Last X number of records you bought - 2003!!!!!

Young MC - Stone Cold Rhymin'
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
Sex Pistols - Nevermind The Bollocks
Various Artists - Soul Jazz Book/CD/DVD thing
Opiate - Objects For An Ideal Home
Fat Jon - Wave Motion
Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street
Fat Jon - Humanoid Erotica
Mahalia Jackson - Sings America's Favourite Hymns
Leila - Courtesy Of Choice

this is what I bought today:

Django reinhardt: the classic early recordings 5 CD set (an absolute bargain as far as price goes, as recommended by andrew L).
Capatin Beefheart: Lick my decals off LP
Derek bailey/min xiao fen: flying dragons
kurt schwitters: ursonate
stockhausen: kontake

I just realized ... NOTHING!

In the whole of December!

I'm clean ... wow. Maybe I'll just visit the CD shop to celebrate :-)

... oh but my wife just copied a CD of songs celebrating Lula!

I've got that, it's good.

Muhal Richard Abrams, Lifea Bilnec (Arista Novus, AN 3000) LP
Borbetomagus & Hugh Davies, Work on What Has Been Spoiled (Agaric, 1981) LP
John Cage, Cheap Imitation (Get Back, GET 6117) LP
Cornelius Cardew, Four Principles on Ireland and other Pieces [1974] (Cramps, CRSLP 6106) LP
Charalambides, IN CR EA SE (Eclipse, no number) 2LP
Kevin Drumm/Leif Elggren/Mats Gustafsson, D E G (Firework Edition, 442/500) LP
Hamza El Din, Escalay/The Water Wheel (Nonesuch Explorer, H-72041) LP
Fennesz/Main, s/t (Fat Cat, 12FAT045) 12"
Harry Pussy, The Black Ghost (Siltbreeze, SB-56) 7"
Love, Revisited (Elektra, EKS-74058) LP
Angus MacLise, Astral Collapse (Quakebasket, Qb-16) LP
masami akita & russell haswell, satanstornade (Warp, WARPLP666) LP
Max Tundra, ”Mastered by Guy at The Exchange” (Domino, WIGLP112) LP
(Various Artists), Musique Folklorique du Monde: Maroc (Musidisc, 30 CV 118) LP
Ovary Lodge, s/t (Ogun, OG 600) LP
Bob Reid, Africa Is Calling Me (Kwela, 30 K 010) LP
Team Doyobi, s/t (Skam, KMAS 00005) 7"
Richard Youngs/Simon Wickham-Smith, Knish (No label, IG-07) LP

just got a promo of the new cave in lp too.

for my flatmates xmas:
anti pop consortium - arrhythmia

for my girlfriends xmas:
double vinyl reissue of contortions - buy / james white and the blacks - off white

foxy brown - chyna doll (not so great but luckily still just as cheap)

jay-z - blueprint 2 (on quadruple vinyl! i love 'the gift', haven't spent as much time with 'the curse' yet. most of all i love my sister for getting it for me for christmas! apparently it wasn't cheap...)

high contrast - true colours (nice)

roxy music - roxy music (cheap! and great!)

the kinks ultimate collection (it is what it is)

something charles mingus (cheap, haven't listened yet)

Well, you've got to start off as you mean to go on, right?

cecil taylor ensemble: always a pleasure
milford graves: grand unification

Elvis Costello: Armed Forces [remastered CD with bonus CD blah blah blah]

Lee Perry: Battle of Armagideon [I was looking for Arkology, but no luck. This wasn't quite what I wanted, but not bad.]

Cocteau Twins - Treasure
Portishead - Dummy
The Clash - The Clash, Give 'Em Enough Rope and London Calling (remastered versions replacing original copies)
Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets and Another Green World
Husker Du - Candy Apple Grey
Missy Elliot - So Addictive
Curtis Mayfield - Roots
Mercury Rev - Boces
Talk talk - Laughing Stock
Bark Psychosis - Hex
Kitchens Of Distinction - Love Is Hell and Cowboys & Aliens
KLF - The White Room
Kruder & Dorfmeister - The K&D Sessions
Chris Bell - I Am The Cosmos
Mark Hollis - Mark Hollis

Plus I ordered ! and Is terrified by The Dismemberment Plan this lunchtime.

that's terrible (though i can't say that as I bought a sex pistols comp)!

Amorphis "Elegy"
Amorphis "Black Winter Day" EP
Infernal Majesty "None Shall Defy" (Kvlt!)
We In Music "Grandlife" CDS
Teeth Of Lions Rule The Divine "Rampton"
Detroit Grand Pubahs "Sandwiches" CDS

the last stuff i got (none of it new) in 02 was:
Durutti Column - Obey the Time
V/A - Tribute to Felt
Panda Gang CD
Ooberman EP
and a couple others

Nick, considering how much you love Spirit of Eden, I can't believe you didn't already own this!

Tell me again about the bunnies and Tribute to Felt, George

Black Heart Procession- Fish the Holes on Frozen Lakes
Black Dice- Beaches and Canyons
Life Without Buildings- Any Other City
Drag City Supersession
Smog- Julius Caesar
Circulatory System- S/T
Fennesz- Plays
DJ /Rupture- Minesweeper Suite
DAT Politics- Plugs Plus
Coil- Horse Rotorvator
Coil- Scatology
Pierre Bastien- Mecanoid
REM- Murmur
The Cure- Head on the Door
Tackhead- Friendly as a Hand Grenade
The Jam- All Mod Cons
Yo La Tengo- Nuclear War
Songs: Ohia- Ghost Tropic
Explosions in the Sky- Those Who Tell the Truth...
Spoon- Jonathon Fisk single
Xiu Xiu- Chapel of the Chimes ep
Nurse With Wound- The Swinging Reflective
Bjork- Family Tree
Pink Floyd- Saucerful of Secrets
A Tribe Called Quest- People's Instinctive Travels...
Piano Magic- Writers Without Homes
Deerhoof- Reveille
The Liars/Oneida- Atheists, Reconsider
The Aluminum Group- Happyness
X- Under the Big Black Sun
Smog- Kicking a Couple Around

Louis Armstrong: Hot Fives And Hot Sevens (box set)
Joy Division: Still
The Pop Group: Y
Polmo Polpo: Riva 12"
Polmo Polpo: Cog LP
Missy Elliot: Under Construction 2xLP

Hey BoC: Twoism buyers, is that worth having?

Burned again. I finally figured out that he is the one who does a certain song I like, but the album version of "Que Te Vas" is not the same as the one I am familiar with from going out dancing, so now I'll have to buy CD single with various mixes of it, and possibly offer this album up at half.com, since there's nothing else on here I want to listen to. There's wimpy and then there's wimpy, and this crosses the line.

si te vas, te vas, te vas, te vas, te vas...
te vas... te vas
si tu te vas

And I begin to dance in increasingly complex patterns, partially trancing out.

Without your carino I cannot live!

this is a wonderful rec!

''Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun''

not so good.

no so good
I enjoyed it, but not as much as Super Ae. What other Boredoms albums should I get? Soul Discharge? Rebore, Vol. 0?

Vision creation was my first, and so far, only boredoms disc. that threw me off them but I'll probably try something else one day.

today i risked £4 on a 12" by trigger finger and the space cadets called, irresistably: "video freak (defend it)". i'll let u know what it's like when i listen to it

Gil Scott-Heron - Free Will
Mouth Music - mo-di
La Rumeur - "Le Franc-Tireur" EP
All Saints - All Hits
Stanton Warriors - The Stanton Session
Outkast - Big Boi & Dre present... (giving this lot one last chance)
Rocé - Top départ
Le 3ème Oeil - Avec le coeur du rien
Les Sages Poètes de la rue - Après l'orage*
Ärsenik - Quelque chose a survecu...

(*this is very good - add to my bubbling under list for Top 20 LPs of 2002)

Bought with Xmas money:
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the deaf
Brian Eno - Another Green World
Big Country - The Crossing
the last 2 duplicating my vinyl copies with CD.

