Today I listened to...

[tumulishoomaroom]

Black Sabbath and Dance music; works like a charm.

https://soundcloud.com/marvin-and-guy/uwihpreview

[Rusty_Berrings]

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Found a bunch of old vinyl from the 40s and 50s in my parents basement. Im thinking it must have belonged to my grandparents. Anyways, this was there and is pretty fucking tight.

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Hell yeah I bet that's got some of the first ever electric guitars on it (the original electric guitars were lap steels and mostly only popular in hawaiian music.) You got any 78's in your collection?

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no 78s. our turntable actually has a 78rpm setting, but you need a special stylus for them i guess. i honestly knew nothing about vinyl before i bought my girlfriend the turn table back in february. its a real cheap one with built in speakers and everyone online is kind of puzzled by the fact that it has a 78 setting but doesnt come with a 78 stylus.

my buddy has an old wind up victrola at his cottage with a bunch of 78s. that thing is pretty sick.

Crazy. Had no idea about the stylus. Technics 1200 have or have had a setting for 78's at some point and I think we got some 78's down in my basement but my dad swears they don't exist. You've maybe inspired me to take a journey through all the clutter in our basement to look for them. I wonder what kind of music my descendants listened to on the great old format of the 78 record. I'm guessing most 78's are wax and not vinyl and thus the reason for the special stylus. I'll probably not play them if I find them or if I do I'll just transfer them over to digital.

In somewhat unrelated news, I found this company in the UK that does one off vinyl cuttings for ~70 bucks shipped. Kinda cool!

[Mr. Kamikazi]

Country Teasers
Rowland S. Howard
Dark Blue
Middle Class

[Grampa]

Country Teasers
Rowland S. Howard
Dark Blue
Middle Class

Country Teasers are the best. I've always wished that they'd return to their earlier, more "Fall playing atonal honky-tonk" sound, but the dude's lyrics are good enough to make me like pretty much all their stuff.



Been on a Spider kick lately. Every few months it happens and I kick myself for not getting the record when it came out.

[abudabi]

gnarred. those guys are amazing. jealous of your purchase.

[Bloody Matt]

Been on a Spider kick lately. Every few months it happens and I kick myself for not getting the record when it came out.

What is this, The Spits? Guess I should just google it.

[Grampa]

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Been on a Spider kick lately. Every few months it happens and I kick myself for not getting the record when it came out.

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What is this, The Spits? Guess I should just google it.

Not the easiest band to google. It was (is?) the bassist from the Spits and his girlfriend. I always liked the weirder Spits songs, and that's basically what this is.

[JB]

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Found a bunch of old vinyl from the 40s and 50s in my parents basement. Im thinking it must have belonged to my grandparents. Anyways, this was there and is pretty fucking tight.

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Hell yeah I bet that's got some of the first ever electric guitars on it (the original electric guitars were lap steels and mostly only popular in hawaiian music.) You got any 78's in your collection?

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no 78s. our turntable actually has a 78rpm setting, but you need a special stylus for them i guess. i honestly knew nothing about vinyl before i bought my girlfriend the turn table back in february. its a real cheap one with built in speakers and everyone online is kind of puzzled by the fact that it has a 78 setting but doesnt come with a 78 stylus.

my buddy has an old wind up victrola at his cottage with a bunch of 78s. that thing is pretty sick.

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Crazy. Had no idea about the stylus. Technics 1200 have or have had a setting for 78's at some point and I think we got some 78's down in my basement but my dad swears they don't exist. You've maybe inspired me to take a journey through all the clutter in our basement to look for them. I wonder what kind of music my descendants listened to on the great old format of the 78 record. I'm guessing most 78's are wax and not vinyl and thus the reason for the special stylus. I'll probably not play them if I find them or if I do I'll just transfer them over to digital.

In somewhat unrelated news, I found this company in the UK that does one off vinyl cuttings for ~70 bucks shipped. Kinda cool!

from what i read, i think 78s have a wider groove which requires a wider stylus. if you have some and your turntable can spin 78rpms, id say look online for a stylus and give them a spin. most old stuff like that isnt worth much and even if it is, its probably more of a hassle to sell that its worth, so i wouldnt worry too much about damaging them. if theyre just collecting dust, why not pull them out and see what they sound like? theyre just going to take up space otherwise.

[Glue Reed]

looking at pictures of skinhead girls online has me feeling britishish... a lot of Billy Childish and Cocksparrer lately.

