What records did you buy this weekend?

i ordered a bunch of stuff just yesterday(how i long for a record store that isn't pathetic to open here) ambitious beggars, the shermans, churchbuilder, a couple of compilations, ego and the new marine time keepers album. sadly i won't hear any of it until later this week.

Being stranded here in rural Denmark for this spring, and living with a meager scholarship, I haven't really indulged myself lately. Still, I bought couple of used vinyl records yesterday. Cabaret Voltaire's "2x45" (for about £9, a bit much for me but I want in on vinyl, don't care about the potential collectability) and Kate Bush's "Never Forever" (£5). Other synth noir goodies would've been available, but I'm saving my money for a spending spree in Amsterdam. Oh, and Dopplereffekt's splendid "Scientist" 10" (£5). But I'll be able to listen to 'em only when I'm back home after a couple of weeks, so no impressions...

After going a long time without buying anything, I finally went out and splurged:

Ennio Morricone - "Revolver"
Mott The Hoople s/t
Free Music Quintet - "Free Music"
Smegma Plays Merzbow
Melt Banana - "MxBx 1999/13,000 Miles At Light Velocity". So far the Melt Banana is blowing my mind, and the FMQ stuff is also ridiculous. I haven't listened to the Morricone. Are there other Mott The Hoople albums where the singer doesn't sound like Dylan?

I sold a few CDs at C'Dément yesterday and re-invested my earnings in :

Uncle Tupelo's Anodyne (slept through most of it, what I did hear = pleasant but no more)
Grandaddy's The Sophtware Slump (after 4 songs, interesting but unimpressive)
The Essential Jimmie Rodgers (which I've heard and enjoyed before)
and Turbonegro's Ass Cobra (yet to be listened to, but inside booklet photo is definitely in the "I SO did NOT need to see THIS" category).

Oh, boy. Lemme go check my stacks. I believe I decided to try & avoid getting more stuff from bands I was already way too familiar with, so: Volcano the Bear (_The One Burned Ma_)
The Handsome Family (_Through the Trees_)
Fall (_Early Fall - 77-79_)
Mishima USA (_Hold My Breath_)
v/vm (_Sick-Love_)
k. (_New Problems_)
k. / Low (split EP)
Pylon (_Hits_)
Certainly, Sir (_For Me It Is No Problem_)
Driving home @ 6:30 in the morning (after having stayed up most of the night) makes Volcano the Bear sound quite interesting. A serious This Heat vibe. Pylon, unfortunately, didn't fare as well - I'll need to listen to it while I'm not swerving across 5 lanes of traffic. Sounds like the Gang of Four aping that is quite prevalent on _Murmur_. The k. & Certainly, Sir stuff, I bought @ a concert - k. I love unconditionally, so. (k. is the alias for a member of Ida, a band name I'll drop without warning & with great frequency. She - k. - lies somewhere between winsome folky sentiment & concise quirky melodic pop, for lack of a better description.) Certainly, Sir is a Boston-area band (as are Mishima USA, who seem to be going for the London Suede bad-name demographic). Haven't listened to the other stuff yet. Bought _Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)_ LAST week. Damn thing sounds wonderfully straight-forward & accessible. Makes _Trout Mask Replica_ sound like _Metal Machine Music_ (or, at least what I think _MMM_ would sound like). Why the hell is it out of print in the US??? Stupid corporations...

Damn it, Dan! Look what you made me do!

I finally found a copy of Mum's Yesterday was Dramatic-Today is OK after about what seems like an eternity (but worth the wait), found a used copy of the Raincoats' eponymous album (loved it), the Sundays' Reading,Writing & Arithmetic (not getting it yet) and the new Unwound (starting to grow on me).

Velvet Goldmine OST on CD for £2, from a stall at my local market. Sounds better than expected, I'd forgot how good early Eno sounds like.

You're in for a treat with the Colourbox LP, it's a neglected classic. Search out the 12" Baby I love you so and Official Colourbox world cup theme if you can.

Some interesting stuff. Billy - I had the Colourbox album on tape for a while years ago, so it's not exactly brand new to me, but I don't think I've heard it for 10 years or so. Side One is very, very good "Say You", in particular.

1) VV. AA., "15 piano blues & boogie classic" [Arhoolie Records] (enjoyable, probably great if you're seriously into blues which I'm not. I love the Omar Shariff track)

2)Old Time Relijun, "witchcraft rebellion" (most people would think that this album is pure shite, like Birthday Party played by a bunch of people who can't play their instruments properly but I somehow like it.)

