Recent CD purchases

along with the Ben Stiller Show dvds and a dvd copy of Bullit, i finally bought the first fountains of wayne cd, Gene Clark and Carla Olsen's "So Rebellious A Lover, and the monster garage "how to customize damn near anything' book (not a cd obviously but part of the order nonetheless). Also bought the Blanche 7" on the recommendation of a friend (but haven't listened to it yet) and scored a Bollywood DVD off ebay.

also got an advance copy of the new Mendoza Line CD and its the best thing i've heard in a while - man that band is so fucking good - why are they so underappreciated??

Echo and the Bunnymen -- Heaven Up Here (remaster)
OMD -- Architecture and Morality (remaster)
Blue Orchids -- The Greatest Hit (LTM rerelease and, yes, remaster)

Spot the early eighties postpunk pattern oh yes. Also got the Pet Shop Boys PopArt DVD, which surely must make me a happy man.

I forgot about ebay. I just 'won' ah Christ - Crass and a Vulgar Boatmen CD just because I ran across an article about them on perfectsoundforever. also tapes I bought at goodwill for 99cents: B52s 1st, Echo and B-men s/t and Ocean Rain and some Morris Day and the Time.

I keep forgetting I am a poor college student. oh well.

then at the used store:
Flaming Lips - the one with "She Don't Use Jelly"
A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms
Neil Young - Harvest

So far I've decided on getting these cheapies:
Yaki Byard Experience (w. Roland Kirk)
Sam Rivers - Crystals
Sonny Rollins - Our Man In Jazz (well, not 100% sure about this one yet. Anyone have any eventual other recommendations of this general period of his work?)
Prince Lasha/Simmons Sonny - Firebirds

And probably a Supersilent album.
Yay!

Genesis - Abacab
Moby - 18
Madness - The Heavy Heavy Hits
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Uplift Mofo Party Plan (Remaster)
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Mother's Milk (Remaster)

and waiting by the mailbox for:

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Primal Scream - Evil Heat
Six By Seven - The Way I Feel Today

Poem Rocket - Psychogeography (replaces mp3)
Marianne Nowottny - Illusions of the Sun
Noonday Underground - Surface Noise
Topless Women Talk About Their Lives Soundtrack

Joey & Norman Jay Present Good Times Vol. 3
Bay Area Funk
A Soldier's Sad Story: Vietnam Through The Eyes of Black America
Creme De La Creme: Philly Soul Classics and Rarities

The Fall, Dragnet CD
U.S. Maple, Purple on Time LP

haven't really wanted to buy much of anything else.

The Jackson 5 Anthology double cd, which is absolutely amazing, and I got it to find some suitable tunes for my band.

Rancid, Life Won't Wait

Then I killed some time at this little electronica/avante garde store that I hadn't been to in awhile. They didn't anything by the Tied & Tickled Trio, so passed over a used copy of the new Fourtet in favor of Marc Ribot's Shoe String Symphonettes.

With Xmas vouchers along Oxford St:

Stereolab: Instant O In The Universe CD
Ulrich Schnauss: Far Away Trains Passing By LP
Venetian Snares: Einstein-Rosen Bridge 12"
Emmylou Harris: Roses In The Snow CD
Charles Mingus: Blues and Roots CD

(total cost to me: £5.45)

Went a bit mad today in Warrior up the street:

Third Eye Foundation: Little Lost Soul and I Poopoo On Your Juju
Wauvenfold: 3fold
Like A Tim: Red and Blue Boxing
Matsumi Akita & Russell Haswell: Satanstornade
V/Vm: Sometimes, Good Things Happen

...all a quid each. Also got a Birdie album but discovered Pam already had it when I got home. Warrior is one of those neighbourhood CD-only stores (er, I can't really think of any others) which trades heavily on the fact that it can do the latest R'n'B and hip-hop releases for a pound or two cheaper than the chains (that's all that's ever playing in there) but seems to have been flooded by electronica/post-rock/noise promos of late which they just can't shift. Hence the New Year clearout.

Robert Wyatt Cuckooland
Frank Black Black Letter Days
Belle and Sebastian Dear Catastrophe Waitress
Idlewild 100 Broken Windows
Clem Snide Beautiful ep
Wrens Meadowlands

Heavenly, Heavenly vs. Satan (heard all these negative things about 'em but I like the Cat's Miaow and the Popguns and the Weddoes and that's who these characters remind me of, so rah)
Caustic Window aka Aphex Twin, Compilation (finally -- and unsurprisingly it's pretty great)
The Yobs, The Worst of the Yobs (rerecordings, though!)
Neurosis, Times of Grace (rah!)
Type O Negative, Life Is Killing Me (I love how they apparently are dedicated to not stopping, ever -- well done)

Stephin Merritt - Eban and Charley OST
Jah Wobble - Inspiration of William Blake
Bryan Ferry - These folish things
Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking
Sparks - Kimono my house
Sleepy Jackson - Lovers
Lloyd Cole & the Negatives
David Ackles - Subway to the country
Echo & Bunnymen - Crocodiles (remaster)
Cornelius - Fantasm

PJ Harvey - Rid Of Me
Porcupine Tree - Signify (2CD - remaster+Insignificance demo cd)
Porcupine Tree - Metanoia
Fairport Convention - Full House (remaster)

Borders' sale: Chris Clark, Clarence Park (£4)

Fopp: James Brown, In the Jungle Groove (2003 reissue) (£5)

Matthew Herbert - Lets all make mistakes.
The Funky Sixteen Corners - on Stone's Throw ----really good
Brian Eno - Taking tiger Mountain by Strategy
LFO - Sheath

talking heads - fear of music (amazingly given my intense love for remain in light i had never owned this, though i'm surprised by how much of it i knew already.)
robert wyatt - cuckooland (i am finding this very hard going so far.)
richard x - presents his x factor vol. 1 (hated this all year on mp3. today it sounds fucking great!)

best entry point is _rock bottom_. after that everything starts making sense.

