New York City, NY
House of Oldies - the owner has a log up his ass - they have the bigger names although I picked up great original copies of Moby Grape 69, The Beach Boys Surf's Up and The Seeds' Future here at bargain prices.
Rockit Scientist
Kim's Video
Other Music
Midnight Records - mailorder vinyl and cds, though if you make an appointment you can actually go there - the owner is somewhat strange.
Eat Records - Brooklyn - you can sit down and eat food than sift thru records.

Albany, NY
Last Vestige - one of the best I know of...great vinyl....it's in the ghetto though...best advised to wear armor

Danbury, CT
Gerosa - geared heavily toward classic rock

Waterbury, CT
Brass City Records - alot of psych and hippie stuff

New Paltz, NY - went to college here, great town
Rhino Records

So there's the tristate area in a nutshell....

Does anyone know Cleveland well? I went to one place that was pretty cool at the edge of town, in like a sorta hip area, or as hip as Cleveland can be but this place had alot of garage, beat, punk and so forth...vinyl and cds. The owner was this short stocky barrel chested fella with a beard...dark hair.

Columbus, Ohio has ::

Lost Weekend Records
Used Kids Records
Magnolia Thunderpussy
Evil Empire Records

Employees at all four places know their stuff!

AKA Music yo, 2nd and Market... where i go to get shit.
The Record Exchange is ight. Also Sailor Jerry's always has some good records on sale.
Repo Records, every once in a while they have some cool stuff usually just trendy music for all the hipsters.
Tequila Sunrise, never been there since I think its much like repo if anything.
Theres a bunch others but I usually always go to AKA.

Missing Link is closed down, apparently recently. I managed to miss out on another great thing. Jannell said:

Central Indiana stores (that I know of):

-Vibes Music in Broadripple Indianapolis, IN
-Village Green in Muncie, IN (near BSU)
-Indy CD and Vinyl in Broadripple Indianapolis, IN
-Missing Link Records in Indianapolis, IN

*I'm not familiar with Bloomington at all but I KNOW there are lots of rad record shops there.

Also - if you are in Muncie, IN - there is a used vinyl record shop downtown called Dan's Downtown Record Store. Another sweet spot for used gems is the Off Broadway Antique Mall. On the weekends you should check out the Main Street Flea Market. Hellz yeah.

Sleepy London Ontario actually has 3 record stores that sell a fair bit of vinyl:

Speed City Records....loads of cheapie records, and lots of punk/indy/noise type stuff. Most of the records i get locally come from here...I almost always leave the store with way less cash and more records.
Grooves Records....more mainstream type records as well as new indy stuff....there's always treasures to be found.
Village Idiot Records....more collectable type stuff...higher prices but generallye excellent condition records.

Central Indiana stores (that I know of): -Vibes Music in Broadripple Indianapolis, IN -Village Green in Muncie, IN (near BSU) -Indy CD and Vinyl in Broadripple Indianapolis, IN -Missing Link Records in Indianapolis, IN *I'm not familiar with Bloomington at all but I KNOW there are lots of rad record shops there. Also - if you are in Muncie, IN - there is a used vinyl record shop downtown called Dan's Downtown Record Store. Another sweet spot for used gems is the Off Broadway Antique Mall. On the weekends you should check out the Main Street Flea Market. Hellz yeah.

Around Chicago.. lauries planet of sound and reckless records are cool :)

ohhhhhhh, very nice that "morning disaster-black leather books", that definitely the kind of psych im looking for, thanks for the obscurity, never heard it before, laso your blog is very good too :))

Yeah, that Dirty Filthy Mud 45 is fantastically freaky. I thought of another great song that would fit the "dark moody strange psych" tag. You may or may not have this but I posted it to my site anyway...... http://therisingstorm.net/rock/garage/page/2/ The band's name is The Morning Disaster and the song is "Black Leather Books"...never released at the time but it appeared on a local Virgina comp series Aliens, Psychos and Wild Things Volume 3.

nice one gas-house, quality list, some of those i havnt heard yet....:))))

more contributions are welcome

Here are some that I dig:

The Painted Faces - Anxious Color
The Plague - The Face Of Time
The Last Word - Sleepy Hollow
The Executives - Moving In A Circle
The Pastels - What Can I Say?
Nobody's Children - Colors And Shapes
North Atlantic Invasion Force - I Won't Be Back
Ronnie Dio & The Prophets - 10 Days With Brenda
The Mauve - You've Got Me Cryin'
Marilyn Mattson - He Means So Much to Me
The Missing Links - You Make Me Feel Good
The Primates – She
The Starfires - I Never Loved Her
The Uncalled For - Masters Of War
Velvet Illusions - Acid Head

Also, the recent Florida Rocks Again podcast featured moody tracks. Check it out if you haven't already.

thanks bob, yes your right, it does demand alot of thought..That viceroys record is amazing, i wonder how many of those were presssed, id love a copy of that...dont think i have ever seen it for sale.

Your list is excellent, i know alot from it, i even have a copy of that dirty filty mud on worex, ( my dads copy)
Theirs a few i havnt heard in your list tho,

Your right also that theirs so much great psych out their, im sure thier plenty of obscure ones still to find too...

thanks for the list...

