What records have you bought/downloaded in January 2005?

I haven't bought anything yet, but I should be purchasing Catherine Wheel's Chrome when it comes in next week. I'll probably rush to Vinyl Fever as well next Friday and purchase the re-issues of The Gun Club's Death Party and The Las Vegas Story.

I picked up it up alongside
Up it up? That's interesting, Ian...sounds like a lost Liquid Liquid track.

Junior Boys - Last Exit (finally)
Playgroup - Repro
Brian Eno - Taking Tiger...

Downloaded: Black Sabbath

on cd:

va - thank god it's friday ost
liza minelli - results (produced by the pet shop boys)

on vinyl:

starcastle - fountains of light (no idea; i just bought this because the cover art looks almost exactly like jefferson starship's dragon fly. same guy?)

bernadette peters - s/t (1980; there's a cover of "chico's girl" on it!)

two albums by the shirts (the s/t one and street light shine)

the corner grocery store and other singable songs sung by raffi with ken whiteley (1979, from canada, and produced by "dan lanois")

original broadway cast - follies (early '70s sondheim)

v/a - roadie ost

disco gold #4: top tunes of today (all music by "dimensional sound") (this is still sealed in its original shrink wrap; i can't imagine why anyone wouldn't want to open it!)

the men - "i don't depend on you" (more about which here)

up with people! - the '75/'76 show album (the cover design is so great; i've gotta rip it off for something)

roger daltrey - ride a rock horse (for the cover art and all the russ ballard songs)

the commentary track is priceless and 100000000000000000000 times better and smarter and cooler than anything that's ever been said or written about the band. but you knew that.

Sugababes - "Three"
Snoop Dogg - "Paid Da Cost To Be Tha Bo$$"
Khia - "Thug Misses"
Britney Spears - "Oops!...I Did It Again"
Ghostface - "The Pretty Toney Album"

Ah, I love the January sales.

Madness - Take It Or Leave It DVD
the Clash - The Clash (OG vers.)
Ice Cube - War & Peace Vol 1 (The War Disc)
Ice Cube - War & Peace Vol 2 (The Peace Disc)
Ludacris - Stand Up (this came with free "Back To School book stickers", in a baffling piece of marketing)
Big & Rich - Save A Horse, Ride A Cowboy
Beenie Man - Dude
Beastie Boys - Triple Trouble (Australian single with exclusive remixes by Dexter and Graham Coxon. According to the sticker on the front anyway. The copy-controlled piece of EMI shit won't play on my stereo...)
Rammstein - Amerika
Mousse T - Is It 'Cos I'm Cool?
N!c Da1t0n & the G100mcha5er5 Orche5tr@ - H0me 0f The B!g Regret (advance CD-R)
Splendid - States Of Awake EP
DFA Compilation #2 3CD box set whatnot
Kelis - Tasty double LP
the Buff Medways - Steady The Buffs/1914 (Australian edition slipcased double thingy)
Depeche Mode - 101 DVD
Depeche Mode - Remixes '04 12"
Henry Mancini/St Germain - Pink Panther's Penthouse Party pink vinyl 12"
78 Saab - Crossed Lines
the City Lights - Escape From Tomorrow Today
Erasure - The Tank The Swan And The Balloon DVD
Mojo mag with Cash Covered CD stuck on it
Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Move Me
Brian Wilson - Smile

I do need this, I do.

The Homosexuals - The Homosexuals CD
£5 in the Virgin sale for possibly the definitive ILM band (i.e. no-one's heard them and no-one knows who they are). Starts off like the greatest thing you've ever heard in your life before petering out rather dismally, then rallying heroically towards the end. Definitely worth a fiver.

S.Y.P.H. - Ungehörsam (Essential Recordings 1978-2003)
German post-punk outfit, even more obscure than the Homosexuals. 2CDs, forty tracks, 2 and half hours of fun fun fun! Extremely, errrrrrrrr, patchy with nothing as good as their 18 minute plodfest "Little Nemo" but it's growing on me. This should have cost me £3 but I got it for nothing - because obviously no-one else was going to buy it.

