first records purchased in 2002?

The Troggs-"The E.P. collection"
Van der Graaf Generator-"The least we can do is wave at each other"
A friend made me a CD-R of Nas' "Stillmatic".

Hmm I know what my last purchase of 2001 was (bought the Kylie album on New Years Eve), but this year....

Oh yeah I remember! With my HMV Gift Vouchers (thanks Aunt Jean!) I bought Abba's Super Trouper remaster (excellent album), Frank Black's Frank Black, that dreadful ARE Weapons single I wrote about, and something else that slips my mind now (cheap and in the sale, actually maybe it was just batteries). Then that same evening I ended up in Borders and bought a comp of Treasure Isle records and another comp called Urban Africa Now! which I've been really enjoying. That's all so far this year.

Droppin' Science - Volumes

The Langley Schools Music Project - Innocence & Despair

African Headcharge - My Life in a Hole in the Ground

that's it I guess, although I got shitloads of music on MP3 that is keeping me away from the shops.

Downloaded way too many MP3s. But I still managed to get Feminist Sweepstakes, Insignifance and Rocksteady (promo). All three are purty groovee.

Trojan Ska Box
Strokes - Is This It
Shudder To Think - Get Your Goat
AR Kane - Up Home EP
Kylie - Can't Get You Out Of My Head
Fugazi - Furniture
Jan Jelinek - Loop Finding Jazz Records
Fennesz - Endless Summer

In reverse chronological order:

The Dismemberment Plan - Change
Bows - Cassidy
Swayzak - Himawari
Kylie Minogue - Fever
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Kaleidoscope

I bought shitloads of stuff in the dying days of '01, so only one thing so far this year - Bertrand Burgulat's "Richer E.P" (second hand)

Omar - is "Volumes" worth getting?

Jeff how can I put this without appearing to be a raving madman? ;) Yes. Absolutely. It is the perfect jungle compilation, there is no duff track on it. You'll fall in love with jungle again and wonder why it had to change. Just beautiful music. Let's face it: if you know who Droppin' Science is/are then this is a must.

Some one-sided 12" white label called "Moo Burn" by Kelly D.

No label, no catalogue number, nothing.

I forgot to mention "Street Jams" and the Prefuse 73 album.

only cd i've actually paid for so far is von lmo's _future language_ - ridiculous crashing rock that reminds me of 70s 'punk' like destroy all monsters, but monstrous and ridiculous. it inspired me to download his _red resistor_ which is all of the above times ten.

being jobless, mp3s are where it's at. shirley collins, syd floyd bootlegs, turkish 60s music, frank chickens, rebetica...ahh, sweet delight.

So far this year:

Circulatory System - s/t
Dusty Springfield - Dusty In Memphis
Dusty Springfield - Dusty...Definitely
, Dusty Springfield - Everythings Coming Up Dusty
The Kinks - Singles Collection
Boedekka - Hapi Nightmares
Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic
The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
Ray Charles - The Definitive
Burt Bacharach - 2cd Collection
The Temptations - Cloud Nine/Puzzle People
The Temptations - Psychedelic Shack/All Directions
The Best Of Hall & Oates
2cd New Wave comp
Arnold - The Hillside Album
Aretha Franklin-I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You
Think that's all so far. More than enough to be getting on with for the rest of the month.

3582 - "Yesterday" The Coup - "Party Music" 5 Deez - "Koolmotor"

Erm, that Don Letts dub compilation; Rhythm and Sound CD; Bogdan Thingumijigg -- My Love I Love; The Streets -- album sampler; Miss Kittin and the Hacker -- first album.

Soul of Mann - Manfred Mann Instrumentals Dusty Springfield - Where Am I Going Apples in Stereo - Sound Effects (largely for the hi-fi version of Tidal Wave) Would-be-Goods - Mondo (not as witty as their first, but dead catchy!)

I've been so so so broke this month, I haven't bought anything. So this question just makes me sad...

