7/22 Antones

I felt bad because I walked there and bought a plastic 7' sleeve with pennies. They don't have any paper sleeves two weeks later.

Records
Odessa (again) by the BeeGees -- 20
Bringing It All Back Home by Dylan -- 13
Who's Next -- 8
Wild Honey by the Beach Boys -- 8
Young Americans by Bowie -- 15

How can you say no to a double album with a felt cover? yes felt! I got this one already but it was only a one album version. Who cuts down a double album on a reissue? Anyways, Odessa (with Blonde on Blonde and the White Album) is the essential double album of the 60's. Finished the 80's. Now I need to discover the 70's.

Bringing It All Back Home is sort of the start of bob dylan going electric. Sort of the first of the trilogy the other two being highway 61 revisted and blonde on blonde. So yeah... good stuff.

I feel like Who's Next is sort of the only who album I'm interested in. It's a classic. But I might feel like my desire to hear the garage rock genius that is pete townshend might endear me less to it.

I've been looking for Wild Honey ever since I heard a friend's and friends do a raunchy cover of it. It's a really good album though. This album was right after smiley smile. I mean by this time Brian had totally freaked out and you can tell by this album that there was going to be a huge difference in the beach boys.

I've recently discovered that since bowie changes styles so often that each album can be described thusly: Bowie does (insert genre here). For example, ziggy stardust is bowie does glam, alladin sane = bowie does glam, AGAIN, berlin trilogy=bowie does Kraut Rock (part 1,2, and 3), etc... Well young americans is bowie does funk/soul/r&b. Yeah... Fame was co-written by John Lennon and james brown ripped it off. Also it's got luther vandross (fo those in the know). So check it out.

later

6/18 Breakaway

Ok... I've been looking for revolver but I haven't been able to find it anywhere, I figured they would have it. They didn't... But they did have some cool records...

Holland by the Beach Boys -- 6
Sunflower by the Beach boys -- 1
Queen by Queen -- 5
1st by The BeeGees -- 7
Nothing Scary by Wild Man Fischer -- 8

Ok... So Holland and Sunflower aren't the Beach Boys most well known albums, but they're really good. After pet sounds the beach boys started getting real interesting because Brian wasn't at the helm any more. So all of the band members started writing songs. Don't get me wrong, Brian was definitely the best song writer of the bunch but it's all more strange. Sunflower isn't in the best shape, but it was in the 1$ rock section so I'll take it.

Yeah... I think queen's debut will be interesting. I'm looking forward to it.

Now the BeeGees are more interesting. First, I found a single in the sleeve by the Meters. I had looked up the Meters before (and I had heard these songs before) so that was cool. I don't know if the clerk threw it in (breakaway is known for their big selection of soul/r&b singles). Anyways... on to the actual album. It's really good. All except for one song... I don't know who sings on "I Can't See Nobody" but they shouldn't sing any more... I mean come on... all of the other guys have pretty nice voices. Oh... If you a fan of Guided By Voices, definitely pick this up. It really shows where some of their sound came from.

Wild Man Fischer. Why would anyone want an album with 34 tracks, each of which performed by a guy who screams his songs with a scarily excited joy? I mean looking at the record is hillarious... there are about 18 songs on each side. Still, you can't find this album anywhere. It's from the 80's, and I think it was only released on cd as a bundle called Fischer King which was released ten or twenty years ago. Still, any album by wild man fischer is truly one of a kind.

5/29 Breakaway Records

I know I've already talked about them, but they have a really good selection. I mean every time I go in they have kinks, beatles, and stones. And on their expensive rack there is usually something I want. I don't remember if I said this or not but... at Breakaway, you get what you pay for. Case in point, I was looking for the white album for a friend of mine. They had two, one was ten dollars, one was four. The ten dollar one was in much better shape than the four dollar one.

Ok... so the records:
Abbey Road -- 12
White album --10
Surf's Up by the Beach Boys--5
Tea for the Tillerman by Cat Stevens -- 5
Darkhorse by George Harrison -- 3

There is nothing I can say about the Beatles that you don't already know. I'm most interested in about help onward. I don't know, out of the 3 big british groups (beatles, kinks, and stones), I don't find myself interested in any of their really early stuff. Sure there are some good singles but eh...

Surf's Up is a more interesting subject. It's sort of a forgotten album of the beach boys (let's admit it, everything before and after Pet Sounds and not a single has been pretty much forgotten.) But it's pretty sweet because after Brian Wilson's freak out, all of the beach boys have so much more character. I mean you get to see people like Carl stepping up to the plate more, which is really cool. Also, the one track from smile (the title track) is an excellent addition as well.

Tea for the Tillerman is the album Cat Stevens is most known for. In recent years it's gotten more press because the flaming lips got sued for Flight Test sounding so similar to Father and Son. Over all the album is a pretty solid folk affair. Did you know cat stevens drew the cover????

Lastly, Darkhorse. Remember when I said you get what you pay for? Well a bunch of the jacket is ripped off... it's really weird. But anyways. This album was after a couple albums-- Live in Bangladesh, Living in the Material World. It was mediocre.. Sure it has George's signature slide work, but he had laryngitis at the time of the recording. Still... I'll probably end up listening to it a couple of times, and three bucks was pretty good, I've seen it go for around 10.

If you go to breakaway go through their recent arrivals section, they get a lot in and I found most of the records there.