So, what've you bought recently? (March+ 2004 Edition)

Akimbo Elephantine
(The) Intelligence Boredom And Terro
Popular Shapes Bikini Style
Radio Birdman The Essential (1974-1978)

Frank Black and The Catholics Dog In The Sand (2003 version)
Al Green I Can't Stop
Richard Hawley Late Nite Final
Teenage Fanclub Songs From Northern Britain
Elbow Cast of Thousands
M. Ward Transfiguration of Vincent

all cd's on ebay. I've promised myself that I won't set foot inside a record shop this month EXCEPT to buy the new Blonde Redhead album. 25 days to go...

Low - "I Could Live In Hope"
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - "I See A Darkness"
Francoise Hardy - "The Vogue Years"
Mr. Airplane Man - "Moanin'"

All excellent

Eagerly awaiting:

Sondre Lerche -- Two Way Monologue

Kanye West College Dropout
Echo & the Bunnymen Reissues
Felt Forever Breathes The Lonely Word reissue

Some of it I had copies of nefore, but I should have owned them all years ago really.

Havent bought many records feb/march

i'm not going to be able to hear it for a few days bcz it's been delivered to my home address (i'm at university right now) but yeah, obviously i can't wait

oh, and recently picked up a dusty Munich Machine, which is worth it for the completely outrageous tune at the end of side A, "space warrior" (if memory serves).

sarcofagus - envoy of death (1980 finnish heavy metal!)
lugubrum - de totem
madder mortem - deadlands
scorpions - fly to the rainbow
s.o.b. - symphonies of brutality
voivod - war and pain
kreator - terrible certainty
tolly - cosmic melodrama (mostly for the cover, i have to admit)
dust - hard attack
simon wickham-smith - extreme bukkake
savage republic - customs

in the mail:
magic markers - cdr on slippy town
joshua jugband 5 - s/t
jarvis street revue - mr. oil man

Good stuff in the mail:

Chromatics - Plaster Hounds
The New Year - The End is Near
Elizabeth Anka Vajagic - Stand with the Stillness of This Day
Black Ox Orkestar - Ver Tanzt?
Friends of Dean Martinez - Random Harvest

high rise- speed free sonic
anthony braxton duets (on cimp) with some poet (can't remember name right now)

Lawrence - The Absence of Blight
AR Kane - "i" and 69
Paolo Conte - Appunti Di Viaggio
Blue Oyster Cult - Agents of Fortune
Pretenders - s/t

Used
Duran Duran - Rio
Talking Heads - 77
R.E.M. - Automatic for the People

Wooo! Wooo....uh...sorta...

Can - Tago Mago
Kraftwerk - The Man-Machine
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew, In a Silent Way
R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden
Brian Eno - Another Green World
slowdive - souvlaki
Radio Birdman The Essential (1974-1978)
The Slits- Cut

Thought I was supposed to be the youngin'...

Bit older:
Kompakt: Friends

Old:
Bowie: Low
Definitive Bud Powell

I am so glad you bought this! It is my personal mission to get these records included in the ILM dance canon. Isn't that a fantasic double pack?

(x-post philippe)

Caramel Jack – Low Story (has anyone heard this yet? What do you think?)
Lambchop – I Hope You’re Sitting Down; How I Quit Smoking; Thriller
Arthur Russell – The World Of….
Stills – Logic Will Break Your Heart
Gillian Welch – Time (The Revelator)
Yeah Yeah Yeah’s – Fever To Tell

Still, if I haven't bought too much it should give me the opportunity to reduce that huge pile of stuff that I haven't listened to yet....

Jammer/N.A.S.T.Y - "Take U Out" 12"
Footsie & D Double E - "War Wid" 12"
Dice Recordings - Life's A Dice Game Vol.1 LP
J2K - Heat In The Street Vol.1 EP
Terror Danjah - Industry Standard E.P. / Payback E.P. / Marsta - Fibre remix
Wiley vs Jammer - "Weedman"/"Why" 12"

Yeah, the Millsart is stunning! Delicate, mellow, invigorating! I'm going to try and track down the rest of 'em. Like you, I'm surprised there's not much mention of the series on ILM.

Stockholm Monsters--Alma Mater+
Boz Scaggs--Hits!
TV on the Radio--Desparate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes

Gotta admit that I'm disappointed by the Stockholm Monsters. On the other hand, "Lido"'s one of the greatest songs ever.

I have about half of this on a compilation of Palmieri/Cheo Feliciano collaborations but the sound on that CD is totally crap. (Once again, look for the Vaya label and beware of the sound quality.) This is at least okay, maybe not quite as good as it could be for the amount of detail in the music, but pretty good compared to other salsa reissues.