Uh, too many things -- and this was literally on New Year's. I remember getting the Ramones first album rerelease but that's about it.

...but Mark, surely you get them all for nowt ;-) Thanks to Pitchfork for the nice David Candy review, btw

Lots of stuff, but I want to take this opportunity to recommend Prince's latest, "The Rainbow Children". It's damn good. Really.

Apart from those bits where he's the voice of God. Thats just silly.

Felix da Housecat – Kittenz and thee Glitz (didn’t get it for Xmas after all, sob)
The Trojan Story (yo, Ricky T)
Bootsy’s Rubber Band- Ahh..The name is Bootsy, Baby!
Elephant Man – Comin’4 you
Grace Jones – Slave to the Rhythm LP (yo, Omar)
Imagination – In the Heat of the Night (yo, Robin C. for ‘Illusion’)
Jungle Heat – Ragga Jungle & Hardcore Breakbeats
Kraftwerk- The Mix
Oliver Ho – Meta : Chapter One
Ludwig Harig – Staatsbegrabnisse,
The Byrds – ‘Untitled’
Linx – Intuition
Mercury Rev – Yerself is Steam (to get it on vinyl)
10CC ‘Bloody Tourists” (which is bloody awful)
Ivan Rebroff Sings Folk Songs From Old Russia which includes:

’Stenka Rasin’ – The famous ballad of a Cossack-Ataman in love, who finally sacrifices the beautiful princess to the river and throws her in, calling out after her: “Volga, little mother of all Russia, here’s a present from a Cossack from the Don!”

Beat that Nick Cave.

so far in 2K2 i got these 4 albums

Nickelback - Silver Side Up Default - The Fallout Apollo Four Forty - Getting High On Your Own Supply Abba - Greatest Hits Remastered

• Aaliyah - S/T
• Timbaland & Magoo - that new one
• Scritti Politti - Cupid & Psyche '85 (thanx to T(h)om!)
• Basement Jaxx - Remedy (thanx to ILX!)
• Helmet - Born Annoying
• Jesus Lizard - Bang
• Stinking Lizavetta - something
• The Move - some Edsel A/B side compilation

AAAAAANNNNDDDDD ... a slew of stuff Amazon's taking their sweet ass time in delivering.

Jeez, you people have been busy. I've bought just the one for myself: The Beach Boys' Sunflower/Surf's Up for seven quid from Warrior in Crystal Palace.

Also found a Ninian Hawick thing for 4 quid on a trawl through Soho (for Pam), the same day I went to the counter on the ground-floor-of- that-shop-where-the-basement-is-Daddy-Kool on Berwick Street with a fistful of CDs, discovered they wouldn't accept a card for 'sale stuff', and walked out sans records (ostensibly to find a cash machine, but once out in the fresh air, realised I didn't really need them anyway... bit of an anti-epiphany, that).

Been a few, mostly used, and I can't remember a bunch of them off the top of my head. Here, though:

• Jane Siberry - City A collection of various works that had previously been spread out on other albums, like soundtracks and the children's album by Barney the Dinosaur, apparently
• Ohm: Early Gurus of Electronic Music (putting my money where my mouth was from the earlier thread about Electroacoustic, and it's amazing as I knew it would be)
• both albums by Molasses love the packaging, and the music is pretty darned good too, if a tad depressing at times
• Love and Rockets - Express (reissue) I was feelin' a hankerin'; the new running order throws me off a bit though..."Angels and Devils" should be at the very beginning, dammit!
• The Avalanches - Since I Left You Because everyone here was talking it up so much as some sort of masterwork. It's okay, I guess. But it's one of those "corrupted" CDs designed not to work properly in the computer, causing my system to crash repeatedly while I was trying to rip it into my Nomad, so negative points there.
• Firesign Theatre - Don't Crush that Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers A reissue of the best comedy album of all time, period, and FINALLY!
• Cabaret Voltaire - Remixed Poop from the later part of the major label years. For review purposes.