I can't imagine too many people on Wire staff proclaiming this their NUMBER ONE album. But., I can imagine nearly every single person listing the album on their top ten, and then bingo, it becomes the Wire's NUMBER ONE album. Even though it's certainly not his best, or the year's best, or anything like that.

2 renegade soundwave discs
1 lipstick traces companion cd
2 uk garage comps
1 deletions vol 2 (peacfrog comp)

jamc - darklands cd $11
palace bros. - days in the wake cd GIFT
wolf eyes - slicer cd $9
bastard noise - recycled tape $5
nick cave - tender prey lp $8
thee hydrogen terrors - erotic adventures of... lp $6
rolling stones - beggar's banquet lp $3
black dice/wolf eyes collab. lp $13
sunburned hand of the man s/t lp $13
comets on fire - field recordings from the sun cd $13
knifestorm - mystery/worsen cdr GIFT
u-trono tape $3
karate/the lune split 7" $2
milemarker sex jams 7" $3
olneyville sound system - what is true, what is false lp $9
beatles 'rubber soul' and 'revolver' cds GIFTS
shostakovich symphony 11 cd GIFT
charles ives symphonies 1&4 cd GIFT
threepenny opera original cast recording cd GIFT
killdozer - yow! 7" $2
seam - kernel 7" $2
loren connors - moon is down 1&2 7" $4
amps for christ - the oak in the ashes cd $5
merzbow - frog 2xcd $15
pavement - brighten the corners $10
leonard cohen - songs of love & hate cd $9
olneyville sound system - because we're all in this together cd $10
mirah - you think it's like this but it's really like this cd $12

$170 dollars on music.. that sounds about right. $100 in gift certificates, $25 cash from an aunt, $45 or so cash from my pa. And gifts from friends/relatives. Hmm. That's more money than I typically spend on ANYTHING ELSE EVER. Crazy.

ordered over 3 months ago, finally received:
OutKast - Speakerboxxx/the Love Below 4LP
Matmos - the Civil War LP
Television - Marquee Moon (remastered version)

2nd hand:
the Stooges - Fun House LP
Funkadelic - One Nation Under a Groove LP
David Bowie & Giorgio Moroder - Cat People 12"

For a pound each in a misguided charity shop in Islington. I'm thinking that's pretty good.

2 CDs 3 quid.
Includes a JVC Force track which isn't 'Strong Island', Cold Crush Bros, BDP. No chance to listen as g/f ain't crazy keen on 80s hip hop. But for 3 quid (thanxxx Fopp u rock) you can't go wrong.

The Britney album is really really good, even the ballads, aprt from maybe "Email My Heart" and the duet.

Wow, an Oum Kalthoum disc on an Egyptian label that actually has liner notes with the Arabic lyrics and English translations, composer and lyricist credits, along with some nice pictures, and overall, an attractive design.

Oum Kolthoum: Ghelebt Asaleh fe Rohi [SDCD 01B36]

I didn't listen to this very carefully tonight, but it definitely has some intense tarab moments. Will require attentive listening though.

Farid El Atrache: Rissala Men Imraa Majhoula/Youm Bila Ghad

Songs from soundtracks. I bought this because I discovered the name of a song I have on tape, and the song appears on this CD. However, the version here is entirely different from the rather more tasteful one I have on tape (with Farid accompanied only by his own oud playing). This is the sort of thing that happens when you are collecting recordings from such a foreign cultural context. Still, I like some of the material here, especially toward the end of the CD.

Asmahan: [title?] [ASMCD 601] [the one with the pink cover]

I can't believe it has taken me this long to get this CD. This is the last of the widely available Asmahan CDs that I hadn't bought. I have some, or maybe even all (but I don't think so), of this material on other CDs, but this is a really really good collection of her work. The songs that were edited from soundtracks seem to have slightly better sound here. Something is different. This is definitely the Asmahan CD to start with.

gang of four- entertainment.

ocean club (best cd i heard all year btw. german mix of kompakty/glitchy/oceanic etc things w/ people like us interludes)

ouelele comp: modern (1970-1980) african fonkjazzwotsit on comet

cat & muse: around & around (sahko) techno doom metal wtf?

come again: an hour of chicks moaning porno styleee

FWIW, I don't think there's any wrong way to listen to Safe as Milk. That album OWNS. However, if you want a little more insight into that sound - try the Howlin Wolf set I picked up below. The parallels on several tracks are quite striking.

My recent purchases:
Ellen Allien - Berlinette
v/a - Total 3 (Kompakt)
Acid Mother's Temple - In C
Little Walter - His Best
Howlin' Wolf - Howlin' Wolf & Moanin' in the Moonlight

mr fox: mr fox/the gypsy (folk rock c.1971)( this has a song on it called the ballad of neddy dick. made me laugh.)

edo.g : the truth hurts (comeback! pete rock etc)

a breakbeat oddysey (sm:)e session mixed by dj db = omni trio, 2 bad mice etc)

closet classic: more protein sampler.

