new "last [x amount] records you bought" thread

"rings around the world" - sfa (the one with 2 discs)

"live at kichijoji mandalla 2" - ruins

"spring hill fair" (reissue) by the go-betweens.

eyed the charlie patton box with saucer eyes and looked and looked for "the all seeing eye" by wayne shorter, but no dice.

was the kosinski novel "the painted bird" ?

isley's brothers - collection of songs
megadeth - peace sells (but who's buying?)
aerosmith - young lust
low - trust
fugazi - repeater

I went to the HMV sale today!

same here! bloody technology!!!

not that you asked, but i am currently downloading new bjork, some schoenberg, messiaen, penderecki, gold chains (er) and, mainly out of deference to markess and julio, some stuff by iannis xenakis, who i have not yet heard and will likely despise*.

* despise = not 'get'

The first one I really enjoy. I think this maybe the drumming or the fact it's just straight ahead rock, which was lacking in my collection.

As for the Flaming Lips album even though I've loved other albums from the group, and couldn't call it bad. I just don't find it exciting, or particularly interesting. Hopefully it's a grower though

Walter Steding, self-titled LP (1980, Red Star Records, produced by Chris Stein and featuring cameos by Robert Fripp and Richard Lloyd).

Also on LP: Party Party OST (1982, A&M, features "HOME TAPING IS KILLING MUSIC - AND IT'S ILLEGAL" warning in lower left hand of jacket). Notable mostly for Bananarama's wonderful cover of the Sex Pistols' "No Feelings," which is why I spent eight bucks on the damn thing and put back the half-dozen dumbass bargain-crate records I was carrying.

On CD, I recently spent too much money on a recording of Mozart's Vesperae Solennes.

Must agree here -- by the time I heard this they had already gone through the SAW wringer so I was merrily surprised to hear their winsome take on same. Midge Ure's 'most mannered singer ever' version of "The Man Who Sold the World" has its moments...

* despise = not 'get'''

I have most of his electronic works (10 out of 15) and one LP of orchestral works. most of it is fab and at the very least interesting to listen to. what are you downloading of his then?

(used)
Boredoms - Super AE
Tomahawk - Tomahawk
Jesus Lizard- Down (replacement copy -- my old one vanished sometime in the mid 90s)

(new)
The Melvins - Hostile Ambient Takeover

clipse - lord willin
ghostface killah - ironman
dj/rupture - minesweeper suite
abc - lexicon of love

(& a bunch of cdsingles earlier in Ak - Headless Chickens, Breaks Co-Op, Dark Tower ft. Dave Dobbyn, Bark Psychosis & JPSE)

What are the Trojan box sets?

all CDs.

Oh that HMV sale...

Sundar already did. that's why i got it! so i'll REVIVE once i listen to it.

v/a - "soul sessions"
(also a 2CD comp - part of the "Sessions" series on Union Square)

arvo part - tabula rasa (jarrett/kremer)
gavin bryars - the sinking of the titantic
various - urban renewal program (chocolate industries)
dabrye - one/three (*finally*)
mr. lif - the i phantom (ducks)

Anyhow, my new non-literalist answers:
Uncle Dave Macon - Go Long Mule
Carter Family - 1927-1934 (5cd box from JSP)
Robert Wyatt - Shleep
Of Montreal - Aldhil's Arboretum

I've had this box for a while, but only got round to playing disc 3 last night. These four tracks are just overwhelmingly great and it's wierd that they're tucked away in a 'rarities' set like this. Tim H - do you have this set?

James Brown - Outta Sight
Chic and Sister Sledge - very best of + remixes
Trojan Tighten Up Box
Cabaret Voltaire - The Original Sound of Sheffield

And I also got an Everlast rarities disk, with the ever-awesome "Whitey's Revenge". All you sons of Whitey are just dickbiters indeed...

