Rare Red Vinyl 45 of Cat Power

[missmaro]

Saw this and copied it from Ebay...

CAT POWER RED VINYL 7 inch/45 circa 1996. RARE. SIDE A FEATURES PSYCHIC HEARTS (written by Thurston Moore) LIVE. SIDE B FEATURES WE DANCE (written by Stephen Malamus) AND JOHNNY'S GOT A GUN. ALL LIVE TRACKS. NEVER BEEN PLAYED


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[sunne]

colored vinyl is no good, it has bad sound quality.

[Patrick]

Not necessarily - it depends on the pressing and the colors used.

In any case, if this is the only way that the single was pressed, then that might be a moot point!

Patrick

[TheSadDebaser]

Stephen Malamus?


Psychic Hearts was such an awful record.

That looks like a cool single though.

[soot]

Johnny's Got a Gun is a Dead Moon song , that and Psychic Hearts (which is better than original) are worth getting the record for. Her version of We Dance is so-so...
I think this is one of those "rare" records that keeps getting re-pressed somehow...

[Patrick]

and was it an official release or a boot? what label?

Patrick

[Dave]

Unless I am mistaken, the label was also called Undercover. The gist of the label was to release records of people doing covers. There were some other releases too, but they escape me at the moment. Real release, not a boot, and really rather rare these days. It came out at a time when the 7" craze had really played itself out, but Chan was already rather established and the label may have even done more than one pressing, but it is not in print anymore. Matador used to carry it for sale to our direct stores.
bid away

Dave

PS SDB, Is your problem w/the song "Psychic Hearts" or the whole Thurston solo record? I think there are some jammin' moments on the record.

[flo's garage]

I agree with you Dave. I found it on double vinyl a while back in Bristol and it was a worthy purchase. It's patchy, but in fairness thats a trait for Sonic Youthians since the early nineties

[tinobeat]

I have this single, and unfortunately, for me it does absolutely nothing. Unlike the songs on the covers record, these just seem so lifeless...

[TheSadDebaser]

Originally posted by Dave
PS SDB, Is your problem w/the song "Psychic Hearts" or the whole Thurston solo record? I think there are some jammin' moments on the record.

I dunno. I guess I've never gotten past the first three tracks. It's just sort of like, the cynical very 90s urbanite attitude on the record that wasn't so present or was made up for on Sonic Youth records in the early and mid-90s. The songs could possibly have been made up for with the rest of the group helping out, but the record seems really dull and it sounds like he's trying really hard at something (convention? accessibility?), but I can't really tell what. So it leaves me confused and bored and over all I remember it seeming very very awkward.

But I'll give it another chance. I keep hearing people say they don't hate it, but I never understand why. I feel like I read or heard Thurston Moore say something to the effect of regretting something about that record, or not being as proud of it as Sonic Youth records from the same period, but maybe I'm thinking of something else?

[River Tigris]

"Psychic Hearts" -- love the song, not so much the record.