I found a Herb Alpert LP in a charity shop (thrift store, for our American friends) and thought it was one of those LPs that sold nothing. Turns out Herb was huge like a mountain.

Meanwhile, I've also got a 40s/50s UK jazz compilation called Homemade Jam 2 which is one of my favourite records (and if a certain bandmate of mine is reading, I want it back you fucker). If anyone sees the first edition, buy it and I'll pay you back handsomely.

EDIT: Turns out it's from 1936/8. Crikey. If anyone can read The language of this website I'd be most grateful to know what it's saying.

EDIT 2: Don't worry, there's actually an English section. Excellent. Well, I shall report back as to whether the first edition is any good once it arrives in my mail box. Oh, happy days.

Also, David Munrow's 'Instruments of the middle ages and renaissance' is pretty spectacular. It's quite an important LP amongst early music afficionnados, but not so much amongst you lot (or anyone else I know), I suspect. One day I'll be amongst the echelons of early music collectors, you mark my words.

yeah man flying testicle are my shit also!

I've never seen it around for download, but I'll look out for it. Mine is a vinyl copy so i could do with getting it on disc myself.

distorted pony - instant winner

just heard this today.

fucklin great!

Sounds like you already ordered, but if still necessary then I can read that language. The moving text in red mentions something about getting half-price when you're buying 6 LPs or more.

HAHA man i love unsane too.

i love all that shit, as i already posted.. enemy mine, cutthroats 9, theory of ruin, cherubs, fudge tunnel.. that insane noise rock...

unsane made it cool to scream through a distorted guitar amp and to put dead people on your album covers..

I had Flying Testicle too, but didn't enjoy it and deleted it.


A few uber-obscure 7"s I acquired at 13:
Bagpipe Operation - Mt. Lavaty
The Sellouts - Hey Mofo
D.Q.E. - Masturbation Made a Mess Out of Me
Thee S.T.P. - Johnny Danger
etc. etc.

Gomm - Destroyed to Perfection
Gomm - 4

Toddle on over to Boa Melody Bar, run by Gayle from Electroscope.

i love hood, unsane, flying testicle and crom tech.

been meaning to check out goon moon.

actually:




i know a lot of people who like orthrelm but everybody seems to not like this album (except the dude who ranked it at 50 on bitchfork's 50 albums of '05) and it's probably the best album of the '00s.

My friend's really into OV. I haven't heard it myself.

Many thans, Mr L. 'Twas through yonder Boa records' 'Noises from the sound cupboard' compilation I first heard electroscope. There was a handful of other good tunes on there an' all.

haha *does scene from Austin Powers* 'were not so different, you and i...'

Steve Turner-New Wave Punk Asshole.

Also, I've dont think anyone knows The Charlottes

^haha awesome grammar!!! i was gonna write something else but then changed it

7 Year Rabbit Cycle
Parenthetical Girls
Hot Guys, Cool Girls
XXL
Gospel Gossip
Dirty Projectors

ov is the only orthrelm i can listen to...

anyway:

miracle chosuke - 7/8 wonders of the world
phantom limbs - displacement

I've never met a single person who knows this chap. It's pronounced 'Reeton', the French slang for Henry.

I also have a record by sixties British band the Primitives. Album named Maladjusted.
I bought it for there was a version of the Stangeloves' Cara-Lin on it (does anyone else know the Strangeloves?).
It is quite hilariously awful. As awful as the cover.
My reason for keeping it is not that they performed Cara-Lin nicely, they failed at that, but... somehow, as they became "big" in Italy, they sang rock standards in Italian.
That's why I kept the CD, for that terrible accent carried by the powerful voice of a hunk who thought he was a superstar.
Judge by yourself, downloading this :
Gira, gira (Reach out) http://www.badongo.com/file/3619983

I met the guys before their concert in my town 2 years ago. Really nice and friendly mates, especially the bass player Richard.

My personal fave album of theirs is Home is Where it Hurts E.P. though. Brilliant music.

Hood rule. Love Silent '88 and Cold House.

I hope you aren't exaggerating, cause I just broke up with my girlfriend and booked a flight to London.

Boners boners boners.

Re: Togawa - I have the nearly as good 2nd Jun Togawa album (Suki Suki Dai Suki) saved on my computer. I'll see if I can't figure out how to put it on the online.

Anything on Ata Tak records, like Pyrolator, Der Moderne Man, Der Plan, etc. I'm the only one I know around here who is into that stuff to any extent.

I have one Kevin Coyne 45; I like it. I know a fair few people who were very upset when he died.

Swirlies - Blonder Tongue Audio Baton

This band doesn't get mentioned nearly enough.

everyone talks about swirlies on here, man. i started talking about em about 2 years ago, actually, after hearing about em from my friend cory. not saying they're not still a pretty obscure band, but this thread is for "albums that you generally think that only yourself knows"... not albums that most of the people on this board know. haha.

but yeah.. great band.

you can download most of their discography off their official website.. perfect.

i think i SLIGHTLY prefer their first ep, "what to do about them".. and i really love cats of the wild volume 2.. WILD CATS ARE FOREVER!

Only people who still find the Ramones 'relevent' need apply

Hawg Tied and the Caroliners - Highway 61 Re-revisited (limited edition pig-shit-brown colored vinyl EP)

Ha! What the fuck! What a cover! Like borderline porn, even!

oh yeah, parenthetical girls are great, i found out of them through your reccomendation hayden.

The Fire Escape- Psychotic Reaction. Typical late 60's garage band. Only released one record, mostly of covers. The thing written by their producer on the back is really funny.

Also I've got this old punk comp with the band 2.3 on it, as well as the Flowers, and Scars. People know about Scars, but the Flowers and 2.3 I never hear anyone mention.

No Knife are a really cool band that no one ever seems to talk about.

I've been flirting with the idea of buying that one for some garage standards played on it are appealing to me.
Would you recommand it?

nobody knows my high school noise/fuck-around band Dying Barnyad Animals except for the members and our friends. we weren't really shooting to get a following so we did whatever amateurish thing we could at gigs so I don't think we had that many true fans. Although I think our stuff was pretty decent.

what we did record (which was rare since we were all taken with the Syd Barrett idea of never playing a song the same way twice) we put on a cd-r and named it "Sounds Like..." My copy is still probably at my parents' house.

yeah i dig no knife. listened to them for the first time in forever a few days ago actually. odd.

oh, a band no one talks about :point line plane.

Yeah, I haven't listened to them in awhile. But everytime I do it's a pleasant listen.

Glissceule-Lovesliescrushing

Of course other people know it, but Closed Circuit by Peter Jefferies is my favorite album that nobody I know seems to know. I bought it for $4 used at Phantom City Records in Olympia in the very heart of indie hipdom, so go figure. It's such a phenomenal album.