Welcome to a brand new week! Happy Monday everyone! Today we bring you news this past weekend we brought home a *virtual* award for our store’s award shelf. We are thrilled to accept Downtown Springfield Inc‘s award for “most creative promotion” for our Downtown Pinball Tournament which was held earlier this past fall. We had a whole lot of fun setting up the pinball tournament, and we can’t wait to do it again later on this year.
The Downtown Springfield Inc. awards ceremony was held virtually this year. You can check out what other local businesses and people won other awards on the DSI facebook page right here.
Once again congratulations to Prairie Archives for being the official winners for our Downtown Springfield Pinball Tournament for 2020. Who will be the winner for this year?
Good morning! Good afternoon! We have been so busy over here at Dumb Records that we haven’t been keeping up with much website stuff. Whoopsies! We better make sure we get out a list of new arrivals to you today though! We’ve been getting in more and more newer LPs as opposed to used ones lately. You decide if that’s a good thing or not. Our store is still open every day from 12:00 to 5:00 pm. We are open for appointments before or after that time, and we are still open for online orders at shopdumbrecords.com. What more could you need? Oh, don’t worry, the arcade is coming back very soon.
New LPs Arlin Peebles – Some Big Mystery Bette Smith – Jetlagger The Black Keys – Chulahoma Bob Marley & The Wailers – Uprising Buck Meek – Two Saviors Charlie Mingus – Blues & Roots Danny Elfman – Dick Tracy Original Score Dr. John – Gumbo Blues Fit For An Autopsy – The Sea of Tragic Beasts The Grateful Dead – Best Of The Grateful Dead 1967-1977 John Lee Hooker – Alone Junior Kimbrough & The Soul Blues Boys – All Night Long The Killers – Day & Age Modest Mouse – The Fruit That Ate Itself Pop Smoke – Shoot For The Stars Shame – Drunk Tank Pink Screamin’ Jay Hawkins – At Home With Screamin’ Jay Hawkins Soccer Mommy – Collection Soccer Mommy – Clean Stevie Ray Vaughan – In The Beginning Swans – Children Of God Superchunk – Come Pick Me Up Syl Johnson – Back For A Taste Talk Talk – It’s My Life Television – Adventure Thurston Moore – By The Fire Townes Van Zandt – Sky Blue Twin Peaks – Wild Onion Various – Brown Acid: The Eleventh Trip Various – Fat Possum: Not The Same Old Blues Crap Various – If I Had A Pair of Wings: 2 WAVVES – Wavvves
Used LPs Art Tatum – The Greatest Piano Of Them All B.B. King – Original Folk Blues Blind Lemon Jefferson – Early Blues The Brides of Funkenstein – Funk or Walk Elton John – Jump Up! Elton John – Ice On Fire Eric Clapton – Slow Hand Flight Of The Conchords – Flight Of The Conchords Freddy Fender – Since I Met You Babby The Jackson 5 – Diana Ross Presents Heartsfield – The Wonder Of It All Jane Siberry – The Speckless Sky Jimmy Buffett – Floridays Laurindo Almeida – Guitar Recital Klymaxx – Girls Will Be Girls Natalie Cole Neil Diamond – Tap Root Manuscript Oliver Sain – At His Best RUSH – Permanent Waves Stephen Kalinich – Scrambled Eggs Tom Tom Club – Close To The Bone Tony Toni Toné – Boys And Girls Village People – Go West
12” Singles Cher – Take Me Home / What’s It Good Craig David – 7 Days Joeski Love – Pee-Wee’s Dance Howard Johnson – You’re The One I’ve Needed Most Wanted Feat. Precyse – Jobs Jobs Jobs Silkk The Shocker – We Soldiers Slimm Calhoun – Well Featuring K Slimm Cutta-Calhoun – It’s OK Stacks – Git It, Git It Sylvester – I (Who Have Nothing)
New / Used CDs Bobby Brown – Don’t Be Cruel Bobby Brown – Greatest Hits Clint Black – Killin’ Time Emmylou Harris – Elite Hotel Eve 6 – Eve 6 Da Brat – Unrestricted DJ Quik – Under Tha Influence Eurythmics – Be Yourself Tonight The Fixx – Reach The Beach The Fixx – React Garth Brooks – Scarecrow Helmet – Meantime Helmet – Aftertaste H2O – Go John Anderson – Too Tough To Tame John Anderson – Country ’Til I Die Junior Brown – Mixed Bag Mark Chesnutt – Too Cold At Home Mark Chesnutt – I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing Paul Brandt – Calm Before The Storm 4 Non Blondes – Bigger, Better, Faster, More!
