Happy New Music!

[Zed Simon]

Boy, something about the new year seems to bring out a lot of good music. Last year I picked up a bunch of great jazz LPs at a Goodwill.

This year I'm off and running with some choice late-'70s/early '80s rock. I hit 3 stores on Saturday and found winners at all three.

First, a Salvation Army. I kinda hit this one on a whim after breakfast at Old Country Buffet (which was NOT on a whim). For 50 cents each, I got:

Player: Spies Of Life
Bob Welch
Pezband: Cover To Cover
Wednesday Week: What We Had
Lady Pank: Drop Everything
The Sports: Don't Throw Stones
The Cryers
E. Yazawa: Flash In Japan
Horizontal Brian: Vertical
Krisma: Fido
The Fools: Sold Out
Tom Dickie & The Desires: Competition
The Sound Of Deep Ellum ('87 compilo with Reverend Horton Heat & Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians, to name a couple)
The Korgis: Dumb Waiter
Silent Running: Walk On Fire
New Adventures
The Proof: It's Safe
Mi-Sex: Space Race
Cats Can Fly
Walter Egan: Hi Fi

The Korgis album has the original version of Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime, which Beck sang in Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind.

Then at the St. Vincent DePaul, also kind of a why-not decision, I got these for $1:

Bourgeois Tagg
Rags & Riches: Land Of 1,000 Dances
Loleatta Holloway: Loleatta
Our Daughters Wedding: Digital Cowboy
Defunkt: In America
Earl Klugh: Late Night Guitar
Carol Douglas: Midnight Love Affair
Liz Damon's Orient Express
Carole King: Rhymes & Reasons (I have way too little Carole King right now)
MFSB: Summertime
The Tubes: Outside Inside
Homi & Jarvis: Friend Of A Friend (jazz, I think, since it's on GRP)
The Man From U.N.C.L.E & Other Themes (as performed by Milton DeLugg, David Rose & their orchestras)
Boom Crash Opera
Gloria Gaynor: Glorious

And if I'd had an extra $400 on me, I could have walked away with a gorgeous Nakamichi cassette deck from the early '70s. More on this in another post.

Then at another Sally, I paid $1 for each of these (as opposed to the 50 cents I paid at the other Sally, and the quarter that yet another Sally charges for their LPs):

Straight Lines: Run For Cover
Shell & The Crush
Steve Forbert
Steve Forbert: Little Stevie Orbit
Nik Kershaw: Human Racing
Bonnie Tyler: Secret Dreams & Forbidden Fire
Phil Seymour
10cc: Look Hear?
20/20: Look Out!
Blind Date
Greg Kihn: Next Of Kihn
Amazing Rhythm Aces: Too Stuffed To Jump
Queen: Flash Gordon soundtrack

Back to the first Sally tomorrow to pick up where I left off, assuming the cat's not out of the bag and all the good stuff's gone. 

[Good Buddy]

Nice finds brother! I'd have picked up much of what you got especially the Queen: Flash Gordon soundtrack.
Loved that movie and had a huge crush on Ornella Muti.

[Zed Simon]

Well, I went back...and there was even MORE new vinyl! Not quite the flavor of what I got, but good stuff: loads of Time-Life box sets of Arthur Fiedler, and another Time-Life series with folks like Peggy Lee and Mel Torme. Plus plenty of classical.

And the good '70s-'80s stuff was still there, and still 50 cents each. So I dug in. And I pulled out:

Nine Ways To Win
Champion
James House
Bob Welch: Man Overboard
Charlie: Lines (Steve Gadd plays drums)
The Sluggers: Over The Fence (Lonnie "Memphis" Mack plays guitar on one track)
Red 7
Fotomaker: Vis-a-Vis
Shot In The Dark
New City Rockers
Stretch: You Can't Beat Your Brain For Entertainment
Waterfront: New Breed Of Mermaid
Player: Danger Zone
Blue In Heaven: All The Gods Men
Interview
Michael Zager Band: Life's A Party
Bob Welch: The Other One
The Burns Sisters Band
Indochine (all in French, so an interesting listen)
The City: Foundation
Straight Eight: Shuffle 'N' Cut
Starfighters: In-Flight Movie
Head East: Gettin' Lucky
Novo Combo
3-D: See It Loud
Bolland: The Domino Theory
City Boy: Heads Are Rolling
Sanford & Townsend: Duo-Glide

And for fun, a couple Christmas LPs:
The Charlie Byrd Christmas Album
The Gunter Kallmann Chorus Sings 28 Christmas Songs (In German)

And to top it all off, not just the two CDs I forgot about on Saturday, but five @ 99 cents each:

Toad The Wet Sprocket: Bread And Circus and Fear
Indogo Girls: Rites Of Passage
The Toasters: This Gun For Hire and Hard Band For Dead

LOTS of listening to do this weekend!

[Searching4stars2009]

Consider me jealous.  Honestly I am really happy for you but as far as music goes, I just don't have any luck.  But it is the thrill of the chase. So I must keep trying.