Bought in the sales (but v disappointed with the HMV sale):
Macy Gray - The Id
Various - On-U-Sound compilation
Various - Metalheadz compilation
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
Various - Hi Records box set
Johnnie Taylor - Greatest Hits
Minnie Riperton - Les Fleurs, the Anthology
A cheapo doo-wop box set
A cheapo girl group box set
The Smiths - The Smiths
The Doors - The Doors
The Doors - Strange Days
Jimi Hendrix Exp - Are you experienced?
Kate Bush - The Sensual World
(the last 5 duplicating vinyl/tape copies with CD)

Tito Gomez: Las Paginas de mi Vida [mostly for the song "Llora"]

Puerto Rican Power: Wild, Wild Salsa [mostly for "Pena de Amor," though the album got fairly good reviews]

Azuquita: Pura Salsa.

I first heard Azuquita on Louie Ramirez y Sus Amigos. The album I just picked up is much more boogalooesque to my ears. This is not quite what I wanted, since a lot of the songs don't have the amazing vocals I expected to hear, based on the Louie Ramirez album. I hope I get to like some other songs on the first two albums, aside from the obvious hits I already mentioned on each.

*I may be using this term wrong.

D. Diggler, “Bootybuster”/”Lubricated”/”Sticky” (raum…musik, musik012) 12”
D. Diggler, “Arms controlled”/”Pumpstation” (raum…musik, musik019) 12”
Bobby Few, More or Less Few (Center of the World, CW 003) LP
Forcefield, Roggaboggas (Load, 038) CD
Josef C., (no name) (no label, no number) 12”
Koppchen, Dimbiman (Perlon, PERL 6) 12”
Jemeel Moondoc Trio, Judy's Bounce (Soul Note, SN 1051) LP
Nautical Almanac, Rejerks Volume One (Hear See, HS011) CD
Markus Nikolai, “Rood”/”Say One Just Wanna” (Perlon, PERL 1) 12”
Nitzer Ebb, Belief (Geffen, GHS 24213) LP

also,i was given pat garrett and billy the kid by bob dylan for christmas,which is a great album...

Someonw asked if Boards of Canada is worth it.... YES, its more in the vein of Music has Right to Children, and has some overlap with it, but still essential BOC; also get Hi-Scores ep recently reissued on Skam.

As for 2003 so far:
Bought
Metro Area LP (good-pretty good/ok)
Shakira - Laundry Service (excellent)

from the library
Miss Kittin & The Hacker - first album (excellent)
Jim O'Rourke - Insignifance (very good)

from friend
Papa M: whatever, mortal (good, but not my thing at the moment)
Cex: Tall, Dark & Handcuffed (disappointing, compared to Cex live and his prior stuff)

As for me, from the past few days:

Royksopp or however you spell their name (and I can't do the umlaut so lemme 'lone) -- Melody AM, American double disc version
Tarwater -- Dweller and the Threshold
Television -- The Blow-Up
Waterwheel -- Panchroma
Songs from the Vaults (Rocky Horror-related rarities)
Drive Like Jehu -- Yank Crime reissue
Fantastic Plastic Machine -- Beautiful
First Night on Earth -- No One Knows Anything for Sure
Flin Flon -- Chicoutomi
Redman -- Dare iz a Darkside
J Mascis and the Fog -- Free More Free
Porcupine Tree -- In Absentia
Mark E. Robinson -- Tiger Banana
His Name is Alive -- Last Night
Future Bible Heroes -- The Lonely Robot

Yay.

Hope you enjoy 'The Blow-Up', Ned. If that wasn't on the 'best live album' thread from a while back then it should've been. And it's a shame they didn't sound anywhere near that good when they got back together.

Unfortunately, haven't listened to it yet. Have a bit of a backlog.

Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys Part II
TATU - 200 Km/H in the Wrong Lane

This particular release intrigues me given that one track is a Soft Cell remix. I figured that was worth the purchase of it...used. ;-)

This was a mentalist selection, even by my standards.

Went CD shopping again with a big want list yesterday, but ended up buying shoes instead because of a big sale at Shoe Biz on Haight St:

Fly - Black trainers with velcro-strap closures and slightly platformy soles
Campers - Dk Brown trainer-style shoes with wide/round shape at the toe and interesting top-stitching

Dieter Fischer-Dieskau and Gerald Moore - Franz Schubert - Lieder Nach Texten von Goethe (Deutsche Grammophon)
Karl Richter and Munchener Bach-Chor - J.S. Bach - Kantaten: Nr. 67 und Nr. 108 (Decca)
Kathleen Ferrier and Orchestre Philharmoique de Vienne (dir. by Bruno Walter) - Gustav Mahler - Kindertotenlieder (EMI)

Good listening for about $11 altogether.

Ry Cooder - Chicken Skin Music
Baby Washington - The Sue Singles
Jerry Lee Lewis - Young Blood
Jerry Lee Lewis - Live at the Star Club
King Kong - Old Man on the Bridge

Pere Ubu - Datapanik in the Year Zero box set, bought used for $35

Jilted John - True Love Stories

bought:
talking heads - fear of music
missy elliott - da real world
brian eno - on land

probably gonna make myself a copy of:
boc- geogaddi.

probably gonna buy:
the beta band - the 3 eps. (somehow i still don't own this.)

stars of the lid - the tired sounds of...(kranky)
shuttle 358 - understanding wildlife (mille plateaux)
asa chang and junray - junray song chang (leaf)
beans - tomorrow right now (warp)
tadd mullinix - panes (ghostly)
brokeback - looks at the bird (thrill jockey)
data80 - data80 (force)
food - veggie (rune grammofon)
jazzkammer - pancakes (bubblecore)
mira calix - skimskitta (warp)

Not too exciting this month considering I lost my internship.

Derek Bailey- Ballads

Outhud- S.T.R.E.E.T.D.A.D. (Took a chance on this and so far I think it's really bad. Sounds amateurish to me.)

Aix Em Klemm- s/t

cabaret voltaire-original sound of sheffield 83-87
dionne warwick-sings the bacharach and david songbook
dj shadow-you can't go home again
brandy-what about us
arab strap-some ep,seems to be called fuckdid2 (i could be wrong)
(all in virgin for 22 euro)

pil-that what is not
eric b and rakim-let the rhythm hit 'em
honest-soundtrack (basically a motown comp.)
pram-somniloquoy
exos-eleventh

probably my most ilx influenced purchases since i started posting here(due mainly to my complete lack of money for the last while)

Acid King/Altamont split
Add N to (X) – Add Insult to Injury
Apoptygma Berzerk – Welcome to Earth
Autumns – In the Russet Gold of This Vain Hour
The Black Sun Ensemble – s/t
Sheila Chandra – This Sentence is True (The Previous Sentence is False)
Chemical Brothers – Music: Response EP
Echoboy – Volume 2
Frazier Chorus – Ray
I am the World Trade Center – Out of the Loop
Chris Knox – Beat
Kreidler – s/t
Magic Hour – Will They Turn You On or Will They Turn on You, Secession 96
Microstoria – Reproviser
Modern English – Mesh and Lace
The Mountain Goats – All Hail West Texas
Marianne Nowottny – Afraid of Me
Ramones – Leave Home, Road to Ruin
Spring Heel Jack – Oddities
Sweet Trip – Fish
John Tejada – Daydreams in Cold Weather
Thuja – Ghost Plants
Ultra Vivid Scene – Blood and Thunder EP
Wedding Present – Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah EP, It’s a Gas EP
Songs in the Key of Z

Oooh! Oooh! Tell me more - like where I can get a copy!

anyone heard the new ryoji ikeda? sundar?

also jel gave me the ILX comp, mark s gave me an ut tape (which is fab!) and a copy of the Xenakis (persepolis remixes).