Kelis - Tasty

Downer - Downer
Madder Rose - Hello June Fool
Squire/Sherwood - Conspiracy
Astrid - Strange Weather Lately
Tortoise - Standards
Everclear - Songs from a American Movie Vol.1
Dub Narcotic Sound System - Boot Party
Super Furry Animals - Mwng
Lida Husik - Mad Flavor
Idlewild - Captain EP
Quickspace - Precious Falling
Sunny Day Real Estate - Live
Run On - Sit Down EP

...all between 2 and 4 euros!! Heh.

V/A - American Gigolo (International Deejay Gigolo as mixed by Tiga)
Holly Golightly - The Main Attraction
Fonda 500 - 8-Track Sound System
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain
Lee Dorsey - The Definitive Collection
The Butterflies Of Love - The New Patient

And from Beano's:

The Bucketheads - All In The Mind
Swayzak - Dirty Dancing
Moloko - Statues
The Gentle People - Soundtracks For Living (no idea who or what this is, but I liked the sleeve)

I'm firmly on the "one record a day" track.

2CD? What, are there a ton of bonus tracks or something?

My Dying Bride "For Darkest Eyes" DVD (fantastic!)

Are they still good? I actually loved 34.788% Complete or whatever, but then they put out the 'return to our old sound' album and I lost track of them.

Said in deep serious goth voice:

"Stop throwing those drumsticks away...we're going to play another song, you will need those. Everyone give back the drumsticks!" or some such thing.

and

"We are from England...we are MY DYING BRIDE" (cue amazing voice crack on last word)

The My Dying Bride DVD is all pre-"34.788% Complete" material: the six videos (up to "For You"), and tons of live stuff. Three full shows (Krakow 1996 with great 5.1 sound, the Dynamo 1995 show that was indeed also on the bonus disc of A&tDR, and another Dutch one from 1994), as well as a hazy ancient 1992 live recording of "Symphonaire...". It's got 200 minutes of material, it really has everything you could ask for. Best thing I've bought in months.

That voice crack at the Dynamo show introduction is priceless indeed and featured in all its glory.

if this is the CD version that's missing "mendle," you seriously must get on slsk or something and download it, that song is better than anything they've done.

Laurie Spiegel's realisation of Kepler's 'Harmonices Mundi' (complete version of the first track on the Voyager spacecraft's gold LP. Many square waves ascending & descending at proportional rates. Not the place to start with Spiegel (that'd be 'obsolete music' then 'expanding universe') but nice.
Die Trip Computer Die - Stadium Death
Manu Chao - Clandestino
Variious - (Instansitive Records Compilation)
Mileece - Formations (reminds me of David Behrman, in a good way)
Satie - Piano Works - pascal roge
Meredith Monk - Mercy
Mauve Sideshow - The Girl
Limpe Fuchs - Nur Mar Mus
Les Nouvelles Polyphonies Corses avec Hector Zazou (is good)
Jim Haynes - Magnetic North
Immersion - Low Impact (2 cd)
Parmegiani - Violostries
Rova - Bingo (Lindsay Cooper, Frith, Barry Guy, Ochs)
Orchestral Music of Charles Ives - Orchestra New England, James Sinclair (2000) (rockin' version of 'three places')
Charles Ives - Symphony #2 / Robert Browning Overture
Charles Ives - Emerson Concerto / Symphony #1
Charles Ives - Sonata No. 2, Marc-Andre Hamelin (still not as good as the Kirkpatrick)

neil young- decade 3LP (bargain, vinyl scratched but doesn't matter)
andrew cyrille- what about? LP

CDs:

gloria coates str quartets
scelsi- Kya on hat art
mauricio kagel- sankt bach passion 2CD
no neck blues band- letters from the serth
xtc- english settlement

all bar the no neck on sale.

18 Wheeler - Year Zero
The Alchemysts & Simeon
Mad Capsule Markets - OSC-DIS
Clinton - Disco and the Halfway to Discontent
Magoo - Vote the Pacifist Ticket Today
Cast - Mother Nature Calls

milton- I'm giving the coates my first listen and I've played No. 5: this one has a very moody sounding quality, reminds me of Scelsi. I like it a lot and look forward to spending quite a bit of time with this.

Hawkwind- In the Hall of the Mountain Grill
Hawkwind- Sonic Boom Killers (singles collection)

masochist.

Cuban music from the 60's. Includes some electric guitar, and occasional odd splashes of country music. Some of it seems designed for the whole retro- "cocktail" sensibility, but the grooves are pretty strong at times. Still haven't listened to it all.

Lita Branda & Melcochita: The First Family of Salsa

I like Melcochita's voice and singing--the CD would really be filed under Melcochita, not Lita Branda--but I'm sure it wouldn't be for everyone. He's a comedian as well as a singer, and sometimes I wish I knew what the point of his weird vocal elaborations are, but I still like him. Nice overall.

Henry Fiol: Guaperia

I've met his son Orlando, who performs locally, so I was curious about hearing Henry. This has kind of a Cuban feel to it, heavy on acoustic guitar, not a big band sound. Unfortunately, I don't actually like Henry Fiol's singing all that much, so far. (Oh excellent: I think Farid el Atrache ripped off this old Cuban (?) tune, "El Huerfanito." It turns up on that Hanine y Son Cubano CD which features salsa covers of Arabic songs, but the liner notes vaguely hint that Farid's original was actually not the original.)

