Apparently, I buy too many records

My wife Helen, like every other woman i've ever lived with, believes that I buy too many records.

Which, as every record-buying man knows, is a ridiculous belief.

I will concede, however, that I do indeed buy a lot of records and that I don't afford them the same amount of listens and attention that I did 20 or 30 years ago.

To this end, I have decided to blog about the records that I buy, in order to help my appreciation of them - and perhaps to show Helen that I don't buy that many records after all.

Because i'm crap with deadlines the blog posts will be sporadic and probably be about a month or 2 behind but that's just the way i am! The posts will not necessarily be actual reviews (most likely comments, at best) and will generally be pretty damn short due to the reasons outlined above. As a writer in a previous existence i have decided not to worry about writing as art in the pieces but, instead, to attempt to convey feeling over semantic (and often grammatic) perfection.

And 'OCRB'? It stands for 'Obsessive Compulsive Record Buying' - a little known mental health affliction that is potentially damaging to the bank account but ultimately life-affirming. It is sad.......but a nice form of sad.

Friday 13 May 2011

The Mountain Goats: All Eternals Deck (Merge)

Pre-ordered this from Merge ages in advance so as to ensure i got the coloured vinyl and the free cassette, only available with the first few. Cost a bit more than normal, what with the shipping from the States but i knew it would be worth it. Immensely fucked off to discover, on opening that i neither secured the cassette nor the coloured vinyl, even though i had pre-ordered it as soon as the pre-order was available. Some skullduggery going on here methinks. Am i just going to fill this piece with moaning about how Merge hate me because i gave one of their releases a bad review 20 years ago and how it's not fair, especially nowadays when i actually pay for most of my music?

Too bloody right.

Merge? They're bastards.

Although they did release this prime slice of Mountain Goats, whereby John Darnielle plays with a full band and lets rip with some of his finest lyrics yet, which is saying something indeed. If you know anything about this guy then you know that all his releases have a celestial quality and this is one of his best in years.

So a big round of applause for the band but a big kick in the balls for the label - who failed to give me the extra bells and whistles that i deserved.................

Probably,
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