One year later and I'm back again. Your boy had a big 50th birthday over here and my family was nice enough to not only take me to Universal Studios Hollywood for a couple days, but also carve out a few hours on our last day in LA for me to spend some time and money at Amoeba. And that I did.
This newer storefront in this newer location isn't nearly as grand as the big-billboard one was over on Sunset, but it's also not nearly as piss-stained, so I'm sure it's a plus for everyone involved.
Anyway, I spent a few hours there and that was about good. Had in mind that I might make a slightly ridiculous purchase if the opportunity arose, but it did not, and that's usually more of a relief than anything. Here's what I got:
This is the only new record I bought there, and it felt right because this just came out on vinyl pretty recently, but mostly because I was in Los Angeles and it was sunny and strangely ominous like it always is there. I had this CD for a while and lost it so I'm happy to have this. Good music to drive around to if you want to pretend someone is following you.
Looks like this one is a combo of hot disco numbers by pop artists and instrumental jams by Giorgio Moroder. Double LP in a gatefold sleeve and boy, I don't think I've watched this movie in a decade. Forgot that Randy Quaid is in it. Also forgot that there are a pair of cuts by Angel on here. Oh, Punky!
This was 3 bucks and I remember liking this movie when I watched it 12 years ago. Adam Ant and John Doe are in this thing. It does not appear that this LP is very popular.
Lou Reed - Set the Twilight Reeling (1996)
Ministry - Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs (1992)
I'm not sure I've ever heard this record. I go pretty deep with Lou Reed but I guess I never got to this one. This is the Record Store Day pressing from 2021 with etching on the fourth side. I have a lot of original/early versions of his records, but for LPs like this and Magic and Loss, I can live with a solid reissue.
I will accept no other title for this album. I spent some heavy time with this CD during my junior year of high school and I still enjoy it, especially if I've had too much coffee. And let's remember that "Jesus Built My Hotrod" is truly one of the greatest and most emblematic singles of the early 90s. This is the 2011 reissue and they did a great job of replicating the original. I don't see a website address on the back of this thing, and I appreciate that. This was the toe I dipped into industrial rock as a teenager and I promptly pulled it right back out.
Sealed, even! Amoeba used to have a huuuuge rap 12" section and it's just not as beefy anymore. That being said, I was happy to find this one. Got it for ten bucks and I feel like it would be twice that up here. I need to find some of this group's cassettes.
This has a Chuck Mosley-era Faith No More non-album cut on it so I figured it was worth 2 bucks. It's "New Improved Song," which they would later rework as "The Morning After" with Mike Patton. They gave this away with a UK magazine.
They must have made a ton of these magazine freebies, because there are some good cuts on these and this one was also 2 bucks. This one has Sonic Youth doing an alternate version of "Silver Rocket," and Pailhead is on here, too, speaking of Ministry.
Amoeba is still getting it done. I checked out the movies and didn't want to drag a bunch of 'em home but I did get a sealed DVD of Urgh! A Music War, which is a movie I have not seen. And you know I hit the rap tapes hard, and they had more this time around then they did the last time I was there. I ended up getting a nice stack:
Some good ones in here. Kid Frost maxi-single! Also excited about the "I Get Around" maxi-single. I bought the regular cassette single for that when it came out and still have it. I had not heard of Without Rezervation, a Native American group out of the Bay Area. A handful of these are still sealed, too. Love finding rap tapes down in LA. It's so much easier than doing it up here.
What's not easy is rearranging my cassettes when I get new ones. I've got everything alphabetized in Napa Valley shelves and they look great but I also get a brutal shoulder workout every time I come home with some rap tapes.
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