Boulez - Rituel in memoriam Bruno Maderna; Eclat/Multiples (BBCSO, Ensemble InterContemporain / Boulez)

Berio - Corale, Chemin II, Chemin IV, Points on the curve to find, etc. (Ensemble InterContemporain / Boulez)

and some "popular music" records, like you care.

chicago soundtrack
pictures at an exhibition (piano version) by mussorgsky
barrage
ben folds five, unauthorized biography of reinhold messner

everything else I got for free

Beth Gibbons & Rustin' Man, "Out Of Season"
(after a first listen appears good - 'appears' because for my sleepy head, Beth and the R'Man were slightly too quiet)

John Zorn, "IAO: Music In Sacred Light"
(.. has to wait 'til tomorrow, apparently)

Common is the first hip-hop CD I've bought in a few years, but I just had a feeling I would like it. I don't especially.* I like the production but his rapping seems pretty weak to me, overall. "I am Music" is catchy, but some of the words annoy me (which is problem throughout most of the album).

Why do things often sound better over the radio than once I have them on CD? The Yo La Tengo EP is pretty good, but not quite great. My favorite is the remix at the end (which is the only bit I'd heard). The song kind of drags on for me if sung relatively straight, so the remix improves it by disrupting things a little. (I guess you could say the version with the free jazz jam on it also disrupts things, but not in a way I find pleasing.)

Despite having already made up my mind to be an Aretha Franklin fan, I don't love everything here--I'm not a huge fan of blues or gospel--however, there's enough that I do like, mostly from past listening, that I am very glad I got it. Here is yet more material I remember liking as a child which has a quasi-samba rhythm ("Day Dreaming").

*I think it's time for me to stop trusting my strong, generally groundless, hunches that I will like certain albums. I felt the same way about Marilyn Crispell's Amaryllis, but then I didn't like it that much.

One more thing, she has a nice ass, up there on the balcony.

And I ordered:
Loose Fur- s/t
Jackie O Motherfucker- Fig. 5
Califone- Roomsound
Fennoberg- The Return of Fennoberg

Arcana -- Dark Age of Reason
B Movie -- Remembrance Days
Blue Orchids -- From Severe to Serene, The Sleeper
Boyracer -- In Full Colour
Brad -- Welcome to Discovery Park
Cerberus Shoal -- Mr. Boy Dog
The Church -- Parallel Universe
Gagarin -- Earthling
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci -- How I Long to Feel That Summer In My Heart
Guitar -- Sunkissed
Isis -- Oceanic (thanks to Frank Kogan's article!)
Ludus -- Pickpocket/Danger Came Smiling, The Visit/The Seduction
Pixies -- Complete B Sides
Puressence -- Only Forever
Stanton Warriors -- The Stanton Session
Spacemen 3 -- Playing With Fire (double disc hypereverything edition)
Sweet Trip -- Alura
The Wedding Present -- Singles 1995-97
Bill Withers -- Lean on Me: The Best of
Hypercity (Spencer reminded me of the general ILM approval for same)

I put this on once. It seemed great. "Perversion Of Hate" = classic.

(That's the traditional value of x, as established by the original thread, and it was how I rationalized buying so many at once.)

• B!Machine - Hybrid
  
• Todd Edwards' Nervous Tracks
  
• HMB - Great Industrial Love Affairs (Haujobb's Daniel Meyer collab. w/Victoria Lloyd from Claire Voyant)
  
• Luomo - Vocalcity
  
• Sutekh - Periods Make Sense
  

young ginns
ecstasy of saint theresa - in dust 3

for $2 total at amoeba (bargain bin rummage)

i have yet to hear it but if it's as good as sussicitate (??) or free d then i'm doing pretty good. esp. for $1.

Big excitement, because it was the first chance I had to use the exciting present that Felicity brought me from America, to open the CDs (i.e. to tear off the shrink wrapping). It worked!

Rodrigo - Concerto de Aranjuez/Fantasia para un gentilhombre; Giuliani - Guitar Concerto; Vivaldi - Guitar Concerto in D maj (perf John Williams w/ English Chamber Orchestra)

Beethoven - Symphony No 5/Schubert - Symphony No 8 (perf NY Philharmonic, conducted Leonard Bernstein) (my vinyl was worn)

Let's see, arrived recently in the mail or picked up:

Zwan -- Mary Star of the Sea (mmm...yay!)
Havanarama -- Rock the Blockade: 2000 (we'll see if it's any good or not)
The Out Crowd -- Go On, Give a Damn
The Volta Sound -- This is the Yin and the Yang (attention Kate -- more DDBs for your consideration and they do love their S3 records)

...and the Iditarod's Yuletide album with Sharron Krause. Yay.

Xenakis -- Chamber Music, 1965-1990

Justin Timberlake -- Justified (Decided to trade in my MP3s for the real thing)

Lou Reed -- Raven, 2cd special edition (ima completist, & had to)

Tift Merritt -- bramble rose ("Trouble Over Me" was the great single everyone sez it was)

The Fall -- Hip Priests & etc. (I only own Brixxx era fall and found this for a nice price)

Snowsuit - CD
The Day Of Man As Man - 7inch
Orthrelm/Touchdown - Split LP
Lync - 'Remembering The Fireballs' LP
Rye/Karp - Split LP
The Flying Luttenbachers - 'Infection And Decline' LP
Black Dice - 'No. 3' CD
Three Penny Opera - 'Three Penny Opera' CD

Nice. I can't quite figure this out: it's consistently good in a way that most more pop oriented salsa CDs I have bought lately are not, but on the other hand, none of the songs are exceptional enough to really stick in my head. I think I would dance to a lot of this if I heard it in a club, but I'm not sure I'd remember any of it the next day.

Opeth - Deliverance
The Music - s/t
The Cooper Temple Clause - Hardware EP + Warfare EP
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
REM - Fables Of The Reconstruction
The Strokes - Is This It?
Katatonia - Tonight's Decision
Bozzio Levin Stevens - Black Light Syndrome
Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream

984 and counting...

OST "THE HOT SPOT"
(hotgoddamn! i'd lost all hope that a copy of this'd turn up in any of my hometown's rec.shops, ever - and, yay presto!- there it was t'is aft'noon... fkn full price too. but still, wo-wo-wo-wondrous occurrence, this. and the only copy) (virtually counts for 'two items', 'as it were'!)

"LOVE IS EVERYTHING": The JANE SIBERRY Anthology (Rhino 2cd)
the Rhino comp's so totally RoXoR, and 'this Jane Siberry woman' (to snatch Chris Roberts's phrase fro'more than a dozen years 'go)...mmm, the sssound of her mmmusic...

Mohammed Abdel Wahab: Daret Al Ayam [Not recommended. I don't like his singing here, and I find that the outbursts from the very small (presumably studio) audience sound forced.]

Asmahan & Farid [Two CDs. Quite nice. The Asmahan songs I have duplicates of on another set sound better here. The CDs feature songs sung by both Asmahan and Farid el Atrache (and all written by the latter, I think). The style of the compositions is sometimes a little difficult for me, but the singing is great.]

Farid el Atrache: Hikayet Gharmai [Haven't listened to yet.]

Plus a Victor Manuelle compilation for $6.99.

(Just bought it after going to the movies and catching some more of the bergman season, saw the virgin spring)

All for 30 euro

What I've bought recently:

Harry Cox, The Bonny Labouring Boy
Several volumes in Topic's Voice of the People series
June Tabor, Airs and Graces
Early Music Consort of London, The Art of Courtly Love
Frank Sinatra, The Capitol Years
Charley Patton, complete recordings on JSP (not sure of the title)
The Mercury Blues 'n' Rhythm Story 1945-1955
Several further volumes in Rounder's Early Days of Bluegrass series (which really should be on CD by now!)
E. C. and Orna Ball on Rounder

I don't intend to buy much of anything for a few months, now.

The one with the blue cover (Baidaphon, BGCD 602), which starts with the song "Layta Lel Barrak" has some really great Asmahan songs. Her voice is really wonderful here. Too bad she had to die so young. The other one has a little more of the Tangoesque stuff that Farid was writing at the time.

that´s the recxords i bought this month (or got by the mail)

*Now playing. Kind of crazy. I think many of you who are interested in boogallo would like this. Her delivery is extremely dramatic and fairly raw in some ways, though she also seems (to my ears) to have good control. There's a very amusing version of "Going out of My Head" ("Well, I think I'm going out of my head/Yes, I think I'm going out of my head/Over you. . ." That one.) which she sings in English. I only knew of her by name before.