3)The New Pornographers, "Mass Romantic" (this is beyond words, great power-pop album and I love Neko Case's voice. One of the best albums of the year so far)

Robert Johnson "The Complete Recordings" The Specials "More Specials" (side 2 in partic, is amazing) Chic "Ce'st Chic" ahem The Buggles "Age of Plastic" A Flock of Seagulls "Listen"

Well those last two should destroy any remaining cred with the ILM Massive. All second-hand + v. cheap.

Buggles+Seagulls = cool by me. (I mean, obviously they're both pitiable toss, but i. buying them and ii. admitting it = awesome)

I.M.V.Lame, by comparison.

Missy Elliott/MissE... So Addictive and Belle & Sebastian, If You're Feeling Sinister.

i wanna be down wiv ver kids and now i am

I may do some more shopping today, but I went to see Calexico last night and got "Aerocalexico 2001" - a "tour only" CD. Naturally, it's lovely, and from anyone else, it would be a proper album. Great show, too: they had a full band with the trumpets and all.

Picked up semi-cheapish copy of 'Daedal' by Derek Bailey and drummer/percussionist Susie Ibarra from the Record +Tape in NHG. Bought it 'cos I esp. like late period electric Bailey, and have never head Ibarra before (has she also played w/Cecil Taylor? Think so..) First impressions? Fuckin' ace!

Ibarra: mostly played with W.Parker, as you probably knew (but she fell out with him: Free Music = not entirely with the programme feminism-wise?). Don't think she's RECORDED with Taylor (I remember? maybe?): she hella cool tho. [Just went on a spree to find a link I tht I had to website abt her, but it has gone...]

Dave: re Mott te Hoople. Nope: "like Dylan" is what Ian Hunter did, start to finish. But MtH Are GRATE: what s/t is it, tho, as I didn't know there was such a thing...?

Free Music = Fire Music, before Maggie Nicols flames my sorry ass

Strangely, I bought the Buggles too. The Buggles and Kraftwerk. My prediction would be that the Buggles are the next big thing. What, with two people listening attentively now.

More importantly, I'm revocering from an extended Napster-less period, and find myself ravaging the R&B charts. Does the new Babyface track sound so sweet to anyone else?

Mixed bag, as usual, all CDs:
Stereo MCs - Deep Down and Dirty
Run DMC - Raising Hell
XTC - Skylarking (paper sleeve)
Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
Split Enz - Corroboree
Tindersticks - Can Our Love...
Sianspheric - The Sound of the Colour of the Sun

Still haven't had a chance to listen to most yet, though I have heard most of the hip hop stuff before...just catching up on it again, and reintegrating it into my collection/life (ILM influence). The Sianspheric seems nice for anyone into ye olde shoegaze, though it's not quite MBV redux or anything...more modern. More thoughts upon further listenings.

Couple things on Thursday: the new American Analog Set singles/unreleased comp, and Archer Prewitt's Gerroa Songs. The former is excellent, I was listening to it nonstop until my CD player broke. The latter I've heard once, and it was far more mopey than I was expecting (Prewitt is a guitarist for the Sea and Cake, so I was expecting somthing more delicate - oh well, it's unexpected but good).

hee hee, i'm the most pop person here. isn't that rich? the following 7"s, $1 apiece:

madonna - "holiday"/"i know it"

the boomtown rats - "i don't like mondays"/"it's all the rage"

supertramp - "goodbye stranger"/"even in the quietest moments"

steppenwolf - "born to be wild"/"everybody's next one"

the supertramp single was somewhat less spectacular than i remembered. the rest is splendid, especially the rats.

This is going to be all in italics, isn't it? Cool.

Not bought anything for a month, but this weekend I had a splurge in Notting Hill and Greenwich...

Blossom Dearie: "Give Him The Ooh-La-La" (Verve, '57)

Christophe Charles: "Undirected 1986-1996" (Mille Plateaux thing with lots of Mac ROM data I won't be able to read)

GNAC: "Biscuit Barrell Fashion" (Poptones promo - hoping for more joy from the Montgolfier clan)

Pan Sonic/Charlemagne Palestine: "Mort Aux Vaches" (#712 of 1000, live recording, Staalplaat. Quite excited about this.)

Pinkie Maclure: "From Memorial Crossing" (based on an ILM recommendation, but I can't recall the thread or the source)

Pram: "Somniloquy" (Domino promo)

XTC: "Apple Venus Volume One" (again, decided to grab a cheap copy as Tom's comments about this [from, what, 18 months ago?] were still bouncing around my head - well, I think he thought it was good, anyway)

V/A: "Leaving Home:1" (That Rattle thing from the Ch4 series of five years ago... I suspect I've got the best bits [Turangalila, Agon] elsewhere, but very cheap) ... and something for Pam.

