WFMU: Tony Coulter: Playlist from December 29, 2015

Listener comments!
	11:44am Tony Coulter: Hey all -- glad to be back after a two weeks' abscess. Thanks to Summer Me for filling in last week.
	🥁 12:00pm listener james from westwood: You must feel drained after all of that abscess.
	12:00pm JtotheK: good morning all.
	12:01pm Tony Coulter: Hey ho, Listener James & JtotheK!!
	12:03pm V Priceless: Hey Tony! Happy Hollandaise!
	12:03pm Tony Coulter: Bob Snyder (on now) was/is a Portland lounge/skating rink/pizza parlor artiste.
	12:03pm Tony Coulter: Heya, V Priceless!
	12:03pm V Priceless: great tune...great version!
	12:04pm Rich in Washington: This is a great LP! I think it's a NW record.
	12:05pm Tony Coulter: Yes -- from Portland! (Heya, Rich!)
	12:05pm Rich in Washington: I think he was an organ salesman. Hi Ho, Tony!
	12:10pm Tony Coulter: I've seen at least three or four copies of the Snyder LP since moving out here -- mostly in the 50-cent bins.
	12:15pm Rich in Washington: I think I have more than one, having bought it thinking I didn't have it. I keep doing things like that.
	12:20pm Tony Coulter: "Because we give a regal hoot / somebody always cops a snoot."
	12:21pm Tony Coulter: um, no -- the CD is not skipping. It's skipedelic music, friends.
	12:35pm holland oats: this song is making me jolie
	12:36pm Tony Coulter: Heya, Holland O!
	12:40pm Tony Coulter: I must say "Formerly Anthrax" is a strange title for an album, despite the obvious explanation -- namely, that they used to be called Anthrax.
	12:40pm Carmichael: Heya Tony and music ethnocologists. Back in the orifice after a week off.
	12:41pm Tony Coulter: Heya, Carmichael! Yes, back in the radio maw.
	12:41pm Carmichael: Prog Anthrax??
	12:44pm Tony Coulter: That would work -- 'cept, in 1970 how many people would even know what "prog" meant, I wonder?
	12:52pm Cecile: Alchemy! I love that record.
	12:53pm Tony Coulter: Hey there, Cecile!
	12:53pm holland oats: SHOES!!!
	12:53pm Cecile: Another great one.
	12:54pm Cecile: You can still find Alchemy for pretty cheap. That's both nice and sad.
	12:55pm holland oats: the other one though, the red one, meh
	12:56pm Cecile: Yeah, I paid way too much for that one. 2 good songs, and that's about it. Although they were good live.
	12:57pm holland oats: his 'thought you wanted to know' is my fav track on the ork box
	12:59pm Tony Coulter: There are lots of great records that still cost only $5 or $6 bucks after, I don't know, 40 years. For example, I love the Good God record, which no one else seems to care about. www.discogs.com...
	1:00pm Cecile: He also has a 45 where he did a great version of Get Off Of My Cloud
	1:00pm Cecile: You found Emmit Rhodes records for a buck for the longest time.
	1:06pm Cecile: and RIP Lemmy.
	1:06pm MrFab: Hey y'all, happy new years eve eve eve! That 50 cent Bob Snyder album is goin for $20 on ebay. "RARE!" Ha-rumph. If I ever visit Portland I know what to look for.
	1:07pm V Priceless: Meadowlark Lemmy : (
	1:08pm Tony Coulter: Greets, MrFab! That Bob Snyder LP probably is rare in Outer Mongolia.
	1:11pm coelacanth: greetings Tony (and Coultered!) hey V. yeah, r.i.p.,both of them.
	1:14pm coelacanth: that was most excellent.
	1:14pm northguineahills: Came by for 15 minutes to say hi/bye! Hi/bye!
	1:15pm coelacanth: ciao! ciao.
	1:15pm Tony Coulter: Heya, coelacanth! Glad you liked the last track!
	1:16pm Tony Coulter: Hi/bye, NGH! Buying highs, are you?
	1:17pm Rich in Washington: I think I played Bob Snyder as part of my moldy North West record set the first time I ever subbed on your show, Tony. I am a sucker for locally produced records. Or just a sucker. Take your pick.
	1:17pm coelacanth: i'd get that album just for "...king" & "military madness"; but there are other good songs too.
