― sean gramophone (sean gramophone), Friday, 1 December 2006 01:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― esoj@w3rk (esoj@w3rk), Friday, 1 December 2006 01:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Friday, 1 December 2006 01:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Friday, 1 December 2006 02:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (121212), Friday, 1 December 2006 04:38 (seventeen years ago) link
-- sean gramophone (sea...), December 1st, 2006. (later)
otm
― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Friday, 1 December 2006 05:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Friday, 1 December 2006 05:12 (seventeen years ago) link
Presumably he's saved it to mp3?
― M Grout (Mark Grout), Friday, 1 December 2006 09:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― jim (jim), Friday, 1 December 2006 10:14 (seventeen years ago) link
some bowling shoesan old 12 on rap-a-lotcouple of dollarbin smiths singlesand 2x attache cases (hmmmm!)
― rrrrrtc (rrrrrtc), Friday, 1 December 2006 13:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Friday, 1 December 2006 13:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Friday, 1 December 2006 13:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― GAWD PVNCH (yournullfame), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (121212), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (121212), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― GAWD PVNCH (yournullfame), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:47 (seventeen years ago) link
why arent u accusing 75 cent guy (and s1ocki even!) of the same?
― rrrrrtc (rrrrrtc), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link
kudos
― rrrrrtc (rrrrrtc), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― M Grout (Mark Grout), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Friday, 1 December 2006 16:55 (seventeen years ago) link
This makes me so damn happy.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 1 December 2006 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (121212), Friday, 1 December 2006 16:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Friday, 1 December 2006 17:03 (seventeen years ago) link
http://thepiratebay.org/details.php?id=3495078
― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 1 December 2006 17:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― akm (akmonday), Friday, 1 December 2006 17:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 1 December 2006 17:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― deep space nine (deep space nine), Friday, 1 December 2006 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Friday, 1 December 2006 17:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 1 December 2006 17:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Friday, 1 December 2006 18:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 1 December 2006 19:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (121212), Friday, 1 December 2006 19:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Friday, 1 December 2006 19:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 1 December 2006 19:16 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.popsike.com/php/detaildatar.php?itemnr=4874863840
― scott seward (121212), Friday, 1 December 2006 19:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Saturday, 2 December 2006 10:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― forksclovetofu (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 3 December 2006 03:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― sgh (sgh), Sunday, 3 December 2006 05:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Rodney Von Bushwickin The Barbarian Mother-Funky Stay High Dollar Billster (Rodn, Sunday, 3 December 2006 11:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― GAWD PVNCH (yournullfame), Sunday, 3 December 2006 12:01 (seventeen years ago) link
Personally, I would be. I'm surprised this wasn't done through some big auction house or something that vets bidders....
― jw (ex machina), Sunday, 3 December 2006 19:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― grady (grady), Sunday, 3 December 2006 19:51 (seventeen years ago) link
we're in six didgits now.
high bidder bought some home-gym and a violent femmes cd latley.
― grady (grady), Sunday, 3 December 2006 19:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― .... (50 Bourbon St), Sunday, 3 December 2006 19:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― grbchv! (gbx), Sunday, 3 December 2006 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link
My understanding is that Eric and his friend *wanted* it to sell to a record label and give it a good home. As they early articles about the acetate surfaced and interest mounted, they shopped it to several labels and I think they were in last minute negotiations with one excellent reissue label, when that fell apart due to the sudden appearance of that crummy sounding Japanese bootleg. The idea being that the material had hit the marketplace and was then not something the hardcore fans would never have heard, even if in inferior quality.
Eric doesn't have a computer; he has to go to the co-op bike shop down the block and use theirs. I was in his shop yesterday and he was clearly really bummed out by the whole "eBay chicken" thing -- he is one of the raddest people and has immaculate cred. in the record buying/ selling community (not to mention his vinyl only record label is fucking ACES -- and as a caveat or whatever, we're doing an Anglin Bros. reissue together and getting started on a of Tony Schwartz collection). Dude is old school but not ridiculous about it; he never checks popsike or gemm before pricing his records, as far as I know.
Anyway, I guess my point is that I'm sure that no one would have guessedd this thing would get so out of hand. I think they thought this would be the most fair way to sell this thing, to just let the market decide or whatever. Eric's getting bombarded with hate mail over this thing and he can't figure why -- he's just helping his friend sell this record that the dude found, you know?
Now it's over a hundred thousand?! I guess it's more eBay chicken? Fucking bummer.
― Mike McGGGGGGGG (yetimike), Sunday, 3 December 2006 20:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― sleeve (sleeve), Sunday, 3 December 2006 21:09 (seventeen years ago) link
fair would have been to approach libraries / colleges / other cultural institutions, if selling it to a record label didnt pan out! at the very least, the record could be properly preserved, archived and made available to the public for educational purposes. right now, that's certainly not the case.
