What are you listening to and what do you have to say about it? Part IV

[goneoffdatlean]

Flush the Fashion is a good pick up for a dollar or two.  His attempt at punk/new wave.  Quite a few good songs on there...a couple stinkers...but worth a buck or so.

[Swampy]

I actually like Special Forces a lot for some reason...

[bruce]

they are all great for different reasons, it's like asking which is the best ted nugent lp

[SSR]

Alice Cooper - Goes to Hell LP
   Four really good songs, the rest filler. The title track rules this thing. Pre-punk this was my and my best friend Deathrider's personal theme song. We were hated in the neighborhood.

Which of the Alice Cooper solo LP's are worth picking up? I've only got the 'band' LP's, seen a bunch of the solo ones selling cheap, etc, etc.

Welcome to My Nightmare, Goes to Hell, Lace & Whiskey, From the Inside, Flush the Fashion, & Special Forces are all worth picking up for $3 or less. There are at least a few good songs on all of them, and if you picked through them, you could come up with at least 60 minutes of good listening. But that 60 minutes won't be as good as the best ACB albums (Killer, Love It To Death, Schools Out, Easy Action). I wouldn't bother with anything after Special Forces. There might be some good songs there but having listened to Constrictor and Zipper Catches Skin I doubt it. Flush the Fashion and Special Forces are pretty strained as it is.

[squirrelmaster]

i don't golf, but one of the only times i have golfed, i did so with alice cooper. he is a very intelligent person with alot of strange and interesting worldviews....

[HFohr]

i don't golf, but one of the only times i have golfed, i did so with alice cooper. he is a very intelligent person with alot of strange and interesting worldviews....

who the fuck is this guy?

[SSR]

i don't golf, but one of the only times i have golfed, i did so with alice cooper. he is a very intelligent person with alot of strange and interesting worldviews....

who the fuck is this guy?

He's the master of squirrels.

[nick_]

Various - Thrash til Death LP
  I've heard some of the singles comped here (by Lip Cream, Gauze, Systematic Death, and Outo) but taken as a whole: Fucking shit! I wrecked my studio and went marching into the street with a crowbar and a mohawk.

i don't think this is a singles comp, all songs original to the release as far as i know

think so too. great record.

SSR ,you should get the Eye of the Thrash Guerilla comp for similar comp genius

[Vinnie]

I would never troll with you, user; goneoffdatlean but I will honestly say that The Doors are way better than Love.

[Raul]

So far during my snow day...

Love - Forever changes : a classic. I know some people think De Capo is better, but FC is always my favorite. Haunting, beautiful, and heavy at the same time.

ELO - light-bulb record - Love the pop songs. The instrumental I sometimes wish had vocals. No a very good review I know, but that's what I thought while listening to it this morning.

Lost Sounds - Lost Sounds. This one has almost aged the best of their stuff. Exception maybe being Rat Brains and Microchips. I get Nervous should go in the repetition thread. Clean, loud recording. Great songs. Nice mix of Jay/Alicja songs.

X (AUS) - Aspirations A record that gets better with every listen.

Drugs Dragons -S/T - Downloaded this. Like i a lot more than I thought I would. So much better than Night Terrors. Really want to see these guys live now. Great guitar riffs and swagger by sagger. Love the vocals. Demented and nasty. Kind of reminds me of the Wiccans vocals, except maybe more effects produced than natural? Maybe not. Me like either way.

forever changes is just one of the greatest records ever, it's perfect as it is. best love record by miles from the others

about the lost sounds... i really dig their fourth LP (but i hated it at first). but i think it have some sucky songs (like ophelia) but overall it's great. they should have put some songs from future touch (that is all killer) instead of those terrible grade b songs. it could have been the best lost sounds LP... but it isn't. the best is still black wave. then future touch for me

[Vince Clortho Keymaster of Gozac]

Ronnie Hawkins - The Hawk In Winter
Totally mellow. Perfect album for the winter. Hence the title. A few serious Tim Hardin reworking, great version of "Will The Circle Be Unbroken", the version of "Girl From the North Country" is pretty haunting.

John Coltrane - Impressions
Picked up a kinda bonked copy but it plays through without any skips or surface noise. God bless Rudy Van Gelder's mastering and those deeeeeeeep grooooooooove pressings.

IshlanN-Tenere: Guitar Music From The Western Sahel
Mississippi throws their hat into the African Desert Guitar ring. Up there with the first Doueh and Inerane albums (and the Bombino is pretty solid but I wasn't crazy about the latest Doueh....but that's neither here nor there)...so now there are gonna be 2 labels putting this desert guitar stuff out?

WHERE THE SOUL OF MAN NEVER DIES: A Treasury of Caucasian-American Gospel
Must Jesus Bear The Cross Alone: Jamaican Gospel from the 60s and 70s
A two-fer from the Mike McGonigal record club thing. The Jamaican gospel one is pretty fuckin crucial. And the white people Jesus music is great too.

[Vince Clortho Keymaster of Gozac]

With BOC you can go from the first album to Tyranny & Mutation and then skip til this this one.

But that would live Secret Treaties out. To be honest I find your reccomendation intriguing as I haven't dared to go that
far with BOC. WIll pick it up tomorrow.

DUUUUUUUUUUUDE. Secret Treaties is pretty fuckin essential. GO THERE.

[sloweducation]

WHERE THE SOUL OF MAN NEVER DIES: A Treasury of Caucasian-American Gospel
Must Jesus Bear The Cross Alone: Jamaican Gospel from the 60s and 70s
A two-fer from the Mike McGonigal record club thing. The Jamaican gospel one is pretty fuckin crucial. And the white people Jesus music is great too.

both of these are fantastic.

NP: Cheveu - Mille, really good stuff.

[goneoffdatlean]

I could never fully get into the Lost Sounds not even Black Wave....good songs here and there,  but something doesn't work for me with that band...

[Young Steve]

I could never fully get into the Lost Sounds not even Black Wave....good songs here and there,  but something doesn't work for me with that band...