It's October, bitches. what have you bought?

Kevin Ayers ? Didn?t Feel Lonely ?Til I Thought Of You
Belle & Sebastian ? Dear Catastrophe Waitress
Czars ? Before? But Longer; The Ugly People Vs. The Beautiful People; Goodbye (I think I may be falling in love)
Damned ? Machine Gun Etiquette 25th Anniversary Edition; Smash It Up (single) 25th Anniversary Edition (this just makes me feel SO OLD!); BBC1 Radio 1 Sessions; Sessions Of
Giant Sand - Is All Over? The Map
Mekons ? Heaven & Hell
Residents: WB: Remix; Commercial Album DVD
Elliott Smith ? From A Basement On The Hill
Kevin Tihista?s Red Terror ? Wake Up Captain
Verve ? This Is Music
Jah Wobble ? I Could Have Been A Contender

I am not your bitch.

All bought with store credit. Thank you, ignored promo CDs. Thank you, old albums I'll never listen to again.

Wallace House - Sam Small, Albert Remsbottom & Others: English Dialect Stories (Folkways)
Steely Dan - Gaucho
Monty Python - The Album of the Soundtrack of the Trailer of the Film of Monty Python and the Holy Grail

and some US Army fitness workout album featuring a drill sergeant barking out instructions over such tunes as "Eye of the Tiger" and "I Ran" by Flock of Seagulls

Pharoah Sanders, Thembi
Interpol, Antics
Converge, Jane Doe
Wire, Wire On The Box: 1979 CD/DVD combo

What do you reckon?

I'm not Phil but I thought it was pretty cool - very bizarre, the sort of thing that would never be recorded for TV today (the performance in Germany this is).

Oh and how could I forget my £1 Megastore sale purchase - Fabian Road Warrior by Wesley Willis

Any new york ILM-ers - look out for Greta Gertler when she gets back to her NY home from Sydney in Oct.

I really like not buying so many records.

charles ives - 4xLP complete piano works
steely dan - can't buy a thrill
king crimson - discipline
polvo - cor-crane secret

I think the last "new" CD I bought was......and I shit ye not....the import CD single of Jay-Z's "99 Problems".

Also picked up a used copy ( for a paltry $4.99) of The Criminal Special by forgotten Washington DC band, Senator Flux, for the purposes of including a track or two on a mix for a fellow ILM'r. By no means should anyone go out searching for Senator Flux records, but they had the odd decent track. I had it on cassette for a million years, but it's since gone missing, and when i saw it in the used bin, i snatched it up.

zoinks.

As for me, only one;
Michelle McAdorey and Eric Chenaux - Love Don't Change

Tomorrow, however, I'm going downtown to pick up my special-ordered Damon & Naomi - Playback Singers. I may also pick up the new Saint Etienne mix album if I can find it.

Jason Falkner, Can You Still Feel? (lovely if a touch samey after a while)

Tasmin Archer, Great Expectations (worth it just for "Sleeping Satellite," nothing else of note)

White Town, Women in Technology (worth it just for "Your Woman," nothing else of note)

Received from publicists/artists and roundly enjoyed:

Nadine Goellner, Sing It to Me Anyway

Loop!Station, Conversations With Water

ELO -- Classics
Wiley -- Treddin' on Thin Ice
X -- Los Angeles
Pogues -- If I Should Fall From Grace With God
The (English) Beat -- I Just Can't Stop It

** reduced # of purchases courtesy of newly aquired unemployment benefits - which reduced disposable income by about, oh, 60%. (thank you very much United Sweatshops of America)

I can't believe I slept on all this for years of buying stuff like Lone Catalysts album... eughh!

What inspired you to buy the Henry Fiol, and what do you think of it? I only have one recent CD by him and I like some of his songwriting, but I'm not crazy about his voice. I've heard older recordings of his on the radio occasionally (on a weekly salsa show) that I've liked more though.

Brian Wilson: Smile
Annie: Anniemal
The Finn Brothers: Everyone Is Here
The Earlies: These Were The Earlies
The Polyphonic Spree: Together We're Heavy
George Michael: Patience (didn't get round to buying it until I found it on discount)
Plus on compilation of rare 60s beat recordings by bands from the Norwegian city of Bergen.

ahhhh, Henry Fiol. Well, I had already downloaded the two main hits, so I bought it more on the collectors tip, cuz I never see his stuff in the stores. I don't know if it's true, but I read somewhere that he was from Lower Manhattan, and I DJ salsa parties down there pretty often.