That's enough for now.

I'm so broke. I bought Royksopp Melody AM back in 2001, the 29th or something. That's it.

Also I am jealous of Gareth getting to hear Remedy for the first time. Go straight to YOYO.

a few things:

Club 8 - Spring Came, Rain Fell
Seaside Stars - The Magic of Stereo
Tompaulin - The Town and the City
Phoenix - United
I ordered the Camera Obscura LP but it hasn;t shown up yet...

No neck blues band: (A double lp of a live gig- excellent stuff, wil get revenant album).

Sunroof: Bliss- slightly disappointing (at first listen) but nice to hear what M. Bower (of the legandary skullflower) is up to.

Siousie and the banshees: The scream: on sale at £4.99.

also 2nd hand: Coil (scatology- quite good, will check some other stuff) and Red crayola: the first two albums on one CD: a great blast.

Sun Ra: sountrack to the film (can't remeber name) (a good starter for anybody wishing to get in to his records).

Jacques berrocal: Parallels. Get it today!

Everything this year: 1. Winterbrief: take this town
2. Silver Jews: Bright Flight
3. Kraftwerk: 2nd album
4. Holiday Flyer: I hope
5. The Gerbils: The Battle of Electricity
6. Tool: Lateralus
7. David Bowie: The Singles Collection.

Bowie is my fave.

Skafish-1st record, a Motown Disco Collection.

Ordered but haven't received: Dukes of the Stratosphear-Chips for the Chocolate Fireball, Felix da Housecat-Kittens and the Glitz, The Honeycone-Soulful Sugar compilation.

How do you do a line break here? It's pretty simple, right? I really should learn.

Dieppe Won't You by the Pines
the Clientele/Clock Strikes Thirteen split single
Any Other City by Life Without Buildings (Honey recommended this ages ago and then disappeared.)

In no particular order:

Kimberley Rew - Tunnel into summer
Roxy Music - Roxy Music(LP)
Roxy Music - Stranded (LP)
Roxy Music - Manifesto (LP)
Nightingales - Pigs on purpose (LP)
Durrutti Column - The Guitar and other machines (LP)
V/A -Pillows & Prayers (Cherry Red comp on LP from 82 or so - very nice)

Actually a lot more than I thought I'd actually bought. Still, they're all second hand & all up cost about 10 quid!

can`t afford to buy full price cds/lps anymore, so its the haphazard joys of second hand shopping for me...

jesus and mary chain - throned and dethroned the meat puppets - huevos galaxie 500 - this is our music sugar - file under easy listening the auteurs - new wave alfie - if you happy with you need do nothing guided by voices - alien lanes

plus the 12" of the happy monday`s "freaky dancing" as a freebie from a very kind individual

I ordered these from forced exposure: Acid Mothers Temple - New Geocentric World Cex - Role Model V/A - State of the art heirloom V/A - Night Owls 01

(some of these were given to me: Blessed are the givers)

50,000,000 Elves Fans Can't Be Wrong (StereOrrific Christmas compliation)

Acuarela Songs compilation (for The Clientele track)

Tamla Motown Gold (3 CD set - supermarket bargain)

Abba - The Definitive Collection (see above)

Truck Drivin' Man (pattern emerging here: go in for catfood - walk out with a CD as well)

The Pines - "Becalmed" 7"

The Pinefox - April Dreams England

Wu Tang Clan Iron Flag CD. Just bought it today, haven't listened to it yet. No idea what to expect, given I've seen nothing aboot the album, and heard nothing from it.

dorothy love coates and the original gospel harmonettes - get on board

very good it is too...

