joylesshouse
Has world's biggest Steven Seagal VHS collection
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Post by joylesshouse on Apr 27, 2020 3:45:51 GMT
Can you be so kind as to tell me where that cunt Sprague boasts about record albums, gov'ner?
I found my way into, oh 400 - 500 singles from a jukebox that was in a bar since I'd say 1973, judging by the dates on what I've looked through so far. Fingered through about a third of them and have a stack of 30-ish keepers. Lotsa crap. Country/rock/polka. Some odd-ball selections + standard 60s-70s fare. Point is, I mean to play the whole stack (whatever I end up keeping) in the random order that I grab them, front and back. I know! Stupid, you say. Arbitrary. Think of all the wacky B-sides there could be amongst the polka and novelty-country alone! Listen, my old lady is going CRAZY. She's LOOKING FOR PROJECTS! (I'm spinning the Everly Brothers rn) The other day she says, we need to go to {town you never heard of}. Why, I say. We're buying that little fridge. How much?! I said we'd give them $20. My wife bought me, practically a recovering alcoholic, a BEER FRIDGE to put in the basement! OUT OF BOREDOM! I'm working 24 hrs a week and getting paid for 40, lads. All signs encourage drink and tugging it. I tell you, things are hard all over and Covid19 and all and I don't know what fucking bucket of luck I stepped into but the hell if I'm not going to take advantage of it. Balls. This is the first time in my life I'm considering getting an arsenal together, cuz they are going to have to COME GET ME out of here. (playing Grand Funk)
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Apr 27, 2020 5:23:23 GMT
All signs encourage drink and tugging it. I tell you, things are hard all over
Can just picture it, I panic and unmute the entire worldwide platform as Camp Leader roams past in her gruds and the 2 cats chunder all over each other in the background. Then some little shit student records the whole class and dumps it on youtube and my cock goes viral. Fuck Zoom.
Run them records cat# thru the discogs, you might be in the $$. You'd think there'd be more than 30 keepers out of 400 but ffs I've been down that road. About 10 years ago, pre-discogs, was in a fairly tidy record store and there was a teetering mountain of boxes perilously piled in the corner so of course I ignore the pricey priced racked records and go straight to potential scabs. After 20 minutes of making a show of moving the boxes around and huffing and puffing and making fuckall headway I made my move on the vendor with an all offhand like, "uhhh, how much for all of these?" He looked at the pile for a beat, then a beat more, and said "$15,000 yen". $150 in jesusland dollars? Sold. We piled up his van and drove them to my home, both of us probably thinking "this dumbarse, lol, one born every minute" at the same time.
Anyway, had to be 15 boxes with 80+ lp's in each. Plus the 7"s. Went thru the whole lot. About 30% were moldy and got binned. The other 67.5% were 70's j-pop landfill. Fuck that whole industry right up the arse. Unlistenable. I'm fairly certain the entire rigmarole only existed so seedy record producers/label cretins etc could make starlets then get to fuck them.
Sold about 20 of the records on ebay. Kept a grand total of about 15. Fucking 15! Out of maybe 1,000! I must be a fussy cunt. The only record I remember is Bob Dylan's "Slow Train Coming".
Great. Just fucken great. All that laborious effort just for Bob Dylan's 12th best record. The vendor cunt won on that day. |
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Apr 27, 2020 5:29:20 GMT
Oops, hang on, they were in a jukebox? Fuck that shit, bin the lot. They will've been getting scour raped on a daily basis by freddie flintstone's cock in one of those things. The damage to your Denon DL-110 stylus, fuck me, it'll take years off the poor cunts life. Put your ear down next to the needle and listen closely and you will literally hear the poor little cunt crying as you tattoo leprosy plastic shards into his DNA with a needle gun.
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joylesshouse
Has world's biggest Steven Seagal VHS collection
who wins in a fight between Conan the Barbarian and Seagal?
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Post by joylesshouse on Apr 27, 2020 21:13:06 GMT
Well.... I've only been through a third or so of the collection. I imagine I'll find a decent stack of keepers. And no problem, I've been cleaning each record on my shirt before playing. No audio equipment problems here. I've already been enjoying the hell out of the two Plastic Ono Band singles. Daft!
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Apr 29, 2020 22:54:22 GMT
I've been cleaning each record on my shirt before playing.  |
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joylesshouse
Has world's biggest Steven Seagal VHS collection
who wins in a fight between Conan the Barbarian and Seagal?
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Post by joylesshouse on Apr 30, 2020 1:12:30 GMT
never thought of that shit, eh? I have all kinds of honkey magic.
