Futtocks
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Soft Machine - Volume 2. My first Soft Machine album, and I like it a lot.
I bought it after reading Stephen Mejias' excellent description (scroll down to the paragraph starting with the words "side 1"). I reckon he's spot on - a good bit of writing.
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How un-PC can you get?
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I've just discovered that I live about 5 bus stops from a good second-hand record shop. Quite embarrassing that I've only just found it, seeing as it's so close and had obviously been there for years. But it is on a street which I normally would have no reason or need to go along.
Anyhoo, me being a fool, said boutique soon parted me from my money, in exchange for the following:
- Candi Staton - Chance
- LaBelle - Nightbirds
- Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr - Marilyn & Billy
- Mike Nesmith - Loose Salute
- Mike Nesmith - Magnetic South
- Mott the Hoople - Rock and Roll Queen
- Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the first Psychedelic Era (can't believe it has taken me so long to get round to buying this)
- Ry Cooder - Showtime
- Sir Douglas Quintet - Mendocino
- Tangerine Dream - Thief
- The Brothers Johnson - Right on Time
- 'Til Tuesday - Everything's different now
- ZZ Top - Eliminator
- Candi Staton - Chance
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Played that in the car yesterday for the first time in years. As good as it ever was
Led Zep II is a fine fine thing, although Robert Plant squealing about Gollum is a bit cringey and dated.
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More vinyl digitised over the long weekend:
Crowded House - Woodface
Faith no more - Introduce yourself
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
Joan Armatrading & Pam Nestor - Whatever's for us
Kansas - Two for the Show
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II
Melissa Etheridge - Melissa Etheridge
Phil Manzanera - 801
Robert Cray - Don't be afraid of the Dark
Robert Gordon & Link Wray - Fresh Fish Special
Roky Erickson - All that may do my Rhyme
The Blues Brothers - Briefcase full of Blues
The Fifth Dimension - Love's Lines, Angles and Rhymes
The H-Factor - The H-Factor
The Steve Morse Band - Stand up
The Steve Morse Band - The Introduction
Willie Nelson - Classic Willie Nelson
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More vinyl digitised:
12" Singles
The Bangles - Hazy Shade of Winter/Joan Jett - She's lost you
The Bangles - Eternal Flame
Hothouse Flowers - Don't go
Hue and Cry - I refuse
LPs
Bob Dylan - Oh Mercy
Dion - Yo Frankie
Doll by Doll - Remember
Marianne Faithfull - Strange Weather
Pink Floyd - The Final Cut
Son House - Death Letter
The Blues Brothers - Made in America
The Fifth Dimension - Individually and Collectively
The Fifth Dimension - Portrait
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I will be seeking out the rest throughout the evening....
If you only check out one, try the Brothers Johnson. Funky from 'fro to toe!
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Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields - Villa-Lobos' Bachianas brazileiras No.5
Joe Walsh - But seriously, folks
Leon Russell - Carney
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood
The Brothers Johnson - Look out for #1
The Mighty Wah! - A Word to the wise Guy
The Triffids - Treeless Plain
Thin Lizzy - Black Rose
Tom Waits - Big Time
Voodoo X - Vol.1
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Latest vinyl rips, done over the weekend:
Chet Atkins & Mark Knopfler - Neck and Neck
Curtis Mayfield - Honesty
Elvis Presley - the Sun Collection
Frank Zappa - Ship arriving too late to save a drowning Witch
Genesis - Foxtrot
Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
Joe Jackson - Jumpin' Jive
Kansas - Power
Lenny Kravitz - Let Love rule
Little Feat - Sailin' Shoes
Little Feat - The Last Record Album
Little Feat - Time loves a Hero
Noiseworks - Love versus Money
Raging Slab - Raging Slab
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Greezy Wheels - Radio Radials
The Fugs - refuse to be burnt out
Gene Clark - Two Sides to every Story
Fishbone - In your Face
Green on Red - Best of Green on Red
Joe Satriani - Flying in a blue Dream
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Asleep at the Wheel - Served Live
Levon Helm & the RCO All-Stars - Levon Helm & the RCO All-Stars. The 'All-Stars' was basically Dr John, plus Booker T.& the MGs.