The stuff I've heard is very smooth and tasty. This album gives plenty of room for Cuban trumpeter Alfredo "Chocolate" Armenteros solos. As a singer he's not that dynamic to my ear - very restrained. He's not a belter, and has an unusual sounding voice.

Early evening stuff, for now.

Narcotic Syntax - "Calculated extravagant licentiousness ep"
Horror Inc - "The vanishing"
Jesper Dahlback - "Machine dance"
Alexander Kowalski - "Hot spot remixes"
Superlongevity 3
Ferenc - "Cronch"
Speicher number something-or-other with Ferenc on it
Roll Deep - "Poltergeist relay"
Mondie ft Crazy Titch - "Straight"
Durrty Doogz - "Hold me down" remixes
Lopazz - "Migracion"
Lopazz - "I need ya" (remixes)
DJ T - "Get lost/Phantomas"
DJ T -
Chelonis R Jones - "I don't know" (remixes) (buying everything I can off the Get Physical comp...)
Dizzee Rascal - "Stretch"
Tinchy Strider - "Move"
Cymande - "Cymande"

Woven Hand - Consider the Birds (cheapo review copy)
Dinky - Black Cabaret (ditto, even though it's more than a year old)

Add to that Robyn Hitchcock's Spooked (which I dropped actual retail money on)

my 'nordic' online order:
Motorpsycho - Angels & Deamons at Play + Blissard
Motorpsycho DJ bag (Not because it's a MP DJ-bag but because it's the best allround bag there is I think. Right size, nice material, exact amount of pockets needed... This is a replacement, I've worn out my previous one. I don't use it for records though)

No.

I won't.

Not until you at least tell me what it is.

New album?

Any good?

-- Ned Raggett (ne...), October 6th, 2004 3:48 AM.

Amen, brother.

and Propaganda 1234 album on cd - which aint that good. but i needed to hear it.

not sure either will be a playlister .. but 'nice to have' items

Plus another 4 boxes of cd's which I have to sort through, mainly early 90's indie/britpop i.e mostly crap

Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
The Cramps - Songs the Lord Taught Us
Stereolab - Mars Audiac Quintet

the first two i've had on CD-R for a while but i found 'em cheap.

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I'd had it on cassette for a million years (well, about nine years....it came out in `94), but it seemed to go missing in the last couple of years following an apartment move. Wanting to hear it again (and wanting to include the live rendition of "Divide & Conquer" on a mix CD-R for my nephew), I figured I should just go out and pick it up on CD, but it is simply NOT TO BE FOUND anywhere in Manhattan (or at least so far). Not in any of the big chains, not in any of the mom'n'pops, not in any of the used places. There are a few I haven't checked yet (Future Legend in midtown for one), but fuck....should it be so hard to find a major label release that's only ten years old? It's become my obsession.

Pet Shop Boys Disco 3
Sun City Girls Fresh Kills of a Cape Hunting Dog/Def In Italy reissue 2xLP
Nick Drake "River Man" 7"
Lipstique At the Discotheque LP (it had a disco cover of "Mah-Na-Mah-Na"! how could I resist?)
Camberwell Now All's Well
Patty Waters You Thrill Me

Giant Sand - Is All Over the Map

david bowie- heros
love- forever changes
big star- those two on one disc
curtis mayfield- superfly deluxe
marvin gaye- whats goin on
rolling stones- her satanic majesty
brian wilson- smile
ready to die remaster
stevie wonder- songs in the key of life

and a couple more i cant think of off the top of my head

electronic - s/t
nonesuch explorer series - golden rain
twilight circus dub soundsystem - in dub vol. 1
gilberto gil - gold
killing joke - for beginners
lo fidelity allstars - on the floot at the boutique
dj rectangle - enter the diamond needle dynasty

$65 for the lot at amoeba LA yesterday

oh, and an iMac. woo!

I like that record a lot!!

Today I got Swell Maps "International Rescue" and Berlioz "The Damnation of Faust." Swell Maps is a little more straightforward than I had expected, but still not bad.

-- Stewart Osborne (stewart.osborn...), October 8th, 2004 5:25 AM. (Stewart Osborne) (link)

Hitchcock's new acoustic record, performed largely with Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings. Hit and miss for the most part, but contains some wonderful songs.

