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?

new "last [x amount] of [unit of recorded medium] you [acquired/borrowed]" thread?

Atomic Kitten, Right Now
Backstreet Boys, Black And Blue
Boney M, Nightflight To Venus
Pet Shop Boys, Introspective
Pink, Don't Take Me Home

I've spent too much on the new apartment to justify CD shopping, but I'm determined to spring for Total 4 and some other stuff when I get my next paycheck.

open it and play it. then get the 'slave...' 12" which is one of my most treasured possesions. lovejoy in the house.

Today I got;

Various - Call me. Tony Hatch anthology

Beach Boys - Sunflower/Surf's up twofer

Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman

James Yorkston & the Athletes - Moving up country

Was very tempted to get the New Order back to mine, but I thought I'd spent enough for one day.

Louis Armstrong, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man box
Blue Oyster Cult, Secret Treaties
David Bowie, Heathen
Dewie Decimator, Numericalovecraze
The Future Sound of London, The Isness (allegedly some sort of Krautprog masterpiece, but we'll see about that)
Gang Wizard, Live at LongHaul Infoshop
Pete Ham, Golders Green
Odelia, Argyplanischa
Tito Puente, The Complete RCA Recordings, Volume 2
Spring Heel Jack, Amassed
Various good people, Live at Tape Mtn HQ

Plus ordered the new Dolly Parton, the ODB comp and the best of Sade as gifts for family members (the end of the year means major birthday action in RaggettWorld), along with a Gamble-Huff box and the In a Silent Way sessions for myself. Yay.

gary glitter - "rock 'n' roll parts 1 and 2"
pop concerto orchestra - "big jim sullivan"
e.l.o. - "don't bring me down"
dave edmunds - "crawling from the wreckage"
blondie - "the tide is high"/"susie and jeffrey"
altered images - "happy birthday"
paul haig/the durutti column - [xmas 1985 split single]

(any connection with recent ILM threads is of course purely coincidental)

i don't even want to mention anything i've gotten in the last few weeks because of this...

Avril Lavigne - Let Go (sk8er boi is great!)
Bowling for Soup - Drunk Enough to Dance

Hank Williams - a cheap best of. Why on earth didn't I get any of his records before??
OMD - The Best Of: Has not aged well in general.
Lisa Left Eye Lopes - Supernova
The Orb - UFOrb: see other thread.

Joe Meek - I Hear A New World (special edition)
Joe Meek - The Alchemist Of Pop: Home Made Hits & Rarities 1959-1966
Stereolab - ABC Music
Clipse - Lord Willin'
Felix Da Housecat - Kittenz And Thee Glitz (2002 limited edition)
v/a - Flexipop
ellen allien - weiss.mix
Kevin Blechdom - I [heart] Presets
Cassette Boy - The Parker Tapes
Diff'rent Stripes - A Tribute To The White Stripes (7" EP)

...and, in the HMV sale:
ABC - The Lexicon Of Love
Japan - Oil On Canvas
Ol' Dirty Bastard - N***a Please
John Holt - 1000 Volts Of Holt (deluxe edition)

(i think the boy done good)

On the tower sale:

current 93: imperium
morton feldman: string quartet (4 CD set)
morton feldman/samuel beckett: music and words

Gordon mumma: live electronic music (Tzadik).

Laura Cantrell - When The Roses Bloom Again (it's a Laura Cantrell record, so you already sort of know what it sounds like, but it's very good all the same)
Von Bondies - Lack Of Communication (disappointing - past the first two tracks it just gets really dull, for some reason)
Kelis - Kaleidoscope (two tracks too long, but lovely)
Max Tundra - Mastered by Guy at The Exchange (odd, but nice)
Shivaree - Rough Dreams
Romanthony - R.Hide In Plain Site
Life Without Buildings - Any Other City
ABC - How To Be A Zillionaire
Azure Ray - Burn and Shiver
His Name Is Alive - Mouth By Mouth
Genelab - Anorak Lou

And I pilfered a load of stuff from the unwanted cupboard at the radio -

Pavement - Major Leagues (7 track EP)
Queen Adreena - Jolene
Brave Captain - Go With Yourself: Fingertip Saint Sessions Vol. II
Airport Girl - The Foolishness We Create Through Love Is The Closest We Come To Greatness

It was a good day. It was a very good day.

