The Rain Parade are actually from Los Angeles which is where the Paisley Underground was based.

Great reviews! Truly awesome coverage. Thanks for the deep dive on these releases.

Today is the day I watch everyone’s RSD video I hope everyone got what they wanted

So many awesome Finds. Great video 😊

Love your vids! Cheers!

That shirt though...

Nice Rain Parade album ! Leader David Roback formed Opal after Rain Parade dissolved & when Opal vocalist Kendra Smith ( Formerly in Dream Syndicate ) left he replaced her with some kid named Hope Sandoval & changed the name to Mazzy Star .. I picked up Siouxsie & The Banshees live , Lost In Translation soundtrack & Flesheaters & Wall Of Voodoo reissues .. missed Kristin Hersch solo but only 600 were pressed & my New Mexico store didn't get one. ✌️

You can get an app that will create a strobe light so it’s easy to see a zoetrope. And works best in the dark. You might have to dial it in, but it will find a sweet spot to bring out the animations. Speed it up at the edges; slow it down as you shine it towards the center.

Thanks for The Rain Parade recommendation. It's really, really good!

Hey Robert, glad to see you got the Rain Parade record. I read about that one in Trouser Press magazine and picked up a UK copy in 1985, which is still minty, but I wanted the RSD version for the bonus disc. David Roback went on to fame with the band Mazzy Star (not as good as RP in my opinion, although Hope Sandoval's vocals are lovely), and the band got a bit of traction when "Carolyn's Song" was covered on This Mortal Coil's third album, Blood. Rain Parade did not put out a lot of music, but it's all worth checking out, including the expanded version of their Explosions in the Glass Palace ep that was released for RSD 2022. It's nice to see someone giving them a shout out, as they were criminally overlooked in their time.

Thanks was felelin a lil down for not running out for on the Doors album, not so much now.

Some nice RSD pickups Robert, especially Parliament and Rain Parade. 😎🎶

Yes, I like that Parliament album and the Doors! Great finds!

Good stuff Robert! I wasn’t even going to look online or participate this year. Ended up getting sucked in and bought 6 lps. I need to get that Tad!

Nice stack of vinyl you picked up. I was able to pick up Steven Wilson, Rolling Stones debut album, Gandalf, Thin Lizzy, Live at Hammersmith. That Thin Lizzy album sounds fantastic; what a pleasant surprise. I'm actually blown away just how good that Thin Lizzy concert sounds. Gandalf is cool; made me feel like I was part of that era and culture.

Michael Stipe turned me on to The Rain Parade in 1983.

Picked up the Groovie Ghoulies and The Dead Milkmen at my local San Clemente, CA. My 1st RSD Love the channel Robert 👍

Thanks for the peek inside River Bend✌️

I'm celebrating record store day vicariously through you.

What a fantastic video have a wonderful day Robert also today is my friends birthday ❤❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊😅😊

Glad to hear good things about that 300% Dynamite comp... I just ordered a copy a few hours ago. 🙂

Love The Shirt! And Gordan says Thats All folks!

Digging the Seinfeld puffy shirt Robert

Actually, the cat timing was perfect. Thanks to you, I grabbed The Rain Parade and the comp Pale Shades of Grey (I saw you made a playlist on YT for it, I suppose you'll talk about it in part 2) So, I was able to give a listen to both records in the store before buying The Parliament was tempting me but the price was too high for me. For Tad, it was eyeing me but I'm not too familiar with the band so will have to listen to it later... Don't know if it will still be there but my store had a bunch of records that were not moving. I didn't see the 300% or I would have grabbed it. Maybe it was gone before I got there or maybe they didn't order it Same with the Blur... Went there around 12:30-1pm, it was nice, busy but not too busy, you could move around the store easily, and they had a good flow of people, coming and going. So, it was quite enjoyable. I did get a couple of used records while I was there. They didn't have the only one I was looking for which actually was not even on the US RSD list (they double check), it's Global Communication - Maiden Voyage by Music On Vinyl so it was probably only in the Netherlands and UK. 1200 copies, I can say that this thing is gone... (it might appear on Discogs for an incredible price from a European seller so with crazy shipping as well). Unless, in the near future, MOV decide to repress it on a regular release (they do that sometimes) Now, off to the Humminguru they and I'll watch your live report video

Tracy Jacks is my favorite track … only cause I like the sound of it

I picked up the Doors album and LOVE IT!We all hear things differently but I can’t stop listening to it.Was truly surprised on how good it is.

I've got all the Sub Pop TAD releases in my bandcamp account. Great stuff.

