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Presents… Set Yourself on Fire on Vinyl!!!

December 22, 2007
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Photography by michele santarsiere

When there is nothing left to burn
you have to set yourself on fire…

These romantics, these rebels, with their beautifully lush pop songs, poignant & honest, unapologetically wearing their hearts on their sleeves, I love you too, Stars.

Never change…

TSURURADIO Presents… Set Yourself on Fire on Vinyl!!!
(Full Zip)

A:
your ex-lover is dead
set yourself on fire
ageless beauty
reunion
the big fight
what i’m trying to say

B:
one more night
sleep tonight
the first five times
he lied about death
celebration guns
soft revolution
calendar girl

Go show all your love to some of my favorite Canadians here, here, and here now!

Hey, you! Pervy-ninja! Love vinyl? Join the Vinyl Preservation Society today!!!!
(info here)

Join the Tsururadio Vinyl Preservation Society!!!

December 21, 2007
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Tsururadio Vinyl Preservation Society…

December 18, 2007
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Did you notice the new icon over on the left side? No, no, no… not the picture of me, the cutie playing air guitar next to the records under the “Mixtape” icon! Well, I gots one of dem myspacer pages for this little site of mine (I’m going to let it shine) that is now the official meeting ground for the newly renovated Tsururadio Vinyl Preservation Society. So, come on over, join (i.e. “befriend” the society), and let’s ramble on about the wonders of vinyl, such as (but not limited to): what you got, ripped, play it on, want to trade, are lookin’ for, want me to rip, etc, etc, etc… you get the idea. Okay, see you there, you freakin’ vinyl addicts!!

* edit —> forgot to mention, myspace is blocked at work for me, so all friend request will be added in the evenings or on the weekends!

Presents… Her Majesty The Decemberists on Vinyl!!!

December 15, 2007
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Photography by Lynn Kasztanovics

Ladybird, ladybird
You’re the prettiest song I heard
In awhile
In awhile
La di da, da da

While my bride sleeps in, the snow begins to fall, I wrap my love’s presents (I’d tell you what I got her, but she reads this site!) and started this weeks vinyl rip, the subliiime (don’t you just hate it when people use that word to describe stuff, like music or food? just so you know, I’m saying it ironically, because I’m soooo cool like that) Her Majesty The Decemberists by none other than The Decemberists (makes sense).

There’s a million and two reviews of the album out there, so I won’t be blabbering on about how wonderful it is (“I Was Meant For The Stage” is kicking my ass as I write this), but man I will say, GREAT JOB to Jealous Butcher Records. This is probably the highest quality vinyl at own… It’s a heavy 180 grams and gorgeous full color sleeve. Mmm… nice. You can hear it in the rip to, smooth, nice, clean, and exceptionally clear! If your loved one is a vinyl audiophile, I smell a great holiday gift!

Very nice, indeed…

Okay, where was I? Always so distracted by my rambling… Let’s get to it before this becomes another novel, as…

TSURURADIO Presents… Her Majesty The Decemberists on Vinyl!!!
(Full Zip)

Side A

01 Shanty For The Arethusa
02 Billy Liar
03 Los Angeles, I’m Yours
04 The Gymnast, High Above The Ground
05 The Bachelor And The Bride

Side B

01 Song For Myla Goldberg
02 The Soldiering Life
03 Red Right Ankle
04 The Chimbley Sweep
05 I Was Meant For The Stage
06 As I Rise

Go show the D’s all your love, and then some, here, here, here, and ESPECIALLY here now!

Presents… Blacklisted on Vinyl!!!

December 9, 2007
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Photography by Victoria Renard

(It’s a rare day when I use a photo of an artist as the photo for the post, but c’mon… it’s Neko! She’s not afraid to show us her sexy side as these photos by Victoria Renard show. There is nothing sexier than a confident woman, my friends… Okay, let’s get this started)

How’s hope feeling today
Tired and sick of this place
Red wine is fast

This one’s for my baby… It was her birthday yesterday, if I wasn’t busy catering to all her wishes, this would’ve been up then, but, priorities, my friends, priorities… you GOTTA take care of your lady & love. But as her birthday weekend wraps up (and while she slept in this this morning) I was able to rip one of her favorite artists and an absolutely amazing album, Neko Case’s haunting 2002 release, Blacklisted.

Man, that photo is distracting, eh?