I'm not familiar with Johnny Colon, but this album seem to get moderately favorable ratings.

I've wanted to get "Water No Get Enemy," after hearing it on a Fela compilation a little while back, and listening to Red Hot + Riot a bit at Tower made me think it was time to buy my first Fela album.

John Hassell is a CD to replace my old cassette. This was somewhat of an arbitrary purchase. I could have bought it today, or I could have bought it ten years from now.

cornelius - point
broadcast - work and non-work

Listening to a library copy of this right now. Kind of nice.

Ludus - The Damage (swank!)
Josef K - The Only Fun In Town (frisky!)
Laika - Lost In Space (2 CD retrospective type thing)
Calla - Televise
Mission of Burma - Peking Spring
Q And Not U - Different Damage
Rainer Maria - Long Knives Drawn / Ears Ring EP / Atlantic EP (gotta support the team - GO DEVILS!)

Would've bought some swank Mates of State merch @ the Rainer Maria show I went to on Saturday, but I had to keep cash for tolls & drive-time snacking.

One of these days, I might actually make it out of the ROCK section of a CD store and shop in the other areas. One of these days...

i paid 8 pounds

Adam Ant, Antics in the Forbidden Zone ($7.99)
Toots and the Maytals, The Very Best of ($7.99)
The Very Best Bollywood Songs II ($8.99)
Tavares, It Only Takes a Minute: A Lifetime With ($4.99)
Stan Getz, Mickey One OST ($8.99)
Carmen Macrae, The Great American Songbook (free...bought 12 discs from the same place, great system)
The JB's, Bring the Funk on Down ($7.99)
The B-52's, s/t ($4.99)
The Boredoms, Pop Tatari ($4.99)
David Axelrod, The Axelrod Chronicles ($6.98)
William Parker Quintet, Raining on the Moon ($11.98, okay, so it was "new")
James Brown, Live at the Apollo Vol. 2 (the two-disc set) ($13.99)

total 12 discs. total $89.87, most of which was actually paid for by selling old discs. Canny old Neudonym!

What about, Nathalie?

great record, isn't it? i hired a copy from the library, fell in love with it and bought it on ebay yesterday for €6,50 from somewhere/one in germany... me happy!

also bought ruckzuck! last week, a live-bootleg from kraftwerk recorded in '71. sound quality (apart from 1st track) is not too good, but the stuff on the record is crazy & great! it's just dinger, rother (pretty heavy guitar stuff) and schneider going crazy...

Electric 6-Danger! High Voltage! (Remix Single with the fantastic amazing Jacques Lu Cont remix which is even better now I have it at home

Plump DJs-Fabric Live 08

Jay Z-Blueprint 2, The Gift and the Curse.

2. Alice Coltrane: Universal Conciousness

Both excellent. The Gergiev is very instense and well-recorded.

I wish these salsa compilations had more good songs on them. The albums usually only have a couple good songs, but the same tends to be true for the compilations (or I've already got some of the good songs from the compilations in album form by the time I buy the compilation). But this has Gilberto Santa Rosa's "La Agarro Bajando," which almost makes it worth it. Also, this Raulin Rosendo song, now playing, is not bad, so this could turn out to be better than Salsahits 2001.

I must hear this.

Zemko what was "video freak (defend it)" like?

(chorus breakdown)"-my man's out in space/to save the human race/he's got to get there fast/he's got to shoot them DOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW..." spiralling

so this split narrator thing is kind of cool i thought, it could almost be essaying the inner workings of the arcadezombie's mind at drift or hell maybe it is a mega avantgarde safety awareness thing after all... dum dum dum dum dum! video freak! defend it! it kind of bubbles to intensity after you've listened for 10 mins and are dribbling and headlolling whereupon the girl seems to almost spit "he's just a video freak. he's just a video freak" etc like what happened to the support girl! o-oh no am i going DOW WOW WOW- until it just CLICKS! abrupt end and you wake up woozed

Massive Attack - 100th Window
Outkast - Stankonia
Mr Lif - I Phantom

Currently waiting on delivery of;

Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
Bark Psychosis - Independancy
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
Can - Future Days

Other favorites from that compilation: "La Murga," "Pedro Navaja" (from Willie Colon/Ruben Blades's classic Siembra), Cheo Feliciano "Raton" (Nascente has a nice compilation of his work, but I suspect most of it is worth getting--Search: Cheo).

All for $25. I actually haven't bought much so far this year, but I got a big Rhino care package from my sister.

I've bought:

t.A.T.u. "200 Km/h..."
Josef K "Young & Stupid"

ROOTS - PHRENOLOGY
WIRE - READ AND BURN.01
WIRE - 1985-1990: THE A LIST
PIXIES - SURFER ROSA/COME ON PILGRIM
PIXIES - PIXIES
TIMBALAND AND MAGOO - WELCOME TO OUR WORLD
MISSY ELLIOTT - DA REAL WORLD
MISSY ELLIOTT - MISS E…SO ADDICTIVE
ORCHESTRE BAOBAB - PIRATES CHOICE
N.E.R.D. - IN SEARCH OF…(2ND EDITION)
DIGABLE PLANETS - BLOWOUT COMB
VOIVOD - THE OUTER LIMITS
PRODIGY - FAT OF THE LAND
WHITE STRIPES - ELEPHANT
JIMMIE RODGERS - RCA COUNTRY LEGENDS
LOCAL H - AS GOOD AS DEAD
LINKIN PARK - HYBRID THEORY
DAFT PUNK - DISCOVERY
DAFT PUNK - HOMEWORK

All on order...

Ramones -- It's Alive
Talk Talk -- A-Sides/B-Sides (am I insanely happy to find this? yes indeed)
Elvis Costello -- This Years Model (Rhino reissue -- will this FINALLY be the time when he works for me, maybe?)
David Sylvian -- Brilliant Trees/Words With the Shaman
John Cale -- Seducing Down the Door (Rhino 2-disc comp)
The B-52s -- Nude on the Moon (another Rhino 2-disc comp, spot the pattern!)
A-Ha -- Stay on These Roads
Close Lobsters -- Foxheads Stalk This Land, Headache Rhetoric
Johnny Cash -- At San Quentin (complete concert reissue)

...and since I was entitled to a free disc after all this, I noticed that Erotica was sitting around. So what the hell. Let's see if a relisten actually works. ;-)

Björkenheim/Håker Flaten/ Nilssen-Love - 'Scortch Trio'
&
Supersilent's 6

Niney the Observer--Space Flight Dub
Heptones--Better Days
VA--Dub Over Dub (sonia pottinger studio productions)

check out overstock.com too--crazy good deals there

Also have some salsa on the way, and I see that some Arabic stuff I have been wanting (one is secret until I get it) is back in stock at www.maqam.com, so I will soon be resuming normal programming. (I think I have spent as much money on CDs so far in 2003 as I spent the entire first half of 2002--not a good sign.) Everything about sounds pretty good to me on first (sometimes partial) listen. I already had Innervisions on cassette, but "Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing" sounded so good to me in a restaurant the other night that I thought I'd pick it up on CD.

Damn good it is too, maybe even better than the first one

Glifted feature Tim Lush ex of 90s rock band "Hum" it was a autumn 2002 release

pitchfork review
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/g/glifted/under-and-in.shtml

Would love to know your reaction to Harrison's Rhymes with Silver; I recommended it on the Harrison obit thread -- but as I made clear, this was just on the basis of having heard good things said about it, and I still haven't heard it.

There's a memorial concert here at UC Santa Cruz this weekend which I'll probably attend.

I just started to look at the liner notes now and discovered that the percussionist on this recording is also the percussionist for Mr. Bungle (but he has also played with numerous established avant-gardists). Small world.

(I just ordered a few Oum Kalthoum CDs from maqam.com plus something else. That has to be it for a while.)

