So, what've you bought recently? (March+ 2004 Edition)

Akimbo Elephantine
(The) Intelligence Boredom And Terro
Popular Shapes Bikini Style
Radio Birdman The Essential (1974-1978)

Frank Black and The Catholics Dog In The Sand (2003 version)
Al Green I Can't Stop
Richard Hawley Late Nite Final
Teenage Fanclub Songs From Northern Britain
Elbow Cast of Thousands
M. Ward Transfiguration of Vincent

all cd's on ebay. I've promised myself that I won't set foot inside a record shop this month EXCEPT to buy the new Blonde Redhead album. 25 days to go...

Low - "I Could Live In Hope"
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - "I See A Darkness"
Francoise Hardy - "The Vogue Years"
Mr. Airplane Man - "Moanin'"

All excellent

Eagerly awaiting:

Sondre Lerche -- Two Way Monologue

Kanye West College Dropout
Echo & the Bunnymen Reissues
Felt Forever Breathes The Lonely Word reissue

Some of it I had copies of nefore, but I should have owned them all years ago really.

Havent bought many records feb/march

i'm not going to be able to hear it for a few days bcz it's been delivered to my home address (i'm at university right now) but yeah, obviously i can't wait

oh, and recently picked up a dusty Munich Machine, which is worth it for the completely outrageous tune at the end of side A, "space warrior" (if memory serves).

sarcofagus - envoy of death (1980 finnish heavy metal!)
lugubrum - de totem
madder mortem - deadlands
scorpions - fly to the rainbow
s.o.b. - symphonies of brutality
voivod - war and pain
kreator - terrible certainty
tolly - cosmic melodrama (mostly for the cover, i have to admit)
dust - hard attack
simon wickham-smith - extreme bukkake
savage republic - customs

in the mail:
magic markers - cdr on slippy town
joshua jugband 5 - s/t
jarvis street revue - mr. oil man

Good stuff in the mail:

Chromatics - Plaster Hounds
The New Year - The End is Near
Elizabeth Anka Vajagic - Stand with the Stillness of This Day
Black Ox Orkestar - Ver Tanzt?
Friends of Dean Martinez - Random Harvest

high rise- speed free sonic
anthony braxton duets (on cimp) with some poet (can't remember name right now)

Lawrence - The Absence of Blight
AR Kane - "i" and 69
Paolo Conte - Appunti Di Viaggio
Blue Oyster Cult - Agents of Fortune
Pretenders - s/t

Used
Duran Duran - Rio
Talking Heads - 77
R.E.M. - Automatic for the People

Wooo! Wooo....uh...sorta...

Can - Tago Mago
Kraftwerk - The Man-Machine
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew, In a Silent Way
R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden
Brian Eno - Another Green World
slowdive - souvlaki
Radio Birdman The Essential (1974-1978)
The Slits- Cut

Thought I was supposed to be the youngin'...

Jimmy Smith - Back At The Chicken Shack, Root Down
Dexter Gordon - Go
Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners
Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus
Various Artists - Impressed With Gilles Peterson
Various Artists - Greensleeves Sampler Vol. 4
The Clientele - Suburban Light
The Might Diamonds - Right Time
The Necks - Aether
King Tubby - The Roots Of Dub / Dub From The Roots

Plus DVDs of Once Upon In The West and Thin red Line.

And at lunch time today I picked up;

Scientist - Rides The World Of The Evil Curse Of The Vampires
Blondie - Parallel Lines (to shut Dom up)
Ghostface KIllah - Supreme Clientele
The Congos - Congo Ashanti

Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
A Certain Ratio - To Each...

also:
various - Life:Styles (compiled by Coldcut)
various - Timeport episode II: reggae dancehall mixes 2004

Mahler - "Lied von der Erde" (Pierre Boulez, Vienna Phil.)

SPLUURRRRRRRGE.