Los Soneros del Barrio: Siguiendo la Tradicion

I haven't listened to any of this yet. This should be pretty good, but it's not likely to have many surprises.

I like this overall, so far.

Lauryn Hill: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Eric B. & Rakim: The Best of Eric B. & Rakim 20th Century Masters the Millennium Collection

I've got some other (very other) CDs on order, and that may be it for a while, since I am going to have to move to a new apartment this summer and I think I'll be stepping up to a pricey high-rise to avoid noise.

The add said it was a digipack package, so it may or may not have a booklet.

Auteurs – How I Learned To Love The Bootboys
Badly Drawn Boy – About A Boy
Bananarama – Very Best Of
Band – Stage Fright
Beulah – Yoko
Blind Faith – s/t
Blue Aeroplanes – Huh!
Breeders – Title TK
British Electric Foundation – Music Of….
Bob Dylan – Empire Burlesque
Cat Power – What Would The Community Think?
George Clinton – Greatest Hits
Coral – Nightfreak & The Sons Of Becker
Kevin Coyne – Dynamite Daze
Crowded House _ Temple Of Low Men
Mink DeVille – Cadillac Walk
Digable Planets - Reaching
Dream Warriors – And Now The Legacy Begins
Dubstar - Disgraceful
Electric Six - Fire
Fun Boy Three – Really Saying Something
Genesis - Foxtrot
Green Day - Warning
Oum Kalsoum – The Mother Of The Arabs
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan – Devotional Songs
King Crimson – Lizard; Islands
Lambchop – Aw C’Mon / No You C’mon
Lemon Jelly – Lost Horizons
Madonna – Immaculate Collection
Aimee Mann – Lost In Space
Mock Turtles – Can You Dig It?
Moloko – Do You Like My Tight Sweater?
Motors - Airport
Pretenders – Greatest Hits
Rich Kids – Best Of
Rip Rig And Panic – Knee Deep In Hits
Tom Robinson Band – Rising Free
Sneaker Pimps – Becoming X
Soft Cell – Very Best Of
Spear Of Destiny – Time Of Our Lives
Richard Thompson – Action Packed; Mock Tudor
Turin Brakes – Ether Song
Ween – GodWeenSatan; White Pepper; Quebec
White Stripes – 1st s/t; De Stijl
Working Week - Payday
XTC – Explode Together

Haven't heard any yet. Hopefully now that I have built myself a musical Noah's Ark, I will float above the flood of fiscal irresponsibility.

*Thank you bob snoom, whoever you are.

Dizzee Rascal - Boy in Da Corner (Matador-US release. I'm too cheap to pay import prices.)
Bud Powell - The Amazing Bud Powell Vol. 1
Thelonious Monk - Straight, No Chaser, Underground and Monk's Dream (all CD reissues with restored original song lengths, bonus tracks, etc.)

I love that shit

Most of that little haul came from http://www.101cd.com/

Oh and you should know that I'm only buying that Oum Kalsoum title because you've kept on about her so much that I want to know what all the fuss is about - so if I don't like it I'll be blaming you, OK?

Oh and you should know that I'm only buying that Oum Kalsoum title because you've kept on about her so much that I want to know what all the fuss is about - so if I don't like it I'll be blaming you, OK?

I checked the track listing and didn't recognize any of the songs, which is not a good sign. I refuse to take the blame if you don't buy recordings I have recommended, but I hope you like it. It sounds like it's going to be that difficult stuff from before the late 30's.

evan parker- the snake decides.

christopher delaurenti- n30:live at the wto 2 CD set arrived through the post thhis morning (a concrete piece based on the seattle riots, will give a listen later).

sun city girls- 'carnival...' series vol 7

LP- abdul malik reissue.

Bjørkenheim/Håker Flaten/Nilssen-Love - Scorch Trio
Lacy Steve - The Straight Horn
Mitchell Joni - Blue
Mitchell Joni - Hissing Of Summer Law
Monk Thelonious - Genius Of Modern Music Vol1
Nichols Herbie - Complete Blue Note
Oxley tony Quintet - 4 Composition For Sextet
Pettiford Oscar - The New Oscar Pettiford Sextet
Prince Lasha/simmons Sonny - Firebirds
Rivers Sam - Crystals

Stereolab, Margerine Eclipse
Max Tundra, Mastered by Guy at the Exchange (used)

Vashti Bunyan - Just Another Diamond Day
Crispin Hellion Glover - The Big Problem
Thai Elephant Orchestra album
Terry Riley - Olson

Plus loadsa DVD's - Svankmajer, Brakhage, Herzog, Paradjanov, Starewicz. The pound's so strong against the dollar at the moment I can get this stuff pretty cheap from the USA.

Jonny Greenwood - Bodysong OST
Ima Robot - s/t
Placebo - Covers (promo)
Broadcast - Haha Sound
Silverfish - Fat Axl
Wheat - Hope and Adams
Loftus - s/t
Yo La Tengo - Summer Sun
The New Pornographers - Electric Version
Superchunk - Here's to Shutting Up
The Soft Boys - Nextdoorland
Unwound - Further Listening

Went ahead and got crazy for some jazz.

