BIG Q

Vinyl Vantasy Second Edition

As a veteran record store soldier, my tastes and vocabulary have expanded. I would've once called a Friday where I sold mostly disco, electro and pop 12" singles a gay day. Now, well, although it's a whisker men on films, and it's unusual, the sale of physical records in a store is unusual and there was a landslide of interest on two crates of the genre I'm calling discoldanceightiesapopelectro. It wasn't gay, it was great.

This was one girl who got walked out the door, because I played her aloud, my bouncy springtime air raid siren in the blitzkrieg that occurred when a hungry young British Columbian dj found the (remaining) stash of 12 inch singles.

STACY Q - Two of Hearts



I know to play this song in the store because of Doug from The Paperbacks. Years ago, he was an elder to my junior in a record store. I once watched the dude put on the Stacy Q album, guaranteed me that somebody would buy it and then, sure enough, a customer of St Vital Center HMV walked up, inquired and purchased. Shout out to Doug. It was an honour.

His band make astoundingly good rock music, and the lyrics...well...dear reader...trust me. Rock is a concern.

The Paperbacks

I also sold a copy of this.

NEIL YOUNG and JOHNNY DEPP - Dead Man



So, I sold 12" singles and ate a 12" sub. How was your friday?

Flavour on Top of Flavour (NEW FEATURE ALERT!!!!!)

We've had mad high quality visitors at The Lodge, hence the lack of posts. It's hard to find the time to zap new club music and rappppps out over the netwaves while rejoicing in the exquisite company of loved ones.

This is the start of a new feature here at GI (the key to sales, always keep em guessing). You know, I once heard that potato chip comapnies pick the colour scheme and abstract package design before they decide on what flavour to simulate.

That explains "Cool Ranch Doritos."

The feature is called Vinyl Vantasy (verking title). When I'm at work in a used record store and somebody buys what I'm playing, you all get a song from it. It's almost as if you we're here at the store with me, eating saltwatter taffies and reading old Mcgovern for President pamphlets while listening to classics of music.

Here it is, the first installment of Vinyl Vantasy (verking title) from the album Hot Buttered Soul.



ISAAC HAYES - Walk On By

For those of you that actually download the song and go: "Where do I know that from?" Click insane asylum Toney below...



Hockey and bullshit coming post haste.

Back in front of the screen, looking for a tip.

BBQ

Ask Paul McCartney (Lawyers Couldn't Stop Me)

Let's make sure that Wearing My Rolex gets as rinsed out in North America as it supposedly has in Britain.

I'll put the songs up tomorrow. Contenders are: "Temporary Secretary", "Wearing My Rolex", "Ask Paul", "Heart of the Country" and "International Player's Anthem."

BIG MEANS GREAT

Me: Are you feeling the new Gnarls?
The Wiz: THERE'S A NEW GNARLS!?



This album, lacking a "Crazy" was less heralded upon it's release than I expected. Anyway, it's a new Gnarls Barkley...and as much as we at Grilling It enjoy fluffing out blog du jour myspace jams:

Gnarls Barkley is forever.

GNARLS BARKLEY - Whatever

I'll never forget hearing "Crazy" in a club for the first time, two springs ago. It was on the top floor of The Old Crown Public House @ Ben and Ben's birthday. I put my hands up and chanted "More number one hits."



Next week on SNL, Gnarls Barkley. Already on SNL, Keenan "Good Burger" Thompson has been doing a wicked Sir Charles Barkley.



PS: This sketch was hilarious last night, Kristen Wiig is in the Radner/Fey/Poeler pantheon.

We Like You

Ginuine - Pony (B Cause Shawty is the shhh refix)



Dj B Cause lists his influences as:

warm air, helium, freshly cut grass, stella artois, i.s. ooey gooey, my seventh grade teacher, drug addicts, Chuck, the 1981 dallas cowboys, a fall where i almost lost my eye, my children, my wife, the endless toil of debt, sex, coffee, the smell of night bloomers, ball bearings, toilet paper, late 1980's converse court shoes, salsa, cold cereal, phonograph players, the bass guitar, cigarettes, the police, childhood chores, my mother