Whats on your turntable tonight?

Elbow - "Build a Rocket Boys". Double LP 45 rpm Fiction label. great music and recording. Very textured. Guy Harvey is a genius.

Elvis Costello - "Get Happy!". MoFi 45rpm double LP. Great recording and music. Another MoFi winner.

Arctic Monkeys - "Suck It and See". 180g Domino release. Great music and the Monkeys release another solid LP. Average recording but still very enjoyable.

Cults -"Cults" Columbia Records release. 60's pop with 90's psych. Good song writing, great vocals. Recorded a little bright but great music.

New (old) acquisitions:

Joe Cocker - Joe Cocker
Cat Stevens - Teaser and the Firecat
Grateful Dead - Shakedown Street
The Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man

I'm in the mood for some Ray Charles - that's my "hunt" for the w/e!

Moussorgsky, "Night on Bald Mountain" & "Pictures at an Exhibition"; Chesky RC30 ("The Power of the Orchestra"); Rene Leibowitz conducting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Gerhardt/Wilkinson, Producer/Engineer, recorded in 1964 for RCA.

Best regards,
-- Al

The Marvelettes - "Return Of The Marvelettes" [Tamla LP '70] It was a short-lived return -- this is their swan song

Rudy Ray Moore/V.A. - "Dolemite" MP Sndtrk. [Generation International repro LP '75/?]

Dizzy Gillespie - "It's My Way" [Solid State LP '69] Actually, it's not, if Diz's way is bebop (or jazz period). A failed 'hip' commercial stab replete with strings and studio backing, but upon further listening, a few redundant pop-hits-of-the-day covers aside, I dig it anyway as really a pretty good joint of its type, taken on those terms...

Gregory Isaacs - "Soon Forward" [Virgin LP '79]

Prince Far I & The Arabs - "Cry Tuff Dub Encounter Chapter IV" [Trojan LP '81]

Game Theory - "The Big Shot Chronicles" [Rational/Enigma LP '86] The best thing about revisiting this, other than the towering hairstyles worn by the group, are the inserts touting stickers and tee-shirts as modeled by kids with yet more of that great 80's hair (and shades!) and advertising Enigma releases by this gob-smackingly improbable mix of acts: Poison, Agent Orange, Stryper, T.S.O.L., Allan Holdsworth, The Smithereens, and Peter Hammill; plus the Enigma Variations, featuring such old-time favorites as Channel 3, Green On Red, Redd Kross, Plasticland, The Pandoras, Rain Parade, The Effigies, Tex & The Horseheads, Jet Black Berries, Greg Sage (late of the above-mentioned Wipers), Leaving Trains, The Untouchables, 45 Grave, Get Smart, and so much more! Just enclose your check or money for $8.98 and send to Enigma Mailorder, El Segundo CA (please allow 3-4 weeks for delivery)

The Neanderthals - "In Space" [Munster LP '05] With Eddie Angel guitar, of Los Straitjackets fame

Harry James - Still Harry After All These Years LP