Hmm... well I haven't been into any record shops so far this year, but I've got these in the mail recently: Frenchkicks Young Lawyer
Lonely Is An Eyesore LP/box
Amelia Fletcher Can You Keep A Secret 7"
Hydroplane The Sound Of Changing Places CD and the Cat's Miaow's Long Goodbye

So far,just The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn.Music wasn't of much immediate use when my girlfriend and I split,so I wasn't listening to much of anything.Now I'm easing myself back into things I might have to snaffle a copy of Pink Flag.

How do you do a line break here? It's pretty simple, right?

Yeah, small tag -- it's < BR > (without the spaces, though -- I put them in so you can see the tag). Just put it after the word you want the line to end on.

Like this?
Ned Raggett
Thank you very much
It's so easy!
I hope.

Phew.

I ordered the following from descarga.com

Azuquita -- Lo Bailado Nadie Me Lo Quita Joe Arroyo -- A Dúo...Joe Arroyo & Juan Carlos Coronel "El Nene" Pedro Lugo Martinez Con Las Estrellas De Areito -- Cuidao Con El Perro: Un Homenaje A Faustino Oramos "El Guayabero" Mariano Civico -- De Costa A Costa Joe Bataan -- Salsoul

Let me try to make that a little more readable:
Azuquita -- Lo Bailado Nadie Me Lo Quita
Joe Arroyo -- A Dúo...Joe Arroyo & Juan Carlos Coronel
"El Nene" Pedro Lugo Martinez Con Las Estrellas De Areito -- Cuidao Con El Perro: Un Homenaje A Faustino Oramos "El Guayabero"
Mariano Civico -- De Costa A Costa
Joe Bataan -- Salsoul (I don't really know what "El Nene" Pedro Lugo Martinez or Mariano Civico sound like, but the other three I already know, to varying degrees, and like.)

Dub taylor - Detect
to rococo rot and i-sound - music is a hungry ghost

Arthur succeeds and the world will lay at his feet.

And I owe it all to you, baby.
Next up:
Links!
Hey, any interest in seeing Gorky's next month?
I'll e-mail you tomorrow, I'm off to bed!

Stevo, what's that Elephant Man record like? I passed it over in favour of the TOK album, which might've been a mistake...

Jacob- just picked it up but early listens are promising. Not that familiar with the scene but Dancehall is producing sounds unlike anything else I’m hearing at the mo. ‘Comin’4 you’ is a loose collection of singles with those wonderful dislocated riddims . Only don’t buy it on vinyl like I did (second-hand), contains only 12 tracks to the CDs 24. Thanks a f**k Greensleeves.

Gangsta Rap’s morbid influence is very evident, Elephant lisping about being a bad m/fer. ‘2000 Began’ is mashes up dance-hall with techno replete with squelchy acid bleeps. Top tune. On ‘Mamma’ Elephant joins up with Beenie Man to praise their Mums. ‘Ain’t no one can cook like Mamma’ awwww..

Yeah Comin' 4 You! is ace - I maintain that "Mama" is a reworking of J Lo's "If You Had My Love" only, like, a thousand times better. I'm anxious to hear the new one Log On.

the black-eyed snakes - it's the black-eyed snakes ken boothe - crying over you: anthology 1963 to 1978 [Trojan] melt banana - MxBx 1998/1300 miles at light velocity Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - s/t (Ida) - you are my flower Hikashu - hikashu history explosions in the sky - those who tell the truth shall die basement jaxx - rooty

Hey, any interest in seeing Gorky's next month?

See, this is what happens when I'm not paying attention, good bands come through town! What's the story on when, where, etc.

1. Manitoba - Start breaking my heart.

2. Alpha - The impossible thrill.

3. The Who - Who's next.

4. Beth Orton - Trailer Park

5. Dexy's Midnight Runners - Don't stand me down.

6. Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty.

Of the above the Who and Dexy's are vinyl replacements. Beastie Boys I've already sold as it's just too bad to describe. I'm not sure that I'll keep Beth Orton or Manitoba (bought after reaading a rave review) either, they're not as engaging as I thought, but I'll perservere.