	1:18pm Rich in Washington: I just recently found a new wavy single by local TV news person Margie Boulé. It's tres magnifique!
	1:20pm Tony Coulter: Would love to hear it! That was one fun things about moving to the opposite coast: lots of new weird local records to discover.
	1:22pm Rich in Washington: I tend to buy any self-produced or short-run looking vanity record whenever I see them, wherever I go. You just never know. Many of them are too good to be bad to be of any good. We might be the only people on earth who bring a record up the the register and say "I sure hope this is bad!"
	1:23pm Rich in Washington: OR at least unique. That's not to say that it has to be 'bad'.
	1:24pm Tony Coulter: I've got rows and rows of the stuff. We should trade bad records.
	1:24pm MrFab: Ha! yes, those professional-sounding vanity records are a disappointment. These things go in waves. Moog albums I used to buy for 50 cents go for $50 now.
	1:26pm coelacanth: both the local record stores here have "local" sections. i was informed no one ever buys any of it. our town has a substantial section on bandcamp and i buy lots of sound from it, so i looked in the stores, but sure enough nothing looked interesting. (at least not for >$3.)
	1:29pm Rich in Washington: @coelacanth: thriftstores, esp. corporate charity ones, seem to have picked up on the resurgence of records, so their pricing of 3+ makes buying weird records on a whim seem less attractive - it sort of kills that exploratory spirit.
	1:30pm Tony Coulter: @ MrFab: On the other hand, Exotica records that used to be $30 have dropped back down to $5. It's just like the stock market.
	1:31pm Rich in Washington: I find the best weird records in really out-of-the-way rural or coastal thrift shops. It's rare, but when you do find something, it is usually pretty unique
	1:31pm V Priceless: hey fish!
	1:32pm MrFab: I noticed that Tony - a few years ago, I bought an Esquivel record for a buck at a thrift. I was like: hey, they're back!
	1:32pm Rich in Washington: @Tony, @Fab: the youngsters buying records now seem to have no interest in the genres of yore. Was noting with amusement that on Reddit/vinyl, there was this thread that Exotica as a genre is 'hella racist'.
	1:33pm Rich in Washington: I blame those Incredibly Strange music books for the 90s/00s Exotica bubble.
	1:35pm MrFab: What vinyl are the youngsters buying, then? Just new releases? Because 60s garage and psych, 70s funk, and 80s SST-type indie records have skyrocketed in value (which is why I'm selling 'em!)
	1:37pm Tony Coulter: @ MrFab: I think there definitely is a hardcore youngster segment lusting after the genres you mention. Others want mid-period Fleetwood Mac or Led Zeppelin. Or, if they're really cutting edge, they want Paul Simon's "Graceland" on cassette.
	1:38pm coelacanth: there used to be a store, the "a.r.c. thrift"store in nj (plainfield?) that had a medium-size room full of records. 69¢each. i must've bought hundreds of albums from there; but unfortunately didn't then know what i think i know now.
	1:41pm Tony Coulter: Plainfield was probably a great place to find interesting records, just because the distributor Jem was located there.
	1:42pm Rich in Washington: @MrFab: that's true, too. I've put out some rare-ish 80s New Wave or Punk records, of the popular variety, and had them go pretty fast. But in my experience with the thrift digging scene, it seems like youngsters get really excited by some really mundane, relatively common records.
	1:42pm Tony Coulter: Or wait -- they were in South Plainfield. is that a different place?
	1:46pm Cecile: I think the kids when they are starting out, want the slightly obscure stuff. The more they continue digging, the more they'll wan the obscurities. Back in the day, I was excited to find the new Tom Petty album used!
	1:47pm coelacanth: south plainfield is right next to plainfield, but i don't recall there being much stuff there from them. (i do remember trying to get a job at jem,to no avail)
	1:50pm coelacanth: mostly what i got in that store was 60s rock and 60s-70s r&b. i'm happy i got all that, but i'd bet there were tons of jewels in there that i didn't recognise then.
	🥁 1:51pm listener james from westwood: Copyediting all the more happily for today's fine tunes.
	1:52pm MrFab: Sounds like you smartly picked some lucrative genres there coelacanth,
	1:54pm MrFab: So how should we be investing? I'm assuming those Barry Manilow records won't go up, but I do see obscure power-pop/new wave, and '80s college rock in the bargain bins. And I'm surprised how plentiful and cheap Cramps-ian early rock records are. Might pay to be bullish on those.
