Last X records you bought, 2nd quarter 2003

steve malkmus & the jicks - pig lib

Puchased yesterday and am absolutely obsessing about them both.

SCYTHE "On My Way Home
THE CHASM "Conjuration Of The Spectral Empire
SABBAT "Evoke" CD
Mutiilation - Sex machine (or whatever the new album is called)
Hatework - Madbent for disaster
NECROMANTIA "IV: Malice"
SITHLORD "The Return To Godless Times
Graveland - Thousand Swords
Graveland - The Celtic Winter
Graveland - Carpathian Reindeer
Graveland - Memory and destiny
Axis Of Advance - the List
Gospel of the horns - A call to arms
LORD BLASPHEMER "Tales Of Misanthropy, Bloodlust And Mass Homicide
DESTRÖYER 666 "Unchain The Wolves
CUTTHROAT "Rape Rape Rape
Ghoul - We came for the bunned
Nargaroth - Black metal ist panda

Scotch - Delirio Mind
Ken Laszlo - 1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8
Kano - Another Life
Cruisin' Gang - America
Cyber People - Void Vision

But only one is utterly execrable, so I count that as a success...

Townes Van Zandt live
Tupac - "All eyez on me"
Debbie Deb - "When I hear music"
Adventures of Stevie V - "Dirty cash"

See if this works: i http://www.chez.com/abri/a/images/ruiz.JPG

(Probably I don't know how to do it.)

Nick S - what do make of the Trojan 12's box? CD3 is particular is absolutely brilliant. Linval Thompson's Pop No Style!

Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Sessions
Mazzy Star - She Hangs Brightly
Opal - Early Recordings LP (possible - nine hours to go on my auction, it's still sub-$30)
Hot Hot Heat - Make Up The Breakdown
The Baptist Generals - No Silver/No Gold
David Cross - Shut Up, You Fucking Baby (so-so)
PiL - Second Edition
Rilo Kiley - Execution of All Things
Uncle Tupelo - Anodyne

Also Boogie Down Productions by all means necessary.

And yesterday I got Nilsson's As time goes by- complete Schmillson in the night sessions.

Manitoba--"Up In Flames"
The Kills--"Keep On Your Mean Side" (ducks)
Ride--"Nowhere" (remaster)
The Rubble Collection

the last is making me very, very, very glad right now...

Goran Bregovic 'Tales and Songs for Weddings and Funerals'
Les Rita Mitsouko 'Bestov'
Tuxedomoon 'live in st. petersberg 2001' (review: insanely dedicated fans only)
I.S.O. 'Gravity Clock'
Art Ensemble of Chicago 'People in Sorrow'
Jan Jelinek 'La Nouvelle Pauvrete' (have already sold this back, I Do Not Understand The Fuss)
Goodiepal/Mainpal Inv. 'B&O' & 'Statoil' 7" singles (excellent as always)
Vladislav Delay 'Multila' (finally found one I like)
Pita 'Early Works'
Robert Ashley 'Wolfman' (if you sprang for the vinyl, i wouldn't rebuy the CD for the extra tracks, as I did, like a dummy. 'Wolfman' itself certainly lives up to its reputation though)

This record, and to an extent this band, is shockingly good. Apparently, someone forgot to make them as famous as Can and Faust.

That ISO record is good.

'malesch' is very very impressive... ok I will go check out 'second'.

You mean 30 minutes of straight sine wave isn't doing it for you?

(note: this is not really my fault. just a whole lot of amazon & ab-cd orders from as far back as february all came through at the same time. rather fucked.)

AMM, Tunes Without Measure or End (Matchless, MRCD44) CD
Amon Duul, Psychedelic Underground (Repertoire, REP 4616-WY) CD
Amon Duul II, Yeti (Repertoire, REP 4748) CD
Art Ensemble of Chicago, Les Stances a Sophie (Nessa, n-4) LP
Comus, First Utterance (Dawn, VICP-62166) CD
Dag Nasty, Field Day (Giant, GR16013-2) CD
Fred Neil, The Many Sides of Fred Neil (EMI Music, CCM-070-2) 2CD
Nico, Chelsea Girl (Polydor, 835 209-2) CD
Charlemagne Palestine, In Mid-Air (Alga Marghen, plana-P19NMN.047) CD
Alan Sondheim, Ritual-All-7-70 (ESP-Disk, 1048-2) CD

Also got tickets for the Boston concert on June 10 at the Molson Ampitheatre. Only $11.70 + surcharges for lawn seats! My sister's coming up for the show.

Turin Brakes - Ether Song
Katatonia - Viva Emptiness
Placebo - Sleeping with Ghosts
Idlewild - The Remote Part
Silverchair - Rarities 1994-1999
Opeth - Still Life
Helium - The Magic City
Foil - Never Got Hip
Kristin Hersh - Strange Angels
Curve - Doppelgänger
Throwing Muses (2003)
The Rolling Stones Singles Collection
Pale Saints - In Ribbons
Minor Threat - Complete Discography
Isis - Oceanic
JJ72 - JJ72
The Chameleons - Strange Times

:-)

Cursive - The Ugly Organ
Orugusu Norihide - Modern
The Delgados - Hate
Mclusky - Mclusky Do Dallas
The Sea & Cake - One Bedroom

The last five albums I downloaded:

Mogwai - Happy Songs for Happy People
Erlend Oye - Unrest
Brendan Benson - One Mississippi
Western Keys - Damage
New Pornographers - Electric Version

CD's:

Archers Of Loaf - Vee Vee €1
Brendan Benson - Lapalco €4
Caesars Palace - Cherry Kicks €5
Fireside - Fantastic Four €1
Guided By Voices - Universal Truth And Cycles (Promo) €4
Hazel - Are You Going To Eat That €1
Nova Mob - Nova Mob €1
The Plan - The Plan €5
Reef - Replenish €1

Compilation CD's:

London Calling Vol. 3 €1
London Calling Vol. 5 €1

Singles/Samplers/EP's (prices range from €0,33 to €1):

The Bluetones - Marblehead Johnson
The Bluetones - Slight Return
Dodgy - The Melod-E.P.
The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster - Celebrate Your Mother
Elastica - Line Up
Elastica - Waking Up
Elf Power - Naughty Villain/Great Society (Promo)
Gonzales - Take Me To Broadway
Halo - Cold Light Of Day (Promo)
Halo - Never Ending
Haven - Til The End (Promo)
The Jeevas - Ghost (Cowboys In The Movies) (Promo)
Leaves - Catch (Promo)
Leaves - Race
Longview - When You Sleep
Matthew - Streams
Mull Historical Society - The Final Arrears
Nada Surf - Hi-Speed Soul (Promo)
Nada Surf - The Way You Wear Your Head (Promo)
Ozma - Songs From Rock And Roll Part Three (Promo)
The Raveonettes - Attack Of The Ghost Riders (Promo)
Serafin - Day By Day (Promo)
Six By Seven - I.O.U.
Sparklehorse - Sick Of Goodbyes (Promo)
Spoon - Jonathon Fisk/Stay Don't Go
Stiltskin - Inside
The Wannadies - Hit

does make one envious, really does. there ain't anything remotely resembling that in my homeland any more. 8=(

Killing Joke - s/t
Killing Joke - Night Time
Pere Ubu - Terminal Tower
Birdsongs of the Mesozoic - Sonic Geology
Japancakes - The Sleepy Strange

2 Unlimited, Get Ready
Jon Balke/Oslo 13, Nonsentration
The Beloved, Happiness
Clouds, Thunderhead
The Family Cat, Magic Happens
Five Thirty, Bed
Fudge Tunnel, The Complicated Futility of Ignorance, In a Word
Gay Dad, Leisure Noise
Gobblehoof, Gobblehoof
Monie Love, Down to Earth
Marvelous 3, Hey! Album
O'Jays, The Ultimate
Prodigy, Baby's Got a Temper
Ratcat, Tingles
Scorn, Deliverance
Shudder to Think, First Love, Last Rites
John P. Strohm, Vestavia
Television Personalities, Privilege
To Live and Shave in LA, An Interview with the Mitchell Brothers
Xtra Large, Now I Eat Them
Pay it All Back, Volume 5
Trans Slovenia Express
A Cat-Shaped Hole in My Heart
Kismet (original soundtrack)

Then there was the almost-nothing paid for the DVD for Battlefield Earth. There's always room for laughter at the follies of the likes of Travolta.

