Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Kitty Kalen - Little Things Mean A Lot



I was flipping through some stacks and this cover made me jump it was so creepy. Like she's either wearing a plastic mask or a real life version of Lady Elaine from the neighborhood of make-believe. So we'll give this a shot.

This is on Vocalion records and I can't find a year on it anywhere. It looks very mid sixties, with an orchestra directed by Jack Pleis.

The sound? Typical wistful pop music of the era. It actually reminds me of the crooner songs on "the wizard of oz". A girl singing about longing for love in every song backed with a slow orchestra strings and horns. Your grandmother would love this stuff.

Thursday, August 11, 2011

Crows Foot

A Florida band that played here before. Decent two person hardcore band with a female singer.

Universe - Yesterday's New Quintet.

Charlie pulled this one out. Jazzy stuff, sounds like it was made on a sampler. Reminds us of the stuff that used to play when we went into our old record store New Moon. They would always have some jazzy stuff playing on the stereo (if it didn't come from WCMU.)

Saturday, August 6, 2011

Rainy Day

Its raining out today, and the second track of Robert Plants "Pictures at Eleven" suit the mood quite well, however most of the vinyl was shot. Charlie also wanted to hear Cameo, Shaun Phillips, & Loverboy. Poor Charlie.

Also across the street on the east side of mission a silver Mitsubishi SUV has been parked and a guy has been working on the engine. I wonder if he'll make it out today?

Friday, August 5, 2011

The Fixx - Phantoms

Same record as the cover below. This band is famous for the 80's hit "One Thing Leads to Another".

This appears and sounds to be a typical 80's new wave record, complete with jangly guitars and uninspired synth sounds. What sounds like a boring record might fit perfectly to anyone's new wave collection.

Most Requested Organ Favorites

From RCA Camden records, 1963.

I put this on expecting good powerful Bach-type organ music. Its not. Made the store sound like a carnival ride with the wobbly organ sound. No monkey begging for change though.

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Covers 1

Also I am going to throw on here kick-ass album covers that I've come across.




This is the cover to Peter Gabriel's second solo album, commonly called "scratch". I love Hipnosis covers and this is no exception.




Digging through the crates this cover from The Fixx stood out.