Oops, we almost forgot to mention! It’s that special time of the year again. It’s happening a little bit later into January than usual, but it’s the time of the year when we release our poll results for our annual Best of Local Music poll, and we team up with Activator Magazine for their January issue featuring all of the results.
We will be posting some of the results to our polls online here in the coming days. For now though, we are letting you know that we have a few copies available of the new Activator for free in our store! You can also pick them up at different locations around town. And thank you to everyone who helped us in contributing write-ups for this issue!
Greetings! Greetings. Good morning. It’s another week at our Dumb Record store… and this time we are actually open! (With limited hours). Our store is open, we are still taking appointments before or after our operating hours, and we are still offering shipping, delivery, and pickup options at shopdumbrecords.com… what more could you ask for? Our physical store is open at 418 E Monroe Street from 12-5pm every day now. We’ll likely build those hours up over time. The arcade is still closed. Okay let’s dive into all of what’s new – this week once again we have a fresh stack of new and used LPs, 12″ singles, CDs, and more. We even have a whole bunch of turntables for sale!
New LPs Aaron Frazer – Introducing Aaron Frazer Big Red Machine – Big Red Machine Brand New – Deja Entendu Courtney Marie Andrews – Honest Life Eminem – The Slim Shady LP End Result – The Seven Year Locust Returns Dead Kennedys – Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables Kraftwerd – Techno Pop The Mighty Mighty Bosstones – Don’t Know How To Party Peter Tosh – Bush Doctor Protagonists – 1983-1985 Ray Charles – The Genius After Hours Sleep – The Sciences Superchunk – Indoor Living Superchunk – Majesty Shredding Syd Barrett – Opel Thrice – Palms Townes Van Zandt – In The Beginning Various – New Your City Hardcore Void / Faith – Split X – Alphabetland
Used LPs Bob James – All Around The Town Canned Heat & John Lee Hooker – Hooker N Heat Canned Heat – Canned Heat Colosseum II – Electric Savage Eddie Money – Eddie Money Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Tarkus Elton John – Sleeping With The Past Emerson Meyers – Provocative Electronics Ernie Hines – Electrified Diana Ross – Last Time I Saw Him Frank Sinatra – Sentimental Journey Frank Sinatra – Nice N’ Easy Gato Barbieri – Tropico Henry Mancini – The Mancini Touch Jane Wiedlin – Jane Wiedlin Joe English Band – Live John Hall – John Hall Julian Bream – Popular Classics for Spanish Guitar Mickey Thomas – As Long As You Love Me The Mike Curb Congregation – Sweet Gingerbread Man Nick Glider – City Nights Ollie Baba – Ollie Baba Ray Bohr – The Radio City Music Hall Organ Ringo Starr – Bad Boy Rolling Stones – Steel Wheels Scorpions – Love At First Sting Scorpions – Savage Amusement Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’77 – Love Music Steven Farmer & Michael Myers – Homegrown Studio 78 – Music From The Movie FM Vaneese Thomas – Vaneese Yes – Going For The One Yes – 90125 10cc – Look Hear? 13th Floor Elevators – Flivver
12” Singles ABC – The Night You Murdered Love Brand Nubian – A Child Is Born Buffalo Smoke – Stubborn Kind of Fella Nikki D – Hang On Kid
New / Used CDs Annie Lennox – Bare Annie Pennox – Diva Art Garfukel – Scissors Cut Asleep At The Wheel – The Best Of Asleep At The Wheel – Superhits Babyface – Face 2 Face Ben Harper – Diamonds On The Inside Ben Harper – Live At The Hollywood Bowl EP Billie Holiday – The Quintessential Black Hawk – Love & Gravity Bone Thugs-N-Harmony – The Collection Volume Two Bone Thugs-N-Harmony – The Collection Volume One Chad Brock – III Chad Brock – Yes! Chubby Checker – Greatest Hits Clint Black – Dilectrified Clint Black – The Hard Way Eurythmics – Peace Eurythmics – Greatest Hits Felix TX – Lechuza Fishsticks – Disko Five – Five Garth Brooks – Fresh Horses Indigo Girls – 3 Pak Indigo Girls – Swamp Ophelia Ja Rule – The Last Temptation Jay-Z – Vol. 2 Hard Knock Life Joe – Better Days John McLaughlin – This Is Jazz #17 John Anderson – Paradise Mark Chesnutt – I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing Mary Chapin Carpenter – Stones In The Road Mindy McCready – Ten Thousand Angels Nsync – Celebrity Robert Earl Keen – Gravitational Forces Sarah Vaughan – The Definitive Sarah Vaughan Tammy Cochran – Tammy Cochran
Well, well, well, did you know that today just so happens to be our birthday? That’s right, seven years ago (January 11th, 2014) was the grand open for our store’s original location at 1107 South Grand Ave, next to The Black Sheep. So now we are officially 7 years old and entering our eighth year.
