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Post by Ladyfingers on Jun 16, 2022 7:45:06 GMT
I recently decided to stop faffing on my list of discs I've been intending to buy and picked up all three of Pinkshinyultrablast's CDs direct from their Bandcamp page.
Really good! Sound isn't even too brickwalled (by modern standards, though, they're still DR7). Nice shoegaze/post-rock/electronic sound similar to Ulrich Schnauss, but a lot more aggressively noisy. Soaring on waves of fuzz.
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Post by Ladyfingers on Jun 16, 2022 8:58:23 GMT
Also found out about this Dutch noise/shoegaze band recently so picked up their first album.
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Jun 16, 2022 10:46:18 GMT
^^^they shoulda rode out that opening 20 seconds dark vibe for the whole song!
my year so far more or less:
XTC - Nonsuch cd. 100 yen, too proggy for me
Cop Shoot Cop - Ask Questions Later cd. doesnt really work for me anymore myhomo
Primus - Suck On This cd. blast of nostalgia here
Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull cd
Earth - Hex; Or Printing In The Infernal Method cd. both deeply relaxing
Earth - Pentastar: In The Style Of Demons LP. not entirely rooting it yet
Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs CD after about 4 songs its too normy
Ministry - Filth Pig cd. damn surprised at how much I am rooting this. maybe cos they ditched the fast parts here
Ministry - ΚΕΦΑΛΗΞΘ cd. not into it, too frenetic
Windhand - Soma cd. epic electric whizzy rumble
Frank Black - Hang On To Your Ego 12". rooting it
Neil Young - Decade 3xLP. 700 yen, deal of the century
T. Rex - Bolan Boogie LP. cannot go wrong here
Throwing Muses - The Real Ramona cd. goddamn I love this thing to bits
Cowpers VS 200MPH - Feedback Insanity CD. final laboured flameout for the totally rad j-"emo" hardcore lads the Cowpers
The Beach Boys - Holland lp. 2,000 yen splurge, coming around to it
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks lp. cassette version busted, HAD to restock ffs. Crucial LP
Leonard Cohen - Death Of A Ladies' Man LP. growing on me but very very 70's here
Bob Dylan - Wigwam 7" love this thing
Cherubs - Heroin Man cd, overly raucous but some spots r godhead
Hammerhead - Into The Vortex cd. the big fuck yeah
Hammerhead - Duh, The Big City. bit more forgettable here
Pink Floyd - Meddle lp. another copy. should keep it
The Undertones - s/t LP 2,000 yen splurge but ffs I neeeded this
Smashing Pumpkins - Today cdep. some noice buts
Angelo Badalamenti - Soundtrack From Twin Peaks cd. super duper relaxo
Bad Religion - No Control cd. reaquisition. 1,000 mph and surprised at myself for still knowing every word
Yo La Tengo - Fade cd. mellow, rooting it, bit like Belle and Sebastion meets Neil Young Lite
Swervedriver - Sandblasted cdep. fuck yeah
Swervedriver - Raise CD. the stiffy i had for this in 1991 has wilted a bit
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - No More Shall We Part cd. reaqcquisitionne
Neil Young - Le Noise cd. bit throwaway forgettable but still ffs what a guitar tone
Charles Wright And The Watts 103rd Street Band - You're So Beautiful LP. this band have never done me wrong
The Bats - Couchmaster cd. not very batsy. tried to be americans here
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Post by Ladyfingers on Jun 16, 2022 12:02:01 GMT
My acquisitions so far this year are: Aphex Twin - 1991 - Analogue Bubblebath
Black Sabbath - 1970 - Black Sabbath
Boards of Canada - 1995 - Twoism
Boris - 2008 - Smile
Boston - 1978 - Don't Look Back
Butthole Surfers - 1984 - Psychic... Powerless... Another Man's Sac
The Cult - 1987 - Electric
F.R. David - 1982 - Words
Enslaved - 2004 - Isa
Enslaved - 2008 - Vertebrae
Final - 2022 - It Comes to Us All
Jesu - 2007 - Pale Sketches
Jesu - 2009 - Pale Sketches (Mixes)
Nik Kershaw - 1984 - Wouldn't It Be Good
King Missile - 1994 - King Missile
Laibach - 2022 - Wir Sind das Volk
Liquid Liquid - 1997 - Liquid Liquid
Meat Beat Manifesto - 1998 - Actual Sounds + Voices
Pinkshinyultrablast - 2018 - Miserable Miracles
Pinkshinyultrablast - 2016 - Grandfeathered
Pinkshinyultrablast - 2015 - Everything Else Matters
The Nightblooms - 1992 - The Nightblooms
Ulrich Schnauss - 2007 - Goodbye
Ulrich Schnauss - 2016 - No Further Ahead Than Today
Sepultura - 1993 - Chaos A.D.
