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I am buying books, lots and lots of books and a box set .
So what books/CDs are you planning to buy when you get your paycheck ?

― anthony, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

a whole slew of the african music(s) recommended to me so far over on ilm (tick tock, sinker. ;]) probably going to spend the biggest chunk on a new dvd player finally, esp. now that the akira dvd is out.

― jess, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

oh sorry: a mark s promise kept = doom-knell of end times = an excuse i guess i can no longer use hoho hmmm

― mark s, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I AM BUYING NOTHING BECAUSE FUCKIN SPIRITUALIZED IS SOLD OUT

― Ronan, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sorry Ronan but , ha ha.

― Jonnie, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Almighty has given you a second chance not to buy Spiritualized Ronan and you would we wise to take it.

― Tom, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Too many. Stereolab - Sound Dust, Costello reissues, Ryan Adams - Gold, A Camp, Ben Folds - Rockin' The Suburbs, The Who - Complete Live At Leeds, David Axelrod - Best Of and either Mingus Ah Um or something by Ornette Coleman. Prob Son Of Schmillson by Harry Nilsson too.

Book wise I fancy the Chuck Paluhnik(sp?)novel Choke. Plan on buying tickets to see SFA as well for next month.

― MarkS, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

it's okay mark. i've already got far more suggestions than my meager paycheck will likely afford. (although not for lack of trying.) plus i was trying to sneak the reason while nick hornby and pornography have caused you to stop writing about world music. ;)

― jess, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It's not the album Tom.........ITS THE FUCKIN CONCERT. I'm making a vow here and now to get to that bloody gig. I dont care what it takes or what I have to do. I'm ringing MCD I'm ringing the venue, I'm using Losing Today magazines name in circles it doesnt belong in. I'M GOING TO SEE SPIRITUALIZED. and thats it.

― Ronan, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

plus i dont get paid again until next week, so there's still time. bi-weekly paycheck = DUD.

― jess, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

uk standard monthly paycheck = super dud, then

― m jemmeson, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

MarkS: get Mingus Ah Um. you won't regret it

― m jemmeson, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

if you mean me mjemmeson, i already have mingus-ah-um

― mark s, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i think he means MarkS as opposed to mark s.

(jess = ile confusion mediator today.)

monthly?? are you people insane??

― jess, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

no, i meant the other MarkS(mith) above... confusingly similar names

― m jemmeson, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

insane? probably. yeah, four weeks pay, paid in arrears is standard for office jobs. been paid fortnightly for hourly paid jobs though.

― m jemmeson, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Best Mingus = Live version of 'better git it in your soul' on (mind goes blank) Ah um good though

― Ed, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

To answer this question now that my outbust is over, Ryan Adams-Gold, Something from Bonnie Prince Billys extensive back catalogue and possibly a band I hear tell of called Experimental Audio Research? I heard its Sonic Boom and Kev Shields, a type of drone rock super group......anyone know anything?

― Ronan, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

V. difficult to choose between 'Ah Um' and 'The Shape Of Jazz To Come' by Ornette Coleman - so buy both!

Experimental Audio Research - K. Shields involvement v. minimal. Think Sonic Boom basically recorded one session w/ Shields (and Eddie Prevost!) and then milked the material over three or four albs. All E.A.R. albs basically the same - long, minimal, retro-electronic drones. Give 'The Koner Experiment' a go - remixed by the Porter Ricks team, and a bit more lively than the E.A.R. norm.

― Andrew L, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Also heard of some band Bark Psychosis I think.........apparently cds are rare but worth it. anyone know anything?

― Ronan, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You know you're old when... a young pup hasn't heard of Bark Psychosis..

Try the alb 'Independency', which includes their finest hour, the 20 min long 'Scum'. Their discs are not uncommon in the Notting Hill Gate branch of the Record and Tape Exchange (or Music and Video Exchange, as nobody ever calls it...) Minimal moody English post-Spacemen, pre-post rock. Their main man went on to make drum and bass recs under the name 'Boymerang'.

