2013 scores

oh so that's why I saw new copies of that lame album everywhere I went this weekend (xp)

in the mail:

Popol Vuh - Hosianna Mantra LP/7", Seligpreisung, Einsjager & Siebenjager
Edward Ka-Spel - The Patriot 7" EP

in Humboldt CA (Arcata/Eureka):

Athletico Spizz 80 - Hot Deserts 7", Central Pk 7" (I NEVER see these)
Patrik Fitzgerald - Backstreet Boys 7" EP (ditto)
Gate - Sunshine/Ives 7"
Paavoharju - 7" on Type (did not know this existed)
Robert Wyatt - Grass 7"
Weirdos - Action Design EP
Tragic Mulatto - Judo For The Blind (never see this band's recs either)
The Fall - I'm Frank 12" EP
Yoko Ono - Walking On Thin Ice re-edit 12"
Matthews Southern Comfort - 2nd LP
PJ Harvey - White Chalk (was holding out for a used copy, score)

local:

Michael Hurley - Land Of Lo-Fi
V/A - The Deep City Label on Numero

Colonel Poo, 45 Grave's Autopsy totally kicks ass, love it way more than Sleep In Safety (which I do still wish I had a copy of).

i kinda wanted one of the black friday RSD things this year --
michael hurley 78rpm covering E.C. Ball's "Early Bird Always Gets The Worm."

oh, i guess that cover is not on the 78... just on the new tribute comp.
still want the 78.

last time i checked, the store where moe works has a copy. ill grab it for you if so!

yup, we still got one at $19.98 (UGH) but i would imagine you should be able to find this locally.

as for the billy bragg and wilco:
a. it is a great record, you're crazy
b. yes, the price is insane but the lacquers were cut by the best in the business and the vinyl was pressed at a plant in germany that is supposed to be #1 in the world. with that in mind it's not actually as outrageously priced as some of the other stuff that came out friday (like the grateful dead acoustic set that i really want but is also $40+ for a double lp)

anyway fuck a RSD release. the only other things i wanted (townes and gene clark) were just limited color pressings and will come out on black vinyl (hopefully at a more reasonable price) so i'll hold off...

what were the guy & townes records? i'm so outta da record store loop. didn't even know the hurley was coming out til tompkins square posted abt it on facebook.

i traded a bunch of old cds to amoeba for that billy bragg/wilco reish, it was worth it. sounds great.

gene is white light demos. townes is unreleased studio and demos, early 70s. both on omnivore.

oh lol i misread gene clark for guy clark. jeeze.

fwiw I like the Wilco record and have had it on CD since it came out but I'm never gonna pay 40 bucks for something like that. "pressed at the world's top pressing plant" just doesn't mean anything to me ... maybe one day I'll be an audiophile like that but up to this point I'm just not.

really I guess my beef is somewhat with the price of new records in general, regular old double LPs are routinely 25 bucks now.

Hey Ian, there's an old warehouse here filled with junk and they have a crate of 78's, mostly still in sleeves. I almost just want the sleeves, labels like King, Coral, Vocalion, 4Star, and Columbia. Artist like Eddie Arnold and his Tennessee Plowboys, Lefty Frizzell, Hank Locklin, but there are a few odd ones, like artist with bagpipe accompaniment and whistling with string band. Some look unplayed, some are scuffed, and I don't know how much scuffing affects playback on 78's? They are a dollar each, are they worth buying? Or, would you want me to buy them for you? The guy said he would make a deal on the whole lot, probably $20?

@dmr. yeah, man, i'm right there with you re: not being an audiophile and not giving a shit about the plant but my point is that at least those wilco records legitimately cost more to manufacture than the other shit that's going for $30 single lps and $45 double lps or whatever.

i'd buy em all for $20. it's hard to tell w/o knowing the names of the artists, but lefty is great, early hank locklin can be good etc. scuffing is not a big deal on 78s tbh.

at least those wilco records legitimately cost more to manufacture than the other shit that's going for $30 single lps and $45 double lps or whatever

yeah I hear you. and I did not know about the particularities of the pressing so that was news to me.

I'll take photos of the labels with Tera's iphone next time I'm there.

Colonel Poo, 45 Grave's Autopsy totally kicks ass, love it way more than Sleep In Safety (which I do still wish I had a copy of).