Raashan Roland Kirk- Domino
Raashan Roland Kirk- Bright Moments
Art Blakey- Moanin
Art Blakey- Night In Tunisia
Wayne Shorter- Moto Grosso Frio
Herbie Hancock- Mwandishi
Herbie Hancock- Crossings
Charles Mingus- The Clown

once upon a time there was light in my life, now there's only love in the dark

Jaco Pastorius - Invitation (used to have this one on tape)
Miroslav Vitus - Infinite Search
Joe Zawinful - Zawinful

Bowie - Heathens
Bowie - Hours
ABC - Look of Love compilation
Denim on Ice (bought for £2 to sell on ebay, but i'll keep this - it's not bad!)
Doves - Last Broadcast
Talking Heads - The Name Of This Band Is (2xLP)
New Order - Confusion 12"

The Wedding Present - Seamonsters
Ned = 0WNAG£ for (unwittingly) making me buy this.

Hit The Decks: The Battle Of The DJ's (1991 compilation with two 20 minute megamixes containing 25 rave classics each - complete insanity)
Serious Beats 2 (1991 Belgian rave comp with Frank De Wulf/Praga Khan/Deadkirks/etc)
Techno Classics (Speedy J/Digital Boy/Mike Dunn/Sueno Latino/Thunderball/Steve Poindexter - more rave/hardcore goodies!)
Artful Dodger Rewind: The Sound Of UK Garage (Honestly, this is the last "golden era" UKG comp I'll buy - there are a at least a dozen tracks that I already have on 4 other comps).
Lost Treasures 1, 2 & 3 (Three early (1996) Tiesto mixes - great stuff from the pre-Gatecrasher age, mostly straight-up techno with the odd minimalist trance track thrown in)

Doc, you scare me sometimes, you really do.

(I am trying to sell: Mr. Bungle California, Ground-Zero Plays Standards, Scott Tuma Hard Again, Lotus Eaters Mind Control for Infants. I am going to be a lot more cautious about buying crazy pastiche and obscure ambient guitar stuff in the future.)

kevin druum-triangles
ragga ragga ragga 11 and rhythm album no 46 on greensleeves
charlamaigne palestine- karenina 2Cd

Full price at my local megastore.

Both unutterably glorious.

It is a good compilation, as it has a some songs that are not on any of their albums like Silver Machine. Most of the Cd is Lemmy era singles/B-sides, but there are a few later 70s tracks.

The artwork is a digipack with a nice glued in booklet that has a history of the band with some pictures of some greazy long hairs that are obviously off their nut on drugs, booze and whatever comes around.

I'm glad I picked it up. I'd like to find a copy of "Warrior on the Edge of Time", but it doesn't appear to have been in print for some time.

I just picked this up too. Did you get the CD or the vinyl reissue? (I got it on vinyl.)

PS- How much are you asking for the Ground Zero?

People have warned me off Population 4, but Ned was right when he gave it 4/5 on Allmusic. Wonderful album, even though it doesn't sound like Swans.

Oh good. :-)

As for me, A Certain Box Set From A Band Led By One R. Smith.

I recently got:
DJ Koze mix CD on Kompact
Schaffelfeiber 2 (sp?) - also on Kompact
The World of Arthur Russell (on Soul Jazz)

and some stuff that wasn't on CD ;-)

CD. I never buy anything on vinyl unless I happen to stumble over something really rare that interests me (like if I found certain out of print albums I want or a bunch of old Arabic things), but I don't have a working turn-table. Anyway, it's pretty good, maybe slightly less than what I expected, but his CDs usually grow on me anyway. There's a performance of "A-Train" on that solo Sun Ra CD from last year that's similar to what he does with it on Live in Montreux, but better.

PS- How much are you asking for the Ground Zero?

I'm being greedy and possibly unrealistic and asking for $12 on half.com. I paid full import price. (Someone was interested in it for $8, maybe that was you.)

Thalia Zedek - Been Here and Gone
The Lynnfield Pioneers - Emerge
The Lynnfield Pioneers - Free Popcorn
Live Human - Elefish Jellyphant
June of 44 - Tropics and Meridians
The Jesus Lizard - Liar
Pinback - Offcell EP
Beastie Boys - Check Your Head
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
The Red Hot Chili Peppers - s/t
Clã - Lustro

Although that last batch of salsa CDs I bought was kind of meh. But I am thinking of focusing more on back catalog things or new things I have actually heard. Actually, the Melcochita has some good stuff on it. It's just the most of the best material is burried somewhere near the middle of the CD. Very weird. The first two songs on the Soneros del Barrio CD are very good, and then after that it's all just pretty good. Kind of what I had feared, though still better than Spanish Harlem Orchestra.)

