It's November, assholes. What have you bought?

1 The Fearless Vampire Killers DVD [ 9.74 GBP 1 9.74 GBP
Sold by Amazon.com Int'l Sales, Inc. - taxed

Soon to buy - Seinfeld Boxset 1,2 & 3.

lil scrappy/ trilville album

ginuwine - the bachelor

juvenile - tha g code

fopp bargains

.. 'nervous' by yello is a great classic yello electro track. though i suspect the rest of the lp will be a let down ..

I just paid for two France Gall EPs online.

Lesquels?

Dizzee Rascal: 'Showtime' on vinyl
Bright Eyes: 'Lifted ...'
The 'Plunderphonics' cd box, yay!
Reggaeton Traxx 12", six trax of Puerto Rican rasta shiaart

I'm well chuffed.

ok. Yello - The Eye.

loving the smooth boris blank electro sounds for first time in ages .. time to dig in the archive for their other albums that have been hidden away for too long ..

ugh. It's a bore. And it's onlly Miles and Malc from the original line-up (no Martin, no Fiddly). It's much more the Miles Hunt Club than anything even remotely Stuffesque. Skip it.

Joni Mitchell -- Hissing of Summer Lawns
Captain Beefheart -- Mirror Man Sessions
Herbie Hancock -- Maiden Voyage
Chick Corea -- Now He Sings, Now He Sobs
Police -- Regatta de Blanc
Black Sabbath -- Paranoid (repurchase after my copy was long lost)
Dubwise II
Kris Kristofferson -- Kristofferson
Savath & Savalas -- Man(tilde)ana

Digital Underground - Sex Packets
Keren Ann - Not Going Anywhere
T. Raumschmiere - Radio Blackout
Three 6 Mafia - Da Unbreakables
Amy Denio - Birthing Chair Blues
Sussan Deyhim - Madman of God
Parts & Labor/Tyondai Braxton split - Rise, Rise, Rise
2002 Cuneiform Records sampler

I AM ILM.

The Avalanches "Since I Left You"
Mice Parade "All Roads Lead To Salzburg"
Amon Duul II "The Best of 1969-1974"
Mice Parade "Obrigado Saudade"
Kim Hiorthoy "Melke"
Playgroup "Partymix"

The Playgroup is mildly fun,
and I thought that the Avalanches were quite good on first listen.

Jez, I got the Baby Pop +3 ep and Deux Oiseaux +3 ep. Have the songs already on the Baby Pop cd but want the OG vinyls for collector satisfaction / dj purposes.

all good

Felt "The Splendour of Fear"
Wolf Eyes/Smegma split CD

the thread title doesn't specify music, so I've also bought:

new issues of The Believer, Critical Inquiry, and Cabinet
Wilhelm Reich "Listen Little Man"
Douglas Wolk's book on "Live at the Apollo" in the 33 1/3 series
Clark Coolidge's book of poems about the Old West
a DVD of "His Girl Friday"

Great stuff - I'm always on the lookout. The1968 album is the last thing I can find predating her later AOR stuff; am I missing anything?

By the way, have you heard the Swinging Mademoiselle compilations?

I haven't watched it yet so I don't know if it's a good transfer. I bought it for $1.99 at Walgreens. They have this crazy DVD cut price series called The Treasure Box Collection, the DVD is just sitting in a cardboard thin sleeve with really crappy Photoshop art. The Criterion Collection it ain't, but quite the low price, eh?

Last night, in HMV Oxford Circus, I went to the counter with the following:

Shitmat - Full English Breakfast
Stonebridge - Can't Get Enough
Telefon Tel Aviv - Map Of All That Is Effortless
Travis - Singles
Verve - This Is Music: Singles '92-'98

Assistant: "You're a PR man, aren't you?"
MC: "??????"
Asst: "You can't possibly like THESE three and those OTHER two as well! You're trying to get them to chart, aren't you?"
MC: "As it happens I like ALL of them and to show you how much I like them, I'm going to cross the road and buy them all out of Selectadisc, where I am not questioned about the aesthetic merit of my purchases or any presumed rationale behind them. Good night."

No wonder Amazon does such good business if this is the attitude of music chainstores these days.

They were cheaper in Selectadisc as well.

So you did buy something, then? How is the new Wildean Elan?

I am such a cheapskate that I would have walked up and down Berwick Street to get the best price on each one....(but they would have to pay ME to take the Travis or the Verve!)

pastels - truck train tractor 12"
jens lekman - you are the light CDS
apples in stereo - sound effects CD
va - vaultage 78 LP
disorder - complete disorder CD
opus 3 - it's a fine day CDS
beat - can't get used to losing you 12"
jilted john - jilted john 7" (original on Rabid Records wooo!)
oblivians - kick your ass 7"
mazzy star - she hangs brightly CD
golden mile - blowing hot and gold 7"
urusei yatsura - all hail CD

They were cheaper in Selectadisc as well."