We are not looking to have a huge celebration this year of course, but we are deciding to move forward in re-opening our store (just a bitty bit more) today by switching the *open* sign to “on” from 12-5pm every day now.
Here’s the low-down for now: – The store is open 12-5pm every day. – Limit to 8 customers in the store at a time. – Masks required (duh), we also have hand sanitizer as you enter. – The arcade is still closed for now. We are not doing reservations on that for now either, maybe soon. – We are still open to store appointments happening before noon or after 5pm! Just call, email or message us ahead of time. – We are still offering shipping, delivery, or store pick-up options on shopdumbrecords.com!
That’s it for now! Check out our Black Sheep History Page if you want to get teary-eyed and think back on all of the fun times we’ve had together over the years.
Happy Tuesday! Tornado drill Tuesday! We are trying are darndest to keep these shelves stocked at Dumb Records with new and used LPs, CD, and more wether our physical store is open or not. We are still appointment-only right now, and are still busier than ever online. You can call, email, or message us about setting up an appointment, or check out our online store right here. (shopdumbrecords.com) This week we’ve got a few new items from Alona’s Dream Records, including a good batch of 7″s. Check out that big list of some of what’s new this week below:
New LPs Adolescents – Brats In Battalions BIB – Delux Bruno Mars – Doo-Wops & Hooligans The Contents Are – Four Each Other Cowboy Bebop – Seatbelts Cro-Mags – In The Beginning DuChamp – Kansas City 1980 The Flatliners – The Great Awake Florence + The Machine – Lungs Food And Money – 1979-1982 Municipal Waste – The Last Rager Negative Element – Shouts of Rebellion 1982-1983 Porno Glows – 12” EP Remedy – The Golden Voice Sessions Savage Beliefs – Big Big Sky Silver Abuse – Consider The Pigeon Snoop Dogg – Tha Last Meal Sonic Youth – Daydream Nation Suicidal Tendencies – World Gone Mad Sufjan Stevens – Delighted People EP Thanatopsis – Golden Voice Trial By Fire – 1982 Various – Banned From Chicago – 1978
Used LPs Bay City Rollers – Rock N’ Roll Love Letter Charley Pride – Christmas In My Home Town Chic – C’est Chic Faustus – Tonight at The Movies Ferrante & Teicher – Supermen Gordon Lightfoot – Sit Down Young Stranger Ian Lloyd – Goose Bumps Leon Isaac Kennedy – Duke of Dukes Melanie – Garden In The City Michel Legrand – Brian’s Song Moody Blues – Long Distance Voyager Oracle – Danger Zone Phil N’ The Blanks – Head Screwed On Picture Perfect – Boy Crazy The Rolling Stones – December’s Children Screed – Point of Confusion The Temptations – Greatest Hits Todd Rundgren – Hermit of Mink Hollow Tony Perkins – On A Rainy Afternoon Various – At The Cavern Various – Grease: The Original Broadway Cast Album
12” Singles Bonafide Kings – Tick Tock Grandaddy Souf – Savage Journey Greg Cash – 1998 Half-A-Mill – Still Tina – Tipsy
New 7”s Articles Of Faith – What We Want Is Free Dianetics – And Psycho Horse Dianetics – Book Learned Dream Probe – Demo Coleccion Droids Blood – On Trial Years Later From – 8:00 to 5:69 JJ180 – JJ180 Matrix – Demo Skull Cult – Skull Cult Things Are Fun – Nobody Answers The Phone The Wombats – Golden Voice Recordings 1966-1967
New / Used CDs Bone Thugs-N-Harmony – Thug World Order Brooks & Dunn – Steers & Stripes Clint Black – Put Yourself In My Shoes Clint Black – Greatest Hits II Eddy Arnold – The Legendary Eddy Arnold Eurythmics – Reveng Gary Numan – Pure Gene Autry – The Essential Gene Autry Guttermouth – Gusto Guttermouth – The Album Formerly Known As… Michael Houser – Door Harp Ice Cube – War & Peace Vol. 2 Ice T – VI: Return of the Real Front 242 – Tyranny For You Future Bible Heroes – Eternal Youth Kenny Chesney – No Shoes No Shirt No Problems Kenny Chesney – Me And You Lou Bega – A Little Bit Of Mambo Mandy Barnett – Mandy Barnett Mark Chesnutt – What A Way To Live Sonic Boom – Shades Apart Various – Violin for Relaxation Various – Virtuoso Trumpet Various – Festive Baroque Various – Mozart for Relaxation
Surprise, it’s another week! We are slowly getting our footing back on things after this holiday, and soon… hopefully soon we will be fully open again. For now we are appointment only, and also shipping, delivering, and offering pick-up on orders placed on our online stores. Go to shopdumbrecords.com for a link to all of that. This week we don’t have as much stuff, but we are giving it to you anyways. No CDs this week, sorry. This is what you get. Don’t worry, there will be many more records to come in the future year of 2021.
