Last X number of records you bought - 2003!!!!!

Young MC - Stone Cold Rhymin'
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
Sex Pistols - Nevermind The Bollocks
Various Artists - Soul Jazz Book/CD/DVD thing
Opiate - Objects For An Ideal Home
Fat Jon - Wave Motion
Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street
Fat Jon - Humanoid Erotica
Mahalia Jackson - Sings America's Favourite Hymns
Leila - Courtesy Of Choice

this is what I bought today:

Django reinhardt: the classic early recordings 5 CD set (an absolute bargain as far as price goes, as recommended by andrew L).
Capatin Beefheart: Lick my decals off LP
Derek bailey/min xiao fen: flying dragons
kurt schwitters: ursonate
stockhausen: kontake

I just realized ... NOTHING!

In the whole of December!

I'm clean ... wow. Maybe I'll just visit the CD shop to celebrate :-)

... oh but my wife just copied a CD of songs celebrating Lula!

I've got that, it's good.

Muhal Richard Abrams, Lifea Bilnec (Arista Novus, AN 3000) LP
Borbetomagus & Hugh Davies, Work on What Has Been Spoiled (Agaric, 1981) LP
John Cage, Cheap Imitation (Get Back, GET 6117) LP
Cornelius Cardew, Four Principles on Ireland and other Pieces [1974] (Cramps, CRSLP 6106) LP
Charalambides, IN CR EA SE (Eclipse, no number) 2LP
Kevin Drumm/Leif Elggren/Mats Gustafsson, D E G (Firework Edition, 442/500) LP
Hamza El Din, Escalay/The Water Wheel (Nonesuch Explorer, H-72041) LP
Fennesz/Main, s/t (Fat Cat, 12FAT045) 12"
Harry Pussy, The Black Ghost (Siltbreeze, SB-56) 7"
Love, Revisited (Elektra, EKS-74058) LP
Angus MacLise, Astral Collapse (Quakebasket, Qb-16) LP
masami akita & russell haswell, satanstornade (Warp, WARPLP666) LP
Max Tundra, ”Mastered by Guy at The Exchange” (Domino, WIGLP112) LP
(Various Artists), Musique Folklorique du Monde: Maroc (Musidisc, 30 CV 118) LP
Ovary Lodge, s/t (Ogun, OG 600) LP
Bob Reid, Africa Is Calling Me (Kwela, 30 K 010) LP
Team Doyobi, s/t (Skam, KMAS 00005) 7"
Richard Youngs/Simon Wickham-Smith, Knish (No label, IG-07) LP

just got a promo of the new cave in lp too.

for my flatmates xmas:
anti pop consortium - arrhythmia

for my girlfriends xmas:
double vinyl reissue of contortions - buy / james white and the blacks - off white

foxy brown - chyna doll (not so great but luckily still just as cheap)

jay-z - blueprint 2 (on quadruple vinyl! i love 'the gift', haven't spent as much time with 'the curse' yet. most of all i love my sister for getting it for me for christmas! apparently it wasn't cheap...)

high contrast - true colours (nice)

roxy music - roxy music (cheap! and great!)

the kinks ultimate collection (it is what it is)

something charles mingus (cheap, haven't listened yet)

Well, you've got to start off as you mean to go on, right?

cecil taylor ensemble: always a pleasure
milford graves: grand unification

Elvis Costello: Armed Forces [remastered CD with bonus CD blah blah blah]

Lee Perry: Battle of Armagideon [I was looking for Arkology, but no luck. This wasn't quite what I wanted, but not bad.]

Cocteau Twins - Treasure
Portishead - Dummy
The Clash - The Clash, Give 'Em Enough Rope and London Calling (remastered versions replacing original copies)
Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets and Another Green World
Husker Du - Candy Apple Grey
Missy Elliot - So Addictive
Curtis Mayfield - Roots
Mercury Rev - Boces
Talk talk - Laughing Stock
Bark Psychosis - Hex
Kitchens Of Distinction - Love Is Hell and Cowboys & Aliens
KLF - The White Room
Kruder & Dorfmeister - The K&D Sessions
Chris Bell - I Am The Cosmos
Mark Hollis - Mark Hollis

Plus I ordered ! and Is terrified by The Dismemberment Plan this lunchtime.

that's terrible (though i can't say that as I bought a sex pistols comp)!