Where was I? Oh yeah… Gonna keep this one short, I’ve done enough jibber jabbering this week, besides, what’s to say anyway? Neko’s amazing, her work only seems to get better, not only with each new release, but each album seems to improve with age! This album’s no different of course. I will say though, that man o’ man, I got some wicked goosebumps during her cover of Aretha Franklin’s “Running Out Of Fools”. Good times…

Feelin’ rather ADD today, so let’s just do it, shall we? As I first wish my baby, the love of my life, Happy Birthday! I love you like crazy, babydoll! And now…

TSURURADIO Proudly Presents… Blacklisted on Vinyl!!!
(Full Zip)

Side One

101 Things That Scare Me
102 Deep Red Bells
103 Outro With Bees
104 Lady Pilot
105 Tightly
106 Look For Me (I’ll Be Around)

Side Two

201 Singing Velvet
202 Pretty Girls
203 I Missed The Point
204 Blacklisted
205 I Wish I Was The Moon
206 Runnin Out Of Fools
207 Ghost Writing
208 (silence)
209 Untitled

Go show the beautiful Neko all your love here, here, and here now! But first… some more from that sexy shoot!

Presents… Oh, Inverted World on Vinyl!!!

December 1, 2007
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Photography by Gabriele C.

And if you’d ‘a took to me like
A gull takes to the wind.
Well, i’d ‘a jumped from my tree
And i’d a danced like the kind of the eyesores
And the rest of our lives would ‘a fared well.

I loved our honeymoon, I really did… but it was time to get home, to the comforts of home, you know? To cuddle up on our fantastic orgy-sized couch, to enjoy my insanely strong home-brewed coffee, to have a steady fast internet connection, to have more than just CNN Int’l to watch in English, and, of course, to drop the needle and wrap a metaphorical cozy blanket (you know, the super soft ugly plaid flannel kind) around your ears with some modern classic pop with a few marshmallows on top (wait… that doesn’t make any sense, but I think you catch muh drift). What better way to do that then with warm sounds of The Shin’s beauty Oh, Inverted World?

Personally, I couldn’t think of anything better.

Alright, let’s keep this short and sweet, eh? (NOTE: I can legally say “eh?” now at my leisure, as I’m now married to a Canadian, and that endows me with a few Canuckian civil liberties. Also allowed are “hoser”, “curling”, and “about” & “out” pronounced like “aboot” & “oot”, respectively… now, where was I?) As…

TSURURADIO Proudly Presents… Oh, Inverted World on Vinyl!!!
(Full Zip)

Side One

01 Caring Is Creepy
02 One By One All Day
03 Weird Divide
04 Know Your Onion
05 Girl Inform Me

Side Two

01 New Slang
02 The Celibate Life
03 Girl On The Wing
04 Your Algebra
05 Pressed In A Book
06 The Past And Pending

Go show the shins all the love you can here, here, and here now…

Presents… Meat Is Murder on Vinyl!!!

November 10, 2007
By
Photography by Hassan Kinley
Model is Vanityca5e

I am the son
and the heir
Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar
I am the son and heir
Of nothing in particular

This is a story, a story of how The Smiths Hatful of Hollow became Meat Is Murder…

After the Bauhaus vinyl rip, good friend and fellow pervy-ninja Carie had one more request, The Smiths Hatful of Hallow. Now, as I believe I’ve mentioned before, there are some bands that mathematically speaking, I should like, but for some reason I don’t. One, for example, is Radiohead (I know, blasphemy, right?) and another is The Smiths (egad! sacreligious!), but just because I didn’t get into them when everyone else did, doesn’t mean I give up on any of them. Every once in a while, I still give Radiohead a try, as my taste changes, and ask myself, “what about now? No? What about…… now?” So, when Carie suggested The Smiths, I saw it as an opportunity to 1) give them another go and 2) continue to expand the vinyl collection.

Now, I know NADA about Los Smiths, so a little research was in order. Turns out Hatful of Hollow was not a proper album, go figure. The one rule I try to keep (and will most likely break) for my vinyl rips (not for my vinyl collection though) is that they be proper albums. I want to hear how an album was created and put together. I want to hear how it flows, from lead-off songs for each side, to transition songs, to centerpieces, and finally to closing songs…. So I told Carie I’d most definitely rip da Smiffs, but it’ll be a true album and with a bit more research it seemed that The Queen Is Dead is considered one of their best. So, I head to gemm.com, filter for vinyl only, search, add to cart, check-out please, and wait.

About a week later, I started getting antsy, I had about 4 records on order, but this one was due first and should be arriving. Everyday I look on the rocking chairs on the porch when we’d get home from work and nothing. On this past Thursday, I come home, no package on the porch, but I do have a package from Amazon, about the size of a CD… Oh yeah, I ordered a $3 used copy of Old 97′s Fight Songs, cool! I really wanted to hear “Jagged”. But, much to my confusion on opening it… it was The Queen Is Dead on CD! Either this was the most fucked up coincidence that Amazon screwed up my order and somehow sent a CD that just happened to be the same album as the record I ordered through gemm.com, or something is all fucked up.

