SYD BARRETT
An Introduction To Syd Barrett
2023 U.S. 2xLP pressing

I wanted to listen to some Syd this afternoon, but I couldn’t decide which of his records to spin, so I settled on this Syd a’ la carte.

Pretty great entry-level course for the Syd newbie. All his dopest shit is here, as it covers all of his Floyd slayers as well as the key tracks from the solo records.

It’s sequenced very well, and SOUNDS really fantastic. Really great work all around on this compilation.

BOTH sides on the second LP are particularly outstanding. The run of songs from “Octopus” to the closer “Bob Dylan Blues” shows just how wildly unique (and borderline impenetrable) Syd was.

Not often I get the 7” ‘s out (TBF don’t own many) but today is a personal special occasion

Primal Scream - Echo Dek - 1997

The glove on the hand remixes that accompanied ‘Vanishing Point’ (stellar in its own right), Echo Dek was the past-midnight keep on chonging on ‘till dawn then repeat ad infinitum with VP for days on end (in my yoof).

Adam Ant, Friend or Foe, 1982 on Epic

This was the debut solo album from Stuart Leslie Goddard, better known as Adam Ant, following on three albums as Adam and the Ants. The single “Goody Two Shoes” reached number 1 in the UK and number 12 in the US.

Lately I’ve been hearing “Desparate But Not Serious” all the time on Sirius XM First Wave channel – it’s on this album as well. Marco Pirroni, who was in the Ants, joins on this album,.

My copy—via Vinyl Destination in Lowell MA—is a 1982 pressing from Columbia’s plan in Terre Haute.

#1980s #1982 #AdamAndTheAnts #AdamAnt #Epic #LowellMA #MarcoPirroni #vinyl #VinylDestination #vinylcollection #vinylfinds

OZZY OSBOURNE
Blizzard Of Ozz
2011 U.S. Ltd. Ed. pressing
Picture Disc

My son bought this from a used bin while we were out this morning, and asked if we could listen to it together.
It’s the first Ozzy album for his collection, and I couldn’t be more proud.

He of course loves “Crazy Train”, but as soon as he heard the first few notes of “Dee” he instantly picked up his guitar and started trying to figure it out.

“Who’s that, Dad? Who’s playing that?”

“That’s Randy Rhoads, son. He was incredible. He died in a horrible airplane accident.”

“That’s a beautiful song.”

Sure is, my boy.
Sure is.

Ladies and gentlemen… all aboard.
The crazy train has left the station, and my son’s Ozzy journey has begun.
Safe travels, son.

Boy Harsher "Burn It Down" – 2022

Coldwave meets cinematic synthwave on this pulsating 12" single from the The Runner soundtrack made for the movie "Halloween Franchise. “Burn It Down” is a brooding, hypnotic track driven by relentless rhythm and Jae Matthews’ haunting vocals...
A Birthday gift from my son.

THE LEMON TWIGS
Everything Harmony
2023 Worldwide pressing

One of my favorite records of the last five years.
Beautiful harmonies, wonderfully written songs… I’m a big fan of these guys.

The D’Addario brothers are BOTH sickeningly talented, gifts they got from their old man Ronnie, who was Tommy Makem’s guitar player for 20 years.

This is wonderful, catchy, beautiful, sad power pop music.

It’s finally Friday with Filthy Friends first album Invitation. Killer supergroup out of Portland.
Fantastic Record.
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#filthyfriends #supergroup #indierock #vinylcommunity #vinylcollection #recordcollection #vinylforever #morningcommutemusic

Vendredi / Le Lieu Unique / En stock :
Christian Prigent, À quoi bon encore des poètes ?, P.O.L, 1996.
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#christianprigent #pol
#bookstore #livres #bouquiniste #vinylcollection #vinyls #recordstore #disquaire #lelieuunique #nantes

THE PLIMSOULS
Everywhere At Once
1983 U.S. pressing

A #janglepop masterpiece of the highest order for last spin of the night.

I learned of The Plimsouls as a kid the same way a lot of other people did; by hearing “A Million Miles Away” in the movie Valley Girl, which was on TV constantly in Boston when I was growing up.

One of my sister’s friends loved The Plimsouls, and I borrowed her blank tape copy of it, and never gave it back.

That song IS great, but it’s hardly the only gem here. The whole first side absolutely slays, and Peter Case is criminally underrated as a songwriter.