Hard pass on RSD. But I did pick up 30 NM all analog used records yesterday for $1 ea. Then again, maybe I'm the one who's crazy! But if I ever win the lottery I will go to RSD!

I knew you got carried away as soon as I saw that shirt 😂😂 Great pickups though, cheers

Soul Jazz has released more than two “% Dynamite” slabs. Sometimes they are 100%. The most tempting for me is the Rain Parade album. It was not as obscure as you think. It was one of the key releases from LA’s Paisley Underground, which included the Bangles, Dream Syndicate, Opal, and Green on Red. I think they released it this year because guitarist Dave Roback recently died. He was a retiring figure, but he gained wider acclaim in Mazzy Star.

Sounds like you made out pretty well this RSD!!! I hesitate to buy those live Doors RSDs as they don’t seem to sound very good but you got some good stuff!!

24:18 That's how I always felt about 90s music I own. I never had the desire to buy the vinyl LP of an album I originally bought as a CD back then. I figured that's how it was released and how it plays best. I have a lot of albums with unique sequencing of songs that get would get lost on 2 LPs.

Zoetrope discs as they typically run at 33 RPM (I've seen a few zoetrope 45 singles) so to get the proper effect, the camera speed has to match or come close to that frame rate. Most phones have a lower fidelity 30 frames per second frame rate that will let it come through, but if you only have 60 fps equipment, a strove light effectually slows the frame rate down. My local store only had one or two copies of most of what I was looking for... I usually work over nights so I used some sick time to be there 8 hours before opening and 7th in line. One record was picked up by one of the six ahead of me (who I congratulated them on picking up... I'm not a hater) but I got everything else, which I'm super happy with. Working a 12 hour shift tonight but have Monday-Wednesday off to give them a spin.

Hey Robert some cool record especially 30% Dynamote!

Great pickups. I really need to find that Jim Croce album since he’s a local hero here in the Philly suburbs. I downloaded a bootleg of that many years ago from a torrent site but the sound quality wasn’t great. And yes the “Ball” track is hilarious especially as the song goes on and the sex acts get wilder. lol BTW, can’t wait to see part 2 of these reviews. Hopefully you grabbed a copy of Steely Dan’s “Aja” from Billy and Tara since we know it’s one of your faves

Thanks for the info, great video. BTW 1988 called they want that shirt back.

The late great David Roback (Mazzy Star) with Rain Parade. Did some members morph into The Three O’Clock?

TAD! I have that one on cd (promo) but also have Inhaler, Gods Balls and 8 Way Santa on LP. Good stuff. Often overlooked. I missed out on Malfunksin on RSD today (Andrew Wood of Mother Love Bone)......and Gandolf.......and Amboy Dukes. I got skunked on RSD but it was still fun to be at my local shop to witness it. I picked up Melvins - Tarantula Heart as it just came out in the last day or two.Good stuff.

That Parliament is absolute 🧨💥💯....both Slabs of wax...been listening to non stop the last 48 hours... Cheers

Never heard of Tad and I’m a grunge fan. I’ll have to check them out.

Really wanted the Parliament but the $$ was much too high. So wanted you to say it sounded terrible, lol.

That Doors album looks beautiful but it would be nice to actually hear Jim singing. That Jim Croce one looks great too, so sad about him and Maury.😢 Thank you for sharing these.

I got the Rain Parade album on release back in 1983, forgot all about this band, who knew this would be popular now!😊

The Parliament album is a classic. I bought a reissue of it back in the 90's and was just blown away. Hey, you finally got the Gandalf album too. I'm really looking forward to watching your review on that. My money recently has gone on the first two albums by a very interesting rap artist called Ren Gill. He just goes under the name Ren. He's a new discovery for me. Check him out Robert if you haven't come across him yet. His lyrics and music are superb. I think he's going to go on to be a very notable artist and his albums are bound to become future collectors items. So far he's only released two but there's quite a lot of his videos on KZfaq. Thanks for your video and I hope you are well. Tell Gordon he's fab too x

Great pickups. You passed on The Bottle Rockets?!!! Ouch! Love that Tad record though.

The Paisley Underground scene was out of Los Angeles in the 1980s. Rain Parade, the Three O’Clock, the Bangles, the Dream Syndicate, Green On Red and the Long Ryders were some of the bands that were part of that movement. “Emergency Third Rail Power Trip” was Rain Parade’s 1983 debut album. In 1985, Rain Parade went over to Island Records to release their second album, “Crashing Dream”. Unfortunately, Rain Parade broke up in 1986 with a third album in the oven. It was never released. There were reunions here and there over the years leading to their appearance on a 2018 album called “3x4”. The album featured three new songs by four Paisley Underground bands - Rain Parade, the Dream Syndicate, the Bangles and the Three O’Clock. “3x4” was issued as a double LP on Record Store Day Black Friday 2018 and then rereleased three months later, in 2019. Last year, Rain Parade finally released a third album, “Last Rays Of A Dying Sun” - their first studio album in 38 years.