Me:
-Jan Jelinek "La Nouvelle Pauvrete"
-Mouse on Mars "Rost Pocks"
-Tok Tok Vs Soffy O
-Le Tigre 1st album

1) carl perkins greatest hits (heavens i love that man so much, "sure to fall" is so pretty)
p.j. harvey - to bring you my love
plus some 45s: nena - 99 luftballons
boney m - rasputin
wang chung - everybody have fun tonight
queen - radio gaga
the eagles - one of these nights
dolly parton - love is like a butterfly.
oh and my very own vinyl copy of the gossip - thats not what i heard, arrived in the mail from elisabeth, vielen danke!

and some more. ..

pentagram _first daze here_
suck _time to suck_
forest _forest_ (the russian black metal band, no the UK folk one)
unearthly trance _hadit_

and i'm still - goddamn it - waiting for my tiny fusetron order to arrive - freedom's children _galactic vibes_ and a ceramic hobs 7".

holy crap!!!

Angel Canales: El Sentimiento del Latino en Nueva York
Tipica 73: Salsa Encendida
Ismael Rivera con Cortijo y su Combo: Sonero #1
Cheo Feliciano: With a Little Help from My Friend

So far: the Canales is at least good. The first track on the Tipica 73 is just amazing.

Todd Edwards - Tales From The Underground
The Muffs - Happy Birthday To Me (this is fantastic, can't believe I've delayed getting my first Muffs CD for so long!)
Flick - The Perfect Kellulight
Len - You Can't Stop The Bumrush
Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun
Tim 'Love' Lee - Confessions of a Selector (the only complete and utter dud from this batch)

Pere Ubu, New Picnic Time
Pere Ubu, Cloudland
Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, The Fossil Record

albums:

Minesweeper Suite - DJ/Rupture
a bangin' HipHop compliation
Looking for Saint Tropez - Telex
Hounds of Love - Kate Bush
Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac
Pressure - The Bug

12"
Let's Go Crazy / Erotic City (make love not war Erotic City come alive) - Prince

What's good about Boston? Been diggin' Barbara Morgenstern too and 1000 miles by Vanessa Carlton,

feel the bluster!

A Guy Called Gerald -- Essence
Harry Bertoia -- Unfolding
Birdsongs of the Mesozoic -- Sonic Geology
Black Tape for a Blue Girl -- With a Million Tear-Stained Memories
Solomon Burke -- Rhino best of
Cameo -- Anthology
Carter USM -- Worry Bomb (complete with bonus live album!)
Chandeen -- Echoes
The Coasters -- Rhino best of
Cornershop -- Handcream for a Generation
The Cramps -- Stay Sick!
The Cult -- s/t
Day One -- Hallowed Ground
Drive-By Truckers -- Southern Rock Opera
Duotron -- The Complete Book of Duotron, Illustrated
Electro Assassin Bioculture -- s/t
Flamingos -- Rhino best of
The Flatlanders -- Now Again
Girlschool -- The Collection
Golden Axes -- Golden Axes II
The Grid -- Electric Head
Heaven 17 -- How Men Are
Herbert -- Secondhand Sounds
Iced Earth -- Horror Show
Waylon Jennings -- RCA Country Legends
The Last Hard Men -- s/t
Lewis/Gilbert and Mills -- Pacific/Specific
Lightning Seeds -- Like You Do...
Lords of the New Church -- The Lords Prayers I
Lyle Lovett -- ...and his Large Band
Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers -- Rhino best of
Kirsty MacColl -- Tropical Brainstorm
Teena Marie -- 20th Century Masters
Mars -- 78 +
Mary Jane Girls -- 20th Century Masters
Meat Beat Manifesto -- Profile 1 (remix comp)
Thee Midniters -- Greatest
Ted Nugent and the Amboy Dukes -- Loaded for Bear
Omit -- Quad
Martin Phillips -- Sketch Book: Volume One
The Pleasure Barons -- Live in Las Vegas
The Ponys -- Shishimumu
Recoil -- Bloodline
Rocket From the Crypt -- Live From Camp X-Ray
Roni Size -- Touching Down
Arthur Russell -- Another Thought
Bruce Russell -- Maximalist Mantra Music
The Soft Boys -- Nextdoorland
The Carl Stalling Project -- Music From the Warner Bros. Cartoons
Surface of Eceyon -- Dragyyn
David Thomas -- Monster
Mel Torme -- Finest Hour
Uberzone -- Faith in the Future
Butch Walker -- Left of Self-Centered
Patty Waters -- College Tour
v/a -- Chicago Trax (3 CD house comp)
v/a -- The Invisible Pyramid (Last Visible Dog comp)

Ned can you tape me this please? I'll tape any stuff you like (can i send a list?)

"Solo, Duo & Trio" - Randy Weston

I have no idea! But it was only a buck, so I thought I would jump. Is there anything in the AMG about them? I haven't looked yet.

ned, are you trying to corner the market?

I am the market.

Ned can you tape me this please? I'll tape any stuff you like (can i send a list?)

Drop me a line via e-mail...

Is the xenakis stuff 'heavy' or something?

not a damn thing. get on it, man!

Plus ordered a few things from Leaf including Sofa Surfers and some Mexican ambient chap.

I want some Tears For Fears after seeing Donnie Darko.

well the electronic stuff for sure does it but chamber stuff isn't 'heavy' but anyway I'll play it tonight and see whether the neighbours come looking for me ;-)

aarktica - no solace in sleep
a.b.g.s. - bunkerbeschallung
a.b.g.s. - etch
almost digital - a.d.
arco flute foundation - everything after the bomb is sci-fi
area - maledetti
koji asano - absurd summer
koji asano - piano suite vol. 1: fitness club 1-20
koji asano - gondola odyssey
aubrey - unscrambled memories
billy? / inu-yaroh - split
birchville cat motel - vespertine
black twig pickers - north fork flyer
cj bolland - the 4th sign
biota - almost never
the birdtree - orchards & caravans
bola - fyuti
boom bip - seed to sun
christina carter - bastard wing LP
tom carter - root king LP
collections of colonies of bees - fa.ce (a
dead raven choir / furisubi / timothy the revelator - split
dead raven choir - ...but inside they are the ravening wolves
died pretty - pre deity, free dirt, using my gils... and six CD5s/EPs
die trip computer die - we are your friends
the ectomorph - the furious sleeper
esem - enveloped
esplendor geometrico - control remoto, veritatis splendor
faust - freispiel
floating flower - 1st + 2nd
furisubi - limb of copernicus
fursaxa - the cult from moon mountain
fursaxa - trobairitz are here from venus
geez 'n' gosh - my life with jesus
hafler trio - kill the king
charles hayward - skew-whiff
charles hayward - switch on war
irving klaw trio - s/t
landing - passages through
light - turning
mikronytes - s/t
mondii t:p - s/t
monolight - free music
moose - baby it's over ep
morthond - this crying age
chie mukai and sei'ichi yamamoto - live at showboat, february 25, 2000 with lamones young
negativland - escape from noise
no-neck blues band - "re: mr. a fan" LP
no-neck blues band - ever borneo! 2LP/7
no-neck blues band - meets the clear people at ken's lake 2LP
jérome nôetinger & ErikM - what a wonderful world
ohm - live at the crown
jim o'rourke - disengage
overhang party - 4
evan parker - lines burnt in light
plone - for beginner piano
james plotkin - a strange, perplexing
reynols no-reynols - rovatino surido almericamo
keith rowe, thomas lehn & marcus schmickler - rabbit run
scorces - vivre avec la bête LP
shantel - higher than the funk
shizuka - tokyo underground '95
surface of eceyon - purposeful availment ep
nobukazu takemura - assembler 1/2
cecil taylor - cell walk for celeste
test - s/t (aum fidelity)
jörg thomasius - marmor
thuja - hills
wamdue kids - works
warmdesk - guero variations
wire - turns & strokes
the young gods - play kurt weill
v/a - c/psi/p retrospective
v/a - find more hits (suetsu & underwood)
v/a - ... (editions)
v/a - the invisible pyramid
v/a - unentiled

wha?! details, please!

