Hopefully starting in July, here is the new monthly posting schedule for videos:
Boardgames: Week 1 - New Hotness (games released within the last 12 months) Week 2 - Late to the Table (games released older than 12 months) Week 3 - Topics/discussion (we talk about gaming mechanics, or just whats going on with boardgaming) Week 4 - Potluck (unboxings, more games, gimmicks, etc.)
Vinyl: Around the 15th - Vinyl discussion - Ill be going through my collection A-Z and talking about my favorite albums Around the 30th - New Pickups for the month!
Music Production: Once a month, but not sure how this will fit in.
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I got everything I was looking for, including some ones I was on the fence about. Kristin Hersh - Hips and Makers 2 LP including the Strings EP. Only 500 of these pressed, so I was kind of worried I wouldn't get one, but my store had three copies. Bill Evans - Everyone Digs Bill Evans mono - time to upgrade from my grey market copy on "Doxy" Gorgeous packaging as usual. Talking Heads - Live at WCOZ - I was on the fence about this one since most of the tracks are on "The Name of this Band is..." Chris Isaak - Beyond the Sun Complete The North Mississippi Allstars - Shake Hands With Shorty - this was a last minute add to my list after I gave it a stream on Friday. Fantastic record. The Orb - Holloway Brooch - Last minute add as well. Some new remixes of recent tracks. Probably not really essential, but is a nice listen if you dig The Orb.
A Very Good Evening To Yah MY Good Man, From Dublin. Channel Was Previously (TheMarmiteApple). Nice Little Pick Up There Yah Got Man. I Got The Dark Side Also A few Days Ago. For RSD 2024 I Picked Up [ Keane, Laufey, & London Grammar /Remixes ]. If You Haven't Listened TO London Grammar Yet, I Highly Recommend Them, Maybe Jump In And Start Off With (Strong) and also (Hey Now). Ooooh, New David Gilmour Album (Lick & Strange) Sept 6th Release.
Great pickups, you definitely can't go wrong with any of those albums. I actually think this year's RSD was a pretty good one. I too like David Bowie so I picked up his release as well as Chris Isaak, Nancy Sinatra & Willie Nelson's, 'Phases & Stages'. Honestly, I could have picked up more if my budget allowed- those jazz dispensary albums are supposed to be fantastic. Enjoy all the great new albums!
Every year it seems like they are scraping the barrel for every last nugget. That being said I can glean a few titles worth a listen at the least. I look for never released vinyl titles usually of the 90s or the 60s era. Not so many great 90s titles besides all the great grunge era releases like Screaming Trees, Tad, Mudhoney ect The 60s titles on the other hand have my attention. If you haven't heard SRC-SRC I would recommend it to anyone interested in 60s detroit garage psych. Heavy guitar and organ combo works incredibly well on Black Sheep the opener, they have a strong bitish invasion influence that sets them apart from other MI bands of that era. I also would say the Frankie Valli record is another fun psych song cycle often forgotten by fans of that style. I always enjoy Now-Again psych comps so I'll probably pick up Pale Shades Of Grey: Heavy Psychedelic Ballads And Dirges 1969-1976. I also love all the Tom Verlaine albums in that box set, worth listening to. Not sure if any of these are essential. I do think the Noah Kahan album will be sought after by the younger set as he is very popular. Otherwise good luck and may happy returns.
I want to get the Everybody Digs Bill Evans RSD, similar to previous releases, the RSD one is the only way you can get it as a mono. Plus, as you mention, it's Craft, so it will be pretty great. I have one of the grey market pressings of that, so it will be nice to upgrade it. The Kristin Hersh - Hips and Makers 2 LP reissue. When this album came out originally I was in a huge Throwing Muses phase and I love this album. It includes the "Your Ghost" b-sides as well as the Strings EP which are string versions of songs from the album. It's pretty triggering that there are only going to be 600 copies and it's "regional" but I'm hopeful. Chris Isaak - The Sun Sessions - I don't prefer his covers over his originals, but now that I have the first 4 albums on vinyl, I feel like I need this in the collection. The Vince Guaraldi It Was A Short Summer Charlie Brown soundtrack-- not one I'm familiar with, but I have everything else (Christmas, Thanksgiving, Halloween, A Boy Named). If I see it, I may pick it up.
