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Music Shit / Re: RSD 2016

« on: April 27, 2016, 07:45:04 AM »

Todd

I think you are a bit off base here.  Jason has a fantastic store and his stance is pretty positive.  I also know a lot of other stores that I would classify as good to great that get a lot out of RSD. I saw Jerry Weber this past weekend and he said that he had an amazing day on RSD.  The press coverage is unreal and it clearly gets people who don't normally go out and shop for records to do just that.  Even to a store like Jerry's that has never stocked new records.  As someone who has worked for labels both big and small I am all for things that help keep stores in business.  I don't see many threads here that take labels to task to for selling the exclusive "mailorder" versions of records on line instead of at stores.

The bottom line is that RSD has "succeeded" way beyond anyone's expectations and that has created a whole new batch of problems. On the store side most of those are likely to be problems that already existed within the structure of the store.  Maybe you or your employees aren't the best when it comes to politely dealing with clueless customers on the phone or in person? You'll certainly have a lot more of those on and around RSD.  Maybe you always struggle with stocking records in genres outside of your own personal taste? No one is making you stock the Disney records, even if three man-babies just called to ask if you would have it in stock. Sure, there are tons of useless records that are pressed just for this day, but you might have noticed that there are also tons of useless records that come out the rest of the year too?  Those are clogging up the plants as well.

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Used Records For Sale/Auctions/Wantlists / Re: CollectorScum presents Buy-It-Nows of note

« on: April 13, 2016, 01:45:47 PM »

That guy def wins the award for only Termbro to successfully get under my skin. All that mediocre 12" and alternate vinyl for common punk records chapped my ass cheeks to the max.

Rarely do I let shit like this bother me, but I have to say I feel the same way.

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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: April 13, 2016, 09:00:28 AM »

Yeah I dig the scene creamers record we have but it does seem a bit jokey.  NOU has some good jams and I would assume were great live.

NOU were so good live that their records always seemed irrelevant. 

Cupid Car Club -  I like that single a lot.

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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: April 13, 2016, 07:58:19 AM »

All of the Weird War and Scene Creamers stuff is great.  I think the key is to have a guitarist strong enough to warrant attention beyond the Sevonius-isms.  Hagerty is obviously up to the task, and I also think that Alex Minoff (guitar player in Scene Creamers and later Weird War records) was too.  Other than that a few moments here and there are worthwhile but they essentially amount to witty comedy routines more than killer jams.  The Make-Up's version of "Hey Joe" and the Felt Letters "64,000 Bands" are two that come to mind.

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Used Records For Sale/Auctions/Wantlists / SET SALE - Spring Cleaning etc.

« on: April 10, 2016, 02:45:58 PM »

A few new things added - Like both Suttree 7"s.  Folks might not know it, but they need to be Chad McRorie completists.  So grab those and that Labiators dbl 7" and you'll be well on your way.

Ok, weird bunch of stuff here.  Some bargain singles, some sealed LPs, some 10"s and a good portion of the Shagrat catalog.   I've priced things on the cheap side and noted any sleeve issues.  Otherwise everything would be graded a strong VG+ or better.
 
IMPORTANT:  Don't DM me here as I can't guarantee that I will see that in a timely manner.  Please email me at davidwrmartin at gmail.

US shipping will be $3.00 for 7"s (up to three - More than three we'll figure it out)
$4.00 media mail for LPs (up to three $1.00 more per LP after that.)
International shipping will be what it will be, feel free to ask.

7"s
The Barbaras - Summertime Road 7" $3.00
Bergenfield Four 7" $1.00
Blood Pressure - S/T 7" on Beach Impediment $3.00
The Bottom Feeders - Porn Star Haircut 7" $1.00
Billy Childish - Ballad of Hollis Brown 7" $2.00
Come - in/out 7" $2.00
Condominium - Show Them 7" $2.00
The Crow Flies - Bullworker 7" $2.00 (Great Pgh band. Post - The Bats, pre- The S/cks)
DC Snipers / Tampoffs - split 7" $2.00
Dutch Masters - Radioactive $2.00
Fire In The Kitchen - The Fog 7" $2.00
Gas - Compressed Gas 7" $6.00
The Girls At Dawn - Never Enough 7" $1.00
Guided By Voices - We Won't Apologize For The Human Race 7" $3.00
Guinea Worms - Box of Records 7" $1.00
Homostupids - The Glow EP 7" $2.00
Homostupids - Brutal Birthday 7" $2.00
Labiators Dbl 7" $3.00
Life Partners - Aids of Spades 7" $1.00
Lover! - I'm Not A Gnome 7" $1.00
Lover! - Man In The Woods 7" $1.00
Lover! - No More Reasons 7" $1.00
Lover! / LiveFastDie - split 7" $1.00
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Get With It 7" (Jukebox series #4) $1.00
Suttree - Dark Hollow 7" $1.00
Suttree - In Ill Repair 7" $1.00
Vertigo - Bad Syd 7" $1.00


