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Music Shit / Re: Dollar Bin Classics:The Matt Pinfield Years

« on: February 02, 2013, 12:07:49 PM »

Catherine Wheel deserves better than to be included in that list, even if I'm not really a fan of their 95 album HAPPY DAYS from which "Judy Staring at the Sun" was extracted.  FERMENT and CHROME are good shoegaze LPs and  I'm especially fond of ADAM & EVE which blends elements of shoegaze with alt rock and blatant influence from Talk Talk's SPIRIT OF EDEN and LAUGHING STOCK. 

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

« on: January 29, 2013, 05:15:51 PM »

Green - Green

The Chicago power pop record from 1986.  I'm really digging it, I need to try to find their first EP and Elaine MacKenzie.

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Used Records For Sale/Auctions/Wantlists / Re: ebay: LP's end in 3 days KBD Lil Bunnies Oh Sees Ty Segall Spider Babies

« on: January 23, 2013, 09:09:15 PM »

Wow, Ty Segall's IT is going for over $100 now.  Good to know.

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Music Shit / Re: The Lost Sounds

« on: January 23, 2013, 03:54:48 PM »

SNIP

 (wish I still had the shirt I picked up at this show!)

Alicja & Rich are still selling some Lost Sounds shirt here: http://electricratmerch.blogspot.com/p/shirts.html

I picked up the grey Electric Rat and black Gas Mask shirts last year. 

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Non-Music Shit / Re: True crime book reccommendations?

« on: January 21, 2013, 11:26:02 PM »

The Home Invaders: Confessions of a Cat Burglar by Frank Hohimer is really terrific, Michael Mann pulled a lot of inspiration from it for THIEF and HEAT.  It's pretty hard to find (long oop & pricey) but if you can it's really worthwhile.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Parker flick

« on: January 21, 2013, 09:21:50 PM »

*snip*
Anyone seen Anthony Mann's Side Street? Sounds good from what I've read.

Yeah, it's pretty good.  There's a lot of great location work and I believe it ends with a pretty spectacular action sequence.  I also remember quite liking his RAW DEAL and T-MEN noirs which were spectacularly shot by John Alton.  Although for me, Anthony Mann will always be most notable for the awesome noir westerns he made with Jimmy Stewart which challenged Stewart's awe-schucks schtick and set him up for the more complicated shading that's Hitchcock exploited for VERTIGO. 

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Music Shit / Re: The Lost Sounds

« on: January 21, 2013, 08:49:11 PM »

He thought clouds should not be be bent

Haha.  I guess I deserve that for being so nosy.

Does anyone have any cool Lost Sounds gig posters?  I'm jealous of anyone who got to see them live, I became a fan of Jay Reatard during his last solo stretch and treasure the times I was able to see him during that run.

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Music Shit / Re: The Lost Sounds

« on: January 21, 2013, 07:21:12 PM »

Yeah, I wish that Goner thread was still available for viewing, and Jay's Termbo meltdown too.  Great stuff!

What was Jay's Termbo meltdown all about?

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Parker flick

« on: January 21, 2013, 03:57:07 AM »

Third post: As I mentioned in the film thread on here before, I tried to watch Trouble in Mind recently, since I'd read that it was a "great slice of '80s noir," and it was the worst movie I'd seen since whenever that was.  Horrendous.

I actually really loved that when I saw it but I think seeing it as a noir is misleading.  It's basically just a continuation of Rudolph's CHOOSE ME obsessive relationship pictures but with pop art, cyberpunk and noir mashed together into a dreamlike concoction.  Also, Divine plays the mob boss heavy.

Speaking of noir/crime films.  I rewatched Michael Mann's THIEF tonight and that held up really well, I think it's probably his best work.  I also watched Don Siegel's CHARLEY VARRICK for the first time, which I thought was fairly terrific with an odd combination of tones ranging from deadpan comedy to fairly brutal action with Joe Don Baker playing a heavy that seemed like proto-Anton Chigurh.

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Music Shit / Re: Recent Acquisitions

« on: January 14, 2013, 11:30:29 AM »

My "Girl in the Sweater" 45 has the same art with different colors (I'm thinking oranges and greens?). I believe the cover was "banned" in Australia, no? That's what the word was at the time I bought it, at least.