― Andrew L, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bark Psychosis are grand. Their one proper album Hex is rather like a more structured version of late period Talk Talk. Top stuff.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Beware of the Boymerang stuff. Despite mucho junglist celebrity endorsements it's pretty dull really.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i suddenly feel elderly too, before my time. ;)

bark psychosis are grate, locate anything you can find, but this is definitely one of things which made napster grate as well in its short life. (i.e. availability of early, out of print pre-post-rock stuff like b.s., seefeel, disco inferno, etc. why the d.i. singles have yet to be collected and every piece of tortoise empherema remains in print is beyond my meek understanding.)

― jess, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You'll all be giving me Werthers Original next.......

― Ronan, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bless.

(Hooray I am not the youngest hooray hooray)

― Sarah, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well since my local friendly record shop has stacks of stuff for £5, its poss I could get both if it weren't for all the other stuff I want. I already have Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus and Black Saint & The Sinner Lady and since I have no Coleman and a friend has been raving about Shape Of Jazz To Come I guess that may win.

― MarkS(no, not that one), Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

congrats ronan. the last one has everyone in my office looking at me as if i'm insane from copious pyscho laughter...

― jess, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

pre-post-rock stuff like b.s., seefeel, disco inferno

Pre-post-rock? Blimey, talk about rewriting of history. All three bands mantioned above were included as examples in the original Reynolds article where he coined the term. It really pisses me off that BP, DI, Seefeel, Moonshake, Butterfly Child et al got shoved to the background as soon as someone from Chicago started doing something in a similar vein. I mean, I've seen fucking Fridge of all people described as Britain's first post rock group.

Sorry Jess, that wasn't aimed at you. I just wish the earlier, better post rock stuff had got as much coverage as the more formulaic stuff around now.

― The Campaign For Real Post Rock, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'll buy the new Eels Cd, probably Bjork's vesperine and I heard a band(?) called The Rip off artist which I'm keen to follow up.

― Billy Dods, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i do feel, Richard, that of that first wave of bands you mention, only Disco Inferno were actually any good.

― gareth, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I just knew you were going to say that. It still sort of puzzles me though.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I never knew the Bark Psychosis/Boymerang connection! Now I REALLY need to investigate BP.

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You can tell something's gone wrong with a band when their Thomas Koner collaboration is their most 'lively'.

― Tom, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No paycheck yet. But I have ordered a Burke book , Philosophical Enquiry, and a book on drugs, sex and rock 'n' roll. I will also need to pay for my enrollments in Japanese, English I and Art History. On top of that I need new *threads*. I also bought the new Beta Band (bah! didn't interview them), Pernice Bros, Lipps Inc (cheapah!). Uh that's it.

― nathalie, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

richard, i agree with you totally, which was sort of my point about the whole pre-post-rock thing. in amurrica, post-rock wasn't widely adopted as a moniker until tortoise, and even then it was reserved for mostly slint-esque git. bands. i never even heard of seefeel, et al until reading the reynold's article after the fact. (no, wait, that's not right, because i heard "isolationism" where most are featured beforehand. but i never connected them to any larger "movement.") i consider techno animal's re-entry post-rock for chrissakes! ;) althose bands listed above are my favorite "rock" bands of the 90s, and "post-rock," as it's originator rightly intends, has become a failed-promise of the highest degree.

― jess, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If I get a job, I think I will buy a laptop computer with my first few paychecks!

― jel, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I need to get a job. The only easily available place is the grocery store, where I do NOT want to work for idiotic reasons, because I live in the middle of nowhere where transportation is concerned. Hmph.

If I had money, I'd set to buying my long list of books and CDs though. First on the list Cosmic Trigger, the Complete Plays of Oscar Wilde, and musical soundtracks to I don't know what so I'd have more songs to sing out of nowhere. I'd also like a pair of jeans. I really like planning what to do with money I don't have, actually.

― Lyra, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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