― where are you taking us on this godforsaken cruise? (theoreticalgirl), Sunday, 3 December 2006 23:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― jw (ex machina), Friday, 15 December 2006 07:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― ian (orion), Friday, 15 December 2006 07:33 (seventeen years ago) link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6182113.stm
;-)
― StanM (StanM), Friday, 15 December 2006 10:30 (seventeen years ago) link
Maybe I ought to put on George Harrison.
― Bimbler (Sourkraut), Saturday, 16 December 2006 09:28 (seventeen years ago) link
http://download.yousendit.com/1B55CDDB4151B272
― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Monday, 18 December 2006 20:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― M Grout (Mark Grout), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 08:39 (seventeen years ago) link
Shiny's the wrong word methinks... how about borderline listenable? It's tough to get rid of that much surface noise without warping the music a bit.
I wasn't planning to do them all but if there's a particular track you'd like to hear I'll give it a whirl.
― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 15:58 (seventeen years ago) link
13 hours to go, current high bid approx. $25K, bidder ID kept private
http://cgi.ebay.com/VELVET-UNDERGROUND-NICO-1966-Acetate-LP-ANDY-WARHOL_W0QQitemZ300060897304
― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 21 December 2006 08:14 (seventeen years ago) link
US $25,200.00 - 0.75 = $25,199.25 for Mr. Hill! Sold for 33,599 times the amount he paid for it.
Which would have gotten a lot of headlines if only that fake crap hadn't happened last week. Now, it's "only 25,200"
― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 21 December 2006 22:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― obi strip (sanskrit), Thursday, 21 December 2006 23:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― M Grout (Mark Grout), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 03:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 10:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― Bimbler (Sourkraut), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 22:33 (seventeen years ago) link
This is amazing: http://open.spotify.com/user/andyzax/playlist/7Gk5LAmxjb92qrJtnwTueK"I Couldn't Hit It Sideways: 12 Excruciatingly Bad Velvet Underground Covers" - a Spotify playlist
― tylerw_sandbox, Friday, 30 December 2011 23:33 (twelve years ago) link
haha
― nuhnuhnuh, Friday, 30 December 2011 23:56 (twelve years ago) link
dave navarro - venus in furs
yeeeeeeeeeeecchh
― nuhnuhnuh, Friday, 30 December 2011 23:58 (twelve years ago) link
Best part of that list is that one of my favorite albums from 2010 in on it: The Voices Factory. Dude who made the list (and those who hear it) can think what they want, but I've been saying for a while that this Italian group has made the best Velvets tribute ever. So, um, fuck you Spotify Playlist idiot.
Sometimes they're better than the originals:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAP6rACzWsU&feature=fvsr
...and have the good sense to cover some of the best VU songs that nobody ever bothers with:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX9wV1ePgPk&ob=av2e
Seriously, I played this album more than anything but Fucked Up in 2011. So there.
― dlp2917, Saturday, 31 December 2011 02:43 (twelve years ago) link
The Bettie Serveert all-VU covers album is worth tracking down too.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 31 December 2011 02:46 (twelve years ago) link
I'm pretty passionate about the Voices Factory thing, actually. Like it's allowed me to genuinely enjoy the VU catalog for the first time in years. I think at this point it's almost impossible for an American male to cover VU and do anything distinctive. Voices Factory hit it from this almost 1st-album-Slapp-Happy perspective that really kills. The band is far from perfunctory, and you never get a sense that they don't get it, or that they're being condescending. Song selection is generally perfect. They even do something worth hearing with Sister Ray. They ought to be getting awards, rather than snark...
― dlp2917, Saturday, 31 December 2011 02:58 (twelve years ago) link
I couldn't listen to it sideways
Forgot about that Bettie Serveert album
― P-Moose (Wants To Get Moosed Up) (James Redd), Saturday, 31 December 2011 03:07 (twelve years ago) link
They ought to be getting awards, rather than snark...
http://www.imprintitems.com/sitewide/images/products/prodbigimgs/5860403.jpg
― Mordy, Saturday, 31 December 2011 03:12 (twelve years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/713EH3EFSSL._SL500_AA300_.gif
― P-Moose (Wants To Get Moosed Up) (James Redd), Saturday, 31 December 2011 03:30 (twelve years ago) link
Anyway, this reminded me that I had a great album with some cool covers cued up on spotify Count's Rock Band: Do Not Listen If You Hate Coltrane or Maggot Brain
― P-Moose (Wants To Get Moosed Up) (James Redd), Saturday, 31 December 2011 03:52 (twelve years ago) link
doug yule's tide
― t. silaviver, Saturday, 31 December 2011 03:56 (twelve years ago) link
i don't think there's anything else i once liked that looking back brings me more shame than that dave navarro album. ta be fair to me i was 16 and a slow developer. can't remember if i liked the venus in furs cover in particular, but i did think it was cool he was covering the vu.
― m. yeux, Saturday, 31 December 2011 06:10 (twelve years ago) link