'Melody Maker's amazing - a sort of dub 'Shaft'? What's the Hudson album to get, Tim? Is it 'Pick A Dub'?

Vocal LPs: "Rasta Communication" "Torch of Freedom" (someone did a 102 about this one didn't they?)

Comps: "Shades of Hudson" (VP?) and "Studio Kinda Cloudy" (Trojan) are both really very fantastic, lots of overlap between the two.

Lots more I don't know, obv., including "Flesh Of My Skin". "Too Expensive" is a very strange record, and "Steaming Jungle" is even stranger.

So maybe start with "Pick A Dub" and "Studio Kinda Cloudy"? Mr. Skidmore can probably add to / contradict / correct the above.

Hudson was something of an amateur dentist, don't you know?

hey tracer, have you heard 'songs for wandering souls' too? that's the only one I've heard and I'm curious what could make you say what you do about constellations. 'songs' is nice, but it's hard for me to see how their group could be more than that unless maybe they only played ballads. something about their faster numbers grates on me slightly even when I like them.

The accompanying CD is also very, very strong. But then I consider Studio One to be something like the peak of human musical achievement so perhaps I would. The booklet is fine but not that exciting.

Also, as recommended by several kind people on another thread:
Go-betweens - Spring Hill Fair (with the extra CD)

And bought over the last couple of weeks from e-bay:
Cocteau Twins - Treasure
Cocteau Twins - Blue Calendar Cafe
Cocteau Twins - Milk and Kisses
Various - Booming on Pluto: Electro for Droids

Smog "Julius Caesar" -buying it for the second time!
Microphones "The Glow pt.2"
Minnie Riperton "Les Fleurs-Anthology"
Link Wray -two in one, can't remember the name
Liars/Oneida "Atheists Reconsider"
Akufen "My Way"
Thalia Zedek 7 song ep
Devendra Banhart-"Oh Me Oh My..."
Themselves "The No Music"
Kevin Blechdom- new EP
New(ish) Comets On Fire
Dusty Trails
Raveonettes "Attack Of The Ghost Riders"
Ryan Adams "Nuclear"

Ummm, these last two are for future ebay auctions. Does that make me a bad person?

Here's what I picked up, the CDs were all under $8, the records under $4 except "Just Like Us!" was $12 and Dag Nasty was $8. The cassettes were under $4 too except the Fugazi bootleg was $8.

all records except where noted (if there ain't a note next to it, I probably haven't listened to it yet):

Aerosmith - "Rocks," "Done With Mirrors" & "Gems"
Boney M - "Best Of Boney M" (used CD, crazy but rather repetitive, ABBA on crack, and they were already high.)
Dag Nasty - "Field Day"
Def Leppard - "Hysteria" (used cassette, tremendous)
Flock Of Seagulls - "Flock Of Seagulls"
Fugazi - "Live In New Hampshire '97" (bootleg cassette, Ian's guitar way too loud but thrilling nonetheless)
J. Geils Band - "Best Of," "Best Of 2" & "Showtime!"
Ian Hunter - "You're Never Alone With A Schizophrenic," "Short Back & Sides"
David Johansen - "David Johansen," "In Style," "Live It Up!"
R. Kelly - "R. Kelly" (used CD, I prefer the music on later albums but his gift for blunt hysterical love coos was already there. baby, baby, baby)
Koufax - "Simple Life" (used CD, fuck Kill The Moonlight, this is better Billy-Joel-as-indie-rock)
Mark Lindsay - "Silverbird"
Madonna - "You Can Dance"
Mekons - "OOOH! Out Of Our Heads!" (used CD, disappointing - this is no Rock'n'Roll, xgau, 9/11 or not)
Mott The Hoople - "Live"
Robert Plant - "The Principle Of Moments"
Pooh Sticks - "The Great White Wonder"
Quarterflash - "Quarterflash"
Queen - "Sheer Heart Attack" (a bit disappointing, I think I'm starting to get enough of these guys)
Paul Revere & The Raiders - "Here They Come!" "Just Like Us," "Spirit Of '67," "Revolution" & "Midnight Ride"
Rolling Stones - "Dirty Work" (I shoulda known better, decent B side though)
Rod Stewart - "A Night On The Town," "Blondes Have More Fun" (great single, wack 2nd half), "Foolish Behaviour" (even worse), "Out Of Order", and cassette 4 of "Storyteller" (so that I got "Some Guys Have All The Luck")
Swell Maps - "Train Out Of It" (Used cassette. All of these guys I've ever found are cassette from Mute reissues back in '89)
Van Halen - "Van Halen" (excellent!), "II" (actually I thought I was buying "Fair Warning," but this was in the sleeve), and "Women & Children First"