S.I. Futures (aka Si Begg) -- The Mission Statement
Caroline's Spine -- Monsoon
Chicks on Speed -- this B-52's tribute/collaboration single or something
Julee Cruise -- The Art of Being a Girl
DJ Assault -- Jefferson Ave.
The Emotions -- Best of My Love (best-of comp)
Joy Electric -- The Art and Craft of Popular Music (double disc best of)
Jucifer -- I Name You Destroyer (JBR mentioned this on a thread today, thought I'd give it a whirl!)
Kentucky Headhunters -- Best Of
Longwave -- Day Sleeper
Men Without Hats -- Pop Goes the World
Stephin Merritt -- Eban and Charley (my continuing project to investigate everything else that ISN'T 69LS)
Robert Palmer -- Best of Both Worlds (greatest hits double disc, this looks ridiculously great, actually)
The Presidents of the United States of America -- Pure Frosting
Charlie Rich -- Ultimate Collection (also ridiculously great, and it has "Feel Like Going Home" on it, which the Walkabouts turned into one of their greatest ever performances, so I've always wanted to hear the original...)
Jonathan Richman -- Home of the Hits (this one is weird, it's actually a double disc comp where the first disc cherrypicks the Berzerkley stuff and the second disc is actually a compilation of all the other Berzerkley bands, the Rubinoos and Greg Kihn and all that)
Sam and Dave -- Rhino best-of
Sixteen Horsepower -- Folklore
Percy Sledge -- It Tears Me Up (Rhino best-of)
The Strawbs -- Halcyon Days (double disc best of)
Suede -- A New Morning (finally -- also it's the bonus-track-laden Australian version, rah)
Sylvia -- Rhino best-of
Trashmonk -- Mona Lisa Overdrive (I figure this sucks but might be amusing)
Treepeople -- Just Kidding
Erkki-Sven Tüür -- Crystallisatio
Wumpscut -- Eevil Young Flesh
v/a -- the One AD/Two AD/Three AD series of ambient comps on Waveform -- ah, the mid-Nineties
v/a -- Trance Atlantic Two (part of the Volume series of spinoff comps
v/a -- World of Sound (this looks really fun, it's this random collection of BBC TV and radio theme songs)
v/a -- Sounds You Can Feel (Doc Martin mix disc)
v/a -- Danny Tenaglia: Choices (some sort of double-disc 'All Back to Mine' style thing, his favorite tracks etc.)

trashmonk is the worst, it starts off with a wonderful song then goes straight to hell.

then:
Heart and Soul (JD Box Set)

All About Eve -- Fairy Light Nights (live acoustic, Marty Willson-Piper on guitar)
Jason Bill and Jack Rose -- via St. Louis
Electric Company -- 62-56
Charlie Feathers -- Get With It (double disc on Revenant)
Herbert -- Around the House
Jiffy Loop -- s/t
Mount Florida -- Stealth EP
Siddal -- The Crossing
Soulwax -- Much Against Everyone's Advice
v/a -- Sub Rosa Underwood Two
v/a -- Six Stage Phaser (Vinyl Communications comp)
v/a -- Clicks and Cuts 2 (3 disc Mille Plateaux comp with the likes of Farben, Swayzak, Vladislav Delay, Reinhard Voigt, Thomas Brinkmann, Hakan Lidbo, Fennesz, etc...)

...and the BBC radio production of The Lord of the Rings with Ian Holm, found used at a great price. Rock.

julie london, lonely girl/make love to me CD two-fer
billy eckstine, "st. louis blues"/"how high the moon" 45
marty robbins, "aloha oe" 45
noel coward, "let's do it" 45
mel torme, california suite collection of 4 45s

also a nice little case for my 45s.

plus i was sent: flanger - "midnight sound" as a gift

Fushitsusha - s/t (PSF 3/4)
Fushitsusha - Double Live (PSF 15/16)

Thanks, Julio, for reminding me in another thread that I still needed to snag those jewels!

Also, nearly completed my High Rise collection a couple of weeks ago by getting:

Psychobomb
Durophet
Live
Disallow
Psychedelic Speed Freaks '84 - '85
Desperado
(Speed Free Sonic is on back order)

These were oddly a supplement to the 2 10-disc High Rise La Musica boxes I've had for some time, which I suppose is the opposite of the way most folks would do it...

and... Acid Mothers Temple - St. Capt. Freakout & the Magic Bamboo Request, which is really tres awesome in headphones..........

Will be snagging the new Flaming Lips CD EP soon...

as for me, i bought/got, in the last 2/3 weeks:

the Gun Club - Fire of Love
Woven Hand - Blush
Tröckener Kecks - Één op één miljoen/Betaalde liefde [=dutch]
La Düsseldorf - La Düsseldorf
At the Close of Every Day - Zalig zijn de armen van geest
Daft Punk - Discovery
Prayer Boat - Polychinelle (finally bought it on cd, to replace my copy)
A Certain Ratio - Early

no problem man! you'll love those.

And on order:
Manitoba - Up in Flames
Coloma - Finery (very excited about this based on what I've heard online, although the nice guy at the counter seemed a little skeptical that they'd be able to get it for me)

And REALLY I have to cut back on CD purchases; this has been the "worst" month ever and I can't keep spending like this. REALLY.

Actis' Band - Don Quijote
Dominic Duval w/The C.T. String Quartet - Under The Pyramid
Susan Alcorn & Dr Eugene Chadbourne - An Afternoon In Austin ...or, Country Music for Harmolodic souls
Dr Eugene Chadbourne - I Talked To Death In Stereo
Hans Reichel & Tom Cora - Angel Carver (live 1988)

...oh okeh: the last one's a cd-r, so i didnnae 'xaktly "buy" it ...and the four before that were sent as a present by a friend ...but most of the rest were cut price

Fruit Bats - "Mouthfuls" - I have a weakness for that jingle jangle morning shit

Minus 5 - "Down with Wilco" - which I haven't actually listened to yet.

That new Sadies album, the name of which eludes me, which I also have yet to hear

And on order: GoGoGo Airheart, the new Ex Models, the Majesticons.

i've just ordered this - can't wait to get it. Misty Dixon are a treasure. Tyack (genius) + Jane Weaver (genius) = almost too much genius for me to handle.

Sonig - .Ilation
DJ Scud - Ambush!
Secret Chiefs 3 - First Grand Constitution and Bylaws
Secret Chiefs 3 - Second Grand Constitution and Bylaws
Scrawl - Travel On, Scrawl
Gang Starr - Step in the Arena
Aaliyah - If Your Girl Only Knew

And from the 99 cent bin:
Chicks on Speed - Chix 52
Kane & Abel - The Last Ones Left
UTFO - Doin' It!
Big Pokey - Da Sky's Da Limit
Da Headbussaz (Triple 6 Mafia + Fiend) - Dat's How It Happen To 'M
Salt-n-Pepa - Whatta Man

Well I remeber _somebody_ here did, but obv forgot it was you. So I simultaneously apologize for forgetting and thank you for prompting me to buy it. *puts fist on chest* I shall not forget thee again!