A little research and a half-a-glass of wine later, I saw the problem. The record shop (apparently new to posting at Gemm.com, but must have a zshop at Amazon and use the Amazon system for shipping) didn’t set the tags right, and the CD showed up in the Vinyl Only search, then on the product page, “AUDIOMEDIACD” was cut off to just “AUDIOMEDIA”, and given the price was $18, the thought that this might have been a messed up listing and was actually a compact disc never crossed my mind…

After writing a angry, yet restrained email to the record shop, and with there only being about a week until we head out to our honeymoon in Italy for 10 days, I really wanted this last vinyl rip before the trip to be special. Ah wait, what about the infamous pervy-ninja Byron from the last vinyl rip? Maybe he’s got something in the vault I could borrow? Sent a text message, crashed with my baby on the couch, woke up in the morning to see a message that he had Meat Is Murder. He brought it into work yesterday, and last night after running some more wedding errands, while she printed table placecards, I started recording. With a very busy weekend planned (errands and a party, woop!), I wanted to get this up as quick as I could…

So… am I a convert? Do I “heart” the Smiths now? Well, I really enjoyed side one, bobbing my head with the headphones set to “pain”, but it was when I dropped the needle and “How Soon Is Now?” began (not listed on the album cover, causing a bit of confusion at first when trying to follow the lyrics, lol). Holy shit! Waa-waa-waa-waa…. brilliant.

This! This is why Vinyl >>> CD!!! This song is track one on side 2 of the record, and that’s EXACTLY where it belongs and it’s fucking amazing!!! I feel for the Brits who, apparently, when they bought this record back when it came out in 1985, it didn’t have this song on it! It’s a wonderful add and a perfect lead-off track, completely setting the tone for the second side! I can’t imagine this song stuck in the middle of a CD, it’d be completely out of place… Yeah… good times, mother fucking good times, indeed. And now, I even like Morrissey! Ha, who knew… time does a funny thing to one’s taste, eh? So yeah, I’ll be checking out the Smiths catalogue.

So a huge, HUGE “thank you” to Carie and Byron, you guys are awesome! Okay, right, now, let’s get it on, shall we, as…

TSURURADIO Proudly Presents… Meat Is Murder on Vinyl!!!
(Full Zip)

Side One

1. The Headmaster Ritual
2. Rusholme Ruffians
3. I Want The One I Can’t Have
4. What She Said
5. That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore

Side Two

1. How Soon Is Now?
2. Nowhere Fast
3. Well I Wonder
4. Barbarism Begins At Home
5. Meat Is Murder

Go show The Smiths lots and lots of love here, here, and here, now!

Also, I’ve got one more special treat for all you pervy-ninjas before the bride and I take off for our superawesomegoodtimes honeymoon. So be on the look out, say….. Thursday! ;)

Presents… Up-Tight on Vinyl!!!

November 4, 2007
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Photography by vanityca5e
via ponyXpress

You know… I was thinking, I think if I ever tire of putting up the normal posts, I think I’ll still do these vinyl rips. There’s something about the process it’s so much fun! Exploring new albums, old albums, the familiar and unfamiliar. Or, in this case, a friend’s collection. Good friend, music lover, and fellow pervy-ninja Byron has quite an amazing vinyl collection… Going through it yesterday, I was tempted to drop a large brick on his head, load up my car with everything, and never look back!

No, no, no…. don’t worry, my desire to see what other LP’s he’ll be picking up in the future kept my murderous intentions at bay. Ha!

I love ya, Byron, my man!!!

First up from the archives of Lord Byron, a young, but no-longer-little Stevie Wonder break out album, Up-Tight. What can be said about Stevie Wonder that isn’t chronicled all about the interwebs? One could talk about his virtuosity, his genius, his discography, his blindness, or how well one can imitate is rhythmic swaying all day (and plenty sites do), but how about we just let this one speak for itself as…

TSURURADIO Proudly Presents… Up-Tight on Vinyl!!!
(Full Zip)

Side One

01 Love A Go Go
02 Hold Me
03 Blowin In The Wind
04 Nothing’s Too Good For My Baby
05 Teach Me Tonight
06 Up Tight

Side Two

01 Ain’t That Asking For Trouble
02 I Want My Baby Back
03 Pretty Little Angel
04 Music Talk
05 Contract On Love
06 With A Child’s Heart

Go show Stevie Wonder all the love you can here, here, and here now!

Presents… The Sky’s Gone Out on Vinyl!!!

October 28, 2007
By
Photograph by Lotte

Out of her mouth it came as no surprise
lipstick stained and whipcream lies
I feel that if I had been uglier
it would have been easier…

Oh man, oh man, have I got a doozy & a half for you today. Today’s vinyl rip comes via friend and fellow pervy-ninja Carie, and it couldn’t be more timely. As I stated earlier in the week when this album was sitting at my doorstep, I saw Bauhaus in concert the night before my first date with Tsurubride. It was a fluke, really. A friend of mine a few weeks before hand asked if I wanted to go, game for anything, I said “sure, I’ll go”. I never really got into Bauhaus before, the songs I did hear seemed hollow and dated, but, to be fair, I never gave them a real chance and I’m up for most anything twice.

