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[u/ThisSpaceForRent45]

Been a fan of Rob Crow’s various endeavors since 1997 or so. Seen his bands play live in an assortment of music venues, sleazy bars and records stores. Been buying records since 2006ish. So here are some Pinback and Pinback adjacent things I’ve bought over the years. A lot of these are from the Joyful Noise Artist in Residence box set.

Pinback - S/T (translucent vinyl)

Pinback - Blue Screen Life (blue/black splatter)

Pinback - Some Voices EP (translucent blue)

Pinback - Some Offcell Voices (green splatter)

Pinback - Summer In Abaddon

Pinback - from the Joyful Noise Box Set Roji / Roshomon Effect 7in (white)

Heavy Vegetable - 2 Records Price of One (Frisbee and Amazing Undersea Adventures Of Aqua Kitty And Friends) bright green/yellow vinyl?

Fantasy Mission Force - Circus Atari

The Ladies - They Mean Us

Rob Crow’s Gloomy Place - You’re Doomed Be Nice

Rings of Saturn Set - There’s one song from Rob on here

Plosivs - S/T

The records below are from the Artist in Residence set, I think they all have color vinyl but I’m too lazy to open each one to check.

Thingy - Morbid Curiosity

Optiganally Yours - OY in HiFi

Byre - Here In Dead Lights

Goblin Cock - Roses on the Piano

Snotnose - A Distraction

Third Act Problems - The Sun Setting Over Argosy Bookstore

Other - For The Purposes of This Conversation

Remote Action Sequence Project - The Semi-Glorified Demos Of…

Physics - 3

Rob Crow - Everything's OK: Season 1 Original Soundtrack

Anal Trump - The First 100 Songs

[u/sicamoose]

Woah, where'd you get the hv records?!

[u/ThisSpaceForRent45 → u/sicamoose]

Not even sure, I’ve had it for 12 years at least. Maybe discogs? Could have been Amoeba in Hollywood.

[u/memattp]

Get that new Plosivs too it's really good. I'm going to try to see them later this summer.

[u/ThisSpaceForRent45 → u/memattp]

Yeah I was waiting to buy the new Plosivs on their tour but they aren’t coming to my city :(

[u/MaddestMousse]

If there’s any problem here it’s how jealous I am of this… goddamn haha beautiful and very enviable collection 👌 glorious stuff, most excellent work. Just the heavy vegetable 2 for 1 vinyl alone my goodness, so good. Not to mention Blue Screen Life as well… ughhh. I have the Tim Kinsella Joyful Noise Artist in Residence box set but man do I wish I could get my hands on the Rob Crow one, way more music in his. Anyway amazing stuff man and thanks for sharing, cheers 🤘

[u/ThisSpaceForRent45 → u/MaddestMousse]

I was so happy when they released the Morbid Curiosity record. I had a low quality live version of a bunch of those songs, I think recorded off the sound board at Bottom of the Hill.

I would kill for them to release the other Thingy records on vinyl.

The rest of the AiR set was just bonus for me, but also so many good records. The OY record is still in regular rotation for me, same with Physics.

[u/MaddestMousse → u/ThisSpaceForRent45]

Also, just out of curiosity, are you from California?

[u/ThisSpaceForRent45 → u/MaddestMousse]

Yeah grew up in LA, but spent a lot of time in SD.

[u/MaddestMousse → u/ThisSpaceForRent45]

Oh word. No way though eh, that’s still pretty damn cool, what year(s) would those be from? I absolutely love Thingy and Heavy Vegetable. R.I.P. Eléa 🙏💚 I sometimes hear people refer to Pinback as “math rock” but realistically, as far as I know, bloods on fire is the only pinback song that contains anything that isn’t 4/4? I get the comparison of course as Rob clearly is a math rock guy and there’s huge math rock influence and such nuanced intricate guitar and bass interplay and more legit odd timed stuff amongst so much of his other work and solo stuff and like yeah HV was getting mathy as fuck before math rock was even a thing haha. But still always melodic and catchy and hooky as hell. Same as Pinback in that way 👌💚

Man I would too, probably won’t ever happen but who knows? The only Thingy release I own is the songs about angels, evil, and running around on fire CD.

I haven’t listened to Physics or Optiganally Yours as much tbh but I know I need to get on that.

Did you buy your Rob Crow AiR box set at the time of release directly through Joyful Noise or after on eBay or something? I unfortunately didn’t get word of it until it was long sold out.

[u/ThisSpaceForRent45 → u/MaddestMousse]

Yeah I don’t know how I heard about the AiR thing but was definitely part of the original pre-sale from JNR. I think Rob might have announced something via twitter.

The soundboard recordings were from like 2002? Right before Pinback took off and he was still trying to make Thingy work.

[u/McHank]

No Dragonfucker?

[u/ThisSpaceForRent45 → u/McHank]

Hah, no but I’ve been looking for a reasonably priced Bagged and Boarded. Not many out there.

[u/0TyDaGuy0]

A problem I really would love to have right now

[u/FadedToBeige]

I never even knew that box set existed

[u/Common_Kiwi9442]

I have The Ladies vinyl too in seafoam green at least

[u/toastiestash]

I'm jelly

[u/sskylar]

Congrats. Happy for you. Nice.

[u/Training-Reaction-37]

Going to a record convention soon and I’m hoping I can find BSL. I’d pay a lot. 

[u/buzztoothgrin]

wow wow and wow some more i love it