Stuff you've been listening to

[starry-eyed pirate]

Wisconsin Public Radio-Old Time Radio Classics

I used to (and still do, on rare occasion) love listening to old time radio broadcasts. They still air them on public radio and I happen to catch them once in a while. When I was a kid, I'd tune in to hear "Mystery Theater" on AM radio. I'm guessing that even back then (very early 70's) these were just re-runs from the days before television. Nonetheless, there was something appealing to me about a drama presented with the absence of video.

Yeah.  When I was leavin your place Frod, one night last year, I turned on the public radio, and listened to an old "Dragnet" episode and then an Andy Grifith comedy sketch from before the Andy Griffith show...and then a mystery theatre type show too.  I love all that stuff.  I have a record of "The Shadow" and yesterday I found a "Lone Ranger" radio program record at a garage sale.


Last night I was listenin to all kinds of armed forces radio programs that I have on vinyl.  found them all at a garage sale recently too.  They play some really good ol' soul music and then come on between songs and try to convince you to sign up.  These are all 70s era records.  Pretty cool.  One is hosted by Lou Rawls and features Roger Miller as the guest.  Rawls interviews Miller and they clown around some and sort of half-heartedly mention how great the U.S. Navy is and then play a Roger Miller tune like "King of the Road" or "Little Green Apples"

Also, picked up a box 'a' vinyl records yesterday at a garage sale for 5 bucks, brought it home and went through it and found I had scored some pretty valuable stuff.  One of the records is The Dubs Meet The Shells.  The book lists it at 600 dollars, near mint!  But recent auction prices listed on the internet show it going for about 200.oo.  Another one, "The Shirelles and King Curtis Give a Twist Party" was listed at either 80.oo or 100.oo, depending on if it was copyrighted '62 or '65.  I don't know how to tell which year it is because it doesn't say anywhere on the record.  All together I estimate I got about 400.oo worth of vinyl for 5 bucks!  Way cool !!!

[starry-eyed pirate]

Todd Rundgren -hermit of mink hollow
Rock&Roll Doctor-a tribute to Lowell George
Toots&the Maytals-True Love
Willie Nelson -Redheaded Stranger

All good stuff.



                       

I bought a Buck Owens box set,but hvent cracked it open yet,its a goddamn shame that the only thing HE'LL ever be remembered for is:

         
                                                                                                           FUCKING HEE-HAW.

Picked a couple a Buck Owens records up too.  Listened to Roll Out The Red Carpet For Buck Owens and His Buckaroos...I liked it.

Merle Haggard-Drinkin'

That sounds good too.

[Froderik]

I don't know how to tell which year it is because it doesn't say anywhere on the record.

You could try this -- somewhere on the LP there should be a catalog number (for instance, on the Toys In The Attic LP this number is AL-33479.) If you do a Google search on this number, a bunch of links come up indicating the title and the artist. There's a good chance one of the pages will tell you the year it was released (based on that number). May be worth a try, anyway...

[Froderik]

Roxy Music- The Bogus Man

Galaxie 500:
_ Hearing Voices
_ Spook
_ Summertime

The Stooges:
_ 1969
_ I Wanna Be Your Dog
_ No Fun
_ Not Right
_ Little Doll

Galaxie 500:
_ Listen The Snow Is Falling
_ Ceremony (Joy Division)
_ Cold Night

Bailter Space--Robot World

Some old tape 'montage' recorded off of WCVT 89.7

Mission of Burma- Academy Fight Song

Antimony (some demo on a tape 2/94)

U2--Boy

John Fahey- What The Sun Said

Corelli | Opus 5: Suonati a violino e violone o cimbalo

[Inculcated]

Thunder. We rarely ever get thunder here. I have missed the spectacular lightening storms of other regions.
This morning,I was awakened by the sounds of thunder and returned to sleep by the shush of rain. Beautiful.

Yeah.  Electricity and water...very nice...  I'm curious though, where is "here" ??

Mmmhm, I like the ambient sounds of things sometimes. The bells on trains,and the determined hubbub of them throbbing on their rails…
My music appreciation phases are oddly both themed and luxated. I’ve been into a CD of the Bitter Sweets that a friend bought for me at a chocolate shop, recently. That and Sonya Kitchell, the Be Good Tanyas, and Tom Waits. 5min. from sometime next week it could be Edith Pilaf or Skinny Puppy.  

Here in the jewel box city, I am all too far from the scenes of moments told of in some of your lovely lilting posts. I smile at these and muse that it would be nice to be in a place like there,and never leave the fair,or at least take along the memories when it's time to go.

[starry-eyed pirate]

I don't know how to tell which year it is because it doesn't say anywhere on the record.

You could try this -- somewhere on the LP there should be a catalog number (for instance, on the Toys In The Attic LP this number is AL-33479.) If you do a Google search on this number, a bunch of links come up indicating the title and the artist. There's a good chance one of the pages will tell you the year it was released (based on that number). May be worth a try, anyway...

Thanks Frod.  I think I got the 80.oo one. Not the 100.