Well, I proceeded to immediately & completely forget about my “sure, I’ll go” response, as, over the next couple weeks, I was very busy flirting with this adorable cutie. I finally asked her out, or should I say, asked her in for a first date, a detox-sunday-at-home-movie date. Turns out, we set it up for noon-ish on the day after the Bauhaus concert, which was 2+ hours north in Cleveland.

Oof.

Not wanting to post-pone, and not wanting to be a shitty friend and bail on the concert, I was determined to do both. I drove up to Cleveland to meet my friends (who were already there, and in goth-uniform, I don’t own any Hot Topic clothes (well until last week when I was “emo-Jesus” for a Halloween party) so I was just in a green hoodie and jeans) in my shitty little $500 Toyota (NOTE: I don’t like car payments, rather have a little piece-of-shit car that runs well, my car is not an extension of my penis or my status) and man, the show was amazing!!!

How’s that for a run-on-super-ADD-sentence?

The depth of sound, the controlled noise, Peter Murphy’s vocals, the whole thing was just plain incredible. Completely blew away my low expectations… Anyway, after the show, we went out, and I got a little toasty (the drinks at this goth Cleveland bar were really strong, holy shit), and later we all crashed back at the hotel.

Needless to say, come morning, I was hurting… bad. But, I was NOT about to cancel my date. Uh-uh, no way, no how. So, I got my scraggly ass out of bed, got dressed, waved good-bye to my sleeping friends, and headed south. Now, remember, my car was just a little piece-of-shit, right? Well, given that I had never taken this car on that long a drive, I became nervous about pulling over for coffee or Coke or something. For some reason, I became paranoid that my car wouldn’t re-start and I’d have to cancel my date. So, head pounding, mouth dry and tasting like an ashtray, I just drove.

Suddenly, I remembered… I’ve got some aspirin in my backpack! I grabbed a few, chewed them up (a bit tangy & got my mouth watery, I’ll take it). Got back to Columbus, got cleaned up, and then went on a search for a bottle of wine. Not only was it Sunday, but the county I was renting a room out of was a dry-county! Sweet fuck, painful morning, to say the least…

Well, to make a long story short (too late!), I found some wine, got my ass back, got the place & myself ready (clean, but casual, don’t want to look too anxious, lol) and then she showed up with some yummy goat cheese & How To Steal A Million. That was nearly two years ago, and now, in 3 weeks, we are getting married.

Nuts, eh?

So you can see… today’s vinyl rip is kinda special to me, so thanks Carie for requesting it. Ah, and guess what, the LP was released with a bonus LP of Bauhaus live in England, which I have ripped for you as well. Thanks for letting me reminisce again, my friends! It’s time for you to enjoy as…

TSURURADIO Proudly Presents… The Sky’s Gone Out (+ a bonus live LP) on Vinyl!!!
(full huge zip (both LPs!))

The Sky’s Gone Out
Side A

1. Third Uncle
2. Silent Hedges
3. In The Night
4. Swing The Heartache
5. Spirit

Side B

1. The Three Shadows – Part I
2. The Three Shadows – Part II
3. The Three Shadows – Part III
4. All We Ever Wanted Was Everything
5. Exquisite Corpse

Live in England
Side A

1. In The Flatfield
2. Rose Garden Funeral Of Sores
3. Dancing
4. The Man With X-Ray Eyes
5. Bela Lugosi Is Dead

Side B

1. The Spy In The Cab
2. Kick In The Eye
3. In Fear Of Fear
4. Hollow Hills
5. Stigmata Martyr
6. Dark Entries

Go show Bauhaus all your gothy-lovins here, here, and here now!

Presents… Broken Social Scene on Vinyl!!!

October 21, 2007
By
Photography “Jump” by Mikri

 Disappear like I come in your world
Five is a number that I dream about
It looks like it could’ve been time
But that is a word that I dream about
Oh, felt good to fall life down
Oh, I think you like it, laughed when you came down
Oh, I love the lights that don’t turn you to face it
Oh, you can marry my mom but
But you can’t get the feel

Well, with all the travel and subsequent catching up to do, I only got up the two posts last week, REM & Le Loup. On top of that, immediately after the Le Loup post, I put REM back on and couldn’t stop listening! Live, Green on Vinyl, and my own little 78 song Best Of, it was ridiculous!!! I was guilt-ridden, my dear friends, and completely stuck (it happens occasionally when I listen to my favorite bands, I go through a span where that’s all I’ll want). I had to break the spell!

What better way than to spend a few hours working on a vinyl rip?

After a few older albums, it was time for something a little more current, Broken Social Scene’s self-titled 2005 release. It’s actually a 2xLP release, taking up 3 sides of some insanely heavy vinyl, the 4th side an EP. To keep pure with the album release, I’m only posting the true album, not the EP.