Clearly, I like noise

and for my daughter, Atomic Kitten and Chr.Aguilera

Stuff for me:
Various - Guitars on Mars (Ocean of Sound vol.?)
Phil Spector & co - A Christmas Gift for You
Albert King - Born under a bad sign
Gillian Welch - Time (The revelator)
Carla Bley & Paul Haines - Escalator over the hill (following Marcello's recommendations on the last two)
New Order - Retro (thanks to Dr C's thread)

Sad but true - I'm actually looking forward to the post-Xmas sales almost as much as Xmas itself.

omni trio - the deepest cut (GET IN!!)
and
cassetteboy - the parker tapes.

From what I've heard so far, this is disappointing. It is all too squarely in ECM territory (but what did I expect with Gary Peacock and Paul Motian on the CD?). I just somehow thought it was going to be something very original, something that wouldn't sound so much like so much other jazz I have heard. It's not that it's bad, just not the type of thing to interest me. I wish I would stop buying jazz CDs blindly, in hopes of stumbling across something else that grabs me the way Sun Ra does. It's too risky. This wasn't a cheap CD either.

Also: The Yemen Tihanma: Trance & Dance Music from the Red Sea coast of Arabia

This is also slightly disappointing since it sounds so much like every other field recording of trance music that I have heard. Lots of pared down music, with occasional excited chatter in the background. Not bad, but I think this sort of thing is much better live. When I have just come back from seeing Hassan Hakmoun, and I throw on some Moroccan trance music, it generally sounds a lot better; but ordinarily it's a little rough for me to get into it. It was inevitable that I would buy it eventually, given the cover with a picutre of a man dangling apparnetly live snakes out of his mouth.

Mike Ladd - Welcome to the Afterfuture
Venetian Snares - Doll Doll Doll
aim - hinterland
Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder (Rudy Van Gelder Edition [rerelease])
Bubba Sparxxx - Bright Days, Dark Nights
Jack Dangers - Hello Friends!
V/A - Urban Renewal Program
Panacea - Brasilia
Atmosphere - Overcast!
Uri Caine, Christian McBride & ?uestlove - The Philadelphia Experiment

All CD, all used, all fairly cheap.

Yesterday, I frantically purchased a great many records as my job at a local record store may not cintinue past the season. I bought:
Larry Levan "Live at the Paradise Garage"
Koop "Waltz for Koop" [With Bonus DVD]
John Coltrane "Love Supreme" [Deluxe Edition]
Andrew Hill "Point of Departure" [RVG Remaster]
Velvet Underground and Nico [Remastered]

I haven't listened to everything on the second list yet. I have only listened to the Koop record and the VU record all the way through, and both are excellent. When I am listening to the VU record, I tend to wonder how i got on without it. "Venus in Furs" is my favorite.
I have skipped through the Larry Levan, and it is interesting to hear the state of mixing in 1979. The mixes don;t compare technically to what is being done nowadys, but the way Levan programs is amazing. Every track seems like the natural extensions of the one that preceded it.

I have heard "Blacklisted" a million times since I started working, and every time I hear it, the album moves closer to the top of my list.