Amazon would probably have been cheaper than either of them.

I very seldom bother to go in to record shops any more - much to the consternation of my partner who used to refer to HMV in Reading as "The Creche" because she said she knew she could leave me in their safely while she went off and did all of her shopping.

"I love acting. It is so much more real than life."

I have attempted to pursue this line of argument in the past but unfortunately that pile of things I haven't actually quite managed to get 'round to listening to just yet has almost invariably managed to defeat me.

Reissues? Haven't heard about these - any different to the previous versions?

mailorder:
josephine foster & the supposed 'all the leaves are gone' CD
matt valentine 'glorious group therapy' LP
fursaxa 'mandrake' LP
black forest/black sea & christina carter tour CD

and a bunch of stuff last week when I sold CDs, but that wasn't november. and i actually ordered the MV & Fursaxa LPs last month, but because of postal snafus they were sent back and will be (hopefully) returning to me shortly.

all fantastic with the exception of the giddy motors 7" and the assembler cd which let me down a bit, assembler moreso

Circular Firing Squad - Oxide (live improvisational music from 1995)
Disco Inferno - In Debt (ILM heroes, need I say more?)
Trouble Funk - Live/Early Singles (RE-ISSUE! YEAH! I've been wanting this forever!)
I-F - Fucking Consumer (Space Invaders can finally smoke grass portably for me...)

that's a good record.

Fall - Totally Wired comp
Trojan Reggae Sisters Box Set
Ghostface Killah - The Pretty Toney Album
Charlie Parker - Bird soundtrack
The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society
Original Hardcore: The Battle (double CD happy hardcore mix)
Blind Willie Johnson - The Soul Of A Man
Trojan Nyahbinghi Box Set
Shuggie Otis In Session: Great Rhythm & Blues
Trojan Sunshine Reggae Box Set
Trojan Ganja Box Set
Trojan Reggae Duets Box Set
Trojan Originals Reggae Box Set
Bud Powell - The Collection
Trojan Sixties Box Set
Ice-T Presents Westside
Tom Waits - Real Gone
David Bowie - Live Dublin November 2003 (bootleg from a friend)
Various Artists - Love Music Hate Racism
Trojan Creole Reggae Box Set
Trojan Ras Reggae Box Set
Dave Clarke - World Service (double CD mix)
Dillinja - My Sound [1993-2004]
Hardcore
Hardcore 2 (both triple CDs of happy hardcore mixed by Sy & Unknown)
I'm A Bad, Bad Girl (box set of old female jazz/blues/R&B singers)
Augustus Pablo - Skanking With Pablo 1971-77
Skatalites - Guns Of Navarone: The Best Of The Skatalites
New York Dolls - Seven Day Weekend
New York Dolls - Red Patent Leather (both live CDs)
The Ramones - The Chrysalis Years (triple CD, last one live stuff)
Various Artists - Funk Drops 2
Various Artists - Superfly Soul: The Return Of The Hustlers
Various Artists - Superfly Soul: Dynamite Funk And Bad-Assed Street Grooves
William Shatner - Has Been
Eddie & Ernie - Lost Friends
Beastie Boys - The Sounds Of Science
Saint Etienne - Casino Classics (had it on tape, but found it cheap, and there are more tracks on the CD version)
plus a few magazine cover mounts and some singles - Eminem, Destiny's Child, Prodigy

Songs: Ohia- Mi Sei Apparso Come Un Fantasamo
Matthew Sweet- Kimi Ga Suki
Spoon- Soft Effects ep
Frank Black/Black Francis
Black Keys- Rubber Factory
Rilo Kiley- More Adventorous
Patterson Hood- Killers and Stars
Chuck Prophet Age of Miracles

Jim

Lamb - Lamb
Inspired by looking for quotes for "Gorecki" on the 1990s poll)

Holly Golightly - Slowly But Surely
Her newest album and maybe her best? This is really fantastic.

Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
Accolades are predictably well-deserved.

Neko Case - The Tigers Have Spoken
Neko's new live album, which resembles less her last solo album and is more along the lines of her previous singles with the Sadies (backing her up here) and her Canadian Amp EP. Tasty.

i ordered annie's anniemal.

Eddie Henderson, Anthology V. 2: The Capricorn Years
Alice Coltrane, Universal Consciousness
V/A, Clicks & Cuts 2

The Anthology disc combines two albums which are actually by Herbie Hancock's Mwandishi band, but are credited to trumpeter Henderson.