CD
Coconut Coolouts - Party Time Machine CD $2.00 (Sealed) - Found another copy of this classic.
Dan Melchior's Broke Revue - Gud Bye Ta Sluggo! CD $3.00 Sealed
Dan Melchior - Fire Breathing Clones on Cellular Phones CD $3.00 Sealed

Cassette
Tyvek - Popeprs $7.00 (Sealed) Envelope has a few creases, but overall is in great shape

LPs
Factorymen - Shitman LP $3.00 Sealed
The Leather Uppers - OK, Don't Say Hi LP $4.00
Mission of Burma - Signals Calls & Marches Deluxe version LP + DVD $15.00 Sealed
The Pets - Misdirection LP Sealed $3.00
The Ponys - Deathbed 12" EP  $6.00 Sealed
Psychedelic Horseshit - CLOWNING ON BITCHES Anthems 12" EP $2.00
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Extra Width LP $10.00  Matador pressing.  Still sealed, but has a small gouge on the spine.
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Controversial Negro LP $15.00 Sealed
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Now I Got Worry LP $10.00 Matador Pressing.  Never played. Small band saw cut on the bottom left corner of the sleeve.
Times New Viking - Born Again Revisited LP $8.00 Sealed
The Touch-Me-Nots - Chris Owen Said It, We Believe It, That Settles It LP $3.00
Wiley - Treadin' on Thin Ice Dbl LP $12.00

10"
Flight - 10" on Kill Shaman $5.00
Jackson C. Frank - Forest of Eden 10" $8.00 (can't find the CD copy that came with this, sorry)
Skip Spence - After Gene Autry 10" $15.00
The Wailers - Do Not Release 10" $10.00


Special Shagrat section:
Amber - Pearls of Amber 10" $35.00
Dynamo Hum - Four Cute Creatures 10" $10.00
The Green Ray - The Archers 12" EP $10.00
The Green Ray - Sighs, Whales And Trees 12" EP $10.00
Screw - Banks of the River 10" + CD $15.00
Shagrat - Amanda 7" #123 / 500.  Small seam split on the right side of the sleeve. $10.00
Shagrat - Nothing Exceeds Like Excess 12" #201 / 400  bend on the top left corner of the jacket left a noticeable crease.  Otherwise in great shape. $25.00

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Music Shit / Re: Fanzines

« on: March 30, 2016, 05:40:43 AM »

I finally got Life Stinks I Like the Links #4. Great stuff as always.

This great typo has me longing for when Vinnie takes up golf in order to further his Movie Biz aspirations and documents it, illustrated by Avi Spivak. 

Get to work on that everyone.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Nancy Reagan DEAD

« on: March 29, 2016, 06:03:26 AM »

Mission of Burma "Nancy Reagan's Head"--

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZvK1zzFQXk

Too bad this was never a single-- or a picture disc!

Maybe Matador can issue a memorial edition?

Bonus Track: Minutemen "If Reagan Played Disco"--

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJdBLnqCKd4

There was a 12" single version.  Part of the series that had one album track and a shephard fairey etching on the other side.  One of my favorite MoB songs from their later era.

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Music Shit / Re: PSF

« on: March 22, 2016, 06:07:31 AM »

 I guess I have a few minor issues with the characterization that High Rise and White Heaven might be "flat when compared to the raw power of some of the weirder stuff."  Don't mistake volume or lack of traditional song structure as raw power.  High Rise have, even when backing off the insane fidelity of the first record, never really made a mis-step.  Possibly "Disallow", but even that is really interesting, fun record.  Plus, dude from Lip Cream plays drums on it providing one of the only instances that I know of where those two scenes even acknowledge each other.  If there is other crossover that anyone knows of please let me know.

White Heaven's "Out" is pretty much perfect.  Definitely worthy of being on a label whose initials might stand for Psychedelic Speed Freaks.  Sort of like Quicksilver in constant overdrive mode.   

Keiji Haino - To be clear there are tons of amazing, essential records, but there are also a lot that might not float your boat.  Dude has more records on PSF than most artists manage in a lifetime and that's maybe half of his output?  my suggestion there would be to listen before you leap.

I've also mentioned Kousokoya before and will again.  Kaneko Jutok's output may not have been that massive, but every record is worthwhile and when those archival recordings came out they were an insane revelation. 

