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Music Shit / Re: Tom Lax playlist from WFMU today

« on: September 01, 2010, 06:44:48 AM »

That Zach Swagger 7" is in all great trade boxes...

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Non-Music Shit / Re: THE BIG THREE (Was Tisha B'Av (was Shavuos))

« on: August 31, 2010, 08:27:52 AM »

Just a reminder - buy your tickets for next week... My local chabad is asking $150 a ticket which seems reasonable. I still haven't joined my (more local) Shul...  I probably will for 5771.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Movies I've been watching

« on: August 31, 2010, 08:24:45 AM »

Watched Gwendoline (1984) last nite, Bizarre and infantile mix of Indiana Jones and Barbarella.

I believe you mean The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik-Yak. Haven't seen it since I was 10.

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Used Records For Sale/Auctions/Wantlists / Re: WTB: Christy (Morricone) - Deep Down 45

« on: August 30, 2010, 07:09:28 PM »

two words. Marisa Mell.

WTB Marisa Mell - "Lady O"/"Slave of Love"

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Music Shit / Re: noisy pop

« on: August 25, 2010, 11:41:26 AM »

Yellow one is very good - 7" from a few years earlier with the slits cover is their best work...

Also - the Bachelor Pad lp isn't that good but the "Tales of Jack" 7"/12" and "Doing It For Fun" 7"/12" are both nice...

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Music Shit / Re: noisy pop

« on: August 25, 2010, 11:06:42 AM »

Can't say enough about that Meat Whiplash single, but in the post-JAMC territory, it's probably worth also mentioning the Slaughter / Slaughter Joe (Joe Foster, TVPs associate, guy who recorded first JAMC record, now does Rev-Ola) records on Creation & Kaleidescope Sound. They're hit or miss but some songs are really good and he is pretty successful in trying to outdo JAMC at least in the noise department by adding that shrieking viola.

Of the handful of early Creation classics, the first couple Jasmine Minks records are pretty noisy and fantastic. Love those!

I know you're not into the Subway stuff, but the Charlottes LP is pretty damn noisy...

And if you can handle the Wedding Present sound, you should really track down the This Poison! single which got 'reissued' on CD-R by the same label that did the Baby Lemonade one. Takes that whole double-time guitar thing to a new level...

Boyracer has lots of good records, but there are just too many and the quantity definitely comes with a sacrifice in quality. The blue single on Sarah is probably their highlight from that era. Now that we're talking Sarah and 'third wave indie pop', I think the best noisy band from that era was Action Painting! Along with Golden Dawn, AP! didn't really fit on the Sarah roster, and after their first 'quiet' single on Sarah, they got really loud and made two more excellent singles for Sarah that are probably still pretty cheap to come by, and then made an amazing  final single for Damaged Goods which sounds like nothing else.

The first Action Painting single is excellent in a kind of Cure on Whaam! Records kinda way...  I'd like to add that the Baby Lemonade flexi song may be excellent but the Bachelor Pad song (the original version of "Girl Of Your Dreams") is even better.

Also no one talks about Fflaps enough...

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Used Records For Sale/Auctions/Wantlists / Re: Grauzone Eisbaer 7"

« on: August 20, 2010, 05:26:50 AM »

blasting this, great single, somewhere between neubaten and kraftwerk, i guess

I don't think Blixa would be happy with that comment...

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Non-Music Shit / Re: KTRU is being sold

« on: August 18, 2010, 07:38:45 PM »

They should buy a third to have pledge drives all the time...

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Music Shit / Re: please tell me a Nurse with Wound album to buy

« on: August 18, 2010, 08:28:44 AM »

S & B is the perfect record to play full-blast at the 'FMU record fair when you want the dealers to start packing up their shit at the end of the day.  If you're not in the mood, it's one of the most irritating things ever.

One of my finer dj moments was playing Fille Qui Mousse's TRIXIE STAPLETON 291 - SE TAIRE POUR UNE FEMME TROP BELLE Part 4 during the record fair... That really made the dealer's happy...

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Non-Music Shit / Re: KTRU is being sold

« on: August 18, 2010, 08:26:25 AM »

I think this is unfortunately a bit of a game changer for independent college stations in big markets. A school like Rice with nearly $1 million per student in assets deciding to sell their station is very different from a college struggling with cash flow/operating costs deciding to sell their station.

Interesting notes btw on NPR's assets:
National Public Radio    DC    2008    $281,875,601    990    56    52-0907625
National Public Radio    DC    2007    $212,167,771    990    67    52-0907625
National Public Radio Inc.    DC    2006    $175,162,857    990    48    52-0907625
National Public Radio Inc.    DC    2005    $165,959,704    990    32    52-0907625
National Public Radio Inc.    DC    2004    $161,048,761    990    34    52-0907625
National Public Radio Inc.    DC    2003    $130,550,292    990    39    52-0907625
National Public Radio Inc.    DC    2002    $114,724,711    990    33    52-0907625

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Used Records For Sale/Auctions/Wantlists / Re: WANT LISTS

« on: August 18, 2010, 08:15:44 AM »

top want:  richard schneider jr. - dreamlike land. 

there's a copy on gemm for $190.  f that.

not sure what your budget is, but here is the Discogs sales history...

12 Month Sales History (details)

Highest:    $83.52    (NM or M-)
Lowest:    $57.81    (NM or M-)
Average:    $70.41
Median:    $75.81

There's a copy there for a 100 eu but you might be able to negotiate down to the median price or media + 10%...

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Used Records For Sale/Auctions/Wantlists / Re: local record sightings

« on: August 18, 2010, 08:13:39 AM »

I passed on that copy of the Implog 7" in like 2002 since he wanted $10 for it and that was "too high" according to my internal price negotiator... In my defense, I ended up picking it up somewhere else for $2...

My point on Strider is that he still gets in new records which he keeps in unsorted piles and is a bit less anal about. It's worth going through once a year...

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Used Records For Sale/Auctions/Wantlists / Re: local record sightings

« on: August 17, 2010, 11:28:55 AM »

Strider? Is this a current spot?

It's another weird West Village spot (on Cornelia)... I found a spare of the Ike Yard lp on Crepescule fairly recently... It's mostly 7"s and you have to ask him about which artists he has. You can kind of dig through the new arrivals if you're polite...

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Used Records For Sale/Auctions/Wantlists / Re: local record sightings

« on: August 17, 2010, 11:23:06 AM »

Has anyone found anything even halfway cool and affordable in the last ten years at Bleecker Bob's?

i picked up the powderburns 12" from their outside bin for like 2 bucks a few years ago....  halfway cool is about right.

err other than that  i remember from about ten years ago they had a new house of love butterfly album for whatever it cost when it came out.  i wonder if it's still there and if so, what the pro-rated rent would come out to.

Remember that old store on 8th street (Revolver? Revolution?) they had a really good stock of leftover imports from the early 90's.... "God Fodder" for $18.99 and things of that ilk... I miss it... The Record Runner on Jones still has those kind of records and hints of secret treasures hidden in a long discarded backroom. It's no Strider in terms of mysterious West Village record stores, which you just know still have real treasures - but it's close...

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Cities / Re: philly restaurants

« on: August 17, 2010, 07:36:31 AM »

Just skip the dinner and drinks and head to Franklin Fountain