Amorphis "Elegy"
Amorphis "Black Winter Day" EP
Infernal Majesty "None Shall Defy" (Kvlt!)
We In Music "Grandlife" CDS
Teeth Of Lions Rule The Divine "Rampton"
Detroit Grand Pubahs "Sandwiches" CDS

the last stuff i got (none of it new) in 02 was:
Durutti Column - Obey the Time
V/A - Tribute to Felt
Panda Gang CD
Ooberman EP
and a couple others

Nick, considering how much you love Spirit of Eden, I can't believe you didn't already own this!

Tell me again about the bunnies and Tribute to Felt, George

Black Heart Procession- Fish the Holes on Frozen Lakes
Black Dice- Beaches and Canyons
Life Without Buildings- Any Other City
Drag City Supersession
Smog- Julius Caesar
Circulatory System- S/T
Fennesz- Plays
DJ /Rupture- Minesweeper Suite
DAT Politics- Plugs Plus
Coil- Horse Rotorvator
Coil- Scatology
Pierre Bastien- Mecanoid
REM- Murmur
The Cure- Head on the Door
Tackhead- Friendly as a Hand Grenade
The Jam- All Mod Cons
Yo La Tengo- Nuclear War
Songs: Ohia- Ghost Tropic
Explosions in the Sky- Those Who Tell the Truth...
Spoon- Jonathon Fisk single
Xiu Xiu- Chapel of the Chimes ep
Nurse With Wound- The Swinging Reflective
Bjork- Family Tree
Pink Floyd- Saucerful of Secrets
A Tribe Called Quest- People's Instinctive Travels...
Piano Magic- Writers Without Homes
Deerhoof- Reveille
The Liars/Oneida- Atheists, Reconsider
The Aluminum Group- Happyness
X- Under the Big Black Sun
Smog- Kicking a Couple Around

Louis Armstrong: Hot Fives And Hot Sevens (box set)
Joy Division: Still
The Pop Group: Y
Polmo Polpo: Riva 12"
Polmo Polpo: Cog LP
Missy Elliot: Under Construction 2xLP

Hey BoC: Twoism buyers, is that worth having?

Burned again. I finally figured out that he is the one who does a certain song I like, but the album version of "Que Te Vas" is not the same as the one I am familiar with from going out dancing, so now I'll have to buy CD single with various mixes of it, and possibly offer this album up at half.com, since there's nothing else on here I want to listen to. There's wimpy and then there's wimpy, and this crosses the line.

si te vas, te vas, te vas, te vas, te vas...
te vas... te vas
si tu te vas

And I begin to dance in increasingly complex patterns, partially trancing out.

Without your carino I cannot live!

this is a wonderful rec!

''Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun''

not so good.

System of a Down - Steal This Album
Devo - Are We Not Men? We Are Devo! (which I've owned for years on vinyl)
Smokey & Miho - already forgot the name, the one in English
Talib Kweli - Quality
Mix Master Mike - Anti-Theft Device

Donny Hathaway - Live
Sam Cooke - Keep Movin' On
David Holmes - Come Get It, I Got It
Son House and the Great Delta Blues Singers - 1928-1930
Aretha Franklin - 30 Greatest Hits
Michael Jackson - Thriller (special edition)
Matthew Sweet - In Reverse
Jay Z - The Blueprint
Alice Coltrane - Universal Consciousness
White Stripes - Elephant
EAR - Phenomena 256
Mark Kozelek - White Christmas Live
Prefuse 73 - the 92 vs 02 Collection
El-P - Fantastic Damage
Manitoba - Start Breaking My Heart
Built to Spill - Ancient Melodies of the Future
The Delfonics - La La Means I Love You: The Definitive Collection

*Now playing: the beginning of "Theatre" is fantastic. I find it very convincingly--but what? Greek? Turkish? Middle eastern? East European? Yet my inability to pin it down doesn't make it seem bogus at all. Some "eastern" modal sound of some sort.

I don't think I like Vision Creation Newsun as much as Super Ae, but I've only listened once. Actually, I think I like my favorite tracks from Chocolate Synthesizer more than either one.

Seven salsa CDs on the way (two, ordered way back, caught up in a delivery screw-up).

Pita- get out on mego
Phil niblock- Touch works for hurdy gurdy and voice
and Charles Wuorien on Tzadik.