Hey - nothing over a fiver! Score!

Doh! Josh - you edited after the fact. Not allowed, mate.

Tweren't me. But I don't see anything wrong with a little italic- removing editing from time to time. ;)

Frickin' moderators mumble mumble come here deleting our posts mumble mumble then spill italic all down the thread mumble mumble don't KNOW they were born not like dsuring the war it aint why in my day you cd get a shinbone and a pint of egg stout and still have change for fourpence [stomps off]

I was tempted to add some other "purchases", I have to say.

michael: let me know how you like the ps/cp. i think it's quite good, myself. has a lot of horror-movie images, which is mostly what i look for in music.

This is the first weekend when I haven't bought anything new chiz chiz. My previous plans upset by sudden death of one of Isabel's cats so no shopping for me.

I did rescue a boxful of old CDs, mostly CD Singles, from a dusty wardrobe in the family home, but to see what they are you'll have to keep a watch on eBay, heh.

I will, I will ...

And the Apple Venus review was over two years ago. I liked it, too, with reservations.

I got the Ludacris album; cause it was cheaper than getting both "Southern Hospitality" and "What's Your Fantasy?", at least that's how I'm justifying it now.

Chris Hillman - Like a Hurricane Always my favorite member of the Byrds, great vocalist. Pretty decent album, material is much as one would expect. Best track is a cover of The Searchers' "When You Walk in the Room."

The Byrds - Dr. Byrds & Mr. Hyde, Ballad of Easy Rider My favorite album (all in all) by them is Sweethearts of the Rodeo, so I was looking forward to this, but these two albums still sounded astoundingly ordinary, so a big disappointment. "Fido"? God, that sucks. "Ballad of Easy Rider" (the song) is a wonderful tune, though, despite the rather cliched lyrics.

United States of America - United States of America Decent historical footnote to the psychy 60s. Looking forward to writing "I won't leave my wooden wife for you, sugar" on someone's birthday card...

Maria Muldaur - Maria Muldaur Her first album (the one with "Midnight at the Oasis"), an excellent one at that. I've been singing along with "Any Old Time" and "My Tennessee Mountain Home" all day...

Miles Davis - On the Corner Never heard it all the way through. Pretty cool, freaky stuff, though overhyped.

Anyone who reads skykicking knows exactly what I've aquired recently, but yeah:

Crane A.K. - Pink Eyed Pony (they should have brought Andrew Weatherall on board to mix it for them)

V/A - Sound Of The Pirates II (Boo!)

En Vogue - Masterpiece Theatre ("Those Dogs" is da bomb)

Labradford - Mi Media Naranja (hey, like, post-rock)

Matmos - A Chance To Cut Is A Chance To Cure (the concept doesn't really do much for me, but the music's fun)

None.

good to see that I'm not the only hopeless music addict on the list.

purchased over the last few days: Manu Chao - Proxima Estacion, Esperanza. Pretty damn great new record from ex-Mano Negra leader. bits of reggae, folk, rockabilly, sampled stuff, latino rock. Sung in English, Spanish, French, Arabic and other things. Wish I understood more of the words, but still, it sounds great. Lucinda Williams - Essence. Don't like it much, though I usually like her folks/country/blues stuff. Very beaten down-sounding record, to my ears. Couple of OK songs, but not up to her high standards. The Pagans - Shit Street. US punks from the late 70s. From Cleveland. Raucous, fun, a few fast & dumb cover tunes and some fine originals ("what's this shit called love" is a good 'un). Also, saw the Woggles play live this afternoon. Didn't buy anything by them this time, but they put on a great singin' and dancin' rock&roll show, very much in the vein of the Fleshtones.

Went looking for the new Mum in vain. Ended up buying Gillian Welch's Revival. More exciting would be the playstation 2 I just ebayed.

From a thrift store - Ike and Tina Turner - Nutbush City Limits, and the Beach Boys Live in Concert 73, I include this for future historiograhpical accuracy, a snapshot of the weekend etc. I was immediately told 'That Beach Boys record is crap' so I said 'People listen to rock now not classical, you know' but it was really awful. It has a cover of the 'Monster Mash' and a few surf songs. On her record Tina Turner says 'I want SPIRITUAL wealth!'

kraftwerk- transeurope express kraftwerk- radioactivity

on vinyl...yay.

i didn't get any new ones but - sort of even better - drove to timaru (as sung about by Rod McEwen!) in a van & got a a whole bunch that i'd left at my mother's house. about 10 beer crates full. all kinds but (predictably) *lots* of '60s & '70s rock.