What can I say about this release that hasn’t been written in a shit load of reviews and what now? The hype and expectations were over the top after You Forgot It In People was gobbled up by the music geeks and critics alike. So this album, which ups the ante a quite a bit, including a cast of 17 people, could only disappoint. Expectations are a bitch…

It’s a shame, because it’s amazing, so rich, textured, expansive, offering more and more with every listen. On vinyl, it only sounds that much better! I’m really happy with the way this one came out… I think you will, as well.

For those shit-heads who poo-poo’d this album, it’s time to give it a second chance. For those who never heard it, oh man, get ready, you are in for a treat… it’s a doozy though, so get ready! Alright, time to shut up, and get your download on as…

TSURURADIO Presents… Broken Social Scene on Vinyl!!!
(Full Zip)

Side A

01 Our Faces Split The Coast In Half
02 Ibi Dreams Of Pavement
03 7/4 (Shoreline)
04 Finish Your Collapse And Stay For Breakfast
05 Major Label Debut

Side B

01 Fire Eye’d Boy
02 Windsurfing Nation
03 Swimmers
04 Hotel
05 Handjobs For The Holidays

Side C

01 Superconnected
02 Bandwitch
03 Tremoloa Debut
04 It’s All Gonna Break

Go show Broken Social Scene all your love here, here, and here now!

Presents… Green on Vinyl!!!

October 13, 2007
By
Photography “Early Riser” by Lacertilienne

But I’m in this kitchen
Everything is beautiful
And she is so beautiful
She is so young and old
I look at her and I see the beauty
Of the light of music…

Planted firmly in between the much beloved “IRS Years” and the now classics Automatic For The People and New Adventures In Hi-Fi, R.E.M.’s Green, their first on Warner Bros, their first after being called a bunch of sell-outs for signing with the big boys, will always remain of my favorite albums of all time.

Green was my first R.E.M. record. I was elbow-deep in prog when I caught wind this band even existed (oy, maybe I was head-deep in prog!). I can’t remember what caught my attention first… The infectious “Stand”? It was so fun to sing and dance around to (oh man, that only inflamed the “sell-out” accusers, which only made me want it more!). The video for “Pop Song ’89″? Yay! BOOBIES! Or the hard-hitting “Orange Crush”? Making me feel like such an anti-military rebel, lol.

Well whatever it was, years later (fuck, we are hitting 20 years next year! Dear god I’m getting old), I play Green and every single song is like an old friend. I still get those mushy romantic feelings when I hear “You Are The Everything”, I still rock-out like a high schooler when I hear “Turn You Inside-Out”, and I still strain my last vocal chord trying to sing “The Wrong Child”.

Like your forgotten middle-child, it’s time to show him that you really do love him as much as you love his older & younger siblings. It’s time to enjoy the beauty of this often forgotten gem from the boys from Athens, Georgia, from one of the Greatest American Bands of All Time (yeah, that’s right, I said it, I went there!) as…

TSURURADIO Presents… Green on Vinyl!!!
(Full Zip)

Side Air

1. Pop Song ’89
2. Get Up
3. You Are The Everything
R. Stand
5. World Leader Pretend
6. The Wrong Child

Side Metal

7. Orange Crush
8. Turn You Inside-Out
9. Hairshirt
10. I Remember California
11. Untitled

Ah, how timely… Looks like R.E.M.’s first official live release, appropriately titled R.E.M. Live, just leaked. For a different sort of experience of this release, go check out our R.E.M. Live Not Live mixtape… Good times!

Go show R.E.M. all the love you can here, here, and here now!

Presents… Close To The Edge on Vinyl!!!

September 15, 2007
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Photography by mr. oliver james squibb

Last time in our favorite series of TSURURADIO Presents vinyl rip I recorded and posted a pivotal album in my musical growth, the awesomely deliscious Violent Femmes self-titled masterpiece. Well today, after a bit of wrangling through my collection, I’ve decided to continue this idea by presenting yet another key turning-point album for your humble host… that’s right baby, we are stepping back even further to explore the mind-blowing Close To The Edge by Yes.

Lordy, how sad, I just got goosebumps when I typed the title… Man, my geekiness knows no bounds, does it? Just you wait to he how deep it goes. Back in middle school, in the mid eighties (yeah, I’m a 34 year old pervy-ninja), I was your typical oddball weirdo (in fact, since elementary school, I had been titled by a significant number of people as “Aaron The Weird”). Unfortunately, I didn’t have much of a musical identity yet. My mother raised me on soul, R&B, and black gospel, my father was all about Neil Diamond and other assorted pop. So, until Yes came along, I had been wandering the between R&B (WTMP AM in Tampa) & Top 40 (Q105 was THE top 40 station then).

Then in middle school, I had acquired a new friend, Doug (actual name Bill, but I preferred to call him Doug and it stuck, by high school, that’s all anyone knew him by), and he —

— hold on, side one is almost done, need to flip the record… Okay, “And You And I” is starting up, beautiful. Where was I? Oh yeah, Doug. Middle School.