(can't remember if I already put some of these down.)

Prince, Controversy
Prince, Sign O' the Times
Parliament, Chocolate City (title track is the best P-Funk song ever.)
various artists, In Yo Face: The History of Funk, vol. 5 ("Disco to Go" is the best P-Funk song ever!)
Funkadelic, Uncle Jam Wants You ("(not just) Knee Deep" is the best P-Funk song EVER!)
Funkadelic, One Nation Under a Groove (title track is truly the very best P-Funk song EVER!!!)
Joni Mitchell, Court and Spark
The Clash, London Calling
Sex Pistols, Never Mind the Bollocks...
2 many djs, As Heard on Radio Soulwax, Pt. 1
2 many djs, As Heard on Radio Soulwax, Pt. 3
2 many djs, As Heard on Radio Soulwax, Pt. 4
2 many djs, As Heard on Radio Soulwax, Pt. 5

impending purchase... Crydamoure Presents Waves II

"Bootsy" Collins, Bootsy? Player of the Year

Is that an equation or an introduction?

Sofia Gubaidulina - Offertorium (Gidon Kremer; Boston Symphony Orchestra - Charles Dutoit)

Hannaford St Silver Band w/ the Amadeus Choir - Voices On High (feat Bramwell Tovey's Requiem for a Charred Skull)

Prokofiev - Classical Symphony; Symphony #5 (Orchestre National de l'ORTF, Paris)

Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique (Boston SO)

Derek Bailey - Domestic & Public Pieces: Solo Guitar Improvisations 1975-6

Mozart - Early Symphonies (3 record set)

U2 - War

Montrose

Just stopped short of getting Cryptopsy's None So Live

The Fall -- Fall in a Hole (that there two-disc reissue thing)
The Louvin Brothers -- Satan is Real (sure, cover's goofy, but it has to be great, I figure)
Mensen -- Oslo City
Backyard Babies -- From Demos to Demons 1989-1992

Rawk, etc.

Anyways:
Hawtin: DE9
Tiga: DJ Kicks
Swayzak: Dirty Dancing
Dj Hell: Electronicbody-Housemusic
(yoshitoshi in DC is closing, so all was 50% off)
and finally... for only $4.50 at MusicNOW... a mint copy of... wait for it...
St. Etienne - Only Love Can Break Your Heart 12" with the MAW mixes!!!! :-)

Terry Riley & John Cale - "Church of Anthrax"
Art Bears - "Hopes and Fears" (first song skips - arggggh!)
Keith Jarrett - "G.I. Gurdjieff Sacred Hymns"

http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/7049/skips.htm

I think maybe I'll try that record-washing trick on some of my cruddy old records too.

Opeth - Damnation : Not metal at all, just pleasant songs. Great album.

Blur - Think Tank (ltd. edition) : Two days before the official release date! Thank God for street markets...

Sonic Youth - Goo : Dirty Boots is worth the €7,50 I paid for it alone.

Marion - The Program : Best buy ever for €2,50!

(also a slim harpo 'best of' which i gave to a gurl. young and foolish, i know)

TWO copies of Charalambides' 'Historic Sixth Ward' used, beautiful handmade packaging for each copy -- really great music to boot

Charalambides - 'Houston'

Pelt - 'Techeod' and 'Brown Cyclopedia'

Bob Dylan - 'Blonde on Blonde'

Phillip Jeck - 'Stoke' (gorgeous)

If Stoke is the CD I'm thinking of, I have heard it and like it.

Coil - Love's Secret Domain
Durutti Column - Lc
Cocteau Twins - Heaven Or Las Vegas
Todd Edwards - Full On v1
Susumu Yokota - Sakura
The Congos - The Heart Of The Congos
Neu - Neu!
Autechre - Amber

Plus arrived in the post;

theboylucas - Out On The Wires

This afternoon will get;

New Blur
New Four Tet
New Prefuse 73

bbmm - cd-r whose spray-painted title i can't make out. help?
blithe sons - waves of grass
k. cascone/a. kiritchenko/a. berthling/kotra - fourfold symmetry
loren chasse - fantasy apparition
the child readers - dark laughter
hugh davies - interplay
dirty three - whatever you love, you are
dworzec - dworzec
efzeg - boogie
the franciscan hobbies - caterpillars of the oak beauty
gravenhurst - flashlight seasons
gravenhurst - internal travels
green laughter 3"
the iditarod & sharron kraus - yuletide
the ivytree - the sun is the lamp 3"
L - holy letters cd/7
kaffe matthews - dashes from a small room
kaffe matthews - cd dd
the moglass - kogda vse zveri shili kak dobzye sosedi
the moglass -
günter müller & otomo yohoshide - time travel
barre phillips, keiji haino & sabu toyozumi - two strings should do it
les rallizes dénudés - le 12 mars 1977 á tachikawa
keith rowe & john tilbury - duos for doris
shackamaxon - untitled CD-R
surface of eceyon - dragyyn
tomes - the dreadful gift 1&2 3"
trapist - highway my friend
matt valentine - takes off
matt valentine - burning one with god
v/a - heat & birds
za frûmi - za shum ushatar uglakh
za frûmi - chapter 2: tach

lunge- 'strong language'
derek bailey- 'lace' and 'with postcripts'
derek bailey/edwin prevost- ore

Siouxsie & The Banshees, The Best Of
(fared far bettah with this one, attention-span wise: no surprises post bag-opening ;-) )

My excuse is that I am buying it to loan to my SO.

There are some things I want on sale at Tower, but they I don't want them that badly (just want to get them eventually), and they aren't that cheap: Talking Heads Remain in Light, John Coltrane w/ Johnny Hartman, Prince Controversy (and some others), Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions, and others.

I really wanted ARE Weapons and Foxy Brown, but I couldn't find them.

(If I buy Boston and Rush and Ligeti, you will know that I have turned into Sundar.)

[not meant as a criticism of either one of you]

Hariprasad Chaurasiya - Ragas Durgawati and Mishra Shivaranjani

Also received copy of the Readymades' Play Their Hearts Out

Was given belated birthday presents of Aruna Sairam - December Season 2002 and Kana Vendamo

I love this record! Was playing it just the other day.

All on vinyl in great condition; the first four for $1, the last four for $1.99

Gonna order some Mouse On Mars tonight.

getting prefuse 73 today

new:
Isis - Oceanic
Royal Trux - Pound for Pound
Royal Trux - Veterans of Disorder
Sleep - Holy Mountain

used:
Motorhead - Ace of Spades
Dag Nasty - Can I Say/Whig Out at Denkos
Faust - Faust
Queens of the Stone Age - Music for the Deaf
Frank Black - Dog in the Sand
The Feelies - Only Life

Since our last meeting I have purchased / ordered:

Alternative TV – Revolution (PunkAid purchase)
Asian Dub Foundation – Community Music
Athlete – Vehicles And Animals
Blyth Power – Ten Years Inside The Horse
Captain Beefheart - Railroadism
Chemical Brothers – Exit Planet Dust
Crass – Best Before 1984
Daft Punk – Homework
Dr John – In The Right Place
Fat Boy Slim – Halfway Between The Gutter And The Stars
Firehose – If’n
Girls On Top – Ovulater (another PunkAid purchase)
Grandaddy – Sumday
Benjamin Horrendous - Warboytornfortoy
Itchy Tits All Girl Punk Show – s/t (another PunkAid purchase)
The Kills – Keep On Your Mean Side
King Tubby – Dangerous Dub
King Tubby – Foundation Of Dub
King Tubby – Freedom Sounds In Dub
King Tubby – King Tubby’s Special
Paddy McAloon – I Trawl The Megahertz
John Otway – Greatest Hits (saw him at PunkAid and he was hilarious)
Hugh Mundell – Africa Must Be Free By 1983
My Morning Jacket – At Dawn
Parkinsons – A Long Way To Nowhere
The Pogues – The Very Best Of
Radiohead – Hail To The Thief
Real Sounds Of Africa – Get Real / Seven Miles High
Scientist – Dub In The Roots Tradition
Scritti Politti – Songs To Remember (replacing vinyl copy)
Scritti Politti – Anomie And Bonhomie
Sly And The Family Stone – The Essential
(Smog) - Supper
Vic Godard & Subway Sect – 20 Odd Years
Tnidersticks – Waiting For The Moon
Urge Overkill – Exit The Dragon
Scott Walker – Boy Child
Yabby You – Dub It To The Top
The Yobs – Christmas Album (PunkAid purchase replacing comprehensively destroyed vinyl copy)

If anything I think my problem is getting worse rather than better.