[starry-eyed pirate]

Thunder. We rarely ever get thunder here. I have missed the spectacular lightening storms of other regions.
This morning,I was awakened by the sounds of thunder and returned to sleep by the shush of rain. Beautiful.

Yeah.  Electricity and water...very nice...  I'm curious though, where is "here" ??

Mmmhm, I like the ambient sounds of things sometimes. The bells on trains,and the determined hubbub of them throbbing on their rails…
My music appreciation phases are oddly both themed and luxated. I’ve been into a CD of the Bitter Sweets that a friend bought for me at a chocolate shop, recently. That and Sonya Kitchell, the Be Good Tanyas, and Tom Waits. 5min. from sometime next week it could be Edith Pilaf or Skinny Puppy.  

Here in the jewel box city, I am all too far from the scenes of moments told of in some of your lovely lilting posts. I smile at these and muse that it would be nice to be in a place like there,and never leave the fair,or at least take along the memories when it's time to go.

yeah...hmmm...jewel box...jewel box city...hmm...??...

[try another castle]

Thunder. We rarely ever get thunder here. I have missed the spectacular lightening storms of other regions.
This morning,I was awakened by the sounds of thunder and returned to sleep by the shush of rain. Beautiful.

The pressure from the sound waves were so awesome from that first clap of thunder that I actually thought someone was hitting the side of my house. My fiancee and my houseguest thought it was an earthquake.

I actually woke her up, saying "dude, did you hear that? there's thunder outside, man!"


One of the few things I miss about Texas. That, and the way the sky looks right before a tornado. (orange)


New York City used to have wicked thunderstorms, too. The way it echoed between the buildings... still the loudest thunder I've ever heard.

[Froderik]

Mmmhm, I like the ambient sounds of things sometimes. The bells on trains,and the determined hubbub of them throbbing on their rails…

The far-off sound of its whistle blowing, going somewhere...crickets chirping, against the backdrop of many more crickets... cicadas...birds..

[Inculcated]

Mmmhm, I like the ambient sounds of things sometimes. The bells on trains,and the determined hubbub of them throbbing on their rails…

The far-off sound of its whistle blowing, going somewhere...crickets chirping, against the backdrop of many more crickets... cicadas...birds..

These are smooth gliding city trains. ‘More thrum and hum to their sound. I do recall liking the rumble of freighter trains hauling themselves down miles of ties.
Cicadas, that takes me back to my early days of chasing down fireflies (Secretly, 'still do in the right locale). The reedy resounding locust sounds would suddenly, simultaneously cease to an eerie quiet startle. Sometimes that all stop of sounds would make me most aware of how defined by that collective pulse of theirs the evening hours of raiding the neighbor boys’ tree house was. Oh, but woe betide the child who had one drop to her feet. Not as cute as butterflies and fireflies. The new sound of the evening would be the deafening peal of my scream.
Black Bird Chorus at Dawn
...ah as nearly as I press submit post, someone on my street is firing up a power tool sounding thingy with a generator gargling along. I don't like it.

[starry-eyed pirate]

...ah as nearly as I press submit post, someone on my street is firing up a power tool sounding thingy with a generator gargling along. I don't like it.

...Danged if that don't seem to be the way of it too...

[Froderik]

Nick Drake--Five Leaves Left

Wilco--(the album) (side 2)

The Beatles--Let It Be (side 1)

Einsturzende Neubauten--Zeichnungen des Patienten O.T

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds- Get Ready for Love
_The Lyre of Orpheus

The Butthole Surfers--Psychic... Powerless... Another Man's Sac (v)

The Dicks:
_Hate The Police
_Lifetime Problems
_Dead in a Motel Room

The Raveonettes- Love in a Trashcan

Brickhead--Meet me at the Monkeyhouse

Stereolab- Nihilist Assault Group [parts 1, 2, 3]

Sonic Youth:
_100%
_Sugar Kane
_Purr

[Inculcated]

Hmm, I’m going to try this oft mentioned Wilco’s sound out at some point.
Muse – Uprising

[Froderik]

Hmm, I’m going to try this oft mentioned Wilco’s sound out at some point.

When you do, try listening to A Ghost Is Born first; nothing they've released since compares.

[starry-eyed pirate]

All kinds 'a' stuff...

...Must'a' spent about 9 hours yesterday workin through all these ol' records, while I watched college football on the tv.  I tell ya records rule!  I have such a time.

Nancy Wilson and Artie Shaw and Trini Lopez were 3 of the best from yesterday, but also listened to Peter Nero, Leo Wright, The Art Reynolds Singers, Dean Martin and the Partridge Family.

I'm interested in more than just the music itself.  I'm interested the history and the culture of the people who listened to the music when it was popular.  I want to understand the way those people lived, what they thought about and how they dreamed.  I enjoy investigating and exploring history through these great ol' records.  And I'm gettin turned on to so much really great ol' stuff.

You get to a certain point and you begin to really appreciate how little time there is for us here

Rock on .