Deathprod s/t box
Mu Afro Finger and Gel (if this is how you wish to be judged, I judge you highly)
The Urinals Negative Capability
Grupo Folklorico y Experimental Nuevayorquino Concepts in Unity
Patrizia Ciofi and Joyce Di Donato Amor e gelosia/Handel: Operatic Duets
Faces Five Guys Walk Into a Bar . . . box
Black Sabbath Master of Reality

ARGH! I want this!

Bought Freestylers' Raw As F**K the other week. Pretty good. A bit inconsistent - the ragga fueled tracks and Push Up don't really belong on there. But "Punks" is great!

I'm alaways amazed and amused that the one more-or-less salsa album that gets mentioned the most on ILM is this relatively esoteric one. (Not that there's anything wrong with the album, which certainly has a very good critical reputation, or with being esoteric.)

old:
Pleasure - first two LPs reissued on 1 CD
The Stark Reality - Now
plus a few other compilations/mixes

any belgian bands on it?

why don't you like the new annie? haven't bought it YET.

Stars - Set Yourself On Fire (good, very good. perhaps two songs too long? the first third is GOLD)

The Best of ACE Rockabilly

Roxy Music: For Your Pleasure (one of the only Roxy Music albums I don't own, but I know it pretty well, so I'd always delayed buying it in the past.)

Cop Shoot Cop: Ten Dollar Bill [12" single, I think. green vinyl] (I don't know Cop Shoot Cop, so thought I would give it a spin).

A-Ha: Hunting High and Low (A band I've never really bothered buying stuff by, though I do like them.)

Adam ands the Ants: Kings of the Wild Frontier.

Katrina and the Waves: S/T

A Flock of Seagulls: S/T

Kate Bush: Rocket Man 12" single (I have the album this is from, 'two rooms' a tribute to Taupin and John, but this is a great song, and Cadle in the Wind is the B-Side. And I love Kate Bush)

Tiffany: Could've Been 12" single (never heard this)

Morrissey: The Last of The Famous International Playboys 7" (one of my favourite Morrissey songs)

Heaven 17: Temptation 7" single (I have this on a Now album, I'm sure. But it's nicwe to have it as a 7")

The Primitives: Way Behind Me 7" (I like the Primitives, ad it had a cool cover)

Belafonte: The Banana Boat Song 7" (speaks for itself)

Thanks jaymc, I caught a rash of shit for it on the Noise Board.

and then cos i'm bristol based a special mixtape thats out and about by homecrew - Aspects, under the dreadful moniker of 'rockrap' ..

not had chance yet ..

but if anniemal aint the biz like has been described then there will be trouble ..

m.e/ireallylovemusic

why don't you like the new annie? haven't bought it YET
I dunno, most of it seems so flimsy and naff to my ears. There seem to be some good songs in there somewhere, struggling to be heard. But the Finnish guy, Timo Kaukalamp, who produces most of the tracks has no clue how to make a pop record. And I cannot stand Richard X productions - he ruins everything he touches with those bleeps and bloops and farty whooshes. There should've been more in the vein of "My Heartbeat" - perhaps I would have liked it more if Röyksopp had done the whole LP.

But I think I'm in a minority of 1 on this one, so... pfffft

I am not certain whether it is. Generally, a bunch of bands trying to sound like The Beatles and ending up sounding like The Shadows instead. And the audio quality of several of the tracks is devastatingly bad (obviously recorded straight from worn-out 7 inch singles)

NRK, the Norwegian broadcasting company, are now running a series about the history of Norwegian rock, kind of inspired by similar series about international rock history. They have released 6 volumes of Norwegian rock classics from the 50s until the 70s, and I will probably rather check out those, as they contain a lot of rare stuff and I expect the audio to be better in most cases.

This is pretty much Live at thee Circus, with some filler. I miss the abrupt cuts that anti-segued a couple tracks on the vinyl version (e.g., "Your Body" on vinyl starts in medius res), but there is really not too much difference. I'm sure I'll say more later, but I'll repeat that I think this is thee live Psychic TV album to get (maybe simply thee Psychic TV album to get).

Gun Club: Miami

I said I wasn't going to rush out and get this, but as long as I was buying a Psychic TV CD I thought this would go with it reasonably well. I don't imagine myself listening to this much, but I might play it on mornings when I need a kick in the ass.

