the LP is good, but not quite as good, a little murkier and lower-fi. the one guy's fake accent was a little funny, but i mean, i was in a band called the fake accents, so again, whatever, i get it. it was almost criminal how much they ripped off the bats, but the songs were like just about as good as bats songs, so whatever. Saw these guys' first show ever last night, and they were excellent. Gonna spend the rest of the long weekend listening to stuff, don't plan to leave the house except for wine runs. Otherwise, a quick swipe through the VPI and everything looks pretty good. And this Breakout reish of 'Blues' got a little trashed, but it's not that good a record anyway so i'll probably just deal with it. One of the records from my Six Organs 'RTZ' set got a little dinged (party music!), so I'm probably gonna hafta re-buy that one. Finally took care of the job today, and surprisingly little damage from all those drunken late nights. I made a deal with myself that I wouldn't play any records until I cleaned it up and re-filed everything. Records out of sleeves, in the wrong sleeves, missing covers. Guy Mitchell: The Doll With a Sawdust Heart / Pittsburgh, Pennsylvaniaīeen listening to vinyl for the first time in like 6 weeks tonight (why I don't post to this thread.) My "to play" / "just played" pile had just gotten ridiculously out of control. Spike Jones and his City Slickers: Our Hour (The Puppy Love Song) / Pop Corn Sack The High Hatters: Don't Hold Everything / To Know You is To Love You (both from the Musical Comedy, "Hold Everything") Tex Ritter: Rounded Up In Glory / Deck of Cards Lefty Frizzell: I Love You A Thousand Ways / If You've Got The Money I've Got The TimeĮddy Arnold and his Tennessee Plowboys: Easy Rockin' Chair / To My SorrowĮddy Arnold and his Tennessee Plowboys: Take Me in Your Arms And Hold Me / Mama and Daddy Broke My HeartĮddy Arnold and his Tennessee Plowboys: I Couldn't Believe It Was True / It's A SinĮddy Arnold and his Tennessee Plowboys: Don't Bother To Cry / I'll Hold You In My Heart (Till I Can Hold You In My Arms)Įddy Arnold and his Tennessee Plowboys: Rockin' Alone (In an Old Rocking Chair) / I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes New York Military Band: At A Georgia Campmeeting / The Liberty Bell March (on a 1/4" slab of Edison shellac)Įddy Arnold and his Tennessee Plowboys: Molly Darling / It Makes No Difference Now Whoever said that their version of "How Long" is pretty great was actually right.
#Soundplant 42 kickass plus#
Has some fun breakdance-beaty '80s r&b pop in the middle of Side One, and some fun bubblegummy '80s r&b ballad pop in the middle of Side Two, and the closer "Merry-Go-Round" briefly goes into some beer-hall nursery-rhyme jack-in-the-box carousel melody (uh, whatever kiddie song "Hail To The Busdriver" is a parody of) halfway through plus the kind of late-Beatles harmonies you'd hear on Enuf Z'Nuff or King's X albums a few years later (no big surprise seeing how "Let's Go All The Way" has a lot of "I Am The Walrus" in it.) So, definitely don't regret spending a $1 on it, and would regret it even less if my copy wasn't so warped that the side-openers are unplayable.Īlso underrated Lipps Inc's Pucker Up upthread. I have no Groundhogs LPs anymore to play on Groundhog Day:( (Scott played Crosscut Saw a day early, I think.)Īlso, Scott, I wanted to tell you I definitely underrated upthread that Sly Fox LP you asked about. That Lipps Inc album doesn't have anything anywhere near as great as "Funkytown" -actually sounds more like generic disco that I would have predicted. Really want to like it, because I like the idea of it, but I'm not sure whether the songs are gonna kick in. That Peter Wolf LP is really good, though! Joe Ely synthy AOR-hack sellout LP is.weird. Also, my copy (bought for $1 of course) turns out to be warped, so I can't listen to the side openers (including the hit, which I fortunately still have on a 45). Uh, actually I'm not sure what those Bootsy and Levi's things he said referred to. But it sure doesn't convey the same sense of adventure. I'm not saying the filler isn't as meaningful as Bootsy gone romantic or Levi's gone doowop. I'm gonna give it another listen, but sadly, Xgau's Sly Fox LP review seems pretty much on the money:įrom thumping stop-and-go bottom to gleeful Beatle allusions, the title track is the most far-out piece of music to break pop all year, and you keep waiting for the rest to go.