Biff Bang Pow – Waterbomb
Blue Nile – Hats
Chumbawamba – Uneasy Listening
Johnny Clegg & Savuka – In My African Dream
Bob Dylan – 1st s/t
Fad Gadget – Best Of
Goldfrapp – Felt Mountain
Gong / Daevid Allen – World Of Daevid Allen & Gong
Liars – They Were Wrong, So We Drowned
Phil Manzanera – 801 Live
Mighty Lemon Drops – Roller Coasters
Moloko – Statues
Morcheeba – Parts Of The Process
Morrissey – Kill Uncle
999 – 999 / Separates
Beth Orton – Pass In Time
Pale Fountains – Pacific Street; From Across The Kitchen Table
Portishead – s/t
Lou Reed & John Cale – Songs For Drella
Spearhead – Home
Von Bondies – Pawn Shoppe Heart
Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
World Of Twist – Quality Street
Various Artists – Zen CD (A Ninja Tune Retrospective)

ot:
Air - Talkie Walkie
v.a. - Out of our heads on skelp
Piano Magic - Writers without homes
Faust - BBC Sessions+
Faust - 71 Minutes
Cluster - II
Funkadelic - Uncle Jam Wants You
The Deadly Snakes - Ode to Joy
at the close of every day - the silja symphony (a kind gift, actually)
Salvatore - Fresh

It's available to order at Amazon.co.uk but not actually released 'til the 23rd apparently.

the fall- slates/inamerica
ragga ragga ragga 2003

I suppose though that Hawley's more of a country crooner, he's the only person I've seen namecheck Jim Reeves, rather than Walker's blend of soul and chanson.

Sun Ra - Live at Montreux (2xLP)
Sun Ra - Sunrise in Different Dimensions (CD)
Donald Miller - Little Treatise on Morals (2xLP)
Air - Talkie Walkie

my room mate found on the street & gave me "RIVER OF DELIGHT: AMERICAN FOLK HYMNS FROM THE SACRED HARP TRADITION" by the Word of Mouth Chorus. I haven't listened to it yet. maybe soon. maybe on drugs/napping.

gong - shamal
fun boy 3/bananarama - it aint what u do... (extended mix)
paris angels - scope
some dodgy xtended instrumental boot of talking heads 'i zimbra'
einsturzende neubaten - zeichnungen des patienten
modern eon - fiction tales
joe crow - compulsion 7"
foul play vol 3 (shadow 29)
kaye bush - the dreaming

hmm

stone - time

Nice! Sounds like something I might enjoy a lot.

yesterday:
Barabara Morgenstern - Nichts Muss
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense DVD

paris angels - 'scope two' is waaay better punkfunk than lcd soundsystem!

i've been trying to slow down but the promise of Probot, Destroyer, Bonnie Billy, Modest Mouse and tons of new shit on Eclipse coming up will soon see to that.

From The Library:
Sam Cooke - The Man Who Invented Soul (Box)
Emmylou Harris - Portraits (Box)
Prince - One Night Alone...Live (Box)
The Roots - Things Fall Apart
The Kills - Keep On Your Mean Side
Mouse On Mars - Vulvaland
Ryan Adams - Rock N Roll
Aqualung - Still Life
Chicago - Best Of
Love, Peace And Poetry - Japanese Psychedelia
Love, Peace And Poetry - British Psychedelia

yr trippin major balls

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dead c- the damned and vincento gallo- music for films for a fiver!

Partchimp - Chartpimp
Envy - A Dead Sinking Story

All of them are great and good and wonderful and should be illegal.

Me bought, at a ridiculously reduced price, 2000's 23 Skidoo,
also a cheapy B'Eno/J.P'Schwalm's Drawn From Life
and a Le Hammond Inferno.

Have you heard Vincent Gallo's "When"?
A unique record that’s a fitting soundtrack for rainy days. Plus, he’s a nut.

anyway, I haven't, where was it released, is it still in print etc?

Holly & the Italians - The Right to be Italian
ABBA - Waterloo
Boney M - Take the Heat Off Me
The Jags - No Tie Like the Present
Marshall Crenshaw - Marshall Crenshaw
Harpers Bizarre - Secret Life of Harpers Bizarre
The Psychedelic Furs - Talk Talk Talk
The Bells - Fly, Little White Dove, Fly
Lene Lovich - Flex
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
The Bats - Daddy's Highway
Green on Red - Gravity Kills
Gary Numan - Tubeway Army
Various - NME's Sgt. Pepper Knew My Father
Rotary Connection - Dinner Music
Lonely Boys - Lonely Boys
Talking Heads - Give Me Back My Name 12" single

James - B-Sides Ultra
Nick Drake - Bryter Layter
U2 - October
Howie B. - Folk
American Analog Set - Promise of Love
Porcupine Tree - Coma Divine (expanded)
Auf Der Maur - s/t
Incubus - A Crow Left Of The Murder
Ghost In The Machine - #2 (Humanize)
Fat Freddy - Fanfarras de Ópio
Califone - Sometimes Good Weather Follows Bad People
Ben Harper - Live at the Hollywood Bowl EP

I should probably just buy these and get it over with. Add one more Evidence CD and that might actually hold me for a while, unless a lot of new stuff is reissued.

Amon Düül II - Hijack
Art Ensemble of Chicago - Fanfare for the Warriors
Nico - Desertshore
XTC - Drums and Wire
XTC - Go 2
XTC - Oranges and Lemons
XTC - Skylarking

Last I borrowed:

V/A - Cache 2001 (Canadian Electroacoustic Community comp of young composers' work)
Kenneth Gaburo - Tape Play
Pauline Oliveros - Alien Bog/Beautiful Soop
John Wall - Fractuur
Evergreen Club Gamelan Ensemble - North of Java
Lee Scratch Perry - Dub Fire
Aphex Twin - Windowlicker
Chris Potter - Travelling Mercies
Charlie Haden w/ Michael Brecker (feat Brad Mehldau and Brian Blade)- American Dreams
Derek Bailey/Joelle Leandre - No Waiting
Philip Corner - Pieces of (Acoustic) Reality and Ideality
Fred van Hove - Flux

how's the Kenneth Gaburo record?