I bought this solely on the basis of having heard the track "Music is painting in the air" on the radio, long ago. I still like it, but I have to admit there's nothing else here that I think is nearly as good. There are a couple other tracks I think I could at least get to like, but nothing that inspired. As usual (with progressive), I could do without the singing.

AshRa: Blackouts

Still giving this a first listen through, but I'm pretty sure it's better overall than the Sensations' Fix CD. However, it has me thinking about why I lost much of my interest in this sort of music, starting when I was in college. These rhythms just aren't interesting enough to me, most of the time, to support being repeated again and again. I still like a lot of the guitar playing, which is supposed to be the main attraction, I guess; but rhythmically it gets kind of tiresome. If the music took a less minimalist approach to rhythm, or if the rhythm were more appealing, I think it might please me more. It could be my fault for not taking LSD before putting the CD on.

"Don't Trust the Kids"--is that some sort of response to The Who?

(There's still the problem that it reminds me too much of my adolescence, for which space music, in-my-own-world music, was all too fitting a sound-track not that it was by any means the only thing I listened to.)

Also: The Old Grey Whistle Test Vol. 2 on DVD + 2 videos of "The Punk Years" - 10 episode series made for UK TV but afaik never shown. Not bad except that it toes the sad, tired old party line again that the US scene was only really paving the way (and apparently only consisted of The Stooges, MC5, the NY Dolls, Patti Smith, The Ramones and Blondie - no mention of Dead Boys, Devo, Dictators, Richard Hell, Pere Ubu, Suicide, Talking Heads, Television....); The Pistols and their clique were the only really important ones; The Clash, Buzzcocks, Adverts, X-Ray Spex were OK; it wasn't poor Jimmy Pursey's fault that Sham 69 somehow managed to attract an audience of sieg-heiling fuckwitts off the football terraces; The Damned were almost an irrelevance; Adam & The Ants, The Boys, 999, The Vibrators, Wire, etc. etc. etc. didn't even exist. Oh and the US Hardcore scene didn't start until the '80's and was mainly inspired by the UK Subs and GBH (Discharge don't seem to have existed either).

Pierre Boulez (Diego Masson/ Musique Vivante) - Domaines
From 1971, this is really really good and I'm not usually that much of a Boulez fan. Even better, it cost £0.99!

The Fall - In a Hole
This is the original re-issue, mastered from vinyl and complete with skips; photos of the wrong line-up etc and without bonus tracks. Still can't really complain as it too cost £0.99. Reminds one of what an astonishing talent MES once was and also how musically sophisticated and adventurous this edition of The Fall were - the double drumming is amazing.

Jefferson Airplane - After Bathing At Baxters
I broke the bank for this one at £2.99! I've never been a great JA fan and this album contains a lot of their worst elements: all that teeth-grinding stridency and red-in-the-face yelling, but all in all this is good too. Ubfortunately all of Paul Kantner's songs sound the same and there's not nearly enough Grace Slick on it - her song, "Rejoyce" sounds exactly like a cross between the Slapp Happy of "Acnalbasc Noom" and the Slapp Happy of "Desperate Straights" - but this still gets the thumbs up. Oh and the 9 minute improvisational thang, "Spare Chaynge" is rubbish.

Flaming Lips '83-'88 box set "Finally the punks rockers are taking acid"

4 albums for £10 from the Sunday market at ATP that I'll eventually get round to.

Also picked up the Tricky "Ruff Guide" DVD for £7 - features 14 promos + a documentary.