Apart from Fushitsusha - Live 2, and High Rise 2 I've picked up no other titles.
So what other than White Heaven - Out are the absolute essential must haves on PSF? I'm sure it's mostly great given the labels rep but some must stand out as top smokers.

I saw Haino play a solo set at Paul Smiths (Blast First) Disobey night in the early 90s - it was incredibly loud and pretty extraordinary.

Seriously........I need pointers!

On a non-standard PSF tip this is definitely on my wants list - https://www.discogs.com/Harry-Bertoia-Unfolding/release/600823

i'm no expert on this stuff but no one is really chiming in so i'll throw my opinion out there...

fushitshusha, or really anything with keiji haino's name attached to it is pretty essential, i think. tokyo flashback comp is really good and a nice way to sift through whether your more into what i consider the experimental side (i.e. fushitshusha and hikari sokaiya) or the psych side (i.e. white heaven and high rise).

kan mikami is very strange, definitely can be an acquired taste but is pretty amazing, if only for a once a year listen when the mood strikes you.

i think the stuff by onna is sick. there's a reissue of their first 7" that is pretty easy to get too.

kan mikami, motoharu yoshizawa, keiji haino 2 live albums are great but i've probably never spent enough time with them.

white heaven and high rise are both cool but i think fall a bit flat when compared to the raw power of some of the weirder stuff. high rise's first 12" is WAY less polished than "II" and i think is superior but is not included on the list of what's being reissued (which is kind of mind blowing considering the labels namesake is derived from that record).

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Music Shit / Re: R.I.P Andrew Loomis

« on: March 08, 2016, 06:59:48 PM »

R.I.P.

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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: March 01, 2016, 04:32:42 AM »

Awlright! Awlright! It's not bloody 1776!

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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: February 29, 2016, 02:27:26 PM »

Big ups to LSD March - check out 突然炎のごとく (Totsuzen Hon? No Gotoku) which I fell in love with a few years ago. I found some "box set" on soulseek years ago but never been able to figure out what it actually is, if it's ever been legitimately released or was maybe a collection of their other albums. But one of the more underrated Japanese bands in my opinion (along with Overhang Party).

Shit, I can't believe I forgot to mention Overhang Party.  The leap they make from the first record to the 2nd is the most drastic & mind boggling. My favorite records would be the Live At Showboat album and that Dbl CD / 7" "Otherside Of".  Useless triva - One song recorded at their show at the Charleston on Bedford ave and you can see the back of my big head in the photo of them in the gatefold of that package.  I have recordings of that whole set and another set from Hampshire College with a one time line up that featured Tom Leonard (Luxurious Bags, Major Stars). Rinji's new band Majutsu No Niwa isn't far off from later era Overhang Party.

As I said before I don't really dig LSD March. I also don't care about Acid Mothers Temple.  They both seemed like lesser versions of things that already existed or just corny.

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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: February 29, 2016, 06:26:03 AM »

Been playing various GUITAR ROCK monster records after spending the last few years being completely bored with the idea or concept of the guitar in a musical setting. Sitting around with those various Les Rallies Denudes boots for days - ya know! Just opening up the third eye right from the split in my forehead. Borrowed this 5LP Great White Wonder box and the insert basically name dropped nine or ten bands that exploded out of the late 80's/early 90's Japanese psych scene. The sons and daughters of Les Rallies Denudes?! Really didn't know a thing besides owning some early Acid Mothers Temple CD's. Basically been tripping out since late last week trying to track these things down or finding out what the fuck was going on across the pond in '91. The rabbit hole of 200 dollar LP's. SHEEEIIITTTT.

First thing that bulldozed a brother -
High Rise - Induced Depression (1st track from their 1st LP - Psychedelic Speed Freaks)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J97U_oR1jlc

...also this FUCKING MONSTER - - -
MAINLINER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QcjH3eXrPA

If anybody has been collecting this shit and has some good information/recommendations...I'M ALL FUCKING EARS.

