Chords for The Mars Volta: Favorite Vinyl?

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_ [G] _ _ _ [F] _ [Db] a Leonard Nimoy record called [B] The Many Moods or The Touch of Leonard Nimoy.
[Ab] It's my favorite record I have.
And it's out [A] already in case something like [C] that happens.
So [Bb] it's kind of like the record I [A] show to people and be like, check [Eb] this out.
It's actually [A] good.
It's not just a [Db] novelty record.
It's really great.
So I'd probably grab that one [Ab] first because it [A] was hard to find for me and it was super cheap.
It was like four bucks.
But the songs are [Bb] great.
[Am] _ _ _ _ [G] I [Db] remember when I was a kid wanting to hear Electric Harlow over and over, especially
the B side because it has Guasasa on it.
And so Electric Harlow and Eddie Palmetto live at the University of Puerto Rico.
I would play them but then once [G] I broke his needle on accident [Gb] so then I, that, you know,
that [Db] stopped.
I think mine was either Love Gun or Destroyer.
I have 8 track so I don't know if that counts.
But my parents had 8 track players so it was either of those two records.
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_ Technique.
Yeah, technique.
[Bb] _ Standard.
You [B] know.
No souped up.
[C] No souped up.
I wish mine went backwards but I'm not a [Gb] fancy DJ.
[Bb] I pull off stuff like that. [A] Yeah. _ _ _
[G] _ I mean here it's pretty great.
Yeah.
You know.
[N] Here's that place off Pico and you know Amoebas.
You know Fingerprints.
We were talking about that.
Fingerprints.
But you know obviously New York's kind of a gold mine for that stuff too.
[G] They got really great stuff.
But [C] a lot of times it's you know _ thrift stores in weird Midwest towns and stuff and [G] places
where people just sort of put their whole [Db] collections there and you might only get a
couple of records that are good but it's worth it because then they're only 90 cents.
There's a really great place off Ventura [Bbm] that I always go to and the reason why I go to
there is because I don't feel _ [Bb] stupid asking questions and the owners are such nerds and
they'll always engage [Ab] you and answer your questions.
It's a place [C] called Freak Beat Records.
[G] Oh Freak Beat.
And you know it's on Ventura and it's quiet.
[Bb] You know you could literally spend [A] your day there.
Clean bathroom.
Places [Cm] to eat around there.
You know you could take breaks and you know from [Gm] hunting and stuff and they have record
players you can listen to stuff on [Bbm] and they're usually [Eb] playing something really good when
you [Cm] walk in and it's just one of those stores where you go oh what is this [Gm] and it's not
a snobby young young kid [Bb] who's going to vibe you out.
But the two owners that run that place are such sweethearts and [Bbm] you know it's great.
[Db] It's quiet.
It's like being in the library there and you take your [Cm] time and they always have great stuff there.
Rocket [G] scientist in New York is a guy like that but it's [Gm] not quiet and you can't take [Bb] your time.
Lots of people are really cool.
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[Cm] _ Itchy Sprues is a classic [Gm] example of a great album cover.
[Bbm] I always love that stuff.
[Bb] And then there's really I mean [C] those are really intricate.
Then there's really simple ones that just grab your [G] attention because of their simplicity.
You know like the suicide, the first suicide [C] record.
You know I think we both found out about a lot [G] of music just by because we bought something
just based on the record [Db] cover not knowing what the band was like.
Nine times out of ten if the record cover is great the band's going to be great [G] too.
Or like Phalo [A] record covers.
Any Phalo record covers they look like.
They look like they were put together by some punk rock kid wanting to [Db] start a zine and
he didn't have enough money.
So it just looks attractive.
Hand drawn.
Yeah hand drawn.
It looks like he had an old fashioned stick of glue and kind of did that to it.
It looks like punk records.
It's nice to feel the creator's hand on something.
That draws you in.
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Music Machine.
[Db] _ _ [A] The only Music Machine record with the song [Db] Talk Talk on it.
It's been [Am] copied by Rocket from the Crypt and co-opted by [Db] so many people making flyers.
But [Eb] it's a great [Db] record.
Great band. _
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Anything by [Eb] Brainiac, Bonsai [Db] Superstar, Electroshock, The President, or Hissing Prigs and Hot Couture.
I can just pick up any of those records and I will [B] find something that is [Dm] actually very
modern [Eb] and way ahead of its time.
And I always ask myself what [A] would Timmy Taylor do?
And that was just a fantastic kind of band that was about to be, I don't know, the next big something.
And a lot of people just have their sound and haven't even heard [Ab] them before.
It's kind of strange.
_ _ Brainiac.
Anything [Db] by Brainiac for me.
I like spoken word records like when Jell-O-Bee-Affa did the No More Cocoon stuff.
You know, anything like that.
Or I have these old JFK and Martin Luther King records.
[Cm] Or the [Db] William Burroughs one where he did [G] a spoken word with Hypocrisy.
[Db] I always like hearing someone's voice describing their ideas very directly.
As much as I [C] like the other stuff too, but [G] it gets me riled up a lot of times.
It creates [Db] a lot of images in my head that have probably nothing to do with what Dr.
[G] King is talking about or anything, [Db] but inspires some fiery part of me.
So I like spoken word ones.
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