Shellac - Terraform
GY!BE - Yanqui UXO
Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die
REM - Life's Rich Pageant
Sebadoh - Bubble & Scrape
FSOL - Dead Cities
REM - Document
Velvet Crush - Heavy Changes
Sebadoh - Rocking the Forest + Sebadoh vs. Helmet
Boss Hog - Whiteout
Anathema - Judgement (digipak)
Rialto - s/t
Graham Coxon - The Kiss of Morning
The Auteurs - New Wave
Zwan - Mary Star of the Sea
Loop - A Gilded Eternity
Wire - Chairs Missing
Madrugada - Industrial Silence
Massive Attack - 100th Window
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
Royal Trux - Thank You
The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
Weezer - Maladroit
Poster Children - Tool Of The Man
The Auteurs - Now I'm a Cowboy
Sean Lennon - Into the Sun

1010 and counting...

and a bunch of singles for 50 cents:
Bob Sinclar - Darlin
Members Of Mayday - 10 In 01
Spiller - Groovejet
Felix Da Housecat - Silver Screen Shower Scene
Jakatta - American Dream
Boris Dlugosch/Roisin Murphy - Never Enough
Rui Da Silva - Touch Me

Orb - U.F.Orb
Alice Coltrane - A Monastic Trio
The Telescopes - Taste
The Chills - Kaleidoscope World
Interpol - Interpol EP
(all used)

... and I picked up the Trojan Dub Box new (my first dub thing, and it's awesome)

Bonnie Prince Billy - Master and Everyone (Oldham sounds so much like Nick Drake that I fear that he's going to kill himself next.)

Beth Gibbons & Rustin' Man - Out of Season (Very good. Gibbons modulates her voice a lot. Low-key and heartbreaking.)

The Grotest Ensemble -'Grotest Londoni raudteel'('Grotest on the Railway to London'; recordings from ca 1984-92)

Allan Vainola - 'Teatriõhtu' (theatre music pieces, songs and instrumentals, 1997-2001)

• Sex Pistols' Nevermind The Bollocks...
  
• 2 Many DJs' As heard on Radio Soulwax pt. 2,
  
• The Roots' Phrenology
  
• 
  

• Masters at Work's 10th Anniversary Collection: Silver (1990-1995) and Gold (1996-2000)... which is why I won't be needing to buy any CDs for another month or so
  

Lou Harrison: Solo Keyboards - Complete Harpsichord Works, Music for Tack Piano & Fortepiano. Nice. I ended up liking this more than I expected to based on some audio samples I had heard. Most of it is a little more squarely in the tradition of baroque harpsichord music than I expected, but nevertheless, it has its own distinctive style. In some ways, I think I like the handful of earlier, more "modern" sounding, pieces, but it will take repeated listenings to give it a fair chance.

Oum Kalthoum: Habibi Yesed Awqato/Ghaneli Showaia Showaia. (or Ganely Sheway Sheway, or whatever)--Both compositions of Zekariya Ahmed. Habibi Yesed is a wonderful piece. I suppose some people would find it monotonous, but I think it's a very subtle and memorable work. I have this on another CD, but it sounds a bit better here (and I didn't have the other song, which I also like, anywhere). I think both the CD versions might leave out part of what I have on tape, however, which is annoying.

Oum Kalthoum: El Awellah Fel Gharam. I was told that this is entirely her improvisation, but I find it credited it Zekariya Ahmed. Possibly he gave her an unusual amount of space. I don't know. It does seem pretty sprawling, so it could be largely improvised. It's going to require much closer listening to get a handle on it than what I did today.

Oum Kalthoum: Sahran Lewahdi. Composition by Riad el-Sounbatti, from the 1950's. I think I could get to like this a lot.

Said Mrad: Said Mrad Plays Baligh Hamdi. These are new performances of works by the late composer, remixed by this Said Mrad guy. I find the superimposition of house beats here (in all the tracks, I think) pretty heavy handed. Not very imaginative. There's a lot of material here to play with, but I don't here him doing much. Then again, I'm not big on "dance music," so maybe this is a perfectly legitimate expression of its norms using Arabic source material. I thought this could turn out to be really cool, but it's kind of dud, to my ears.

I'd heard the Kaiser before, and I still like it. I also like the Zorn, but I was careless, and hand't realized Frith only plays on one track. Nevertheless, I like the whole album, after a first listen. Some of it is so soft, however, that I may have missed a lot. In a way it was nice that I didn't know exactly what was on it, since the drumming on the second track took me by surprise. I think I will pick up some more Fred Frith CDs soon, though.

Tigersmilk - S/T
Azita - Enantiodromia
Joan Of Arc - So Much Staying Alive and Lovelessness
Takemura - 10th
Northern State - Dying in Stereo
Jeff Parker - Like Coping
Daedelus, Busdriver, Radioinactive - The Weather

the ganelin trio- old bottles
john russell/roger turner (3 quid!!!)
charlamaigne palestine- jamaican heinekens in brooklyn (3 quid!!!)

I'm patiently waiting for the collapse in the States. And a slew of DVDs will be MINE.

Most recent purchase has been six Jandek CDs on order. Yay.

I'm kinda sad abt it actually but there you go.

I'm planning a record buying trip to the States in April (may pop in and see my Dad too) and the Beaverton, Oregon branch of Tower is on my itinerary. I can't remember a trip to America when a visit to Tower hasn't been essential. Much cheaper than in the UK.

You should go to the Beaverton Powells.

Musica Elettronica Viva, The Sound Pool (BYG/Actuel, 529.326/26) LP

Miles Davis - ESP, Water Babies, Filles de Kilimanjaro, Miles Smiles
A couple of Dusty Springfield CDs
Freddie Hubbard - Red Clay
Little Richard - 22 track Greatest Hits
Dolly Parton - cheapo 3-cd box set (for £4.99!)
Bruce Springsteen - The River
Doves - first album
Jackie Wilson - comp
The Byrds - Mr Tambourine Man, Turn Turn Turn
The The - Soul Mining
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Trojan DJs 3-cd box
Morrissey - Viva Hate
The Clash - Sandinista
Randy Newman - soundtrack to Ragtime
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Inner Mounting Flame
Blue Break Beats vol 2
Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet

Quite a few of those were CD versions of stuff I've got on vinyl or tape, but that's what sales are for.

Lightning Bolt -- Wonderful Rainbow
All Scars -- (the new one, don't remember the name right now)
Hella -- Bitches Ain't Shit But Good People
Sam Cooke -- Live at the Harlem Square Club

Not yet Arthur, but I'll let you know when I have.

well I don't know whether they'll close the existing virgin or what?

- all very cheap.

Andy, how is the Glowing Glisses album? I want it badly.

The singer is Hasib Ashrafi. I'm not sure about the title. It's got bits and pieces that sound variously Indian (above all), Arabic, and Persian.

Starts out great and kinda tails off. Probably not the most accurate or wise summation since I've only listened twice thus far.

I miss you as well, Tim. *sniffle*

Dabrye - Instrmntl
Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow (yeah, I suck the hype like a fudgesicle)
Throwing Muses - s/t
Twilight Circus Dub Sound System - Volcanic Dub
Oren Ambarchi - Suspension
Rodan - Rusty
Young Gods - s/t
(and a James Chance CD for my girlfriend)

But did the hype freeze to your tongue and cause it to bleed?

Ben Harper - Diamonds on the inside
Beta Band - Hot Shots II
Coldplay - A rush of blood to the head
Linoleum - Dissent
Limp Bizkit - Significant other
Soul Asylum - Hang time
Poster Children - RFTM
Sleeper - Smart
The Wrens - Secaucus
Sleeper - The IT girl
Knack - Get the Knack
Grandaddy - Under the western freeway
Billy Mahonie - The big dig
The Auteurs - After murder park

1024 and counting...

Jody, how's Tormato? Is that mid-70s? Is it still the classic lineup?

The only thing I've bought in a while is the Allman Brothers Band's Eat a Peach, which is splendid. On the weekend I got for free

James Bailey - Dimensions (80s Toronto electroacoustic guy. Minimal. Pretty crude but not bad.)

CCMC - Decisive Moments: Hot Real-Time Electroacoustic Collective Composition (Pretty good on first listen.)

Jack Jorvis and Mike Snow - Black and White: Incredible Drums and Piano Duets (Pretty good on first listen.)