	1:54pm Tony Coulter: @ Listener James: Glad you're enjoying the tunes. I'll be careful not to play anything that will turn your editorial finger into a slashing instrument of destruction.
	1:58pm coelacanth: i do have,i figure, maybe 1000 albums to get rid of; but most of those 60s' rock and about 1/2 the r&b i don't want to part with...although for the right sum i'd transfer it to cd and let it go.
	1:59pm Susan: What a fantastic show today, Tony! Thanks for making a dreary work day a magical one.
	2:00pm Tony Coulter: Thanks, Susan! Glad you're enjoying yourself!!
	2:05pm Cecile: Clean copies of Barry records and early pressings might be desirable for the die hards.
	2:06pm Tony Coulter: @ MrFab: Defintely go for the obscure power pop/new wave LPs. And, of course, the haircuts and ties make them easy to spot.
	2:08pm Tony Coulter: Is it just me, or does this Chris Knox track sound a bit like Eno?
	2:08pm V Priceless: Eno-y!! Yes!
	2:10pm coelacanth: i'd say!
	2:11pm coelacanth: and,(coincidentally?) that o.o.o. track's vox sounded Eno-ish to me too.
	2:11pm Tony Coulter: or Residential?
	2:12pm coelacanth: NO! nevermind! i was cornfused.
	2:13pm Carmichael: I visited a thrift shop in Ashland a few weeks ago, as they had a few rows of old records. Found some neat oddball LPs for about a buck apiece.
	2:14pm coelacanth: (me being in the next room and you updating the playlist ahead of schedule threw me off! 'sorry.)
	2:15pm coelacanth: ...yeah, more Residential-ish.
	2:16pm Rich in Washington: I can't for the life of me figure out why I got into Chrome so late in life. Had I heard them when I was a kid, looking for records weirder than Devo, Pink Floyd, etc. They would've totally rocked my world back then.
	2:17pm Rich in Washington: @Carmichael: Ashland Oregon?
	2:17pm Cecile: their early records were damn hard to find. I didn't get into them until the late 80s.
	2:19pm Rich in Washington: I had some of them from Ralph comps but for some reason, I never fully grok'd them until the last ten years or so, but the reissues have definitely made my love for them go critical mass.
	2:21pm Cecile: Finnish New Wave!
	2:24pm Tony Coulter: Yääs!
	2:25pm northguineahills: Made it back for at the end! I was up until 9am penning a music column on Suomi wyrdness for a subreddit. Got Finns on my brain, must swim away!
	2:26pm Carmichael: Yes Rich, my daughter goes to college in Salem. That's a good halfway point in my travels.
	2:29pm Cecile: I think it's Alex returning to sanity by having some fun.
	2:32pm coelacanth: it's time to find out how slippery the roads are. Thanks Tony! later on people.
	2:32pm Tony Coulter: Se ya, coelacanth! Thanks for stopping by!
	2:33pm Rich in Washington: @Carmichael: I've always suspected that Ashland was a good town for crate digging. It's a pretty arty and affluent community.
	2:33pm Rich in Washington: It's raining/snowing up here. I ain't going anywhere. uh uh.
	2:35pm Tony Coulter: Hope that snow stays away from my side of the river.
	2:37pm Rich in Washington: I'll do what I can. It helps to not be over 1,000 ft up. I don't even Portlanders get that high before noon.
	2:38pm Carmichael: It's cold as hell here in greater Sacramento. I came back from Tahoe last weekend and promptly got stuck in the snow at Donner summit. The irony was not lost on me ...
	2:39pm Rich in Washington: strange weather, innit?
	2:39pm northguineahills: We got sleet last night, but it never got colder then 35F/2C. Still has of yet to get below freezing.
	2:39pm Rich in Washington: This is lovely, Tony! Love hearing modern symphonic music.
	2:40pm Tony Coulter: Figgered it fit right in with "Bug Up My Ass."
	2:44pm V Priceless: sorry...I was just throwing up, having seen the current cover of 'Rolling Stone'...yay, Gong!
	2:45pm Tony Coulter: Who's on the Cover? Dr. Hook?
	2:46pm Tony Coulter: This Fondation is one of those cassette things.
