Music Savant

I'm Mike Roeder, and I write about music at http://www.playbsides.com

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It was 20 years ago today... @radiohead - OK Computer. I feel like Radiohead is in some regards the spiritual successor to The Beatles. Spinning the #vinyl. #nowspinning #onmyturntable #paranoidandroid #vinyligclub #vinylporn

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#nowspinning #onmyturntable 1990's comp of #acidjazz on Instinct Records - This Is Acid Jazz Volume Two. I listened to these on CD a lot in the car when I was installing computer systems on the road. Finally snagged the first two on @discogs on #vinyl at a really nice low price. The benefits of listening to obscure stuff. #vinylporn #vinyligclub #vinylcollection

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#nowspinning #onmyturntable The Wallflowers - Bringing Down The Horse 20th Anniversary reissue #vinyl @sherryroeder saw them twice in Minneapolis for this tour. First as a headliner at @firstavenue then later at The Target Center opening for Counting Crows. A CD we played a lot and now we'll play the LP a lot.

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#nowspinning #onmyturntable @therightnow - Starlight blue transparent #vinyl #newchicagosoul #R&B Fantastic record with a smart pop sensibility.

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#nowspinning #onmyturntable Bob James - One #vinyl picked up tonight at HPB. Smooth. Shout out to @cut_chemist for producing the Stable Sound podcast on "Nautilus" and its use in HipHop. #vinylporn #vinyligclub

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#nowspinning #onmyturntable Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything? #vinyl digging deeper in the library today. Super clean copy. Back when you could get clean copies of this for $8. #vinylporn #vinyligclub

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#nowspinning Tom Verlaine - Warm and Cool #vinyl SUPER RARE. In Rough Trade. I imported this about ten years ago. Had a really great conversation with Doug from @trts about this. He didn't know about the vinyl pressing. :-) #vinylporn #vinyligclub #onmyturntable

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#nowspinning some Camper Van Beethoven O.G. #vinyl pressings of Radio Free Landslide Victory, II & III, Revolutionary Sweetheart, and Key Lime Pie. Need Vampire Can Mating Oven and the first one. #vinyligclub #vinylporn #psychedelic #eightiesmusic #collegerock

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#nowspinning Loess - Pocosin on white and black splatter #vinyl on @n5md. Beautiful record in sound and packaging. The black and white theme is great and suits the mood. #vinyligclub #vinylporn #id m @goxflee

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#nowspinning Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue #vinyl picked up in L.A. appropriately enough. Super-minty copy from the wall at @atomicrecordsla. Brilliant record. The Beach Boys should have sounded more like this. #vinyligclub #vinylporn #beachnoise

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Continuing the 90's kick. #nowspinning #frenchbandair - Moon Safari #vinyl. I really wish the promise of this breezy French sound would have turned up in more records. Even from Air itself. #vinylporn #vinyligclub

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#nowspinning The groundbreaking @theavalanches - Since I Left You 2 LP translucent blue. I forgot how great this record is. I love the mixtape feel to it, which was why all of the @djshadow fans on #influx loved it. I may need to go back to the new album-- I just wasn't feeling it as much as this. Picked up at @analog_vault_cr on release day! #vinyligclub

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#nowspinning Bill Wilson - Ever Changing Minstrel. FINALLY snagged one of these rare and overlooked albums on #vinyl for less than $20! Incidentally, the price in these is dropping from the nosebleed prices. The epitome of "lost classic." Brilliant album that sits somewhere between Dylan and the Austin Outlaw sounds . Recorded in one night in Nashville by Bob Johnson (Dylan producer) following a random unsolicited meeting with Wilson. Jerry Reed and Charlie Daniels play guitar on it. The album was released on Columbia but never went anywhere. Wilson died in 1994 never seeing the resurgence of interest after Tompkins Square reissued it in 2012 on CD. #vinylporn #vinyligclub

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Frank wasn't home. @shameless.official (at West Side, Chicago)

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Got a fancy wood headphone stand for my @sennheiser x @massdrop HD6XX headphones from Sherry for Xmas. It came today! #luckyguy

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Trying out the Bravo Audio V2 hybrid tube headphone amp with my new @sennheiser x @massdrop HD6XX headphones. The blue light is cute, but distracts from the actual glow of the 12au7 tube. #headfi #tubeamp

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#nowspinning @beck - Sea Change 2 LP gatefold #vinyl reissue. I'm glad I waited for this to come out rather than spend hundreds on the Mofi pressing. #vinylporn #vinyligclub