So I didn't quite make it out to fingerprints yesterday, but I did find this guy selling records for a dollar a piece down by the canals. I picked up Willy Nelson and Merle Haggard's duet album Pancho and Lefty as well as a album by country rock supergroup The Souther, Hillman, Furay band... so yeah... come over sometime... we can listen to them... that would be fun... and nice.
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Monday, November 30, 2009
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Seven Inch, EP, or LP... that is the question.
As the year comes to a close, I think to myself what good music has been released in 2009. My natural thought is to think back to what albums I have purchased this year, and I find myself thinking of quite a few seven inches. So I make a quick tally:
Seven Inches:
Tom Waits "Glitter and Doom"
Leonard Cohen "Live in London"
The Fling "Wanderingfoot"
The Parson Red Heads "Orangufang"
Tape Deck Mountain "Scantrons"
Three Mile Pilot "Planets"
EP's
Deep Sea Diver "New Caves"
Cold War Kids "Live from Fingerprints"
The Romany Rye "Highway 1, Looking Back Carefully"
LP's
Two Guns "Two Guns"
David Serby "Honkytonk and Vine"
First thing I realize, is it's pretty pathetic that I've only bought 11 releases this year (four of which were purchased on record store day), and second is that, wow more then half were seven inches. It reminds me something read once in a Rocket From the Crypt bio, here is the excerpt:
"They had so much music that they started putting out tons of seven-inch singles. Almost at the rate of one a month. It was through these seven inches that their notoriety began to spread. You see, the economy was in shambles back then (1992), and kids just didn't have enough money to buy full albums of new bands they didn't know much about."
As we all know it's 2009, and our economy is now once again back in shambles. I for one can relate to spending less money, just this week while in the record store, I had to choose between the new Three Mile Pilot seven-inch or the new Old Canes record, If you were paying attention to my above tally you will know which one I purchased. Oh I wish I could just buy all the records I want, or at least more than 11. I'm gonna try and swing by fingerprints, I hear the new live Tom Waits record is pretty good.
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Seven Inches:
Tom Waits "Glitter and Doom"
Leonard Cohen "Live in London"
The Fling "Wanderingfoot"
The Parson Red Heads "Orangufang"
Tape Deck Mountain "Scantrons"
Three Mile Pilot "Planets"
EP's
Deep Sea Diver "New Caves"
Cold War Kids "Live from Fingerprints"
The Romany Rye "Highway 1, Looking Back Carefully"
LP's
Two Guns "Two Guns"
David Serby "Honkytonk and Vine"
First thing I realize, is it's pretty pathetic that I've only bought 11 releases this year (four of which were purchased on record store day), and second is that, wow more then half were seven inches. It reminds me something read once in a Rocket From the Crypt bio, here is the excerpt:
"They had so much music that they started putting out tons of seven-inch singles. Almost at the rate of one a month. It was through these seven inches that their notoriety began to spread. You see, the economy was in shambles back then (1992), and kids just didn't have enough money to buy full albums of new bands they didn't know much about."
As we all know it's 2009, and our economy is now once again back in shambles. I for one can relate to spending less money, just this week while in the record store, I had to choose between the new Three Mile Pilot seven-inch or the new Old Canes record, If you were paying attention to my above tally you will know which one I purchased. Oh I wish I could just buy all the records I want, or at least more than 11. I'm gonna try and swing by fingerprints, I hear the new live Tom Waits record is pretty good.
+W
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