This consists of at least part of the audio from the live video PTV Black. I think this is one of the best live PTV recordings I know of (which isn't necessarily saying a lot, but, if you're looking for one, take a look at this one). It's from 1991, so it's kind of a mix of acid house with rock. The highlight song is "Intoxication" (wow! wow! wow!), which I've never heard a decent recording of (besides this one). Some pretty funny lyrics, possibly made up on the spot. The sound is really not bad for a live recording. Genesis does annoy me a lot, in a way that he certainly didn't when I used to be more into this stuff, but I'm not sorry to have bought this. From a strictly personal angle, this is about the best possible reminder of what their live shows were like, short of watching the video itself. I really like Fred Gianelli's guitar here (though it's sometimes lost in the mix--but that seems to improve as the recording goes on). A bit underappreciated as a guitarist, I think, but then he preferred to switch over to focusing on electronics and production, so that's partly his fault. Really, Genesis's screeching overtop of it doesn't do justice to it, most of the time. What the hell/are we fighting for. . . "Well, I guess the Gulf War has some advantages for all of us." I hope I can interest the appropriate people out there in this CD. They did have a nice way with sounds much of the time, and some of the samples here are pretty good, and well-deployed. And there are congas!--though barely audible. Oh, yeah, "Money for E" is pretty fun, including Genesis's delivery. And there's a long jam without Gen up in front, and good samples, good guitar, good sound. This is easily one of the best Psychic TV recordings available.

The Easybeats: The Definitive Anthology

I think "Friday on My Mind" might be one of my top ten favorite rock songs ever. It still brings back memories of watching my brother's friend's "punk" cover band perform it, jumping around the stage of the basement auditorium in my father's church.

Stealers Wheel: The Best Of

Because I've always loved "Stuck in the Middle with You" (from when it was first released).

Robert Wilkins: The Original Rolling Stone

Because I like "That's No Way to Get Along," or did when I heard it a while back, and I rarely like the blues, so I thought I'd check out some of his other songs.

And I haven't heard them all, but I've heard far too many, including most of the official live releases.

Used
R.E.M. - Murmur
Trans Am - Red Line
Kid 606 - P.S. I Love You

Cyann & Benn--Spring
The Paisleys--Cosmic Mind at Play
All Night Radio--Spirit Stereo Frequency

Luckily I'm working 80 hour weeks for the next couple of months so I won't have time to buy anything else, if I can keep myself off ebay anyway.

Random new and used stuff I picked up while weekending in Berkeley:

Descendents, "Bonus Fat"
Minutemen, "Post-Mersh Vol.2"
Superhopper, "Music for Downtowns"
Unsane, "Lambhouse"
Various, "20 Years of Dischord"

Daft Punk - Discovery
Camille Yarbrough - The Iron Pot Cooker
Kraftwerk - Computer World
Bar-Keys - The Best of the Bar-Keys
VA - A Taste of . . . 3rd Stone Records Vol. 2
Young MC - Stone Cold Rhymin'
Syd Barrett - Crazy Diamond (box set)

used:
popul vuh - sei stille, wisse ICH BIN
freedom's children 2cd comp with all three of their albums! exciting!
buzzcocks - time's up
fastway - s/t+7"
the troll - animated music
couple of cure bootlegs (early b-sides & so on)

The 2 Clinics were next to each other and I was hoping for a hat trick with Internal Wrangler but no such luck.

I almost rebought The Stooges' Fun House used for $6, but I stopped myself for some reason.

all from selectadisc in soho

Of Montreal - Satanic Panic in the Attic
Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News
Blonde Redhead - Misery is a Butterfly
Muse - Absolution
Godspeed! You Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven!
The Fall - Bend Sinister
The Clash - Give 'Em Enough Rope

Total: $100.36

Luomo-The Present Lover
DJ Quik-Da Finale
v/a-Essential Speed Garage
B.G.-Chopper City In The Ghetto
Felix Da Housecat-Bugged Out Mix
The Time-What Time Is It?
v/a-Off Limits 3
Jay Z-Life And Times Of S. Carter

Tortoise - It's All Around You
Baby Dodds - Talking and Drum Solos
Dave Holland - Selected Recordings/Rarum X

Hella - The Devil isn't Red
Chainsaw Kittens - Angel on the Range
Rex - C
Eleventh Dream Day - Eighth
Hefner - The Fidelity Wars

...all for €5 each!

None of the videos I've seen of this guy prepared me for how good it was. All the hate he got for the albums afterward totally make sense now.

"It's the March+ thread. That includes April."

There is an April thread as well though.