Acid Mothers Temple - St. Capt. Bamboo...Request
High Rise - Durophet, Live, Dispersion, Desperado, Psychedelic Speed Freaks
Les Rallizes Denudes - Fucked Up & Naked, Vols. 1 & 2 (bootlegs)
Flaming Lips - Flight Test EP (pre-ordered)

And I almost picked up 10 volumes of Fällt's invalidObject Series - I could hardly resist the gorgeous packaging, and they were used and therefore cheap; but I don't expect I would have liked more than half of them, and there's only 15 minutes of music on each one, and besides if I'd known about the series sooner I could have downloaded the whole thing in the form of free mp3s from the label's website.

insert witty comment about credit card abuse here. =)

Yes it is quite amazing (i got it somewhere upthread) isn't it? It sometimes reminds me of the 1st Roxy Music alb. (esp. the last track on side 1), I guess it's the hobo or something. (obv. the album as a whole is quite something else...)

:-( You do have It'll End in Tears, though, yes? And yes, Yeti = goodness.

Ahem.

*all £4.99 in HMV - mental!

I just borrowed the Outkast best of (which I might buy later) from my library, plus Corner Shop's Hand Cream for a Generation, which I don't expect to like. (I thought "Brimful of Asha" was just tedious, by the way. The only song that I liked was "6 A.M. Jullandar Shere.")

giant sand - cover magazine (the other best band in the world doing some weird covers, rainer's "the inner flame" is breathtaking)

dire straits - brothers in arms (nostalgy buy. god the cover sucks and the music as well. i must have been a different person when i loved this in a different life 18 years ago)

sinead o'connor - mother of the universe (i heard it in the record shop, guessed immediately that it was her though it was very low-key in the shop and have the feeling that i will like it a lot)

Today I picked up:

Donald Fagen - The Nightfly (holy crap, I never really realized what a huge portion of my subconscious mind the Dan and affiliated projects occupy -- the first listen through "I.G.Y." gave me an almost frighteningly tactile sense of being extremely young (like an "oh my god it's THAT song!!!" thing))

Roxy Music - Stranded remastered CD (how did they cram that many great ideas into single albums?)

Magazine - Secondhand Daylight (haven't listened to it yet)

Markus Guentner - "Regensburg" 12" (beautiful beat tracks on side B)

Slint - Tweez original Jennifer Hartman vinyl pressing (this is fantastic, and probably the most artifact-ish LP I own)

next up...

manitoba - up in flames
the new yo la tengo
autechre - draft 7.30
mum - finally we are no-one

"22 going on 23" is...well, how would you call that. beyond eerie. macabre maybe.

Alex, Summer Sun, I've heard/read many different opinions on this one, what's yours? Loving May I.../Electr-O-Pura/I Can..., not-loving-but-still-liking And then..., is this likely to be a bit further down my scale? (that's what I'm afraid of...)
And Brothers in Arms is not that bad... I used to despise, mainly because people with no taste loved them in my school. But BiA had some tunes that were pretty "sweet", I thought (then again, haven't heard it in, say, 15 yrs. or so, so my interpretation is also nostalgia-biased [listening to it with pretty girl in bedroom], so maybe it is crap :)
Universal Mother (as it is called I believe) is great. some really crappy lyrics but wonderful music. (Red Footbal)

Concerning Brothers in Arms I listened to the first two songs on headphones last night and hated them for their simplicity and obviousness. This morning my girl-friend played the CD in our kitchen CD player and it was an entirely different thing. I think I like that music in the background but I can't take it when it comes too close to me. When the album came out I used to fall asleep to it and wake up to it.

You are right about Universal Mother, sometimes I have problems to retain titles correctly...

Him - Love Metal
Alison Krauss & Union Station - New Favorite
Van Halen - S/T
Belinda Carlise - The Collection

sticks and stones...

and: letters from the earth (2CDs).

Salt n Pepper "Very Necessary"
Chris Connelly & the Bells "Chris Connelly & the Bells"
V/A "Murder Was The Case - Soundtrack"

Shellac - all three albums in a bit of a binge.

Babes In Toyland "Fontanelle"

Low "Christmas"

Le Tigre "From The Desk of Mr Lady"

Chorlton and The Wheelies - complete series one on DVD. Nearly a CD.

Also, re. the thread topic, ordered December's Black Children & Heavier Than A Death In the Family by Les Rallizes Denudes and Mellow Out by Mainliner today...