A cover-less CD featuring a bunch of people including David Mott, Michael Snow, Sook-Yin Lee (!), John Oswald, etc

The Last LP CD: Unique Last Recordings Of the Music of Ancient Cultures (assembled by Michael Snow)

I also dubbed my housemate's copy of Almighty Trigger Happy's Disturbo, which is good.

And today I'm starting to like all of that Styx CD, though I haven't got to any 80s stuff yet.

PIL - 'Plastic Box' - bloody hell, I actually like some of the late stuff!

V/A - The Northern Soul Scene (Flirtations, Fearns Brass Foundry, and wait for it... David Essex, Adrienne Posta and The Brotherhood Of Man - rock and roll!)

I've just ordered the 10-CD Rubble box, which is supposed to be out on Monday, but I reckon will be delayed.

I'm going to get shedloads of stuff at the weekend if I get to the shops.

Neil Young - Zuma [LP]
Japan - Quiet Life [LP]
Marc - The Words and Music of Marc Bolan 1947-1977 [LP] ((track)info on the back is filled with typo's, but the compilation seemed attractive to me because of the inclusion of Bolan-songs from every period. also, Visconti's comments on the prev. unreleased "the Children of Rarn Suite" made me curious...)

Leonard Cohen - "I'm Your Man"
Prince and the Revolution - "Purple Rain"
Webern - "Complete String Trios and Quartets" (Arditti Qtet)
Mr. Hageman - "Twin Smooth Snouts"

OH MAN I LOVE JAPANESE PEOPLE and GRAVITY RECORDS.

Sundar, I've only listened to about half of it, but it's gorgeous and sort of spooky -- reminds me of a lot of my favorite tracks on Modulations and Transformations 4. I need to check out more stuff on Touch.

Yellow Magic Orchestra - s/t
Yellow Magic Orchestra - Public Pressure
Yellow Magic Orchestra - After Service
Yellow Magic Orchestra - Service
Yellow Magic Orchestra - XOO Multiplies Zoushoku
Yellow Magic Orchestra - Solid State Survivor
Yellow Magic Orchestra - Technodelic
Yellow Magic Orchestra - BGM
Yellow Magic Orchestra - Naughty Boys

From Amazon:

Comsat Angels - Seven Day Weekend

At the local Border's:

Buddy Rich - Time Being
Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express
The Fall - Grotesque

Bikini Kill The Singles

Julie Ruin

Bach's Brandenburg Concertos

I expect to get the debut CD by Cuban pianist Elio Villafranca, who lives in the Philadelphia area, any day now.

Laika, Silver Apples of the Moon and Sounds of the Satellites
Talk Talk, Spirit of Eden
Phonem, Ilisu
Manual, Until Tomorrow

alog - duck-rabbit
arbol - s/t
arcane device - trout, diabolis ex machina, envoi in cumin
aidan baker - pretending to be fearless
bardoseneticcube - rain in june 7"
joey beltram - classics
heimir björgúlfsson - discreet journey digitalis
lisa carbon & friends - experimental post techno swing
chaos as shelter - in absentia
charalambides - s/t, home
cyclotimia - metamorphosis 10"
dat politics - plugs plus
delayer - :breath by breath by breathing:
ea - öL
ecclesiastical scaffolding - lucid dreaming 7"
ellende - no concept is still a concept
fetisch park - instinkverlust
jon hassell - power spot
jaga jazzist - a livingroom hush
i'm sore (ian masters) / princess dragon-mom split cd
legendary pink dots - from here you'll watch the world go by
andrew liles - miscellany
zan lyons - warring factions
mendietan (mattin & rosy parlane)
monos - window
naono - slope drifting
nettle - build a fort set it on fire
nocturnal emissions - mouth of babes (w. diaper)
noise-maker's fifes - soundscapes of the inner eye
noise-maker's fifes - soirée dansante
noise-maker's fifes & luc van lieshout - corps(e)
kk null/jim o'rourke - new kind of water
omit - rejector
ontayso - re-mixed, re-worked, re-constructed and re-invented, Pt. 1
ora - final
john oswald - discosphere
pretty boy crossover - the building and formation
les rallizes denudes - blind baby has its mothers eyes
samurai jazz - meme?
schatrax - vol. 2
schlammpeitziger - freundlichbarracudamelodieliedgut LP
skullflower - ruins
smyglyssna - we can fix it
state river widening - s/t
supersilent - 5
tam quam tabula rasa - laborobiginis
tam quam tabula rasa - as'ra lubat-mauqmat & noxia blandimenta
tbc - novo
total - sky blue void
troum - symbiosis 3"
ultra milkmaids - 95>97
ure thrall - premonition 9/11 7"
stewart walker - reclamation: 1997-1999
wild shores - instant music
v/a - slumber music (universal egg)

As for me, two more Jandeks (four more to go and that's the lot), the newest Acid Mothers Temple thing and some good stuff from the Tape Mountain collective.

'World Festival of Sacred Music Europe' (CCn'C 1999)

'Swimming Among Sharks: Piranhas World 1987- 2002', Piranha Records compilation

WTF?!

Julio, the Rallizes is a CD(-R) of typically dubious origin. contains the meandering, raga-like studio recording (circa '86) "An Aweful Eternity" (a.k.a. "Zankoko Na Ai" (Cruel Love)), and thunderous (live) takes on "The Last One" and "Flames of Ice" that tower stratospherically over the Live '77 versions. sound quality is iffy, esp. on "Flames of Ice." but "The Last One" smokes like a Takayanagi-fronted Skullflower, oh yes.

I have to modify a little what I said on the Sun Ra thread. Nothing Is does have some difficult stretches, but it's not nearly as rough going as I expected. Overall I like it a lot, and I've hardly started to listen to it. (Usually my appreciation of Sun Ra CDs grows quite a bit over repeated listens.)

The Cal Tjader CD was recommended to me elsewhere. It's a little too jazzy and Latin jazzy for me--but what exactly was I expecting? I used to think I could maybe get to like Carmen McRae, but I have my doubts. It's not a bad CD by any means, but probably not my sort of thing. I will give it some more listens though.

morton feldman/samuel beckett: neither (col legno)
giancinto scelsi: (a CD of various pieces on kairos) and 'Ka' and 'Tthai' on col legno (two pieces for piano)
Hugh metcalfe: fuck off batman CD-R (nice and cheap)
Charlamagne palestine: strumming music (a real shockah this)
anthony braxton: 19 solo compositions 1988 (new albion for 5 quid thanks)
Masada: 1 (tzadik) (half price cheers!)
urabe masayoshi: urklang

• Luigi Nono - ...sofferte onde serene... and como una ola de fuerza y luz (composed for/performed by Maurizio Pollini -- the first piece is with soprano, orchestra, and tape; the second with tape; both are even more jaw-droppingly magnificent than I remembered. I'll have to track down scores to study...)
• Pixies - Doolittle (which I managed to pretty much ignore when it first came out all those years ago; I love it now)
• Split Enz - Spellbound (2-CD "Best of", which I was ready to toss out the car window on the basis of listening to disc 1 on the way home; thankfully disc 2 redeems the set)
• Moose - High Ball Me (Haven't listened to a note yet, but I have high expectations for this one based mostly on what I've read about the band here at ILM)
• Microphones - Mount Eerie (haven't listened yet -- I like what I've heard online, but I also get the impression that I'll have to listen straight through before I'll really know what I think about this one)

vg+ to mint- less than twelve dollars and 90 mins time invested

Saint Etienne - Tiger Bay
Departure Lounge - Out Of There
Departure Lounge - Too Young To Die Young
Siouxie & The Banshees Best Of
Young Fresh Fellows - Electric Bird Digest
Saint Etienne - Fox Base Alpha
Elliot Smith - Figure 8
Elf Power - Creatures
Apples In Stereo - Her Wallpaper Reverie
Flake Music - When You Land Here, It's Time To Return

