voice. Benetar-like. And the album is good! You know, kinda poppy, but still a metal band.

― scott seward, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link

now playing:

http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/d7/ef/0503b220dca0befe45823010._AA200_.L.jpg

1. Man Size Love - Klymaxx, Rod Temperton
2. Sweet Freedom - Michael McDonald, Michael McDonald, Rod Temperton
3. I Just Wanna Be Loved - Ready for the World, Rod Temperton
4. Running Scared - Rod Temperton, Fee Waybill
5. Once in a Lifetime Groove - New Edition, , Freddie Perren,
6. I Know What I Want - Budd Ellison, , Patti LaBelle, Howie Rice
7. Say You Really Want Me - Dick Rudolph, , , Kim Wilde
8. El Chase [Instrumental] - Jim Flamberg, Rod Temperton, Larry Williams
9. Never Too Late to Start - Tommy Funderburk, Rod Temperton

― scott seward, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:38 (seventeen years ago) link

i'd forgotten how much i like "Sweet Freedom" by Michael McDonald! wait, did i ever like it before? i remember it from radio. sounds really good to me now. MM did the 80's up right, if you ask me.

― scott seward, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:40 (seventeen years ago) link

And i dig "Man Size Love" by Klymaxx. Maybe not as much as "Giant Sized Baby Thing" by Bow Wow Wow, but it's close!

― scott seward, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:43 (seventeen years ago) link

I remember seeing a DJ at a roller-skating rink in about 1991 (Binghamton, NY) who only used tapes. I thought it was pretty odd at the time. I guess maybe you couldn't really call him a DJ - he was just a guy with some fancy tape decks... I wonder if he could pitch-shift?

― chr1sb0y, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Bitch was one of those bands that the PMRC loved to use as an example with songs like "Live for the Whip" ... guess Tipper didn't understand S&M.

― zaxxon25, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:47 (seventeen years ago) link

I thought the Betsey album was a disco album at first. The cover is just Betsey dressed up for a night on the town. No whips. They toned it all down. Still pretty good though.

The Fee Waybill Running Scared tune is cool electro-Survivor Over The Top arm-wrestling montage goodness. Really, it could fit most 80's montages. nice synth action.

― scott seward, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:53 (seventeen years ago) link

now playing:

Men & Volts - Cheer Up

this is on 50 skedillion watts records. came out in 1990. i had always seen the name, but never heard anything. i guess i was expecting some sorta indie noisey weirdness. i don't really know what this is. kinda reminds me of jam bands. i think. i mean, some of the songs sound like what i imagine phish songs might sound like if i ever listened to them. kind of a nerd(hippie) vibe. not terrible, but nothing i would want to hear again really. david greenberger wrote most of the songs. he of old people fame. fun fact: he lives next door to my parents. wow, come to think of it, one of the dudes from god street wine lives next to my parents too! wonder if he was a men & volts fan.

― scott seward, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:16 (seventeen years ago) link

now playing:

Fastbreak Soundtrack

http://www.quasimodobell.com/MusicData/9999%20P/PRESTON%60%20BILLY/FastBreak%20%5BUS%5D,%20,%201979,%20MOTOWN,%20SOUNDTRACK,%20M7-915R1,%20LP,%20,/__FIXED_Fast%20Break%20us.jpg

which is really good! On Motown. great funky instrumentals. The Billy Preston & Syreeta tune is cool. Music by David Shire & James Di Pasquale. I saw Fastbreak when it came out in the theatre. I really dug it. I really liked The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh too. I might not have the highest standards when it comes to basketball comedies though. Fastbreak had cool Jack Davis poster art. The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh had, like, Crazy magazine poster art. I think that says something.

― scott seward, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:29 (seventeen years ago) link

wow, i had completely forgotten that "With You I'm Born Again" was from Fastbreak. great song.

― scott seward, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:33 (seventeen years ago) link

now playing:

Oliver Magnum - S/T

from 89. only real release by these powermetallers. good stuff too. came out on restless/colossal.

http://www.gammacide.com/f6-12b.jpg

― scott seward, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Would be great if that's how the album cover actually looked!

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Was it you who bought all of these tapes just to get one album when you were drunk? Or am I thinking of someone else?

― The Brainwasher, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:53 (seventeen years ago) link

that was me. the idiot! who really wanted to hear pure by godflesh when he was drunk and then realized that he no longer had it on cd. but i am enjoying the fruits of my idiocy. and i will continue this thread tomorrow like an idiot too.

― scott seward, Thursday, 1 March 2007 23:04 (seventeen years ago) link

this thread is fun. i love cassettes. i dont get to listen to mine anymore because my car is out of commission.

― artdamages, Friday, 2 March 2007 00:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Scott threads where he talks about all the records he's listening to are always fun. I love that he digs Michael McDonald.

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, 2 March 2007 01:56 (seventeen years ago) link

listening to:

Jesse Jaymes - Thirty Footer In Your Face (Delicious Vinyl - 1991)

http://www.starzik.com/album_thumb.php?ID=25939&H=160&W=160

I don't remember this at ALL. little white dude does a vanilla young mc thang with Matt Dike producing. Great Zombies sample! Young MC fly girl back-up vocal exhortations on EVERY song. Or maybe it just seems that way.