The RSD live Doors album from last year was Live In Bakersfield. I passed but I was interested because I lived in Bakersfield at the time. Mazzy very kindly sent me a copy. I think I chased all the Jazz fans away from my channel.

I got 16 albums - a wide mix of pop-punk, prog, jazz, metal, funk, synth-pop and rock.... and hi to your cat!!

Got Fields of Nephellum, Jazz Dispensary, Sisters of Mercy and Ramones demos. All killer. Didnt get the Japanese House release. Seems scarce. Bummer. Was gonna get it for a friend. Rain Parade rocks. Have the CD.

"If you ever wanted to hear Jim Croce sing with a brogue about an orgy..." I did not, because it is a concept too amazing for my mind to have created. But I want to hear it now.

My favorite buy of the day was Bernie Worrell aka the wizard of woo (keyboardist for the parliment funkadelic and the talking heads era of stop making sense - for those that don't know who he is... He passed away and this record was a tribute. The artists on the record are mind blowing. We're talking Bootsy Collins, Fred Wesley, Stanton Moore, Sean Lennon, Buckethead, Marco Benevento, Alecia Chakour... I believe it's the hidden gem of the day. You still have to to grab one. I have no clue how they produced this album. My only stank is that Jen Durkin wasn't called in to play a part. Nevertheless, the stars range all over the board from Tedeshi Trucks all the way to james brown and the mothership. The Whole album was great.

The only item I wanted this year was immediately sold out (Mind Games EP), but I found a great British pressing of Genesis' "Selling England By the Pound". Yeah, no one else gives a shit, but it's a WIn-Win for me.

I was lucky to get Parliament, Amboy Dukes, Rain Parade, Voivod and Gandalf! I couldn’t pull the trigger on the demo version of Dream Syndicate’s Days of Wine and Roses. The looks I got from the store staff with the Gandalf selection made it look like I had street cred!🤣

Seeing that Rain Parade cover got me to thinkin' about balloons. I spose you could say it put me in a Buhloone Mindstate. That Rain Parade cover immediately made me think of the album cover for Songs by Rotary Connection. That Minnie Riperton could hit notes so high that she made helium jealous. Hoy hoy! And you know Disney World has a Minnie and lots of mouse-eared balloons. And you know clowns have lots of balloons. The band Acid Bath had a controversial cover that had a clown holding balloons on it. Looked innocent enough to me. Maybe they thought coulrophobia and globophobia were too much for people. But what about the balloony clown on the cover of Free Design's Sing for Very Important People? That's sposed to be a kids' album. To me, that frowning, crying clown is worse than the happy clown on the Acid Bath cover. Come to think of it, Minnie Riperton sounds like it could be the name of a serial killer. Oh Maya! Those experimenters Matmos have an album called Supreme Balloon that, naturally, has a balloon on the cover. But that got me to thinkin' about what is the supreme balloon on an album cover. Pink Floyd's Animals with its famous piggie balloon got to #3 on Billboard's US chart. Pink Floyd's as known for pig balloons as a ribfest. Oink oink! Now, do we consider a zeppelin a balloon? Could Led Zeppelin I be the most well-known cover with a balloonesque object on it? Oh, but that's so sad! Disasters make me feel so like that clown on the Free Design cover. How 'bout we turn that frown upside down with Steve Martin's cover for Let's Get Small. That's putting balloons to good use. That album reached #10 on Billboard's US chart. But I can get higher than any of those albums. I'm going up, up, and away in my beautiful balloon. See you in the 5th Dimension. Stay groovy. Honorable Mention: I Turned Into a Helium Balloon. CD only Nuggets-style psych comp by Big Beat Records. Dishonorable Mention: "99 Luftballons" by Nena. There's not even a single luftballon on the cover for that single.

The TAD is on my shortlist of items I hope to snap up online early tomorrow morning. Cheers!

I did the west KY record store day crawl. Bought a few RSD titles and some other random crap.

That makes my 4 purchases seem rather paltry! Thin Lizzy - Live And Dangerous 1976 Anne Briggs - Topic Gene Clark - No Other Sessions Gene Clark - The Lost Sessions Really gutted that I missed out on the Jim Croce live album.