Guided by Voices - Do the Collapse
Underworld - Dirty Epic/Cowgirl

The Racketeers' "Mad For The Racket". It's Wayne Kramer's latest project. Rocks like hell.

Chris Bell - I Am The Cosmos
The Clash - London Calling
Elevator - Lost During The Headquake

Billy - I had the same experience with Hello Nasty. A piece of crap!

Gary Numan, Pleasure Principle and a singles compilation
Magazine, singles collection
Spacemen 3, singles collection
Pet Shop Boys, Please r/i and Disco (replace tape and vinyl)
Bis, Return to Central
Stina Nordenstam, This is...
David Holmes, Let's Get Killed
Cornelius, CM
Old Skool (Altern8) euphoria compilation
So Solid Crew, mix album

Guided by Voices - Do the Collapse>BR>Shame about the Ric Ocasek production. BeeThousand and UnderTheBushes are much better.

Having returned from a visit to the parents up in Merseyside with another stack of vinyl barrel-scrapings (second trip in six weeks), I've now decided that I'm not going to buy any new stuff until I've ploughed through all this neglected old stuff. And this means, amongst others, Anna Palm, The Werefrogs, Home Of The Brave and Thin White Rope - so it's bound to be hard going.

At the beginning of last autumn I decided I wouldn't buy any new records until I got a job. This moratorium last three weeks until I capitulated in a second-hand shop in Crystal Palace. Bit unrealistic, really.

grrrr - i love Hello Nasty

This weekend I got:
Princess Superstar is
Disposable Heroes... - Hypocrisy is the Greatest Luxury (vinyl replacement, second hand)
Dropping Science - Volumes
American Analog Set - Singles and rareties compilation (not heard this yet)

I wasn't even thinking of it at the time.. but I guess the first record I bought in 2002 was "He Think He Raw" by Casual.

I bought my first CD of the year on Saturday: New Order's _Get Ready_.

"so far in 2K2 i got these 4 albums Nickelback - Silver Side Up Default - The Fallout....."

-- Ben (leadwolpack@hotmail.com)

I am 100% dead serious when I say that if you were sitting in front of me right now - and I would still do this if everyone (rightly) called me an asshole, or if you were bigger than me and I would pay dearly immediately afterwards - I would try to punch you as hard as I could right in your throat you dork.

DJ French Bloke - Haggis Tracks; Michael Jackson - Billie Jean (Bushwhacka remix); Akufen - Deck the House; LIPPS Inc - Funkytown; Cashmere - Perculator/How to Drive a Train; Green Velvet - Flash/Preacher Man/Half-Pint Green-Light

all purchased last week

Bertrand Burgulat (sp?) - The Ssssound of Mmmmusic (suckered again by gallic je ne sais pas, but I never listen to it)
doob doob o'rama - bollywood music comp (listen to it a lot)
bunch of reggae & rocksteady 7"'s - prince buster, delroy wilson, clarendonians, big youth
madonna - greatest hits vol 2 (feh.)
dylan - love and theft (hasn't hooked me yet)

more than anything, I've been listening to a cd-r of super-hits of 2000-01 - nelly/st lunatics, mary j., destiny's child, d12, cherchez la ghost, eve & stefani.

new order - movement lp jackie-o motherfucker - the magick fire musick cd the plan - only these movements remain cd north of america - elements of an incomplete map cd the notwist - neon golden lp hayden - moving careful lp boards of canada - geogaddi cd new flesh - understanding cd cannibal ox - the cold vein cd pavement - wowee zowee cd and you will know us by the trail of dead - source tags and codes cd jim o'rourke - insignifigance lp do make say think - & yet & yet lp boards of canada - peel sessions lp autechre - peel sessions 2 cd joy division - closer lp american analog set - the golden band cd boards of canada - in a beautiful place out in the country lp new order - power corruption and lies cd fridge - happiness cd appleseed cast - low level owl volume 1 cd

i think that's it.