Blue Oyster Cult - Secret Treaties
The Clash - s/t (US version)
Morton Subotnick - A Sky of Cloudless Sulphur/After the Butterfly
Louis Andriessen - De Staat
The Beatles - Hey Jude
Bob Seger System - Ramblin Gamblin Man

You'd be surprised how cheap that lot was, Amateurist, but it was still a couple of hundred quid. I do have a decent job, yes.

haven't given it a thorough listening, mind you. first impression: suits the season, autumnal. i like the programming of the drums. also there's a lot of things going on in the background, so i gather it could be more of a headphones album. why did he go from here to such crappyslimy stuff like "sweet instigator"?

also just got sent to me from Brazil:
Luiz Gayotto, Fragments de Musica Livre e Espontanea
Esvaldo Santana, Amor de Prefeira

YMO - Solid State Survivor
YMO - Public Pressure
Chu Ishikawa - Tokyo Fist soundtrack
Virginia Astley - From Gardens Where We Feel Secure
Astor Piazzolla - Concertio de Nacar
Operating Theatre - Rapid Eye Movement
The Schramms - Walk To Delphi
Kanda Shin-Ichiro & Norikane Sakura - Ongaku-Bigaku

Jon Williams in liking NPR background music SHOCKAH!

(Actually, this album is surprisingly good, for a concept that essentially panders to middlebrow tastes for both new-agey Philip Glass soundtracks and WORLDBEAT; I have an aunt who'd be all over this shit, if she isn't already.)

also, it's well-known that jw LOVES gamelan, african drumming, terry riley and steve reich.

CDs:
seam - are you driving me crazy?
six finger satellite - severe exposure
pixies - trompe le monde (empty case oh no!)
tribe called quest - the low end theory
jackie o motherfucker - fig. 5
holy modal rounders - i make a wish for a potato
gang of four - entertainment/yellow EP
dylan - blonde on blonde
x - los angeles/wild gift

all used, from amazon and ebay. only innervisions has arrived.

Pavement - Crooked Rain reissue
(someday I will actually listen to it all too!)

Stina Nordenstam - Dynamite
Alexander Kowalski - Response
(in the post)

Sylvie Marks & Hal9000 - Krazeee (album, not single)
love this one!! might start a thread if I don't see a review soon. I've sold half or more of the released-in-2004 records I've bought for being shit. So to finally hit a great one late in the year is v.nice.

Those are just November so far. I might have to get ripped off for the Nirvana Box soon though :X

upthread... jesus. Some people are really addicted! I try not to buy more than I can realistically listen to, it mostly happens.

sly & the family stone - there's a riot goin' on
curtis mayfield - superfly
isaac hayes - shaft
love - da capo (remaster)

Belly - Star
Lush - Spooky
Saint Etienne - Finisterre
Throwing Muses - Limbo
Chicks On Speed - 99cents
Max Tundra - Mastered by Guy at the Exchange

Yesterday - new, from Jumbo

The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike
Hello Cuca - Gran Sur

Definitely one album too far for them, yet incredibly frustrating in that it's also not bad a lot of the time.

Dayclear & first dark - Daniel Givens

Shock City Mavericks - Beans

The D. Givens is supremely soulful and forward looking. World Of Echo is a flat out marvellous reissue.

I know. I'd never have paid full price for it. But at £3.99 the completist in me got the upper hand.

Amoeba Records in SF is dangerous!

and lots of other stuff.
I'm damned.

Woah. Where did you get this/is it expensive/does it have good liner notes/etc etc etc?

What's the matter? Too cheap to spring for the 12-disc Carter box on Bear Family? ;-)

Mad Professor - The Next Revolution Will Be Dub-wise
Strange Fruit: Hut Recordings Peel Sessions
The Folk Implosion - One Part Lullaby
A Perfect Circle - eMOTIVe
Alfie - Do You Imagine Things?
Placebo - Once More With Feeling - Singles 1996-2004 (Ltd Ed. Remix disc)
Dream Theater - Live at Budokan
L7 - Hungry For Stink
South - From Here On In
Fridge - Ceefax

-- Forksclovetofu (forksclovetof...), November 15th, 2004.
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one word: Acieeeeeeeed!

actually, it's quite, quite ruff n cassette-y for about 50% of the tracks, but if you like grungy acid house, this is groovy stuff. I like the really lo-fi n murky soul samples mixed with liberal 303 squelch, and "Massagerama" is a TUFF tune.

Mos Def: The New Danger
Enimem: Encore
DFA Compilation #2
M.I.A. and Diplo: Piracy Funds Terrorism Vol. 1
The Revolutionary Ensemble: And Now...
Britney Spears: Greatest Hits (UK Version)

super streetfighter 2 for snes

ticket for unrest reunion

CD:
for the dead in space, vols. 1-3 (pearls before twine tribute comps.)

and I got a mix CD from RSG as well as a burned copy of Bowie "Low"
I almost bought some Lomax field recordings today.. the one that looked really appealing was of "Mountain Folk Ballads" but cost $20.. f that.