Neil Young: Rust Never Sleeps

Ellen Allien - Weiss Mix
Tom Waits - Blue Valentine
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the 36 Chambers

Since beginning of October:

Phish - The Story of the Ghost
Sleater-Kinney - All Hands on the Bad One
Silkworm - Developer
Jeff Buckley - Grace (Legacy edition)
Mansun - Kleptomania
Cracker - s/t
Letters to Cleo - Go!
Faith No More - Angel Dust
South - With the Tides
Gwei-Lo - s/t
Brainiac - Hissing Prigs In Static Couture
Urge Overkill - The Supersonic Storybook
The Apes - Oddeyesee
Sneaker Pimps - Splinter
Ned's Atomic Dustbin - Brainbloodvolume
Mclusky - The Difference Between You and Me is that I'm Not on Fire
Pretty Girls Make Graves - The New Romance
Mission Of Burma - ONoffON
You Am I - Hourly, Daily
Phish - Farmhouse
Magoo - Realist Week
Cranes - Future Songs
Beck - Stereopathic Soul Manure
Beck - One Foot in the Grave
Counting Crows - This Desert Life
The Clean - The Getaway
Melvins - Prick
Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle
Love - Forever Changes
Faces - A Nod is as Good as a Wink... to a Blind Horse
Brothomstates - Claro
Buffalo Tom - Big Red Letter Day
The Rentals - Seven More Minutes
Silverfish - Cockeye
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
Deerhoof - Milk Man
Swell - Everybody Wants to Know

SL #1 - no. Hmm..what would make you think that. It's interesting when people with pseudonyms act like they know you. Maybe we met through Ned at Sunset Junction when I was playing the Chuck Taylor drinking game and was not completely on my game.

SL #2 - don't know, can't help ya there.

I ain't never met no one from ILX, I don't know anyone =[

or

Suggestion: go to Spaceland on a Monday night and climb onstage and yell SPENCER CHOW.

And yeah, right, I remember something about Red Lion. I lived in Echo Park years ago before Rockaway went down the hill. Red Lion + Rockaway = good times back in the day

now I'm really only over there at night because I work Over Here, if you know what I mean.

keep your eyes peeled, SC

No seriously, you'll have a great time getting to know that area. The restaurant Malo on Sunset near Akbar has a decent jukebox, as does Akbar, as a matter of fact. The Spaceland offices are upstairs from Malo and Spaceland Mitchell's good a pretty good musical palate. If you play in a band you could always lay in wait for Jennifer the Spaceland booker, you'll find her at the table near the jukebox eating chocolate nachos.

the first Luomo CD
Compulsive gamblers' "Bluff City" and "Live and Deadly"
that new Dungen album
Crime - "SF's Still Doomed"
Bjork - everything but "Telegram" (which I have already)
Judas Priest - "British Steel"
Kinks - "Kinda Kinks"
Low - "Transmission" EP
Oval - "94 Diskont"
68 Comeback - "A Bridge Too Fuckin Far"
Dead Can dance - "into the Labyrinth" and "Within the realm of a Dying sun"
Yo La Tengo - "The Sounds of the Sounds of Science" and "Fakebook"
Oblivians - "Soul Food" and "Play 9 Songs with Mr Quintron"
Books - "thought for Food"
Boredoms - "Chocolate Synthesizer" and that new one
!!! - "louden up now"
Nick Cave - that new double album

some on my want list (Raekwon, Holly golightly, GZA, Dizzee, Eminem, Kool Keith, Closer Musik, Massive Attack, William Basinski) I've already heard and don't need confirmation on. (I've heard much of the above as well, but not full albums)

Just took out of the library:

Blue Cheer - Vincebus Eruptus
Bill Laswell - City of Light
Africando All-Stars - Mandali
Elliot Sharp - Terraplane
No Material - Ginger Baker
Matthew Shipp - Nu Bop
Ali Farka Toure - Niafunke
Eugene Chadbourne - The Hellingtunes
V/A - dice 2 (A Collection of Contemporary Women Composers)

roger all the way up there I'm glad you like this.

new Losoul

Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps

Dizzee Rascal - Showtime - I am beginning to understand the fuss

Superlongitivity 1 - perlon makes more and more sense

Solvent - Apples & Synthesizers - very cool

Soft Music for Gentle People - comp cd of west coast psychedic pop from the 60s on AMoeba records. lovely stuff

The Prefects should be good.

That's quite a Kinks spree, Stewart!

Was filling in a couple of gaps with The Kinks and when I started looking just couldn't resist the 3 CD version of The Village Green Preservation Society for a tenner (if they can do this, why can't they release The Pet Sound Sessions for a bleedin' tenner too, eh?) - although the inclusion of their first two albums is largely due to the praise you've heaped on them on various threads - as indeed is the Section 25 title!