― scott seward, Friday, 2 March 2007 18:36 (seventeen years ago) link

now playing:

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B0009ALRVC.01-A28L56JCA0LU7H._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V44777894_.jpg

1986 film starring Tom Hanks and Jackie Gleason. Track listing: 1. Nothing in Common (03:30) Performed by Thompson Twins 2. Burning of the Heart (04:16) Performed by Richard Marx 3. If It Wasn't Love (04:17) Performed by Carly Simon 4. Over the Weekend (03:57) Performed by Nick Heyward 5. Loving Strangers (David's Theme) (04:03) Performed by Christopher Cross 6. Until You Say You Love Me (04:53) Performed by Aretha Franklin 7. Don't Forget to Dance (04:36) Performed by The Kinks 8. No One's Gonna Love You (04:13) Performed by Real to Reel 9. Seven Summers (04:38) Performed by The Cruzados 10. Instrumental Theme (02:07) Performed by Pat Leonard

― scott seward, Friday, 2 March 2007 18:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Tommy Thompson really kinda sounds like Paddy Prefab on that title hit. Don't know if that ever occurred to me a zillion years ago. That song is really Prefab+Howard Jones. Kinda. Richard Marx blows. I just saw Carly the other day. She looked fab. I wonder what the Nick Heyward song sounds like? I will have to wait and see.

― scott seward, Friday, 2 March 2007 18:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Jesse Jaymes - Thirty Footer In Your Face (Delicious Vinyl - 1991)

The video for "Shake It Like A White Girl" is sadly not on YouTube.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 2 March 2007 18:52 (seventeen years ago) link

aww, i'll bet it's good.

nothing in common soundtracks go for 60 bucks and up on amazon! if any amazon customers read this, you can have my tape copy for free. christopher cross why you make teeth hurt!

― scott seward, Friday, 2 March 2007 19:04 (seventeen years ago) link

now playing:

http://www.discogs.com/image/R-399439-1161897692.jpeg

― scott seward, Friday, 2 March 2007 19:07 (seventeen years ago) link

whoops.

― scott seward, Friday, 2 March 2007 19:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Various - M. Walk Productions Featuring The Union

A1 M. Walk & King Saul Def Tunes (3:50)
A2 Double J (2) & Traysky Girls On The Tip (4:02)
A3 Quiet Storm & Donny (D.D.N.) The Way It's Done (4:22)
A4 Funky Fresh Comin' Up Short (4:32)
A5 Tabb I Rock Hard (4:30)
A6 M. Walk & King Saul I'm The King (3:50)
B1 Union (3) The Union (5:26)
B2 M. Walk & King Saul Take It To 'Em (4:22)
B3 Laurie & Angela Get Off My Tip (3:08)
B4 Tabb I'm Just Amazing (3:41)
B5 Funky Fresh Positive Power (3:55)
B6 Double J (2) & Traysky No One Can Stop This (3:03)

― scott seward, Friday, 2 March 2007 19:09 (seventeen years ago) link

this album is SUPERDUPER. funki cali action.

― scott seward, Friday, 2 March 2007 19:10 (seventeen years ago) link

1989. talk about out-of-print. this is pretty hard to find on vinyl too. i'm happy with tape action.

― scott seward, Friday, 2 March 2007 19:13 (seventeen years ago) link

just awesome. seriously. the gangsta storm was gathering...but this tape is all about old skool battles.

― scott seward, Friday, 2 March 2007 19:28 (seventeen years ago) link

"nothing in common soundtracks go for 60 bucks and up on amazon!"

WHY?!?!?

― Alex in SF, Friday, 2 March 2007 19:34 (seventeen years ago) link

beats me. it's an out of print thing. i wouldn't understand.

― scott seward, Friday, 2 March 2007 19:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Movie memorabilia collectors?

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, 2 March 2007 20:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Can't be the music, now can it?

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, 2 March 2007 20:07 (seventeen years ago) link

listening to the awesome swedish thrash of hexenhaus from 1988:

http://www.visual-vinyl.co.uk/scans/rock/hex1.jpg

― scott seward, Friday, 2 March 2007 20:07 (seventeen years ago) link

for some reason, the Hexenhaus cover reminds me of this Morbid Angel cover:

http://www.morbidangel.com/images/blessed_cover.jpg

― scott seward, Friday, 2 March 2007 20:08 (seventeen years ago) link

!!!!!!

― scott seward, Friday, 2 March 2007 20:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Hexenhaus was first though. Album prize goes to Morbid Angel however. Though, like I said, Hexenhaus had a good thing going.

― scott seward, Friday, 2 March 2007 20:10 (seventeen years ago) link

oh, also, i collapsed onto the couch and listened to Bolt Thrower from the pile of tapes too. i heart bolt thrower.