This kind of question requires major thought as I am stumped - there are a zillion great psych/garage 45's worth a mention. My memory is a bit hazy but the Viceroys Five Steps To Hell 45 (I think released in 1967) is on Psychedelic Crown Jewels? If it is....that is one hell of a song - Stunning,they simply don't make music like that anymore. I believe that group released a handful of 45's and the above mentioned song was the group's last hurrah. Most of these singles you speak of are old and difficult to track down (I've heard them all though and they are great) but here are similar discs (there are alot of moody psych 45's - an endless amount)...maybe you know them already but what the hell, just brainstorming over here:

The JuJus - Sometime Or Other - 1967 (unreleased 3rd single at the time)
The Painted Ship - Frustration - 1967
The Dirty Filthy Mud - Forest of Black - 1968
The Nightshadows - So Much (the psychedelic version from 1967 which is on the Square Root of 2 lp)
Mock Duck - Do Re Mi - 1968
The Purple Canteen - Brains In My Feet - 1968
Les Sinners - Don't You Run Away - From the Vox Populi album which comes in both english and french - 1968
Unrelated Segments - all three 45's.
Instant Orange - Plight of Mary Celeste - 1975 - group started out in 1968 releasing 45's, this sounds like it's from 1968 though, amazing track from an ep the band released.
The Mind's Eye - Help, I'm Lost - 1967
The Quests - I'm Tempted - this 1966 Fenton 45 isn't really psych but it's great with plenty of fuzz.
The Plagues - I've Been Through It Before - 1966 (Fenton 45)
Peabody Company - Tobacco Road - Amazing psych version of this well traveled song from Fist Full of Fuzz. Anything this band recorded is supposedly good thought they never released a 45 but have an album's worth of great material being prepared for release soon.
The Rising Storm - Frozen Laughter - 1966/1967 Calm Before lp
The Index - The Index - 1968 lp
The Savages - Live n Wild - 1966 lp
All Of Thus - All Of Thus lp - a local NY band lp that has a moody Zombies/Byrds feel.
It's All Meat lp - 1970
Kenny and the Kasuals - two lps of 45's
The Contents Are - Through You - 1967 - moody garage folk-rock private press lp

hmmm, maybe no-one knows anything, thought people would be quite knowledgable here.....:(

This is the type of psych i really love, tracks such as

The viceroys-5 steps to hell
Lime frost-post bellum blues
Yesterdays obsession-The phycle
The operations-Reincarnation
Sidells-watch out mother

can anyone reccomend anything else like this, looking for more obscure stuff, as i know quite alot already, im looking for stuff i dont know about...any suggestions would be appreciated.x

Thanks for the response.
I guess I need most of them.
Can you just scan what you feel like scanning and put them on the web somewhere?
Thanks
Ron

Hmmm... I have a few laying around. the LPs would be a drag to scan, but i could take some pictures. There are quite a few without sleeves too, MUTT records, shit like that... I could help with some, let me know what you'll need, and when you need them...

brother pantichrist

That's cool , Vic. Ask around about MOXIE scans. I have most of the later EPS, Surf Trio, Miracle Workers, Pandoras, Bottled Hungarian, Falling Spikes, Wicked Ones, etc. I need all those weird early ones and all those LPs (Except Surf Trio) Victor Lopez said:

Hahahaha... Oops, I didn't know! I just saw the missing info and thought I could help!

And he produced Flat Duo Jets' Go Go Harlem Baby and Mudhoney's Tomorrow Hit Today and the album Bad Man by T-Model Ford and at least some of Make It Stop by Ross Johnson ... He was everywhere! whatwave dave said:

He also played piano on The Flamin' Groovies Teenage Head LP and did lots of work with Panther Burns (production, session and played live with them occasionally) ....2 of my fave bands! RIP Jim!

He also played piano on The Flamin' Groovies Teenage Head LP and did lots of work with Panther Burns (production, session and played live with them occasionally) ....2 of my fave bands! RIP Jim!

From Houston Examiner: Memphis music icon Jim Dickinson, the producer behind The Replacements’ Pleased To Meet Me and Big Star’s Third/Sister Lovers, died peacefully in his sleep on Saturday, August 15. The 67 year old musician was recovering from triple bypass surgery. Dickinson was a sought after session musician who played piano on numerous albums including The Rolling Stones’ Sticky Fingers, Aretha Franklin’s Spirit In The Dark, and Bob Dylan’s Time Out Of Mind. His production work on the Big Star album Third/Sister Lovers, recorded in 1974, but not released until 1978, made him an in-demand producer for many of the new bands who would soon top the college alternative charts in the 80’s. In addition to The Replacements, Dickinson also produced Jason & The Scorchers, Green On Red, Mojo Nixon, True Believers, Willy DeVille, John Hiatt, and Houston favorite Joe “King Carrasco http://tinyurl.com/lzjrew

Just added a great link to the references section. Check out this article I found. Pretty good! Examiner, Indianapolis The Raw Sounds of the Garage Punk Podcast Network by Gary Schwind

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