5/25 Half Price South Lamar Austin Texas

Well... Let's start off with the store. They do NOT have a big record section. But they did have some pretty interesting records (which will be discussed later) such as ice cream for crow by captain beefheart. What is it with stores not having any beatles or stones records? You should have more than undercover, period. Anyways...

The records:
Rock and Roll Animal by Lou Reed -- 8
The Works by Queen -- 6
God Bless Tiny Tim -- 4

So The queen. I don't know why, but I've been really digging queen a lot lately. Anyways... this is later in their career (I do not count any albums made with half bands after the fact). Interesting because a chick who listens to the radio too much is running the airwaves.

Rock and Roll Animal is a live album. After berlin, so way past the velvets. I was watching a couple of videos of lou reed doing sweet jane. While I do like the one on loaded the best, this version doesn't suck like more of his later ones, in my opinion. Also heroin lacks cale's distinctive viola, but at this point you know if you're a fan of the velvet underground or a fan of Lou Reed, and if you see this album as a Lou Reed album, you won't be disappointed.

Ok... The find o the day. Tiny Tim is sot of what every outsider artist wants to be: unknown but on the edge of everything. Sure most of you that grew up in the sixties know him from Laugh In, but for those younger, remember the first episode of spongebob squarepants???? Those songs are by him. Anyways, he was the son of some immigrants in New York City. He knew a lot of tin pan alley songs and he eventually got a record deal with Reprise. God Bless Tiny Tim is the first, and it contains his signature "Tiptoe Through The Tulips". Yes, this joke is used all the time in christmas carol plays/movies/tv specials/etc... But back to Reprise... Reprise was a pretty cool label in the 60's because it had more mainstream stuff like the Kinks but it also had really wierd shit like Tiny Tim, Zappa, Beefheat, etc...

Well, that's it for me.

Oh and the record o the day at allmusic is Van Dyke Parks discover america. After being a psychedelic song structure genius he decides to do calypso!