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Music Shit / Re: Artists you have the most records by.

« on: February 03, 2014, 01:51:14 PM »

John Coltrane
Miles Davis
The Fall
Birchville Cat Motel (lots of CDRs & a great-for-me exchange rate).
Cecil Taylor
The Dead C. & related
AMM
Keith Rowe, non-AMM recordings

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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 03, 2014, 01:43:35 PM »

Sewers Hoisted LP: elevated by interesting guitar playing that pulls this outta mere heaviness.

The In Out Agenda EP 7": thanks to their search-engine-defeating name I didn't know they were still at it until Will Foster posted here about a forthcoming Guinea Worms split (!).  Three songs, and they still heart The Fall, no matter what they say.  The title track pulls off a Fall-sixties garage hybrid quite nicely.

Bailter Space Robot World: Did just fine with this one until "Be On Time," which was too nervous for the missus' mood at the time.  Oops.

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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 03, 2014, 11:22:01 AM »

What's everyone consensus on the best Skullflower releases?  I'm a IIIrd Gatekeeper or Last Shot at Heaven kinda guy.  I dig Carved into Roses or whatever the hell it's called, but it's sometimes too damned tinny for my ears.   

  Last Shot at Heaven and Xaman are early faves - found "Last Shot" for $2 at Independent Records in Colorado Springs, who accidentally put out a record on the floor instead of their usual bongs-n'-hair-dye movers.  I'm fond of Exquisite Fucking Boredom but you really have to devote a full hour to the thing for it to make any sense, like a dumbo-riff version of "I Am Sitting In a Room."

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

« on: February 03, 2014, 10:31:31 AM »

New Discogs seller in NZ has tons of desirable Flying Nun records: http://www.discogs.com/seller/Just4TheRecordStore?ev=wh  Not cheap, but a lot of records you rarely see in the wild.

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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, 2014, 12:19:28 PM »

I spend my day (or days) off sleeping and reading.

  Clearly you are not a parent.

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Music Shit / Re: Artists you have the most records by.

« on: January 29, 2014, 12:13:47 PM »

John Coltrane.

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Music Shit / Re: Your Top 5 American Bands

« on: January 21, 2014, 03:49:26 PM »

Wish I could have seen them in their prime:

Hank Williams
James Brown, any time 1964-1974
John Coltrane, any time during the Impulse years
Howlin' Wolf
Minutemen

top 5 I've actually seen:
Junior Kimbrough
Cheater Slicks
Cows
Royal Trux
Cramps (Nick Knox era, though I'm afraid I missed Brian Gregory)

top 5 still living who've thus far evaded me live:
Borbetomagus
Bassholes
Monoshock (sorta still living)
Scott Foust in some format or other.
Spray Paint (I'm confident I'll check this one off).

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Used Records For Sale/Auctions/Wantlists / Re: WANT - Mad Nanna - I Made Blood Better LP

« on: January 15, 2014, 08:06:06 AM »

I have one left.  $18 + shipping, PM me.

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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 13, 2014, 03:44:49 PM »

TOO MANY HUMANS... YOU BREED LIKE RATS AND YOU'RE NO BETTER!

Listened to this twice yesterday. What a fun record. People commenting on youtube compared it to Saccharine Trust and Flipper.

http://youtu.be/PmIZ05TxBSo

  I need this.  Will trade for their dudlike "Tritonian Nash-Vegas Polyester Complex."

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Non-Music Shit / Re: what are you reading?

« on: January 10, 2014, 03:16:53 PM »

1) Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Nabokov is my one of my new fave raves after this past year. The line at the end of part one of this book? That's about as beautiful as literature gets. I remember Fred Exley writing in A Fan's Notes about how he would read this book over and over. Not being one to reread a book immediately after finishing it, I just wrote it off as an eccentricity born of his mental illness. Now I get it.

2) Despair - Vladimir Nabokov
Perhaps the funniest book I've ever read, and also masterfully written. I'm super jealous of Nabokov's genius. Crushing hard on him at the moment.

  Have you read Pnin yet?  If you spent at least a week in college, it's hilarious.

Recent reads for me:
Sudhir Venkatesh Floating City: I really like SV's Chicago books.  This one's about NYC, and it's interesting in taking on the upper-class slice of the off-the-books economy, but this one feels a bit like he owed a publisher a book by a certain date.  Still good.

The used bookstore I hit on my lunch hour turned up a bunch of Richard Starks, so I read a couple of those over the holiday break.

I just started Lloyd Brown's The Story of Maps.  It's an endlessly interesting subject and Brown's highly opinionated right out of the gate.  Good stuff.

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Music Shit / Re: Acapulco Presents... Delightful Missives from the World of Music "Criticism"

« on: January 10, 2014, 10:53:05 AM »

Hey, this guy's a real auteur! I personally think his mondo derrida prose stylings would be perfectly suited to reviewing porn flicks. In fact, I'm not convinced the excerpt ibid. isn't about porn.

  Late to the pile-on, but you're right: we need a pairing of obtuse pseudo-academic prose with porn images, the obverse of this: http://pornhubcommentsonstockphotos.tumblr.com/

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Music Shit / Re: Salamander Jim - Live on Sydney Community Radio 1984

« on: January 10, 2014, 10:49:41 AM »

"Black Star," is great.

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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 10, 2014, 10:47:07 AM »

Well, that was stupid. Six years later and Termbo would've made him a hundredaire.

  And he'd have only had to throw away 292 copies!

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Music Shit / Re: Your City's Best Bands

« on: January 07, 2014, 10:33:29 AM »

Slim pickings here in Petaluma - historically there was Freestone and Norman Greenbaum.  Going much further back we had Harry Partch for a while, not exactly a "band," but the cultural high point of the place, easy.  Now?  Maybe "least worst," might get you somewhere, but no, it's too painful to contemplate.  There's a jazz saxophonist named Oliver Hunt who's from here, though I think he lives in SF now - anyway, stumbled onto him in the unlikely setting of a barn dance & he's pretty good, free-but-not-screechy in a vaguely Ornette vein.  I'm gonna count him to block out thoughts of the folksy fuckwits singing songs about chickens.

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: New Savage Quality Releases (The Floor Above & Messrs)

« on: January 02, 2014, 01:24:40 PM »

great! looking forward to the 7" :-)