grown-ups - e.t. phone home lathe

     yeah a lathe. i didn't even remember that i had this until i was looking back at my zines. apparently i stored it with them, well it is the size of a zine so. grown-ups are a calgary band and released this in early 2011 on the now abandoned scotch tapes label. limited to 50 and only 30 available for public purchase, i got the last one. sold out in an hour or something, guess i had good timing. i remember it taking a few months to get the record after purchase. now the owner of the label is gone, one day just vanished. hasn't been around for years now. wonder what he's doing. well he was releasing something by the white wires, which at the time i loved, so i was poking around the site and bought two lathes. the first one i can't remember who it was, but it was really limited too. i listened to it when i got it, i thought it was awful. so i just resold it to some guy who actually liked the band. i kept this one though since i actually did like the title song e.t. phone home, which for some reason is the second song on my lathe cut. the other song is about the band's favourite hangout, and it's not very good. i don't know why anyone makes lathes. anyone i've ever gotten was bent or/and poor sound quality. no exception here. they are kind of cool, i mean i did buy it. but if anyone reading this post wants it, leave a comment and it's yours. 

lathe

e.t. phone home

tubby dog

the beatles - live at the bbc volume two 7"

     here is something rare. it's a promo 7" of the new beatles bbc record. wasn't available for sale anyway. they gave them away at a hmv in london. last week though i was informed that they were giving them away here in a toronto hmv if you bought any beatles merchandise. well when i saw what they were going for on ebay, i immediately ran out and bought some random beatles record and got this for free. these things are going from anywhere from 60 bucks to 500 bucks. plus there was only 300 pressed. everyone is just selling them. not me. i like the beatles and if i sell it now i'll never get this back. i wouldn't pay over 5 bucks for this, especially since all the songs here are included in the actual bbc record. kind of a weird collection of songs, but it's the beatles, so it's great anyway. and that cover's great too.

a-side	b-side
words of love	do you want to know a secret
please mister postman	boys
i saw her standing there

The Knickerbockers-Lies 7" (1965)

(((re-post from 11/01/12)))

who doesn't love the beatles? The Knickerbockers came into the music scene playing Four Seasons type stuff. those days weren't actually too bad. but when 1965 rolled around, they went full on beatles. they released Lies with the flip-side being The Coming Generation. two super catchy songs. although Lies gets the top spot here. it is so much like the beatles, you can't believe it's not the beatles. you really just need to listen to it. if you haven't already. my copy of this 7" is really thrashed. tons of cracks and pops on the rip. but hey, that's the way i like it. i actually own one of the 12"s and it is super clean. but no, i ripped the thrashed version. everything else the band did really doesn't grab me. there are some good tracks on their 1966 album, but a lot of filler tracks, and it loses a lot of steam near the end. so if you're into the beatles, you'll love this 7". listen now.

     my copy of this 7" is really thrashed. tons of cracks and pops on the rip. but hey, that's the way i like it. i actually own one of the 12"s and it is super clean. but no, i ripped the thrashed version. everything else the band did really doesn't grab me. there are some good tracks on their 1966 album, but a lot of filler tracks, and it loses a lot of steam near the end. so if you're into the beatles, you'll love this 7". listen now.

Lies

The Coming Generation