Orchestra Baobab Pirates Choice
The Bad Plus These Are the Vistas
Coldcut Journeys by DJ: 70 Minutes of Madness
The Lebron Brothers Psychedelic Goes Latin/The Brooklyn Bums
The Three O'Clock Arrive Without Travelling(replacing a cherished LP)
Liars They Were Wrong So We Drowned
Courtney Love America's Sweetheart
Ivy Apartment Life
Augustus Pablo King Tubbys meets Uptown Rockers
Arthur Russell Calling Out of Context
Kid Koala Some of My Best Friends Are DJs
Marcel Duchamp The Entire Musical Work<
Timbaland and Magoo Under Construction II
Shocking Blue At Home

Immortal Songs
Fairuz Chante Zaki Nassif
Houmoum Al Hob
Safarbarlek Bint el-Harass

I haven't listened to any of them all the way through yet. I was hoping some of the songs I have on cassette, but don't know the names of, would appear on one or more of these CDs, but so far no such luck. Meanwhile, I'm not feeling all that enthusiastic about what's there. I think Fairouz's voice is a little too consistently the same for my taste. Also, I really don't like the way choral singing is used in Lebanese music or Arabic music generally, and a large number of Fairouz recordings have that sort of background. And the light Lebanese orchestral sound can get on my nerves as well.

Anyway, I think what compositions her voice is applied to probably is the deciding factor for me. And of course, having just written that, a lullaby-like song comes on that I especially like (on first listen). I will probably post more to the Fairouz thread eventually.

It's possible I'm just not in the right mood for her too. I haven't been, but I momentarily thought I was.

I think Fairouz's voice is a little too consistently the same for my taste.

Oh, I'm not so sure about that. I think like any other singer she is more inspired at one point than another. It is partly the compositions, no doubt, but her singing also packs a lot of punch here, for me, even though it's a mysterious sort of punch. (Why do these nostalgic sounding songs with child choirs and occasionally weird sounding instruments have such power? Or does the question answer itself?)

All the Jewelled Antler stuff by echoinggrov looks cool.

My man mike the undercover ninja has some stunning pickups with the several eno albums. Those will take a while to digest.

Kit Clayton - Nak Sanalet if this is the one I think it is it is great. Tons of washed out electonic dubbyness. Also the benjamin wild is pretty cool.

I just got the DJ Koze - All people is my friends. which I like contrary to popular thought. I just wish he had left off the Long and Winding Road or put it first on the album and I didnt really dig the Smith N Hack track. Everything else is spot on as far as I am concerned. Nice change to the majority of the Kompakt mixes, a little more of the electro feel.

and Piana - Snowbird

a great album with a couple of incredible japanese glitchy pop tracks if you are interested there are free downloads via Happy/12k their label @ http://www.12k.com/happy/index2.htm

still waiting impatiently for Villalobos Alcachofa hopping that tower can track down a copy.

Oh and I've pre-ordered the new Beta Band album.

Herbie Hancock - Sextant
Plastikman - Sheet One
Christian Marclay - More Encores
Norah Jones - Come Away With Me
Rene Lussier/Jean Derome/Chris Cutler - Three Suite Piece
Miles Davis - Dark Magus
Slapp Happy - Acnalbasac Noom
The Chemical Brothers - Surrender
Miles Davis - Aura
Ornette Coleman & Prime Time - Virgin Beauty
Outkast - Stankonia
King Crimson - Red
Bill Frisell - Good Dog, Happy Man

both because i was sick of listening to mp3s; also, i want to play "grippin' the grain" at top volume while i'm driving.

henry dumas + sun ra - ark and the ankh
east new york ensemble de music - at the helm
eugene b redmond - blood links + sacred places
montgomery express - does "party fever" and other songs...
brother ah & the sounds of awareness - key to nowhere

(ikef madness!!)

ghost - hypnotic underworld
v/a - king of the jungle
amp fiddler - waltz of a ghetto fly
ricardo villalobos - alcachofa

the four new sublime frequencies comps
radio ape - ddamage
animal collective - spirit they've... / danse manatee
technasia - live at fuse
anthony rother - live at fuse
three six mafia - untouchables

an old two-disc major force compilation on mowax

(not a lot of rap lately for some reason)

*Largely on the basis of sundar's comments. I am afraid I might end up regretting it. I forgot how much live Hendrix I have heard and the small percentage of it that I have really liked. In particular I don't especially like his bluesier moments ("Red House," etc.)--just because I don't especially like the blues. On the other hand, I'm willing to work with it a little bit. I do like some of it.

