7/14 End of an Ear

End of an Ear is awesome. They have a huge selection and a lot of rare records (they had music to eat by the hampton grease band and an original out to lunch by eric dolphy). So the question becomes is it better than waterloo? Waterloo is still your store if you only want reissues and that sort of thing, but end of in ear's used record selection doesn't suck like waterloo. What I'm saying is end of an ear is a great place if you looking for a record and you don't care if it's a reissue or not. Yeah... it's pretty much the best store in austin. By the way... I think Snake Eyes Vinyl and Friends of Music are gone... I drove by but I couldn't find them.

Oh if you spend about a 100 bucks they'll give you a tote bag.

Records--
Reissues--
Phonography by R. Stevie Moore --20
Double Nickles on the Dime -- 14

Used--
Heroes by David Bowie --7
New Tijuana Moods by Mingus -- 6
Brilliant Corners by Monk -- 8
Island of Living Puke by Zoogz Rift -- 5
Lola Versus Powerman and The Moneygoround part 1 by the kinks -- 10
One Nation Under A Groove by Funkadelic -- 6
Highway 61 Revisited--12


Ok.... Lets start off with the reissues.

During the 90's the term "lo fi" was thrown around alot, but have you ever wondered where it came from? R. Stevie. Moore is the answer. As early as 1976 he has been releasing home recorded albums and has shown no sign of letting up. Phonography is his debut. Check it out, the residents will recommend it to you.

What else is there to say about double nickles? I mean that along with zen arcade and daydream nation, it's a definitive 80's double album. Pick it up on record because some of the cd pressings leave off songs.

Now on to used stuff.

Really looking forward to Heroes. It's one of the three Berlin Albums. David Bowie originally was supposed to do the soundtrack to The Man Who Fell to Earth (starring David Bowie) but contractual obligations prevented him from doing so. He was hanging out with Brian Eno and thus Low was born. Heroes follows the same format (Pop songs on one side Instrumentals on the other).

The copy of New Tijuana Moods I got is interesting because it doesn't have the saucy hispanic wench leaning up to a jukebox (which I would prefer) HOWEVER it does have a shit ton of alternate takes and stuff like that. But it's one of mingus' better albums.

Usually when people play jazz piano there are two approaches: the first is attempting to play as many notes as possible in the time allotted, the second is choosing your notes carefully and sparsely. Theolonious Monk was sort of the founder of the second. This album is great, I mean dig that celeste on Pannonica. But the greatest part of jazz records such as these is that nothing's overdubbed but the music is still challenging. On the back it jokes about how much the musicians complained.

Anyways. On to Lola. What is there to say? It's the album that put the kinks firmly in the arena (har har) of stadium rock.

Zoogz rift is more interesting. I actually saw this one on the floor. From what I remember he's into zappa and beefheart... and apparently wrestling. Wikipedia says this "Keyboard Magazine ... described Rift's album The Island of Living Puke as 'moments of outstanding free-form rock, sandwiched between scrupulously obscene interruptions'" Yep.

The final one was a steal. They had this one with a "stuck" gatefold for 6 and another one that wasn't stuck for 12. I figured for 6 bucks I could unstick it. Parliament and Funkadelic are pretty much the same band on different labels. They eventually exploded to more bands than you can shake a stick at so I'm not going to get into that. Anyways if you're looking to get started into p-funk stuff go with this one or Maggot Brain.

Highway61.... bought it for a friend.