Two Mohammed Abdou CDs, including one double CD recorded live in Kuwait. I only have two other Mohammed Abdou CDs, but several things on tape (though I lost one of my irreplaceable bootlegs of one of his concerts). He's a great singer, but the backing music can vary from mind-blowing to intolerable. The samples from two of these CDs on www.maqam.com sound promising. Anyway, I thought I'd better grab anything I really want from Saudi Arabia now.

Husker Du - Zen Arcade
Black Sabbath - Sabotage
Ayler/Cherry/Tchicai/Rudd/Peacock/Murray - New York Eye and Ear Control
Albert Ayler - Spiritual Unity
Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame
Miles Davis - Bitches' Brew
Thinking Plague - In This Life
MS Subbulakshmi - The Sound of Subbulakshmi

'In This Life' is SO GOOD. when it first came out it felt a little displaced, odd that such a RIO-compatible record would be coming out 10 years on, but now it's decades after that even, and the record simply sounds fantastic. every single track.

my latest purchases---
new on CD:
Faust - Faust + So Far
the Clean - Anthology

used on LP:
the Jacksons - Destiny
Al Green - Greatest Hits

also got 4 CDRS as a result of trades last week.

Yes, I have, and I really like it. It may actually be my fave of theirs.

The Dandy Warhols - Welcome To The Monkey House
David Fonseca - Sing Me Something New
Dredg - El Cielo

Swirlies -- Blonder Tongue Audio Baton
Spacemen 3 -- Forged Prescriptions

Wednesday:

New Pornographers -- Electric Version
Spiritualized -- Good Dope, Good fun
Nico -- Chelsea Girl

Before:

Nerves -- New Animal
Spiritualized -- Complelte Works Vol 1
Stone Roses -- s/t

bunch more, can't figure out when i got them, tho.

Lemme think, what have I got recently, hmmm, I've been buying 'new' stuff lately...

Evanescence - Fallen (this is popcorn, I listen to it when I play football games on Nintendo)
The New Pornographers - Electric Version (not overly impressed, I'm afraid, they sound like a tinny Thinking Fellers/They Might Be Giants, perhaps I will play them in my other CD player which is analogue, I think that'll do the trick, coz a Thinking Fellers/TMBG is a good thing, but tinny is not)
Alkaline Trio - Good Mourning
The Postal Service - Give Up

Spacemen 3 - sound of confusion LP
To La Tengo - summer sun LP
Sundays - reading writing arithmetic
Sonic Youth - dirty LP (better late...)
Siouxie and The Banshees - kaleidoscope LP
Curve - clipped 10" EP

All great I might add!!!

Ordered but not yet shipped:

The Incredible Bongo Band: Bongo Rock - The Story Of The Incredible Bongo Band
Guitar Wolf: Ufo Romantics
Guitar Wolf: Missle Me
Yoshinori Sunahara: Pan Am: The Sound Of The 70s

Arrived.

Pharoah Sanders - Moon Child
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
K. S. Gopalakrishnan - Carnatic Flute
Meredith Monk - Our Lady of Late
Raajeswari Padmanabhan - Music of the Veena II
De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
Sonny Sharrock - Ask the Ages

DJ Shadow: Private Press [zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz]
The Official Adventures of Grandmaster Flash
Carlos Vives: Dejame Entrar [zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz]
Art Blakey: Night in Tunisia
Olatunji: Drums of Passion

Annette Krebs - Guitar Solo
Andrea Neumann/Burkhard Beins - Lidingo

i also just ordered both the Rubble and Mindrocker box sets on eBay but they won't turn up for a week or so....

Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
Beck - Midnite Vultures
The Beatles - Revolver

and burnt 9 CDs worth of concerts from the Music Gallery archives (Derek Bailey/Evan Parker, Eugene Chadbourne/Larry Dubin, David Mott, Elliot Sharp, Jim Tenney, Henry Kaiser).

After acquiring all this great music the first thing I put on when I came home was "Renegade" by Styx. I just want you all to know that.

But now I'm listening to Pharoah Sanders.

How bold.

the Byrds - Sweetheart of the Rodeo
Japan - Adolescent Sex (now there's a voice of david sylvian i had never heard before! gorgeous)
David Bowie - Low
David Bowie - Rare

(and now i'm actually going to listen to some of sundar's tracks i've downloaded some weeks ago but hadn't found the time for yet...)

This Saudi stuff is much more groove-oriented than most of the Egyptian music I listen to; and I hear more similarities to some sorts of African and Indian music. I think it would actually be fairly accessible to western listeners.

14 iced bears - wonder
99 mg / laurent pernice - ligne latérale
aljeandra & aeron - scotch monsters
oren ambarchi & martin ng - vigil
aufgehoben no process vs. gary smith - magnetic mountain
beans - tomorrow right now
the camberwell now - all's well
miles davis - pangaea
decoder - dissection
ekkehard ehlers - politik braucht keinen feind
ian epps - finds the4yearoldchild courtside, vol. 1
esem - enveloped
eturivi - ylhäisten kastien kelvottomat jälkeläiset
faust - abzu
fern knight - seven years of severed limbs
yoshihiro hanno - april >> remixes
robyn hitchcock - i often dream of trains
illusion of safety - from nothing to less
jade warrior - elements
klaatu - klaatu / hope
latyrx - the album
the lazily spun - s/t
lovers - star lit sunken ship
magyar posse - we will carry you over the mountains
paul d. miller - death in light of the phonograph
minamo - beautiful
neutral - font translation errors
charlemagne palestine - golden 3: in mid-air
phthalocyanine - 25 tracks fer 1 track
paul roland - gargoyles
the petals - butterfly mountain
sphyr - a poem for m
the stockholm monsters - alma mater plus
thuja - ghost plants
m. ward - the transfiguration of vincent
v/a - nice up the dance
la monte young - the second dream of the high-tension line stepdown...

Big Black - Songs About Fucking
Meat Puppets - II

then, back to "normal"

Killing Joke - Killing Joke (vinyl!)
Flying Saucer Attack/Roy Montgomery - "Goodbye" 12"
The Smiths - Meat is Murder

Vinyl:
Herbie Hancock-"Headhunters"
Prefab Sprout-"Jordan:The comeback"

CD's:
Smog-"Wild love"
O.U.T. Hud-"Street dad"
Herbert-"Let's all make mistakes"

yeah, that LMY is extraordinary. shame it's so unobtainable. nature of the beast.

Otomo's solo live show in sf last night was amazing. one hour of rising sound, but incredibly expressive, transcendent actually. incredible sound system, it just kept getting louder -- without ear fatigue. not like I have any hearing left.

