More Oar - A Tribute to the Skip Spence Album - RSD

[cameron4321]

Looks like for Record Store Day Black Friday 2019, Mr. Lanegan's version of Cripple Creek is getting a first time vinyl pressing.

Here it is...

recordstoreday.com/SpecialRelease/11811


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More Oar – A Tribute To The Skip Spence Album

DETAILS
Event: BLACK FRIDAY 2019
Release Date: 11/29/2019
Format: 2 x LP
Label: Modern Harmonic
Quantity: 1450
Release type: RSD Exclusive Release
MORE INFO
Plant, Beck, Waits, Skip! Celebrating its 20th anniversary, Modern Harmonic presents the first ever vinyl edition of More Oar – A Tribute To The Skip Spence Album. In addition to the full album–which features covers from Robert Plant, Beck, Mudhoney, Tom Waits, and others–this edition features the wild skeletal recording of “Little Hands” by The Flaming Lips that was originally intended as a collaboration with Robert Plant. A double LP pressed at Third Man, this set also includes liner notes from the original album's producer.

1. Robert Plant “Little Hands” 2. Mark Lanegan “Cripple Creek” 3. Alejandro Escovedo “Diana” 4. The Durocs “Margaret Tiger-Rug” 5. Jay Farrar & The Sir Omaha Quintet “Weighted Down (The Prison Song)” 6. Mudhoney “War In Peace” 7. Robyn Hitchcock “Broken Heart” 8. Diesel Park West “All Come To Meet Her” 9. Tom Waits “Books Of Moses” 10. Greg Dulli “Dixie Peach Promenade (Yin for Yang)” 11. The Ophelias “Lawrence Of Euphoria” 12. Flying Saucer Attack “Grey – Afro” 13. Alastair Galbraith “This Time He Has Come” 14. Engine 54 “It’s The Best Thing For You” 15. Outrageous Cherry “Keep Everything Under Your Hat” 16. Beck “Furry Heroine (Halo Of Gold)” 17. The Minus 5 “Givin’ Up Things” 18. Skip Spence “Land Of The Sun” 19. The Flaming Lips “Little Hands”

[mickyjesus]

Me thinks I need to buy this. If no one has heard the original...just get it, I don't think you'll be disappointed. I'm not a huge fan of tribute LPs, but looking at the collection of guys covering this, I'm
hooked.

[username2500]

ok, explain me two things

1.
what's with vinyl? why release things on vinyl? I thought vinyl went the way of the 8-track and cassette tape??? Isn't it ... extinct?

I have some assumptions as to why but I see people posting (all over the place, not just here) about 'vinyl releases' and I'm mystified. not to ask a dumb question, but here's a dumb question: don't you need a record player to play vinyl? I haven't had a record player in... well, whenever since the cassette tape format came around, is when my record player went goodbye. so that's probably like 30 years. do all these people talking (posting, salivating) about 'vinyl releases' have a means to play/ listen to them? or do they just hold the object and look at it with googly, enlarged eyes?

do they still make record players? I ask, with sincerity, cause I still have a bunch of CDs (have not quite yet entirely got up to the digital, virtual, cloud, mist, non-existent... format world) and have had a hard time, when my CD player expired, in the past few years finding a decent (replacement) CD player, if I can't even find a CD player do they really still make record players??? ...

[hankering assumption that I think I've heard but maybe it's inaccurate hearsay & gossip, on why vinyl, is it true?: quality of vinyl is better than other formats, so music-heads seek out vinyl format to get fuller, better experience of the music. yes? no?]

2. who? what? is Skip Spence? why is Mark Lanegan on this album? what is the significance of Skip Spence? specifically, in relation to M Lanegan? I listened to Lanegan's Cripple Creek- on YouTube. But never explored much further. So now I'm wondering...

And the title of the album always struck me as weird, I didn't digest/understand it. More Oar – A Tribute To The Skip Spence Album. Googling/ Wikepedia-ing now, Skip Spence is the name of a person, he had an album named Oar. So More Oar is people's cover versions of that album?

Read more: onewhiskey.proboards.com/thread/5072/more-tribute-skip-spence-album#ixzz62U4M3Q6F

[♫ ♪]

i'll bite.

1. vinyl has had a major resurgence and is probably the go to physical format these days. People are attracted to the analog format. It does sound much better than "standard" digital and most standard cd's BUT there's also a lot of artists that press records where the quality is not a lick better than digital or cd. Since ML appears to record most things digitally, having it on vinyl is mostly a niche thing. I like it because the art work is bigger, i like being engaged with the music and having to flip the record every 15-20 minutes or so. i also buy vinyl to support the artists i like. If i really like the album but it's only available in cassette or CD format i'll buy those too though i currently have no way to play them. Record players are still being made, more and more.