**I like the first track, "Prayer for Jimbo," (which was the only one I remember hearing), and I kind of like the last track with the heavy percussion session. Sometimes their playfulness seems too much like an afterthought, if that makes any sense.

The guitars in "Panic in Detroit" spend a lot of time playing a clave pattern.

These things aren't that important, but it's kind of fun to come back and listen to things I haven't heard for a while.

Hawkwind "Space Ritual" 2LP
Scratch Acid "The Greatest Gift" CD comp

Jimmy Smith - Back At The Chicken Shack, Root Down
Dexter Gordon - Go
Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners
Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus
Various Artists - Impressed With Gilles Peterson
Various Artists - Greensleeves Sampler Vol. 4
The Clientele - Suburban Light
The Might Diamonds - Right Time
The Necks - Aether
King Tubby - The Roots Of Dub / Dub From The Roots

Plus DVDs of Once Upon In The West and Thin red Line.

And at lunch time today I picked up;

Scientist - Rides The World Of The Evil Curse Of The Vampires
Blondie - Parallel Lines (to shut Dom up)
Ghostface KIllah - Supreme Clientele
The Congos - Congo Ashanti

Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
A Certain Ratio - To Each...

also:
various - Life:Styles (compiled by Coldcut)
various - Timeport episode II: reggae dancehall mixes 2004

Mahler - "Lied von der Erde" (Pierre Boulez, Vienna Phil.)

SPLUURRRRRRRGE.

I bought this solely on the basis of having heard the track "Music is painting in the air" on the radio, long ago. I still like it, but I have to admit there's nothing else here that I think is nearly as good. There are a couple other tracks I think I could at least get to like, but nothing that inspired. As usual (with progressive), I could do without the singing.

AshRa: Blackouts

Still giving this a first listen through, but I'm pretty sure it's better overall than the Sensations' Fix CD. However, it has me thinking about why I lost much of my interest in this sort of music, starting when I was in college. These rhythms just aren't interesting enough to me, most of the time, to support being repeated again and again. I still like a lot of the guitar playing, which is supposed to be the main attraction, I guess; but rhythmically it gets kind of tiresome. If the music took a less minimalist approach to rhythm, or if the rhythm were more appealing, I think it might please me more. It could be my fault for not taking LSD before putting the CD on.

"Don't Trust the Kids"--is that some sort of response to The Who?

(There's still the problem that it reminds me too much of my adolescence, for which space music, in-my-own-world music, was all too fitting a sound-track not that it was by any means the only thing I listened to.)

Also: The Old Grey Whistle Test Vol. 2 on DVD + 2 videos of "The Punk Years" - 10 episode series made for UK TV but afaik never shown. Not bad except that it toes the sad, tired old party line again that the US scene was only really paving the way (and apparently only consisted of The Stooges, MC5, the NY Dolls, Patti Smith, The Ramones and Blondie - no mention of Dead Boys, Devo, Dictators, Richard Hell, Pere Ubu, Suicide, Talking Heads, Television....); The Pistols and their clique were the only really important ones; The Clash, Buzzcocks, Adverts, X-Ray Spex were OK; it wasn't poor Jimmy Pursey's fault that Sham 69 somehow managed to attract an audience of sieg-heiling fuckwitts off the football terraces; The Damned were almost an irrelevance; Adam & The Ants, The Boys, 999, The Vibrators, Wire, etc. etc. etc. didn't even exist. Oh and the US Hardcore scene didn't start until the '80's and was mainly inspired by the UK Subs and GBH (Discharge don't seem to have existed either).

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 re-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. Reminds one of what an astonishing talent MES once was and also how musically sophisticated and adventurous this edition of The Fall were - the double drumming is amazing.

Jefferson Airplane - After Bathing At Baxters
I broke the bank for this one at £2.99! I've never been a great JA fan and this album contains a lot of their worst elements: all that teeth-grinding stridency and red-in-the-face yelling, but all in all this is good too. Ubfortunately all of Paul Kantner's songs sound the same and there's not nearly enough Grace Slick on it - her song, "Rejoyce" sounds exactly like a cross between the Slapp Happy of "Acnalbasc Noom" and the Slapp Happy of "Desperate Straights" - but this still gets the thumbs up. Oh and the 9 minute improvisational thang, "Spare Chaynge" is rubbish.

Flaming Lips '83-'88 box set "Finally the punks rockers are taking acid"

4 albums for £10 from the Sunday market at ATP that I'll eventually get round to.

Also picked up the Tricky "Ruff Guide" DVD for £7 - features 14 promos + a documentary.

