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[postjack]

So I traded in my Radiohead In Rainbows 2x45RPM and my deluxe box of The Smiths Complete for the above at my local record shop.

Sex Pistols - Bollocks original pressing promo

Radiohead - OKC original pressing

Run DMC original pressing

Pearl Jam - Ten original pressing (sealed)

Pretty excited about the trade. That Smiths box was beautiful but it was fucking enormous and whenever I want to listen to The Smiths I reach for my original pressings instead of the remasters. And I don't like In Rainbows. Everyone loves it, I never got it. I actually like King of Limbs better than In Rainbows.

I've been staring at that Ten original pressing sit on the high shelf at the shop for over a year. 

Of the above I've only listened to the Run DMC, and it sounds fucking awesome. Super clean, not a pop or click to be found. Which makes me worry I'm about to embark on a journey of buying as many clean 1980s hip-hop original pressings as I can find.

Edited December 12, 2016 by postjack

[Dusty Chalk]

180g 2016 remaster of Pink Floyd's Animals for $30.

Use this link if you want a copy, too, please.  I get a credit.

Every time they send me their daily suggestion via text, it's usually a decent -- but not the best -- price.  The prices I'm seeing for 180g 2016 Animals right now is more in the $55 range.  Since it's one of my favourite albums of all time -- if not my the favourite album of all time -- I'm a gettin' it.

[grawk]

I don't see how they could improve over the other versions of animals, that wasn't an album begging for another remaster.

[Dusty Chalk]

Original analog tapes.

I always thought Wish You Were Here was much better produced.  What I hear that is inferior about Animals I'm not sure isn't on the master tapes, so I doubt there'll be audible improvement, but ... I gots to know.  I guess I'll find out.  

[Knuckledragger]

Nercoing the absolute shit out of this thread because not everything has to go Jacob's Jacobless Jacobing.  It's my birthday.  Tomorrow.  I'm treating myself to a nice Canon 600mm lens some of the finer selections from my Discogs wantlist:

First up is an obscure and normally difficult to acquire Norwegian ambient album from the mid 90s (I swear I don't have a type ...I totally have a type.)  NNC - Fosen.  It's professionally produced, but privately release and seldom comes up for sale.  Check out the review a Discogger nearly as old as I am wrote in '08:

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You know the feeling; coming home from a rave, fucked, incapacitated, somehow trying to come to terms with the end of the night, reaching for something to drown out the noise and help you through the morning, no beats, no melody, just sound. Thomas Köner, Chris Meloche, Aloof Proof, later Deathprod and Løksa's unknown "Green Adaptor" are all helpful in escaping vertigo, but "Fosen" has sent me drifting off to sleep more often than any other record: the drone contained in the first track is, quite simply, perfect.

Although they're Norwegian, I have no idea who Brønlund and Mikkelborg are (alas, no first names to go from) or, indeed, if they've recorded anything else. But this album (I'm not even sure how it should be listed - it's that obscure) is ample proof that music where "nothing happens" is, sometimes, all you need.

 

IPG - D*****land EP.  A CD version of an early 90s EP on the short-lived but storied t:me label.  t:me was the predecessor to the storied em:t label.  em:t was a terribly run business (they failed not once but twice) but were home to legendary releases like Woob's 1194 and 4495, not to mention Gas - 0095.  I also threw in Alexandroid - False Starts which I don't know too much about because it was cheap.  Alexandroid is one of those insanely prolific Russian electronic musicians I used to rant about on my radio show.

 

The last one is a sealed copy of Lol and Rey Silva - Ambient Or Ambient, which is a peculiar release from Spain in the early 2000s.  Spain actually has long history with downtempo, primarily because of the island of Ibiza.  With that in mind, the mainland of the country also has a very small scene that tends to get overshadowed.  I've noticed that Spanish releases often have miserable distribution and can be a nightmare to get.  It's only been in the last few years that I've seen this one for sale on Discogs or anywhere else.

[luvdunhill]

Very cool!

[Knuckledragger]

There's a place on MV called the "Dumptique."  The purpose is to keep reusable items out of the landfill.  I drove up there with a car load of stuff I just couldn't keep (going from a 5 bedroom farmhouse to a 1200 square foot cottage is ride, let me tell you.)  It was not my plan to take anything back, but I did peruse the media shelf.  Apparently I arrived at the right moment.  Mixed in with Sex in the City Season 3, Disc 4, some megachurch propaganda and a box of Christmas music missing disc 5 was this stack:

Goddamn.  It's like a Gen Xer died or gave up all their physical media.  All of it is interesting, but that Bauhaus disc is legendary.  It was almost more or less impossible to find in the late 80s when I was obsessively collecting their music.  The only downside is that the Stranglers anthology is missing my favorite song by them.

 

Of course, I've always been partial to the cover version by Prong.

 

[skullguise]

The older Stranglers stuff is awesome.  One of my best friends moved here from England in the late 70's, brought us his taste in music with The Jam, The Stranglers, etc.

Since then, he's seen them many a time, met them all, is part of some informal (and also another formal IIRC) fan club.  And most recently, took his 3 kids to visit family and see the latest incarnation of the band in a town where his cousin lives.

And his most exciting part was that the original drummer's (Jet Black) widow - who is close with many of the fans - invited him and his kids to stay with her one night.  Lots of stories, boatloads of memorabilia, and he got to "hold Jet Black's ashes" in the urn.  As creepy as it sounds, he said she was a wonderful hostess and they all had a great time.

I haven't listened to much of their output since Hugh Cornwell left.  I also got to meet them in 1983, when a guy in my dorm was a co-op for CBS records.  They owned the sub-label the Stranglers were on, and we got to take JJ Burnell to a local college radio station for an interview.  Some great memories....

All THAT diatribe said....I hadn't heard that Prong cover before, and it's quite good!

Edited October 17 by skullguise