Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday...

[Monkey Bones]

(ain't getting Gimme Fiction until I find it on vinyl)

Hey buddy, I stopped by Streetlight Records on the way home tonight and picked up my copy of the new Spoon and Electrelane. Checked and they had them both in luverly vinyl too. The Spoon looks very nice. Beautiful gatefold cover and heavy vinyl. $15.98 but looked like a high quality package. Cover really comes to life in the big picture. The CD was $11.98 and came with a bonus CD that you don't get with the single LP package (at least as far as I know - no sticker or anything like there was on the CD wrapper). Nice digipak. Cover looks pretty cool in the little package too, but you know it's not nearly the same as a big gatefold LP. They did throw in a free Spoon Gimme Fiction T-shirt so that was cool. Only had a couple left so I made it just in time. The Electrelane vinyl is a nice gatefold double LP for only $13.98. CD was only $10.98. Might have to score a copy of the vinyl if I like it a lot, while I still can. Turntable isn't gonna be on ice forever......

[Slosh]

Hey buddy, I stopped by Streetlight Records on the way home tonight and picked up my copy of the new Spoon and Electrelane. Checked and they had them both in luverly vinyl too. The Spoon looks very nice. Beautiful gatefold cover and heavy vinyl. $15.98 but looked like a high quality package. Cover really comes to life in the big picture. The CD was $11.98 and came with a bonus CD that you don't get with the single LP package (at least as far as I know - no sticker or anything like there was on the CD wrapper). Nice digipak. Cover looks pretty cool in the little package too, but you know it's not nearly the same as a big gatefold LP. They did throw in a free Spoon Gimme Fiction T-shirt so that was cool. Only had a couple left so I made it just in time. The Electrelane vinyl is a nice gatefold double LP for only $13.98. CD was only $10.98. Might have to score a copy of the vinyl if I like it a lot, while I still can. Turntable isn't gonna be on ice forever......

Hmmm. I haven't been to the record store yet but when I got a few albums last week they said they have the Gimme Fiction LP on order so it should be there when I get around to going. Spoon has always been well-recorded so maybe I'll get the CD instead but comparing Kill The Moonlight vinyl to the few CD-R tracks I have - it's no contest. The vinyl itself is nice and heavy and almost dead quiet. Sonically there's quite a bit more treble extension and it's just fuller and smoother over all, plus there's a little more dynamic range even though it's still a compressed recording. I dunno. Better sound or more songs? Tough choice, especially since vinyl is nearly always cheaper by a couple of dollars around here.

Wish it was coming out on SACD though.

NP: 13&God

[Monkey Bones]

Better sound or more songs? Tough choice, especially since vinyl is nearly always cheaper by a couple of dollars around here.

Yeah, I'd go for the vinyl if I had my turntable out. Nice looking package and a 180 gm slab. I was a bit surprised at the price difference because Streetlight is usually one of the cheapest places to buy vinyl, even better than online, but you can even get this one for a couple bucks cheaper online at insound, which is normally kind of high. Oh well, get the vinyl and I'll give you a copy of the bonus CD when I send out CRSV10. It's only got 4 songs and two of them are demos of songs on the album. Haven't listened yet.

The Electrelane is a bit on the cold side after one listen. Not as infectious as the last one and mostly instrumental. Melodious shimmering math rock with some occasional skronky parts. Cool for me, but not a crowd pleaser. They seem to be very much under the influence of Albini at this stage of their career, which is both good and bad. Not quite the breakout album I was hoping for after reading some of the early PR, but still cool nonetheless

[Slosh]

Oh well, get the vinyl and I'll give you a copy of the bonus CD when I send out CRSV10. It's only got 4 songs and two of them are demos of songs on the album.

CRSv10 only has four songs and two of them are demos
Cool, that sounds like a plan to me. I'll send you a preview of 13&God and Album Leaf once I get around to putting these on CD-R (only got around to LP 1 of 13&God thus far).

McLusky's last CD is also an Albini production and it is one of the most compressed CDs I've ever heard. Guess Steve really only cares about vinyl just like the disclaimer for At Action Park says ("There is, in fact, nothing special at all about the manufacture of this compact disc").

[Monkey Bones]

McLusky's last CD is also an Albini production and it is one of the most compressed CDs I've ever heard. Guess Steve really only cares about vinyl just like the disclaimer for At Action Park says ("There is, in fact, nothing special at all about the manufacture of this compact disc").

He probably just doesn't care that much about McLusky

The Electrelane CDs sound great. They were mastered by Steve Rooke at Abbey Road, as was the Albini engineered Valina CD that I also got recently (and also as are those great sounding recent Nina Nastasia CDs too). But I don't think he's against using compression for some types of music. And it's true that some of them get screwed up after he's done. He did an album for Edith Frost a couple years ago called Wonder Wonder that I really like, and apparently used a very complex mic setup to capture lots of ambience and it does sound like a great recording, but the CD is punched up some with compression. Not sure why that happened, but I'd be surprised if it was his wishes to add the compression after going to all that trouble with the engineering. Not really bad though. Mark has the vinyl and it might be less compressed. She's a big vinyl fan. Ya never know who's really responsible for the final sound unless the artist and engineer and mastering people talk about it, which doesn't often happen.

[KEXPMF]

oh man! someone gave me a Rupee instead of a quarter for change. I don't know where it came from. How much is a Rupee?
I think I got ripped off.

It looks much to much like a quarter. You can't trust anyone these days.

I'm still listening to my M.I.A. cd
today's favorite song is "Galang"

[Dusty Chalk]

oh man! someone gave me a Rupee instead of a quarter for change. I don't know where it came from. How much is a Rupee?
I think I got ripped off.

Your best bet is to try to pawn it off on someone else. For example, a convenience store.

Don't worry about them, they do it to me all the time.

It's worth about a penny, according to Yahoo.

That reminds me, I have a 50 Centavos piece from the Honduras, I wonder how much that is worth? (I actually had it rejected on me, "Hey, man, that's not a quarter!" -- just give them the real deal. Keep trying, eventually someone will take it.)

Ugh, mine's only worth about 2.6 cents -- that's about 10% of what I thought I got.