Another album I really wanted to like. I got interested after hearing a brief live solo piano track by Andrew Hill on a compilation, but so far I have not been able to enjoy this recording.

Bought used:
(average about 4 bucks each)

The Killjoys – Starry
Blinker the Star – (self titled)
Blinker the Star – A Bourgeois Kitten
Blinker the Star – August Everywhere
School of Fish – (self titled)
Voivod – Lives
Feves: The Sounds of Tristan Psionic
54-40 – Smilin’ Buddha Cabaret
The Waltons – Lik my Trakter
The Waltons – Simple Brain
hHead – Fireman
hHead – Jerk
hHead – Ozzy
13 Engines – Conquistador
Jale – Dreamcake
Blue Rodeo – Diamond Mine
Crash Vegas – Stone
Crash Vegas – Aurora
Rymes with Orange – Trapped in the Machine
Jane Siberry – Bound By the Beauty
Rose Chronicles – Shiver
The Pursuit of Happiness – Love Junk
Cheap Trick – Woke up with a Monster (incidentally has some of the worst album art ever, featuring a clown and a thong)
60 Minutes with Prism
Ginger (ep)
Ginger – Suddenly I Came to my Senses
Poet Treason – The Songs of Bob Snider
Skydiggers – (self titled)
Edmonton Reproduce (compilation)
Mrs. Torrance – Porn
Bruce Cockburn – Joy Will Find A Way
The New Meanies – Three Seeds (pretty bad – I don’t recommend this one)
Single Gun Theory – Flow, River of my Soul (awful - the title should have been fair warning)
The Boo Radleys – Wake Up!
Meat Puppets – Too High to Die
Longpigs – The Sun is Often Out
The Smithereens – 11
The Smithereens – A Date with the Smithereens
The Best of the Lemonheads
Trip Shakespeare – Lulu
Grant Lee Buffalo – Jubilee
The Posies – Frosting on the Beater
Echo and the Bunnymen – Evergreen
Matthew Sweet – Blue Sky on Mars

Xmas presents:
John Lennon Anthology box
Cure – Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me

Bought new:
Constantines
The Clientele – Suburban Light
The Diodes – Tired of Waking up Tired

Dropdead / Totalitar 7"
Paul Winter / Paul Halley / Leonard Nimoy - Whales Alive

Kevin Blechdom - 'Your Butt' EP (even better than I was hoping for...)
v/a - '2002 Gemeinsam' (bpitchcontrol comp. - several excellent tracks, very few duds)
casino versus japan - whole nimbers play the basics (okay, but I prefer marumari)
avril lavigne - 'sk8er boi' CDS
v/a - 'Electrolife - Pop For The Electro Age'

the last recs i bought (nothing in the last 30 days since I've been on holiday).

borbetomagus- Snuff Jazz LP
Peter Brotzmann- No nothing
(a solo rec from the big man)
Derek Bailey- Domestic and public pieces
(the 'public' stuff is grebt, he gets some incerdible sounds from his electric and pedals, can be tough on those eardrums)
Lol Coxhill- Solo LP

All vouchers or gifts

I got it before 'black woman' bob. I found 'Black woman' to be more satisfying because of the supporting cast (Milford Graves is just amazing, Bud powell is good too).

N*E*R*D - In Search Of...
Radiohead - Amnesiac
Daft Punk - Discovery
Basement Jaxx - Rooty
Balligomingo - Beneath the Surface
Pinback - Blue Screen Life

electric wizard - let us prey
skepticism - aes
de la soul - 3 feet high and rising
aaliyah - I care 4 u
dalek (forget what it's called, but the one on ipecac)
dillinger escape plan and mike patton - irony is a dead scene
phillipe cam - balance
keith fullerton whitman - playthroughs
playgroup - party mix vol.1

and from hydrahead mailorder:

discordance axis - the inalienable dreamless
craw - bodies for strontium 90
5ive's continuum research project - the hemophiliac dream