What vinyl do you own?

[Bubba McBubba]

This was one of my favorite threads from the WOXY boards, and I did not see a similar one here yet.  So here goes. 

These were both new copies purchased at Shake It, the first being a reissue on Sundazed and the second being the album's debut on wax:

[MissKitty]

Much to the chagrin of CR, I still have tons of vinyl - but it's all old stuff. I've given up buying any new vinyl ever since I let my well-loved Technics linear-tracking turntable and Denon amp go away.

I have, however, begun participating in Vinyl Night, which is a lot more fun than I thought it would be. Trixi and I are cohorts in crime!

[daemon]

I have, however, begun participating in Vinyl Night, which is a lot more fun than I thought it would be. Trixi and I are cohorts in crime!

Vinyl Night?  The fact that it's capitalized makes it sound all official and interesting...do tell!

Just received my signed copy of Lloyd Cole's latest last week.  Even got an e-mail from Lloyd letting me know it was on its way .

[cyclone]

Both nice finds, Bubba.  Holiday is actually the only Magnetic Fields album I regularly go back to, and I like it quite a bit.

My pre-order came earlier than expected, and it was coupled with a Califone - All My Friends Are Funeral Singers 2xLP I didn't snap a photo of ...

[va_vacious]

The Magnetic Fields keep showing up in my life this week. I think I need to find my old copies of whatever I had of theirs and listen again.

[MissKitty]

Vinyl Night is the last Tuesday each month in the back room at HD Beans & Bottles Cafe on Montgomery Road in Silverton. Each participant brings two selections (or about 10 minutes worth of tunage - this is mostly to keep the free-form jazz from getting out of hand) and is given a number. When your number is drawn from the hopper, you go up and introduce each song and tell a little something about them, then they are played for the audience.

I have a couple of friends who attend regularly and have been after me to participate for a year now, so finally I took the plunge (with Trixi's help) last month.

People can bring whatever they want to play (as long as it is on vinyl, natch) but the "holy grail" is any song, single or album that never made it to digital format. Everyone seems to get really excited about those.

It's good fun. And the ceiling in the back room is trippy.

[virgil p colon]

Vinyl Night?  The fact that it's capitalized makes it sound all official and interesting...do tell!

Just received my signed copy of Lloyd Cole's latest last week.  Even got an e-mail from Lloyd letting me know it was on its way .

Nice!

[cyclone]

HPB must have done their own reissue (or whatever you call it) of Teenage Filmstars' Star ... Bridgewater Falls had a couple for $9.99 last night, which I passed on for the very thin packaging, and then got home and saw that it goes for $28.  

Anyway, with the 40% off (I can't people I technically participated in a Black Friday deal, which I absolutely detest) plus the 20% off for the "vinyl friday" promo they do, I picked up a 180g reissue of Coltrane's Lush Life and Ron Geesin's A Raise of Eyebrows.

Prior to that, haven't bought much lately, but I picked up Deerhoof's Milk Man on banana-colored yellow vinyl and a few Sundazed LPs.

For those that wish to purchase me Christmas gifts, I'm probably just going to ask for some records I normally can't bring myself to splurge on.  Tago Mago,  Endtroducing, The Millennium's Begin, and Galaxie 500's Today immediately come to mind.

[twentyshots]

The Magnetic Fields keep showing up in my life this week. I think I need to find my old copies of whatever I had of theirs and listen again.

after all this time they (he) is one of those bands i'm STILL a bit bipolar about. somedays i can't handle the drone.....other days, no problem.

[Bubba McBubba]

HPB must have done their own reissue (or whatever you call it) of Teenage Filmstars' Star ... Bridgewater Falls had a couple for $9.99 last night, which I passed on for the very thin packaging, and then got home and saw that it goes for $28.  

Anyway, with the 40% off (I can't people I technically participated in a Black Friday deal, which I absolutely detest) plus the 20% off for the "vinyl friday" promo they do, I picked up a 180g reissue of Coltrane's Lush Life and Ron Geesin's A Raise of Eyebrows.

Prior to that, haven't bought much lately, but I picked up Deerhoof's Milk Man on banana-colored yellow vinyl and a few Sundazed LPs.

For those that wish to purchase me Christmas gifts, I'm probably just going to ask for some records I normally can't bring myself to splurge on.  Tago Mago,  Endtroducing, The Millennium's Begin, and Galaxie 500's Today immediately come to mind.

Yeah, I also hit the HPB's with my 40% coupons on Friday, but I didn't consider it to be Black Friday shopping (probably deluding myself, but I hate of myself as another consumer running with the herd).  Hopefully you weren't in the line that wrapped around to behind the store before the Bridgewater Falls location opened at 7.  I drove by that completely slack-jawed in wonder at what on Earth most people would wait in line to buy for 40% off.  I can imagine thought balloons over those heads, filled with text like, "ain't nobody gonna get that set of Danielle Steel paperbacks but me" or "leather-bound compendium of the complete wit of Jeff Foxworthy, thou shalt be mine".