― scott seward, Friday, 2 March 2007 20:11 (seventeen years ago) link

so I'm listening now to ace 80's power metal band Scanner (who i think might even still be around) and the american cover of their album Terminal Earth from 1989 is HORRIBLE. TERRIBLE band shot cropped into what looks like the window of a spaceship. But you can't actually SEE the spaceship or anything. It looks more like some sci-fi video monitor or something. LAME. they TOTALLY wanted U.S. idjits to think this band was Warrant. And it DIDN'T WORK. cuz really they are just good old fashioned muscular future-obsessed thrashing power metal. and highly influential in power metal circles at that. anyway, here is what the U.S. distributor of Noise Intl. releases DIDN'T WANT YOU TO SEE:

http://img434.imageshack.us/img434/714/scannerterminalearthfrontbb5.jpg

― scott seward, Friday, 2 March 2007 20:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Now playing: this soundtrack to the movie Bad Guys is actually a perfect reflection of a movie that stars Ruth Buzzi and Sgt. Slaughter. Precious Metal, The Kane Gang, The Redskins, Spyder Turner, Hand Tools, Robert John, AND a Stars on 45 medley of Stax hits! VERY limited web-presence for this movie.

― scott seward, Friday, 2 March 2007 21:57 (seventeen years ago) link

LOVE IT

http://cover6.cduniverse.com/MuzeAudioArt/180/180359.jpg

― scott seward, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:06 (seventeen years ago) link

also love: The Boom Boyz - The Bottom "miami miami get yer bass lines here" sung to schoolhouse rock adverb tune. whole thing is wonderful though.

http://i23.ebayimg.com/04/i/000/81/b8/5c20_1.JPG

― scott seward, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:11 (seventeen years ago) link

this is not exciting at all

but i'm drunk so..what

― rizzx, Saturday, 3 March 2007 00:07 (seventeen years ago) link

its not exciting to me..at this time

― rizzx, Saturday, 3 March 2007 00:07 (seventeen years ago) link

maybe that last cover is somewhat exciting

― rizzx, Saturday, 3 March 2007 00:08 (seventeen years ago) link

i remember when i translated allllll those Blessed Are the Sick lyrics to DUTCH

fer real...that was exciting

― rizzx, Saturday, 3 March 2007 00:08 (seventeen years ago) link

my wife is a dutch translator. but she's not a big death metal fan.

― Maria :D, Saturday, 3 March 2007 00:57 (seventeen years ago) link

hey wait that was me scott. not maria.

― scott seward, Saturday, 3 March 2007 01:02 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm totally gonna translate this:

Human Animal!

noise voor minimal fans, minimal voor noise hoofden. Olson op saxofoon = sweeeeeet

volgens mij is dit hun beste totnutoe. niet zo extreem confronterend en brutaal als Burned Mind (ook lekker maar toch). Human Animal is geniepiger.

iemand hem al gehoord?

rizzx (rizzx) on Thursday, September 7, 2006 4:40 AM (5 months ago)

Human Animal!

noise for minimal fans, minimal for noise hooves. Olsen Twins + saxophone = sweet

vulgar hun tomatoes are extreme confrontations and brutal for brutal minds (the licker of the torch). Human Animal is a genie pig!

heard any good jokes?

― scott seward, Saturday, 3 March 2007 01:13 (seventeen years ago) link

okay, i don't think i can listen to this one:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ae/TheWildSwans3.jpg

― scott seward, Saturday, 3 March 2007 02:31 (seventeen years ago) link

i'll try though.

― scott seward, Saturday, 3 March 2007 02:32 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, that had to go away. now:

http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000002K99.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― scott seward, Saturday, 3 March 2007 02:41 (seventeen years ago) link

wotta man. genius freak.

― scott seward, Saturday, 3 March 2007 02:46 (seventeen years ago) link

great album by stevie's ex.

that tim weissberg cover takes me back to record store days. i once pretended to like that awful LP he did with dan fogeldouche in a failed seduction attempt. rock and roll memories

― m coleman, Saturday, 3 March 2007 02:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Memories, anyway.

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Saturday, 3 March 2007 03:02 (seventeen years ago) link

haha. ugh, i'm too tired to listen to anything but metal and miami bass. and i'm scared of some of these tapes. i don't think i really wanna know what an entire love spit love album sounds like.

now playing:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/23/Helstar-Nosferatu.jpg/180px-Helstar-Nosferatu.jpg

― scott seward, Saturday, 3 March 2007 03:30 (seventeen years ago) link

and i REALLY like the helstar album. sounds lovely. late-80's power/thrash.

― scott seward, Saturday, 3 March 2007 03:32 (seventeen years ago) link

weirdness:

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/142192.jpg

― scott seward, Sunday, 4 March 2007 21:30 (seventeen years ago) link

kinda bad weirdness.

― scott seward, Sunday, 4 March 2007 21:31 (seventeen years ago) link

and this was so promising, and yet...

http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/78/7d/d47f124128a007bed3577010._AA240_.L.jpg

― scott seward, Sunday, 4 March 2007 21:34 (seventeen years ago) link

refusing to restrict himself to the warm confines of soft rock, Dan Fogelberg decided to "tackle" jazz

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/d1/30/df3992c008a09b9c21488010.L.jpg

― m coleman, Sunday, 4 March 2007 21:43 (seventeen years ago) link

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