I went pretty hard on PSF in the 90's and still love a ton of that stuff.  Obviously there are too many records to try to link it all together, but the suggestions of White Heaven's "Out" and the Tokyo Flashback comps are  probably the best place to start.  Ghost - I'm a bit biased, but they are one of my all time faves and there might only be moments that fit the vibe that inspired this thread but those moments are pretty massive.  Also, two main Ghost offshoots Sweet & Honey and Cosmic Invention should scratch an itch.
White Heaven's "Strange Bedfellow" seems to get a bad rap (even from the band.) It does not have Kurihara on guitar, but is still a jamming record.  I was also super into Stars, which was basically White Heaven reformed.  PSF EP is a fucking weird head scratcher and both albums have serious jammers.
Kousokuya - cracked no wave to heavy darkness, all great. Same goes for Kaneko Jutok's solo records.
LSD March - Not  so into them, better live than the records, but that was mostly because Masami Kawaguchi was playing guitar for them.
Speaking of Masami Kawaguchi I think his playing is really a cut above most.  Equal parts no wave and ZZ Top-esque boogie riffs.  The early Miminokoto records were big faves and they were amazing live.  Pre-Miminokoto band the Broom Dusters were good too. 
Marble Sheep & the Run Down Sun's Children - Early records are Amon Duul aping and are pretty listenable, they then went whole hog on Dead-isms.  I didn't follow, but maybe you'd be more attuned to what they were laying down.
Ha-Za-Ma were like Quicksliver to Marble Sheep's Dead.  Kuriahara plays guitar though so I'm down.
Subvert Blaze - The records are a bit more trad heavy rock, but they are both great. Drummer later played in Ghost and is now also in Batoh's new band Silence (that 2nd Silence record is pretty heavy).
Keiji Haino and Fushitsusha - that shit is daunting, but the first two Fushitsusha releases on PSF are monsters and I also thought that the Haino CDs on Forced Exposure were some of his best stuff from that era.
High Rise - Love all of the records but II and III are my most listened to.  That later one just called "Live" was also jammed a lot, it had a super hot Electric Prunes rip off song.
They don't seem to get a lot of love these days but the other bands in the Boredoms orbit like Omide Hatoba and Hanendensha all had pretty interesting records too even if the fidelity was upped too much for some folks.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Lost packages

« on: February 25, 2016, 07:45:31 AM »

This happened to me and after weeks of back and forth with all sorts of people throughout the post office, they basically said I was shit out of luck.

Same here with the two times out of hundreds of packages (many of those int'l) this has happened to - one package actually did get to me roughly 3 months after it was sent, and the other, never. Both of mine were listed as being in Chicago last, thanks Obummer.

Chicago is the worst, but seems to be a hub for reasons I don't quite understand. Last big trade parcel I sent to Harry/Last Laugh in New York was routed through Chicago (even though Toronto is basically halfway between the two?) and sat there for way too long.

The post office is the worst, not just Chicago.  I've had a few packages go missing, tried to follow up with the post office and got nowhere.  Fucking sucks, but there really is nothing to do but just hope that shit arrives.

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Music Shit / Re: I happen to think the God Bullies were one of the best bands of the 90''s

« on: February 25, 2016, 07:22:24 AM »

Fugazi sucks, pure and simple, I've seen live twice(was dragged out by friends who like them) and they were insufferable and boring....records aren't any better.  I'm 34 so I'm not some little git talkin outta my ass.  They blow.

Why do you keep bringing up Mad Nanna, I could give a fuck about that band.  Only Russ even mentions them and that was years ago.

Man, I LOVE Fugazi.  As far as I am concerned their records got better as they went along.  Live was a whole different ballgame as they kept getting better there too, but harder to enjoy in a social setting.
 

Noise Rock Fugazi....yeah that sounds a great listen..........

Yeah, I think that was supposed to be a recommendation, too.

Fugazi had some good tunes. Tar too. Now I'm not suggesting you young bucks need to tromp down to the record mart and buy their entire discography, but try broadening your horizons a bit.

I've got more suggestions if you're interested.

Broadening one's horizons is fine, but it doesn't mean having to swallow tepid emo/indie like Fugazi. There's certainly worse music out there, but so much better too. If anything, I'm more accepting of them now than I was in '87, but I still don't feel any need to own or listen to the records.

I don't get how you tag them as tepid.  They always brought it and played like motherfuckers.  It can be really easy to transfer your feelings for a band's fanbase to the band, but in this case I don't think that shit sticks.
God (bullies) knows that enough fuckers (not you Malo) here have succumbed to the Grateful Dead and if folks can get over those fans to enjoy that shit then a few thousand self righteous and clueless fucks won't stop me from enjoying Fugazi.

Eazy-E:  Clean out yer ears Jackass!  Halo of Flies fucking rule and do you think that anyone can remember an actual Helios Creed song?  Sure you remember what it sounds "like" but not much more (and I'd count myself a Helios Creed fan.)

Sure, Halo of Flies singles were/are "rare" but the actual music was never that hard to get.  Between the cassette comp and then vinyl singles comp and then the first CD version of Music for Insect Minds it was not hard to hear the stuff.  A lot of that shit was just hype, and it worked and it helped bring about shit like Killed By Death, but the music could more than live up to the hype.

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Music Shit / Re: Patti Smith Boot?

« on: February 25, 2016, 07:06:59 AM »

Pretty sure I have a boot with this title.  No noodzz though.  I'll check tonight to see if it is the same track list.