The Vinyl Ape 🦧
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Just a friendly primate who loves music and collects #vinyl . Music isn’t everything, but it’s an awful lot. 🦧🦧🦧🦧🦧🦧
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SCREAMING TREES
Even If And Especially When
2024 U.S. reissue
Their second album overall, but their FIRST for SST Records.
If all you know is the latter day Screaming Trees albums from the #90s (Sweet Oblivion, Dust), then hearing the SST material comes as quite a shock.
This is a far more raw and PSYCHEDELIC brand of Trees. It’s rough, garage-y, a bit unrefined, and legendary frontman Mark Lanegan’s signature deep and weathered vocal is not there yet.
It was THESE kinds of records that made them well-known heroes in the underground. The band went through their paces for years honing their craft, and when “Seattle/Grunge Mania” happened six years later, they already had FIVE records under their belt.
This album’s opener “Transfiguration” is one of my all time favorite Trees tunes. It’s so gnarly and in your face.
Siked to finally have this.
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The Vinyl Ape 🦧
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Just a friendly primate who loves music and collects #vinyl . Music isn’t everything, but it’s an awful lot. 🦧🦧🦧🦧🦧🦧
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Great little haul of records today!
A wonderful day of being out in the sun, and the first day I’ve truly felt myself after coming down with that nasty flu last few weeks.
Super happy with ALL of these, especially the reissues of the early SST Screaming Trees stuff.
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The Vinyl Ape 🦧
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Just a friendly primate who loves music and collects #vinyl . Music isn’t everything, but it’s an awful lot. 🦧🦧🦧🦧🦧🦧
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PHOTOGENIX
Photogenix
1983 Canada 12” E.P.
@ #45rpm
First spin from the pile of today’s finds goes to the shortest one.
A great little 4-song #newwave #postpunk -y from Montreal’s Photogenix.
This appears to be the band’s only official release. A self-produced E.P.
Apparently, at the time, Montreal’s pop scene was overrun with major-label economics. So this recording garnered some attention for being so independent and sounding SO good.
Great little 4-pack of songs.
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The Vinyl Ape 🦧
@TheVinylApe@cupoftea.social
Just a friendly primate who loves music and collects #vinyl . Music isn’t everything, but it’s an awful lot. 🦧🦧🦧🦧🦧🦧
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RAY LYNCH
Deep Breakfast
1984 U.S. pressing
A perfect late night spin, and one of my three favorite #ambient / #newage records ever.
I first heard this WAAAY back in the mid 90s.
I was visiting my best friend’s house for the first time, and upon entering his house, I saw a giant pile of CDs on a side table.
“These yours?”, I asked him.
“Nah, man. Those are my Dad’s.”
I noticed most of it. A lot of classic rock, some folk stuff, Simon and Garfunkel…etc.
Then I saw THIS in there.
I had never heard of Ray Lynch before, so I was intrigued.
“Dude, what’s this about?”
“I don’t know man. Let’s throw it on.”
I was hooked from the very first track “Celestial Soda Pop”, which apparently, early #80s NPR used as a theme song for one of their shows back then.
Just a beautiful album.
Dan’s father never saw that cd again. 🤷
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The Vinyl Ape 🦧
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Just a friendly primate who loves music and collects #vinyl . Music isn’t everything, but it’s an awful lot. 🦧🦧🦧🦧🦧🦧
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It’s that time of year where I have to starting culling down some of my music library; whether it be vinyl, CDs, or anything else.
Now that this awful summer flu I had seems to be gone, I can start. And everything starts in the basement.
I’m going to start with the CDs first because believe me, it’s going to be the easiest.
All of the CDs that were down there have now been brought upstairs, and added to what’s already been up here.
These represent the NON-boxset discs, and have (with the exception of about 30 CDs) all been alphabetized to make this process easier.
I notice right away that there are doubles of a few things, as well as some things I no longer have a need to own.
All the box sets are staying put, so once I’m done with THESE, it’s time for the true nightmare of dealing with the vinyl.
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Collectors Realm 3 - Vintage gay porn, Jack Drago, and Bob's Guys [Unofficial]
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Collectors Realm 3 - Vintage gay porn, Jack Drago, and Bob's Guys [Unofficial]
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SFO: San Francisco Orgy
San Francisco Orgy (1983) by Le Salon video. Starring Adam Gray, Rich Addams, and others.
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The Vinyl Ape 🦧
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Just a friendly primate who loves music and collects #vinyl . Music isn’t everything, but it’s an awful lot. 🦧🦧🦧🦧🦧🦧
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Being sick in the summer SUCKS.
I feel like Ape Shit.
Luckily, all you music nerds out there are keeping me entertained, and giving me some cool shit to explore while my body slowly turns itself inside out.
