This Month's Thrift Store Vinyl Sharity

The Electric Hair (Robert Byrne), Electric Hair (Evolution-Stereo Dimension, n.d.)

This undated Moog LP appeared on a label owned by watchmaker Longines Wittnauer (there's some trivia). Vinyl Vulture, who lists a really impressive catalogue of Hair-related instrumental albums, thinks this album has “quirky charm”:

“With the exception of ‘Be In (Hare Krishna)’ and ‘Hair,’ the album steers clear of Perrey-esque Moog bleeps and electronically generated fart-noises and instead concentrates on quality electronic composition; check out ‘Let The Sunshine In’ and ‘Walking In Space’ for more examples of how it can be done properly.”

Apparently there was a 45 release on Phillips as well.

And that’s pretty much all I have to offer on this record. Some people have it for sale (on Festival--but what does “Track 1 only” mean?), and other people just proudly own it.

Track list: Side A: 1. Aquarius, 2. Easy to Be Hard, 3. Good Morning Starshine, 4. Three-Five-Zero-Zero, 5. Donna; Side B: 1. Be-In (Hare Krishna), 2. Frank Mills, 3. Let the Sunshine In, 4. Walking in Space, 5. Hair.

You may find one .mp3 & album art .zip file at rapidshare.com, as usual.

Not My Vinyl Sharity

Percy Thrillington, Thrillington (Regal Zonophone, 1977)

I don't know where I was when this album was first posted at WFMU's Beware of the Blog, but it has been my favorite download of the past month. So, if you haven't checked out the tracks, let me suggest that you do. You're probably over at WFMU for the 365 Days project anyway.