Thank you for the review! Glad you guys enjoyed the game! We're definitely only recommending adding the AI for 1 and 2-player games in future editions of Lunar Rush, as the 2-players with blocked routes just doesn't show people the fun part of the game enough. 3 and 4 players are the best. Hope you guys get to try that out soon!
great question! I'm not much of a campaign person, id just rather play D&D, but if I'd have to choose... 1) Massive Darkness 1&2 - super fun and easy. 2) Descent Legends of the Dark - great reimplemented version 3) Gloomhaven - can get unbelievably brutal, but great sense of accomplishment 4) Oathsworn - I only played it once, but I really enjoyed the gameplay and story 5) Any of the D&D adventure system games - not really campaign based, but they are my favorite dungeon crawlers.
Thanks for checking this out! I definitely prefer playing at 3-4 players. It does become a bit more cut throat, and adds an element of paying attention to what the others are selling so you don't have two players depressing the market as they fight while another player just sells something no one else is and crushes it. Also...when you have played enough the Moon Wonders module is AWESOME
I also picked up the Little Feat Live set. I spent the last couple of weeks streaming the Waiting For Columbus full boxset on Amazon Music. It is a great compliment to the Electrif Lycanthrope one. I've also been getting into Little Feat. It was a band I had pretty much ignored. I grabbed the INXS Shabooh Shoobah Rarities, Rilo Kiley - Under The Blacklight, 13th Floor Elevators - Bull of the Woods. It wasn't on my list, but I picked up the John Lee Hooker - Live at Cafe Au Go-Go. Norman Maslov featured it on an RSD prevue and it seemed pretty cool. The store I hit had a storewide 20% sale (including RSD!), so I picked up the two recent Dead reissues-- Live Without A Net and Built To Last. I picked up some used as well. A super-clean gold-stamped promo of Keith Richards's Talk Is Cheap for $10, The self-titled Pacific Gas and Electric album (kind of one I had been keeping an eye out for) for $10, and the debut 1966 album of David Blue on mono with all the original inserts for $20! Eremite Records reissued his "lost" 1971 album Stories this year which was what piqued my attention. He seemed to know all the great songwriters from that time, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen.
I pretty much ignored Little Feat as well, but their live shows were amazing. You got some great pickups as well. Im having a hard time finding that Istanbul 70 compilation now. I dont think its even on Discogs yet.
@@HorseheadBookends I wonder if that was pulled from the list? When I find the search results in Google, the page turns up a 404 and when I search for it on the RSD site, it isn't there either.
I just bought the game totally on a whim after my loval retailer telling me it was the best boardgame EVER and the guy was putting his kids on the line ...I was like: alright man, geez Im getting it! Played 2 times and it is indeed terrific! My only regreat is how better the game look on youtube with the minis version and I have the standard edition. Do you ever plan on releasing some sort of miniature/component upgrade for the people with the basic game? Good job on the game, you deserve every bit of sucess!
@@Revarinecheck the MindClash games webstore, there is a miniatures pack and also a dual layer player boards pack if you want to upgrade your retail version
I got a few records I had been missing (not really grails) in September. One new record was the new European pressing of the RSD Little Feat official release of the bootleg, "Electrif Lycanthrope Live At Ultra-Sonic Studios, 1974." The pressing plants were behind on these so they didn't make RSD over there and instead were put out as a regular release recently. A bunch of sellers here in the US are stocking this. This is a fantastic album, and kind of essential. It's early in Little Feat's career and it has Lowell on vocals. 🙂 I picked up a few records at Half Price Books over Labor Day Weekend during their 20% sale. One was a new/sealed copy of Madonna's Ray of Light, which had been on my list for a while. In what seems to be the M.O. of HPB new albums, it's actually the import version of the album-- it's the Argentinian pressing of it. (I have a pet theory that HPB does large lot purchases from distributors who get returns from foreign record stores. Every new record I've ever bought at HPB ends up being a non-US market version of it) I also picked up a nice French 2nd pressing of Jean Michel Jarre's Oxygene album, and a "new/unsealed" grey market pressing of Leonard Bernstein conducting the NY Phil performance George Gershwin: An American In Paris / Rhapsody In Blue. This is pretty much the original 1959 Columbia Masterworks version. Probably based on the CD or something. This is a release I'd like to upgrade at some point, but this was cheap, and I didn't have a copy of it. Some other interesting purchases: Swervedriver's Music On Vinyl reissue of Raise. A super-clean used copy I got for $23 on discogs. Really happy to have this on vinyl finally. I finally bought one of the bootleg copies of ESG's ESG EP (with Moody, UFO, You're No Good). I had been hesitating because people were commenting on these being warped, but this one was super flat. I love this EP! Finally, I found a copy of Brokeback's Illinois River Valley Blues. I forgot to buy this when it came out. Jim Elkington really adds a lot to this band and it comes closer to the Tom Verlaine "Warm and Cool" sound that I know Doug McCombs is a fan of.