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Apr 30, 2020 22:49:52 GMT
"Dead Lady's Records" could actually be quite a nifty record label name. Or a record shop name. "Dead Lady's Records". Yep, I'd wear that on a t-shirt.
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Apr 2, 2021 22:43:51 GMT
I found my way into, oh 400 - 500 singles from a jukebox that was in a bar since I'd say 1973 My estimate: you kept 37. |
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joylesshouse
Has world's biggest Steven Seagal VHS collection
who wins in a fight between Conan the Barbarian and Seagal?
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Post by joylesshouse on Apr 4, 2021 14:37:26 GMT
I found my way into, oh 400 - 500 singles from a jukebox that was in a bar since I'd say 1973 My estimate: you kept 37. 50 or 60, I'd say. |
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Feb 15, 2022 7:46:11 GMT
Popular Bands I Just Don't "Get".
The Beatles - an almost irrational hatred here
The Clash - dont hear ANYTHING here
Mogwai - post-rock noise, could've been my thing, it just bored me senseless
Pavement - 99% of their catalogue is just a giant wft to me
Melvins - disappointed in myself at how little of their music I enjoy.
Captain Beefheart - just wft
Pere Ubu (front mans vocal inflections drove me around the bend after an oddly long time) ,
At The Drive In (all I hear is a roar of nothing)
Thee oh Sees (that guitar tone oh fuck no please)
Deftones (so many people rave about this band, I lasted maybe 30 seconds)
Bitch Magnet. inexplicable. totally in my wheelhouse yet it sounds too loud and unremitting and piercing gah what is wrong with me
Sleep. my biggest failing. Even the Dopesmoker 2xLP. Given how many doom bands I like I'm actually disappointed in myself. I should LOVE that shit but it dont love me back
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fuckface
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Post by fuckface on Feb 15, 2022 10:04:34 GMT
ubu and beefheart are the only ones i get...depends which records you're talking about with both those too
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Feb 15, 2022 10:20:36 GMT
After that mental Booglarize vid on youtube thought the band would be my thing, bought Safe As Milk LP,,,, not my bag
Still rooting those first couple of Pere Ubu singles but my Modern Dance LP eventually drove me around the twist. The band mightve been bigger than Santa but were kneecapped by that vocalist and his "stylings", InMyIhomOpinion.
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Post by sukebegg on Feb 15, 2022 10:58:20 GMT
Deftones??
I agree with Melvins - dug them early on when they were just another noisy Sub/Pop, Amrep etc. band. Saw them open for Thee Headcoats and Mudhoney. My friend and I agreed 1/2 of the loud echoey set was enough and retreated to the bar... But is there really any difference between their music now and 20 years ago? Once they get into any sort of ponderous noise art shite, I'm out. I suppose their Jello Biafra stuff might be decent...Also, I hate John Patton.
Bitch Magnet
I wrote elsewhere:
Had one or two on vinyl and yeah, I just have always nodded my head to them, never thought they really raised any bars or anything. But piercing? I dunno, I would say there's a lot more piercing gronkrawk like SPBTub or Lubricated Goat...well those are bands that I would reach for before BMag...even their influences and contempos like Squirrelbait or Superchunk...I dunno, it's like you still gotta "swing" even if you are playing sluggy stuff like say Drunks with Guns. BMag are also the roots of Math Rock and maybe thus the lack of swing. nuff said!
Thee Oh Sees
Yeah well, even though I heard hatred for the main dude since his previous band in the naughts, I genuinely dug their earlier releases especially with the flute. Created some real entrancing heavy garage psyche moments BUT just became too influential - starting hearing similar sounds from so many bands. I mean, trite to dis King Gizzard Wizard I guess, but I heard them before any knowledge and it took about half of one song to think "OhSees South"...
haha ~ just a mild shrug from me but still in the back of my mind to "give them a fair shot"* someday. The "Floating Backward" song freaked me out one night stoned driving down the freeway...Asked a dj friend about a cool song he played a few years ago and it was the Beatles, a psychedelic one...forget which one...But the kicker is I'm a huge sucker for power pop of which the Beatles are apparently a major influence yet I can't see me liking them better than Cheap Trick! Cheap Trick fuggin rule!!
* No pun intended but I did enjoy strolling past the Dakota Apts. once in NY. Coming out of Central Park and seeing the iconic building
The Clash
The 10" of Black Market Clash was one of my first records and I still have a great affection for those early singles. It has now been revealed how they were as "manufactured" as the Pistols, so whatever, they became too self-important, U2 stole their schtick of political pop platitudes and now look at the state of the world. fwiw I like the non-Lydon Pistols and The Professionals more than the Lydon Pistols...