[Bloody Matt]

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Been on a Spider kick lately. Every few months it happens and I kick myself for not getting the record when it came out.

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What is this, The Spits? Guess I should just google it.

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Not the easiest band to google. It was (is?) the bassist from the Spits and his girlfriend. I always liked the weirder Spits songs, and that's basically what this is.

Yeah same. Thanks!

[heritage]

[Grampa]

Studied today for 11 hours and listened to a lot of stuff that helps me focus as well as drowns out the fucking rooster that my yuppie neighbors decided to get.

This album:


And this album:



And a ton of other stuff that I can't remember.

[Hash Slinging Slasher]

Been on a sort of pop-punkish kick lately. What the fuck is wrong with me?

[JB]

laugh it up, but i think this whole album is the shit. the one after this one is pretty awesome too.

[Bloody Matt]

[JB]

damn, these guys are sick as fuck! thanks for posting that.

[Rusty_Berrings]

[JB]

thanks again bloody matt for posting jerusalem. lead me to these guys.

[Bloody Matt]

Full credit goes to my girlfriend who turned off whatever I was playing when some pals were over the other night and put on that Jerusalem song. She may have also called me a bitch while doing it.

[Bloody Matt]

[shark tits]

[_UniversalTruth_]

Amazing track, his album should be good

https://soundcloud.com/brainfeeder/kamasi-washington-miss-understanding

also:

[Rusty_Berrings]

[JB]

http://soundcloud.com/crystal-castles/frail

New Crystal Castles.

I already posted this in things im stoked on, but I wanted to post it here in case anyone else is a fan and has anything to say.

I was pretty shocked when I saw this come up on soundcloud yesterday since I thought they were done for sure after alice left. if you read what ethan wrote, he sorta came off like a bitter asshole saying people always gave alice credit for his lyrics and that she didnt sing on their biggest songs. i dont agree with what he said, but the new song is really fucking sick and thats good enough for me. im really excited to see if he puts out another album and how it will sound compared to the others.

anyone else a big CC fan? thoughts?

[Bloody Matt]

http://soundcloud.com/crystal-castles/frail

anyone else a big CC fan? thoughts?

I met Claudio back when he was in that terrible band Kill Cheerleader. Nice enough guy, I guess. Crystal Castles is definitely a joke in whatever music scene exists in Toronto, though. Wrong Hole even spoofed them on the back cover of a record they put out last year:

[JB]

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http://soundcloud.com/crystal-castles/frail

anyone else a big CC fan? thoughts?

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Crystal Castles is definitely a joke in whatever music scene exists in Toronto, though.

why is this? i know nothing about the toronto scene. 

[Bloody Matt]

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http://soundcloud.com/crystal-castles/frail

anyone else a big CC fan? thoughts?

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Crystal Castles is definitely a joke in whatever music scene exists in Toronto, though.

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why is this? i know nothing about the toronto scene. 

Probably because they got very successful very quickly. Toronto is a really commercial city and all art suffers as a result. Really too bad.



I bought this for myself today and am listening to it now:



Early-to-mid-80's minimal techno and all good.

[JB]

^ I could see that. There was a huge difference in the crowd from the first time I saw them and the most recent time I saw them. You can't be cool when the swagged out fuccbois are front row at your show.

I still think their sick though and all their success is disserved. I think they've kept their integrity throughout the years as well. There's hundreds of shitty electronic groups now who all sounds the same and are popular as hell, but I don't think CC really bit anyone else's sound. they've had plenty of copy cats though.

[Rusty_Berrings]

My dad took my Grandmother to the concert that happened to be the first time The Grateful Dead would ever perform this song live at the Philly Spectrum in the 90's (20 years after the release of the album). Story goes that there was so much crowd reaction while they were playing it that my Grandma went to my dad and said "Why are they booing him? It's not his fault he can't sing" 

[The Nose Face]

Been listening to alot of Husker Du lately. I used to dig them a lot at the end of college, and always thought they were WAY ahead of their time.

This is my favorite song off Zen Arcade - so I looked it into a little more and found this out:



Originally released as a double album on two vinyl LP's, Zen Arcade tells the story of a young boy who runs away from an unfulfilling home life, only to find the world outside is even worse. The album incorporates elements of jazz, psychedelia, acoustic folk, pop, and piano interludes, concepts rarely touched on in the world of hardcore punk.

These were just punk kids in 84 squatting a church in St. Paul Minnesota - but man, their songs speak about shit 30 years later so clearly...

Divide and Conquer is so good too...again, ahead of it's time.