I buy my records on workdays. today i'm going on a big update: the new Autechre, Neu1, maybe the new Aaliyah if it's out, mor maybe that Stanton Warriors mix-cd if it's out.

Sean, how is that new Stereo MC's record? Used to love those guys.

unwittingly going with the herd - yesterday was dramatic but today is ok - mum: beautiful poised frosty bleeping. perfect antidote to the grizzly sunday malaise AND provided the neccesary motivation to bow out of a misguided sunday debauch.

zombies odyessy & oracle - very familiar but a delight to own on vinyl.

first two rain parade albums - don't know the titles yet but totally smitten with the first one in particular. television crossed with the seeds & buffalo springhfield.yes please.

well i'd like to say i bought loads of new and exciting records at the weekend. but i didn't. i just bought daydream nation and evol, because my ancient tape copies aren't very good and i needed to hear teenage riot.

Omar, you might as well play the old Stereo MCs record. They are still trampling on the same ground. :-)

We can't afford to buy records after the financial disaster that was the Life W/O Buildings cancellation at Strange Fruit this weekend. OK, Lw/oB gave us a free CD to try and cheer us up, but we had to sell it to get tube fair home. Sigh. :-S

Mark S - thanks for the comments on Susie Ibarra - now think it was prob. the Parker connection that brought to mind Cecil T. In fact, only know tiny parts of C.T.'s massive discog - has he ever played with such 'punchy' (semi-rock-influenced, I suppose) drummers as Susie I? Did find a good sessionography site at http://www.velocity.net/~bb10k/IBARRA.disc.html While I'm here, do you mind if I ask you abt John Dowland, who you mentioned elsewhere (don't want to de-rail the 'only connect' thread...) Can't find much abt him anywhere, and have been intrigued ever since I read this comment from Alan Cummings in the Wire (just looked it up - 196): "...the John Dowland meets highlife virtuosity of his solos raised a smile." He's talking abt a Jim O'Rourke gig, btw.

To return to the topic at hand, this morning I took a stroll along the North End Road and couldn't resist a bonny billie covers ep called 'more revery' - feat. songs by john phillips, bill withers, the renderers(?), john holt, tim mcgraw(?) and a rockin' version of 'sweeter than anything' by P.J. Harvey - anybody know what the original is on?

Cecil of course played with SHANNON JACKSON! (RSJ = John Bonham fan)

Dowland: no, I'm not an expert AT ALL. I just know he was a lutenist, and that he didn't start composing as a serious proposition till his wife died (ie in his late 60s) (Janacek = another v. late starter) (= hope fer us all, in the orson welles = genius at 12 stakes!!)

Andrew:

Tim McGraw = American "country" artist (see: Randy Travis, Garth Brooks). Married to Faith Hill. Lots of "hey, you're listening to Country Music" twang & stuff.

Renderers = New Zealand-based rock group. On the outskirts of any Flying Nun-related circle. Can't say I know them that well, though - I've heard they're quite gloomy & moody. Maybe King Loser would be the most appropriate comparison point?

King Loser = Nick Cave-esque noise makers. Lots of attitude, & a bit of groove to back it up. There are worse albums out there than _Caul of the Outlaw_. (They're ON Flying Nun, BTW.)

The most expensive album of the year: Dillinja Presents Cybotron on quintuple vinyl, for a whopping 109.90 Dutch guilders (i.e. £ 29.84 or US$ 42.57). A more reasonably priced CD will be out mid-July, but I can't and won't disappoint my listeners... (I have a radio show) Two other drum 'n bass 12"-es: Mayday by Tropic and Safeguard by Paranoid User. Three 2-steppers: Warrior (Trick Or Treat Remix) by Warrior, Utopia (Tim Wright Remix) - Goldfrapp and, from the sales-bin: Falling (Stanton Warriors Remix) - Gabrielle. Finally, some cool "broken-beats" records: Betcha Did - Kaida Tatham, Lo Tek - Orange Water, Truth & Desire EP - Blaktroniks and The Truth - Beatless. Best new free stuff: Roots Manuva's new album, D12 album, Africa - The Chemical Brothers on 12", Basement Jaxx album, Pop (Terminalhead Remix) - *NSync.

