It's A New "Recent Purchases" Thread (aka Why Does Anyone Still Buy CDs?)

(bought downloads)
Pebbles Vol 1
Pebbles Vol 2
Hot Snakes - Audit in Progress
Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand
godspeed you black emperor - slow riot for zero kanada
godspeed you black emperor - lift yr skinny fists
Zappa - One Size Fits All
Zappa - Lumpy Gravy (sucks)
Richard Thompson - Hand of Kindness
The Replacements - Stink
Robert Wyatt - Shleep
Robert Wyatt - Cuckooland
Galaxie 500 - Today
Galaxie 500 - This Is Our Music

And today I bought Van Hunt's On The Jungle Floor, which is about 20 times better than I expected.

exactly.

x-post, I ordered that Crazy Rhythms mix too. Good stuff.

Afghan Whigs - 1965
King Cobb Steelie - Project Twinkle (on a massive KCS kick, only now recognizing the brilliance)
King Cobb Steelie - Mayday
Dire Straits - Making Movies
All About Eve - All About Eve
Aimee Mann - I'm With Stupid
Wygals - Honeyocks in the Withersoever
Revolver Modele - Discotheque Crypt
West Indian Girl - West Indian Girl
Bill Fay - Bill Fay
Don Lennon - Routine
Delta 5 - Singles & Sessions
Cocteau Twins - Lullabies to Violaine
Rhett Miller - The Believer
Josh Rouse - Subtitulo
Tortoise and Bonnie Prince Billy - Brave and the Bold
Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - Rattlesnakes

The Go-Betweens-The Friends of Rachel Worth & Oceans Apart
Jan & Dean-The Little Old Lady From Pasadena (vinyl)
Lulu-Melody Fair ('')

2. A Mad Dash Through The Austin Record Show (and later on @ Half-Price):

Beatles-A Hard Day's Night & Help!
Dusty Springfield-Dusty In London
Roy Head-Treat Her Right: The Best of...
Fleetwood Mac-Tusk (2-disc)
Marianne Faithfull-It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
Chris Farlowe-The Collection
Uncle Tupelo-Anodyne (reissue)
Rolling Stones-Tattoo You
Masters of Reality-Sunrise on the Sufferbus

Planning to buy today or this weekend: the new Pink album.

And of course I never actually do that, because it's all about impulse buying. Down in Charlotte you never even see a lot of it.

ordered both volumes of the sci.fi.hi.fi mixes from soma; the ewan pearson one came this week (very nice), luciano tk.

ordered the bunnybrains box for like $9 on amazon. also recently bought the prince disc so i could review it. that's a likely sell-back.

I also picked up that Massive Attack comp and Hawkwind's Space Ritual.

I find/buy a lot of stuff locally but also use the internet.

I still laugh every time. Honestly.

-Satwa LP on Time-Lag
-Bohannon Phase II (used, with the name 'Pancho' written in blue marker across the cover)
-The Knife's first album

All from Sweat Records, Miami. Nice place.

Have some money on an old gift card too. Think I'm gonna cash it in on the Paebiru CD.

And I love the sleeve of "Beatles '65."

6 CDs for £3.99.

I wonder if it is any good.

It was from Dadaismus's Virgin sale.

Last week: Les 100 Plus Belles Chansons by Serge Gainsbourg.

5 CDs, slightly more expensive, about £25.

split - velvet crush + golden dawn flexi
rema rema - wheel in the roses 12"
wu-tang clan - the w CD
cock sparrer - shock troops CD
peter & the test tube babies - the mating sounds of south american frogs CD
prince - 1999 CD
kinks - arthur CD
black sabbath - vol 4 CD
conflict - there must be another way CD
napalm death - from enslavement to obliteration CD
exploited - let's start a war CD
quasi - early recordings CD
penetration - moving targets CD
va - cumstains over my record collection LP
urban waste - s/t CD
united mutation - s/t CD
los olvidados - listen to this CD
transplants - s/t CD
jens lekman - oh you're so silent jens CD
split - agent orange + jezus & the gospelfuckers CD
sick things - s/t 7"
white cross - deaf, dumb & blind CD
split - ABH + subculture - the oi! Collection CD

The Runaways CDs were secondhand, £5 each. Magnificent, both.

Dungen - Ta Det Lungt
The Juan McLean - Less Than Human (kinda meh, if you ask me)
Townes Van Zandt - Be Here to Love Me film soundtrack
Konono No. 1
Seu Jorge - whatever that album is called. Kinda meh also
Wayne Shorter Quartet - Breaking the Sound Barrier

Unless they were different ones to the ones I saw.

If it was a different Virgin, I might go there too.

I have been investigating how much stuff could be sold for a profit.

I would be quid in (singular).

Might pick up a copy of "hairway to steven" tonight if I can find one anywhere.

Never heard of it

>and Jackie-O Motherfucker albums,

Yes, one at least.

>those 5 or 6 Hafler Trio albums,

Never heard of it

>the other Electric Eels' album,

I think so, but don't quote me

>"Hairway to Steven",

Yes, three or four copies at least.

>the Nick Nicely album,

Never heard of him

>the Gene Clark albums etc etc etc were still there?

The Raven compilation (also a Byrds one) and a thing of demos which looks a bit Nick Faldo, yes.

Also Acid Mothers Temple and Cocteau Twins Japanese imports, and a whole rack I didn't even look at.

This was about 6.30 - 7.00 last night.

*where I suspect there are more nutters who buy this stuff.

James Brown - Live At The Apollo
Alizée - Gourmandises
Alizée - Mes Courants Electriques
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Peter Gabriel - 1, 2 and 3 (remasters)
Talking Heads - Remain In Light (remaster)
Byrne & Eno - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (remaster)
Scott Walker - Climate of Hunter
V/A - Sixties Girls Volume 1 (French ye-ye pop comp)
Sing-Sing - Sing-Sing and I
Holden - Pedrolira
Holden - Chevrotine
Fugu - As Found
Aaliyah - Age Ain't Nothing But A Number
Ice Cube - Death Certificate
Sway - This Is My Demo
The Knife - Silent Shout

(and no doubt a few others)

true enough, I'm sure, but going on the difference between the branches of virgin and the branches of HMV at gateshead metrocentre and newcastle, they're not exactly trying very hard, are they? Virgin is piss poor, HMV is about 1,000,000 times better, judging by these branches.

I wonder if it is any good.

That all those home demo albums he did? I liked a number of them, still have 'em around, or at least five of them. I might have six. The full band stuff was nowhere near as good.

Amsterdam is realy good for very cheap 70s c'n'w vinyl, I've found to my intense delight.

Two or three CDs a week (haha yes only 2 or 3 doctor, really) and the chances are pretty high of there being a little gift to be unwrapped when I get home knackered and miserable on any given weekday. And I can use Saturday for something else.

(Haha it doesn't get much riskier than buying the recommendations from the rolling country thread!)

Also at TCR - Popol Vuh. I forgot that one earlier.

Great thing about shops - some of them let you take it back if you "don't like it". I realise my enthusiasm for this is a sign of mental disorder more than anything else.

Secret Treaties is the first B.O.C. album I have gotten based on Myonga's rave reviews on some other thread. I will get Tyranny next if you like it that much.

I also bought the Talking HEads Remain In Light remaster, but I got the British "regular CD with bonus DVD" version instead of the American Dualdisc crap (I have no desire to test my various systems' compatibility with those things).

where can one buy the fugu album? or when you say buy is that code for something else?