	2:49pm V Priceless: @ Tony: haha...nah, some hot & wild new 'punk' band,,,5 Seconds of summer, or something...sorry, looks like another boy band thingy...super-yawn.
	2:51pm V Priceless: great stuff, TC! Thank you! All The Best for a Rockin' 2016!
	2:52pm Tony Coulter: Thanks, VP! Happy Newt's Ear to you as well!
	2:53pm northguineahills: Cool sounds. Enjoy the new year, Tony!
	🥁 2:55pm listener james from westwood: Thanks, Tony, for this show and 2015's great listening!
	2:55pm JtotheK: enjoyed the show today, thanks Tony!
	2:56pm MrFab: Another winner, thx Tony.
	2:57pm Tony Coulter: Thanks, everyone! Enjoy the changing of the year!! See you next week!
	3:01pm Cecile: you too, Tony, everyone!

Tony Coulter: Playlist from December 29, 2015

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December 29, 2015: Monochrome Thunder

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Approx. start time
The In-Theme	"The In-Theme"				0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Bob Snyder	Day by Day "Day by Day" by "Bob Snyder"	Bob Snyder Plays "The Music Box Dancer"	no label	1979	0:01:58 (Pop-up)
Ambitious Lovers	It's Gonna Rain "It's Gonna Rain" by "Ambitious Lovers"	Lust	Elektra	1991	0:05:11 (Pop-up)
The dB's	I Feel Good (Today) "I Feel Good (Today)" by "The dB's"	Repercussion	RE: Line	1981	0:09:56 (Pop-up)
Johnny Thunders	(She's So) Untouchable	So Alone	RE: Sire	1978	0:14:21 (Pop-up)
The Monochrome Set	Fun for All the Family	Elligible Bachelors	Cherry Red	1982	0:17:11 (Pop-up)
Los Sampler's	La Vida es Llena de Cables	Descargas	Rather Interesting	1999	0:20:00 (Pop-up)
Malo	Cafe "Cafe" by "Malo"	Malo	Warner Bros.	1972	0:23:44 (Pop-up)

The Greatest Show on Earth	Angelina	Horizons	RE: Esoteric	1970	0:33:35 (Pop-up)
Show of Hands	No Words Between Us	Formerly Anthrax	Elektra	1970	0:37:39 (Pop-up)
We Five	You Let a Love Burn Out "You Let a Love Burn Out" by "We Five"	Make Somebody Happy	A&M	1968	0:41:53 (Pop-up)
Graham Nash	I Used to Be a King "I Used to Be a King" by "Graham Nash"	Songs for Beginners	Atlantic	1971	0:44:02 (Pop-up)
Richard Lloyd	Pretend "Pretend" by "Richard Lloyd"	Alchemy	Elektra	1979	0:48:40 (Pop-up)
Shoes	Someone Finer "Someone Finer" by "Shoes"	Black Vinyl Shoes	Black Vinyl	1977	0:52:51 (Pop-up)
Giovanni Sollima	Giotto-Dante "Giotto-Dante" by "Giovanni Sollima"	Viaggio in Italia	Agora	2000	0:54:34 (Pop-up)
Arto Lindsay	Noon Chill "Noon Chill" by "Arto Lindsay"	Noon Chill	Bar/None	1997	0:57:40 (Pop-up)
Kristin Hersh	Beestung "Beestung" by "Kristin Hersh"	Strings	Sire	1994	1:01:10 (Pop-up)
Gareth Davis & Frances-Marie Uitti	Felt	Gramercy	Miasmah	2012	1:04:16 (Pop-up)

Bongwater	He Loved the Weather "He Loved the Weather" by "Bongwater"	Too Much Sleep	Shimmy Disc	1989	1:15:07 (Pop-up)
Hail/Snail	Savannah "Savannah" by "Hail/Snail"	How to Live with a Tiger	Funky Mushroom	1993	1:19:14 (Pop-up)
Pip Proud	Albatross "Albatross" by "Pip Proud"	One of These Days	Emperor Jones	1998	1:23:06 (Pop-up)
Uriel (= Arzachel)	Egoman (1968 demo)	Arzachel Collector's Edition	Egg Archives	2007	1:26:39 (Pop-up)