Thinking Plague -- well suzanne does have kind of a girly sing-songy voice. But for me that only adds to the tension since the music's rather brutal.

summerslastsound -- how's that 4 CD Faust box set? worth it for the 90 seconds of 70's outtakes I'll bet.

yo la tengo - merry christmas from yo la tengo ep (not really the time but they were in town and this was the only release they sold i didn't have yet, it's fun)

* Broken Social Scene, You Forgot It in People
* Melon Galia, Les Embarras Du Quotidien

2 Mouse On Mars albums, Donnie Darko DVD and an MD copy of the new Sprtlzd.

Fushitsusha - Allegorical Misunderstanding (This is on now - it's way mellower than I expected. Kinda retro too, weirdly. Not bad though.)
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Beck - Mellow Gold
S. Balachander - Music of the Veena I
Dr Nerve - Skin
Marc Ribot - Shoe String Symphonettes
Marc Ribot - Yo! I Killed Your God
Allman Brothers Band - Live at Filmore East
Rush - Signals

and burning some Bailey, Amacher, Glass Orchestra

the terminals - little things CD (cos my vinyl copy is rooted)
t rex - bolan's zip gun
t rex - electric warrior
sparks - kimono my house
heart - little queen
new order - substance
def leppard - hysteria.

2 x Sekret Sekret 7"s on Waterfront, and three singles on the In-fidelity Singles Club (Two Lane Blacktop, Devastations, Bakelite Age).

My Mine - Hypnotic Tango
Koto - Jabdah
Koto - Dragon's Legend
Koto - Japanese War Game
Koto - Visitors
Koto - Visitors (Vocal remix)

Hurrah, for I now have the full set (I think) of silly retro-futuristic Koto sleeve art....

alder & elius - parentalguidance
b.Low - croustillant leger 12/7
blessed oblivion - s/t
addie brik - my little pony ride 12
brume - zona ventille
comets on fire - field recordings from the sun
cressida - s/t
jim denley & martin ng - vergency
dream radiation - s/t
kevin drumm - land of lurches
fourteen iced bears - let the breeze open our hearts
savina giannatou & petros touliatos - masko
holly golightly - truly she is none other
goodiepal - narc beacon
a guy called gerald - essence
izititiz - lucky bird
llips. - unalaska and the valley of 10,000 smokes lp
george lopez - works for ensemble
M83 - dead cities, red seas & lost ghosts
marchetii/voice crack/noetinger - double_wash
kaffe matthews & hayley newman - pointy stunt
minit - cc/bb lp
monos - sunny day in saginomiya
jean-marc montera - smiles from jupiter
ostinato - kap arkona
paradise motel - flight paths
stereolab - abc music
ticklish - s/t
greg weeks - awake like asleep
werther/wittwer - I
stephan wittwer - streams
various artists - branches & routes (fat cat)
various artists - deletions 3 (peace frog)
various artists - pause004
various artists - international live electronic music incorporated

I heard this last night and while I'm not as totally knocked sideways by it as Spencer was, it's a great MBV meets late eighties Xymox gone instrumental fusion...

CD:
Diagram A/Noise Nomads - split CD
Nautical Almanac - We Want War tour CDR/Record (groove hand-lathed onto one side)
Redrum Ramrod - self-titled
Rotten Piece - Sampler 2003
Six Finger Satellite - Law of Ruins

Vinyl:
The Coachwhips - Get Yer Body Next Ta Mine LP
Rain Like The Sound of Trains - self-titled 7"
September 10"
Unwound - You Bite My Tongue 7"
The Vibrathedral Orchestra - String Band/Drum Troupe 7"

Waiting for to come in the mail:
Milemarker 1st 7"
Nautical Almanac/Meerk Puffy split CD-R (the one on Vegalia, not the ones on Bulb, Gods of Tundra or Heresee)

Cooking Vinyl: Delicatessen 5
Sub Pop: Infecting the galaxy one planet at a time
Rough Trade: Rock & Roll 1
Both Sides Now: The spirit of Americana
Etta James, Her Best
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Master and Everyone.

I am clearly on a crusade to own every record label compilation ever released. Ever.

By M83? I would say pretty much each of the last three or four songs -- they all sounded like epic album-enders (but weren't! well, except for the actual last one).

Steely Dan: Two Against Nature
Prince and the N.P.G.: Diamonds and Pearls
Todo Tango [compilation]
N*E*R*D: In Search of. . .

Also received the Adolescent's Orquesta's Disco de Oro that I've been waiting for. I recognize the first four songs, though I hadn't known they were by this band. There are some good songs here, but I think I'd like to hear another band covering them. There are some unnecessary and annoying bombastic/tinkly synthesizer introductions. Supposedly their most album really cooks and they sound grown-up on it. But this collection is like: four good song, marred by bad intros, but still enjoyable to me if I'm feeling generous; a middle section of songs that are just too schmaltzy; and a few songs at the end that have lost the annoying intros and have a harder edge, but are perhaps less distinctive than the first four. (Of course, I may only like them because I have had time to hear and dance to them while out in clubs.)

Waiting for (from Amazon);
In The Airplane Over The Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
Folk Songs... - Savath & Savalas
Dialogue - Four Tet

Getting tomorrow (new releases);
British Sea Power
Audio Bullys
Gillian Welch

And a disc of chamber music performed by Australia's Elision Ensemble, which I grabbed because it includes a piece by the consistently fascinating Chris Dench.

Joe Jackson Band - I'm the Man
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
Lou Reed - Street Hassle
the Chills - Kaleidoscope World

new:
the Hidden Cameras - the Smell of our own

...also the import DVD of Twenty Four Hour Party People, rah!

Flowers of Romance, P.I.L.
The Best of ELO - which, miraculously, means in this case: nearly all of the first album, about a third of the second, and a coupla 'early versions' of certain tracks (of "showdown" and "ma ma belle"); darn, those Roy Wood songs sound much better than i remembered.

(and somehow i manages to left behind OMD's Dazzle Ships ...must go back to that li'l shop some day, probbly)

then I discovered http://us.yesasia.com/

V/A: Japan For Sale, Volume 1
V/A: Japan For Sale, Volume 2
V/A: Japan For Sale, Volume 3
GhettoBombs & Schizo: STAR Volume 1
CAN: Vol.4 - Grey Market
Drunken Tiger: Vol. 4 - Foundation
OST - Resurrection of the Little Match Girl

and Y pants - Beat it down LP n its way

POP TATARI - BOREDOMS
CHOCOLATE SYNTHESIZERS - BOREDOMS
Pixeltan - Pixeltan

Erase Errata - 'Dancing Machine' Remix CD
Glass Candy - 'Love Love Love' CD
Red Monkey - 'Get Uncivilised' 7inch
Stinking Lizavetta/Regulator Watts - Split 7inch

SUPER ROOTS(8) [CD]
By: BOREDOMS

VISION CREATION
By: BOREDOMS

Rebore(1)
By: BOREDOMS, UNKLE

SUPER ROOTS(7)
By: BOREDOMS

Rebore(3)
By: BOREDOMS, DJ KRUSH

Allman Brothers Band - Dreams (4-CD set)
Pharaoh Sanders - Tauhid
Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Complete Mercury Recordings (11-CD set)

entombed - morning star
pentagram - sub-basement
voivod - dimension hatross
tom tom club - s/t
necessary evils - sicko inside me

Peter Brotzmann's die like a dog quartet- little bords have fast hearts vol.2 (both on FMP)

Borbetomagus- songs our mother taught us (agaric)
amm- generatative themes (matchless)

anyway: null, ans my borb thread from a couple of days ago:

Songs our mother taught us

gonna be a HEAVY weekend. excepting blutsiphon, which is only the second gefriem release i've been able to track down.

the fall - this nation's saving grace
talk talk - laughing stock
stereolab - emperor tomato ketchup

Bob Dylan-"Highway 61 Revisited"
It's A Beautiful Day-"At Carnegie Hall"
Haircut 100-"Pelican West"
Butthole Surfers-"Locust Abortion Technician"

Alice Cooper - The Alice Cooper Show
Carpenters - Singles 1969-1973
Southside Johnny & The Asbury Dukes - Hearts of Stone
Brian Eno - Music From Films
Cheap Trick - Live At The Budokan
Steve Martin - A Wild and Crazy Guy
Igor Stravinsky - The Firebird Suite
Rolling Stones - Hot Rocks
Martha & The Vandellas - Greatest Hits

and on tape for a quarter

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Coming Out of Our Shells
which is absolutely stunning.