Theres two remember. And both are shite!
HMV is much better. But I tend to shop in Monorailmusic and Avalanche Records. Missing is only second hand stuff now, so cheaper buying that stuff new round the corner in FOPP.
Do Borders ever restock up stuff? I don't thing they've ever restocked back catalogue stuff since the shop opened.

I think this is everything I have bought for the past few weeks. I had First Circle on vinyl that had got kind of warped. I liked them all.

You can only buy it in France (and probably some of that country's neighbours) and Japan at the moment, keyth. But a wider release later this year is planned, I gather.

In the meantime you can hear a couple of songs on the website of the label that released the CD in France:
http://www.thirdsiderecords.net/

I gather there may be some mp3s at Fugu's myspace page as well:
http://www.myspace.com/fugumusic

Hope that helps. It's a good record, I think you'll like it if you liked the first one, though the new one has lots more guitar on it, more Beatles-esque indie pop.

"Red Headed Stranger/From Willie To Lefty", Willie Nelson
"The Essential George Jones: The Spirit Of Country"
"RCA Country Legends", Waylon Jennings
"The Highwaymen Collection"
"At Folsom Prison", Johnny Cash

and, as far as more recent stuff...

"My Ghetto Report Card", E-40
"And They All Lived Happily Ever After", Television Personalities
"Standing In The Way Of Control", The Gossip

As for me, the Amoeba clearance section yesterday was a marvellous thing.

Bill Direen, Human Kindness
Gary Numan, Living Ornaments '80 (out on CD at last!)
Einar (yes, THAT one), Ghostigital
Kinski, Airs Above Your Station and Alpine Static
v/a, CIA to UFO to Mercury
Nick Castro, A Spy in the House of God
Dominions, s/t
Crystalized Movements, Revelations from Pandemonium
Children of Gauhd, Kinder Des Gottes
Klang, No Sound is Heard
Ghost, Hypnotic Underworld

It's about as good-natured an Adult Swim-series as possible; it revolved around the lives of three overly precocious kids (shades of Peanuts) and the ultra-ambitious videocam movies they made; it shared technology (Squigglevision), writing and voice talent with Dr.Katz.

ghostface fishscale
green velvet whatever
talking heads fear of music, remain in light reissues
yeah yeah yeahs show your bones
zz top greatest hits comp!!
v/a channel four: a compilation of output recordings comp
v/a ohm - the early gurus of electronic music box (reissue version with the DVD, quite excited to watch/listen to this)

vinyl:

!!! 'take ecstacy with me' / 'get up'
thomas bangalter trax on da rocks
thomas bangalter trax on da rocks vol 2
basement jaxx 'plug it in'
alan braxe + fred falke 'rubicon'
dinosaur l 'go bang!' / 'clean on your bean'
dj falcon hi my name is dj falcon
christopher + raphael just 'popper'
loose joints 'is it all over my face?'
the rapture 'sister saviour (dfa mixes)', 'house of jealous lovers', 'I need your love (manhead + playgroup mixes)', 'I need your love (ewan pearson mixes)'
royksopp 'what else is there? remixes'
san serac 'tyrant'
sons and daughters optimo remixes 12"
talking heads rare 12" mixes

May have been diddled.

It was gone :( as was most of the other stuff I was regretting not buying but, fear not, I got these instead:

John Cage, Piano Works 2 - Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano
Henry Flynt, Graduation and Other New Country and Blues Music
Funkadelic, Cosmic Slop
Pierre Henry, Futuristies
Hans-Joachim Irmler, Lifelike
Lee Perry, Born in the Sky
Sun Ra, Monorails and Satellites

I recommend London jazzers to get yerselves down to the Virgin in Piccadilly, SHITLOADS of CDs, and I mean shitloads.

Mummies - Death By Unga Bunga
Bill Wells, Annie Whitehead et al - Pick Up Sticks
Maher Shalal Hash Baz - Blues du jour
Jonathan Richman - To Be Loved...
Impossible But True: The Kim Fowley Story
James Chance - Irresistible Impulse (that's the four cd set for 3.99!!!)

I was most chuffed with my purchases, especially as my friend's one and half year old LOVED the Mummies and was dancing around to them. What a cool kid!

Well obviously there is a lot of shit but it looks to me that they're just offloading most of their stock so the proportion of good things in there is about the same as you'd find in the racks

Heh, that's what I was thinking. I got lucky in Chester! Loads of Funkadelic, Scott Walker, Jonathan Richman, Calexico, Teenage Fanclub, Stevie Wonder and Neil Young digipack reissues etc.

I'll investigate the Glasgow stores but the Buchanan St branch has to be one of the most obnoxious on the planet, blaring out horrible music at arena concert level volumes. The staff in there must go nuts.

last CD buys were Capt Beefheart's Safe as Milk and The Who Sellout with extra tracks. Am still digging Melancholia very much, a maudlin melody on 2 chords a semitone apart with some wonderful who anarchy at the end.

That episode just sort of towers over everything else though, doesn't it? The show as a whole is good, solid stuff, but "History" is just unadulterated genius back to back. Especially Mr.Paws and the hot dogs.

if you buy a good record player, you really go back to wanting everything on vinyl....

James Holden - at the controls CD.

I have never bought an MP3.

Can - Tago Mago
Godspeed... - Lift Your Fists...
Memory Band - s/t
Stephen Malkmus - Face The Truth
Richmond Fontaine - Post To Wire
Bonnie Prince Billy - I See A Darkness + Ease Down The Road
Beck - Guero (Limited Edition CD/DVD set)
Tanya Donnelly - Whiskey Tango Ghosts
Blonde Redhead - Misery Is A Butterfly
Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
Damien Jurado - On My Way To Abscence
Laura Viers - Year Of Meteors
Six Organs Of Admittance - School of the Flower
Hem - Eveningland

And from my old place of employment, the Dundee branch:

James Roberts - Everthing You Know Is Right
Minus The Bear - Highly Refined Pirates

To be fair there wasn't much interesting stock to sell off in the Dundee branch when i worked there as we'd moved store and a lot of the long-unsold stuff was sent back to the warehouse.

I've also spent far too much money on other stuff. Bad me!

it's been a couple months since darla pushed back the mahogany release date, it may actually come out in June. But i am not optimistic. Manual will have released like 87 albums by the time 'connectivity' comes out.

Bought mainly for Wonderland, but doesn't have the piano bit I wanted (which I might be imagining anyway).

Funkadelic, Let's Take It to the Stage
Gruppo di Improvisazione Nuova Consonanza, Musica Su Schemi
Sun Ra, Lanquidity

va - we don't want your fucking war CD
va - who? What? Why? When? Where? CD
pagans - pink album plus CD
motormark - chrome tape CD
guild league - private transport CD
forty-fives - fight dirty CD
fat truckers - for sale CD
youth brigade (LA) - out of print CD
sentridoh - loobie core CD
sentridoh - wasted pieces CD
spazzys - aloha go bananas CD
six by seven - the way I feel today CD
vice squad - no cause for concern CD

and I also got these

young knives - here comes the rumour mill #1 7"
young knives - here comes the rumour mill #2 7"
gg allin - rock'n'roll terrorist 2xCD

I found about 10 things altogether that I was mildly interested in, and might have grabbed on a day when I was keen to hear some new things. yesterday wasn't one of those days tho'

Force MD's Best of
Richard Hawley Coles Corner
Gorecki Misere
Moby Everything is wrong ltd dbl cd
Gay Dad Leisure Noise
v/a Hyperactive Mid-late 80's dance remixes
OST Bullets over Broadway
Marshal Crenshaw Miracle of science
Secret Knowledge So Hard
Army of Lovers The Gods of Earth and Heaven
Blur Leisure
EchobellyEGO

What I actually bought from the ex-Tower store was both Fat Cat split-12" comps (oh, how I traipsed from Rough Trade store to Rough Trade store looking for the original pressings back in the day), a Bill Wells/Barbara Morgenstern thing and a Call And Response six-tracker. I dithered over but ultimately discarded a Bob Ostertag metal tin CD and some tempting Rune Grammofon and Winter&Winter stuff upstairs.

That's enough new records for now, ta.

"Did he huv a chib oan him?"
"Aye, a big fuck off machete"

What with these uncharacteristic splurges and JtN/Koogy blitzing me with comps recently, suddenly the 2GB on my space-age Walkman seems rather feeble. Still, you can't listen to it all at once, can you?

There were loads more that I had previously bought and a large dose of Southern/ Dischord stuff too (Numbers, Black Eyes, Karate etc).
It is surprising to see such a varied sale when HMV seem to have the same stuff all the time these days.

Went upstairs to see if they had any Panini stickers and OH NO.. Nathan Barley and 24 Hour Party People cheap on DVD!

Enough, already.

Nathan Barley is £8.99. I know, it's not quite "clearance" pricing, is it? I bet they're giving them away next week.

I might get n barley!!

Barley is £8 on amazon at the mo, (7.97 to be precise)

recent purchases:
Pinch: Qawwali (Bleep mp3)
Vex'd: Bombardment Of Saturn (Bleep mp3)
Quinoline Yellow: LWM Motors (Bleep mp3)
Ramones: Anthology (Cheap in hmv)
The Dude: Rocket / Launcher (Technical Itch under a previous name, via ebay)

and i have 3 things on order from amazon, each with a 'usually ships within 24 hours' but with a delivery date for the complete order of the middle of next month. how does that work?

Dmitri from Paris - Cruising Attitude
Ursula 1000 - Ursadelica
Teardrop Explodes - Kilimanjaro (which was the first LP I ever bought)
Momus - Forbidden Software Time Machine
Rufus Wainwright - Rufus Wainwright
plus a John Stewart CD for my Mum

All the above were 3.99 plus I put back a whole lot more by The Seeds, 23rd Turnoff and The Thirteenth Floor Elevators but I'm not telling anyone where I live cos I might change my mind and go back and get them this afternoon!!!!!

Jakob Ullmann 'a catalogue of sounds' on ed.RZ (for violin, viola, cello and 9-str ensemble)

Messiaen 'Turangalila-Symphonie' cond. Rosbaud on Wergo - its a rec from 1951.

A CD by ensemble Q-O2 (another, mostly str, ensemble) on ed. wandelweiser

and on order:
the grates - gravity won't get you high

Also availbale - Green Day notebooks, AC/DC address books.

They seem to be still churning out CDs in the clearance racks, but they struck me as a total load of shit. But then I had never heard of most of the stuff you lot were snapping up.

$2 each

thenkyou jb sale

Flying Burrito Brothers - Gilded Palace of Sin
Loose Fur - Born Again in the USA

Not as good as the not strictly Dance collections that came out before. In fact I think it's dead boring.

Swell Maps - Jane From Occupied Europe
Dillinger Four - This Shit is Genius
Leonard Cohen - Songs from A Room
Plastic Constellations - Crusades (vinyl)

Clipse - Lord Willin'

I've gotta get out of the sixties

OOIOO, Cococoooioo: Best Of

The Cramps, Bad Music for Bad People

I wonder how long it will last.

How about a "What CDs Are You Selling?" thread?

styrenes - it's still artastic CD
sportique - modern museums CD
va - psychedelic microdots #3 CD
von zippers - bad generation CD

And I got this lot off Ebay:

melt banana - teeny shiny CD
dirtbombs - if you don't already have a look 2xCD
kenickie - skillex 7"
ex - aural guerilla LP
deerhoof - milkman CD
wall - ghetto 7"
brittle stars - garage sale CD
posies - frosting on the beater CD

Ringo Shiina - Karuki Zamen Kuri no Hana
Tokyo Jihen - Adult

LOVE LOVE LOVE

used:
roy harper - stormcock
terry reid - river
manuel gottsching/michael hoenig - early water
nordvargr/drakh - infinitas in aeternum
darren tate - remains

all good!

Acid Mothers Temple, Absolutely Freak Out (Zap Your Mind!!), IAO Chant
Ilyas Ahmed, Century of Moonlight, Yahan Aur Wahan
Alchemysts, Zero Zen
Audio Bullys, Generation
Bardo Pond, Sublimation
...bender, s/t
Black Dice, Miles of Smiles
Brother JT, Off Blue
Vashti Bunyan, Just Another Diamond Day (that took me long enough)
Cannanes, Witchetty Pole (for three dollars! isn't this thing hyperrare now or something?), Living the Dream, Trouble Seemed So Far Away
Tom Carter, Monument
Celebration, s/t
JC Chasez, Schizophrenic
Lauri des Marais/Erik Lindgren, Stimuli
Matt Elliott, Drinking Songs
Flowchart, Broken and Blue
Front 242, Mut@ge Mix@ge
f/i, A Question for the Somnambulist
Fad Gadget, The Best Of Fad Gadget
Growing, The Sky's Run Into the Sea
The Hair and Skin Trading Co., Psychedelische Musique
Daryl Hall, Sacred Songs (at long last)
Hood, Outside Closer plus the Lost You EP
Lida Husik, Mad Flavor
Ilk, Canticle
Jellyfish, Bellybutton
The Kitchen Cynics, Distant Voices Distant Songs, Master of the Fuzzy Fadeout, Hoodie Craw, Dumbfoundlings, Parallel Dog Days
Landing, Sphere and Brocade
Mark Lanegan Band, Here Comes That Weird Chill
Long Live Death, Bound to the Wheel
The Lovemakers, Times of Romance
Lusine, Serial Hodgepodge
Maximo Park, Missing Songs (this was literally sitting around for free so I thought, eh, why not?)
Wayne McGhie, Wayne McGhie and the Sounds of Joy
Mecca Normal, The Observer
Minmae, Le Grand Essor de la Maison du Monstre
Minotaur Shock, Maritime
Marissa Nadler, The Saga of Mayflower May
NIN, Every Day is Exactly the Same EP
Odelia, Songs for a Clownfish
The One Ensemble of Daniel Padden, Live at VPRO Radio
Pole, 45/45 EP
Rajna, Black Tears
Steve Roach, Immersion One
Robert Rich, Trances/Drones (for one dollar! I seriously can't believe that!)
Saint Joan, One at Twilight
Sala-Arhimo, Pelko Pois
Schneider TM, 6 Peace EP
Shadow Light, Within the Shadow Light
Luke Slater, Fear and Loathing 2
The Spacious Mind, Rotvälta
Spiderwebs, Away Away
Elvy Sukaesih, The Dangdut Queen
Sun Dial, Other Way Out
Sun Rushing In, Sound Collage for Live Performance
Surface of Eceyon, Tussyan Ruins
Sweet and Honey, Live at Your Cosmic Mind
Tanakh, Dieu Dieu and Ardent Fevers
Th' Faith Healers, Peel Sessions
Theoretical Girls, s/t
Peter Thomas, Moonflowers and Mini-Skirts
Thought Forms, For the Morning Stars
Thuja, All Strange Beasts of the Past
Tangela Tricoli, Jet Lady
Peter Wright, Desolation Beauty Violence
Zolar X, Timeless
A Deadly Dose of Wild Psych comp
WaxTrax Master Mix -- Juan Atkins
Invisible Pyramid: Elegy Box
Now We Are Three!!! comp -- Li'l Chief Records (bought pretty much just for the Alec Bathgate song)
Terrastock Six comp

Then there's all the promo goods but I'll spare you.

Dresden Dolls - Yes, Virginia
The Slits - Cut
Brian Eno/David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts reissue

From work I scored the new Flaming Lips, and from the radio station I got Boy Least Likely To - Best Party Ever, and Ris Paul Ric - Purple Blaze. The former is wonderful, the latter is quite meh.

I also downloaded the new Mates of State, which is great.

Will be picking up Gnarls Barkley tomorrow, yes.

Tracked down the 8-Eyed Spy 7" (still looking for the LP).

Bought Glenn Branca's Ascension reissue, very impressive.

I don't think I'm going to listen to it very often, to be honest.

todd rundgren - liars
vitalic - ok cowboy
mu - out of breach
happy mondays - pills n thrills n bellyaches
black grape - its great when you're straight, yeah
bobby conn and the glass gypsies - the homeland
new order - republic
new order - technique
pere ubu - terminal tower
pere ubu - the modern dance
frog eyes - the folded palm
menomena - i am the fun blame monster
jason forrest - shamelessly exciting
earlimart - everyone down here
tortoise - its all around you

plus a ras kass mixtape and a tribe called quest mixtape at a store just down the street a bit, five bucks each.

as a measure of my undiagnosed "gimme-gimme" ocd, it might be noted that i spent this morning downloading music.

and i should've gotten that Utah Saints one too.

pan sonic wins!!

Unfortunately my record player is broken so I can't listen to any of the vinyl until it gets back from the manufacturers!

I found a WHSmiths voucher in my wallet.

Prince - Parade
The Temptations - Psychadelic Soul
Rihanna - A Girl Like Me
Juan Atkins - 20 Years 1985-2005
Afrika Bambaata - Looking For The Perfect Beat 1980-1985
Keak Da Sneak - Kunta Kinte
Curtis Mayfield - Curtis
James Brown - The 50th Anniversary Collection

Motley Crue - s/t, Shout At The Devil, Theatre of Pain
Sonic Youth - Sister, Daydream Nation, Goo, Rather Ripped
Butthole Surfers - brown reason/pcppep rerelease, psychic powerless... another man's sac, rembrandt pussyhorse, hairway to steven, pioughd, humpty dumpty lsd
Grateful Dead - s/t, Mars Hotel, American Beauty, Go To Nassau, Long Strange Trip, Terrapin Station, Shakedown Street
Phish - Junta, Lawnboy, Hoist, Farmhouse, Live #'s 2,4,9,10,11,12,14,19
Led Zeppelin II, IV
Black Sabbath s/t, Paranoid

Everything else in my collection is just icing on the cake or somehow connected to basic musical ideas represented above.

talked myself out of an amoeba run today, doing same tomorrow.

Vanilla Fudge-Psychedelic Sundae:The Best of...
Byrds-Farther Along
France Gall-Poupee de Son ('92 edition)
Serge Gainsbourg-Histoire de Melody Nelson
Hawkwind-Epoch Ellipse:30 Years of Hawkwind
Shocking Blue:Best of...

Might go by Fry's after work on Friday and pick up some 9.99 Roxy Music albums and 7.99 Warner catalogue stuff. Might get the Gnarls Barkley album too.

Jefferson Airplane-Crown of Creation
Harry Nilsson-Nilsson Sings Newman
The Who-Odds & Sods
Elvis Presley-Suspicious Minds:The Memphis Anthology
Robert Gordon-Robert Gordon With Link Wray/Fresh Fish Special

from columbia house, two almost-freebies:
AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Cheap
Mott the Hoople - Mott

from ebay:
Funkadelic - Hardcore Jollies

Nelly Furtado - Loose (sold to Amoeba the following day)
V/A - The House That 'Trane Built (1CD, not the 4CD goliath I really want)
Trent Willmon - new one I can't recall the title of
Janet Jackson - Janet.Remixed
Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - 1984-89
Pat Metheny/Ornette Coleman - Song X 20th Anniversary
Joni Mitchell - Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm

strawberry story - clamming for it CD
milky wimpshake - home is where the hate is 7"
allen clapp - mystery lawn 7"
spizz energi 2 - mega city 3 7"
girlfrendo - gives you a lovebite 7"
dj downfall - into the quagmire 10"
shrag - pregnancy scene 7"
psapp - rear moth 7"
sportique - sport for all 7"
gossip - s-t 7"
omega tribe - make tea not war CD
icons of filth - mortarhate projects CD
ex - singles period CD
system - …is still murder CD
disrupters - gas the punx CD
MTA - politics of denial CD
va - alvin lives in leeds LP
active minds - I'm not a tourist, I live here 7"
prolapse - TCR 7"
hard skin - hard nuts and hard cunts CD
battletorn - evil chains CD
buff medways - steady the buffs CD
va - rutles highway revisited CD
va - killed by 7 inch #1-5 LP
beatnik filmstars - all popstars are talentless slags CD
va - she'll hurt you in the end LP
va - she's a pest LP
dave clarke - devil's advocate CD
va - things been bad CD
va - you treated me bad CD
va - jump, jive & harmonize CD
va - I'm down today CD
stereo total - holiday inn 2x7"
doc corbin dart - patricia LP
gossip - listen up! 10"
fall - hex enduction hour 2xCD
1000 homo DJ's - supernaut 12"
ohio express - chewy chewy LP
band of susans - hope against hope LP
mecca normal - IPU #4 7"
deerhoof - come see the duck 7"
dump - you & I 7"
skeletal family - burning oil CD
olympic lifts - do one CD
ant - cures for broken hearts CD
venom - black metal CD
love is all - busy doing nothing CDS

you've just reminded me I own that.

ohio plyers - pain
jim white - drill a hole
princess him - more equal
jaguar wright - denials etc
malcolm catto - popcorn bubble fish

a buck each

earlier this month:
Paul Simon, 'Surprise'
Phoenix, 'It's Never Been Like That'
Judee Sill, s/t
Trapezoid, 'Cool Of The Day'
Pierre Bensusan, 'Musiques'
Swing Out Sister, 'Kaleidescope World'

Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood

danielson - ships
mission of burma - the obliterati
gnarls barkley - st. elsewhere
final fantasy - he poos clouds (really not as amazing as i was hoping. in fact i only like about four tracks off it)
ghostface killah - fishscale

"Bits and Pieces 1985" 12-inch
Black Sun "Disco Heat"/"Big Money" 12-inch (When I bought this I was confusing it with some obscure gay disco classic by Black Devil that was reissued a few years ago on Rephlex, but maybe it's good anyway)
Captain Sky *The Adventures of Captain Sky* LP
Chic *Take It Off* LP
Cold Blood *Cold Blood* LP
Stanley Clarke *School Days* LP
Fast Eddie *Most Wanted* LP
Freddie Fender *Before the Next Teardrop Falls* LP
Nona Hendryx *Nona* LP
Imagination *In the Heat of the Night* LP
James Gang *Yer' Album* LP
Love/Hate *Wasted in America* CD
Marcus *Marcus* LP (never heard of this before; it just looked kinda cool, but when I got home I looked it up in *The International Encyclopedia of Hard Rock and Heavy Metal*, and it turns out it's a lost heavy metal classic from 1976 by a band with a black singer -- the book, written 23 years ago, already calls the band "mysterious", so they're even more mysterious now, I guess; the book also calls the singer "coloured," yikes; apparently the authors were British.)
Midnight Star *No Parking on the Dance Floor* LP
Mtume *Theatre of the Mind* LP
Juice Newton *Juice* LP
Return to Forever *Romantic Warrior* LP
Shrapnel *Shrapnel* EP (in horrible condition, but one of the first metal records I ever got paid to write about, a million years ago)
Stargard *The Changing of the Gard* LP
Stealers Wheel *Stuck in the Middle With You: The Best Of* LP
Ten City *Foundation* CD
Tesla *The Great Radio Controversy* CD
Triumph *Classics* CD
Trouble Funk *Say What!: Live in London* LP
Universal Robot Band "Freak With Me" 12-inch
Wee Papa Girl Rappers *Be Aware* LP

- A Made Up Sound "Sunday"/"Late Drive"
- Lindstromm & Prins Thomas "Further into the Future"/"Run"
- Kelley Polar Love Songs of the Hanging Gardens
- George McCrae "(You've Got) My Love, My Life, My Soul"/"I Want You Around Me"
- Sedona Pulsation
- Southroad Connection "You Like It, We Love It"/"Just Laying it Down"
- V/A- The Beat of the Beach
- Elvis His Hand in Mine
- Carol Williams "More" (Special Disco Mix)
- Sparks "Music That You Can Dance To"
- Jazmina "Goodtime" Test Pressing
- Noel Pointer Feel It
- Billy Ocean Suddenly
- and some random 45's

I am locking my doors and silencing my phone. Now.

Fritz Hauser and Stephan Grider 'The mirror' on hat now - its a record of organ/perc improv

and Joel Francois-Durand 'Le terre et le Feu' on Mode

Big ol' clutch of cds from Amazon UK:
King Biscuit Time Black Gold
Rub 'n Tug Campfire
Villalobos Alcachofa (note: Amazon UK think this is a single and have it priced at 6 pounds and change)
Antena Camino del Sol LTM release
Durutti Column Return of the Durutti Column
Durutti Column Vini Reilly
Basil Kirchin Abstractions of the Industrial North on vinyl (not only in stock, but priced at two pounds and change- crazy cheap)
Vitalic OK Cowboy rerelease (now I have to sell the original release, grumble argh)
Hawkwind In Search of Space
Hawkwind Space Ritual,

Jacques Tati Trafic soundtrack

godz - *nothing is sacred* LP (got rid of my old copy a while ago)
living things *turn in your friends and neighbors* 10-inch vinyl EP
maggotron - *early maggots: the best of maggotron* CD
billy joe royal - *down in the boondocks* LP
mitch ryder and the detroit wheels - *greatest hits* LP (on roulette)
sniff 'n' the tears - *fickle heart* LP
styx - styx II LP (on wooden nickel, though this looks like an RCA pressing from 1973,)
triumvirat *spartacus* LP
ultravox - *ultravox!* LP
wishbone ash - *new england* LP

I have not bought much lately, but did pick this one up last week. It is a 2 Cd live show from 1990, a bit of a jam session but in a really good way.

AFX - Chosen Lords
Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Howl
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - I See A Darkness
Can - Flow Motion
Can - Unlimited Edition
Captain Beefheart - Lick My Decals Off, Baby
David Bowie - Heroes
David Bowie - Lodger
The Fall - Grotesque (After The Gramme)
The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour
The Fiery Furnaces - Bitter Tea
Goldfrapp - Black Cherry
Goldfrapp - Supernature
Rhythm and Sound - The Versions
Sigur Ros - Takk
Sonic Youth - Murray Street
Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse
The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free
The Streets - The Hardest Way To Make an Easy Living
Neil Young - Everbody Knows This Is Nowhere
Alain Goraguer - La Planete Sauvage (Fantastic Planet) Soundtrack
Bo Hansson - Sagan Om Ringen (Lord of the Rings)
Cluster - Sowiesoso
Roedelius - Wenn Der Sudwind Weht
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Worn Copy
Electric Masada - At The Mountains Of Madness

I'm not that big a fan but my wife loves this album. We already have the Good Friend CD so probably won't need this reissue unless there's other goodies on it.

carpettes - small wonder 7"
cure - join the dots 4xCD
electrelane - the power out CD
va - nuggets II 4xCD (ABOUT FUCKING TIME!)
total chaos (uk) - factory man 7"
total chaos (uk) - there are no russians in afghanistan 7"
va - killed by death #999 LP
va - staring down the barrel LP
puncture - mucky pup 7"
exploited - death before dishonour CD
beherit - the oath of black blood CD
999 - s/t CD
buff medways - medway wheelers 7"

Some retarded fucking Bloc Party 12" on Dim Mak. Bought it for a the Diplo remix, which -- uncharacteristically -- BLOWS. Garbage. $2.

That old Franz Ferdinand Fallen 12" with the Justice remix. While that 2nd FF LP is straight shit(e), the "ruined" remix fucking RULES. Why no goddam rmx instrumental, people?

Two different versions of the Justice Waters of Nazareth 12". An English version on Ed Bangers, and an American release courtesy of the fine young white boys at Vice. Best shit I've heard in ages. (And, yeah, I know EXACTLY how far behind the curve I am. Fuck that in the mouth.) $12 total.

Volumes 2 and 6 of "The Rub". Dumb-ass mashups. Some great, some crap. The primary lesson learned is that I don't ever need to hear anything Walk Like and Egyptian-related again for the rest of my goddam life.

Some other 12"s and stuff. Various sub-Justice stuff on Ed Bangers. A killer Funk Train edit. A weird/bad/good "Crazy" remix.

That second Burzum record...

Damn, I love this record! Play it all the damn time. Yah, sure, it's stupid and obvious and cruddy and all that, but it gets in my head and fucks the nodes all to oblivion. I like it. It makes me happy.

What with this, and Comets on Fire and the allegedly upcoming Pissed Jeans record, this is first time I've actually felt excited about anything on Sub Pop in, oh, what? ... like a decade?!? Maybe more...

also:

John Zorn - Naked City
Byrds - Turn Turn Turn

columbia house stuff:
Gorillaz - Demon Days
T.I. - Trap Muzik
Blade Runner OST
Bjork - Debut
Earth Wind & Fire Greatest Hits

emusic stuff:
Islands - Return to the Sea
Farben - Textstar
American Analog Set - Late one Sunday...
Low - Things we lost in the fire
Butthole Surfers - Hairway to Steven
Sonny Sharrock - Guitar
The Indestructible Beat of Soweto
Popol Vuh - Couer de Verre
Funkadelic - Free you mind...

Going to see them perform this whole album in a week or so!

I think I'm gonna stop buying stuff for awhile

afternoon delights - general hospi-tale LP
angel - white hot LP
ashford and simpson - so so satisfied LP
aviary - aviary LP
bighorn - bighorn LP
billion dollar babies - battle axe LP
blue magic - blue magic LP
bram tchaicovsky - strange man changed man LP
brewer & shipley - the best of - double LP
derringer - derringer live LP
dion & the belmonts - live at madison square garden 1972 LP
dr hook - pleasure & pain LP
david essex - all the fun of the fair LP
freddy fender - the best of LP
the gap band - the gap band LP (tattoo records debut from 1977; can't remember seeing this before, though I'm not sure I ever looked)
ian gomm - gomm with the wind LP
hot butter - popcorn eight-track (and nope, i don't own an eight-track player; i just had no idea that hot butter ever made an album, and i don't remember ever seeing this on vinyl; in fact, i believe someone on another thread a few weeks ago, a thread about one-hit wonders, *claimed* hot butter never made an album, but apparently they did. they cover "apache" and "pipeline" and "telstar," the latter of which they misspell, and also do "song of the narobi trio")
janitors - thunderhead 12-inch EP
kassav' - kassav' LP
phil keaggy band - emerging LP
labelle - chameleon LP
mantus - midnight energy LP
charly mcclain - greatest hits LP
milva - ich hab' keine angst LP (w/ vangelis)
pablo cruise - pablo cruise LP
peech boys - don't make me wait 12-inch
louis prima & keely smith - swingin' on broadway LP
reo speedwagon - good trouble LP
charlie rich - fully realized LP (second disc only of two-disc set)
tom robinson band - power in the darkness double LP
tom robinson band - trb two LP
t.g. sheppard - i love 'em all LP
skyy - skyy line LP
starvation army - mercenary position LP (sealed - who are these guys? paisley underground punks? i feel i should know, but i don't)
stevie v - dirty cash 12-inch
the three degrees - live LP (they cover "free ride"!)
hank snow - the wreck on the old 97 double LP
steeleye span - the steeleye span story: original masters double LP
hank williams jr - whiskey bent and hellbound LP
zager & evans - 2525 (exordium & terminus) LP
*modern jazz hall of fame* compilation LP (true story: i bought a copy of this for a quarter at a garage sale in my neighborhood when i was 11 or 12, thinking i wanted to try to like jazz at the time, though it turned out i was wrong, so that copy has been long gone)
*viennese waltzes* 10-inch compilation EP

Kiki - Boogy Bytes Vol.1
Ellen Allien - Down Remixes 12"
Ricardo Villalobos - Achso
Niobe - Voodooluba
Audion - Suckfish
Plaid - Not For Threes
V/A (Perlon) - Superlongevity 2
Gorillaz - Demon Days
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Roll Deep Presents Grimey Vol.1
Art Of Noise - In No Sense? Nonsense!
Pan Sonic - Kulma
The Orb - Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld
Röyksopp - The Understanding
Louderbach - Enemy Love
Luciano - Sci.Fi.Hi.Fi Vol. 2
Ellen Allien & Apparat - Orchestra Of Bubbles
The Knife - Silent Shout
Soulphiction - State Of Euphoria
Herbert - Scale
Tropicalia, A Brazilian Revolution In Sound
Gudrun Gut - Move Me 7"
Ellen Allien - Astral 12"
Ellen Allien - Stadtkind Remixes 12"
Cassy - My Auntie 12"
Sascha Funke - Boogy Bytes Vol.2
V/A (M_nus) - Min2Max
Carl Craig - More Songs About Food And Revolutionary Art
Ricardo Villalobos - Thé Au Harem D'Archimède
Luciano - Live @ Weetamix

An album by Da Back Wudz and 'Chinampas' by Cecil Taylor, which I'd heard on Ubu before but needed a cheap proper copy.

Various - Digital Disco, vol. 1
Komeda - Pop Pa Svenska
Herbert - Scale
Split Enz - True Colors
Talking Heads - Fear of Music
Human League - Louise (12" Single)
Richard X - Presents His X-Factor, vol. 1
Justice vs Simian - We Are Your Friends (12" Single)
T.Raumschmiere - The Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle
Swayzak- Fabric 11
The KLF - The White Room (UK version)
Saint Etienne - So Tough
Dani Siciliano -Slappers
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures (just got around to buying it. I've had Closer and Substance forever now, but never felt like I needed this one)

And add to my list:

Soft Cell - This Last Night In Sodom

That box set is fantastic! Love the Wipers.

>> Glad to see so many people getting Silent Shout.

Yeah, I need that, and Deep Cuts, but never see either around for a reasonable price.

Here's my latest purchases:

fischerspooner - #1 CD
boogie down productions - by all means necessary CD
adam & the ants - dirk wears white sox CD
gang of four - solid gold CD
sonic youth - s/t CD
dead horse - horsecore CD
dizzee rascal - boy in da corner CD
julie ruin - s/t CD
bearsuit - stephen fucking spielberg CDS
bad actors - strange love 7"
death cab for cutie - I will follow 2x7"
pissed jeans - don't need smoke to make myself disappear 7"
throwing muses - throwing muses CD
adult. - gimmie trouble CD
prats - now that's what I call prats music CD
va - new wave of the close shave 2x7"
six minute war - more short songs 7"
radio free europe - it likes you 7"
polysics - now is the time CD

Prins Thomas vs. Blackbelt Andersen - Juling I Ringen EP
Danielle Baldelli presents Phobos 2006
Loco Dice / Villalobos - Green and Blue
Two cheap 90's Detroit-ish techno comps
Berlin Unwrapped - A goofy compilation from '96 that focuses on the Love Parade and comes with a CD-ROM vid in 256 colors (anyone remember those?) and a book full of pictures of people in silver lamé outfits. Has a really awful track by Ellen Allien.

Can anyone recommend record stores I should check out in Tokyo? I've searched around, but all signs seem to point to Tower Records, Disk Union, and the cluster of shops in Shibuya, which are ok, but I imagine I can do better.

Including their new "No Es Una Novela." Can they put out a bad single?

all used at a great new store I found in Charlotte! how did I never see this before?

Look at all that good music!! For like 40 bucks!

Evie Sands - "Anyway That You Want Me"
Merrilee Rush - "Angel of the Morning."
Devine & Stratton - "Prince of Wales"
July Skies - "The English Cold"
Taj Mahal Travellers - "August 1974"
V/A - "Country Goes Rock n' Roll Vol. 1"
Pandit Nath Pran - "Midnight Malkuns"
Konono #1 - Kongotronics"
Ex - "Singles, Period"
V/A - "Good for What Ails You"

and some summoning up next, i think. and i hate pitchfork, suckaz!

two july skies records out this year, a singles/rarities comp and a new record. woo hey.

No, but related. Around a year ago Manifest almost closed down but a new owner bought it up. The old owner started this new store called "Lunchbox Records" on Central Ave, right around Thomas St which is hipster central in Charlotte, home of the Penguin, Dish, Thomas St Tavern, Sadu, that popular tattoo place, etc. It's much smaller, but the store is generally oriented towards more independent music.

Is this service, if it is a service, available to anyone? I'm intrigued.

Hey Colossus / dot[,] - split LP
Sonic Youth - new 7"
Siege - Drop Dead 12" reissue
Limp Wrist - Want Us Dead 7"
Girl Talk - Stop Cleveland Hate 12"
Wiley - Avenger 12"
Rac-oo-oon - Is Night People CD
Voice of The Seven Woods - The Withering of The Boughs 3"
Capsule Festival comp CD
Trencher - Presumed Dead tape
Burp Core comp tape
Career Suicide - Anthology of Releases CD
Fucked Up - Epics In Minutes CD

http://www.thefrogsarchive.com/store.html

(also bought the book Spreadin' Rhythm Around: Blac Popular Songwriters, 1880-1930 by David a Jansen & Gene Jones on this trip)

Interesting book. I wrote about it some on the 2005 Rolling Country thread:

I have been busy reading a new book about black songwriters 1860-1930 myself; it's fascinating so far in its depection of the minstrel/death-ballad/coon-song era(s), but not in front of me and I forget the authors' names.

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The book I wrote about a couple posts above is actually *Spreadin' Rhythm Around: Black Popular Songwriters, 1880-1930* by David A Jasen and Gene Jones; I'm up through Bert Williams now, though, and I'm starting to lose interest in it a little. (Also, what I mistakingly call the "murder ballad" era up above -- late 1880s/early 1890s, I guess; I forget the precise time coordinates, but somewhere in there, once Tin Pan Alley and sheet music started displacing the traveling blackface tent shows that stopped at every town with a train station -- is actually refered to as the "tearjerker" era in the book. *Could* include murder songs, but also pretty much anything based on a sad newspaper article, like for instance a baby drowning in a bathtub. The beginning the end, the authors say, of American popular music losing its full dependency on European melodic structure, and the immediately subsequent coon-song era, despite relying on blatantly racist lyrics by definition, would instigate the emphasis on 4/4 beat that would soon result in ragtime, cakewalks, jazz, blues, and so on.)
-- xhuxk (xedd...), December 9th, 2005.

Rachid Halihal: Resonances from My Soul (which resonances, curiously, consist mostly of covers of Arab standards)

I got a singles thing by The Squeeze and Will the Circle Be Unbroken by the Nitty Gritty Dirty Den Band

Cansei de Ser Sexy - s/t
Dusty Springfield - Dusty in Memphis (the Rhino edition)
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Dazzle Ships
Shirley Scott and the Soul Saxes - s/t
Nina Simone - Nina Simone and Piano!/Silk & Soul
Shakira - Fijacion Oral, Vol.1
V/A - Essential R&B: Summer 2006
+ something else I've forgotten

also, ordered via Amazon but still to arrive: Isolee's Rest and an April March CD.

boys don't cry boys don't cry (profile 1986)
thomas dolby the golden age of the wireless (capitol 1983)
emerson lake and palmer brain salad surgery (manticore 1973)
los lobos how will the wolf survive? (slash 1984)
los lobos ...and a time to dance EP (slash 1983)
ronnie milsap one more try for love (rca 1984)
the outsiders time won't let me (capitol c. 1966)
johnny rivers a touch of gold (imperial c. 1966)
billy joe royal cherry hill park (columbia c. 1969)
trooper money talks (rca 1982)

I had to stop reading the book on the trip as I was too concerned that I was glossing over much of the info.

Now that I'm home, I've set up shop with a highlighter and my entire music collection, trying to decipher what I need to fill in the gaps, what stuff needs to be recontextualized, etc.

This book has given me direction with my pre-30's collecting/understanding.

It is, of course, awesome, even if it is the enemy of music. PUNK ROCK!!!!

Dylan bootlegs:

While The Establishment Burns LP
Burn Some More LP
Isle Of Wight LP
Bridgett's Album (w/The Band) LP
Don't Look Back sound track LP (w/lots of dialogue!)
John Birch Society Blues LP
Charlotte NC 1/17/74 2LP
Lovesongs For America 2LP
Ceremoies (sic) Of The Horseman LP
Help! LP

and then...
Last Poets - S/T 1st LP on Douglas
The Collectors - S/T LP
" - Grass And Wild Strawberries LP
Dylan - S/T 1st
" - Desire LP (in QUAD!!!)
Beatles VI (mono) LP
Pixies - Doolittle LP (sealed, mint)
Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry - Blues & Folk LP on Prestige
Hank Williams - Lost Highway And Other Folk Ballads LP
Beatles - Meet The Beatles LP
Arthur Brown - Crazy World Of... LP
Funky Nassau - The Beginning Of The End LP

and a few more... Easybeats and some random funk.

Must be something "big" on at Virgin today, as there were hundreds and hundreds of goths/metal kids queuing round the block at 7.30 this morning. I thought it might be Italians waiting to get into We Will Rock YOu, but it was a bit early for that.

Anyone know what it is? (Carsmile?)

Amon Duul II--"Carnival in Babylon"
Beach Boys--"Adult Child"
Miles Davis--"Doo-Bop"
Edan--"Beauty and the Beat"
Ennio Morricone--"The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (Original Score)"
Art Tatum--"Piano Starts Here"
Thievery Corporation--"Versions"
13th Floor Elevators--"Easter Everywhere" (OP!)
V/A--"Psychedelic Jazz & Soul from the Atlantic Vaults"

I'm also on eBay as I write this and am about to snipe Sam Cooke's "Nightbeat."

Animal Collective - Here Comes the Indian (first time I've heard early AC. it's great! much noisier and less formless. it's like Wolf Eyes or Excepter tried to make an AC cover album)
The Knife - Silent Shout (eh, had to jump on the ilx bandwagon)
Espers - Weed Try (i'd rather have the new album than this, but this one was used for $8)

preordered from insound.com:

The Mountain Goats
Jason Molina
Junior Boys
Wolf Eyes

yay, it's a good time for music.

annie - anniemal
bitmap - micro/macro
espers - II
caetano veloso - definitive collection
billy bragg - must i paint you a picture ( 2cd comp)
miles davis - sketches of spain

Kinks-Lola Vs. …
Hawkwind-Space Ritual
Commander Cody-We’ve Got a Live One Here
Aretha Franklin-Live At The Fillmore (expanded)
Buffalo Springfield-Last Time Around
Kinks-Give The People What They Want
Hassles-Best of
Beatles-Beatles For Sale
Slade-Get Your Boots On: Best of
Costello & Toussaint-The River In Reverse

I got the following lot of albums for one crisp dollar bill at the KPFT yard sale

Frank Myer-Dagnabit
Mustang Lightening-Texas Voodoo Surf
Will Taylor & Strings Attached-Collaborations
David Baerwald-Welcome To The New Folk Underground
V/A-I Hate It Here, I Never Want To Leave
Rebecca Pidgeon-Tough On Crime
Santana-Soul
Heavy Blinkers-The Night And I Are Still Young
Liquid Soul-One Two Punch
Barry Goldberg-Stoned Again

i just went back to my hometown of Wellington and Real Groovy there (which is one of those good records stores you can spend two or three hours in and not notice)had rearranged their sale sections into genres, and then into alphabetical order! i have had fantasies of this happening for some time now.

sadly i was on a budget so all i got was:
tussle - kling klang (NZ$10)
joy division - unknown pleasures (NZ$10)
janet jackson - control (NZ$5)
janet jackson - rhythm nation 1814 (NZ$5)
enya - watermark (NZ$5)
also got 4hero - two pages (NZ$5) but at the moment i think it sucks.

Sparks - Hello Young Lovers
Christina Aguilera - Back To Basics
Muse - Black Holes And Revelations
Moloko - Catalogue
Mclusky - Mcluskyism 3 disc set
Pet Shop Boys - Actually remastered
Camille - le fil / le sac des filles
The Knife - Silent Shout
Nelly Furtado - Loose
Jacques Brel - Infiniment
Hot Chip - The Warning

I did! From Fopp! For £5!

battletorn - burn fast 7"
colin clary - the only boy in town CD
jesse garon & the desperadoes - billy the whizz 12"
phantom pregnancies - assassination city LP
be your own pet - s/t CD
peter, bjorn & john - young folks 7"
molesters - end of civilisation 7"
fall - live at the witch trials 2xCD
ghostface killah - supreme clientele CD
mudhoney - my brother the cow CD
knife - deep cuts CD + DVD
killing joke - s/t CD
xpozez - democrazy 7"
anti - the hardcore years CD
honey bane - guilty 7"
his name is alive - ft lake LP + 7"
neu! - s/t CD
dead boys - we have come for your children CD
iggy pop - new values CD
OMD - s/t CD
graham coxon - the kiss of morning CD

I ordered the Junior Boys LP and an upcoming Stephen Malkmus double 12". Now I wait.

Date: Aug 17, 2006
Order Number: INS3408688A966642

The following items from your Annex order have been shipped:

1 - The Mountain Goats - Get Lonely (CD)

Each disc for fifty cents in a library sale.

Oh yes, very nice: as I had suspected, based on brief samples, the sound is often more middle eastern than East European. Really kind of authentically middle eastern at moments in a way that very little I've heard by Zorn has been (not that I assume he has tried and failed or anything).