Never heard Red Red Meat, but everything else here is top, top shelf.

Acid Mothers Temple - La Novia
Flying Burrito Brothers - Gilded Palace / Burrito Deluxe (2 on 1 for £2!)
The Puddle - Into THe Moon / Pop Lib (2 on 1)

Duran Duran - Rio
Neil Young - American Stars 'n Bars
Neil Young - Time Fades Away
Phil Manzanera - 801 Live

Magma - 1001 Centigrade
Amon Duul II - Phallus Dei
Ghost - Hypnotic Underworld
Dave Douglas - Strange Liberation
Richard Teitelbaum w/ Anthony Braxton - Time Zones

I'm currently doing price comparisons before I purchase Air's Talkie Walkie, FYI. After overhearing it whilst doing group study at Barnes & Noble, I decided I needed it. And since I'm being a good girl again financially, I'm going to hold off until next month before I get either the Queer Eye For The Straight Guy soundtrack or the latest Starsailor album, which a coworker of mine has been playing a couple of times at the office. It depends.

The rumours are that they might be performing at this year's Werchter Festival (in Belgium)...

Tuxedomoon - Half Mute
Tuxedomoon - Holy Wars
Tuxedomoon - Ghost Sonata

(I was gonna get Talkie Walkie but thought I'd spent enough for one day. And all these 3-for-£20 sales that are on right now are tormenting me to boot...)

the I got five John coltrane LPs in a boxed set titled 'the legendary masters: unissued or rare 1951-1965' and scored it pretty cheap too.

Jon Rose - The People's Music (unexpectedly beautiful. not another collage/cut-up work: flowing, composed music for massive violin ensemble)

1910 Fruitgum Company - Simon Says
The Cryan' Shames - A Scratch in the Sky
Television - Marquee Moon
Lulu - To Sir With Love
Harold Budd & Brian Eno - The Pearl
Carolyn Hester
The Sound Symposium - Bob Dylan Interpreted

We had a 45 of this song when I was a kid.

My Dying Bride - Songs of Darkness, Words of Light
Monster Magnet - Monolithic Baby + DVD
Rocket From The Crypt - RFTC
Fontanelle - Style Drift
GvsB - You Can´t Fight What You Can't See

King Crimson, The Nightwatch
Archie Shepp, Yasmina, A Black Woman/Poem For Malcolm

Thursday Night Rock & Roll Show (Pilot to Gunner @ Mercury Lounge):

The Bamboo Kids, "The Bamboo Kids"

BMG (still a good deal, I think, for catalog stuff):

Louis Armstrong, "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: 1923-1934"
Dave Brubeck Quartet, "Time Out"
Ray Charles, "Very Best..."
John Denver, "Rocky Mountain High"
Duke Ellington, "Okeh Ellington"
Duke Ellington, "...And His Mother Called Him Bill"
Dizzie Gillespie, "Ken Burns Jazz: Definitive..."
Parliament, "Best of Parliament"
Leo Kottke, "Instrumentals"
Various "Red Hot + Rio"
Hank Williams, "Ultimate Collection"

And a bunch of vinyl, including:

Various, "Kill Bill"
Madlib, "Shadows of Blue"
E & A Single (all the way on the other side of the room)

byron allen trio- s/t on ESP
richard youngs- advent
greensleeves riddim album no 30: bollywood

EPMD - Unfinished Business
BDP - By All Means Necessary
Nas - Illmatic

The Twilight Singer - Blackberry Belle (or whatever it's called)
Kanye West - College Dropout
Jay-Z - Resonable Doubt

I then an email saying Kanye and Hov won't reach me until mid-March!

The Diodes - Released
Brian Eno - Before and After Science
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
The Knack - Get The Knack (no idea why I never bothered getting this one earlier)
Nick Lowe - Labour of Lust
Elvis Costello - Imperial Bedroom
Martha and the Muffins - This is the Ice Age (I blame the .ca synth-pop thread)
The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St. (eBay)
The Medical Mission Sisters - Joy is Like the Rain
R.E.M. - Lifes Rich Pageant
The 5th Dimension - Living Together Growing Together

Joe Henry Tiny Voices
Iron and Wine The Sea and The Rhythm
Richard Hawley Lowedges
Teenage Fanclub A Shortcut
Neko Case Canadian Amp
Guided By Voices Best of
My Morning Jacket Chocolate and Ice
Jay Farrar Thirdshiftgrottoslack
Long Winters When I Pretend to Fall
Sam Roberts We Were Born In A Flame

Triage - Twenty Minute Cliff
Arthur Russell - Calling Out of Context
Som Imaginario - Matanca do Porco
Ginuwine - 100% Ginuwine
Sun City Girls - Carnival Folklore Resurrection Vol. 11/12 [WFMU in session]
Hermeto Pascoal - Slaves Mass
Ying Yang Twins - Me and My Brother
Fred Anderson & Hamid Drake - Back, Together Again

Recent bargains in the Virgin sale:

Pierre Boulez (Diego Masson/ Musique Vivante) - Domaines
From 1971, this is really really good and I'm not usually that much of a Boulez fan. Even better, it cost £0.99!

The Fall - In a Hole
This is the original issue, mastered from vinyl and complete with skips; photos of the wrong line-up etc and without bonus tracks. Still can't really complain as it too cost £0.99.