Egg	Wring Out the Ground (Loosely Now)	The Civil Surface	Caroline	1974	1:30:49 (Pop-up)
Marc Ribot	Mirror "Mirror" by "Marc Ribot"	Exercises in Futility	Tzadik	2008	1:39:01 (Pop-up)
Judy Collins	Sky Fell "Sky Fell" by "Judy Collins"	Wildflowers	Elektra	1967	1:43:20 (Pop-up)
Herbert Howells	De La Mare's Pavane, from "Lambert's Clavichord" (1928)	Lambert's Clavichord / Howells' Clavichord	Centaur	2001	1:45:14 (Pop-up)

Caravan	Love Song with Flute "Love Song with Flute" by "Caravan"	Caravan	Verve Forecast	1969	1:52:01 (Pop-up)
Jason Crest	Teagarden Lane (196?)	Collected Works of Jason Crest	Wooden Hill	1998	1:56:13 (Pop-up)
The Troggs	We Waited for Someone "We Waited for Someone" by "The Troggs"	Mixed Bag	RE: BGO	1968	2:00:16 (Pop-up)
Alex Chilton	My Rival "My Rival" by "Alex Chilton"	Like Flies on Sherbert	RE: Line	1979	2:03:05 (Pop-up)
Chris Knox	H.P.5 "H.P.5" by "Chris Knox"	Croaker	Flying Nun	1990	2:06:25 (Pop-up)
Observers Observing Observables	Next Available Date	V.A.: Early Indiana Punk & New Wave: The Crazy Al's Years: 1976–1983	Time Change	2014	2:08:24 (Pop-up)
Chrome	Tomorrow Yesterday "Tomorrow Yesterday" by "Chrome"	Half Machine from the Sun: The Lost Chrome Tracks from '79–'80	King of Spades	2013	2:11:53 (Pop-up)
Last Four (5) Digits	Don't Move "Don't Move" by "Last Four (5) Digits"	V.A.: Early Indiana Punk & New Wave: The Crazy Al's Years: 1976–1983	King of Spades	2013	2:15:28 (Pop-up)
Common Ailments of Maturity	Stake	V.A.: None Whatsoever	Vacant Lot	1987	2:17:37 (Pop-up)
Sepi Kuu	Ajatus "Ajatus" by "Sepi Kuu"	Rannan Usvassa	RE: Rocket	1980	2:19:50 (Pop-up)
The Larry Mondello Band	Bug Up My Ass	Cassingle	Mondello Music	1989	2:22:05 (Pop-up)

André Caplet	Couronnement au Ciel, from "Le Miroir de Jésus" (1924)	Le Miroir de Jésus [cond. by Philippe Bender]	Sonpact		2:30:33 (Pop-up)
Roger Bergs	Water, from "Elements" (2001)	V.A.: String Theory [w/ Numus Cello Ensemble, Penderecki String Quartet]	Electra	2006	2:35:28 (Pop-up)
Gong	Selene "Selene" by "Gong"	Angel's Egg	Virgin	1973	2:40:50 (Pop-up)
Fondation	Quand il Faut Parler d'Amour	Metamorphoses	no label	1980	2:44:30 (Pop-up)
Neil Young	Only Love Can Break Your Heart	After the Gold Rush	Reprise	1970	2:49:34 (Pop-up)

Chrysalis	Window Shopping (demo, 1968?)	Definition [bonus track]	Rev-Ola		2:56:22 (Pop-up)
The Out-Theme	Gelbart: My Favorite Vacation [part of] + Die Trip Computer Die: Airborn [part of]				2:59:05 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	11:44am Tony Coulter: Hey all -- glad to be back after a two weeks' abscess. Thanks to Summer Me for filling in last week.
	🥁 12:00pm listener james from westwood: You must feel drained after all of that abscess.
	12:00pm JtotheK: good morning all.
	12:01pm Tony Coulter: Hey ho, Listener James & JtotheK!!
	12:03pm V Priceless: Hey Tony! Happy Hollandaise!
	12:03pm Tony Coulter: Bob Snyder (on now) was/is a Portland lounge/skating rink/pizza parlor artiste.
	12:03pm Tony Coulter: Heya, V Priceless!
	12:03pm V Priceless: great tune...great version!
	12:04pm Rich in Washington: This is a great LP! I think it's a NW record.
	12:05pm Tony Coulter: Yes -- from Portland! (Heya, Rich!)