Yep, I didn't know until I received the record that Pat Smear was on it, I've had mp3s of it for about 10 years, that's how long it's taken me to find a cheap copy of it.

went out record shopping with pete today! it was fun!
i feel strange guilt and compulsion with records now. I might have to give it up. I buy things I know full well I am never oging to listen to more than once or twice every ten years. I dunno.

v/a - they all played maple leaf rag (ragtime comp on Herwin.)
gary bartz - juju street songs
pharaoh sanders - oh lord, let me do no wrong (1987? cheap.)
david murray quartet - morning song
daniel lentz - point conception
waylon jennings - cold hearted woman
v/a - folk music in america volume 12: songs of local history and events
dunn & mccashen - mobius

a few days ago -
lloyd mcneill - elegia
v/a - yesterday, perhaps: songs of the kitchen cynics (p.g. six, tom rapp, alasdair roberts, sharron kraus, josephine foster..)

where did you two go? next-time-i'm-down-there-related... also, i've wrestled w/ this strange guilt/compulsion re: records for some 25 years now. can't seem to resolve it, yet...

I love the Kitchen Cynics cover of Tom Rapp's "Stardancer" so much.
I've got a few KC cd's, I think, but nothing has hit me quite the same as that one tune.

is that on the first rapp tribute? i remember there being some good stuff on there, need to pick that up sometime. the 2nd/3rd tribute double has some nice stuff too, especially like the galbraith cover of everybody's got pain.

Yep, Volume One of For the Dead In Space.
There are a couple of really great tunes on it, including the Tower Recordings "I Saw the World."

:)

San Antonio has more thrift/junk shops and flea markets than any city I've ever been to, we have visited at least 30 in our two trips there and there are still more.
Richard Vale & the Gem - Where Am I Going (No Label) Second or first record by these really cool cordovox/drums loungers!!!!
Mike De Leon Band - Elegante! (Antonio) Mix of Spanish and english lounge funk
The Center Line - Sayin' It.....Together (Vanco) organ combo does beatles and other cool standards
Tullio De Piscopo - Stop Banjo (Bagaria) 12" club mix!
Al Swan - Swan Songs (No Label) odd instro easy lounge with Bryce Roberson producing!
Harmonium - S/T (Celebration) Canadian prog folk
Colin Blunstone - Ennismore (Epic)
Erik Satie - The Irreverent Inspirations of (Angel)
Tony Joe White - ....Continued (Monument)
Dennis De Souza - Christmas Moods (Caimit)
Chet McIntyre - Sings 'N Swings at the Piano (Mac)
The Temprees - 3 (We Produce)

jack clement - all i want to do in life (<-man this sounds so nice)
michael nesmith - loose salute
matthews southern comfort - later that same year
peter green - in the skies
arlo guthrie - hobo's lullaby
the blue nile - walking across the rooftops
mac gayden - skyboat

Those are all great records! I'm glad you like Jack Clement, it's really a nice country record.

Was looking through some dollar Latin albums at the swap meet today and there was this '60s organ record that I bought. Turns out that it's this guy:

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/lafayette-mn0002155574

So good! Band with twangy twelve-string guitar, versions of "A Man and a Woman," "Green Grass," "You Won't See Me," some Roberto Carlos songs. Version of "Black Is Black" that almost sounds like Booker T.

Mexican pressing on Okeh - didn't know there was a Mexican division of Okeh!

xp yeah for sure! been buying a lot of stuff from yr barefoot jerry thread & loving it all.

yesterday -

mickey newbury - i came to hear the music
dennis linde - s/t
dennis linde - trapped in the suburbs
aretha franklin - spirit in the dark
harry nilsson - nilsson sings newman
doug kershaw - devil's elbow
barefoot jerry - barefootin'
beatles - revolver (mono)
bob dylan - new morning
the everly brothers - songs our daddy taught us
michael nesmith - and the hits just keep on comin'
john martyn - one world
neil young - zuma

Man that's a great pile of records, and the hits just keep on comin'!

Hey just sayin, email me at lolvalstein at gmail dot com, I have a few duplicates of records I think you'll like and I'll just send them to you, no charge.

woah! that would be amazing. email sent

Portland OR and elsewhere

Die Kreuzen - Pink Flag 7"
Rudimentary Peni - Cacophony (new remaster)
Aube - Cerebral Disturbance (beautiful pic disc)
Folk Music Of Yugoslavia (Nonesuch Explorer 042)
Athletico Spizz 80 - Do A Runner LP
A-Frames - Black Forest LP
Klaus Schulze - Body Love
Dead Moon - Trash & Burn (new LP of 1987-2001 outtakes)
v/a Teenbeat 100 7" EP
Sun City Girls - Live From Planet Boomerang 2LP
Sun City Girls - Djinn Funnel
Sandy Bull - Introducing... LP on Vanguard
Blues Control & Laraaji - FRKWYS Vol. 8
Waitresses - Bruiseology
Daniel Bachman - new LP and tour 7"
Legendary Pink Dots - The Curse Of Marie Antoinette (another gorgeous pic disc)
v/a Shadow & Substance LP

found some amazing music over the last few months and got some really great deals too!

