Los Angeles Record Club (is better than SF record club)

[IceyHotshot]

Thanks so much to everyone who made it out tonight - I think this was a tremendous success and I really had a great time.

We played:
1. Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica (Side A) - IceyHotshot
2. James Blake -S/t (Side D) - nosurprises
3. Grinderman - s/t (Side A) - bmack
4. Dam-Funk - Let's Take Off (Far Away) 12" (Side B) - nosurprises
5. Aesop Rock - Labor Days (Side A) - bmack
6. Simian Mobile Disco - Attack Decay Sustain (Side A) - nosurprises
7. Ghost ("B.C") - Opus Eponymous (Side A) - bmack
8. Thee Oh Sees - Carrion Crawler/The Dream (Side B) - nosurprises
9. Violent Femmes S/t (Side A) - bmack
10. New Order - Blue Monday, The Perfect Kiss, and Round & Round (series of singles) - nosurprises
11. Tame Impala - Innerspeaker (45 rpm, Sides A and B) - bmack
12. Grimes - Visions (Side A) - xanman
13. The Postal Service - Give Up (Side A) - Neutral Milk Hotel
14. Blur - 13 (Side D) - getbetter
15. Japandroids - Celebration Rock (Side A) - nosurprises
16. Sparks - Angst in My Pants (Side A) - getbetter
17. Janelle Monae - Archandroid (Side B) - Neutral Milk Hotel
18. How to Destroy Angels - An Omen EP (Side B) - getbetter
19. Spirturalized (Electric Mainline) - Pure Phase (Side C) - getbetter

100% Coachella 2013 artists baby!

[TallGuyCM]

"I don't like my beer to taste like food. I like it to taste like...liver disease."

[nosurprises12]

Leave it to Cara to show up for 2 hours and still walk away with the Quote of the Night.

Thanks for hosting, Paul - I had a lot of fun yesterday! Also, in case anyone is interested in who played what:

We played:
1. Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica (Side A) - IceyHotshot
2. James Blake -S/t (Side D) - nosurprises
3. Grinderman - s/t (Side A) - bmack
4. Dam-Fun - Let's Take Off (Far Away) 12" (Side B) - nosurprises
5. Aesop Rock - Labor Days (Side A) - bmack
6. Simian Mobile Disco - Attack Decay Sustain (Side A) - nosurprises
7. Ghost ("B.C") - Opus Eponymous (Side A) - bmack
8. Thee Oh Sees - Carrion Crawler/The Dream (Side B) - nosurprises
9. Violent Femmes S/t (Side A) - bmack
10. New Order - Blue Monday, The Perfect Kiss, and Round & Round (series of singles) - nosurprises
11. Tame Impala - Innerspeaker (45 rpm, Sides A and B) - bmack
12. Grimes - Visions (Side A) - xanman
13. The Postal Service - Give Up (Side A) - Neutral Milk Hotel
14. Blur - 13 (Side D) - getbetter
15. Japandroids - Celebration Rock (Side A) - nosurprises
16. Sparks - Angst in My Pants (Side A) - getbetter
17. Janelle Monae - Archandroid (Side B) - Neutral Milk Hotel
18. How to Destroy Angels - An Omen EP (Side B) - getbetter
19. Pure Phase (Spirtualized) - Electric Mainline (Side C) - getbetter

[IceyHotshot]

A few observations on things I didn't know about before the club:

1. That James Blake sounds unreal on vinyl. I'll have to get me a copy
2. Dam Funk was really cool. I'd never heard him before - will have to check him out at Coachella.
3. Sparks was awesome. I'm probably going to check them out now, even knowing what I do about their live show.
4. xanman is pretty cool in person, surprisingly not annoying (glad you made it Joey )

[getbetter]

Labor days would be great to hear. I LOVE THAT ALBUM.

[guedita]

I always enjoy the rampant celebrity name dropping that happens at LA Record clubs. Ya'll give me great eye rolling material.

[nosurprises12]

Whatevs, you know it just adds to the overall experience that is LA Record Club.

[guedita]

I saw Steve Young buy a pie once.

