P’s Take: The FSS isn’t just the internet’s least popular website, it is also a cooperative study in opposites. T Frankenstein is measured and organized. I don’t know what is going on. T Frankenstein has money, I am broke as a joke. T Frankenstein prepares before hand, I take seven hour naps. This past Record Store Day was no different. Uncle T printed out a list of what was gonna be available for purchase the night before the event and underlined what he was gonna be looking for. I got drunk with my brother and watched “The Deadliest Warrior”. It was the good one, the ninja verse Spartan. The Spartan won. What kind of bullshit is that?
We show up to Vintage Vinyl (Fords, NJ) this year earlier than last and this time the place is a good 80 nerds deep already. Sweet Jesus, some of these champions were so socially backwards as to make me and T look like Arthur Fonzarellis. And Fonzies we are not. This crush of geeks made for some pandemonium once they finally opened up the doors. Luckily for me I only had a swift twenty dollars to blow, so I didn’t have much to look for seeing as I couldn’t pay for much. I picked up a Black Keys 12″ single and a 7″ of an Elvis Costello and the Attractions concert in LA from way back in the day. Uncle T, being Uncle T, got a a lot of good shit. I kicked it out front after making my purchases and debated the finer points of direct drive turntables with a pony-tailed gentleman. It was that kind of crowd.
We then beat it back to Uncle T and Aunt Michele’s and proceeded to drink 3/4 case of beer, eat sandwiches and listen to music. For fucking 12 hours. I am not gonna get into what all we listened to because I am lazy. The high points for me though were the Elvis Costello live 7″ inch, that was fucking great. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs joint was really good. The Ergs was awesome too. What else? Titus Andronicus surprised me with how good they are. Oh yeah and Fear. I am never unhappy to listen to Fear.
So really objectively, we didn’t get much done. We drank beer and listened to records. But that is what Record Store Day is about, taking one day out your busy life to focus on A) getting vinyl B) listening to that vinyl and C) talking about vinyl. While D) drinking bottle after bottle of Belgian beer. You could waste a Saturday on a lot worse, chucklehead.
T’s Take: I think P hit the nail on the Head. Record Store Day is the one day of the year where you gather with fellow vinyl collecting oddballs and feel slightly less odd. Then you spend the rest of the day doing what you do best, listening to records, bullshitting about records, and avoiding anything that’s even mildly productive. So here is… to the best of my memory… in some sort of vague chronological order what we listened to yesterday. Assume that everything we spoke about during the 2010 RSD Listening Party that I don’t mention was deep and profound. It wasn’t. Just assume it was.
Daytrotter Sessions (mp3s) – Aimee Mann, Titus Andronicus, Dan Sartain, Ian Mccculloch, David Bazan, Stephen Malkmus, Justin Townes Earle, Matt Pryor, Meat Puppets, Black Lips, Joe Jack Talcum. (If you don’t know Daytrotter check them out. They’re a studio that has a bunch of great bands come in and record with them then they post it all for free on the intertubes. I threw my Ipod in the car and set it to Daytrotter shuffle on the way to Vintage Vinyl. P was blown away with both how good Dan Sartain is as well as how there’s a Twitter war currently going on between Aimee Mann and Ice-T. The FSS is pulling for Ice on this one.)
Once we got Back to my place we threw on the following…
Justin Townes Earle – midnight at the movies 12″ (only listened to side a… not because it was bad… but we had a shitload of stuff to listen to and after his cover of “Can’t Hardly Wait” by the Replacements we figured it best to go out on a high note)
Black Keys - this is a twelve inch single 12″ (2 songs exclusive to RSD… alright)
Elvis Costello – live at hollywood high 7″ (a good work friend once lent me an original copy of this 7″ from way way back in her heyday… I don’t remember it sounding this good)
Queens of the Stone Age – feel good hit of the summer 10″ picture disc (the liner notes say Rob Halford sings backup on the title track… I guess that makes up for the horrendous horrendous Kinks cover also on this 10″)
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists – the oldest house 7″ (ted’s from NJ like us so this was a no brainer)
Bouncing Souls – jersey pride 7″ (also from Jersey… the Souls printed a really sweet send up of the Garden State Parkway logo on side A of the picture disc… P made me skip Airport Security but he laughed enough at Bad Ass to make up for it)
Fucked Up - daytrotter 7″ (i’m telling you this Daytrotter is on to something)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – skeletons 7″ (once we got the correct speed on the turntable this sounded unbelievable)
The Ergs – thrash compacter 7″ (awesome new 7″ by now defunct Jersey band on Grave Mistake Records… this is all short fast punk songs, not to be confused with their poppier output… all the songs fit on Side A so Side B was left blank…better that than not releasing this at all)
The Get Up Kids – simple science 12″ (I saw some kid on a message board complaining that instead of putting out a full length the GUKs were putting out 3 12″ singles. apparently kids today have no idea why 3 12″s are better than one LP any day of the week)
Adam and the Ants – meet the ants 12″ (we only listened to side a because I was trying to explain that Adam Ant is a racist as is evidenced by the track “Puerto Rican”… I just bought this last week and will probably never listen to it again. thanks adam… you rascist cocksucker)
Fear paradise studio 1978 demo (only listned to part of side a before putting on…)
Fear more beer cd (track 6 onward… P keeps trying to convince me this is a good album… I dunno… I love love love “The Record”… but this one doesn’t even rate for me)
Give Up the Ghost love american cd (Track 3 only… we’ve been following the Onion AV Club’s Undercover Sessions lately and a couple weeks back The Alkaline Trio covered “Web In Front” by FSS favorites The Archers of Loaf… as good as that cover ended up being I think Give Up The Ghost’s “You And Me” cover is a little better)
Dum Dum Girls i will be 12″ (side a only… not bad… just we thought this would be more Garage Rock and less Lush-sounding… the clear marble maroon vinyl is the tits though)
Blacklisted eccentrichine 7″ (why do hipsters love Fucked Up and not Blacklisted? we couldn’t come up with an answer. Blacklisted are probably better off though.)
Rocket from the Crypt sympathy 666 7″ (we love RFTC. saw them at Maxwell’s wayyyyy the hell back when)
Rocket from the Crypt pigeon eater 7″ (one side is 33 RPM the other is 45 RPM… messing with record collectors is hilarious)
Rocket from the Crypt all systems go cd (tracks 17-19, press darlings, killy kill again, chantilly face… we put this one on because I recently found out that “press darlings” is an Adam Ant cover during my internet research into him being rascist… we left the last two tracks on because… well?… they’re fucking awesome)
Rocket from the Crypt rip dvd (we kept the rocket love going and watched the dvd of their last show… P lost his shit during “ditch digger”… can you blame him? also ND kicks some kid in the nuts at one point on the video. miss these guys.)
While I drove P back to his place we listened to…
Titus Andronicus the monitor mp3s (this one keeps getting better and better for me with every listen and I was glad to have introduced it to P)
Long live record store day!
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