	12:05pm Rich in Washington: I think he was an organ salesman. Hi Ho, Tony!
	12:10pm Tony Coulter: I've seen at least three or four copies of the Snyder LP since moving out here -- mostly in the 50-cent bins.
	12:15pm Rich in Washington: I think I have more than one, having bought it thinking I didn't have it. I keep doing things like that.
	12:20pm Tony Coulter: "Because we give a regal hoot / somebody always cops a snoot."
	12:21pm Tony Coulter: um, no -- the CD is not skipping. It's skipedelic music, friends.
	12:35pm holland oats: this song is making me jolie
	12:36pm Tony Coulter: Heya, Holland O!
	12:40pm Tony Coulter: I must say "Formerly Anthrax" is a strange title for an album, despite the obvious explanation -- namely, that they used to be called Anthrax.
	12:40pm Carmichael: Heya Tony and music ethnocologists. Back in the orifice after a week off.
	12:41pm Tony Coulter: Heya, Carmichael! Yes, back in the radio maw.
	12:41pm Carmichael: Prog Anthrax??
	12:44pm Tony Coulter: That would work -- 'cept, in 1970 how many people would even know what "prog" meant, I wonder?
	12:52pm Cecile: Alchemy! I love that record.
	12:53pm Tony Coulter: Hey there, Cecile!
	12:53pm holland oats: SHOES!!!
	12:53pm Cecile: Another great one.
	12:54pm Cecile: You can still find Alchemy for pretty cheap. That's both nice and sad.
	12:55pm holland oats: the other one though, the red one, meh
	12:56pm Cecile: Yeah, I paid way too much for that one. 2 good songs, and that's about it. Although they were good live.
	12:57pm holland oats: his 'thought you wanted to know' is my fav track on the ork box
	12:59pm Tony Coulter: There are lots of great records that still cost only $5 or $6 bucks after, I don't know, 40 years. For example, I love the Good God record, which no one else seems to care about. www.discogs.com...
	1:00pm Cecile: He also has a 45 where he did a great version of Get Off Of My Cloud
	1:00pm Cecile: You found Emmit Rhodes records for a buck for the longest time.
	1:06pm Cecile: and RIP Lemmy.
	1:06pm MrFab: Hey y'all, happy new years eve eve eve! That 50 cent Bob Snyder album is goin for $20 on ebay. "RARE!" Ha-rumph. If I ever visit Portland I know what to look for.
	1:07pm V Priceless: Meadowlark Lemmy : (
	1:08pm Tony Coulter: Greets, MrFab! That Bob Snyder LP probably is rare in Outer Mongolia.
	1:11pm coelacanth: greetings Tony (and Coultered!) hey V. yeah, r.i.p.,both of them.
	1:14pm coelacanth: that was most excellent.
	1:14pm northguineahills: Came by for 15 minutes to say hi/bye! Hi/bye!
	1:15pm coelacanth: ciao! ciao.
	1:15pm Tony Coulter: Heya, coelacanth! Glad you liked the last track!
	1:16pm Tony Coulter: Hi/bye, NGH! Buying highs, are you?
	1:17pm Rich in Washington: I think I played Bob Snyder as part of my moldy North West record set the first time I ever subbed on your show, Tony. I am a sucker for locally produced records. Or just a sucker. Take your pick.
	1:17pm coelacanth: i'd get that album just for "...king" & "military madness"; but there are other good songs too.
	1:18pm Rich in Washington: I just recently found a new wavy single by local TV news person Margie Boulé. It's tres magnifique!
	1:20pm Tony Coulter: Would love to hear it! That was one fun things about moving to the opposite coast: lots of new weird local records to discover.
	1:22pm Rich in Washington: I tend to buy any self-produced or short-run looking vanity record whenever I see them, wherever I go. You just never know. Many of them are too good to be bad to be of any good. We might be the only people on earth who bring a record up the the register and say "I sure hope this is bad!"
	1:23pm Rich in Washington: OR at least unique. That's not to say that it has to be 'bad'.
	1:24pm Tony Coulter: I've got rows and rows of the stuff. We should trade bad records.
	1:24pm MrFab: Ha! yes, those professional-sounding vanity records are a disappointment. These things go in waves. Moog albums I used to buy for 50 cents go for $50 now.