V/A: Cambodian Rocks
V/A: Club Classics 1982-84 Volume 1
V/A: Original Chicago House Classics
Pret-A-Porter: OST
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas OST
Rober Palmer: Addictions Volume 1
Iggy Pop: Lust For Life
Steely Dan: Can't Buy A Thrill
Technotronic: Pump Up The Jam
Huey Lewis & The News: Sports
Ken Ishii: Future In Light
Bangs: Call & Response
Monks: Black Monk Time
Missing Persons: Best Of
Blur: Best Of

D-Train - "You're the one for me"
Coati Munid - "Que Pasa/Me no Pop I"

Wire - Send
John Fahey - The Essential
Dilinger - Kingston Ruler
Luomo - Vocalcity
Jan Jelinek - Loop-Jazz-Finding Records

Currently awaiting delivery of:
'Musical Box Dances' CD
'Victorian Musical Boxes' CD
'Singing Bowls Of Tibet' CD
'Fortune My Foe' LP (12th & 13th century music with booklet illustrating early instruments)

Most recent would be the 8 CDR Private Tapes special issue from Kawabata.

V/A--"Nice Up The Dance"
V/A--"We Are Getting Bad: The Sound of Phase One"
V/A--"Funky Funky New Orleans Vol. 3"
The Tyde--"Twice"
Radiohead--"HTTT"
Del Shannon--"The Further Adventures of Charles Westover"
Gang of Four--"Entertainment/Yellow" (Infinite Zero ed.)
!!!--"Me And Giuliani etc."
Dexy's Midnight Runners--"Don't Stand Me Down"
Turbonegro--"Apocalypse Dudes"
Simple Minds--"New Gold Dream"

and that Muzik mag with the DFA mix CD on it...

Duke Ellington: Far Eastern Suite
Coltrane/Olatunji concert
Merle Haggard: The Peer Sessions

Haven't listened to any of them completely so far, and none of them are things I particularly want to listen to at the moment.

I also borrowed a handful of samplers from magazines and so forth, mostly divided between electronic dance (incl. IDM) stuff (just so I can connect names and sounds) and "world music." None of it very inspiring, but I guess that's what happens when you listen to things because they happen to be there (and you want to put off buying more CDs), rather than because you seriously expect to enjoy them.

The Aluminum Group, Happyness
Steely Dan, Aja
Steely Dan, Katy Lied
Tes, Take Home Tes
The New Pornographers, Electric Version
Push Button Objects, Ghetto Blaster
Data 80, S/T

and, inspired by Ned's thread:
Simple Minds, Empires and Dance
Simple Minds, Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call

a one man beach boys/xtc

I heart the Nickalicious (my copy arrived yesterday).

and, inspired by Ned's thread:

Kewl. What do you think of them, if you've had a chance to get to them yet?

john fahey - old fashioned love (love this)

pernice brothers - yours, mine, and ours (first time ive actually bought one of their records, after a number of recommendations in their direction. i think im liking it, its growing on me. certainly a fair bit of smiths/morrissey influence (who i love) going on, and some cure and new order too, but its got more of a rootsy drive to it, more twangy, so it sounds kinda odd. i think its good though)

i wanted to buy the new nina nastasia as well, cos i really liked her last one and her john peel sessions, but it doesnt seem to be out here yet.

i held off buying "hail to the thief", im not sure i really need another radiohead album in my life right now.

anyway, left 2 2nd shops today with these vinyl issues:

Mick Ronson - Slaughter on 10th Avenue
David Bowie & Pat Metheny Group - This Is Not America [12"]
the Psychedelic Furs - s/t & Mirror Moves
Martin Phillips and the Chills - Sunburnt
Roxy Music - Viva! Roxy Music (which is GRAND!)

"the akron complication" has some great stuff on it, thats all i've listened to so far except some bob wills in the car on the way home.

now that's good eatin'. does it have any bonus tracks?

Remind me not to get the rerelease of Mental Funeral, as there's no way they can improve the sound on that.

and on it´s way home to me:
vaselines - son of a gun 12"
faust - the faust tapes lp
and soon
sea urhcins - pristine christine 7"
orange juice - blueboy 7"
girlfrendo - 2nd 7"
(thanks electric sound of jim!)

yeah, "destined to fester" and "in the grip..." were on retribution and the original "severed survival" cd, along with the "retribution" title track. weird...

Well, in my case, it's just that I've sort of recently discovered them. I mean, I was vaguely aware of their existence, but I'd never really sought out their stuff or even heard much of it. I blame Jody Beth Rosen, I guess, since it was her POX thread and the positive responses it got that inspired me to download a few of their songs. Then I picked up Countdown to Ecstasy since it had "My Old School" on it. The album proceeded to quickly grow on me like a vicious fungus. So I picked up the preceding release and then the following one. So far I still like Countdown the best, but I plan to continue on through their catalog until I lose interest - and if I don't lose interest, even better.

First played Tilt last night after a long day filming in an stultifyingly hot abandoned "boys' village" in Wales. Got home, saw Emma, drank a few beers, went to bed at 1am, put it on on headphones. A record has never scared me before. As if A Farmer In The City wasn't ominous and daemonic enough, during the opening moments of The Cockfighter I felt like someone was scratching their fingernails down the inside of the back of my skull, peeling my cerebelum away, and then, on the verge of sleep, it errupted in beautifully hideous and disturbed industrial sense-rape, clattering drum-things shocking me upright and Walker emitting this awful, harrowing ullulation over the top. I was nearly physically sick. It was magnificent.

MIMEO/John Tilbury - The Hands of Caravaggio
Fred Frith - Clearing
Kevin Drumm - Land of Lurches
Kevin Drumm/Lasse Machaug - Frozen by Blizzard Winds
Ravi Shankar - Ragas Hema-Bihag, Malaya Marutam, Mishra-Mand
AC/DC - Highway to Hell
Aerosmith's Greatest Hits
And I borrowed a friend's Paul Oakenfold disc.

!!! – “me and giuliani down by the school yard (a true story)” CDS
v/a – hip hop sessions
v/a – diwali : greensleeves rhythm album #27
norman jay – journeys by dj: desert island mix part2
peggy lee – best of 1952-56
greg davis – arbor
dntel – “(this is) the dream of evan and chan” CDS
ray barretto – the best of
johnny nash – the very best of
judy garland – greatest hits
rush – all the world’s a stage
v/a – the annual, spring 2001 (ministry of sound mix/comp)
ELO – out of the blue
prefuse 73 one word extinguisher
the e.m.i. records 70s pop 3CD box set
an 80s old-skool electro / hip hop comp
Trojan comp CD that came with the book, “young gifted & black”
a couple of nina simone compilations

how d'you like it, sundar?

small faces - ultimate collection (bit disappointed by this)
zombies - singles collection A's & B's (much better)
v/a - strictly the best 30 (reggae comp. from 2002 that i bought in the caribbean, but released on the miami label, VP records - about five really good tracks on it)
an archies compilation CD

eBay italo records monopolising my money just now...