Jefferson Airplane - After Bathing At Baxters
Haven't played this one yet but the sleevenotes lead me to believe it might be the first JA album I might like unconditionally. I broke the bank for this one at £2.99!

all soundtracking me beautifully thru summer

(any opinions/insights about any of the above would be most welcome)

Britney Spears - Oops!..I Did It Again
Ghostface Killah - The Pretty Toney Album
Sugababes - Three
Khia - Thug Misses

Did some decent shopping in Ann Arbor over the holiday:
Coalesce - 012:2
Los Campesinos - We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
Rocket From the Crypt - All Systems Go III
Love Is All - A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night
Nomo - Nomo
Fucked Up - Hidden World
Motorhead - Bomber (2-disc reissue)
Orange Goblin - Time Travelling Blues
The Soundtrack of Our Lives - Welcome To Infant Freebase
The Soundtrack of Our Lives - A Present From The Past

hey, is School Kids In Exile still around?

Unfortunately, no. At least thats what I was told by a couple different people, didn't actually venture over to the old location though. Most of those came from Encore (place was crazy packed!) and Underground Sound, the dude there was super super nice.

nomo is the best!

who buys CDs?

vinyl i bought last week:
of montreal - "hissing fauna," "skeletal lamping"
bowie - "ziggy stardust"
steely dan "katy lied," "pretzel logic"
radiohead - "in rainbows"
the clash - "the clash"

Hey now! There's plenty of threads for you vinyl fetishists, leave us luddites to our CD thread!

Haven't bought CDs online for years now, but yesterday I went mad and got:

Ayobaness! the Sound of South African House
The Sound of Club Secousse
Kid Loco Presents French Funk
Bangs & Works Vol.1 (A Chicago Footwork Compilation)

i've been buying some of those Original Album Series sets recently -- Dr. John, Warren Zevon, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Poco, etc. random bands that i don't know much about.

Just picked up over lunch:

Opeth - Heritage
CAVE - Neverendless
Mogwai - Earth Division

wild flag - s/t

Alvarius B - Blood Operatives of the Barium Sunset
Miles Davis - Agharta
Prince - The Black Album
Sonic Youth - Hits Are for Squares
Zomby - Dedication

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Destroyers Rubies and Your Blues.

The Plastic People of the Universe - Magical Nights (amazon purchase on its way)
Some Girls - deluxe reissue (pre-ordered, out in a couple weeks) disc two has some great stuff i've heard on mp3. can't wait to hear "claudine" cleaned up, to name one.
the Bats - daddy's highway (bats are great!)
Billy Bang - Prayer for Peace (one of the best, most fun, playful and beautiful jazz records i've heard recently)

I know at least Sick Mouthy and I are still buying CDs.

Here's what I picked up today:
Fontanelle - Fontanelle
Fontanelle - F
Fontanelle - Vitamin F
Holograms - Forever
Survival - Survival

And the package that came from All That is Heavy yesterday:
Goatess - Goatess
SubRosa - More Constant Than the Gods
Causa Sui - Euporie Tide

The Space Lady - Greatest Hits
Dewanatron - Semi-Automatic
Eliane Radigue - Naldjorlak I-II-III
Xopher Davidson & Zbignew Karkowski - Processor
Rhys Chatham - Harmonie du Soir

Einsturzende Neubauten - Drawings Of O.T., Halber Mensch
Chrome - Half Machine From The Sun
Nurse With Wound - Chromanatron
Popol Vuh - Letzte Tage-Letzte Nächte, Brüder Des Schattens-Söhne Des Lichts, Herz Aus Glas, Das Hohelied Salomos
Unrest - Lisa Carol Freemont
Eyvind Kang - Grass
Tall Dwarfs - The Short And Sick Of It
Six Organs Of Admittance - For Octavio Paz

probably some other used ones I am forgetting

Neil Young - Unplugged
Taylor Swift - Fearless
Taylor Swift - Speak Now
Def Leppard - Pyromania
Def Leppard - Hysteria
Sam & Dave - Hold On I'm Comin' (greatest hits compilation)
D'Angelo - Voodoo
Peter Gabriel - Soundtrack from The Last Temptation of Christ
Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic
Jagwar Ma - Howlin'
Woody Guthrie - Dust Bowl Ballads

miles davis - complete bitches brew sessions

tylerw otm

i also picked up the new Chris Forsyth, but that was vinyl so it doesn't count for this thread

The Nurses-Destroy Your Friends
Family Fodder-More Great Hits
Five or Six-Acting on Impulse (Best of)
Roy Montgomery-324 E 15th Street #7
Nico-Reims Cathedral Dec. 1974
Liliental-s/t

will purchase:
Laraaji 2cd comp

laurel halo - chance of rain
autechre - oversteps
smashing pumpkins - gish (deluxe edition)

got with xmas vouchers

haim - days are gone
julia holter - loud city song
trojan records present lovers rock

Type O Negative - Complete Roadrunner Collection 1991-2003
Alcest - Écailles de Lune
Ulver - Nattens madrigal
Mayhem - Ordo Ad Chao
Mazzy Star - She Hangs Brightly

guess none of these will be found in my new source for cds ..

move over mr fopp, there is a new player in your broken town.

The new Nils Frahm and Julianna Barwick albums.

Grand 12 Inches volumes 1-10.

Go big or go home!

damn, party at skip's house.