So, we become friends through class. One day he asked me what I listened to, I told him. He asked why? I didn’t really know. He then pushed, “what do you like about the songs you like?” Well, I love a strong dominant bass (first thing that came into my mind). He lit up, eyebrows raised about an inch. “Oh man, have you listened to Yes?” “Yes? No. Ha ha…” (the beginning of many many many, too many, bad Yes jokes between us for the years to come). So he lends me 90125. I really like it, of course “City Of Love” blew my ass out the water. Fucking Chris Squire owned that song. So, the seed was planted and I started diving deeper into their massive catalog.

Well, to make a long story short (TOO LATE!) I landed here, their masterpiece, a step above and beyond Fragile, before the excesses of Tales From Topographic Ocean, where they got it just right. It’s the perfect amount of classical, jazz, rock, without taking Jon Anderson’s rainbows & unicorn mysticism over the edge, if you will (ha & ha). Oh man, that bass… that glorious bass… every song, every part to every song, even in “Siberian Khatru” where it’s the whacky guitar riff that at first listen seems to want to run the show, but no, it’s all Squire..

My original record is long gone, it was about a month ago at a used book store, that has a small used record selection, that I found this, again, and much to my pleasure! 3 songs, 2 sides, and a whole bunch of spine-tingling snap, crackles, and pops later, with great love I give you (well, that is, after I cut up the recording, label it, export it, pack it, and upload it)…

TSURURADIO Presents… Close To The Edge on Vinyl!!!
(Full Zip)

Side One
01 Close To The Edge

Side Two
02 And You And I
03 Siberian Khatru

I hope you enjoy. Go give these prog-warriors your love here, here, and here, now!

TSURURADIO Presents… Violent Femmes on Vinyl!!!

August 25, 2007
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Photography by Deák Éva

Step back in time with me, my friends, for just a moment. It was 1989 when I first heard this album. I had my shitty little $500 1980 Pontiac Sunbird that I was driving my friends around, up to no good, when my friend Maya plopped a tape that someone had taped this album over. I have no idea what was on the original tape, and about one minute in, I really didn’t care. From the first few notes of “Blister In The Sun”, I was a changed boy. Up until this point, I was all about my prog and my REM (see last post), but with Gordon’s angst fill whine, Brian’s dominating bass, and Victor’s whacky bushel bucket over the single drum. The melodies were simple, continuously asking me to singalong, the lyrics were perfect, the harmonies, the muted guitar, but damn, it was that fucking bass, loud, proud, and owning every song that turned a love at first listen to a genuine teenage obsession.

As soon as I had the scratch, I owned this record. Then Hallowed Ground (an even better record, by the way), then all the records, then all my friends had Violent Femmes mixtapes, then Why Do Birds Sing came out, suddenly all my friends had new & updated Violent Femmes mixtapes, all recorded on tape, from vinyl, of course… When CDs came out and prices finally become reasonable, I owned all the albums again! And of course, with the invention and proliferation of mp3′s, well it only made since to get have a CD of the Violent Femmes discography on mp3, right? right?? And now, I’ve come full circle, haven’t I? Here I am, ripping vinyl for you and me to enjoy and I walk into our local record shop and there sits that photograph, that image tattooed forever in my mind of that girl pushing up against the building… Wow.

Look, there is so much that has already been said, online, in magazines, in concert reviews, amongst friends, etc, etc, etc, about this album… It is the teenage angst album, it’s a masterpiece in it’s simpicity, beauty, and ability to stay on message and capture, not a generation, but a mindset of the teenage boy of any generation… The horniness, the awkwardness, the craving, the anger, the frustration, and the cronic masturbation.

lol.

Don’t even get me started on the Horns Of Dilemma and Hallowed Ground. We’ll have to do that rip another day…

If there is one thing that makes me sad when listening to the femmes, is how it looks like their days of making new music are over. They’ve resigned themselves to being a traveling retro-band and it’s disappointing. Their later albums (New Times & Freak Magnet) had some great & challenging music that, though weren’t meant for the average frat-boy who only wants to hear “Blister In The Sun” and drink a shit load of beer, were wonderful and at least gave them a creative outlet. You gotta wonder, what does Gordon think about while he plays “Blister” for the one billionth time while a bunch of kids try to start a mosh pit to it? How different is it from the assembly line worker how turns the same bolt on every widget?

*sigh*

I’m not going say much more, I’ve already taken up so much of your time, I can jibber-jabber about the femmes for days (just ask Tsuru Bride) and you’ve got some grabbing to do… Look, you know this album, I know this album, we all know this album! But now it’s time to fall in love with this album all over again. And, believe me, you will as:

TSURURADIO Presents… Violent Femmes on Vinyl!!!
(full zip)

Side One

01 Blister In The Sun
02 Kiss Off
03 Please Do Not Go
04 Add It Up
05 Confessions

Side Two

06 Prove My Love
07 Promise
08 To The Kill
09 Gone Daddy Gone
10 Good Feeling

Go show these boys from Milwaukee all the love you can here, here, and especially here now!

