Handfuls

Welcome

2009-10-25T09:28:00.000-07:00

Thanks for dropping by! This is a spin off from The Swindletone Podcast (swindletone.blogspot.com). Each post will involve the records/cds that I buy, listen to, hear, each month. I will also include the occasional handful of photos I snap, movies I watch, websites I visit and books I read. I will start with the original posts from the first year of the ST Podcast, then I will build new ones.

I fell behind posting these on The Swindletone blog. They always seemed out of place on the blog and podcast considering that I am a music snob. Therefore Handfuls deserves it's own home away from the debauchery, degenerate-degradation, and self-deprecating nature of the podcast. I also have no license and cannot play any of my records on the show.

I am looking for contributors to this blog. If you have a handful of records you think the world should know about, send us a picture of the pile, a brief write-up and I will post it. Thanks again and enjoy!

Handfuls V7

2009-10-24T10:27:00.000-07:00

The first post since finding a new home! Includes a BONUS handful.

Here's what I scored at Amoeba San Francisco during three separate trips in one day. I only got from A-R of Rock LP's before we had to eat lunch meaning I still had to finish the ROCK alphabet before starting with Punk and R&B in order to complete my mission. Prior to going back to Amoeba for round 2, I bought a canvas messenger bag solely to fill with more LPs and CDs. The third trip was very spur of the moment. At dinner, while eating burgers, upon seeing that I purchased the Smile bootleg, my friend, Andy Brown, decided he had to buy a copy. My last trip was exclusively for Buzzcocks CDs.

The List
The Beach Boys, Smile (Bootleg)
Heartless Bastards, The Mountain
Santana, Santana
Randy Newman, Good Old Days
Mike Bloomfield, Al Kooper, Stephen Stills, Super Session
The Jam, The Modern World Hits Paris
Talking Heads, Fear of Music
Leon Redbone, On the Track
Randy Newman, Trouble in Paradise
The Blues Project, Live at Town Hall
Curtis Mayfield, Roots
The Allman Brothers, Brothers and Sisters
The Buzzcocks, Small Songs with Big Hearts/Beating Hearts
The Buzzcocks, Live at the Roxy Club April '77
The Buzzcocks, A Different King of Tension (not pictured)
The Buzzcocks, The Peel Sessions Album
Naked Raygun, Basement Screams
Naked Raygun, Raygun...Naked Raygun
Mission of Burma, The Sound, The Speed, The Light
Wilco, Sky Blue Sky

bag full of records, ice cream cone full of ice cream

BONUS

Here are 5 LPs I bought at Burger Records in Fullerton, CA. This new record store is run by the dudes from Thee Makeout Party and a friend I met a few years ago who ran Third Eye Records in Costa Mesa for a year, Brian. Check out their new store. No CDs, sorry lame-wads.

The List
The Registrators, Terminal Boredom
Television, Adventure
Beau Brummels, Volume 2 You Tell Me Why/Don't Talk to Strangers
Strawberry Alarm Clock, Wake Up...It's Tomorrow
Syndicate of Sound, Little Girl

Burger Records
645a S. State College Blvd.
Fullerton CA 92831

www.burgerrecords.com

714 336 0561

Handfuls V6

2009-07-09T09:46:00.000-07:00

I'd like to refer to this edition of handfuls as "carfuls." I had this particular batch of CD's in my car for a few months. My cd player is very picky. If I put a CD in I have to listen to it as long as I can. Everytime I try to put a new CD in it refuses to accept it. It spits it out yet I try to load one for 2-3 minutes while driving 80 on the freeway. There will start to be some repeat offenders on each of my lists. I listen to records again and again. Rarely does my music get less than 2 spins. The contents of the CD wallet that occupies the crevice in my driver's side door that I rest my left calf against is listed below:

The Associations, And Then...Along Comes The Association
Bill Withers, Lean On Me: The Best of Bill Withers
Stratosphere Boogie: The Flaming guitars Of Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant
Torch, Self Titled
The Kinks, Muswell Hillbillies
The Kinks, Lola versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One
Dinosaur Jr., You're Living All Over Me
Andrew Bird, The Mysterious Production of Eggs
James McMurtry, Childish Things
John Prine, Self Titled
Talking Heads, More Songs About Buildings and Food
The Smiths, The Queen is Dead

Handfuls V5

2009-04-21T09:44:00.000-07:00

Here's what's been playing at swindletone over the last month

There are a few records I haven't spun yet. I picked some up at a flea market in Orange a few weeks ago. Musty also gave me a stack of records because I filled his iPod with The White Album and sick blues. Here's my list for the month:

Van Morrison, Moondance
Andrew Bird, Noble Beast
Public Image Ltd, S/T
The Saints, I'm Stranded
The Pretenders, Live and Pretenders I
The Staple Singers, We'll Get Over
Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant, Stratosphere Boogie: The Flaming Guitars of...
Pink Floyd, Meddle
Joe Cocker, With a Little Help From My Friends
The Replacements, Tim
The Soviettes, LP
Wilson Pickett, The Midnight Mover
Tom Petty and The Heart Breakers, Damn The Torpedoes
R.E.M., Murmur
The Who, Tommy
Torche, S/T, In Return and Meanderthal
The Animated Egg, The Psychedelic Sounds of...

Check out Podcast #8 for an in depth discussion of my list.

Handfuls V4

2009-03-02T09:42:00.000-08:00

He's Back!

THE LIST:

V/A Bored Teenagers Volume 2, The Ponys Celebration Castle and Laced with Romance, The Vivian Girls LP, Dinosar Jr. Bug, Husker Du Flip Your Wig, The Staple Singers We'll Get Over, The Staple Swingers, Be Altitude: Respect Yourself, John Hiatt Slow Turning, Dr. Dog Fate, The Smiths Meat is Murder, Van Morrison Astral Weeks, The Saints I'm Stranded. Not pictured: Murder Punk Vol. 1, The Who Live at Leeds and Who's Next Deluxe Edition.

For an earful on this edition of Handfuls, please listen to the Swindletone Podcast #5.

Handfuls V3

2009-02-13T09:40:00.000-08:00

Here is what is being played over at Swindletone as of late:
The Beach Blvd. Comp, John Hiatt Bring the Family, Otis Redding The Soul Album, The Allman Brothers Eat a Peach, The Band Rock of Ages, Van Morrison St. Dominics Preview, Elvis Costello Armed Forces, Bloodstains Across Australia. Not Pictured: Black Flag Slip it in, Government Issue and James McMurtry Childish Things.

Handfuls V1

2008-10-24T09:36:00.000-07:00

Today I picked up 9 cds in addition to the 3 I snagged last week while in Santa Barbara. I doubt I will find the time to listen to them but I'll try my best. Any suggestions for cd storage and organization? I've got a lot and I'm tired of using Vans shoe boxes.

The List
Lean on Me: The Best of Bill Withers
V/A Super Cool California Soul 2. Raw and Raw Sould From The West Coast 1966-1982
John Hiatt Live from Austin TX
Dinosaur Jr. S/T
The Kinks Muswell Hillbillies
The Ponys Laced With Romance
Randy Newman Sail Away
James McMurtry Childish Things
Bod Dylan Nashville Skyline
The Association and then...along comes The Association
Gene Clark with the Gosdin Brothers
Dinosaur Jr. You're Living All Over Me

Some doubles, some new, some old, some that I'll only listen to once. I'm excited about all of them. This week was mostly John Hiatt Slow Turning. Next week: ________.

Lyric of the Day:
I waited in the hallway, she went to get it,
And I tried to make sense
Out of that picture of you in your wheelchair
That leaned up against . . .