I was going to buy "Kid A", because it was. like, six quid in Our Prices sale dumpbin, (actually, the offer was if you buy three CDs, you get the cheapest free, and "Kid A" was the cheapest, so it was probably free to most purchasers. Draw yr own conclusions RE projected sales vs actual sales) however, the alternator packed up on the car, 155 QUID!!!! so, no new CDs for me for a while:(

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Yeah, the new Stereo MCs record is pretty much like I expected it would be. I actually re-bought Connected, too, because I remember just how much I used to like that one, too. The new one is pretty good if you have fond memories of Stereo MCs. Not sure how long it'll stay in my collection, but it's a bit of fun for now.

yard sales: Adam & The Ants: Friend or Foe, Bruce Springsteen - The Wild, The Innocent & The E-Street Shuffle, Mamas & The Papas - Farewell to the First Golden Era. the olde record shoppe: The Greenhornes - s/t, Alex Chilton - Like Flies on Sherbert, Syl Johnson - Hi Records A-sides.

Weird: I, too, bought some Kraftwerk. And hey, buying A Flock of Seafulls' "Listen" is nothing to be ashamed of. That was the first record I ever owned (after becoming old enough to play it myself---I think I had a Go-Gos record before that, but no concept of how to use it)---and I'm still pretty fascinated by it. My most-listened-to albums of the early 80s remain "Listen" and Men Without Hats' "Rhythm of Youth."

Also this weekend: Tenki's "Red Baby," the Monochrome Set's "Strange Boutique," and a cheaped-out copy of the Darling Buds' "Crawdaddy," which is not nearly as fun as it seemed when I was 14.

David - thanks for the info. Perhaps Oldham is making a 'point' in covering the McGraw song - i.e. if you can ignore the horrible trappings of mainstream country there are still some good tunes to be found there.

Wow, you guys have disposable incomes... I only bought a battered reissue of the first Grand Funk Railroad album. But I like it...

What records did I buy???

Hmmmm......

The modern lovers: One dollar. Beach Boys: Wild Honey, One dollar Dream Academy 45 for Girl in a million Johnny Cash - Sunday Morning 45 Otis Redding - Truth (something something)... Paul Robeson - it was for .25...

and in the dime bin:

OC Smith: Dunno much about this album 'cept for he sings one of the shaft movie themes....

isaac hayes: hot buttered soul

a james brown live album from the sixties can't remember the title....

the first bee gees album....

New?

sparklehorse... and the nme mag with the compilation to hear the new beta band track.

"Wow, you guys have disposable incomes..."

The funny thing is, I don't - and it's been this way for 2 months now. I feel a little queasy at the sheer length of that list of mine. I might, er, take some of 'em back...

doom patrol- those are some good scores. the modern lovers & otis' tell the truth for a buck each! nice.

Soul Jazz's "400% Dynamite" compilation and the new B&S EP.

Every time I read this thread I want to go back to the Record Exchange. Is it conspicuous consumption if you only listen to everything once? :P
Mark S - the Mott The Hoople record is on Atlantic from 1970, has an instrumental cover of "You Really Got Me", although my fave song so far is "Rock and Roll Queen". There are a couple more copies for $3.99, so if anybody wants one, just say the word.

But you said soundtrack: soundtrack to WHAT? A movie? Which movie?

I think Dave M meant s/t as in self-titled. Does the Old Pedant have a problem with this ? ;)

Indeed I did mean self titled. Had I meant soundtrack I would have said "sndtrk". Oh, and to stay on topic, my radio station got reissues of the first four Ramones albums today. I get to review Rocket To Russia. God they were amazing!

Oh. No, no problem, except that DG is off- line and has missed THE THIRD SEAL...

Monday: Missing records, Glasgow: Bowie's 'China Girl' on 7". It doesn't have a middle.

You'll be surprised to hear that despite its being a dated 80s throwback that nobody wants to hear anymore, I did *not* buy this record for myself.

> Lots of attitude, & a bit of groove
Good review! yeah there are worse albums than "C. of the O." - like for inst the previous King Loser album.

I bought a book by Mike Read.

I just got an Augustus Pablo compilation (THe Melodica King) which I hummed and hawed over for ages due to the usual problems of buying reggae comps: how many tracks have I already got on other compilations? But I got it in the end and very good it is too.

I used some gift certificates and got Aesop Rock 'Labor Days' (which I've heard a lot and loved, but when I spend my own money on cd's I usually want to get something unheard), the Mars Volta record, and the new Roy Haynes w/Dave Holland, Scofield, Joshua Redman, blah blah blah it's great.

I tend to download more contemporary stuff, and buy stuff I've ignored or missed out on in the past. So

Alice Coltrane - Astral Meditations (the compilation, not the original album)
Genesis - Selling England by the Pound and Foxtrot
Yes - Fragile
Charlie Haden - Music Liberation Orchestra
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra