What have you bought (first quarter 2006), whether at Christgau's urging or not?

Hector Lavoe - "La Voz" (Fania - 1975)

The Pesuasions - Spread The Word (Capitol - 1972)

waiting on this stuff:

Coil - Ape Of Naples
Jarboe - A Mystery 2CD
Moondog - Viking of... 2LP
Twinkeyes - LP
Residents - Not Available LP
Dadamah CD
Sandy Denny new CD box set
more Sun City Girls on Eclipse

etc... I'll probably also get some reissues and Neubauten's "Perpetuum Mobile".

I am digging Ghost very much right now.

Miles Davis - Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel
Fall - Peel Sessions
GZA - Liquid Swords
DAvid Bowie - Scary Monsters

I was under the impression that I hadn't actually BOUGHT an album in ages, but then I remembered I picked up used vinyl copies of both when I was in State College around xmas.

I don't have that, but I recognize some of the songs on it (as classics). I probably should have it. You found that on vinyl? I don't collect vinyl, so I don't know how difficult that would be to find, but he's so well-loved that I would think it might be difficult to find used.

Quilapayun - el pueblo unido jamas sera vencido (Xtra/Transatlantic - 1975) (haunting, dread-inducing marxist Chilean folk)

"the brazilians here don't buy vinyl."

way too many christian CDs at the brazilian stores here. but they are always good for the occasional dance music comp or rap cd.

amoeba(i'm no saint)
TI - Trap Muzik
L.T.D. - 20th Century Masters
Human League - Hysteria
Miss Kittin & the Hacker - First Album
Michael Mayer - Fabric 13

"Comme a La Radio" - Brigitte Fontaine
"Prog Is Not a Four Letter Word" - Andy Votel comp
"Just Another Diamond Day" - Vashti Bunyan
"Matita Pere" - Tom Jobim
"Hosianna Mantra" - Popol Vuh

albert ayler live in greenwich village (complete impulse recordings)
johnny cash ring of fire comp
fleetwood mac greatest hits comp
ghostface + trife put it on the line
dj hell grossenwahn 1992-2005 comp
kelley polar vahid + the amazi... er love songs of the hanging gardens
spoon gimme fiction
t.rex essential collection
thug everything is beautiful in it's own way comp
jean-claude vannier l'enfant assassin des mouches
v/a I love guitar wolf very much comp
v/a super disco friends mix

The Band - s/t
Lee Perry - Produced and Directed By The Upsetter

From a charity shop, where I got into a conversation with the French woman behind the counter about "that singer who died in his bath", Claude Francois - specifically about whether it was a radio that fell into his bath and electrocuted him (my theory) or it was an electric fire that fell into his bath and electrocuted him (her theory):

Jacques Dutronc - 36 Grand Succes

... 36 songs from 1966-68. Silly sub-Dylan stuff in French. Very likeable.

VIDS:
Deathstalker 2
Aerobicide
The Beauties and the Beast (mit Uschi Digard!)

martha's vineyard island. big brazilian population here. at least 5 churches and 4 stores.

Bersuit Vergabarat, Testosterona
Waylon Jennings, Waylon Live (expanded)
Thelonious Someone and Something Coltrane, Live at What's-It Hall

also, Steve Spacek, Space Shift

clientele, strange geometry
mr. oizo, mustache (half a scissor)
the four tops, collection

Link Wray, Rumble!: The Best Of Link Wray
Ghostface Killah & Trife Da God, Put It On The Line CD/DVD

On order at a friend's record store for pickup next week:

The Art Ensemble of Chicago, Chi-Congo

45s:
GATE - ives/sunshine
jimmy mcgriff - step one/south wes
v/a on heat retention recs - mouthus, ground monkeys, tan as fuck, dosdedos
v/a on SIMPLE MACHINES - tsunami, SUPERCHUNK, UNREST, RODAN (this was free)
this robot kills - molecule (also free)
the left banke - pretty balerina/lazy day
brick - good high/music matic
brainstorm - movin/early in the mornin

I used to listen to Steve Tibbets. He's like some kind of wild guitarist.

I also got some leftovers from my wishlist,
Latenitetales - Flaming Lips
Ten Percent - Double Exposure

Then from some friends, filling gaps,
Nilsson Schmilsson - Harry Nilsson
several Michael Nesmith albums
Immaculate Collection - Madonna
Bossa n Stones - v/a

yep, i had borrowed the greatest gift from a friend a while back thought it was great, don't own any, more familiar with jesus lizard...but yeah i'll have to pick up some acid...the band i saw on saturday nite at big vs (baby guts) did a scratch acid cover, not sure what song though.

vinyl, though, not ceedee

Garden's pretty great, eh, Matt #2? Have you heard Myrninerest from this year? It's not as immediate but I think there's a lot there.

As for me, Susuma Yokota - Grinning Cat
Got CD copies of Presence and Sonic Nurse
a few Karnatak discs from my parents or their friends: D. K. Jayraman, Kadri Gopalnath, Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan (very interesting violinist who appears to incorporate some modern, even avant-garde Western techniques into his playing, as well as e.g. playing with the thavil (a loud drum played with sticks, not usually used with violin). Apparently he's a bit of an outcast from the trad Karnatak crowd but has a devoted cult following as a nouveau [post-Karnatak?] artist. I like it in any case.)

Also I bought Dave Douglas' Keystone towards the end of 2005.

today i got:
eno & cluster - after the heat LP
and 45s by ike& tina, the strangers and the bar kays.

Betty Davis - s/t

... if only her voice had been better

The Meters - s/t
The Meters - Look-Ka Py Py
The Meters - Struttin'
Niney - Present Dub (featuring the Soul Syndicate)
Augustus Pablo - El Rockers
Johnny Guitar Watson - Ain't That a Bitch

This is the 3rd time I've bought a shitload of stuff here, it only seems to be me and an older African guy who buy any CDs off the guy - and each time we do he puts the price up! Still dirt cheap tho.

And then he alleges that another album with a horrible title is due soon.

terminator x & the valley of the jeep beats
fu-schnickens - f.u. "don't take it personal"
gangsta blac - down south flava
black monks - no mercy
jonzun crew - cosmic love
bo$$ - born gangstaz

John Prine - at times, i have difficulty putting up with his voice for long stretches, but this is filled with great stuff

Indigo Girls, Rites of Passage - to replace my very old and in a bad way cassette. but this isn't really very good, is it? oh well.

Prince, 1999 - listened to half of it. the non-singles are a bit disappointing thus far.

Grateful Dead, Aoxomoxoa - I haven't really listened much to their pre-70s stuff, so the '60s sound is a bit funny, but this is wonderful even already knowing at least half of it.

Morrissey, Vauxhall and I - I had meant to put this one back and get Your Arsenal instead, but apparently I mixed them up. Oop. Will return.

Haven't listened yet
Tunnel of Love
Illmatic
Tonight's the Night
Bob Dylan, Greatest Hits Vol. III
Cyndi Lauper, She's So Unusual

waiting on a delivery of:
william basinski disintegration loops vol 1 - 4, silent night & the garden of brokenness cd's
va - ohm 3cd&dvd

also downloaded a couple of volumes of ethiopiques and a robbie basho record from emusic and spent any other spare second listening to steve reich and terry riley.

I have also gotten that Fahey boot/repro of the original Blind Joe Death LP and the American Primitive Volume 1 comp on gorgeous clear vinyl.

Simon, those are some good albums, especially Tumult.

plunging ahead into 2006 -
padded cell - signal failure 12"
ricardo villalobos - achso ep

I had pretty much given up on Broadcast but I'm loving Tender Buttons ...

Prince And The Revolution - "Purple Rain"
Stardust - "Music Sounds Better With You" (CD single)

Combined price; £3.50. I love Selectadisc and charity shops.

given for Christmas:
The Darkness - Permission To Land
R. Kelly - TP-2.com: The Videos DVD

won in pub trivia between Christmas and New Year:
The Juan McLean - Less Than Human
DFA Records - Holiday Mix 2005
The Residents - The Third Reich 'N Roll hardcover CD thingy
The Rolling Stones - A Bigger Bang CD+DVD slipcased
Big Boi Presents… Got Purp? Vol. 2 [advance]
Goldfrapp - Supernature
Depeche Mode - Playing The Angel
Beastie Boys - Solid Gold Hits
John Cale - Black Acetate
Josh Pyke - Recordings 2003-2005
Pink Grease - This Is For Real
Fountains Of Wayne - Out-Of-State Plates

got for free out of a discards box at work:
Richard Hell - Spurts
The Raveonettes - Pretty In Black
On - 6v
Bliss n Eso - Flowers In The Pavement advance tracks CD-R

bought this week:
Scala - Scala On The Rocks
Ethyl Meatplow - Happy Days, Sweetheart
Daft Punk - Interstella 5555
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - God Is In The House
Pet Shop Boys - Performance
Pet Shop Boys - Montage
Robyn - Robyn
Annie - Anniemal
Girls Aloud - What Will The Neighbours Say?
Girls Aloud - Chemistry + Christmas Bonus Disc
Rachel Stevens - Funky Dory
Roll Deep - In At The Deep End CD+DVD

both first water psychedelic ridiculousness, though i'm highly pissed freak emporium is charging $24 for a fucking CDR of the blue phantom album (and not mentioning that it isn't a real cd).

Uri Caine, Toys
Roots Manuva, Awfully Deep
Claudia Quintet, Semi-Formal
Electric Masada

Also:

Tied + Tickled Trio, EA1 EA2
Michael Manning, Public
Holy Fuck

Unfortunately, they were out the collection of Kazantzidis songs from the 60s and 70s that I also wanted, as well as a 2-CD collection of live Haris Alexiou recordings. My Greek CD folly begins.

Cute picture.

(I have a live recording of this song on tape. It reminds me of cooking Greek food for hours on end, back when I used to do that. More than any other music, Greek music puts me in the mood to cook.)

Zaperoko - 3

Under ten dollars at Tower!

Saw Han play last sunday, he's so awesomely energetic

Coil - Ape Of Naples

where did you get this??

This was a suprising find of two Nugent LP's reissued together on CD that I thought were out of print, "Tooth, Fang and Claw" and "Call of the Wild". This stuff is great, as good or better than his Epic albums from a year or two later.

Mott the Hoople - Mott
Sparks - No. 1 in Heaven
Beatles - Something New
Diplo - Diplo Rhythm 12"
Cecil Taylor & Mary Lou Williams - Embraced (live) (apparently this is atrocious but it was fairly cheap)

The Fall, Perverted by Language double-disc reissue
Melvins, Mangled Demos from 1983
Jello Biafra/Melvins, Sieg Howdy!
The Lovetones, Meditations
Dream City Film Club, Peel Session
The Real Tuesday Weld, The Return of the Clerkenwell Kid
Of Cabbages and Kings, Basic Pain Basic Pleasure and Hunter's Moon

...plus two newer things from Foxy Digitalis just arrived in the mail, so rah.

... title track is a 33 minute psychedelic freakout, so that's good obviously. Howevah, the rest of the album consists of drippy hippy-dippy "Hello trees, hello flowers" psych-folk nonsense (of the sort a lot of people (too many) seem to be indulging in, and for which I recommend the administering of a swift kick in the nads for trying to get away in this day and age)

...um something else, I forget tho.

and many others through more shadowy means

all very good except pearls & brass, I expected that record to be twice as heavy as it is ....

So far I don't like the new Ali Aldik CD as much I liked Aloush from 2004.

Bartok - The Six String Quartets (perf Vermeer)
Herbie Hancock - Headhunters
Sonny Sharrock - Black Woman
And, off iTunes, Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow

ordered:
It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back [Import] [Audio CD] Public Enemy
Ritual De Lo Habitual [Explicit Lyrics] [Audio CD] Jane's Addiction
Mingus Ah Um (Rm) [Audio CD] Mingus, Charles
Under Construction [Explicit Lyrics] [Audio CD] Elliott, Missy
Purple Haze [EXPLICIT LYRICS] [Audio CD] Cam'ron
1 of: Pretzel Logic (Rm)
1 of: Ege Bamyasi (Rm)
1 of: Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld
1 of: A Love Supreme

(last 3 courtesy of Fopp at 3-5 pounds each!)

Kraftwerk - Minimum Maximum DVD
Mystery Jets - Making Dens
Kanye West - Late Registration
John Legend - Get lifted
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever you say.....
Editors - The Back Room
Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds
Velvet Underground - & Nico/White Light.../Velvet Underground
Girls Aloud - Chemistry
Bee Gees - Odessa
Sparks - Hello young lovers
Eraserhead - OST
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Various - Hoy Hoy: Rock and Roll before Elvis