Croce is trying to imitate a Scottish accent, Kirriemuir is in east Scotland and is not normally as wild as portrayed, or maybe I don't know it well enough.

Got the Bill Evans and Band X pressings. They both sound excellent, especially the Bill Evans. I have listened to that one three times already. I was tempted to get Sister Rosetta Tharpe but not for $50. Ebay already has one listed for $125 but if I come across one later for cheaper than $50 I may get it. The content sounds really good as I sampled two tracks on Spotify. I don't know how often I would listen to it. Nevertheless, SR Tharpe's vocals and guitar playing are on point based on the samples. The only other one I was somewhat tempted by was the Gandalf. There is just something off-putting about the vocals on that one. I do like the Nature Boy track as that is one of my favorite songs. Glad you got the stack you wanted. I used store credit for my two so I didn't spend money that wasn't already spent.

I had a stack of 8 albums and they were the last copies of all 8. I set them down to tie my shoes and a guy grabbed them and bought them. I asked him to give them back and he flipped me the bird.

I spent 3 hours in line to get a copy of Gandalfs self titled album, just to find it at another store a few miles away…. I definitely have to call MULTIPLE stores ahead of time

Killer bro

1:43 - The dogs running was probably on the extra-expensive and super-rare NOBODY GETS IT edition that was sold out before the store opened.

I often order 14 CDs on a whim while on Discogs on any given night of the week.

I was going to go just for the Tad record…but in-laws in town…so that didn’t happen. Hope they have some left over next week

I think your copy of 300% dynamite has some tracks off the other volumes? I bought them when they originally released, 100% going up to 600%. They are all really good, as are every single soul jazz records release. I just counted up I have 46 soul jazz records comps on vinyl and 15 on cd. The volume 2 of the space funk compilation is particularly good, it's all obscure electro disco rap based and a great listen. Also I'm enjoying the 2 volumes of country soul sisters that they put out. I'd check track listings first though because you may already have a lot of the tracks on those.

Robert, great shirt. Going to a disco after the video?

I’m sitting it out this year as collecting Atlantic 75 Analogue Productions

The Rain Parade looks interesting. Would really love the Pearl Jam west coast variant. How do I get my hands on one. I am in the deep south.

Did you sleep on Tinted Windows release? I know Taylor Hanson doesnt exactly wet the whistle upon heaing hes the singer but i listened to it recently and that album is quite good with members of Smashing Pumpkins, Fountains of Wayne, and Cheap Trick. First time pressed to vinyl. I knew watching this video id learn something to check out. Seems the consensus goodie was the Rain Parade. I do like ska so ill check out the 300 percent dynamite.

Park life is synonymous with Blur … it’ll grow on you :)

Got a very late start today and only picked up TAD this year, my bank account and wife are very happy.

Tracy Jack's is the best song on that album.Mabe, it's to British an album for you, yanks

I am The only human being that likes the song park life.

That's cool that you bought a nice stack of LPs. Did you buy that shirt on purpose?

I never but coloured vinyl or picture discs, they're soo naff! 😂

Is that Electrfiction I see in the second stack?

You need a strobe light for that blur record

MEOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!

I think you need to look at the zoetrope record with your phone camera.

Nothing for me this year. Stores got so little. I'm currently browsing the web offerings. Nice recap.

543$ I spent on rsd

the art tatum release is insane

All I bought was the fuckin up Neil young live album. Looks really awesome, Havnt listened yet tho since I need a new stylus 😔

coconut woman was a big hit for Harry Belafonte. It's not a bad version actually.

I see "Bowie" which in a few months will be released on Blu-ray with the "Ziggy" box set. But you skip over it?

I have a mint original Australian press of Osmium.

Yeah, at one time they called themselves "The Parliament-Funkadelic Thang".

I bought the zoetrope A nightmare Before Christmas, doesn't work either, I've never been to a record day, haven't been to a "real" record store for over 2 decades

For Blur you need a strobe

Sounds like your table might be off-speed, if you adjust it you should be able to see the Blur.

haaa,rerun eating popcorn.I remember that,wasnt he forced to do it?

and no doubt , like everyone who goes to RSD...they buy items but wont listen to them...RSD has become a platform to say you have it but not listen to it !...

i thought you had to look at those through your phones camera?

I think I did at least 20

Hey Robert, Ted Nugent called and he wants his shirt back!

U missed out on at the drive in

You will need a strobe for all zoetrope

14 new albums in, which 14 are getting out of the collection?

Tad record from the 90s? I thought that was only something to be heard on CD. HAA! Still love your channel!