I have the RSD release of Little Feat, and it’s probably one of my fav RSD pickups. Did you see the Black Friday RSD list? Another live Little Feat album is dropping.
@@HorseheadBookends Yep. I'm definitely looking at that Little Feat. Thankfully that is out on streaming if you look for the 63-track "Waiting for Columbus" release they did, so you can check it out in advance. I'm looking at the INXS Shabooh Shoobah Rarities release. I'm kind of unimpressed with that release a bit-- it is supposed to be the Dekadance 12" tracks plus b-sides. It's missing one off the EP and instead of including all of the b-sides, it has part of the US Festival set. I slept on Rilo Kiley's Under The Blacklight when it came out on vinyl originally, so I'm happy to be able to pick that up. The Los Lobos Kiko 3 LP is pretty interesting. I have the Mofi of that album already, but I might pick this up. Maybe that Culture Factory 13th Floor Elevators Bull of the Woods. I've never picked that up in any form, but I have the other two studio albums, so I should have that. The King Missile Happy Hour cracks me up. I have that on CD-- I'm not sure I need "Detachable P*nis" on vinyl...
Dark dial pegs are for the bottom of the player dials. The light ones are for the tops and the vp markers. I messed that up and mine all look jacked but I don't care.
When we do our review can we mention how we both boffed the same dial construction? I wonder if we have the exact same distribution of shaded pegs. What would the odds be. @@HorseheadBookends
I think you've mentioned which Cake albums you have, but I don't recall which ones. FYI: coincidentally Comfort Eagle has been reissued and came out 9/15. They have a coke bottle colored version on their website.
Has anyone successfully connected / synced a Xoxbox (TB-303 clone) with the MPC one over Midi? I just can't get it working, checked all the midi settings and updated MPC to latest firmware
That Phish - Farmhouse is pretty tempting. The prices are so bonkers from Phish on these reissues, though. Farmhouse was the album that got be hot and heavy for Phish back in 2000. I stayed with them until Round Room and that whole hiatus deal, but then I quit them for a while and got big into Umphrey's McGee for a while and now I have stopped listening to them too. I think I get fatigue from too much jam band shenanigans. I think I ordered more vinyl in July than I actually got. Also, I was expecting the new Craft Recordings Original Jazz Classics Bill Evans Waltz for Debby and Village Vanguard to come in, but they keep pushing Village Vanguard release out (now in November), and since I ordered them together I have to wait for both. Here's what I got in July: A reissue of Bettie Serveert's phenomenal Palomine !!! I had the import version on my discogs want list forever, so that was a huge surprise. I didn't even know it was coming out, I happened to see it in a new arrivals flip video somewhere (Maybe ingroove, I'm not sure). I really hope that the follow up Lamprey will get reissued. A couple of John Fahey titles missing from my collection. His fantastic 1967 album Requia on Vanguard got a 2011 RSD re-master/reissue. I found a near-mint one on eBay for a decent price. I also found a very clean copy of his 1984 album Let Go on eBay as well. That has his really great cover of "Layla" on it. Worth checking out, IMO. After watching some poetry on plastic videos, I've decided to start looking for vintage Columbia Masterworks in the discount bins (also London, Decca, Telarc, and others). I picked up a super-clean Columbia 6-eye of Shostakovitch's Violin Concerto (Op. 99) performed by David Oistrakh, Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra Of New York, Dimitri Mitropoulos from 1956 for $1.88. Maybe the last frontier of great records for cheap?