This consists of at least part of the audio from the live video PTV Black. I think this is one of the best live PTV recordings I know of (which isn't necessarily saying a lot, but, if you're looking for one, take a look at this one). It's from 1991, so it's kind of a mix of acid house with rock. The highlight song is "Intoxication" (wow! wow! wow!), which I've never heard a decent recording of (besides this one). Some pretty funny lyrics, possibly made up on the spot. The sound is really not bad for a live recording. Genesis does annoy me a lot, in a way that he certainly didn't when I used to be more into this stuff, but I'm not sorry to have bought this. From a strictly personal angle, this is about the best possible reminder of what their live shows were like, short of watching the video itself. I really like Fred Gianelli's guitar here (though it's sometimes lost in the mix--but that seems to improve as the recording goes on). A bit underappreciated as a guitarist, I think, but then he preferred to switch over to focusing on electronics and production, so that's partly his fault. Really, Genesis's screeching overtop of it doesn't do justice to it, most of the time. What the hell/are we fighting for. . . "Well, I guess the Gulf War has some advantages for all of us." I hope I can interest the appropriate people out there in this CD. They did have a nice way with sounds much of the time, and some of the samples here are pretty good, and well-deployed. And there are congas!--though barely audible. Oh, yeah, "Money for E" is pretty fun, including Genesis's delivery. And there's a long jam without Gen up in front, and good samples, good guitar, good sound. This is easily one of the best Psychic TV recordings available.

The Easybeats: The Definitive Anthology

I think "Friday on My Mind" might be one of my top ten favorite rock songs ever. It still brings back memories of watching my brother's friend's "punk" cover band perform it, jumping around the stage of the basement auditorium in my father's church.

Stealers Wheel: The Best Of

Because I've always loved "Stuck in the Middle with You" (from when it was first released).

Robert Wilkins: The Original Rolling Stone

Because I like "That's No Way to Get Along," or did when I heard it a while back, and I rarely like the blues, so I thought I'd check out some of his other songs.

And I haven't heard them all, but I've heard far too many, including most of the official live releases.

Used
R.E.M. - Murmur
Trans Am - Red Line
Kid 606 - P.S. I Love You

Cyann & Benn--Spring
The Paisleys--Cosmic Mind at Play
All Night Radio--Spirit Stereo Frequency

Luckily I'm working 80 hour weeks for the next couple of months so I won't have time to buy anything else, if I can keep myself off ebay anyway.

Random new and used stuff I picked up while weekending in Berkeley:

Descendents, "Bonus Fat"
Minutemen, "Post-Mersh Vol.2"
Superhopper, "Music for Downtowns"
Unsane, "Lambhouse"
Various, "20 Years of Dischord"

Daft Punk - Discovery
Camille Yarbrough - The Iron Pot Cooker
Kraftwerk - Computer World
Bar-Keys - The Best of the Bar-Keys
VA - A Taste of . . . 3rd Stone Records Vol. 2
Young MC - Stone Cold Rhymin'
Syd Barrett - Crazy Diamond (box set)

used:
popul vuh - sei stille, wisse ICH BIN
freedom's children 2cd comp with all three of their albums! exciting!
buzzcocks - time's up
fastway - s/t+7"
the troll - animated music
couple of cure bootlegs (early b-sides & so on)

The 2 Clinics were next to each other and I was hoping for a hat trick with Internal Wrangler but no such luck.

I almost rebought The Stooges' Fun House used for $6, but I stopped myself for some reason.

all from selectadisc in soho

Of Montreal - Satanic Panic in the Attic
Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News
Blonde Redhead - Misery is a Butterfly
Muse - Absolution
Godspeed! You Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven!
The Fall - Bend Sinister
The Clash - Give 'Em Enough Rope

Total: $100.36

Luomo-The Present Lover
DJ Quik-Da Finale
v/a-Essential Speed Garage
B.G.-Chopper City In The Ghetto
Felix Da Housecat-Bugged Out Mix
The Time-What Time Is It?
v/a-Off Limits 3
Jay Z-Life And Times Of S. Carter

Tortoise - It's All Around You
Baby Dodds - Talking and Drum Solos
Dave Holland - Selected Recordings/Rarum X

Hella - The Devil isn't Red
Chainsaw Kittens - Angel on the Range
Rex - C
Eleventh Dream Day - Eighth
Hefner - The Fidelity Wars

...all for €5 each!

None of the videos I've seen of this guy prepared me for how good it was. All the hate he got for the albums afterward totally make sense now.

"It's the March+ thread. That includes April."

There is an April thread as well though.