Lene - Play With Me
Cristina - Doll In The Box
Cristina - Sleep It Off
Adam & The Ants - Dirk Wears White Sox
Nouvelle Vague - s/t
Michel Polnareff - Polnareff's
Phoenix - United
Phoenix - Alphabetical
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds (finally! i've still not actually listened to it tho')
Beach Boys - Smiley Smile/Wild Honey
Beach Boys - 15 Big Ones/Love You
Annie - "Chewing Gum"/"Kiss Me" CDS

and last night:
Death From Above 1979 - You're A Woman, I'm A Machine
(which is sounding pretty great so far. Canadian. Best description I can think of is: a bit like Big Black but slightly poppier)

from amazon.ca (use coupon code MAPFASTFRESH for $5 off):
leonard cohen - i'm your man
wu-tang clan - 36 chambers
prince - dirty mind
jimmy cliff in the harder they come
joy division - substance

and on emusic i downloaded:
galaxie 500 - on fire
stiff little fingers - inflammable material
the gun club - miami
the replacements - let it be
frank zappa - waka/jawaka and weasels ripped my flesh
mission of burma - "academy fight song" and "that's when i reach for my revolver"
patty waters - "black is the color of my true love's hair"

How is it Kit? I cannae wait for this one..

All are quite good, thank you.

Yay! A nice slsk-user once pointed them out to me, I'd never heard of them. Even though Czukay produced and played bass on a few records! Searching them on ILM I only found a few mentions of 'Little Nemo', by, of course, Dadaismus. I was wondering about buying the compilation because I feared the later material wouldn't be as good as their earlier work. I've heard and enjoyed the first single and the excellent S.Y.P.H. and Pst albums but found Wieleicht a bit dissapointing and thought that maybe those other two albums were enough.

WB's & Superpitcher, Baby's on Fire 12"
MFA, The Difference It Makes 12"
Closer Musik, After Love CD
Arik Brikha, Deeparture in Time CD
Phoenix, Live Thirty Days Ago CD
Oddfellows Casino, Yellow Bellied Wonderland LP
Jimi Hendrix, Electric Ladyland CD
Salvatore, Luxus CD

uk subs - another kind of blues CD
exploited - troops of tomorrow CD
outcasts - self conscious over you CD
judy's - washarama LP
M - pop muzik 7"
carcass - reek of putrefaction CD
sneetches - sunnyside down 7"
low - trust CD

(Actually if Ucunt wanted to beat their alt-country bandwagon in a different country than Americanianana for a minute someone might fawn over it. Maybe he should licence it to L@ugh!ng 0ut1@w!)

Anyway on Saturday I bought:

William Shatner - Has Been CD
the Streets - Fit But You Know It CD5 (local version with dumb tracklisting)
Treetops - What's The Matter, Baby? EP
Lo-Fidelity Allstars - Kool Roc Bass
Lo-Fidelity Allstars - Disco Machine Gun
Lo-Fidelity Allstars - Vision Incision
Kenickie - Skillex EP
Kenickie - Punka
Kenickie - Millionaire Sweeper
Kenickie - In Your Car [CD1]
Kenickie - In Your Car [CD2]
Kenickie - Nightlife [CD1]
Kenickie - Nightlife [CD2]
Kenickie - Punka [reissue] [CD1]
Kenickie - Punka [reissue] [CD2]
Kenickie - I Would Fix You [CD1]
Kenickie - I Would Fix You [CD2]
Kenickie - Stay In The Sun [CD1]
Upshot - Upshot EP

Some of the Kenickie singles were doubles because I couldn't remember what I had. (Who wants to sell me a Stay in The Sun CD2 or Catsuit City?) And all the Lo-Fis ones were, but one was a Skint instead of Sony DancePOOL edition and I've always suspected the latter was mislabelled. Oh, they were there, alright?

way upthread x-post: if you've got the Erasure gig on video Ned, don't rush to upgrade; the DVD looks like it was mastered from an NTSC VHS tape.

Jack - Lolita EP
Jad Fair & Kramer - The Sound Of Music
Lhooq - Lhooq
Therapy? - High Anxiety
Dark Star - Twenty Twenty Sound
Elliott Smith - Figure 8
Sigur Rós - Von
XTC - Skylarking (Japan vinyl replica)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell
Courtney Love - America's Sweetheart
Melvins - The Maggot
Seahorses - Do It Yourself
Jacques - To Stars

Anyway I got...
Autistic Daughters - Jealousy and Diamond
Dean Roberts - Black Moths
Noxagt - Turning It Down Since 2001
A bunch of noisy Blood Stereo CD-Rs
Red Crayola - Japan In Paris In LA
Arab Strap - Elephant Shoe
Albion Band - Rise Up Like The Sun
The Byrds - Mr Tambourine Man
The Byrds - Turn Turn Turn! (hadn't heard 'She Don't Care About Time' for years and this time I actually got what the guitar break melody is - the famous Bach cantata 'Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring'. Hadn't ever twigged before!)
Mastodon - Leviathan