Shockingly, it took me a looooong time to find an OG pressing of this in great shape, but I was finally able to last summer whilst in Orange, California at Left Of The Dial Records. A great store which I will once again be visiting in two weeks during my trip to Disneyland.
#vinyl #vinylrecords #vinylcollection #art #music #vinylcommunity #retro #vintage #1980s #80s #80sMusic #plimsouls

BLACK SABBATH
Paranoid
2025 U.S. Ltd. Ed. Reissue
Rhino High Fidelity pressing

Yesterday, while my 16yr old was being bombarded with Ozzy news and tributes, he turns to me and says:

“Dad, I really don’t know Black Sabbath that well. People seem to really love him. EVERYONE seems really sad. I know OF them, but have never listened. Would I like them?”

“I don’t know son. Why don’t you give them a listen?”

“Which ones should I do?”

“Black Sabbath and Paranoid. There’s a few copies of Paranoid in my collection. You can have it. Prepare yourself, though. It’s pretty dark.”

Little did I know, he took my ONLY Paranoid.
So, I went out today and bought this INSANE sounding Rhino Hi-Fi pressing, and I am beyond pleased with it.

First this, then BLACK SABBATH.

And my son?
He’s DUMBFOUNDED by Bill Ward and Geezer Butler.

“The rhythm section is insane, dad.”

Yes they are, son.

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Most Collected Albums By 11 Big '80s Metal Bands (on Discogs)
Breaking down the most collected albums from Metallica, Judas Priest, Def Leppard and other big metal acts from the 1980s. Continue reading…

https://loudwire.com/most-collected-80s-metal-albums-discogs/

VILLAIN ACCELERATE
Maid Of Gold
2003 U.S. 2xLP pressing

A very unique and #experimental #HipHop album to get my morning going.

Villain Accelerate is a Canadian hip hop collaboration between artists Sixtoo and Stigg Of The Dump.

It’s weird, trippy, abstract, and pretty damn artful music.
Listen to “Paper, Boxcutter, Rock”, and if you dig that, this whole album is for you.
Everybody references Portishead and Massive Attack when describing the sound of this record, and I think those are pretty accurate comparisons.
However, don’t read “hip hop” and get scared away.
It’s far more than that.

David Bowie “Ricochet" — 1983

Day #22 - a song that moves you forward

Bowie being a bit political...
The record is another gift from my daugther.

David Bowie "Scary Monsters and Super Creeps" – 1980

My daugther brought me this Japanese first pressing straight from a work trip in Japan as a Birthday gift yesterday. She is brought up well - good job on the parents...

Bande-son du jour : Memoirs of a Madman - #OzzyOsbourne

Hommage au Prince des Ténèbres et Gardien du Metal.

DRAMARAMA
Hi-Fi Sci-Fi
1993 U.S. CD issue

It is a goddamn crime that this of an album has never been pressed to #vinyl .
I just don’t understand how that’s possible.

This album is so killer, and one of those CDs that I absolutely drilled into the ground as a kid, behind one of the catchiest, greatest #alternative singles of that decade, “Work For Food”.
A song that was another regular staple of your pal Ape’s charitable mixtape foundation.

If and when they do ever press this on vinyl, I’m hoping that they include the “Double Secret Bonus Tracks” (tracks 13-41).

It shouldn’t be a problem. They only take up 5:35 in time.

God I love this friggin album.

Earth to Music On Vinyl! Hello?
ORG?
SRC?
Elektra?
Hello?!?!??

Elektra put out a handful of #90s reissues this year as part of their ELEKTRA 75 Anniversary rollout.

Why not this one?!?!

THE FEELIES
The Good Earth
2009 U.S. Remastered Reissue

MY favorite Feelies album.

Crazy Rhythms is insanely frenetic and great, but they waited SIX WHOLE YEARS to release the follow-up, to all our benefit.

The Good Earth is more organic and pastoral sounding than Crazy Rhythms; more acoustic guitars, some different kinds of arrangements and instrumentation, with production by R.E.M.’s Peter Buck.
“Slipping Into Something” is the top-shelf gem here. It might be their best song ever. Everything about it is perfect. Music, lyrics, everything.

Musicians love The Feelies.
I just wish the general public loved them that much, too.

They were such a phenomenal band.

BALLY
Lucifer In Powder Form
1986 Canada pressing

I’m continuing to dive a bit deeper into my obscure #reggae , and I forgot all about this record!

The sunniest, happiest song about cocaine, EVER.

Errol Ballantyne (Bally) was a former customs official. And in the #80s the blow epidemic hit Trinidad pretty hard.
And THIS became a powerful anti-drug Calypso jam.
However…
It’s so catchy that it actually makes me want to DO blow.
Such a great, fun song musically, that it makes me wonder how many people were doing rails to it back then.