I like He Poos Clouds too. I think it's going to take several more listens to get more of a handle on it. I need to listen at least once with the lyric sheet in front of me.

anyway:
nomeansno - the day everything became isolated and destroyed
yes - tales from topographic oceans
wendy & bonnie - genesis
hemoth - vice, suffering and destruction
third eye foundation - ghost (on cd)

Ahlam: Al Thokol San'a (Listening to this now and it's mostly really good, especially the more purely khaleeji tracks. I think the use of clarinet on some tracks is a little innovative for khaleeji music.)
Mohammed Abdo: Al'Amaken - Jeddah Ghair 2005 (the most famous living khaleeji singer--I think he must put out half a dozen releases a year, including live recordings, and not including all the bootlegs I know are out there)
Fella: Badr 14 (Algerian singer I discovered on youtube, poppier than what I usually go for in Arabic music, but she's a good singer and I know like at least one song on this. Despite her Algerian nationality, the songs she sings are more Egyptian or Lebanese in style, at least from what I've heard.)
Fella: Sahrat Tarab - Live (Covers of classics originally recorded by people like Oum Kalthoum, Fairouz, Abdel Halim Hafez, Mohammed Abdel Wahab (I think), etc.)

I keep saying "clarinet" but I think it's really a duduk, which is still unusual. (I wonder if Ahlam has some Armenian ancestry.)

gauze - coretic CD
tubeway army - s/t CD
va - edan the DJ - fast rap CD
buff medways - medway wheelers CD
bratmobile - pottymouth CD
serena maneesh - s/t CD
graham coxon - love travels at illegal speeds CD
999 - separates CD
melt banana - cell scape CD
melt banana - 13 hedgehogs CD
I'm from barcelona - collection of stamps CDS
I'm from barcelona - let me introduce you to my friends CD
international strike force - soeur 7"
henry's dress - bust 'em green CD
as mercenarias - the beginning of the end of the world CD

I went to a punk record fair in Stockwell on Saturday and got this lot:

melt banana - scratch or stitch CD
va - bloodstains across the midwest LP
va - cleanse the bacteria LP
confuse - s/t LP
va - no core LP
va - killed by 7 inch #6 7"
va - killed by 7 inch #9 7"
icon AD - lest we forget CD
va - anti-war - anarcho punk #1 CD
va - anti-state - anarcho punk #2 CD

Dumbo OST on Disney, in great shape (which is rare).
Chiffons - anthology LP in mono

and some 45's from a second-hand junk store:

Giorgio - Son Of My Father/Underdog (Moroder's first single! from 1972)
Rose Royce - Carwash/Water
Love Unlimited Orchestra - Rhapsody In White/Barry's Theme
Monkees - Valleri/Tapioca Tundra
Beach Boys - God Only Knows/Beach Boys Medley (in mono!)
1910 Fruitgum Company - 1, 2, 3 Red Light/Sticky Sticky
George McRae - Rock Your Baby Pts 1 & 2
A Charlie Brown Christmas (says "not for broadcast")

and at a record store on the way back into town:

Terry Riley - In C LP (YES!!!)
Charles Mingus - Wonderland LP
Herbie Hancock - Future Shock LP
Two Man Sound - Disco Samba 7" (???)

I haven't heard the whole thing yet. It's a modern classical/free improv. set with strong hints of gamelan and gamelan-influenced western music (particularly Cage's prepared piano work and Nancarrow's player piano pieces). I think the piano is prepared some of the time (judging by the ribbon through piano strings on the cover, and also by what I'm hearing). Anyway, he pulls from a wide range of modern classical approaches to keyboard. There are also some percussive sounds that don't sound like they are coming from a piano, but maybe they are. There's not much information on the CD about what's being used or much of anything. I like the batting back and forth between seemingly unstructured percussive sounds, brief repetitive rhythmic passages, and old school modern classical piano.

Kid Koala - Your Mom's Favourite D.J.

Sean Lennon - Friendly Fire

Meditations--Coltrane
Scientist Rids the World of the Evil Curse of the Vampires--Scientist
Fishscale--Ghostface Killah

I definitely need Fear of Music though.

La Crema: Party con la Crema (great stuff!)
Wuelfo: Sonido De La 4 (very good)
Andy Harlow: La Musica Brava (very good--yes, Larry Harlow's brother)

Borrowed:

India: Soy Diferente (which I heard before, but I just wanted to confirm that it was as mediocre as I remembered, and also grab a copy of the title track, which I do mostly like)
Mariza: Transparente (pleasant enough--more solidly based in fado than I'd expected from reviews--not really my thing)
Los Pleneros de la 21: Para Todo Ustedes
Luiz Bonfa: Solo In Rio 1959 (okay)
Dizzy Gillespie & Charlie Parker: Town Hall Concert, NYC 1945 (This stuff really does nothing for me.)

(not at all what I intended to get this week, which was that CoS boxset thing, or simply not buy anything... ohnoes @ ill-advised wanders into second hand shops)

David Bowie-Ziggy Stardust...(Ryko version)
Blondie-Parallel Lines
Beatles-Yellow Submarine Songtrack

for 20 bucks.

Meanwhile, off the web:

Phil Spector-Back To Mono
Lonnie Mack-Memphis Wham!
Kinks-Percy

I think I am going to get that new Byrds box set too. It sems to have my name on it.

Both from Aberystwyth.

Agitation Free - 2nd (disappointed with this, sort of jammy/jazzy instrumental rock, nice fluid guitar in places but bog standard earthbound 70s rhythm section. Quite nice but really nothing special)

Cornucopia - Full Horn (ugly, lumpy prog rock with outbursts of dissonant weirdness - which makes it sound a bit like Van der Graaf, which makes it sound far better than it is! Again, it's pretty underwhelming)

... to be honest, I don't know why I even bother buying Krautrock anymore, I think I've got all the good stuff by now.

Kid Koala - Your Mom's Favourite D.J.

Pajo, David Christian Pajo
Australian Rules OST, original music by Mick Harvey
Neville-Ization, The Neville Brothers

Lady Sovereign - Public Warning

Guided By Voices - Hardcore UFOs boxset
Gerard Grisey - Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil

£5 for the pair!

Can You Jack? (Spectacular acid house compilation on Soul Jazz Records)
Pop Ambient 2006 (Kompakt)
Boymerang - Balance of the Force
Electrolush compilation
Gatecrasher Classics 2 compilation
Timo Maas - Music for the Maases
Grooverider - The Prototype Years
Jeff Mills - Waveform Transmission v. 1
BT - Ima; This Binary Universe (I prefer the former)
Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom - Relevee EP
Todd Edwards - Odyssey This is great!

I don't think I like this. The singing bugs me anyway. Some of the guitar is very nice.

But I'm taking it back because I already have the good stuff and the rest is bloody awful.

I have banned myself from taking things back to shops now.

Anyway, I wonder if this will result in any amazing bargains:

On 3 January 2007, W K Dawson & N J Dargan were appointed Joint Administrators and now manage the affairs, business and property of Music Zone Services Limited and Music Zone Holdings Limited. The Joint Administrators contract as agents of the companies only and without personal liability

Oh Monsieur WK Dawson, You Are Spoiling Us! thread ahoy?

omega tribe - it's a hard life 12"
va - punk dead? Nah mate, the smell is jus summink in yer underpants, innit? LP
dead c - vain, erudite and stupid 2xCD
deerhoof - the perfect me 7"
cut chemist - the audience's listening CD
metal urbain - chef d'oeuvre 2xCD
vomit launch - exiled sandwich LP
girlfrendo - shout it out loud and clear girlfrendo gives you that fab gear 7"