The Kinks - Village Green Preservation Society
Wolf Eyes - Dead Hills
The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace

On order:
Low Transit Industries Singles Club Collective

Curtis Mayfield, Curtis
Two Lone Swordsmen, From The Double Gone Chapel
Gwen Stefani, Love Angel Music Baby
Stooges, Penetration (cheap comp of various stuff that Bomp put out - Raw Power demos, bits of Kill City)
Primitive Calculators s/t
v/a Nuggets II box
Funkadelic, Motor City Madness comp
Black Dice, Miles Of Smiles, Creature Comforts
v/a Fabric 19 mix
MC5 bootleg box
Damo Suzuki & Cul De Sac, Abhayamudra

I only had the 2nd Holger Czukay produced album previously (one of their four albums called "S.Y.P.H"!) and that seems as if it's their "weirdest" album. The compilation seems overly dominated by material from "Wieleicht" (nine tracks are taken from it) and "Am Rhein", which are from 1985 and 1987 respectively and seem a bit straight. Nothing from the "Harbeitslose" album which is one of the few of their albums I'd heard of previously. Some of the best stuff is from 1993 however!

what we found yesterday:
bruce langhorne - the hired hand OST (really, really nice but short)
bodkin - s/t (finally!!!)
phew - phew (speaking of holger czukay...)
screaming lord sutch - and heavy friends lp
various - reverberation IV (psych)
the cure - disintegration

Wasteland - Amen Fire LP
Horsepower Productions - One You Need 12"
Samara Lubelski - The Fleeting Skies LP
The Tower Recordings - Galaxies' Incredibly Sensual Transmissions Of... LP
Wayne Jarrett - Showcase Vol 1 LP

review copies

LCD Soundsystem 2CD
Fabric 20 John Digweed
Fabriclive 20 Joe Ransom
Ciara - Goodies CD [album] 0.00

ghostface killah - supreme clientele
sonic youth - sister
big l - lifestylez of the poor and dangerous

i'm a little unhappy with the speed of their service, so i don't recommend holding your breath.

gravenhurst black holes in the sand cd ep warp
purplene songs from the marketplace cd ep quietly suburban
cassette nothing to do cd ep in-fidelity
fischer-z going deaf for a living cd emi
phoenix foundation, the horse power cd capital recordings
aereogramme sleep and release cd chemikal underground / spunk
great unwashed, the collection cd flying nun
fonda catching up to the future cd hidden agenda
late b.p. helium, the kumquat mae cd ep orange twin
blumfeld l'etat et moi cd big cat
minmae microcassette quatrains cd bluesanct
low secret name cd kranky
kittycraft catskills cd march
abecedarians smiling monarchs 12" factory
shack waterpistol cd marina
let's active cypress / afoot cd irs
kaiser chiefs i predict a riot cd single b-unique
prosaics aghast agape cd ep matador

kinda whatever, all over the tracks i guess

xpost: i've got "iron point" by noxagt and I like it. a lot of the riffs are wicked catchy. i guess when it comes right down to it a lot the tunes are compositionally kinda straight-up metal riff-rockers, but the noise, the viola, the whole extended sonic spectrum really makes it something worth repeated listens imho. the billy anderson production really works for them too - it so obliterates any potential eggheadedness (in as much as stomping distorted-viola freakouts can be eggheaded). haven't heard "turning it down"

Caribou - THe Milk of Human Kindness
Don Cherry - Orient
Keith Rowe - Disturbance Bruit
Peter Brotzmann - 14 Love Poems Plus 10 More
Peter Brotzmann, Hamid Drake, Mahmoud Gania - The Wels Concert
Sunn o))) - White 1
The Skygreen Leopards - Life and Love in Aparrow's Meadow

it's been a good month... no real disappointments.

