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Terminal Boardumb => Music Shit => Pop Punk => Topic started by: lexdexter on April 21, 2012, 11:06:27 PM
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...So you know how most every used bin in a, uh, non-elite record store is likely to feature Christopher Cross, Carole King, maybe Rickie Lee Jones or Men at Work? In my experience, there's another subset of ubiquitous LPs that vary by place. I'm asking, first of all, what's popular in your municipality's bins?
In Ann Arbor, Big Chief are inescapable. Big Chief, Big Chief, Big Chief. 7", LP, CD, Tape. Big Chief. But they're from Ann Arbor, so that only makes sense. On the cheap! If anybody needs some, you just write me one of those damned personal messages.
Now. Weirder and weirdest, and what I really wanna show and tell, then listen about, are ubiquitous used bin records that are neither local nor were they ever popular. What's an example, Lex Dexter? In all 4 of Ann Arbor's record stores - from the hippie-ish weed one to the sterile indie striver one to the two "institutions" with deep stock and continued interest in new shit - I have found multiple copies of:
The Three Johns
Red Lorry, Yellow Lorry
Sisters of Mercy
March Violets
Died Pretty
Scritti Pollitti
Hunters + Collectors
Gene Loves Jezebel
I tried to ask a store owner about this confluence of mostly Brit (?), all semi-obscure and time/place-specific acts. He ducked the question and I felt like I was on the verge of uncovering a grand conspiracy. Anyway, are there any such anomalies in your town? Maybe we could birth a strange exchange system while shedding the memory of a day in which every record store sold the same shit the same way to our queued-up asses.
Oh, and also, if anybody has weak or strong opinions about those above bands and thinks I should jump on certain albs, PLEASE let me know. Old Forced Exposures are semi-complimentary about Died Pretty the Johns and RY,LY...but I'm still hesitant. Of course I've read Trouser Press entries on each of these bands 400 times, but the nature of my current Rx regimen prohibits me from retaining the writing, which, wow, is embarrassing to admit. {Thus I've been taking pen and pad with me to the record store, which looks great, makes me feel like a less-hip birdwatcher, and results in scattered daily scribblings I can't synthesize into any kind of workable checklist. Maybe I should just write "Aztec Two-Step" on my wrists in Sharpie and let it roll, you know?}
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Gene Loves Jezebel records are in dollar bins, junk shops and thrift stores everywhere.
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The Three Johns
Red Lorry, Yellow Lorry
Sisters of Mercy
March Violets
Died Pretty
Scritti Pollitti
Hunters + Collectors
Gene Loves Jezebel
I tried to ask a store owner about this confluence of mostly Brit (?), all semi-obscure and time/place-specific acts. He ducked the question and I felt like I was on the verge of uncovering a grand conspiracy. Anyway, are there any such anomalies in your town? Maybe we could birth a strange exchange system while shedding the memory of a day in which every record store sold the same shit the same way to our queued-up asses.
Oh, and also, if anybody has weak or strong opinions about those above bands and thinks I should jump on certain albs, PLEASE let me know. Old Forced Exposures are semi-complimentary about Died Pretty the Johns and RY,LY...but I'm still hesitant. Of course I've read Trouser Press entries on each of these bands 400 times, but the nature of my current Rx regimen prohibits me from retaining the writing, which, wow, is embarrassing to admit. {Thus I've been taking pen and pad with me to the record store, which looks great, makes me feel like a less-hip birdwatcher, and results in scattered daily scribblings I can't synthesize into any kind of workable checklist. Maybe I should just write "Aztec Two-Step" on my wrists in Sharpie and let it roll, you know?}
March Violets "Walk Into The Sun" is great - its on 7" + 12". Sisters Of Mercy were a goth band. Hit Youtube for all of them. My local record shop in the UK has Died Pretty (90s not 80s) and 3 Johns records in the bargain bin. Maybe it's a legal requirement if you run a 2nd hand record shop?
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The Three Johns
Red Lorry, Yellow Lorry
Sisters of Mercy
March Violets
Died Pretty
Scritti Pollitti
Hunters + Collectors
Gene Loves Jezebel
I tried to ask a store owner about this confluence of mostly Brit (?), all semi-obscure and time/place-specific acts. He ducked the question and I felt like I was on the verge of uncovering a grand conspiracy. Anyway, are there any such anomalies in your town? Maybe we could birth a strange exchange system while shedding the memory of a day in which every record store sold the same shit the same way to our queued-up asses.
Oh, and also, if anybody has weak or strong opinions about those above bands and thinks I should jump on certain albs, PLEASE let me know. Old Forced Exposures are semi-complimentary about Died Pretty the Johns and RY,LY...but I'm still hesitant. Of course I've read Trouser Press entries on each of these bands 400 times, but the nature of my current Rx regimen prohibits me from retaining the writing, which, wow, is embarrassing to admit. {Thus I've been taking pen and pad with me to the record store, which looks great, makes me feel like a less-hip birdwatcher, and results in scattered daily scribblings I can't synthesize into any kind of workable checklist. Maybe I should just write "Aztec Two-Step" on my wrists in Sharpie and let it roll, you know?}
March Violets "Walk Into The Sun" is great - its on 7" + 12". Sisters Of Mercy were a goth band. Hit Youtube for all of them. My local record shop in the UK has Died Pretty (90s not 80s) and 3 Johns records in the bargain bin. Maybe it's a legal requirement if you run a 2nd hand record shop?
Maybe so. So much for my great conspiracy. Thanks for the head's ups, everyone.
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died pretty are great, up to about doughboy hollow, '91 or so
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Red Lorry Yellow Lorry had a few better than average moments.
I'm assuming the two institutions in AA are Encore and Wazoo. The sterile one is Underground Sounds. Does PJ's have a "
hippie vibe"?
Ann Arbor also has MILES of cruddy homegrown indie rock. I can't tell you any of the band names off the top of my head, but can recognize the record covers from 100 yards. They've been polluting the bins for years and need to be melted down once and for all.
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March Violets - Natural History LP
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You've never heard Sisters of Mercy or Scritti Politti?
Both bands are great and both were very popular at one time. In their heyday the Sisters were reputedly the most bootlegged band in Europe. If you see any SoM records in your dollar bins, please pick them up and send them to me. I'm missing a few and could use doubles of the rest.
The March Violets are terrible.
Early Red Lorry Yellow Lorry (aka The Lorries) is quite good.
Gene Loves Jezebel are super faggy British glam / hair metal minus the rock, the tunes, or the guitars. I like them.
Big Chief records are in dollar bins everywhere else, too.
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Yeah Gene Loves Jezebel at their best is like a neutered, gothic Hanoi Rocks. In other words, great!