Recent CD purchases

along with the Ben Stiller Show dvds and a dvd copy of Bullit, i finally bought the first fountains of wayne cd, Gene Clark and Carla Olsen's "So Rebellious A Lover, and the monster garage "how to customize damn near anything' book (not a cd obviously but part of the order nonetheless). Also bought the Blanche 7" on the recommendation of a friend (but haven't listened to it yet) and scored a Bollywood DVD off ebay.

also got an advance copy of the new Mendoza Line CD and its the best thing i've heard in a while - man that band is so fucking good - why are they so underappreciated??

Echo and the Bunnymen -- Heaven Up Here (remaster)
OMD -- Architecture and Morality (remaster)
Blue Orchids -- The Greatest Hit (LTM rerelease and, yes, remaster)

Spot the early eighties postpunk pattern oh yes. Also got the Pet Shop Boys PopArt DVD, which surely must make me a happy man.

I forgot about ebay. I just 'won' ah Christ - Crass and a Vulgar Boatmen CD just because I ran across an article about them on perfectsoundforever. also tapes I bought at goodwill for 99cents: B52s 1st, Echo and B-men s/t and Ocean Rain and some Morris Day and the Time.

I keep forgetting I am a poor college student. oh well.

then at the used store:
Flaming Lips - the one with "She Don't Use Jelly"
A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms
Neil Young - Harvest

So far I've decided on getting these cheapies:
Yaki Byard Experience (w. Roland Kirk)
Sam Rivers - Crystals
Sonny Rollins - Our Man In Jazz (well, not 100% sure about this one yet. Anyone have any eventual other recommendations of this general period of his work?)
Prince Lasha/Simmons Sonny - Firebirds

And probably a Supersilent album.
Yay!

Genesis - Abacab
Moby - 18
Madness - The Heavy Heavy Hits
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Uplift Mofo Party Plan (Remaster)
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Mother's Milk (Remaster)

and waiting by the mailbox for:

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Primal Scream - Evil Heat
Six By Seven - The Way I Feel Today

Poem Rocket - Psychogeography (replaces mp3)
Marianne Nowottny - Illusions of the Sun
Noonday Underground - Surface Noise
Topless Women Talk About Their Lives Soundtrack

Joey & Norman Jay Present Good Times Vol. 3
Bay Area Funk
A Soldier's Sad Story: Vietnam Through The Eyes of Black America
Creme De La Creme: Philly Soul Classics and Rarities

The Fall, Dragnet CD
U.S. Maple, Purple on Time LP

haven't really wanted to buy much of anything else.

The Jackson 5 Anthology double cd, which is absolutely amazing, and I got it to find some suitable tunes for my band.

Rancid, Life Won't Wait

Then I killed some time at this little electronica/avante garde store that I hadn't been to in awhile. They didn't anything by the Tied & Tickled Trio, so passed over a used copy of the new Fourtet in favor of Marc Ribot's Shoe String Symphonettes.

With Xmas vouchers along Oxford St:

Stereolab: Instant O In The Universe CD
Ulrich Schnauss: Far Away Trains Passing By LP
Venetian Snares: Einstein-Rosen Bridge 12"
Emmylou Harris: Roses In The Snow CD
Charles Mingus: Blues and Roots CD

(total cost to me: £5.45)

Went a bit mad today in Warrior up the street:

Third Eye Foundation: Little Lost Soul and I Poopoo On Your Juju
Wauvenfold: 3fold
Like A Tim: Red and Blue Boxing
Matsumi Akita & Russell Haswell: Satanstornade
V/Vm: Sometimes, Good Things Happen

...all a quid each. Also got a Birdie album but discovered Pam already had it when I got home. Warrior is one of those neighbourhood CD-only stores (er, I can't really think of any others) which trades heavily on the fact that it can do the latest R'n'B and hip-hop releases for a pound or two cheaper than the chains (that's all that's ever playing in there) but seems to have been flooded by electronica/post-rock/noise promos of late which they just can't shift. Hence the New Year clearout.