[nosurprises12]

I saw Wayne Knight picking up a prescription at a Rite-Aid.

[TallGuyCM]

Do we really name drop that much? I feel like everyone everywhere does it from time to time. LA and people who live in LA are an easy target.

[getbetter]

I wonder if the fact that there are a lot of celebrities that live in LA has to do anything with it? When having a long discussion with someone who has connects to music industry about albums that are not yet out yet telling me that the new Thee Oh Sees album or the Nick Cave & Bad Seeds is great it kinda helps to reference the point that its Henry Rollins than a medicore trendy music critic like Alex Young or some promotor.Name dropping about how typical it is see Eric Wareheim would be annoying though.I was not usually paying attention to do even really notice if we are that bad.

[IceyHotshot]

Haha Chris I think you're guilty of the name drop a lot.

[getbetter]

Paul by the way its reverse its Spirturalized(Electric Mainline) - Pure Phase

[IceyHotshot]

Paul by the way its reverse its Spirturalized(Electric Mainline) - Pure Phase

Oh, so they used to call themselves Electric Mainline and the album title is Pure Phase?

Fixed.

[getbetter]

Well at first they were called Spirtualized Lazer Guided Melordies then Spritualized Electric Mainline then just Spirtualized

[guedita]

I wonder if the fact that there are a lot of celebrities that live in LA has to do anything with it? When having a long discussion with someone who has connects to music industry that are not yet out yet telling me that the new Thee Oh Sees album or the Nick Cave & Bad Seeds is great it kinda helps to reference the point that its Henry Rollins than a medicore trendy music critic like Alex Young or some promotor.Name dropping about how typical it is see Eric Wareheim would be annoying though.I was not usually paying attention to do even really notice if we are that bad.

There are too many name drops in this post/quit ruining my joke with rationalizations.

[Devin the Dude]

My keyboard player makes a habit of stalking Ariel Pink. :/

[guedita]

My Dad once procured Bob Dole's signature for me on a post-it note. My bleeding heart liberal third grade classmates were not impressed.

[RotationSlimWang]

I never used to drop celebrity names into conversations, but then Steve Albini moved in next door to me and HE does it a lot so I just kind of got in the habit.

[RotationSlimWang]

Note: I now realize that I don't have a clue who Steve Albini is, but somehow the name stuck in my mind and ended up feeling like a good choice for an asshole name to drop.

[Boourns]

Since we're dropping names like they were carpet bombs, Oliver North was the "celebrity speaker" at my elementary school's fundraiser one year.

[bmack86]

Note: I now realize that I don't have a clue who Steve Albini is, but somehow the name stuck in my mind and ended up feeling like a good choice for an asshole name to drop.

You guys would probably get along. You both hate most things, but enjoy a good meal. He's also very fond of brutally offensive humor.

[RotationSlimWang]

In that case, I'm really glad he moved in next door. We go to The Gap together sometimes.

[Devin the Dude]

Surprise, surprise.

[greghead]

Do you folks normally only play one side per disc?

[bmack86]

At times prior we've gone multiple sides if time permitted, but damn did we have a ton of records people brought.

[greghead]

I see. Do you guys make an effort to play all the records people bring? Folks up here bring a pile knowing they'll likely only have to time to play a couple. Sometimes we have a good time "curating" a vibe on the fly, picking and choosing records based on how they fit with what has been played before.

Good stuff, I'm glad to see you guys are actively doing this. Has Kat shown up for any meetings?

[bmack86]

Not by a long shot. This past one I brought probably 40 records. This one in particular seemed to be about getting through as many artists and, ostensibly, to be turning people on to a few things they may not have heard before.

And Kat has not made it. I contacted her about this one but the timing didn't work out.

[nosurprises12]

Do you folks normally only play one side per disc?

I think we've only done it a few times, but I quite like it: not only can we listen to a lot of different music, everyone has a chance to play more of the records they brought. I will say, though, that I we (or at least I) do try to find a "flow" in the styles we play, although that was a bit more challenging this time with the Coachella theme we settled on.

[getbetter]

Can we do only do 45's next meeting ???