The Smiths - 1983 - This Charming Man
Soundgarden - 1988 - Ultramega OK
Swans - 2022 - Is There Really a Mind?
Talk Talk - 1984 - It's My Life
Temple of the Dog - 1991 - Temple of the Dog
Toto - 1984 - Dune
The Waitresses - 1982 - Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful?
John Williams - 1981 - Raiders of the Lost Ark
Hans Zimmer - 2021 - Dune: Part One
Hans Zimmer - 2021 - The Dune Sketchbook (Disc 1)
Hans Zimmer - 2021 - The Dune Sketchbook (Disc 2)
Siouxsie & the Banshees - 1980 - Kaleidoscope
Bit of a grab bag really, with a few I got as stocking stuffers to justify the postage. Never really bothered with soundtracks before but watching Dune got me so pumped that I bought it anyway and got Raiders in for the deal. I got the old Toto Dune soundtrack too because it felt like I should somehow, and it's pretty stirring and bombastic.
My Discogs wantlist is at about 900-odd entries for about 500 albums, but the prices are so berserk lately I haven't bought much. Mostly I end up buying things whose price is starting to take off conspicuously because I hate waiting too long and having to hunt down some random album that's hitting $75-100 on eBay. Like, albums that were $5 a year ago are suddenly $20 everywhere.
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Jun 17, 2022 0:25:29 GMT
Southern Lord were selling these cd's for $2 a pop wholesale a few years ago. I bought 5. Sold the lot back before international postage rates went prohibitively pricey. I just couldnt understand what they were trying to do on this album. Really ticked me off. i lurrrv "Absolutego" and "Amplifier Worship". Talk Talk - 1984 - It's My Life
After reading so many rave reviews of the 2 later albums after they changed their sound I finally splurged on the 2 cd's and Mark Hollis' solo cd this week. Yet to give them a burl. How many bands do that though, get big then throw caution to the reckless wind and say fuckit we're just gonna make whatever we want, they get critics plaudits for it but lose the big fanbase? NONE. its always the other way around. the Simple Minds path. Make a couple of crit fave lp's early then go mainstream, get huge, and turn to shit. |
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Post by Ladyfingers on Jun 17, 2022 1:15:19 GMT
Talk Talk - 1984 - It's My Life
After reading so many rave reviews of the 2 later albums after they changed their sound I finally splurged on the 2 cd's and Mark Hollis' solo cd this week. Yet to give them a burl. How many bands do that though, get big then throw caution to the reckless wind and say fuckit we're just gonna make whatever we want, they get critics plaudits for it but lose the big fanbase? NONE. its always the other way around. the Simple Minds path. Make a couple of crit fave lp's early then go mainstream, get huge, and turn to shit. I think there's a case to be made for Radiohead, although their cycle of popularity went from one-hit-wonder radio hit to critically acclaimed rock album to a near-instant imperial phase where fans lapped up whatever came to mind. Really uncanny how they've ridden the waves of taste. Modern-day Beatles, I suppose.
Talk Talk always had an artiness to their sound, I think. Even their "pop" albums are shot through with wild creativity, and by the time they got to Colour of Spring they were making 9-minute epics on the same disc as their radio-friendly hits. And their radio-friendly hits were pretty weird, Life's What You Make It is sonically wild stuff.
I miss that radio was a shared medium where artists aiming at kids and adults competed for air-time. Think of how in the '80s you had Tears for Fears, Talk Talk and Sting on the same countdown as, I don't know, Musical Youth? You can take potshots at Phil Collins' solo output all you like (it sucks!) but try and imagine a dude like that going platinum now. Impossible.
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Jun 17, 2022 23:32:28 GMT
out of the loop here but Radiohead always seemed only slightly varying degrees of bigger than Jebus for the last 30 years to me.
TALK TALK spirit of eden (1988). woah this critically acclaimed thing is maybe not my bag. i like my maudlin shit but this is super super sombre slow elevator jazz with some ghastly guitar skrangggg biffed in to wake you up and have you reaching to turn the volume down even more. Seems completely shapeless and forgettable. Will persist though.