Robert Wyatt Cuckooland
Frank Black Black Letter Days
Belle and Sebastian Dear Catastrophe Waitress
Idlewild 100 Broken Windows
Clem Snide Beautiful ep
Wrens Meadowlands

Heavenly, Heavenly vs. Satan (heard all these negative things about 'em but I like the Cat's Miaow and the Popguns and the Weddoes and that's who these characters remind me of, so rah)
Caustic Window aka Aphex Twin, Compilation (finally -- and unsurprisingly it's pretty great)
The Yobs, The Worst of the Yobs (rerecordings, though!)
Neurosis, Times of Grace (rah!)
Type O Negative, Life Is Killing Me (I love how they apparently are dedicated to not stopping, ever -- well done)

Stephin Merritt - Eban and Charley OST
Jah Wobble - Inspiration of William Blake
Bryan Ferry - These folish things
Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking
Sparks - Kimono my house
Sleepy Jackson - Lovers
Lloyd Cole & the Negatives
David Ackles - Subway to the country
Echo & Bunnymen - Crocodiles (remaster)
Cornelius - Fantasm

PJ Harvey - Rid Of Me
Porcupine Tree - Signify (2CD - remaster+Insignificance demo cd)
Porcupine Tree - Metanoia
Fairport Convention - Full House (remaster)

Borders' sale: Chris Clark, Clarence Park (£4)

Fopp: James Brown, In the Jungle Groove (2003 reissue) (£5)

Matthew Herbert - Lets all make mistakes.
The Funky Sixteen Corners - on Stone's Throw ----really good
Brian Eno - Taking tiger Mountain by Strategy
LFO - Sheath

talking heads - fear of music (amazingly given my intense love for remain in light i had never owned this, though i'm surprised by how much of it i knew already.)
robert wyatt - cuckooland (i am finding this very hard going so far.)
richard x - presents his x factor vol. 1 (hated this all year on mp3. today it sounds fucking great!)

best entry point is _rock bottom_. after that everything starts making sense.

I can't imagine too many people on Wire staff proclaiming this their NUMBER ONE album. But., I can imagine nearly every single person listing the album on their top ten, and then bingo, it becomes the Wire's NUMBER ONE album. Even though it's certainly not his best, or the year's best, or anything like that.

2 renegade soundwave discs
1 lipstick traces companion cd
2 uk garage comps
1 deletions vol 2 (peacfrog comp)

jamc - darklands cd $11
palace bros. - days in the wake cd GIFT
wolf eyes - slicer cd $9
bastard noise - recycled tape $5
nick cave - tender prey lp $8
thee hydrogen terrors - erotic adventures of... lp $6
rolling stones - beggar's banquet lp $3
black dice/wolf eyes collab. lp $13
sunburned hand of the man s/t lp $13
comets on fire - field recordings from the sun cd $13
knifestorm - mystery/worsen cdr GIFT
u-trono tape $3
karate/the lune split 7" $2
milemarker sex jams 7" $3
olneyville sound system - what is true, what is false lp $9
beatles 'rubber soul' and 'revolver' cds GIFTS
shostakovich symphony 11 cd GIFT
charles ives symphonies 1&4 cd GIFT
threepenny opera original cast recording cd GIFT
killdozer - yow! 7" $2
seam - kernel 7" $2
loren connors - moon is down 1&2 7" $4
amps for christ - the oak in the ashes cd $5
merzbow - frog 2xcd $15
pavement - brighten the corners $10
leonard cohen - songs of love & hate cd $9
olneyville sound system - because we're all in this together cd $10
mirah - you think it's like this but it's really like this cd $12

$170 dollars on music.. that sounds about right. $100 in gift certificates, $25 cash from an aunt, $45 or so cash from my pa. And gifts from friends/relatives. Hmm. That's more money than I typically spend on ANYTHING ELSE EVER. Crazy.

ordered over 3 months ago, finally received:
OutKast - Speakerboxxx/the Love Below 4LP
Matmos - the Civil War LP
Television - Marquee Moon (remastered version)

2nd hand:
the Stooges - Fun House LP
Funkadelic - One Nation Under a Groove LP
David Bowie & Giorgio Moroder - Cat People 12"

For a pound each in a misguided charity shop in Islington. I'm thinking that's pretty good.

