on vinyl for 3€ !!!

quite possibly THE heaviest and brutal album I have ever heard.

Which? Swans or Stooges?

The Fall live at ATP.

Swans

brian jonestown massacre-we are the radio

Sonic Youth - Confusion is Sex
Nada Surf - Let Go
Ani Difranco - Not a Pretty Girl

All really good albums,

Going to check out brian jonestown massacre now.

got it used for $2.50 at Hastings(!).

These I scored on my recent trip to amsterdam:

Einstürzende Neubauten - Kalte Sterne CD
Suicide - S/t 2CD
Throbbing Gristle - Heathen Earth CD
Liars - The other side of mt. Heart Attack CDEP
Melt-Banana - Teeny Shiny CD
Boredoms - Super Roots CD
Diskaholics Anonymious Trio - The weapons of ass destruction LP
Queen Meanie Puss - The beauty of dogs 7" EP
The Terminals - Black Creek / Both Ends Burning 7"

The Horrors debut album. I sort of wanted to give them a chance but it really is absolutely fucking awful.

i bought this just because it was cheap and i'm a completist; i wasn't expecting to enjoy it much.

turns out i love it.

Fuck I want that Silver Sessions...:(

The desperation for rock n thrills that those nme types go through has spawned an unlikely influence for a band:

Went to London so bought records (actually the first was an ebay win about 5 minutes before I left the hose)

Amon Duul - Phallus Dei lp
Shellac - At Action Park lp
Brother Ah - Move Ever Onwards lp
John Cale/Terry Riley - Church of Anthrax lp
Big Black - Il Duce/Big Money 7"
Jesus Lizard - (Fly) On (The Wall)/White Hole 7"
Jesus Lizard - Wheelchair Epidemic/Dancing Naked Ladies 7"
Conceputol - Bulk Fiber/Space Invaders 7"
Raccoo-oo-oon - Cave of Spirits Forever cd
Raccoo-oo-oon - Are Night People cd
Volcano the Bear - Egg and Two Books cd
Sunburned Hand of the Man - Z cd

You must have found at least one good record store then... How was the trip anyway? Any good?
On topic, I was in Amsterdam today as well, even browsed around a couple of stores, but the only thing I bought (apart from tickets for Shellac and Slint) was the PiL Metal Box (CD).

Hey, I didn't know that one was already out yet. In case you've had time to listen to it already, any first impressions you'd like to share?

I love that record.

It's not out yet. It's coming out in April apparently. They had some copies there anyway. I think Keith Wood might have brought them because I paid for it and the guy had to grab a copy from Mr Wood. I listened to it on the bus back and I wasn't all that impressed. Quite noisy for them with some droney stuff later on. I get the impression the first couple of tracks may have been from ATP but I can't be sure. I'll give it more of a listen in due course though, I wouldn't want to judge it on one listen.

Yep, tis a good one. I'd downloaded it previously and had been meaning to pick up a copy of the reissuse LP. It was onl £8 in Sisterray so it would have been rude to not buy it.

I think the last album i bought was the Klaxons album. Its got some really good singles but i dont think it works as an album. It seems rushed. However they are the most interesting mainstream band around at the minute, probably the best popular indie band theres been for a long long time in my eyes. I may have mentioned this before.

Won on ebay:




The nnck Ass Run lp.

Oh yeah, Distortion records on westerstraat was really fucking excellent. The place was packed with vinyl, stacks of albums lying on the floor etc...
Get records was also good.

Our trip went really well, a lot to write home about as one could put it.
Those cyclists and steep stairs in the old houses are fucking lethal though...

Foetus - Hole
Sisters of Mercy - First and Last and Always (remaster)
Sisters of Mercy - Floodland (remaster)
Masaki Batoh - Collected Works 1995-1996
Space (The Orb) - Space

Jesus and Mary Chain - Upside Down 7"

hehe, usually tourists are complaining about the trams running straight through pedestrian areas like in the leidsestraat, but the stairs are just as dangerous indeed:


in case nobody told you, the reason for the tall and sometimes extremely narrow houses lies in the fact that in the old days property taxes where based on the width of the front of the house. length and height didn't matter, so for that reason people kept their houses narrow and tall. the narrowest house is only about a meter wide at the front!

The last album I bought was TV on the Radio- "Return to Cookie Mountain" which is pretty cool. You have to be in the mood for it to really enjoy it.

Big Black - Atomiser LP

vinyl:

Jimi Hendrix - Live @ Berkeley (May 30, 1970)
Deerhoof - "Friend Oppurtinity"
PJ Harvey - "Peel Sessions"
Belle & Sebastian - "The Life Pursuit
Cat Power - "The Greatest"
Explosions In The Sky - "All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone"
George Harrison & Friends - "The Concert For Bangladesh" (original)
Bob Dylan - "Desire"
McCoy Tyner - "Cosmos"
YES - "Fragile"

Harry Pussy- What was music?
Prurient- Pleasure Ground

EDIT: I also got the new Furze album UTD this week as well.

Nels Cline Trio - Chest
Nels Cline Trio - Sad

great music. both from littlebrotherrecords.com

Cabaret Voltaire - Red Mecca
The Fall - Post-TLC Reformation!

Both on vinyl.

The new Ted Leo/RX Living with the Living

panda bear - person pitch
sister vanilla - little pop rock

Blonde on Blonde (Sundazed 180gm LP, Mono mix)

Waiting for 5 different versions of TG's 'Part Two - The Endless Not' to arrive.
Apart from that I bought the Psychedelic Furs first album and 'Buena Vista Social Club' on CD yesterday. The Psychedelic Furs album is one my favourite albums of all time, and my vinyl version is nearly worn out.


Update 26/3/07:
Just received 'For Your Ears Only' a double LP compilation from 1987 on Third Mind Records featuring 'Bushido', 'Atrition', 'Konstruktivitis' and Edward Ka-Spel amongst others.

Looking forward to receiving 'Pindrop' by The Passage and 'Once upon a Time' by TG.

astral social club and flower/corsano band live in paris.

have only had time to listen to a bit of astral but its sounding very, very good.

Labradford - E Luxo So

Jay Reatard- Blood Vision
Highly recommended!!!

The Raincoats - S/T and Odyshape

I've wanted them for ages and after seeing all that stuff about Rough Trade supposedly having a bunch of left-over copies on CD I thought I'd put the theory to the test. The website still has them listed but I ordered on Friday and still haven't had a dispatch confirmation. I've mailed enquiries so we shall see...