Photography by me (with my new Nikon D40 =)

Presents… #1 Record on Vinyl!

August 11, 2007
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Photography by Gabriele C.

This has got to be one of the more interesting & fun vinyl rips for me. Why? well, let me tell ya… I asked my good friend Peanut, of the infamous and incredible Peanut’s Playground to recommend which album I should rip next, any album he wants. If I don’t have it, I’ll go get it. He came back with Big Star’s #1 Record. I’d actually didn’t think I ever even heard of this album or this band, but a promise is a promise.

After some searching around (not just for the album, but also my wallet that morning) I found it on one of my favorite sites, GEMM, from some record store out in Greece. Then, after about a week, I come home from work to find Big Star sitting on the chair on the porch by our front door, like a lost puppy, wanting to come home with me (awww). This was about a week ago. Given how crazy it’s been lately at home and work, I patiently waited (very uncharacteristically of me, I might add) to give this a proper listen… I’m very glad I did.

After my usual test run to make sure everything was ready, I turned up the headphones, hit record, and dropped that need. Let me tell you, my friends, from the first few seconds of “Feel”, to the perfect harmonies of “ST 100/6″ I was smiling, bobbing my head, hoping not to wake up my lady. Ah, and “In The Street”, I actually knew most of the words to that one (and I bet you will too!). This is just some excellent classic rock & roll, plain, pure, and simple… What can I say, Peanut? Excellent recommendation, perfect album for vinyl, I sure hope the rest of you enjoy! So, let’s get to it as…

Drum roll, please

TSURURADIO Presents… Big Star’s #1 Record on Vinyl!!!
(Full Zip)

Side A

01 Feel
02 The Ballad Of El Goodo
03 In The Street
04 Thirteen
05 Don’t Lie To Me
06 The India Song

Side B

07 When My Baby’s Beside Me
08 My Life Is Right
09 Give Me Another Chance
10 Try Again
11 Watch The Sunrise
12 ST 100/6

Go show Big Star some love here, here, here, and here now! And go show Peanut some love too, one of the best sites out there…

TSURURADIO Presents… Let It Die on Vinyl!

July 15, 2007
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Photography by Tania Araújo

As promised, this morning, I put on a fresh pot of coffee, extra strong, extra bold, creamy and sweet (just like the way I like my ladies), rolled up my sleeves, brought the pooter over on the floor by the record player over by the stereo. Got everything set up and ripped one of most enjoyable albums to come out this decade, Feist’s gem, Let It Die.

I’m not going to discuss the album to much here, what hasn’t already been said, written, reviewed, and ultimately rewarded?

But I will say this… When we first spun this, we didn’t pay too much attention to the tracklisting as we are both quite familiar with the album, at least, not until we heard that classic whine of early Snoop Dogg style hip-hop floating from our speakers with Feist singing in her sweet secondary language, French, as Side A came to it’s last track, “L’amour Ne Dure Pas Toujours”.

I had actually never heard this track before, along with a slight change-up in the tracklisting, it had replaced “Tout Doucement” that was on the CD release. With this being vinyl and all that implies (as I’ve discussed in the past, the warmth, the noise, etc), it was a brilliant move! It shows a complete understanding of tracklists, and the fact that on vinyl, there are two seperate ones! By adding that song there, it not only ends Side A on a dark, slow, electro-French-nightclub note, but after the long pause of flipping the record and dropping the needle, it allows “Lonely Lonely” to lead-off Side B. It’s a perfect lead-off track for the remaining songs. Just wonderful and the reason why it’s the featured Vinyl Rip.

Oh Feist. I’m such a sucker for those sexy, bold, and incredibly intelligent Canadian girls.

So, let’s get on with it as TSURURADIO Presents… Feist – Let It Die on Vinyl!
(Full Zip)

Side A

01 Gatekeeper
02 Mushaboom
03 Let It Die
04 One Evening
05 Leisure Suite
06 L’amour Ne Dure Pas Toujours

Side B

07 Lonely Lonely
08 When I Was A Young Girl
09 Secret Heart
10 Inside And Out
11 Now At Last

If you have a record player, go buy this album on vinyl now. If not, go buy a fucking record player! At the very least, go show Ms. Feist some sweet love here & here, and go pick up this beauty, and while your at it, her new release The Reminder.

Presents… Sam Cooke At The Copa on Vinyl

June 24, 2007
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Photography by Ilya LiS via Afuckaday

Yes, my friends, we are going little old-skewl today, a delicious treat courtesy of TsuruBride, Sam Cooke’s Sam Cooke At The Copa. Originally released in 1964, it is Sam Cooke “The Crooner” at his finest, singing to a predominantly white audience. It stands in complimentary contrast next to Live at the Harlem Square Club (another incredible album that I’m finally getting on vinyl).