	1:26pm coelacanth: both the local record stores here have "local" sections. i was informed no one ever buys any of it. our town has a substantial section on bandcamp and i buy lots of sound from it, so i looked in the stores, but sure enough nothing looked interesting. (at least not for >$3.)
	1:29pm Rich in Washington: @coelacanth: thriftstores, esp. corporate charity ones, seem to have picked up on the resurgence of records, so their pricing of 3+ makes buying weird records on a whim seem less attractive - it sort of kills that exploratory spirit.
	1:30pm Tony Coulter: @ MrFab: On the other hand, Exotica records that used to be $30 have dropped back down to $5. It's just like the stock market.
	1:31pm Rich in Washington: I find the best weird records in really out-of-the-way rural or coastal thrift shops. It's rare, but when you do find something, it is usually pretty unique
	1:31pm V Priceless: hey fish!
	1:32pm MrFab: I noticed that Tony - a few years ago, I bought an Esquivel record for a buck at a thrift. I was like: hey, they're back!
	1:32pm Rich in Washington: @Tony, @Fab: the youngsters buying records now seem to have no interest in the genres of yore. Was noting with amusement that on Reddit/vinyl, there was this thread that Exotica as a genre is 'hella racist'.
	1:33pm Rich in Washington: I blame those Incredibly Strange music books for the 90s/00s Exotica bubble.
	1:35pm MrFab: What vinyl are the youngsters buying, then? Just new releases? Because 60s garage and psych, 70s funk, and 80s SST-type indie records have skyrocketed in value (which is why I'm selling 'em!)
	1:37pm Tony Coulter: @ MrFab: I think there definitely is a hardcore youngster segment lusting after the genres you mention. Others want mid-period Fleetwood Mac or Led Zeppelin. Or, if they're really cutting edge, they want Paul Simon's "Graceland" on cassette.
	1:38pm coelacanth: there used to be a store, the "a.r.c. thrift"store in nj (plainfield?) that had a medium-size room full of records. 69¢each. i must've bought hundreds of albums from there; but unfortunately didn't then know what i think i know now.
	1:41pm Tony Coulter: Plainfield was probably a great place to find interesting records, just because the distributor Jem was located there.
	1:42pm Rich in Washington: @MrFab: that's true, too. I've put out some rare-ish 80s New Wave or Punk records, of the popular variety, and had them go pretty fast. But in my experience with the thrift digging scene, it seems like youngsters get really excited by some really mundane, relatively common records.
	1:42pm Tony Coulter: Or wait -- they were in South Plainfield. is that a different place?
	1:46pm Cecile: I think the kids when they are starting out, want the slightly obscure stuff. The more they continue digging, the more they'll wan the obscurities. Back in the day, I was excited to find the new Tom Petty album used!
	1:47pm coelacanth: south plainfield is right next to plainfield, but i don't recall there being much stuff there from them. (i do remember trying to get a job at jem,to no avail)
	1:50pm coelacanth: mostly what i got in that store was 60s rock and 60s-70s r&b. i'm happy i got all that, but i'd bet there were tons of jewels in there that i didn't recognise then.
	🥁 1:51pm listener james from westwood: Copyediting all the more happily for today's fine tunes.
	1:52pm MrFab: Sounds like you smartly picked some lucrative genres there coelacanth,
	1:54pm MrFab: So how should we be investing? I'm assuming those Barry Manilow records won't go up, but I do see obscure power-pop/new wave, and '80s college rock in the bargain bins. And I'm surprised how plentiful and cheap Cramps-ian early rock records are. Might pay to be bullish on those.
	1:54pm Tony Coulter: @ Listener James: Glad you're enjoying the tunes. I'll be careful not to play anything that will turn your editorial finger into a slashing instrument of destruction.
	1:58pm coelacanth: i do have,i figure, maybe 1000 albums to get rid of; but most of those 60s' rock and about 1/2 the r&b i don't want to part with...although for the right sum i'd transfer it to cd and let it go.
	1:59pm Susan: What a fantastic show today, Tony! Thanks for making a dreary work day a magical one.
	2:00pm Tony Coulter: Thanks, Susan! Glad you're enjoying yourself!!
	2:05pm Cecile: Clean copies of Barry records and early pressings might be desirable for the die hards.
	2:06pm Tony Coulter: @ MrFab: Defintely go for the obscure power pop/new wave LPs. And, of course, the haircuts and ties make them easy to spot.