2. He's a bit of a cult artist that went off the rails. he has some good songs.

[silence]

The thing I find with record players is that stuff tends to sound better - not because of the "warmth" or anything else to do with the usual M&S "this is no ordinary record" schtik that tends to come with these things, but because most record players now are quite pricey, high-quality things so put out a better quality of sound that my phone does. The Analog thing is usually a bit of a misnomer as most reissues nowadays are cut from "best digital" sources as unless:
a) Someone has kept the original tapes in pristine quality
b) Someone has kept the original tapes at all
c) It was recorded to tape in the first place
it's going to be digital mastered to analog, which is nice but is only ever going to be as good as the thing that it's being lifted off (and in the hands of a properly-skilled mastering person, and there's not many of those left which is why they tend to be named if they do anything).

On the plus side, I kept all my LPs from the 80s & 90s so I don't have to fork out huge amounts of cash again (because that's what I was told to do when CDs came out and I was bullied into buying into the "better" format) on stuff I already own. And I broke my CD player 3 years ago & no longer have one in my car - which is a shame as CDs are nice, handy, lovely-sounding things to have and I do think they have advantages over vinyl, just as vinyl has advantages over CD and the different ways that they give artists different boundaries to play with.


Well, it appears that I am now drunk enough to give this new Lanegan album a spin and vanish again for another year or so.

[username2500]

Ha, thanks folks! Struck out in trying to buy a Somebody's Knocking CD in NYC today on release date. Did ask employees in the 2 record stores I went to 'why vinyl?', got some good/ interesting feedback. Will put keywords 'somebody's knocking' on YouTube now and perhaps give a listen. Ah logistics. [That album in CD format has been ordered today and will arrive at some point]

(Btw, I wonder, how did Mark L get on the Skip Spence album? Was asked to do it? Or? Wikipedia tells me Skip Spence was schizophrenic/ undermined by mental illness, as was Roky Erickson... )

I like CDs, in part, because I like to hold the physical thing in my hands and see the artists artwork & things they want to say in the liner notes. Dont get that with digital music. I don't have a record player so I'm not the audience for this Skip Spence More Oar release. I did buy a Lanegan 7" at a concert and was willing to pay the $ (even though I don't have a record player) cause I liked the artwork. I consider it a piece of art

Isn't record store day in April? They're now also doing a black Friday thing?

[silence]

The Black Friday thing has been a US-only event for a few years and has the occasional gem (got the remixed In Utero a few years back), with some stock finding its way overseas.
Not sure how he ended up on it, but he did a lot of these tribute things around this time (it's from about 1999 - CD is out of print but you can source it on Amazon/ebay for buttons usually) and with this one some of his friends/peers/neighbours were also involved, good words for a man with a good voice might also have been put in

[frankblack]

Oct 18, 2019 23:03:47 GMT -5 username2500 said:

Ha, thanks folks! Struck out in trying to buy a Somebody's Knocking CD in NYC today on release date. Did ask employees in the 2 record stores I went to 'why vinyl?', got some good/ interesting feedback. Will put keywords 'somebody's knocking' on YouTube now and perhaps give a listen. Ah logistics. [That album in CD format has been ordered today and will arrive at some point]

(Btw, I wonder, how did Mark L get on the Skip Spence album? Was asked to do it? Or? Wikipedia tells me Skip Spence was schizophrenic/ undermined by mental illness, as was Roky Erickson... )

I like CDs, in part, because I like to hold the physical thing in my hands and see the artists artwork & things they want to say in the liner notes. Dont get that with digital music. I don't have a record player so I'm not the audience for this Skip Spence More Oar release. I did buy a Lanegan 7" at a concert and was willing to pay the $ (even though I don't have a record player) cause I liked the artwork. I consider it a piece of art

Isn't record store day in April? They're now also doing a black Friday thing?

I have a similar opinion to you. The basic premise for vinyl getting promoted over cds is the record companies fleece the punters for 4 times what it is worth.

I still have the original copies of GNR"s Appetite and Lies on vinyl with stickers for £5.99. Nowadays Vinyl is £25.99 for such new releases. Inflation doesn't account for that gap.

The sound quality argument about vinyl being better is proven lies with many experts highlighting the sound flaws and limited frequency range of vinyl.

Check the following article for a detailed explanation:
www.vox.com/2014/4/19/5626058/vinyls-great-but-its-not-better-than-cds

As for the ML album, I was in a store in Edinburgh yesterday and they had plenty of copies on cd. I couldn't buy it as I pre ordered a signed copy that will hopefully be waiting for me tomorrow.