I’m not going to get into Sam Cooke too much, what hasn’t already been written about him? The voice, the legend, etc… There will never be another like him, and that’s that.

The vinyl rip is of the 1978 vinyl re-issue my baby found for me. It’s chocked full of goodness (including extra snaps, crackles, and pops), but I think the highlight of the album for me is the Side A final track, the performance centerpiece “If I Had A Hammer (The Hammer Song)”. Oh man, oh man, Sam gets the audience singing along to it’s perfectly simple melody… it’s one of those goosebumps moments that makes you wish you were there.

Alright, time for me to shut the fuck up as TSURURADIO Presents…

Sam Cooke – Sam Cooke At The Copa (Vinyl)
(Full Zip)

Side A

Can we have one of those hootenannies?

01 Opening Introduction
02 The Best Things In Life Are Free
03 Bill Bailey
04 Noboby Knows You When You’re Down And Out
05 Frankie And Johnny
06 Medley
a. Try A Little Tenderness
b. (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons
c. You Send Me
07 If I Had A Hammer (The Hammer Song)

Side B

Here we go fellas, let’s go to work!

08 When I Fall In Love
09 Twistin’ The Night Away
10 This Little Light Of Mine
11 Blowin’ In The Wind
12 Tennessee Waltz

Go show Sam Cooke some love here, here, and here now!

Presents… In The Aeroplane Over The Sea on Vinyl!!!

June 8, 2007
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Photography by Courtney Brooke

I’ve written about this album before… the moment I decided to do vinyl rips, I knew this album would be one of the first ones. Does it really need an introduction? I’m assuming most of my listeners know this album well, if not, this is a great chance to explore…

I’m really happy with the way this vinyl rip came out, it’s not as clean a record (not sure of the pressing date), so during certain quieter moments you can hear the waves of vinyl noise occupy a little of the space, it really sets a unique atmosphere, making this album brand new to me. I think my favorite moment is as “Two-Headed Boy Pt. Two” is winding down, the vinyl noise slowly starts to consume Jeff & his guitar, magnifying the ending, not just of the album, but, to date, Neutral Milk Hotel…

Ah, and I love the pause created between “Communist Daughter” and “Oh Comely” because I had to flip the record! Goddamn… Anyway, I really hope you enjoy our new feature as much as I am. So, without further adieu, TSURURADIO Presents…

Neutral Milk Hotel – In The Aeroplane Over The Sea (Vinyl)
(Full Zip)

Side A

01 The King Of Carrot Flowers Pt. One
02 The King Of Carrot Flowers Pt. Two & Three
03 In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
04 Two-Headed Boy
05 The Fool
06 Holland, 1945
07 Communist Daughter

Side B

08 Oh Comely
09 Ghost
10 Untitled
11 Two-Headed Boy Pt. Two


Go visit show Mangum some love
here, here, and here now.

Presents… Loney, Noir on Vinyl!

June 1, 2007
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Photography by Keith Carter

Today marks the first, in what will hopefully be a repeat feature on TSURURADIO, full album Vinyl Rip! Our guinea pig for the first experiment is one of the best albums of this year (if you go by the US release date alone) Loney, dear’s Loney Noir.

Emil Svanängen’s falsetto intertwined with his dark-shaded, yet upbeat, pop along with lyrics that drip of sincerity are in perfect balance and make this album a great choice for our first vinyl rip. Well that and that it was the album I received as a present with the record player (thanks baby!)…

I wanted to do something a little different though. Something I think others who may be doing vinyl rips are n’t doing. I didn’t edit the recording to remove the needle being placed down, or lifted up, nor did I removed any of the warm snap, crackle, and/or pop. The slow fade intro of “Sinister In A State Of Hope” is first superseded by the sound of the needle being put down, then has to wage a little battle for speaker space with the initial vinyl noise until the song truly gets to full volume.

Why?

I really want to recreate the vinyl experience on mp3. If you are going to do vinyl, all these “extras” are part of the experience. I wanted to be able to push play on my iPod while out and about, but still feel like I was at home putting on the record.

Anyway… Give it a shot, let me know what you think. Let me know what other albums you want to hear (though I’ve got about 10 records lined up, from Sam Cooke to The Decemberists), but most importantly, enjoy our new feature!

TSURURADIO Presents… Loney, Dear – Loney, Noir on Vinyl Rip!
(Full Zip — Link Removed by Request of Sub Pop)


01 Sinister In A State Of Hope
02 I Am John
03 Saturday Waits

(mp3′s for 04 – 10 removed by request of Sub Pop)

04 Hard Days 1. 2. 3. 4.
05 I Am The Odd One
06 No One Can Win
07 I Will Call You Lover Again
08 Carrying A Stone
09 The Meter Marks OK
10 And I Won’t Cause Anything At All

Go show them some love here, here and here now… and if you can, pick up the record, because, there’s nothing really like vinyl.