As for the Teenage Filmstars record you were talking about: that is another example of the remaindered LP's I have been seeing at HPB in the past few months that are from an assortment of "European" labels that I long suspected were all under the same umbrella (and which the appearance of these almost simultaneously at multiple HPB locations appears to confirm).  In general, the pressings are well done (especially the Os Mutantes titles) but I suspect these are "grey-market" records.  But then that hasn't stopped me from buying them.

As for the records you've been wanting, The Millennium's "Begin" sounds as incredible as expected on wax, but that's what I have come to expect from Sundazed.  I also love their pressings of Gene Clark's debut and the sole album by Wendy & Bonnie.

And you mentioned Sundazed: what were those records of their you recently bought?

[shivvy]

I went out for Black Friday Record Store Day and picked up the 12" from The Black Keys that has a reverse groove. I have over 2000 records and that was a new one for me, had to pick it up for the sheer novelty. Also grabbed the red 10" ep from Wilco, which is lovely.

We have a record store here in Austin called Backspin that is going out of business. One of my greatest finds of the year was a still sealed original pressing of Missy Elliott's "Da Real World" from 1999. Also got a mint white vinyl pressing of Belly's "King" during that trip and some random old 12" singles.

[cyclone]

And you mentioned Sundazed: what were those records of their you recently bought?

Sweetheart of the Rodeo and Song Cycle (Van Dyke Parks).  Two records that I had always hoped to simply find in a used bin somewhere but at this point with their cult status, the prices are too high anyway (I did finally find a nice copy of The Notorious Byrd Brothers at Everybody's a few months ago, which was nice).  Sundazed caters to niche genre(s) that I consider to me among some of my very favorite music, but to be honest I'm surprised they're able to keep it going with the high prices.  When I put in my order I had also planned on picking up S.F. Sorrow and maybe another, but $18.98 a pop is just too much.

And I'm sure you're right about those HPB reissues.  I have never really looked into it.  The Ron Geesin record I picked up was one of those, and it was a reissue from Earmark, the same Italian label that put out the Village Green Preservation Society I recently picked up and posted about on WOXY.  Never found much info about it online besides some catalog listings. They do generally pick interesting stuff, to their credit, like the Os Mutantes you mentioned as well as White Light / White Heat, and I also saw a John's Children last night, which was an early Marc Bolan project pre-T. Rex.  And if you're into jazz, they had a ton of reissued stuff when I was there ... a lot of Miles, Coltrane, Mingus, even a Sun Ra, though none of the classic albums per se.  Still, most of these were 180g and moderately priced in the $10-12 range in comparison to trying to milk something like the White Light / White Heat for like $17.

[Bubba McBubba]

I went out for Black Friday Record Store Day and picked up the 12" from The Black Keys that has a reverse groove. I have over 2000 records and that was a new one for me

I had not heard about this.  Not sure what you mean by a "reverse groove".  Does the record play by putting the needle at what is normally the end (the center) and then it winds out towards the edge as it plays?

If so, the only other record I have even seen do that is the 10-inch single "L.S.D." by Pink Slip Daddy, which also had two songs with concentric grooves on the other side (meaning you're not sure which of the two songs you will hear, as the grooves of each are side-by-side).  I used to have a very hard time finding a turntable that could play that record as most want to gently guide the stylus towards the center of the record.

[daemon]

Never got around to using my coupon yesterday, but I did use my last HBP coupon to pick up Ash's "Twilight of the Innocents" for $2.  Also scored John Cale's "Honi Soit", which I had never heard and is fantastic.  The more I hear of him, I'm starting to wonder if he is the superior songwriter compared to Lou Reed (especially over the last 10 years or so).

I was curious about those sealed reissues I've been seeing at the various HPBs as well.  I just figured they were left over in a warehouse somewhere and a HBP buyer came across them.

[cyclone]

Also scored John Cale's "Honi Soit", which I had never heard and is fantastic.  The more I hear of him, I'm starting to wonder if he is the superior songwriter compared to Lou Reed (especially over the last 10 years or so).

Vintage Violence is one of my favorite albums of all-time.  While Paris 1919 is good, I never really understood why it was always considered his magnum opus solo album.  I haven't heard Honi Soit.  But given that Cale-era VU is also my favorite VU, I would easily side with Cale if pressed.  Cale obviously never really got the artistic credit I feel he deserves, given the obscurity path that his solo work tended to go down after the pop-ier offerings of the first few albums, then producing The Stooges and Modern Lovers, etc.  I think Reed wrote about one album's worth of really fantastic solo material.  Among internet critics, from my experience a lot of people feel like the VU was better post-Cale and many people consider the self-titled their favorite album.  I am quite the opposite.