#apeproblems
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The Vinyl Ape 🦧
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Just a friendly primate who loves music and collects #vinyl . Music isn’t everything, but it’s an awful lot. 🦧🦧🦧🦧🦧🦧
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THE REZILLOS
Can't Stand The Rezillos
2023 Australia reissue
An absolute classic from the first wave of British #punk !
It’s fast, energetic, has lots of poppy hooks, and a lot more fun than some of the super-serious political punk that came from the same time.
There’s a fistful of legitimate classics on this, from “Top Of The Pops”, “Flying Saucer Attack”, “I Can’t Stand My Baby”, and a few really high-octane cover tunes that absolutely slay.
Absolutely essential.
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The Vinyl Ape 🦧
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Just a friendly primate who loves music and collects #vinyl . Music isn’t everything, but it’s an awful lot. 🦧🦧🦧🦧🦧🦧
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SHANGHAI DOG
This Evolution
1985 Canada pressing
For fans of independent Canadian rock from the #80s , this is a bit of a sought after record.
I found it in a thrift store in Chilliwack about a decade ago.
A killer #postpunk #newwave rock record, it’s got a political tone to it, as well as dealing with themes of social unrest and alienation, like any good #punk record should.
The bass lines on this album are killer! Those come courtesy of the great Ron Allan, who along with guitarist Mike Graham, were members of the legendary Vancouver band Subhumans.
This is the only record ever released by Shanghai Dog.
It’s so good, it’s really all you need anyway.
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The Vinyl Ape 🦧
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Just a friendly primate who loves music and collects #vinyl . Music isn’t everything, but it’s an awful lot. 🦧🦧🦧🦧🦧🦧
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MODEST MOUSE
Good News For People Who Love Bad News
2011 U.S. 2xLP reissue
Such a great album that I revisit SEVERAL times a year.
I have a LOT of memories, both good AND bad, attached to this record. Major life events were scored by these songs over the course of three years, and even the bad ones are looked upon now with a sense of warmth and a little bit of resolve.
I’m not what you would call a diehard Modest Mouse fan. I like a handful of songs scattered over some of their albums, but in all honesty, this is the only record of theirs I’ll ever need or have any real emotional connection to.
Just an incredible record, through and through.
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The Vinyl Ape 🦧
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THE WAR ON DRUGS
Slave Ambient
2011 U.S. 2xLP
@ #45rpm
A band I’ve always liked, but I’m still waiting on them to make an album as good as this one from front to back.
Lost In The Dream came close, but there’s some clips or songs on that one, whereas this is pretty much a perfect record start to finish.
“Come To The City” is such a good tune, as is “Baby Missiles”, which is one my band and I have tacked on to the end of our sets when our originals have been exhausted, and we need to stretch it out for a few extra minutes.
Really great record from a very good band. I think at this point in their career, it’ll always be my favorite.
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The Vinyl Ape 🦧
@TheVinylApe@cupoftea.social
Just a friendly primate who loves music and collects #vinyl . Music isn’t everything, but it’s an awful lot. 🦧🦧🦧🦧🦧🦧
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JAMES WHITE AND THE BLACKS
Off-White
1979 Canada pressing
Another great one from the “#nowave ” pile from yesterday, one of a handful of James Chance-related records.
This takes the music made with The Contortions and reframes it through groovy dance music.
It’s still weird (because everything Chance did had a bit of weirdness to it), just a little more disco. 😂
Punks and art-punks at the time had a universal disdain and hostility for dance music.
Here, Chance gave them something they could get behind. Angular guitars, #avantgarde #jazz rhythms, all mixed over very danceable and hypnotic drums.
It was a very divisive album when it came out, but it’s now recognized as an underground cult classic.
It’s been great to hear all these Chance-related albums again these last few days. They just don’t pop up in my neck of the woods that often.
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The Vinyl Ape 🦧
@TheVinylApe@cupoftea.social
Just a friendly primate who loves music and collects #vinyl . Music isn’t everything, but it’s an awful lot. 🦧🦧🦧🦧🦧🦧
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RYAN ADAMS
1989
2015 U.S. 2xLP pressing
I find it hilarious that the only Taylor Swift album I like is not by Taylor Swift. 😂
Say what you want about Ryan Adams (most people do). Yes, he’s a bit of an asshole and a creep, but the dude is a hell of a songwriter. He’s also always done interesting cover versions of a vast array of songs, from many genres.
So, back in 2015, when I heard he was doing an ALBUM cover of Taylor Swift’s 1989, it was gonna be good.
I knew it would be:
A. way more nuanced and interesting.
B. that it would actually rock
It’s really good, man.
It took an obnoxious over-produced schlocky pop album and added a bunch of #70s and #90s rock to it.
It proved that not all pop music needs to sound like it came off a conveyor belt. It can have personality, it can be interesting, and it can have a little umph and depth.
I still loathe Taylor Swift.
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NYT > Style
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Street Style Look of the Week: 1970s Flair on the Cheap
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