11/27/10 Waterloo

Hungry for Turkey. COME ON. You're hungry for music!

Spread Butter/(Into) Somethin' (Else) by The Dead Presidents -- 4
The Crawling Distance by Robert Pollard --11
Let's Get It On -- 6
Out of Our Head by The Rolling Stones --4
Smile by Laura Nyro --3
Velvet Underground and Nico -- 13

Let's start off with the Pollard. Robert Pollard is just too damn prolific. Every time I see one of his records used I have to snatch it up. Last time I was at waterloo I passed this one by for Elephant Jokes. I definitely made the right decision. However, there is some madcap brilliance to each one of his records so it's always worth a shot.

The Nyro wasn't as bad as I thought, sure it lacks any fast rip-roaring songs such as Sweet Blindess and Lu, but what's here is steady and consistent. All the songs are mid tempo, but they sound better than some of the slower ones in her earlier work.

I got the dead presidents disc because it had K on it. Yes that's stupid, and the more I look into K's back catalog, the more I realize that my vision of twee=K is not working out. It's a hip hop single that had enough tracks to look like an album. The songs (yes all two of them) aren't bad, but I don't need four versions of them.

Let's Get It On... Along with the Barry White, my record collection is now prepared for erotic nights.

But.... I can't get no satisfaction. I'm out of our heads. This record is a bunch of covers with a couple of originals tossed in, which is to say it's where the Stones started.

My brother got me VU+Nico. I love this album, and all of the velvets' stuff (well not counting sqeeze and White Light/White Heat is my least favorite but...) The cool thing about this record is that it has the original mono mixes which sound a whole lot different than what is on most cds. It's weird.

Well... that's it.

Oh I did get Exile on Main St. and All the Young Dudes. Both are pretty sweet. Special thanks Lauren.