Bill Ess

Hey ya’ll! Come out to the Philly Record Freakout saturday 6/7/25! I’ll be vending some killer wax! I’ve met so many great people and always find cool stuff at this show! #recordfreakout #vinylsky #punksky @punknews.bsky.social

Lehigh Valley PA folks! Come on out to this event in Bethlehem on 4/5/25. I’ll be there vending some killer vinyl!

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#nowspinning MDC “Metal Devil Cokes” (1989/2016 Beer City Records). You don’t hear about this one too often but it’s a great MDC record.

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Donation sent! Cheers from PA!

#nowspinning The Deadbeats “Kill The Hippies” Originally released as a 7” in 1978, this is the 10” reissue from 2011 on Artifix Records. I’ve been after this one for a while, got it in the mail yesterday!

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#nowspinning Brother Jack McDuff “Moon Rappin’” (1970, Blue Note) I’m not big on jazz for the most part but I dig this one.

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#nowspinning Alice Donut “Dry Humping The Cash Cow: Live At CBGBs” (1994, Alternative Tentacles). I heard somewhere that the canned audience noises were borrowed from one of the Kiss “Alive” albums.

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#nowspinning Screamin’ Jay Hawkins “Frenzy” (1982, Edsel Records) Killer UK comp with “I Put A Spell On You” and so much more.

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#nowspinning Joe Tex “Hold What You’ve Got” (1965, Atlantic.) Includes one of my favorite Joe Tex tracks “Fresh Out Of Tears”.

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#nowspinning Roosevelt “Rosey” Grier “Soul City” (1964, Recording Industries Corp) Pretty good soul album by this football hero. He also wrote a book about doing needlepoint, and starred in “The Thing With Two Heads.”

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#nowspinning The Candy Snatchers “Moronic Pleasures” (2019, Hound Gawd). These are earlier, more raw versions of (mostly) songs that would later appear on the “Human Zoo” album. Not sure if they’re demos or if this is an unreleased album.

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Friendly reminder that the #philly #recordfreakout is coming up in a few weeks! Saturday February 22 at Philamoca!

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#nowspinning Nine Inch Nails “Broken” (1992/2017 Nothing-Interscope Records) Blast from the past. Between this and “Pretty Hate Machine” it’s high school nostalgia overload.

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#nowspinning The Louvin Brothers “Satan Is Real” (1959/1962 re-press, Capitol Records). Really clean copy that I picked up a few years ago from my local record store. Brilliant vocals.

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#nowspinning Weirdos “Who? What? When? Where? Why?” (1979, Bomp Records)

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#nowspinning The Isley Brothers “It’s Our Thing” (1969, T-Neck Records). This one sounds great on vinyl.

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I love his cover of Sam Cooke’s “Another Saturday Night”. It made me realize what a great song that is.

Not familiar with this one!

#nowplaying Slade “The Amazing Kamikaze Syndrome” (1983, RCA) “Run Runaway” and “Cocky Rock Boys Rule O.K.” are two of my favorite tracks. Slade was hugely popular but never broke big in the US for some reason.

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#nowplaying Ed Gein’s Car “Making Dick Dance” (1985, self-released). A personal favorite. New York punk rock. You’ll probably dig it if you like bands like Candy Snatchers and Dead Boys.

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Vertigo swirl!

Also check out Compressorhead. Another John Wright project, it sounds like a lost Hanson Brothers album.

Have you checked out Dead Bob yet? Saw them in Philly this past November

Also Dead Boys “Young, Loud and Snotty” 😆

I think I have the reissue on Alive Records

#nowplaying Eddie Cochran (1960, Liberty Records). Featuring “C’mon Everybody” and “Summertime Blues”. Rare white-label promo version.

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#nowplaying Iron Prostate “Loud, Fast, And Aging Rapidly” (1991, Skreamin’ Skull) features Scott Weis from Ed Gein’s Car and George Tabb. Anyone remember these guys? Killer punk rock album with a sense of humor.

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#nowplaying Aaron Neville “Tell It Like It Is” (1967/1980’s reissue on Collectables)

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I ordered one from an indy book shop! Looking forward to it