My Dying Bride - Songs of Darkness, Words of Light
Monster Magnet - Monolithic Baby + DVD
Rocket From The Crypt - RFTC
Fontanelle - Style Drift
GvsB - You Can´t Fight What You Can't See

King Crimson, The Nightwatch
Archie Shepp, Yasmina, A Black Woman/Poem For Malcolm

Thursday Night Rock & Roll Show (Pilot to Gunner @ Mercury Lounge):

The Bamboo Kids, "The Bamboo Kids"

BMG (still a good deal, I think, for catalog stuff):

Louis Armstrong, "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: 1923-1934"
Dave Brubeck Quartet, "Time Out"
Ray Charles, "Very Best..."
John Denver, "Rocky Mountain High"
Duke Ellington, "Okeh Ellington"
Duke Ellington, "...And His Mother Called Him Bill"
Dizzie Gillespie, "Ken Burns Jazz: Definitive..."
Parliament, "Best of Parliament"
Leo Kottke, "Instrumentals"
Various "Red Hot + Rio"
Hank Williams, "Ultimate Collection"

And a bunch of vinyl, including:

Various, "Kill Bill"
Madlib, "Shadows of Blue"
E & A Single (all the way on the other side of the room)

byron allen trio- s/t on ESP
richard youngs- advent
greensleeves riddim album no 30: bollywood

EPMD - Unfinished Business
BDP - By All Means Necessary
Nas - Illmatic

The Twilight Singer - Blackberry Belle (or whatever it's called)
Kanye West - College Dropout
Jay-Z - Resonable Doubt

I then an email saying Kanye and Hov won't reach me until mid-March!

The Diodes - Released
Brian Eno - Before and After Science
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
The Knack - Get The Knack (no idea why I never bothered getting this one earlier)
Nick Lowe - Labour of Lust
Elvis Costello - Imperial Bedroom
Martha and the Muffins - This is the Ice Age (I blame the .ca synth-pop thread)
The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St. (eBay)
The Medical Mission Sisters - Joy is Like the Rain
R.E.M. - Lifes Rich Pageant
The 5th Dimension - Living Together Growing Together

Joe Henry Tiny Voices
Iron and Wine The Sea and The Rhythm
Richard Hawley Lowedges
Teenage Fanclub A Shortcut
Neko Case Canadian Amp
Guided By Voices Best of
My Morning Jacket Chocolate and Ice
Jay Farrar Thirdshiftgrottoslack
Long Winters When I Pretend to Fall
Sam Roberts We Were Born In A Flame

Triage - Twenty Minute Cliff
Arthur Russell - Calling Out of Context
Som Imaginario - Matanca do Porco
Ginuwine - 100% Ginuwine
Sun City Girls - Carnival Folklore Resurrection Vol. 11/12 [WFMU in session]
Hermeto Pascoal - Slaves Mass
Ying Yang Twins - Me and My Brother
Fred Anderson & Hamid Drake - Back, Together Again

Recent bargains in the Virgin sale:

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 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.

Jefferson Airplane - After Bathing At Baxters
Haven't played this one yet but the sleevenotes lead me to believe it might be the first JA album I might like unconditionally. I broke the bank for this one at £2.99!

all soundtracking me beautifully thru summer

(any opinions/insights about any of the above would be most welcome)

Britney Spears - Oops!..I Did It Again
Ghostface Killah - The Pretty Toney Album
Sugababes - Three
Khia - Thug Misses

Did some decent shopping in Ann Arbor over the holiday:
Coalesce - 012:2
Los Campesinos - We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
Rocket From the Crypt - All Systems Go III
Love Is All - A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night
Nomo - Nomo
Fucked Up - Hidden World
Motorhead - Bomber (2-disc reissue)
Orange Goblin - Time Travelling Blues
The Soundtrack of Our Lives - Welcome To Infant Freebase
The Soundtrack of Our Lives - A Present From The Past

hey, is School Kids In Exile still around?