2nd hand shop:
Japan - Obscure Alternatives (nothing to get too excited about maybe, but still: great!)
and there, in the Krautrock-section:
Amon Düül - Tanz der Lemminge [2LP, Liberty]. Supah!
and finally, in the mail, as an ebay-winner:
Can - Future Days [Spoon009 LP] unpack. oooh, look at that cover! get vinyl out. put on turntable. put needle on record. volume up. and there comes the tsunami....

and for my love I bought: Värttinä - Iki

(above three all on CD: HMV sale, grand total £7.97)

V/A: From The Archives - Testcard Music, vol 2 - two quid, Brick Lane market, for queasy afternoon-off-school-with-non-specific-throat-infection reverie

Morton Feldman: String Quartet no 2 - the Mode DVD version, six hours long, uninterrupted (Forced Exposure, $38)

Deerhoof - Apple O'
Smog - Supper
Califone - Quicksand/Cradlesnakes
Howe Gelb - The Listener
Stephen Malkmus - Pig Lib
Songs Ohio - Magnolia Electric Co.
Magas - Friends Forever
Wieve De Crepon - The Age Old Age Of Old Age
Merzbow - Merzzow
Merzbow - Frog
Them - Them
Saciobaba - Live In Ova At Yokohama Bay Hall
Saciobaba - Live In Ova At Aoyama Cay
Kahimi Karie - Trapeziste
Kahimi Karie - Tilt

The Ramones - Loud, Fast: Their Toughest Hits
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream (upgrade to CD)
The Unique Art of Andre Segovia
Andre Segovia - Castles of Spain
Dvorak - Symphony No 5 (perf Bamberg Symphony)

KRS387 Sleater-Kinney - One Beat
format: LP Quantity: 1 Price: $9.00

KRS253 Bikini Kill - I Like Fucking b/w I Hate Danger
format: 7" Quantity: 1 Price: $4.00

KRS206 Bikini Kill and Huggy Bear - Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah / Our Troubled Youth
format: LP Quantity: 1 Price: $9.00

KLP86 Cadallaca - Introducing Cadallaca
format: LP Quantity: 1 Price: $10.00

KRS237 Excuse 17 - Such Friends Are Dangerous
format: LP Quantity: 1 Price: $9.00

KRS222 Heavens to Betsy - Calculated
format: CD Quantity: 1 Price: $11.00

KRS236 Huggy Bear - Weaponry Listens to Love
format: CD Quantity: 1 Price: $11.00

TG227 Quasi - The Sword of God
format: LP Quantity: 1 Price: $10.00

KRS297 Julie Ruin - Julie Ruin
format: LP Quantity: 1 Price: $9.00

KRS360 Sleater-Kinney - All Hands on the Bad One
format: LP Quantity: 1 Price: $9.00

KRS279 Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out
format: LP Quantity: 1 Price: $9.00

KRS337 Sleater-Kinney - Get Up
format: 7" Quantity: 1 Price: $4.00

IPU92 The Spells - The Age of Backward
format: CDEP Quantity: 1 Price: $7.00

i am also expecting Elisabeth's copy of "Thats Not What I heard" by The Gossip anytime soon. now you people know how little i care about my student loan.

Its a must sundar. I did the sundar morning music thread bcz of it.

haha

I like the Boredoms CDs, especially Super ae. I would really like to like the Elio Villafranca since he's local and a good guy, and a really formidable pianist, but it's too squarely in the mainstream of jazz for my taste (even though it's a Latin jazz CD, but then, see above). I will keep listening to it, but I'm not optimistic, and I think I have pretty much given up on Latin jazz (though I've probably said that before). I might mail it off to a friend who likes Latin jazz.

Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill
Steely Dan - Countdown to Ecstasy
Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic
Steely Dan - Katy Lied
Steely Dan - Gaucho
Husker Du - Warehouse
OMD - Organisation
Yes - The Yes Album
Fleetwood Mac - Heroes Are Hard to Find
Fleetwood Mac - Tango in the Night
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
King Crimson - In the Wake of Poseidon
AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
Cocteau Twins - Head Over Heels
The Mission - II
Duran Duran - s/t
Bowery Electric - Electro-Sleep EP
Cabaret Voltaire - "Eight Crepuscule Tracks"
Human League - Hysteria
Loop - Arc-Lite EP
LCD Soundsystem - "Losing My Edge" 12"

and on CD:
Motorbass - Pansoul
Henry Cow - Leg End
Spectrum - Songs for Owsley
Eddie Money - Greatest Hits
Lush - Gala (YES YES YES YES YES!)

CD:
It's A Fucking Trap - s/t
Japanese Karaoke Afterlife Experiment - Let's Go On An Archaeological Dig!

LP:
Pearls Before Swine - One Nation Underground (original press; $7.50)

Beaumont - Tiara
Microphones, The Glow Pt. 2
Aarktica, Pure Tone Audiology
Mull Historical Society, Us

Very good Arthur. A more mature and less immediate album than It's A Shame.... or C'Mon Feel.... but a definute grower.

Latest purchases / orders:

Barclay James Harvest - Mocking Bird
Bhundu Boys - Shed Sessions
Blur - Think Tank
Boards Of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children
Buzzcocks - Buzzcocks
Los Caifanes - Historia
Catatonia - Greatest Hits
China Crisis – Collection
Crispy Ambulance – The Plateau Phase
Daft Punk - Discovery
Depeche Mode - Singles 1981-1998
Isaac Hayes – Greatest Hit Singles
Robyn Hitchcock - Luxor
Husker Du - Flip Your Wig
King Tubby – Dub Like Dirt
Lambchop – Is A Woman
Ministry - Greatest Fits
Residents - Not Available and Petting Zoo
Turin Brakes - The Optimist
War – Grooves & Messages
V/A – The Northern Soul Scene
V/A – The Rubble Series Collection

Carl Buter, "Don't Let Me Cross Over" 45
Billy Joe Royal, "Steal Away" 45
Flatt and Scruggs, The Complete Mercury Sessions CD
Trojan Calypso box set
Ambitious Lovers, Greed CD (is this any good?)
ABBA, Greatest Hits Vol. 2 LP
Esther Phillips, What a Diff'rence a Day Makes LP
Mary McCaslin, Prairie in the Sky LP
Maddy Prior and June Tabor, Silly Sisters LP

Was very tempted to buy an LP of Messiaen's Chronochromie but the liner notes were kinda dirty.

!

Anyway, today:
Barbara Morgenstern: Nichts Muss (because Tom's Top Twelve made me dl "Kleiner Ausschnitt")
Pet Shop Boys: Actually double reissue thingy (because it BECKONED ME, plus I didn't have it on CD)
Kristin Hersh: Hips and Makers (because, um, I wanted one more, and it was sort of just there at a reasonable price)

is ilm really the kind of place where one has to wax apologetic for buying a Kristin Hersh rekkid!? (*swallows tears, choking*)

Oh no no no -- well, that's not my impression, at least -- and I wasn't trying to be apologetic! I just suddenly found it hard to explain, especially to myself, why I'd bought exactly that record instead of tens-to-hundreds of others in that shop I might also have wanted.

Maybe better try: A flatmate of mine in 94-95 had it, and I liked it quite a bit. Haven't heard it since then. When seeing the cover in the shop, cello'n'voice goodness came back to me.

I still like it.

Ornette Coleman - Change Of The Century
Ornette Coleman - Complete Science Fiction
Don Cherry - Complete Communion
Don Cherry - Brown Rice
Max Roach - We Insist! Freedom Now Suite
Schoenberg - Pierrot Lunaire (Boulez)
Stravinsky - Firebird ballet
Pharoah Sanders - Summun Bunkun Umyun
Donald Byrd - Ethopian Knights
Joe Farrell - Moon Germs
John Coltrane - Complete 1961 Village Vanguard boxthingy
Joe Henderson- The Elements
Don Ellis - Electric Bath
Alice Coltrane - Journey In Satchidananda
Eddie Henderson - Anthology 2

Sick! Unfortunately the store is one that has a tendency to be rather slow, and send thingsi n spurs (though I suspect most of these will appear fairly quickly)
Fairly low prices are enough to make me patient. Plus, it's so damn much, that getting it all at once, would be overkill anyways.