Older Stuff:
Fugazi - The Argument

Bubba Sparxxx - Dark Days, Bright Nights
Lee Perry & The Upsetters - Dub-Triptych
Billie Holliday - Lady In Satin
Four Tops - Anthology
Nick Cave - Abatoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

I expected to recognize and like more songs (than the ones I was primarily buying this for) once I actually got this, but it turns out that most of this doesn't do much for me.

Victor Manuelle: Victor Manuelle (3-CD box collecting three of his albums--somewhat weird and pointless way of packaging them, but I wanted them and it's cheaper to buy it this way)

And a few other things I might be forgetting... I'm tired.

American Music Club ? Love Songs For Patriots
Animal Collective ? Sung Tongs
Herman Chin-Loy ? Aquarius Rock
Leonard Cohen ? Dear Heather
Decemberists ? Her Majesty
Gris Gris ? Gris Gris
Ray Lamontagne ? Trouble
Ariel Pink?s Haunted Graffiit ? The Doldrums
Shearwater ? Winged Life
Sufjan Stevens ? Seven Swans
Trashcan Sinatras ? Weightlifting

Somehow it seems as if there should be more though....

I have also purchased the new Mike Watt, the dB's two-fer of their first two albums, and The Slits - Cut (I'm surprised it's taken me so long). I have Piano Magic's Seasonally Affective on the way as well.

is good -- better than PV Trecks. but not as good as 2 Track 12", or Yasunao Tone's releases on Asphodel and Alku last year.

vocokesh "smile and point at the mountain"
framework "skeleton"
von lmo "red resistor"
crank sturgeon lp
birchville cat motel "lion of eight thousand generations"

and then there's 4 or 5 months worth of stuff i haven't bothered with.

Laura Nyro - Eli & The 13th Confession
Wire - Chairs Missing
Bardo Pond - Lapsed
Spoon - Girls Can Tell
My Morning Jacket - Tennessee Fire
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Jim O'Rourke - Eureka
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Mountain Goats - We Shall All Be Healed
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground

Almost picked up new Leonard Cohen and Bowie's Low and Heroes cheap - maybe next month...

ynf: what do you think of that crank sturgeon LP? I haven't heard it, but the tape of his I've heard kinda left me unimpressed. He's certainly entertaining live though.

i got to engineer a live performance with him and the id m theft able guy, it was like listening to two hobos who had their language centers disabled arguing over a trombone. (there was a trombone between them.)

Thanks Ian - yeah i'm thrilled i finally got round to picking up a Bardo Pond LP. "Lapsed" was actually the one most recommended by the ILM (*brain*) in a thread a while back. Re: Bowie, there's this deal for both re-mastered "Low" & "Heroes" for $22 Aussie dollars which is $US17 or 9 UK pounds. Cheap! Re: that YLT thread, "Painful" wasn't in stock so has to be an Amazon order. For me: Patience.

the tower recordings - galaxies' incredible sensual transmission field
hall of fame - paradise now
LP of iranian classical music (Vol. 2: anthologie de la musique traditionalle santur par Majid Kiani) (ocora 1979)
gruber/mclean/menger/schieve - music of a timeless earth (folkways... haven't listened yet, but billed as an amalgam of electronic music, various world musics and modern classical.. 1980)

"TIBET I: The Music of Tibetan Buddhism" (Unesco)

bubba sparxxx - dark days bright nights (v. good. wasnt expecting much beyond the singles that i'd already heard, and "twerk". but i don't know if there's a single track i don't actually like. wanna say something more about it another time).

big pun - capital punishment (been looking for this for ages, heard virtually everything on it through mp3. superb, obv.)

pulp - we love life (it's either mostly lousy or needs a different time and place)

We played Lorca in the car trip home from Melbourne and it got laughed off the stereo :(

I liked what little I've heard so far!

New Go-Betweens Reissues! They make great videos!
is there a dvd or do u get a cdrom video with each cd ?
is there bonus tracks

the mia mixtape arrived this morning.

yes good.

and neil young's self titled album. yay! the sleeve anyway, with "harvest" inside. boo.

i bought the ganksta nip because cocaine blunts and we eat so many shrimp have me looking for old hip-hop...

and i should be getting more stuff tonight fuh muh birtday.

haha, does it come in a bent case?
[happy birthday btw]

another performer of this stuff that I have checked out is eberhard blum: there are some gd things on hat art, earle's brown's 'four systems' and stockhausen's 'spiral'.

Neuhaus' at the usual place: http://www.ubu.com/sound/neuhaus.html

I'm not completely sold on it, yet. There's one song ("New York something" maybe?) that really really irritates me; it's just too middleo-of-the-road indie sounding. But there are some nice drones. I wish they'd stretched things out a bit more or varied it.. but ya know, it's pleasant.