The previous cd from 1986 seems far more shapely and friendly. Buxom and alluring, even. Spirit of Eden seems bulimic and neurotically unapproachable in comparison.
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Jun 20, 2022 1:24:12 GMT
With Japan's currently dogshit 3rd world shithole exchange rate even buying cd's online from discogs ebay etc is pretty much prohibitively pricey these days. LP's are beyond insane.
That £2.99 cd you want on discogs? With £5.00 shipping to Japan? That's about as cheap as it gets right? Still works out to about ¥1,315. For a motherfuckkking 2 pound squid cd. FFS. From the US its 10 times worse. $2 cd with $28 postage. LOL.
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Post by Ladyfingers on Jun 20, 2022 7:48:49 GMT
Siouxsie & the Banshees' Through the Looking Glass arrived today. Because it's a covers album, it seems to get written off as a bit of guff, but actually I think it frees up the band from songwriting and really shows off their skills at creating massive, lush arrangements, much like Kicking Against the Pricks.
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Post by Ladyfingers on Jun 20, 2022 7:50:57 GMT
With Japan's currently dogshit 3rd world shithole exchange rate even buying cd's online from discogs ebay etc is pretty much prohibitively pricey these days. LP's are beyond insane. That £2.99 cd you want on discogs? With £5.00 shipping to Japan? That's about as cheap as it gets right? Still works out to about ¥1,315. For a motherfuckkking 2 pound squid cd. FFS. From the US its 10 times worse. $2 cd with $28 postage. LOL. 5 pounds shipping? I'm luck to get anything sent here for under 10. |
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Post by Ladyfingers on Jun 20, 2022 7:57:32 GMT
One thing that fucked up Discogs was them automating the shipping calculator. I used to get piles of discs sent without jewel cases for a fraction of what it costs now.
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Jun 20, 2022 8:58:18 GMT
Siouxsie & the Banshees' Through the Looking Glass arrived today. Because it's a covers album, it seems to get written off as a bit of guff, but actually I think it frees up the band from songwriting and really shows off their skills at creating massive, lush arrangements, much like Kicking Against the Pricks. just realised i've owned maybe the first 9 Siouxsie lp's at one stage in my life.... and sold the lot. The vocals, as usual, the dealbreaker for whatever reason. Fussy cunt. "Kaleidoscope" the best? One thing that fucked up Discogs was them automating the shipping calculator. I used to get piles of discs sent without jewel cases for a fraction of what it costs now. i still negotiate with sellers to whip the jewel cases out but yeah it is a pain in the arse, the back and forth |
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Post by nikkeisindex on Jun 24, 2022 20:49:44 GMT
The truly latest thing I have purchased is a "Wiggling Judys" 7". This is like... pretty good. I prefer the A-Side --
I kept listening to the B-Side like wtf are they talking about "What do you do when diplomacy fails..." then I glanced at the song title -- hey, Japan-related!
The best thing I have purchased this year is an X-Teens 7". This just grabs me for all the right reasons, good organ, Elvis Costello lyrics, cool ascending guitar line, then a very odd late-in-the-song pretty stunningly produced Beatles-esque horn break. I am sure they somehow did this on no budget at all. Oh and besides "organ" they just prior to this 7" had a 5th member simply credited with "computer."
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Post by sukebegg on Jun 26, 2022 13:31:53 GMT
Good stuff Nikkei ~ Not purchasing but I have been listening to a ton of obscure late 70/early 80 power poopery over the last year or so. Even great YT channels where I just hit "play all" while I work and if something really grabs my ear, I see what the band is and investigate other material and whatnot in a proper post or pre-work time window. Fuck yeah the Intertubez.
I do purchase albums on Bandcamp and try to do it on Bandcamp Friday when the artists get all the proceeds. I also need to re-up my Total Punk personal patreon. His purchase entire discography option is set at some ridiculous sum as a joke, so I said I will just send you what a comparable-sized label would charge or thereabouts to support your great label.
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Post by nikkeisindex on Jun 27, 2022 18:02:54 GMT
That's good! Let's see, I've contributed to a North Korea oriented fund, that was my first and possibly last ever official donation out of goodwill. I guess I know friends with businesses that I'm happy to support -- I mean if I'm eating or drinking, might as well do it where the funds go to someone I know. And an ex-bandmate's dad had all his shit stolen so I donated to that. There are some more here and there. But I mean. Look, Russia is bad and bullying Ukraine but I already tapped out my resources locally.
