tiny bit of those good old W E E K E N D F I N D S
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few fleamarket scrape ups from yesterday
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here's my recent booty - these are charities, a trip to Ben's in guildford & one ebay buy:
LULU (amazing first track - all bongos and fuzz!)
TRIANGLE - "homonymie" (very pleased to stumble across some tasty French prog for cheap. later album but still has some great moments - -especially the track "la route infernale")
PEDDLERS (ben after this one for cheap for a while)
SHADOWS - "specs appeal" (crap, apart from "spider juice" - -a crisp break followed by a fun library-esque groover)
CAKE (brilliant album - some spector-ish northern numbers, some fragile medieval folk bits, and some funky soul covers. great production)
RAINBOW (couldnt resist - great theme tune. the rest is pretty twee kiddie folk)
BYRDS
FLETCH ost (a couple of great incidental bits!)
MANZANERA - "diamond head" (feat Robert Wyatt & Eno amongst others. best i've heard of his... not amazing, though)
hit a carboot this morning:
GOLDEN AVATAR (mostly rubbish - but the last track is great)
KOOL & THE GANG - "wild & peaceful" (not my cup of tea, really -- but i do like the track "heaven at once")
DEVO (one of my favourite albums of all time - got a couple of copies already, but not a yellow vinyl one, so picked it up)
NEW WAVE (punk comp on Vertigo - Ramones, Dead boys, Richard Hell etc... and the amazing "shake some action" by the FLAMIN GROOVIES)
FATBACK BAND (this is a bit trashed, unfortunately)
plus some 45's:
ALACRAN - "sticky" (pretty fun funky rock - nothing special)
NING - "machine" (this is more like it! brilliant and pretty scarey proto-glam. b-side has a lovely break but doenst do much for me...)
ANGE - "docteur man" (ben after this for ages - exactly the sound i like. dancefloor prog)
LAZY FACE (private press soft rock rubbish with nice open drums. boner breaks)
SCOOBY DOO - "mystery incorporated" (mike mcnaught-penned kiddie funk. both sides are great)
WOLF PEOPLE - "tiny circles" (UK band making amazing and flutey prog - this is their new single. everyone should pick it up.)
ROXY MUSIC - "virginia plain" (had to grab the p/s)
JUNIOR MURVIN - "police & theives"
OSMONDS - "crazy horses" (great, but not as great as...)
OSMONDS - "hold her tight" (ROCKING!!)
NASHVIlLE TEENS - 'tobacco road" (half-decent beat. have these guys done anything really great?)
ROLLING STONES - "play with fire"
SWEET - "the burning" (as introduced to me at an Evil Kitty last month - - heavy rocking b-side to "hell raiser")
LEN BARRY - "1-2-3"
ANITA HARRIS - "clapping song" (great version, ripe for the dancefloor - spare)
CHICAGO - "i'm a man"
CHICORY TIP - "son of my father" (these guys suck - but i keep picking them up as they use such ace squelchy moog sounds on their glam tracks!)
btw, any strutters with jazz knowledge know what this thingy goes for?
More NYC reggae on 1 of my favorite Brooklyn Labels
johnny osbourne still sounds this good 20 years later.
Reminds of copping the Stretch armstrong / diddy mix tape 10-12 years ago while on Jury duty downtown Brooklyn
Sugar minott 10" Dub plate. African Roots
That Mizz Mean just sold for a shit ton of money a week or so ago. I think $800+. Who knows if that's repeatable or not though...
The I-Tones aren't from NYC, they are from Boston.
Street digging finds all.
Holmes, nice 7's. I like that Swiz record -- I found some Victory records Haaaaaaardcore this weekend.
Ken Boothe . . . smooth. Congrats on the nice find's yinz.
i am a sucker for reggae covers for some ungodly reason
On a different tip, it's festival season here so my 'finds' consist of live acts these days. I went possibly the best jazz concert of my life last night: Ornette Coleman. 79 yrs old and he's still badass. On the second encore the band did his classic 'Lonely Woman', midway through they ripped into an out version of MJ's 'Beat It' as a tribute, so cool.
I got a signature from the man before the show. Amazing that such a soft spoken, unassuming, gracious dude stirred up so much shit.
here it is man. enjoy
http://www.soulstrut.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=1333232&an=0&page=0#Post1333232
Wow! That's awesome.
who was with him? prime time?
rey, this the joint off the christmas album with the ill horns?
and is that cal tja in your avatar?
i did real well at the philly record show, making a nice stack of loot selling shit and picking up some nice titles for good prices in a quick walk around before i set up. also picked up a parking ticket, despite having biked my twelve crates down to the spot the night before on a bike trailer. very "doh" related.
i'll post some pics in a few.
didnt see many strutters there.
highlight was convincing a 38 year old hiphop head to spend a little cash on Knight sof the blue communion...and telling him that it was a guaranteed sale, i would gladly refund every cent. he called me the next day saying it was the craziest shit he ever heard in his life.
It's a total terd. The best thing in it it's the cover.
I think I still have the mp3s. Holler if you want to
listen to them.
Peace
Cover = better than the music