Blues Explosion - Damage
Melvins - The Maggot
The Seahorses - Do It Yourself
Mogwai/Magoo - Black Sabbath covers split CDsingle
Medicine - Her Highness
The Icarus Line - Mono
The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I
Dead Can Dance - 81-98 (3cd + Toward the Within DVD)
Jetscreamer - Starhead
Rico - Violent Silences
Jack - The Jazz Age
Hefner - Boxing Hefner
Bellatrix - G
Bellatrix - It's All True
Ultrasound - first EP (Fierce Panda)
Ultrasound - Best Wishes EP
Supernova - Body EP
Gas Huffer - Just Beautiful Music
Hoodoo Gurus - Kinky
Frank Black and the Catholics - Pistolero
Pitchshifter - PSI
Trans Am - Red Line
Outrageous Cherry - Out There in the Dark
Grant Hart - Good News for Modern Man
Come - Don't Ask Don't Tell
Cha Cha Cohen - s/t
Cinerama - Torino
Maxim - Hell's Kitchen

Hooray for sales!

Residents - Duck Stab/Buster & Glen (2 discs in that odd mini cd format)
Melt Banana (haven't listened yet)
XTC - Fossil Fuel singles collection

Joan Armatrading - Me Myself I
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts - I Love Rock 'n Roll
Joan Baez - Farewell, Angelina
Judy Garland & Liza Minnelli - Live at the London Palladium
Abba - Super Trouper
Abba - The Visitors
Todd Rundgren's Utopia

Chin Up Chin Up -- We Should Have Never Lived Like We Were Skyscrapers
Adorable -- Against Perfection
Kitchens of Distinction -- The Death of Cool
Breathless -- Wave After Wave
MIA/Diplo -- Piracy Funds Terrorism
Heavenly -- Operation Heavenly
Buzzcocks -- A Different Kind of Tension (or something like that)
Neko Case -- The Virginian
Stars -- Set Yourself on Fire
Animal Collective -- Sung Tongs
The Go! Team -- uh, whatever the latest one is
M83 -- I D/L'ed a bunch of tracks off the last album and the new album.

I think I out indie fuxxed Forksclovetofu.

Kicker's been delayed until May,grrrrrrrrrrrr

Fairport Convention: Heyday (the BBC Sessions)
Panda Bear: Young Prayer

thrift shop @ $0.75 ea:

May the Circle Be Unbroken (awesome! awesome! awesome!)
The Doors: Other Voices (HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!)
Ray Manzarek: It Started with Rock & Roll Now It's Out of Control (imagine me laughing even harder than before)
In a Medieval Garden - (Nonesuch Medieval lute/vocal ensemble music).

That Ray Manzarek record is the pinnacle of so-terrible-it's-priceless, up to and including Patti Smith reciting Jim Morrison's poetry (in 1974, mind you!) over the worst music IMAGINABLE, courtesy of Ray, Joe Walsh, George Segal on banjo, et. al.

Seventy-five cents well spent.

Willie Hightower - Willie Hightower
Black Uhuru - Liberation: Island Anthology
Wilson Pickett - In The Midnight Hour
Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings - Naturally
Can - Monster Movie
Secret Machines - Now Here Is Nowhere
Various - Reggae Anthology: The Channel One Story
Harry Nillson - Pandemonium Shadow Show/Aerial Ballet/Aerial Pandemonium Ballet
Futureheads - s/t
MF Doom - MM..Food
Augie March - Strange Bird
Kris Kristofferson - The Silver Tongued Devil and I

downloaded: http://www.earlabs.org/label/labelintro.asp#classic

d/l
The Books -- Lost and Safe
two old New Order shows from '83, '84
two A Silver Mt. Zion shows from '03-'04
Two Lone Swordsmen -- From the Double Gone Chapel
Daft Punk -- Human After All
The Concretes -- s/t
Depeche Mode 4CD remixes

bought

Sueno Latino -- Sueno Latino remixes by Derrick May
Terry Lee Brown Jr. -- Chocolate Chords
Thomas Koenere -- Daikan
Headcase -- Crosseyedrabbit
Controlled Bleeding -- Trudge
Detroit Grand Pubahs -- Funk All Y'all
Sensational -- Loaded With Power

(the seven CD's above cost a total of $44CDN, including tax)

and earlier in the week

Low -- The Great Destroyer (on vinyl)
Psi Performer -- Art is a Division of Pain (remixed)

-- Jeff-PTTL

How is this? I've really been enjoying One Thousand Bird Ceremony a lot recently.

I'm not sure, exactly what it's from, but I really like the Boredoms' "Jungle Taitei (Laughter Robot's Hemp Mix)."

-- RS £aRue

It's on Super Roots 8 - I love it too.