The colors on the shirt are slightly different..



Old Aussie shirt tags too. 

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Music Shit / Re: Recent Acquisitions

« on: January 14, 2013, 10:59:41 AM »

My haul from a couple hours at the WFMU mini-record fair:


Queer Pills is a totally unstamped example, and the thing I was most excited to get.  Sleeveless recs top-to-bottom are Wylde Main-iacs (Erik Lindgren's fake 60s garage 45), Uge, Last Sons of Krypton 1st (clear vinyl original missing ps), and Ammonia Clock ('80 Santa Monica unknown?)

Spares: Verge, Lucy, Uge, Hard-Ons x2, LSOK.

I recently found a Hard-Ons shirt with that image on the bottom right 7".

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Music Shit / Re: Thrift Score

« on: January 02, 2013, 09:11:46 PM »

Had a pretty decent record score at a thrift store today. 





I'm really stoked about the Verlaines - Bird Dog (Homestead), I never thought I'd find that for cheap / at a thrift store.  The Young and PIL are extra copies that I couldn't pass up for $2 each.  The Johnny J. and the Hitmen album was a total shot in the dark, I basically only grabbed it because I didn't know it and it was produced by Alex Chilton.  The Movie Stars is also a shot in the dark that could easily be horrible but was too intriguing to pass up for cheap.  I haven't heard that Durutti Column album but I've liked other stuff they've put out. 

My favorite recent thrift score was this perfectly worn out, Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart shirt that probably dates back to either the late 80s or early 90s.  Best of all, it actually fits me.

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Music Shit / Re: What was your favorite Burger release of 2012?

« on: December 23, 2012, 02:06:33 PM »

The WORST thing I heard this year that was released on Burger, or any label, was the Summer Twins LP.  Why does that exist?  I'm still half-convinced it's a joke.

This. Absolutely.  I've seen them a couple times as openers for other bands and I'm baffled by why they exist.

I don't really like the Audacity LP that much but the song "Subway Girl" is so god-damn infectious that I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that they will make some music I will like in the future.  Also, they killed it at that Total Trash Halloween Bash thing as The Adolescents.

My pick for best Burger release of 2012 would be the Lace Curtains album (a late-push, split release with Female Fantasy), the side project from Coomers, formerly of Harlem.  Some really smart songwriting on that album, especially "High Fantasy" where Coomers mocks the Lou Reed "Candy Says" songs and then broadens out to attack the whole nature of personal songwriting when sharing shit in song has the potential to hurt people you care about.  Definitely a lot more thoughtful lyrically than much of the music of this genre.

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Music Shit / Re: 2012 Best

« on: December 21, 2012, 03:09:22 PM »

I doubt this will change much but I'm still listening to more records to catch up on 2012.

1. Thee Oh Sees - Putrifiers II
2. Ty Segall - Twins
3. Lower Dens - Nootropics
4. Gentleman Jesse - Leaving Atlanta
5. Allah-Las - Allah-Las
6. Lower Plenty - Hard Rubbish
7. The Men - Open Your Heart
8. Ty Segall Band - Slaughterhouse
9. Lotus Plaza - Spooky Action at a Distance
10. Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory

Notable Shorts: FIDLAR - No Waves / No Ass; Jeff the Brotherhood - Upstairs at United; Pangea - Killer Dreams EP

Bonus Films list:

1. HOLY MOTORS (Leos Carax)
2. AMOUR (Michael Haneke)
3. MOONRISE KINGDOM (Wes Anderson)
4. ZERO DARK THIRTY (Kathryn Bigelow)
5. SKYFALL (Sam Mendes)
6. THE IMPOSTER (Bart Layton)
7. THE MASTER (Paul Thomas Anderson)
8. LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE (Abbas Kiarostami)
9. DJANGO UNCHAINED (Quentin Tarantino)
10. LOOPER (Rian Johnson)

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Used Records For Sale/Auctions/Wantlists / WTB: Jay Reatard - No Time

« on: November 25, 2012, 06:11:15 PM »

Anyone holding an extra or one they don't really care about?  I need it to complete my collection of Jay Reatard vinyl.