I do think this is a funny thing. My brother did 2 Ukraine oriented support contributions and then his neighbor was like "COME ON! UKRAINE!" and basically you can't really say "I already gave, twice."
Please do my homework for me. Of your play all YT investigations, what's a standout?
I was raised Catholic so I do feel mildly way back of mind bad when I buy a $40 used 7" and know the artist gets nothing.
Not bad enough to take action -- but I secretly acknowledge it's bad?
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Post by nikkeisindex on Jun 27, 2022 18:10:27 GMT
Didn't see a lot of homeless Japanese in Hatanodai where I used to live but I did see a dude and asked, at the time fairly new to me "Onaka suite?" and he indicated yes so I bought him some 7-11 sushi? Who knows, try to be decent when you can I guess.
Speaking of the X-Teens, which I brought up, I was curious enough to track that guy down and be like "So what's up with the Beatles horn break" and he said, more or less, that was down to the producer, who was just super good. He also said my payment for said information was to listen to his current band and buy it if I liked it okay. I wrote back and said I'm an obnoxious person who doesn't really listen to anything after 1981. We parted amicably.
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Jun 28, 2022 0:20:17 GMT
was following an internet thread about a guy in the US chronicling setting up his record shop. Pure nostalgia for me, the best part of such an enterprise is always the hope at the start and setup process. Anyway, dude opened the store and about 1 WEEK later some hurricane flattened the fucking place.
Flooded, fucked.
No more shop.
So he said he'd do it all again in another state, he did, so I posted him a freebie box of japanese pic sleeve 7"s. All from the 100 yen bins but who knows, they might be rare in Jebusland.
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Post by sukebegg on Jun 28, 2022 1:54:04 GMT
I was raised Catholic so I do feel mildly way back of mind bad when I buy a $40 used 7" and know the artist gets nothing.
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Post by nikkeisindex on Jun 28, 2022 11:33:04 GMT
The saddest part is I'm thinking $40 ain't bad for any Sun Ra pressing.
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Post by beta on Jun 30, 2022 0:47:33 GMT
The saddest part is I'm thinking $40 ain't bad for any Sun Ra pressing. It isn't. Worth every penny. And living here in outer space I ought to know something at least. |
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Post by Ladyfingers on Jun 30, 2022 2:12:55 GMT
I am honestly struggling to get a single compact disc sent to me for under $40 at the moment. Means that pursuing value I end up trawling the catalogue of the seller to pad the deal with a bunch of stuff.
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Post by Ladyfingers on Jun 30, 2022 2:24:57 GMT
Latest few: Howard Jones - 1985 - Dream into Action Makthaverskan - 2009 - Makthaverskan Makthaverskan - 2013 - Makthaverskan II Makthaverskan - 2021 - För Allting The Nightblooms - 1992 - Butterfly Girl Wham! - 1986 - The Final Was on a bit of an '80s kick after Stranger Things and the Wham! album basically completes everything I need from them. Wham!'s an unusual part of my collection because it's such unapologetic pop. In its defense, holy shit is the level of musical talent behind Michael and Ridgely kind of incredible. A songs like Freedom is a thoroughly genericised Motown/Northern Soul knockoff, but the players they brought in for the recording are unbelievably tight.
Makthaverskan is a Swedish post-punk/shoegaze/noise act that really have their moments.
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Post by nikkeisindex on Jun 30, 2022 3:03:23 GMT
I guess I learned the lesson everyone learned, which is, I should have bought everything 20 years ago. And, probably by extension, should buy everything now. I have almost every Sparks record (humblebrag?). Camp Leader needed "Angst In My Pants" and I was like son of a bitch, this was a $6 record I passed on a dozen times, now it's $50.
I did actually play my $10 repress of "The Nubians of Plutonia" last week. And I enjoyed it. So there.
But now $30 powerpop 7"s aren't "expensive?"
I don't know, I've confused myself.
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Post by Ladyfingers on Jun 30, 2022 3:23:53 GMT
I was looking at Innerworld by Electric Youth that was hovering around $12 last year. Now about $85.