New LPs Ahmad Jamal Trio – But Not For Me Britney Spears – Glory Drive-By Truckers – The New OK Faith No More – The Real Thing Mariah Carey – The Emancipation of Mimi Pop Smoke – Meet The Woo V. 2 Sigur Ros – ( ) Snoop Dogg – Rhythm & Gangsta The Stooges – The Stooges Tim Heidecker – Fear Of Death Toots & The Maytals – Ska Father Townes Van Zandt – Our Mother The Mountain
Used LPs Allan Sherman – My Son, The Nut Andy Williams – Andy Williams’ Greatest Hits The Cars – Shake It Up Cheap Trick – Dream Police Don Gibson – I Wrote A SOng Hugo Winterhalter – The Big Hits of 1965 Frank Mills – Music Box Dancer Freddy Weller – The Promised Land Gilbert O’Sullivan – I’m A Writer, Not A Fighter Joe Sample – Carmel Johnny Mathis – Mathis Is Louis Armstrong – Plays W.C. Handy Mantovani – Hollywood Modern English – Ricochet Days Mr. Pickwick – Santa And The Three Bears Nena – 99 Luftballoons New Orleans – Mighty Pope The Now – The Now Orchestra Maneuvers In The Dark – Crush Pat Benatar – Live From Earth The Rolling Stones – 12×5 Supertramp – Free As A Bird Various – Golden Organ Favorites Various – This Is The Big Band Era Various – 20 Original Winners of 1964 Yaz – Upstairs At Eric’s 101 Strings – Play More Million Sellers
12” Singles Chante Moore – Who Do I Turn To George Benson – Body Talk Penthouse Players Clique – Trust No B*tch Tab & Da Villon – Same O Thang
Welcome back to another week! Hopefully everybody had some good holidays. We sure did. Our store is still appointment-only this week. Some exciting news we have today is that Dumb Records was just recently nominated in two different award categories for Downtown Springfield Inc.‘s “Best of Downtown 2020″ annual awards. (We didn’t win anything just yet)! The picture above is from last year’s award ceremony, where we won the category of ” Innovative Business Concept.”
You can check out the list of nominees on the DSI website right here. We have been nominated in categories of “Best Retail” and also “Most Creative Promotion” with our downtown pinball tournament. This year’s ceremony is virtual due to COVID-19, and tickets can be found for the virtual ceremony on that same link. The virtual ceremony is being called “DSI & Chill” and is happening Thursday, January 21st.
Happy Christmas! Did you think we were going to stop on our streak of reporting local music news for Christmas? No! No thank you! Today we are bringing you a brand new music video that was recently released by Jacksonville-based psychedelic group The Dixie Narcos. That is a video for the song “Open The Mouth I Met” which is a track off of the band’s Godin Drag EP that was released just earlier this month. The video is an animation done by Robin Barnes and you can check it out on the player embedded below.
Check out more local music videos from over the years on our vids/pics page.
Does it make sense for the Illinois State Fair to be announcing the 2021 Grandstand lineup right now? We are not sure if a whole lot of anything makes sense anymore, or what type of world we will be living in by the time August rolls around. Nevertheless, this is the lineup that has been announced for the 2021 State Fair Grandstand. The fair is supposedly happening next year from August 12th through the 22nd.
Thursday, August 12th: Staind w/ TBA Friday, August 13th: ? Saturday, August 14th: Gabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias Sunday, August 15th: Toby Keith w/ Craig Morgan Monday, August 16th: The Traveling Salvation Show Tuesday, August 17th: Chris Young w/ Ingrid Andress Wednesday, August 18th: I Love The 90’s Tour Thursday, August 19th: Badflower w/ TBA Friday, August 20th: Kelsea Ballerini w/ Kylie Morgan Saturday, August 21st: ? Sunday, August 22nd: George Thorogood
Tickets can be found for sale with more info online right here on the state fair website.
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