	2:08pm Tony Coulter: Is it just me, or does this Chris Knox track sound a bit like Eno?
	2:08pm V Priceless: Eno-y!! Yes!
	2:10pm coelacanth: i'd say!
	2:11pm coelacanth: and,(coincidentally?) that o.o.o. track's vox sounded Eno-ish to me too.
	2:11pm Tony Coulter: or Residential?
	2:12pm coelacanth: NO! nevermind! i was cornfused.
	2:13pm Carmichael: I visited a thrift shop in Ashland a few weeks ago, as they had a few rows of old records. Found some neat oddball LPs for about a buck apiece.
	2:14pm coelacanth: (me being in the next room and you updating the playlist ahead of schedule threw me off! 'sorry.)
	2:15pm coelacanth: ...yeah, more Residential-ish.
	2:16pm Rich in Washington: I can't for the life of me figure out why I got into Chrome so late in life. Had I heard them when I was a kid, looking for records weirder than Devo, Pink Floyd, etc. They would've totally rocked my world back then.
	2:17pm Rich in Washington: @Carmichael: Ashland Oregon?
	2:17pm Cecile: their early records were damn hard to find. I didn't get into them until the late 80s.
	2:19pm Rich in Washington: I had some of them from Ralph comps but for some reason, I never fully grok'd them until the last ten years or so, but the reissues have definitely made my love for them go critical mass.
	2:21pm Cecile: Finnish New Wave!
	2:24pm Tony Coulter: Yääs!
	2:25pm northguineahills: Made it back for at the end! I was up until 9am penning a music column on Suomi wyrdness for a subreddit. Got Finns on my brain, must swim away!
	2:26pm Carmichael: Yes Rich, my daughter goes to college in Salem. That's a good halfway point in my travels.
	2:29pm Cecile: I think it's Alex returning to sanity by having some fun.
	2:32pm coelacanth: it's time to find out how slippery the roads are. Thanks Tony! later on people.
	2:32pm Tony Coulter: Se ya, coelacanth! Thanks for stopping by!
	2:33pm Rich in Washington: @Carmichael: I've always suspected that Ashland was a good town for crate digging. It's a pretty arty and affluent community.
	2:33pm Rich in Washington: It's raining/snowing up here. I ain't going anywhere. uh uh.
	2:35pm Tony Coulter: Hope that snow stays away from my side of the river.
	2:37pm Rich in Washington: I'll do what I can. It helps to not be over 1,000 ft up. I don't even Portlanders get that high before noon.
	2:38pm Carmichael: It's cold as hell here in greater Sacramento. I came back from Tahoe last weekend and promptly got stuck in the snow at Donner summit. The irony was not lost on me ...
	2:39pm Rich in Washington: strange weather, innit?
	2:39pm northguineahills: We got sleet last night, but it never got colder then 35F/2C. Still has of yet to get below freezing.
	2:39pm Rich in Washington: This is lovely, Tony! Love hearing modern symphonic music.
	2:40pm Tony Coulter: Figgered it fit right in with "Bug Up My Ass."
	2:44pm V Priceless: sorry...I was just throwing up, having seen the current cover of 'Rolling Stone'...yay, Gong!
	2:45pm Tony Coulter: Who's on the Cover? Dr. Hook?
	2:46pm Tony Coulter: This Fondation is one of those cassette things.
	2:49pm V Priceless: @ Tony: haha...nah, some hot & wild new 'punk' band,,,5 Seconds of summer, or something...sorry, looks like another boy band thingy...super-yawn.
	2:51pm V Priceless: great stuff, TC! Thank you! All The Best for a Rockin' 2016!
	2:52pm Tony Coulter: Thanks, VP! Happy Newt's Ear to you as well!
	2:53pm northguineahills: Cool sounds. Enjoy the new year, Tony!
	🥁 2:55pm listener james from westwood: Thanks, Tony, for this show and 2015's great listening!
	2:55pm JtotheK: enjoyed the show today, thanks Tony!
	2:56pm MrFab: Another winner, thx Tony.
	2:57pm Tony Coulter: Thanks, everyone! Enjoy the changing of the year!! See you next week!
	3:01pm Cecile: you too, Tony, everyone!

Tony Coulter: Playlist from December 29, 2015

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