I sometimes wonder what it'd be like to not be a complete nerd.

I wuv this album.

(nb: I may be a girl.)

I've just purchased a slew of used CDs from a friend. I need to wait for them all to arrive to remember what I got, though.

I'm skint.

Amon Düül II - Yeti (yay!)
Boegies - Zwijnen bij Candlelight (dutch 80's punk from the region where I grew up)
Ry Cooder - Into the Purple Valley
Iggy Pop - Soldier
Iggy Pop & James Williamson - Kill City
the Dream Syndicate - Days of wine & roses
the Triffids - Raining Pleasure
the Gun Club - the Las Vegas Story
Jeffrey Lee Pierce - Wildweed
Lou Reed - Transformer
Neil Young - On the Beach
the Chameleons - Strange Times
Peter Gabriel - Deutsches Album

it was a great afternoon...

Adamski - Naughty
New Order - Best of (the 1994 release)
Orb- Aubrey mixes
Orb - Cydonia
Pixies - Trompe le monde
Primal Scream - Evil heat
Spice Girls - Spice (finally)
Various - Deepest shade of techno vol 1
Various - Forrest Gump OST

plus Soft Cell - Non stop erotic cabaret on video.

Bela Bartok - Concerto for Orchestra/Concerto for 2 Pianos, Percussion, and Orchestra (perf Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam/Antal Dorati/David Zinman/Nelson Freire & Martha Argerich (pianos)/Jan Labordus & Jan Pustjens (perc))

Watch How the People Dancing: Unity Sounds from the London Dancehall, 1986-1989 CD
The Everly Brothers, Both Sides of an Evening/Instant Party CD
Bill Withers, Still Bill CD
Where the Girls Are Vol. 2 CD
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf ad Wilhelm Furtwängler, Wolf: 22 Lieder CD
Glen Campbell, Wichita Lineman LP (so far, nothing quite equals the title tune)
Nat "King" Cole Español LP
The Audience with Betty Carter LP
T. Texas Tyler LP (most excellent, w/ "Filipino Baby," "Oklahoma Hills," etc.

...and two Wodehouse novels.

I used to have this on vinyl, but it got culled at some point. Reading your thoughts on Hats last week made me desperate to hear it again!

I've hovered indecisively over that one myself - what do you think of it Dr. C?

Went shopping with Marcello on Saturday and got:

-Manitoba - Up In Flames (sounds just like the second Chapterhouse album, funnily enough)
-The Warlocks - Phoenix (which I haven't actually listened to yet)

and then I got given a promo of

-The Dandy Warhols - Welcome To The Monkey House (which will not play on my computer, which is torturous! I'm excited about this album, supposedly it's all very synthy and moogy and extremely Nick Rhodes...)

Chris: Enjoy! [also: tell me abt. Matt Pond PA]

System of a Down - Steal This Album
Devo - Are We Not Men? We Are Devo! (which I've owned for years on vinyl)
Smokey & Miho - already forgot the name, the one in English
Talib Kweli - Quality
Mix Master Mike - Anti-Theft Device

Donny Hathaway - Live
Sam Cooke - Keep Movin' On
David Holmes - Come Get It, I Got It
Son House and the Great Delta Blues Singers - 1928-1930
Aretha Franklin - 30 Greatest Hits
Michael Jackson - Thriller (special edition)
Matthew Sweet - In Reverse
Jay Z - The Blueprint
Alice Coltrane - Universal Consciousness
White Stripes - Elephant
EAR - Phenomena 256
Mark Kozelek - White Christmas Live
Prefuse 73 - the 92 vs 02 Collection
El-P - Fantastic Damage
Manitoba - Start Breaking My Heart
Built to Spill - Ancient Melodies of the Future
The Delfonics - La La Means I Love You: The Definitive Collection

*Now playing: the beginning of "Theatre" is fantastic. I find it very convincingly--but what? Greek? Turkish? Middle eastern? East European? Yet my inability to pin it down doesn't make it seem bogus at all. Some "eastern" modal sound of some sort.

I don't think I like Vision Creation Newsun as much as Super Ae, but I've only listened once. Actually, I think I like my favorite tracks from Chocolate Synthesizer more than either one.

Seven salsa CDs on the way (two, ordered way back, caught up in a delivery screw-up).

Pita- get out on mego
Phil niblock- Touch works for hurdy gurdy and voice
and Charles Wuorien on Tzadik.

Acid Mothers Temple - St. Capt. Bamboo...Request
High Rise - Durophet, Live, Dispersion, Desperado, Psychedelic Speed Freaks
Les Rallizes Denudes - Fucked Up & Naked, Vols. 1 & 2 (bootlegs)
Flaming Lips - Flight Test EP (pre-ordered)

And I almost picked up 10 volumes of Fällt's invalidObject Series - I could hardly resist the gorgeous packaging, and they were used and therefore cheap; but I don't expect I would have liked more than half of them, and there's only 15 minutes of music on each one, and besides if I'd known about the series sooner I could have downloaded the whole thing in the form of free mp3s from the label's website.

insert witty comment about credit card abuse here. =)

Yes it is quite amazing (i got it somewhere upthread) isn't it? It sometimes reminds me of the 1st Roxy Music alb. (esp. the last track on side 1), I guess it's the hobo or something. (obv. the album as a whole is quite something else...)

:-( You do have It'll End in Tears, though, yes? And yes, Yeti = goodness.

Ahem.

*all £4.99 in HMV - mental!

I just borrowed the Outkast best of (which I might buy later) from my library, plus Corner Shop's Hand Cream for a Generation, which I don't expect to like. (I thought "Brimful of Asha" was just tedious, by the way. The only song that I liked was "6 A.M. Jullandar Shere.")

giant sand - cover magazine (the other best band in the world doing some weird covers, rainer's "the inner flame" is breathtaking)

dire straits - brothers in arms (nostalgy buy. god the cover sucks and the music as well. i must have been a different person when i loved this in a different life 18 years ago)

sinead o'connor - mother of the universe (i heard it in the record shop, guessed immediately that it was her though it was very low-key in the shop and have the feeling that i will like it a lot)

Today I picked up:

Donald Fagen - The Nightfly (holy crap, I never really realized what a huge portion of my subconscious mind the Dan and affiliated projects occupy -- the first listen through "I.G.Y." gave me an almost frighteningly tactile sense of being extremely young (like an "oh my god it's THAT song!!!" thing))

Roxy Music - Stranded remastered CD (how did they cram that many great ideas into single albums?)

Magazine - Secondhand Daylight (haven't listened to it yet)

Markus Guentner - "Regensburg" 12" (beautiful beat tracks on side B)

Slint - Tweez original Jennifer Hartman vinyl pressing (this is fantastic, and probably the most artifact-ish LP I own)

next up...

manitoba - up in flames
the new yo la tengo
autechre - draft 7.30
mum - finally we are no-one

"22 going on 23" is...well, how would you call that. beyond eerie. macabre maybe.

Alex, Summer Sun, I've heard/read many different opinions on this one, what's yours? Loving May I.../Electr-O-Pura/I Can..., not-loving-but-still-liking And then..., is this likely to be a bit further down my scale? (that's what I'm afraid of...)
And Brothers in Arms is not that bad... I used to despise, mainly because people with no taste loved them in my school. But BiA had some tunes that were pretty "sweet", I thought (then again, haven't heard it in, say, 15 yrs. or so, so my interpretation is also nostalgia-biased [listening to it with pretty girl in bedroom], so maybe it is crap :)
Universal Mother (as it is called I believe) is great. some really crappy lyrics but wonderful music. (Red Footbal)

Concerning Brothers in Arms I listened to the first two songs on headphones last night and hated them for their simplicity and obviousness. This morning my girl-friend played the CD in our kitchen CD player and it was an entirely different thing. I think I like that music in the background but I can't take it when it comes too close to me. When the album came out I used to fall asleep to it and wake up to it.

You are right about Universal Mother, sometimes I have problems to retain titles correctly...

Him - Love Metal
Alison Krauss & Union Station - New Favorite
Van Halen - S/T
Belinda Carlise - The Collection