What's Your "Hipster" Top Five?

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I have a bud who manages a record store and he asked if I could recommend some CDs to beef up his inventory. So, what are your Top 5 "hipster" essentials? Stuff along the lines of Marvin Pontiac, Wire, Boards of Canada, Oblivians, or Revenant Records stuff. You know, things you can't find at Sam Goody. Unorthodox yet essential. Thanks.

― Cub, Monday, 24 March 2003 01:52 (twenty-three years ago)

"Hi-Fidelity" poser answers here.

― Cub, Monday, 24 March 2003 01:55 (twenty-three years ago)

these are tracks only:

ulrich schnauss: between us & them (from far away trains passing by)

wayne marshall: whole world

sigh: severed ways (from scenario iv: dread dreams)

digitonal: overline (from 23:thingsfallapart on toytronic records)

cassette boy: joliver (off of the parker tapes)

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 24 March 2003 02:05 (twenty-three years ago)

The Horkeywads - Blither and Bluster
Screamin' Dave Thomas - Tell Your Wife to Stop Calling Me
The Nether Regions - You-Know-What
Nancy Newman - Poems About My Breasts
David Franco - Poems About Nancy Newman's Breasts
Liz Phair - "Lick My Asshole and Come on My Face" (unreleased track)
The Snarks - "Liz Phair is A Dirty Sellout Slut"

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Monday, 24 March 2003 03:42 (twenty-three years ago)

the new Artbox album and everything from Jandek's beat poetry period

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 24 March 2003 03:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Ornette Coleman, "Free Jazz"
Albert Ayler, "Spirits Rejoice"
Lightning Bolt, "Wonderful Rainbow"
Wolf Eyes, "Dread"
Pearls Before Swine, "Balaklava" and "One Nation Underground" (reissued on Get Back)
The Nation of Ulysses, "Plays Pretty For Baby"

― Ian Johnson (orion), Monday, 24 March 2003 03:44 (twenty-three years ago)

ca$h money millionaires - platinum instrumentals
pita - get out
kronos quartet - early music
boredoms - rebore v. 0 - vision recreation by eye
led zeppelin - houses of the holy

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 24 March 2003 04:54 (twenty-three years ago)

no b.o.c. @ sam goody?

― j.a.e., Monday, 24 March 2003 06:10 (twenty-three years ago)

they've gotta have agents of fortune

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 24 March 2003 06:12 (twenty-three years ago)

HA HA jess.

― Wooly Reaper, Monday, 24 March 2003 06:14 (twenty-three years ago)

ARTBOX?!?!?!!?!?!?!

Jim, does your endorsement mean all that self-aggrandizement on the Indie Poop List from back in the day (circa 1998) was actually, y'know, worth not ignoring?

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 24 March 2003 06:20 (twenty-three years ago)

welp to be honest i was taking the piss - Artbox are in fact crap. You are safe in your ignorance of them.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 24 March 2003 06:22 (twenty-three years ago)

A Certain Ratio: Forced Laugh
Gang Of Four: Armalite Rifle
Isley Brothers: Who's That Lady
Lou Reed: Andy's Chest
TATU: Malchik Gay

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Monday, 24 March 2003 06:27 (twenty-three years ago)

the sepultura ep by north of america
utter a sound by kitchens and bathrooms
they threw us all in a trench and stuck a monument on top by the liars
anything by drive like jehu
i have a million friends by the burdocks

― kyle, Monday, 24 March 2003 08:01 (twenty-three years ago)

If you're talking CDs that are difficult to find and/or expensive:

David Toop's Ocean of Sound comp
Big Youth -- Screaming Target
Let's Active -- Cypress/Afoot
Jimmy Scott -- Falling in Love is Wonderful (Rhino Handmade)
Thelonious Monk -- Thelonious Himself (JVC Japanese import, audiophile quality)
James Talley -- Got No Bread, No Milk, No Money, But We Got
a Whole Lot of Fun

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Monday, 24 March 2003 17:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Orchid: Dance Tonight! Revolution Tomorrow!
the OOIOO LP on KRS
Liars - They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top
The Fucking Champs - V
Erase Errata - Other Animals

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Monday, 24 March 2003 17:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Alain Goraguer - La Planete Sauvage OST
Broadcast - Work and Non Work
Jean Grae - Attack of the Attacking Things
Coldcut and Steinski - No Rights Given Or Implied
Joe Pass - Stones Jazz*

*to use the most '60s-popcult-swingin'-martini usage of the term "hipster"

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Monday, 24 March 2003 17:47 (twenty-three years ago)

A certified record clerk's "hipster" top five (+1 bonus for "irony")

Alastair Galbraith - Mirrorwork
Thee Headcoats - Elementary Headcoats
Jim O'Rourke - Eureka
Deerhoof - Reveille
ESG - s/t

*Andrew W.K. - I Get Wet

― Kate Silver (Kate Silver), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 17:14 (twenty-three years ago)

probably every record i would put in my top 5 or 10 or 15 would be something you couldn't get at sam goody.

― j fail (cenotaph), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 18:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Jimi Tenor-Intervision
Liars-They Threw Us...
Blood Brothers-This Adultery Is Ripe
Ovuca-Lactavent
Fennesz-Endless Summer

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 19:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Why's there all the love for the Liars LP? It's NOT THAT GOOD. Their live show pisses all over it, and listening to most of it bores me with the exception of Mister You're On Fire Mister and sometimes (sometimes) Loose Nuts On The Velodrome.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 20:48 (twenty-three years ago)

True, they are stunning live, and perhaps my love for the Liars live experience taints my objectivity towards the album, but so be it. I stand by my recommendation.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 11:59 (twenty-three years ago)

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