Limited-as-fuck release (500 copies) for Record Store Day yesterday, on Groenland Records.
This features a couple of Neu! 86 tracks which were 'reworked' by Michael Rother in 2009. Aye, very nice. Looks great and is on nice heavyweight vinyl.
Monorail in Glasgow opened at 11am yesterday, and we got there about 15 mins early to be greeted with a not-too-bad queue. We got chatting to a guy in front of us who'd already been to Avalanche (which opened at 9am) and got the Rolling Stones 7". He seemed to have an unhealthy interest in Simple Minds circa Don't You Forget About me, and kept going on about all these different versions he had. Under normal circumstances I could have coped with this but we'd been up all night after an Optimo thing at the Art School and I'd had a couple of red-wine-vomits just before we left the flat so wasn't feeling too clever. It was fine though. As soon as we got to the shop a band kicked off really loudly and we were given wee quiz sheets and a girl arrived brandishing free cupcakes (I passed on this one). Great stuff all round, and my haul consisted of this 12", Mogwai/Fuck Buttons split 10" (white vinyl), Nick Cave 12" (white vinyl, only 100 worldwide), Crystal Castles 12" and two Jesus & Mary Chain 7"s. The only thing that we missed out on was a Foals 7" that my girfriend was after so we did really well.
I love a good rummage in Monorail at the best of times, and the fact that it's part of a complex with a bar attached makes it all the more scary when in on a payday weekend. Shame that by the time we got home there were loads of cunts selling the stuff on eBay.
Roll on next year...
Neu! - '86
A - Crazy
B - Euphoria
Record Store Day website
Sunday, 18 April 2010
Neu! - '86
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Thanks so much!!
You keep on delivering, Mog! This is sounding awesome to me.
you've made me smile... good work on getting the records you wanted even though you were in a red wine situation...
and wise move passing on the cupcakes... a red wine/cup cake vom would have ruined those records...
Thanks for the rip of the originals, saucer peeps. I know exactly where you're coming from with your boxset-related comments, heh heh...
Perhaps my soul has been scrunched up like a used post-it note or something, but "Euphoria" sounds like the Going For Gold theme tune to me... (Thanks for sharing though) x
This wasn't even for Sale in America - it is on the upcoming very expensive Neu box set though - how many times can they make us buy the Neu records ? - many many times it seems - bloody good they are that's why
"To reach for the sky when the stakes are so high when they're going for, going for...NEU!"
Kosmische Carpet Warehouse! Now there's a marketing concept that I'd buy into any day Novemberer ;)
I think on this one, we are going to have to agree to disagree (I realise I am going against all blogging protocol here and I apologise for such a disgusting display of civility).
Great Youtube post Novemberer...I remember when I saw that clip for the first time a couple of months ago, I was blown away...Klaus Dinger in embryonic protokrautpunkrockershocker! I start to wonder if Strummer payed a secret visit to Germany in 1974, its uncanny! Silver boxing boots, Thomas Dinger being the coolest drummer in the world ever (next to Moe Tucker of course) Heath Robinson bubble machine, a bemused Michael Rother strumming in the corner and Hans Lampe hidden by the smoke...possibly the coolest band in the world at that moment in time...Hero-es indeed.
Yeah, Rother's amusingly bemused mug had me spluttering tea all over my laptop the place first time I saw it - it's a brilliant clip though, & backs up J.Cope's observation (in Krautrocksampler) that Neu! were "too early" for their own good. A bit like Chrome, who were making similar noises in 1975 & whose singer ended up making terrible records in the late 80s that sounded like... the Going For Gold theme!
Moggie, if you've still after the Foals 7" I can see if my local shop has any left this weekend?
unfortunately my local shop didn't have any foals left
Matthew - cheers for yer efforts, apols for not replying sooner.
Heh heh - cheers for these. The NEU code? We'll wait and see what it comes as, I'll not post it to all and sundry, just you cunts. Watch this space...
That's the link up *cough* - emails to me at gmail dot com if you wanna...
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