Unfortunately, no. At least thats what I was told by a couple different people, didn't actually venture over to the old location though. Most of those came from Encore (place was crazy packed!) and Underground Sound, the dude there was super super nice.

nomo is the best!

who buys CDs?

vinyl i bought last week:
of montreal - "hissing fauna," "skeletal lamping"
bowie - "ziggy stardust"
steely dan "katy lied," "pretzel logic"
radiohead - "in rainbows"
the clash - "the clash"

Hey now! There's plenty of threads for you vinyl fetishists, leave us luddites to our CD thread!

Haven't bought CDs online for years now, but yesterday I went mad and got:

Ayobaness! the Sound of South African House
The Sound of Club Secousse
Kid Loco Presents French Funk
Bangs & Works Vol.1 (A Chicago Footwork Compilation)

i've been buying some of those Original Album Series sets recently -- Dr. John, Warren Zevon, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Poco, etc. random bands that i don't know much about.

Just picked up over lunch:

Opeth - Heritage
CAVE - Neverendless
Mogwai - Earth Division

wild flag - s/t

Alvarius B - Blood Operatives of the Barium Sunset
Miles Davis - Agharta
Prince - The Black Album
Sonic Youth - Hits Are for Squares
Zomby - Dedication

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Destroyers Rubies and Your Blues.

The Plastic People of the Universe - Magical Nights (amazon purchase on its way)
Some Girls - deluxe reissue (pre-ordered, out in a couple weeks) disc two has some great stuff i've heard on mp3. can't wait to hear "claudine" cleaned up, to name one.
the Bats - daddy's highway (bats are great!)
Billy Bang - Prayer for Peace (one of the best, most fun, playful and beautiful jazz records i've heard recently)

I know at least Sick Mouthy and I are still buying CDs.

Here's what I picked up today:
Fontanelle - Fontanelle
Fontanelle - F
Fontanelle - Vitamin F
Holograms - Forever
Survival - Survival

And the package that came from All That is Heavy yesterday:
Goatess - Goatess
SubRosa - More Constant Than the Gods
Causa Sui - Euporie Tide

The Space Lady - Greatest Hits
Dewanatron - Semi-Automatic
Eliane Radigue - Naldjorlak I-II-III
Xopher Davidson & Zbignew Karkowski - Processor
Rhys Chatham - Harmonie du Soir

Einsturzende Neubauten - Drawings Of O.T., Halber Mensch
Chrome - Half Machine From The Sun
Nurse With Wound - Chromanatron
Popol Vuh - Letzte Tage-Letzte Nächte, Brüder Des Schattens-Söhne Des Lichts, Herz Aus Glas, Das Hohelied Salomos
Unrest - Lisa Carol Freemont
Eyvind Kang - Grass
Tall Dwarfs - The Short And Sick Of It
Six Organs Of Admittance - For Octavio Paz

probably some other used ones I am forgetting

Neil Young - Unplugged
Taylor Swift - Fearless
Taylor Swift - Speak Now
Def Leppard - Pyromania
Def Leppard - Hysteria
Sam & Dave - Hold On I'm Comin' (greatest hits compilation)
D'Angelo - Voodoo
Peter Gabriel - Soundtrack from The Last Temptation of Christ
Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic
Jagwar Ma - Howlin'
Woody Guthrie - Dust Bowl Ballads

miles davis - complete bitches brew sessions

tylerw otm

i also picked up the new Chris Forsyth, but that was vinyl so it doesn't count for this thread

The Nurses-Destroy Your Friends
Family Fodder-More Great Hits
Five or Six-Acting on Impulse (Best of)
Roy Montgomery-324 E 15th Street #7
Nico-Reims Cathedral Dec. 1974
Liliental-s/t

will purchase:
Laraaji 2cd comp

laurel halo - chance of rain
autechre - oversteps
smashing pumpkins - gish (deluxe edition)

got with xmas vouchers

haim - days are gone
julia holter - loud city song
trojan records present lovers rock

Type O Negative - Complete Roadrunner Collection 1991-2003
Alcest - Écailles de Lune
Ulver - Nattens madrigal
Mayhem - Ordo Ad Chao
Mazzy Star - She Hangs Brightly

guess none of these will be found in my new source for cds ..

move over mr fopp, there is a new player in your broken town.

The new Nils Frahm and Julianna Barwick albums.

Grand 12 Inches volumes 1-10.

Go big or go home!

damn, party at skip's house.