Fatboy Slim - You've Come a Long Way, Baby
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
Michael Torke's Color Music
Tragically Hip - Fully Completely
Chelsea Bridge - Tanamagouche
Susie Ibarra - Flower after Flower

The Enchanting Nayyara Noor
Best of Farida Kwanum Album 1: Geet & Gaazals
Ustad Amrnat [? can't make out the writing] Ali Khan: Whispering Memories Ghazals

Prince - Controversy (This is on track 2. It's so good so far that it actually saddens me that my hippie/indie Dylan-loving, Yes/Queen/Boston/Rush-hating pop music prof loves this album.)
Prince - Music from Purple Rain
Parliament - Funkentelechy vs the Placebo Syndrome
Dr N Ramani & Trichy Sankaran - Lotus Signatures
Ravi Shankar - Three Ragas

freak nasty - freak nasty
michael jackson - bad
michael jackson - dangerous
d mob - a little bit of this, a little bit of that
jomanda - someone to love me
hi-5 - hi-5
prince - parade
kid creole & the coconuts - you shoulda told me you were...
the best of hall & oates
janet jackson - design of a decade

i am relieved that i'll be able to take the kid creole back for credit!

i also got a tape called 'summer of 87' but it didnt have the right cassette inside (a boring soundtrack instead) so i'l take that back too.

Fela Kuti - Zombie
v/a - Postpunk Chronicles: Going Underground
Fountains of Wayne - Welcome Interstate Managers
Ghostface Killah - Ironman
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
Prince - 1999
Blondie - s/t
David Bowie - "Heroes"
This Mortal Coil - It'll End in Tears
Clipse - Lord Willin'
Radiohead - Hail to the Thief

Just ordered Ebverything's Alright Forver by Boo Radleys.

A little more on the Frith: I'm happy with the crispy clean, full production. Everything feels very impassioned, from the pretty and sometimes aching melodies to the full strumming to the violent noise.

At the end of the day I'm still not a huge Prince fan so far. The Parliament is awesome though.

CDs I kept:
Nonesuch Explorer Series (reissues on CD) - Tahiti (Gaugin Years), Java (Jasmine Isle), Bali (Music for the Shadow Play)
I Muvrini - Pulifunie
Ahmed Abdul-Malik - Jazz Sounds of Africa
Alfred Schnittke - Choir Concerto & other choral works
Chemical Brothers - Come With Us

A few other CDs went to my boyfriend's Mom, and the rest I traded in, at a shop back home, for:
Loud Family - Tape of Only Linda
Belle & Sebastian - Lazy Line Painter Jane EP box set
Drive Like Jehu - Yank Crime reissue
!!! - "Me & Giuliani..." EP
Beach Boys - Sounds of Summer compilation

Also while in NYC, I bought:
Audio Bullys - Ego War
Thomas Fehlmann - Visions of Blah

got a couple of discs of this series (both are gamelan discs). good stuff.

and about a dozen Al Bowlly LP's.

Solbakken - 'Pinanti'
Cannanes - 'Troble Seemed So Far Away'
American Music Club - 'San Francisco'
Third Eye Foundation ' 'Little Lost Soul'
Crude - 'Inner City Guitar Perspectives'
David Kilgour - 'Here Come The Cars'

Peter brotzmann sextet/quartet- more nipples
Peter Brotzmann group- fuck de boere (nice cheap second hand goodness).

on the lookout for: i need a collection of mississipi john hurt's early recordings, all of them, but hmv only had the 60s stuff and selectadisc didnt have anything with him. to amazon i go!

cure - trilogy live at the tempodrom, berlin, november 2002, dvd (have got mixed feelings about this. still think that pornography is totally overestimated. there is an amazing song though. a strange day. it's better in the concert than on the original cd. this song is like an ascent to heavens. the drums are fantastic. building up to droneland. there is a moment when the guitar plays when time stands still. simon gallup on bass is ace. and his live performance is very cool. stopped the video after the first song on disintegration. can't digest those mystic hovering wagner-vorspiel like keyboards anymore. can't hold back from the notion that this is fascistic aesthetics. haven't listened to the rest. will probably never listen to bloodflowers. i must admit that i regret very much not having seen that concert though. the video has got something very professional and cool about it. smith doesn't look like a forty-something. as if his body had been frozen somewhen in the eighties. maybe he is ageless. still hate the same thing about videos i have always hated about them. too many cuts. there is no camera shot of more than two or three seconds.)

Last poets - Last Poets
Reel Stuntman - I like to move it
Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band - Trout mask replica
Miles Davis - On the corner
Nithin Sawney - Beyond skin
Kool and the Gang - Celebration (hits 79-84)
Rufus Thomas - Funky Chicken
Various - Best reggae album in the world...ever (erm, no not with Ace of Base on it but still has some good stuff)
Ananda Shankar - Ananda Shankar

me :

Jefferson Airplane box - ugh!!
V/A - 60's Oz punk/freakbeat comp (Big Beat)
Trojan Upsetter box
Cabaret Voltaire - 78-82 comp
The Passage - Enflame CD
The Passage - BBC Sessions
Stranglers - Aural Sculpture (vinyl)
Modern English - Ricochet Days (vinyl)
Sly and The Family Stone -Essential 2CD
23 Skidoo - Just Like Everybody (Part 2)
V/A - 70's Disco 2 CD set (Whispers, Emotions, Candi Staton, Heatwave, Donna Summer, KC, Boney M, Oddessy, Earth Wind and Fire etc etc etc)

Manu Chao, Esperanza
some cheapo 2disc set of German folktunes
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle OST
Best Of Eric Clapton

From the Dollar Bin:
AC/DC - Back in Black
Johnny Cash - The Walls of A Prison
Johnny Cash - Greatest Hits Volume 1
Stan Getz - With Joao Gilberto
The Marx Brothers - The Very Best Of Volume 1
The Marx Brothers - The Very Best Of Volume 2
Rolling Stones - Between The Buttons
X - Under The Big Black Sun

Farid el Atrache: Eternal Songs, Vol. 1
Abdel Halim Hafez: Resala

The string sections on these Farid songs are getting to me a little. I think I like the stuff on Vol. 2 more, but it wasn't available. I don't like the chorus too much either. (So glad Oum Kalthoum mostly did away with having a chorus in the background.)

Borrowed from the library:

Murray ("Piranha") Perahia w/ the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields performing Bach Keyboard Concertos Nos. 1, 2 & 4
Eleni Karaindrou: Trojan Women
Nikos Skalkottas: Duos with Violin
Kronos Quartet: Nuevo
Steve Reich: Triple Quartet

I don't know anything about the Greek CDs.

Asian Dub Foundation – Rafi’s Revenge
Aspera – Sugar & Feathered
Kevin Ayers – Joy Of A Toy
Boo Radleys – Learning To Walk
Boo Radleys – Everything’s Alright Forever
Billy Bragg – Don’t Try This At Home (replacing old vinyl copy)
British Sea Power – The Decline Of....
Coral – Magic & Medicine
Creatures - Bestiary
Essential Logic – Fanfare In The Garden
Fountains Of Wayne – Welcome Interstate Managers
Josef K – Young & Stupid
Killing Joke – Killing Joke
Kitchens Of Distinction – Capsule
Los Lobos – Good Morning Aztlan
Love & Rockets - Sorted
Momus – Forbidden Software Time Machine
New Pornographers – Electric Version
Shriekback – The Y Records Years
Super Furry Animals – Phantom Power
Thrills – So Much For The City
Various Artists – Black Music
Various Artists – The Night Watch
Various Artists – Rough Trade Shops 25 Years
Various Artists – Rough Trade Shops Post Punk 1

Still no sign of me getting this thing under control.

FourFathers - Dust

I'd start a thread about The FourFathers and their incredibly talented and verstaile bass player Benjamin Horrendous if I thought there was a reasonable chance that anyone else here had heard of them and might contribute to such a thread rather than leaving it to sink slowly and ignominiously to the depths.

Everyone who likes good experimental rock music - especially Captain Beefheart - really should give them a try 'though: http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~bgwaters/Mymusic.html

Then, maybe, when you've bought all the albums (tell Ben I sent you if you are ordering anything btw!), we can have a proper thread about them, eh?