The Fugs - It crawled into my Hand, honest
Timi Yuro - I'm yours
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I was never sure why Badfinger seemed to be regarded as some sort of jokey Beatles rip off. I think they are great.
IIRC, there was a rumour, when their first album came out, that it actually was the Beatles incognito. There followed a completely unjustified backlash when they turned out to be just a very good band in their own right.
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Shuffle play selected:
Dr John - Goin' back to New Orleans
Lamont Dozier - Breaking out all over
The Triffids - The Seabirds
Steve Morse - Southern Steel
Robert Ward - Titty Britches
Jonah Lewie - Stop the Cavalry
Frank Zappa - Ruth is sleeping
Maria Muldaur - Gringo en Mexico
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Are you happy with the results? Never tried it myself. Do you lose any of the life out of the music ?
I'm not getting rid of the vinyl, but the convenience of having a mouse-click away is useful. The resultand sound quality is actually pretty good. It's all down to making sure you get the basics right; those plastic USB turntables you see advertised will just give you a recording of an LP being played badly.
My recording chain is as follows:
- It starts with a NAD 533 (essentially a re-badged Rega) with a Rega Elys 2 cartridge. Support is a multi-layer gel/granite/sandbag setup I cludged together, which gives good isolation from footfall.
- This is connected to a Terratec iVinyl USB phono stage, which converts from analogue to digital.
- Software for recording is either TotalRecorder or Audacity. I do fine editing and track splitting with the latter.
- Files are then encoded as lossless WMA, never in a lossy format.
There is a website I know of where a guy with a serious rig is digitising vinyl and those are amazing - where I have a recording to compare in any format, his rips just blow my versions out of the water. I was listening to his rip of 'Bitches Brew' last night and it sounded scarily real.
- It starts with a NAD 533 (essentially a re-badged Rega) with a Rega Elys 2 cartridge. Support is a multi-layer gel/granite/sandbag setup I cludged together, which gives good isolation from footfall.
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I spent much of the weekend recording LPs and Singles to my Hard Drive. The latest batch of successful needle-drops are:
Van der Graaf Generator - He to He who am the only one
Van der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts
The Staple Singers - Hammer and Nails
Ram Jam - Black Betty
Tangerine Dream - Force majeur
Doug Sahm - Groovers' Paradise
The Triffids - Calenture
Lambchop - What another Man spils
Keith LeBlanc - Major Malfunction
Joe Jackson - Big World
Joe Jackson - I'm the Man
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I found some footage of Cold Chisel on the Dime website - Live at the Manly Vale Hotel, 1980. RIP Steve Prestwich.
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The Triffids - Born Sandy Devotional.
By the way, all the Triffids' albums have been reissued at bargain prices, but with lots of extra tracks, remastered sound and very nice packaging. The album above had 9 extra songs and a 40-page booklet of photos and songwriting/recording notes.
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John Phillips - many Mamas, many Papas.
Superb; great songs, excellent recording.
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Cassandra Wilson - Traveling Miles. Songs inspired by and/or based on the music of Miles Davis, delivered by a stunning voice. Get on Spotify/Grooveshark/Last.fm/whatever and just check out track 1 for an example - wow!
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"We think we know that if you envisioneer virally then you may also generate perfectly."
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Free download: Tina Turner & Phil Spector - River deep, Mountain high IN STEREO!.
Seven outtakes - the full version is track eight. Phil Spector may have been strictly mono when it came to his releases, but this stereo version is huge. Sound quality's not really top-notch, but listenable, and you can get a sense of scale as the Wrecking Crew tear into this great song.
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Various downloads from the appositely-named Awesome tapes from Africa website.
Random internet link of the day
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