Yeah Nina, when I saw Maggot Brain, mixed in with lots of very beat up records and crap like Kiss - "Animalized", I had a real "Whoah" moment. I thought, 'don't get your hopes up - check and see if the right record is even in the sleeve.'

I've been living with the vinyl reissue for years and it's fine and all, but I hate that they didn't preserve the gatefold sleeve and overlaid the whole text over the back cover pic. People taking those kind of design liberties and cutting corners like that pisses me off. Funkadelic's stuff is usually so wonderfully designed. I want all the originals and I'll take 'em in whatever shape I can find. I can always upgrade later. But I'm pretty happy with this copy. I can definitely live with it.

All of the Pedro Bell-designed stuff is essential on vinyl. Good luck being able to read anything (or finding the liner notes included at all) on the CD reissues. I saw one vinyl re-issue of "Electric Spanking of War Babies" that ditched the gatefold completely (thus losing tons of art and liner notes). Real bullshit there.

Just picked up
Bill Withers - Just as I am & Still Bill

Yesterday I got:

The Zombies Odessey and Oracle 30th anniversary edition
The Rhino reissue of My Aim Is True (I put back This Year's Model because I think I have it already)
Come Near Life Experience
Johann Johannsson Virthulegu Forsetar

I convinced someone to buy Uzi's Sleep Asylum, and someone else to buy Scrawl's Smallmouth and Pontiac Brothers' Doll Hut.

burun wrote:Johann Johannsson Virthulegu Forsetar

I'm glad you bought that because its fucking awesome.

I wish they had had the IBM thing too, I have been wanting that one for a while.

It felt nice to buy music again after an absence.

I dropped about $50.00 at the flea market this morning on a lot of albums. Found plenty of interesting stuff. If you've never heard Dust, it's the high school hard rock band of Markey from the Ramones. His drumming on those albums is fucking powerful and despite some dorky lyrics, there is some awesome heavy rock to be found.

Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music for Airports
5 Stairsteps - S/T
Funkadelic - S/T (Just the cover, but it is nice and was free)
Curtis Mayfield - "Back to the World"
Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson - "From South Africa to South Carolina"
Black Sabbath - "Never Say Die"
Judas Priest - "Hell Bent For Leather"
Rolling Stones - "Flowers"
McVicar - Soundtrack
Thin Lizzy - "Jailbreak"
Fred Schneider and the Shake Society - S/T
Dust - S/T
Dust - "Hard Attack"
McCoy Tyner - "Inner Voices"
Black Sabbath - S/T
King Crimson - Three of a Perfect Pair
McCoy Tyner - "Supertrios"
Ornette Coleman - "Science Fiction"
Paul Bley - "The Synthesizer Show"
Mahavishnu Orchestra - "Apocalypse"
The Bruford Tapes - S/T
Motorhead - "No Remorse" (Disc 2 is warped to hell but it was only $1.00 so I got it anyway)

and most shocking of all:

Can - "Tago Mago" for $2.00! Granted it's not in the greatest shape but there are no skips at least - it's the UA version with the live pic on the cover. Who the hell could pass that up?!

Oh and nice work on the Come album, Burun. It's a really strong one (though "eleven : eleven" is still my fave).

In the last couple weeks:
Nas-Nigger
Off With Their Heads-From the Bottom
The Tim Version-Still Have the Nerve to Call Themselves a Band
Crom-Sumerian Nights
Git Some-Cosmic Rock
Racebannon-Acid or Blood

Rodney Graham, Why Look For Good Times?, sucks shit, pretty much.
Bottomless Pit, Y3 XAEF, no, Congress, no, what?
Mutators, Secret Life, Nirvana at 33 crossed with Nirvana at 45, pretty great.

Listening to Goat, though.

Is that Rodney Graham the mostly visual artist who makes all those extravagant and hopelessly obtuse and useless little films?

Man, I get irritated with that guy's shit. If it's the same person I'm not at all surprised that his efforts at music blow.

CD purchases from the last few days:

Prayers On Fire by the Birthday Party
Duty Now for the Future by Devo
Oh, No! It's Devo by Devo
Needles by Quintaine Americana
Decade of the Brain by Quintaine Americana
The Clarity of Distance by Ricaine
Henge by Ritual Device
Monk's Music by Thelonious Monk
Read & Burn 03 by Wire