So a local collector/acquaintence of mine recently spent about 60 bucks on this record-refer to popsike.com(Interestingly enough this "collector" is a 14 yr old drum student of mine who is seriously addicted to krautrock)He bought this record off e-bay based on the fact that it was described as "avant garde/psych/free jazz" and is an "unknown" German raer. He lent me the record just so I could hear how bad it was.This record is nothing but German church music,each song followed by some li
terd gical spoken word stuff-in german of course.My point is,there is nothing psychy,jazzy or avant garde about-at all. AT ALL!! I've seen hundreds of dull pop/singer-songwriter/lounge/whatever records described as psych/acid etc... we've all seen them.But this is by far the worst example of over-hyping a terd I've ever seen.A close second would be Ashley Johnson (Records Around the World) listing a record called The Wax Wizards for $150(which actually sold!)He described it as "rare 70's sounding hard prog". A more accurate description would be "early 80's Billy Ocean sounds" Ashley knows his records,that's just a blatant hype job.There are so many examples out there it's endless.I'm curious to hear some other extreme examples.And btw,don't buy the Cogwheel record from Germany unless you like "weather channel" music.Rasputin and the Monks is not psych btw...I could go on and on.Please share some doozeys.
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the cover actually does look more like church organ, though.
That's probably the one I'm refering to.Was it put out by an eyeglass company? Yeah it does have breaks and bubbly synth stuff,but the same poor kid got conned into buying it cause it was described as "cosmic" krautrock.
Come on I know y'all have seen some records described as "funk" that don't even have drums on them.
Examples please
Yep, that's the one...I didn't like all the classical influences when I first played it but bottom line, it's a pretty experimental, creative record with lots of ideas (especially considering who financed it). Not classic by any means, but could be way worse. Does have some nice moments. But again, bottom line...you are all too right about people overhyping records as things that they are not. Or just plain using terms that they don't even understand..."Northern Soul" by people who have no clue what the fuck northern is...probably the most misused term on soul records.
but at least they're described as "obscure folk and country",probably pretty accurate.Now,if they were described as " bent,acid folk madness" that'd be along the lines of what I'm talking about.
I've got insomnia and i wanna see some disgusting examples.Thanks
No,I'm not drunk just bored and can't sleep
I can't believe that went so high, makes me want to start picking those up from the dollar bins myself!
Its hard for me to feel sorry for this kid- spending RIDICULOUS loot on records due to ebay descriptions EVEN AFTER already getting burned doing this... he's practically timmy digalot. I got burned buying a $10 record off ebay I didn't like one time and never did it again!
Seriously, if he's such a fan he should already know a lot of records that are LEGITIMATELY good that he could spend $60 on easily...
stuff gets described as 'psych' or acid-folk & it's just some christians strumming kum-bai-yah & warbling offkey.
AND YOU CAN'T STOP ME!!!
MmmmmWAHAHAHA!!!
So I Suppose when you were 14yrs old you knew every record world-wide in your genre of interest? He's definitley learned his lesson by now.
When I was 14 I was buying Van Halen and Beastie Boys records like I was supposed to!!
eBay didn't exist and you couldn't get me hyped by using 'buzzwords' either!
HAHAHA!!!!
yeah, the good old days - like, if yer friend recommended something and it was wack you could just like beat him up or something.
have you ever tripped to kumb-bai-yah?
So what is this kid "supposed" to be buying? Look I didn't start this post to get into a pissing contest.This kid has a genuine interest in "cosmic" music.He's not part of a "scene",he's not trying to be hip.He's a shy loner who loves drums and cosmic records.he's just looking for good music.He got into this shit when he found a Fever Tree record in his Dad's collection,and it snowballed from there.He's not part of the "hey Justin have you ever heard of Kraftwerk or Gary Numan" crowd.
My whole point of this post was to see other examples of overhyped terds.I thought it would have been funny and interesting.I'm fully aware that in the end we are all responsible for our own purchases.
Don't worry next time I see him I'll remind him that he's "supposed" to be listening to Green Day and Eminem.
And,no I'm not mad doggie.I just haven't had any coffee yet and yes this is a silly post.Sorry.It's all good.
A few years ago during the peak of 'breakz mania' clueless old heads were listing Readers Digest boxed sets and Percy Faith records as BREAKS/FUNK/SAMPLES/LATIN HEAT etc
I doubt they got away with much even then, but dudes still occasionally get one over by listing an auction as 'secret squirrell'
pedophile
haha!
really though, we need a new little brother here.
That's the kind of stuff I'm talking about.
Or like when and aussie dealer described the Captain Matchbox-Smoke Dreams record as progressive rock.
'MOD' was up there briefly but that was a fast fad
Oh the big new one is definitely 'PRIVATE'... any record on a label smaller than Atlantic will be listed as 'PRIVATE' now
hence, littleness