I think I'd probably have bought The Prefects even without your intervention 'though.

The SXXV is really great - I assume you ordered the latest LTM edition with the Looking From A Hilltop Megamix on it? Ah those were the days....

That's the one. It arrived a couple of days ago but I haven't worked my way down the pile to it yet.

Yes, I have a problem.

Six Organs of Admittance - The Manifestation (CD reissue)
Kinski - Don't Climb On and Take the Holy Water
George Jones - Sings the Great Songs of Leon Payne
Nomeansno - People's Choice
Ruins - Live at Kichijoji Mandala 2
Mastodon - Remission
High On Fire - Surrounded by Thieves
Joanna Newsom - the Milk Eyed Mender

cheapo used vinyl:
St Vitus - can't remember which lp
Esquivel - best of LP
a couple of Robert Charlebois and Harmonium records from my secret basement cache

and waiting for these to arrive in the mail:
Growing - The Sky's Run Into the Sea
Agitation Free - Malesch
Thai Elephant Orchestra - s/t
Jayus, I Nyoman's Bamboo Ensemble from the Northwest of Bali - Jegog: The Rhythmic Power of Bamboo

This sounds like a nice batch. (I keep forgetting to put the Thai Elephant Orchestra on my official TO BUY list.)

Alice Cooper - Trash
Sum 41 - Chuck
Good Charlotte - Chronicles of Life and Death
Dokken - Change the World
Q and not U - Power
Guided by Voices - Alien Lanes
Brian Wilson - Smile
Helloween - Metal Jukebox
Megadeth - The System has Failed
Annihilator - Set The World on Fire/In Command
Bowling for Soup - A Hangover You Don't Deserve

I think it's good for me to write this all down, first step to recovery and all that.

Terry Riley - A Rainbow in Curved Air CD
Kronos Quartet performs Philip Glass CD
Steve Reich - The Four Sections/Music For Mallet Instruments, Voices, and Organs CD
Boulez Conducts Schoenberg - Survivor From Warsaw/Vars. for Orch/5 Pieces for Orch. LP
Glenn Gould - Beethoven Sonatas LP

Also: Diamanda Galas Defixiones (good, but very text-centered much of the time), John Fahey Live in Tasmania, Neil Young: Zuma and American Stars & Bars. I haven't fully listened to the last three yet.

Chuck Berry--The Great 28
v/a--Studio One Funk
v/a--The Sound of Philadelphia 2
v/a--Nicky Siano's The Gallery
Burning Spear--Sounds From...
Underworld--1992-2002
Brian Wilson--Smile
Dizzee--Showtime
Bo Diddley--Tales From The Funk Dimension
The Staple Singers--Ultimate
v/a--Party Keller Vol 1

Come on, hands up....

Couldn't be less interested in Smile. Possibly if I could d/l I would've, but only after a hell of a lot else.

What I've bought this month...
Estelle, The 18th Day
Ghostface, The Pretty Toney Album
Twista, Kamikaze
Annie, Anniemal
Dizzee Rascal, Showtime
Interpol, Antics

This is only the second recording of Afro-Cuban rumba that I've bought. It's not pure rumba since it includes tres and bass on some tracks, but they are played by none other than Arsenio Rodriguez and Cachao Lopez. I especially like Rodriguez's tres playing. The singing in rumba can still be a bumpy ride for me. This is a well-remastered CD, except that I have to agree with a criticism I've seen elsewhere: the bass is too far in the background a lot of the time (and I'm not really into heavy bass, but I'd like to be able to hear it).

This is okay. Belly dance music, and very stripped down.

Shadi Jamil: Oudud Halabiyya

This may take a while to really get into, but it's kind of promising, stately 19th century Syrian classical music.

I also got Oum Kalthoum's Hazihi Leylati, but it is the studio version again, although the live was advertised. I have run into this problem before with other dealers, in regard to this particular song. It's very baffling that this happens. I'll have to return it.

(I think someone may have just been shot at Broad & Callowhill.)

Yes, that was a gun-shot I heard earlier, very very nearby.

I agree entirely.

Next CD trade, I can send you a fairly good sequence of the original tapes, but that new recording gives me the creeps.

Is there actually anyone on ILM who still hasn't bought / borrowed / downloaded or otherwise listened to a copy of SMiLE?

Another hand. Was planning on avoiding until I could see it live in December, but then tickets turned out to be $175 (!).