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Feb 15, 2022 12:07:44 GMT
Korn too! Dont tell Tim! Read some things comparing them to Kyuss and something else, so gave it a crack goddamn, numetal is not my thing. That 1 long track off Lysol is the only thing I like by them. Although I would buy that solo Joe Preston Kiss cover thing in a heartbeat. "Piercing" cos when trying to crank it loud to get in that muntzone, it really didnt want me to and came off as piercing fffs does anyone else want to pull apart every word I type about music and run it through their anal cunt fly wing disassembler? |
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Post by sukebegg on Feb 16, 2022 0:29:35 GMT
yeah, sorry, I was just trying to key in on what it was they didn't have...I was listening to Umbar whilst typing and did not feel very pierced...
My old bud Harvey Stafford painted those Melvin solo Kiss covers! He also gave me a Milk Cult t-shirt I have to this day!
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Post by pussycat on Feb 16, 2022 13:39:15 GMT
The Beatles - an almost irrational hatred here Same, and I actually like some songs and albums. It’s like a guilty pleasure at this point. I get really embarrassed to even let my gf catch me listening to the Beatles. The Clash - dont hear ANYTHING here Never liked them too much. Awful rhythm section. And somehow they struck me as a little bit too righteous. In later years I’ve learned to appreciate them more, but I think what I’m appreciating in the production ultra-thin dubbed out atmosphere, typical of a lot of punk records from the time. Mick songs tend to be a bit better than the Joe ones. They had a lot of painfully lame songs. Mogwai - post-rock noise, could've been my thing, it just bored me senseless Don’t remember what these guys sound like but post rock was never my thing. Pavement - 99% of their catalogue is just a giant wft to me Never liked this band or this aesthetic. Melvins - disappointed in myself at how little of their music I enjoy. King Buzzo has always came across like a really corny dude. Now with old age he’s like an embarrassing grandpa. Captain Beefheart - just wft Yes, but I have soft spot for the first album. Pere Ubu (front mans vocal inflections drove me around the bend after an oddly long time) , I admit I like them, but it’s in spite of the vocals which are some of the worst of all time. At The Drive In (all I hear is a roar of nothing) Yuck. Thee oh Sees (that guitar tone oh fuck no please) I couldn’t recommend an album but they were lots of fun live way back when. Deftones (so many people rave about this band, I lasted maybe 30 seconds) Not my thing at all. Bitch Magnet. inexplicable. totally in my wheelhouse yet it sounds too loud and unremitting and piercing gah what is wrong with me Don’t remember what they sound like or who they are. Sleep. my biggest failing. Even the Dopesmoker 2xLP. Given how many doom bands I like I'm actually disappointed in myself. I should LOVE that shit but it dont love me back Not sure what to tell you there. Dopesmoker feels like some kinda high water mark for the genre. |
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Apr 2, 2022 22:41:53 GMT
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Feb 21, 2023 7:18:27 GMT
some of Lou Reeds actual record coll3ection:    most interesting to me is his interest in the "unhip" Dylan phase. I'd take the much maligned "Shot of Love" album over the much vaunted "Blonde on Blonde" any day... |
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Post by fuckface on Feb 21, 2023 9:10:03 GMT
good to see someone else doesn't use those shitty plastic outer sleeves. lord how i detest those fucking cunting things.
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Feb 22, 2023 0:43:53 GMT
He had a weird thing for Tina Turner ffs
I have that Tom Verlaine "Cover" LP. Very nifty record. Will give it a burl today, Lou.
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Post by Ladyfingers on Feb 23, 2023 3:11:05 GMT
Popular Bands I Just Don't "Get".
The Beatles - an almost irrational hatred here Not hatred but disinterest aside from a few of the psychedelic tracks. Tomorrow Never Knows is genuinely amazing. The Clash - dont hear ANYTHING here Yeah, no interest. Loved by people with tedious politics. Mogwai - post-rock noise, could've been my thing, it just bored me senseless Not wild about them although I own seemingly all their albums. Some is excellent, but a lot requires patience. Pavement - 99% of their catalogue is just a giant wft to me No idea why all the yanks like them. Drivel. Melvins - disappointed in myself at how little of their music I enjoy. Good energy for a song at a time. I can see why they're a pivotal band but that doesn't make them better than the bands that used them as a springboard. Captain Beefheart - just wft Too selfconsciously wacky. Pere Ubu (front mans vocal inflections drove me around the bend after an oddly long time) , Always forget to try them out. At The Drive In (all I hear is a roar of nothing) Can't comment, haven't heard. Thee oh Sees (that guitar tone oh fuck no please) Can't comment, haven't heard. Deftones (so many people rave about this band, I lasted maybe 30 seconds) Can't comment, haven't heard. Bitch Magnet. inexplicable. totally in my wheelhouse yet it sounds too loud and unremitting and piercing gah what is wrong with me Can't comment, haven't heard. Sleep. my biggest failing. Even the Dopesmoker 2xLP. Given how many doom bands I like I'm actually disappointed in myself. I should LOVE that shit but it dont love me back Can't comment, haven't heard. |
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Feb 23, 2023 3:34:28 GMT
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Post by Sprague Dawley on May 27, 2024 3:29:21 GMT
still curious how Lou Reed ended up with 3 Billy Idol LP's...