I’ve yet to play it. Hoping to today. A good friend said it was ok, and the theme just feels slapped on. If you can grab it cheap, it might be worth it.
It seems that I don't really have a lot of A's in my collection either. I just started my AC/DC collection last year. I listened to them a lot in high school on cassette, but never bought any CD's. I had moved away from metal and hard rock by the CD era. I see the same thing you are about used AC/DC. Pretty rare in the wild, but I'm going to keep building my collection in used form, I think and I'm just going to pick the ones I care about when I find them. I have a minty Columbia House Back In Black, the Who Made Who soundtrack (which was as close as one could get for a Greatest Hits back then). I love the instrumental "D.T." on that album. I snagged a nice used copy of "For Those About To Rock" during RSD. I still want to pick up Highway to Hell, Dirty Deeds, Flick of the Switch and Fly On The Wall. My choice for vinyl letter A would be the Thrill Jockey band/artist Arbouretum. I saw them during the Thrill Jockey 15 shows in Chicago back in winter of 2007. David Heumann has a really great baritone voice and his psychedelic approach to folk (I think Brit Folk, really), is pretty amazing. I have pretty much every release of his on vinyl.
I actually have quite a few ac/dc cassettes from Columbia house. The albums I’m always looking for used are: highway to hell, 74 jailbreak, and if you want blood you got it.
I love the new format plan! I'm looking forward to participating in some of the conversations about your collection. You and I seem to have fairly similar tastes in music so I love it when you drop episodes about your records. "The In Sound From Way Out" is probably my favorite Beastie Boys (though only by a small margin) but I've been a fan since it originally came out. The sequel "The Mix Up" is pretty good as well, but not as good as "The In Sound." I was pretty happy to see the "Root Down" EP as part of the Sound of Vinyl $0 sale, that had been on my list for a while to get on vinyl. Sorting discogs for June, it appears I bought a lot of stuff. Acoustic Sounds had a big sale on some overstock items so I picked up Neil Young's Eldorado EP for $12 and I got the Lou Donaldson Blue Note Classic for Blues Walk for $20, and I picked up a fairly rare album from a Post Rock band called Giants from Cedar Falls, IA that I slept on when the label was operating (they sound like Mogwai or Godspeed!). Acoustic Sounds has some used, so I got that for $30 (it wasn't on sale). I picked up the new Grant Green - Nigeria Tone Poet, which is a fantastic record. I have about 6 records coming from the Sound of Vinyl $0 + $8 shipping sale: the aforementioned Root Down EP (which I haven't received yet), the Joe Pass - For Django Blue Note Tone Poet, Bryan Ferry's Boys and Girls, the 30th Anniversary U2 Achtung Baby (I don't have yet), the Tone Poet for Stanley Turrentine's Rough and Tumble and Bud Powell - Time Waits (which I keep reading as "Tom Waits.") Yesterday I got the surprising and awesome collaboration between Kieran Hebden and William Tyler "Darkness, Darkness"/"No Services." This is a 12" on Phil Cook's label Psychic Hotline.
Hey it’s me again, I never received my order and after 6 weeks I got my refund, I’m looking to buy a pandora box, I’m interested in playing some neo geo games, do you recommend any in particular? Thank you
glad you got your refund! ive been trying to film a follow up video on this box, but the more I use it, the more disappointing it gets. I recommend anything that is an actual jamma board to HDMI output. there's a ton of different ones out there. I try to stay away from any raspberry pi units. also, I prefer game elf to pandora. I just find they work better. good luck!
A D&D background music. Now that would be cool and probably perfect background for playing the game. Time Out and Miles Davis Kind of Blue are the best. Nice jazz pick ups for RSD. I stayed away from them this year.
This guy is a complainer. I know you pay money for stuff, but this stuff comes from China. What do you expect? Of course the quality is not gonna be great because I focus more on quantity and quality. But I’m still impressed. The emulation is great on this. The joysticks might not be that great, but there are ways to make the joystick better have some ingenuity for heaven sakes.