scott walker - scott
bert jansch - birthday blues
young tradition - s/t compilation
shirley & dolly collins - anthems in eden, for as many as will
davy graham - large as life and twice as natural
paul brady, andy irvine, matt molloy, donal lunny, etc - the gathering
bothy band - out of the wind into the sun
silly sisters - no more to the dance
ivor cutler - prince ivor
mandrake paddle steamer - overspill
hawkwind - astounding sounds, amazing music
michael chapman fully qualified survivor, millstone grit
john fahey - christmas guitar volume one
steve reich - the desert music
tom rapp - sunforest
neil young - live rust
gary and randy scruggs - the scruggs brothers
lee hazlewood - a house safe for tigers
penguin cafe orchestra - s/t, mini album
gong - flying teapot, angels egg, live etc
john martyn - london conversation, solid air
nick drake - five leaves left, time of no reply
blind boy grunt & the hawks - the basement tapes volume 1
velvet underground & nico - down for you is up
roland kirk - the inflated tear, volunteered slavery
ornette coleman double quartet - free jazz
albert ayler - vibrations
charlie haden - liberation music orchestra
richard davis - muses for, with understanding
max roach - we insist! max roach's freedom now suite
john coltrane - ascension, infinity
muhal richard abrams - life(a) (b)line(c)
cecil taylor - innovations
miles davis - on the corner
stockhausen - gesang der jünglinge/kontakte, kontakte/refrain, prozession
brigitte fontaine, areski, art ensemble of chicago - comme a la radio
karin krog - jazz moments with
karin krog & dexter gordon - some other spring (blues and ballads)
karin krog & bengt hallberg - two of a kind
karin krog, warne marsh, red mitchell - i remember you
john surman, karin krog, pierre favre - such winters of memory
mangelsdorff, favre, kühn, hampel - solo now
catherine ribeiro + alpes - le rat débile et l'homme des champs
flora purim - nothing will be as it was... tomorrow
maria bethânia – pássaro proibido
annette peacock - the perfect release
van morrison - astral weeks, moondance, his band and the street choir, tupelo honey, saint dominic's preview, hard nose the highway, it's too late to stop now, veedon fleece, a period of transition, wavelength

Everything I bought in 2013 (plus a few that were bought for me):

LPs:
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Associates - Sulk
Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
Bill Evans Trio - Everybody Digs Bill Evans
Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Safe as Milk
Cleaners From Venus - Midnight Cleaners
David Bowie - Scary Monsters
David Kilgour - Here Come the Cars
Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo
Devo - Freedom of Choice
Dexys Midnight Runners - Searching for the Young Soul Rebels
Dexys Midnight Runners - Too-Rye-Ay
Fugazi - End Hits
Guided by Voices - Under the Bushes Under the Stars
Hawkwind - Hall of the Mountain Grill
Herbie Hancock - Thrust
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Joni Mitchell - Court & Spark
Kurt Vile - Wakin on a Pretty Daze
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Nas - Illmatic
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
Phil Seymour - S/T
Pixies - Doolittle
PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love
PJ Harvey - White Chalk
Public Image Ltd. - Flowers of Romance
Roxy Music - S/T
Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
Scott Walker - Scott 4
Soft Machine - Third
Steely Dan - Countdown to Ecstasy
Steely Dan - Aja
Talking Heads - Fear of Music
The Beatles - Revolver
The Fall - The Wonderful & Frightening World of...
The Impressions - This Is My Country
Van Morrison - Veedon Fleece
Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger
XTC - Black Sea
XTC - Skylarking

Singles/EPs:
Balam Acab - See Birds
Cocteau Twins - Sunburst & Snowblind
Cocteau Twins - Echoes in a Shallow Bay
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - If Fingers Were Xylophones
Guided by Voices - Chasing Heather Crazy
Jay-Z - Izzo (H.O.V.A.)
The Shins - Phantom Limb
Tortoise - Why We Fight
The Verve - On Your Own
Washed Out - Life of Leisure

shirley & dolly collins - anthems in eden, for as many as will
wait WUT?!
where does one stumble across records like this?

for some reason I have no lime tangier pegged as a New Zealander, but he might be Northeastern US.

stumbled across them via a south korean ebayer for a very reasonable sum ;-)

only time i've actually found any shirley in a shop was a reissue of sweet england early last decade after reading about her in the mid-nineties in the electric muse: folk into folk rock book (which i heartily recommend). still remember the wtf is this look from the guy when i took it to the counter.

Ok that's a relief! Congrats on finding them! I found reissues of Folk Roots, New Routes and No Roses in Barcelona a few years ago and it was unspeakably exciting.