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Post by Ladyfingers on May 27, 2024 5:14:40 GMT
Popular Bands I Just Don't "Get".
The Beatles - an almost irrational hatred here No hatred, but I really don't enjoy most of their stuff. It's the vocals, mostly, very snotty, nasal-sounding and without soul, depth or character to my ear. They were musically very creative and original, I'll give them that. Strawberry Fields Forever and To Here Knows When are legitimately excellent tracks that probably created a few genres I love. The Clash - dont hear ANYTHING here Yeah, I don't get it either. Mogwai - post-rock noise, could've been my thing, it just bored me senseless When post-rock started exploding around the mid-'00s, I was lapping it all up as something genuinely new and engaging, but after the fact a lot of it has become a bit same-y and tedious. My Father My King is great, though. Pavement - 99% of their catalogue is just a giant wft to me Also absolutely mystifying to me. I think there's a certain kind of American tastemaker/critic type who likes music made by People Like Him/Her and the mediocrity and laxity of Pavement's sound is catnip to these fat losers. Melvins - disappointed in myself at how little of their music I enjoy. It's an interesting prototype for better music. Captain Beefheart - just wft Too self-consciously, pointlessly wacky for me, yeah. Pere Ubu (front mans vocal inflections drove me around the bend after an oddly long time) , I never investigated them. At The Drive In (all I hear is a roar of nothing) Not heard yet. Thee oh Sees (that guitar tone oh fuck no please) Not heard yet. Deftones (so many people rave about this band, I lasted maybe 30 seconds) It's like Nickelback crossed with Korn, and I like neither of them. Sounds like the preferred music of America date-rapists. Bitch Magnet. inexplicable. totally in my wheelhouse yet it sounds too loud and unremitting and piercing gah what is wrong with me Not heard yet. Sleep. my biggest failing. Even the Dopesmoker 2xLP. Given how many doom bands I like I'm actually disappointed in myself. I should LOVE that shit but it dont love me back Stoner/doom/drone metal is a genre I should like. Slow, low, dirge-y guitar grinds. There's so much of it, though, that I can't see any exceptions to latch onto. I like Kyuss, if that counts. |
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Post by Sprague Dawley on May 27, 2024 5:22:58 GMT
Deftones (so many people rave about this band, I lasted maybe 30 seconds)
 I am oddly fussy with this band. Sky Valley LP did nothing for me, only rooting the 1st half of Blues For The Red Sun before it loses steam for me. The opening track is a MUNTER though and the gittar tone on it sounds surprisingly completely different with each format/gear setup |
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Post by Ladyfingers on May 27, 2024 5:41:17 GMT
I am oddly fussy with this band. Sky Valley LP did nothing for me, only rooting the 1st half of Blues For The Red Sun before it loses steam for me. The opening track is a MUNTER though and the gittar tone on it sounds surprisingly completely different with each format/gear setup
Welcome to Sky Valley was the one that got me into them. I read about it in a guitar magazine and then found it for surprisingly cheap in a local record shop.
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Post by sukebegg on May 27, 2024 9:08:37 GMT
still curious how Lou Reed ended up with 3 Billy Idol LP's... I mean, who gets kicked out of your bed first...#mayBhomo   |
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Post by Sprague Dawley on May 27, 2024 11:49:32 GMT
Tale Of The Tape?
Lou Reed vs Billy Idol vs Laurie Anderson
from the records I have....
Lou Reed - New Sensations 7/10
Lou Reed - Lou Reed Live 6/10
Lou Reed - Rock N Roll Animal 8/10
Total: 21 pts for Lou
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Laurie Anderson - Big Science 8/10
Laurie Anderson - Home Of The Brave 5/10
Laurie Anderson - Mister Heartbreak 9/10
Total: 22 pts for Laurie
Laurie just wins this one.
Perhaps a thread idea.
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