So a little less than a hundred quid?

Trust me, GO.

Six months ago I'd never have believed I'd end up saying this because I've never been a huge Beach Boys fan and I only went to see him because a load of people whose views I really respect talked me into it, but: it really is absolutely worth it.

Quite breathtaking - right, right up there rubbing shoulders with the (rather unlikely) likes of Bauhaus, Black Uhuru, The Damned, Miles Davis, Flaming Lips, Gary Glitter, Joy Division, Sex Pistols, The Slits and Talking Heads as one of the most memorable gigs I've ever been to.

This is pretty good on first listen. It's essentially the same repertoire that Sabah Fakhry sings, but Jamil's voice is a little less overbearing. (These guys are into powerful singing: they are both known for doing things like singing ten hours straight while standing up the entire time. Sabah Fakhry made it into the Guiness Book of World Records for such a feat of endurance at one point.) The ensemble backing Jamil up seems really incredible in its own right. I like the fact that the percussion is not in the foreground as much as it is on the Sabah Fakhry recordings I've heard. Not my favorite Arabic music genre, but a good area to explore a little. Plus this is a better quality recording than most if not all of the examples I have on tape.

So even less - about 70 quid in fact - almost 50% more than I paid, 'tis true (although I paid for 'er indoors too, so it ended up costing me more like AU$250) but still worth every penny (1 penny = 2.5 Australian cents)

"Exchange rates aside, it's a lot of money, and the equivalent of about 22 normal gigs. Admittedly, I don't go to many shows at the Sydney Opera House."

Never mind Sydney Opera House - the average normal gig only costs about 3 quid?!?

Basement Jaxx
Daft Punk
Herbert
Superpitcher
New Order
Prince
Holger Czukay
Giorgio Moroder
Vikter Duplaix
Rapture
Mu
B-52s
Robag Wruhme
Phoenix
Villeneuve
Zongamin
Ada
Remute
Smash TV
Luomo
!!! singles/Maurice Fulton instrumentals
Matthew Dear
Bloc Party
Metro Area
Erlend Oye
Spektrum
MIA
swayzak
contriva
Pixeltan
Afrika Bambaata
Annie
Mouse on Mars
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Frivolous
Mocky – Are & Be
Quarks
Ariel pink’s haunted graffi

I was worried that these vocals might be a bit harsh, but I don't find them that way after all. The rhythmic clapping is fantastic, even if it's not there continuously. (In pop music, these clapped rhythms are programmed electronically and it still sounds fantastic to me.)

Various: Si Soy Llanero: Joropo Music from the Orinoco Plains of Colombia

Apparently some sort of "cowboy" music, with lots of guitar and vocals that sound Flamenco-related, judging from the brief audio samples I heard.

T Rex - The Slider - Import Bonus Extra two disk thingee
Nick Cave - Abbatoir Blues / Lyre of Orpheus
Muddy Waters - Live at Newport '65

But what do I know? I'm old and boring and only buy comps:
Guy, The Best of/20th Century Masters: The Millenium Collection
Depeche Mode, Remixes 81-04
John Mellencamp, Words & Music: JM's Greatest Hits
George Strait, 50 Number Ones

Herbert, 'Bodily Functions'
Matthew Herbert Big Band, 'Goodbye Swingtime' (fantastic in parts)
The Great Jazz Trio (Hank Jones/Elvin Jones/Richard Davis, 'Someday My Prince Will Come' (been waiting for this to come out for years)

The Velvet Monkeys - Rake LP
Momus - Tender Pervert LP
DAF - Gold und Leibe LP
Mireille Mathieu - um, can't actually remember what it's called 7"
Some bizarre 'comedy' LP called The Jewish American Princess

umpty x-posts -
Alright, if it turns out the rumours about the Wondermints not playing with him turn out to be ignorance from the promoter, I'll think again about the Smile show. Still have a big problem with paying that much more for a gig than for rent though.

And yeah, most gigs I go to cost about A$8 - generally in a range from $5 - $12. Something like the Flaming Lips at $69.90 obviously throws off the average, but I've only paid over $30 for one other show this year, and a whole bunch of free gigs bring the odds down again.

LPs
Joan Jett - Bad Reputation
Vapors - New Clear Days
AC/DC - Back In Black
Depeche Mode - Violator

CDs
Sunn o))) - White 1
Black Mountain - s/t
Isis - Oceanic
Stooges - s/t

DVD
Low In Europe