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Jun 30, 2022 9:26:58 GMT
Camp Leader needed "Angst In My Pants" and I was like son of a bitch, this was a $6 record I passed on a dozen times, now it's $50. fahhhk tell me about it, like a MORAN I sold my $2 bin copy, really can't hang with those early LP's, too proggy/operatic for me. My wheelhouse starts at No 1 In Heaven, half of Whomp That Sucker and every second of Angst. |
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Jun 30, 2022 9:32:11 GMT
I am honestly struggling to get a single compact disc sent to me for under $40 at the moment. Means that pursuing value I end up trawling the catalogue of the seller to pad the deal with a bunch of stuff. Lately I've found this to be a fools errand. Dunno how many times I7ve searched some dudes 20,000 strong catalogue for shit off my wantlist, found nothing, so started going through it alphabetically, after a couple of thousand scrolls I'm like WFT am I doing, this stuff is all utter rubbish. Then I give up. So many countries no longer doing airmail so $40 EMS the only option. Fucking Vlad, fucking Wuhan |
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Post by Ladyfingers on Jun 30, 2022 13:33:53 GMT
I am honestly struggling to get a single compact disc sent to me for under $40 at the moment. Means that pursuing value I end up trawling the catalogue of the seller to pad the deal with a bunch of stuff. Lately I've found this to be a fools errand. Dunno how many times I7ve searched some dudes 20,000 strong catalogue for shit off my wantlist, found nothing, so started going through it alphabetically, after a couple of thousand scrolls I'm like WFT am I doing, this stuff is all utter rubbish. Then I give up. So many countries no longer doing airmail so $40 EMS the only option. Fucking Vlad, fucking Wuhan I usually use filters to thin down the catalogue to, say, Rock CDs under $5, and limit the date to pre-'94 since that's when CDs started getting "remastered" (brickwalled) and sounding like shit, then sort by artist. Rock is basically everything from electronic to metal that has snob appeal, since things can be in multiple categories. |
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Post by nikkeisindex on Jun 30, 2022 15:09:29 GMT
Camp Leader needed "Angst In My Pants" and I was like son of a bitch, this was a $6 record I passed on a dozen times, now it's $50. fahhhk tell me about it, like a MORAN I sold my $2 bin copy, really can't hang with those early LP's, too proggy/operatic for me. My wheelhouse starts at No 1 In Heaven, half of Whomp That Sucker and every second of Angst. I very much concur with your review of the discography. How odd. Growing up even for me disco was still "NOT COOL." Now the 2 best Sparks records are the Moroder ones, and I'm pretty sure he farmed the 2nd one out?
Amazing.
And, I kind of hate to say this, but some of their songs are like... the joke was better as a premise. Actually listening through 3.5 mins to be like "oh, it's funny" is not really worth it.
But "Tryouts For the Human Race?" That's funny and also genuinely listenable.
"Sextown USA?"
I am admittedly a moron but that also works on both levels for me. Moustache.... I guess they got better as they went which is more than you can say for most bands.
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Jun 30, 2022 21:23:43 GMT
and limit the date to pre-'94 since that's when CDs started getting "remastered" (brickwalled) and sounding like shit Oh wow never th9ought of that, will defo give a try |
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Jul 1, 2022 11:20:09 GMT
fahhhk tell me about it, like a MORAN I sold my $2 bin copy, really can't hang with those early LP's, too proggy/operatic for me. My wheelhouse starts at No 1 In Heaven, half of Whomp That Sucker and every second of Angst. I very much concur with your review of the discography. How odd. Growing up even for me disco was still "NOT COOL." Now the 2 best Sparks records are the Moroder ones, and I'm pretty sure he farmed the 2nd one out?
Amazing.
And, I kind of hate to say this, but some of their songs are like... the joke was better as a premise. Actually listening through 3.5 mins to be like "oh, it's funny" is not really worth it.
But "Tryouts For the Human Race?" That's funny and also genuinely listenable.
"Sextown USA?"
I am admittedly a moron but that also works on both levels for me. Moustache.... I guess they got better as they went which is more than you can say for most bands.
holy fuckign shiiiiiiit. LP copies of Angst START at US $80. That's 10,000 fucking yen. www.discogs.com/sell/list?master_id=87044&ev=mb&format=Vinyl&sort=price%2CascInsane. Although I can sort of get it. Was a dollar bin staple for a while...... but was never "huge" so probably not pressed in big numbers.... and only repressed once since 1982, in 2017 in ltd numbers. |
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