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Post by doctorlouie on Jan 14, 2019 10:16:47 GMT
I knew a guy who worked part time in Gnasher's Second Hand Record Shop in Bath. He'd played in punk and glam type bands and had an ongoing preference for that kind of stuff. He admitted that if anyone brought in records to flog that were Glam, Punk, or Skinny Tie Pop he'd tend to buy it (for himself or for the shop) but stuff from other genres had to be absolutely tip-top for him to be interested. He knew his stuff across the board so rare stuff got bought.
The point is that his 'default' genres got a pass. Any second division unknown power pop thing by a band called 'The (plural noun here)' with a sleeve that had a cheap graphic style and ten to twelve short songs about radio, fast food, and/or suburban life got a pass. He'd give it a punt.
Which genres, when digging through unknown stuff, is BOUND TO CATCH YOUR EYE even if you suspect it's second division stuff? And evne knowing that you'll rate it above the best of other genres... (For example, The Look are better than Miles Davis...)
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Post by Admin on Jan 14, 2019 10:40:26 GMT
Pretty much any band or artist from between 1966 and 1972 (I know that's not strictly a genre, but it's the best I can do!). 60s garage, then. How's that?
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Post by DarknessFish on Jan 14, 2019 12:46:44 GMT
I think I'll buy pretty much anything German and post-punky released between 1979 and 1984. I did have a period where I seemed to buy albums with cover artwork of horses for no apparent reason, but had the horror of listening to something by The Besnard Lakes, which put a stop to that.
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Post by Charlie O. on Jan 14, 2019 15:14:38 GMT
That would have been my default answer not so long ago, but there's so endlessly fucking much of it being exhumed all the time and I'm beginning to lose my patience (and my money). However, folk-rock of that era scratches my itch fairly consistently... even when I know it isn't objectively particularly good. And there's much less of it being reissued (which is probably a good thing).
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Jan 14, 2019 15:23:14 GMT
A great garage nugget is as good as it gets but I experienced burn out some time ago and the endless number of compilations makes it a bit of drag to trawl through this stuff.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Jan 14, 2019 15:24:18 GMT
Soul from the 60s to the mid 70s. The combination of songwriting, musicianship and production makes me always tempted to take a punt on summat.
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Jan 14, 2019 15:41:47 GMT
Almost every genre has bitten me on the ass at some point, so I'm rarely willing to just blindly give something a chance these days. My one exception is Indian classical music, which, granted, I don't come across on vinyl too often so there's always a bit of a thrill when I do.
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Post by oh oooh on Jan 14, 2019 16:18:59 GMT
A great garage nugget is as good as it gets but I experienced burn out some time ago and the endless number of compilations makes it a bit of drag to trawl through this stuff. Now and again I'll binge on youtube (there's a handful of very good channels) and discover a couple of absolute crackers. I think the trick is to just leave it running while you're cooking or something, and trust your head to turn at the right moments.
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Post by Reasonable good Nick on Jan 14, 2019 16:33:43 GMT
I'm a sucker for pretty much anything bluesy from the twenties to the fifties, country and western & bluegrass from the thirties to the seventies, and jazz from... well, any time really.
Baroque classical as well.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2019 16:46:05 GMT
Any kind of rock from the late '60s and '70s will get some interest from me.
It's hard to find anything I like in garage rock, punk/new wave, soul and funk and reggae that hasn't been already bought up unless you arrive on the right day.
The guy who owns the store is the guy I sold all my records to. He DJs '80s music and kept a lot of my records for himself. I was talking to him last trip to the store and told him how expensive the first Slits album was online. He said he'd just had a copy in his store and sold it for $14 and they come in every once in awhile. He also reminded me just because ask for a price online, doesn't mean they'll get it.
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Post by toomanyhatz on Jan 14, 2019 16:47:30 GMT
So far, "Obscure 70s Funk" has not hit diminishing returns for me yet. And I've been at it for a while, though I don't dig as deeply as some. But anytime I see a locally-based comp from any major US city, I'll give it a go. And so far I haven't been sorry once.
I'm with O. on garage, though of course I love it all the way down through the middle layer. Just realizing there's more dregs than I initially realized.
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Post by toomanyhatz on Jan 14, 2019 16:49:25 GMT
FWIW, I don't at all feel this way about Wyrd Folk or Celtic/English Folk/Rock. Love the best of it, and there are many obscure delights - but there's also a lot of 2nd-rate ISB, Fairport and/or Pogues copyists. Especially recent stuff.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2019 0:02:39 GMT
Berlin school electronic, modal jazz, baroque... it would have been first wave post-punk as well but I think I've exhausted everything I need to hear now.
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Post by driftin on Jan 15, 2019 14:00:10 GMT
Anything vaguely IDMish, darkly ambient, droney, or related to noise that also has a monochromatic or gloomy cover.
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Post by loveless on Jan 17, 2019 10:48:48 GMT
I went through a series of fairly generous phases in my late teens, early twenties - certainly with 60s garage/psych (a few unexpected payoffs early in the gamble will really encourage you to keep pushing), and simultaneously/later with sort of 4AD/Creation type things, certain types of colorful or attractive artwork that indicated that something "trippy" was surely lurking inside (again, a few good initial results will go a long way).
At some point, this generosity tightened considerably, but...there's certain exceptions. I know when my own taste for used LPs regenerated, there was generally a certain slack for cheap "hippie hangover" kinda shit - records that looked like they might complement If I Could Only Remember My Name or The Family That Plays Together.
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