Or maybe it was a (I heart>>)Bic Runga cd?

HMV sale (again!)

Beach Boys : Friends/20:20
The Meters : Best of
V/A : Trojan Lovers Box

Also e-bay yielded :

Saint Etienne - Finisterre

My Uncut free subscription 'Jam at the BBC' 3-CD set finally arrived, and it's blindingly good!

Bomb The Bass "Into The Dragon"

Cypress Hill "Black Sunday"

All £5 from Fopp which is even outdoing the HMV sale in drawing me in.

That is a v.hardcore purchase.

I bought the PSB's Discography. I don't buy records much these days.

6 Feet Under, In Retrospect 1969-1970
Acid Mothers Temple, Live in Japan and Electric Heavyland
Barry Adamson, The King of Notting Hill
Appliance, Imperial Metric
Daniel Ash, self-titled
Ash Castles on the Ghost Coast, self-titled
Bardo Pond, Volume 4 and a 3 Lobes EP
Beach Boys, Hawthorne, CA: Birth of a Legend
Black Swan Network, The Late Music
Bright, The Miller Fantasies
Christina Carter, Future in Past
Centrozoon, The Cult Of: Bibbiboo
Cex, Oops, I Did It Again!
Charalambides, Live Hand Held, CHT, Being As Is
Climax Golden Twins, self-titled on Fire Breathing Turtle
Cosmic Invention, Help Your Satori Mind
Damon and Naomi, The Wondrous World of...
Dead River Choir/Furisubi/Timothy the Revelator, self-titled collection
Warren Defever, I Want You to Live 100 Years
Dogbowl, Flan
Dunlavy, King of All He Surveys
Durutti Column, Dry
Eggs, How Do You Like Your Lobster?
Elf Power, Vainly Clutching at Phantom Limbs, Creatures
Faith and the Muse, Vera Causa
Father Moo and the Black Sheep, self-titled
Fields of the Nephilim, Laura
Frou Frou, Details
Fursaxa, Trobairitz Are Here From Venus
Geneva, Weather Underground
Paul Goodwin, Burning Shed Session
Keiji Haino, The Book of 'Eternity Set Aflame', Keeping On Breathing
Haphash and the Coloured Coat, self-titled
Hiroshi Higashi, He No He No: Higashi Solo 3
High Rise, Disallow
The Hototogisu, White Wind of Autumn, Floating Japanese Oof! Gardens of the 21st Century
Hungry Ghosts, Alone, Alone
The Iditarod, The River Nektar, The Ghost, the Elf, the Cat and the Angel, Kleine
In Gowan Ring, Exists and Entrances Volume Two
K-Group, self-titled
Kable, Tardy All the Time, 3
Kahimi Karie, K.K.K.K.
Kinski, self-titled EP
Sharron Kraus, Beautiful Twisted
Brian Lavelle and Richard Youngs, Radios 7
Legendary Pink Dots, Hallway of the Gods
Legends, High Towers (1965-1973)
Linus Pauling Quartet, Ashes in the Bong of God
The Lothars, Connected
Magic Hour, No Excess is Absurd
Barbara Manning, Under One Roof, You Should Know By Now
Matty and Mossy, Fraimers Hamey
MCMS, self-titled
Mum, Finally We Were No One
Muslimgauze, Dar Es Salaam
Marianne Nowottny, Manmade Girl
Paik, Hugo Strange, Corridors
Pelt, Ayahuasca
Perfect Disaster, Up
Michael Peters, Stretched Landscape #1
Ramones, Hey Ho Let's Go!
Rapoon, Pell Mell
Reynols/No-Reynols, Rovatino Surido Almericamo
RST, Warm Planes
Jimmy Scott, Falling in Love is Wonderful
Sebastian, Hew Hoppers Base
The Shamen, Drop
Skye Klad, self-titled and Skye Klad 2
The Spiny Anteaters, Last Supper
ST 37, The Invisible College, Space Age, Nunavut, Down on Us
Stone Breath, A Silver Thread to Weave the Season
Strapping Fieldhands, The Third Kingdom
Ken Stringfellow, This Sounds Like Goodbye
Thuja, Hills
Tiltmaster, Swan Girth
Greg Weeks, Fire in the Arms of the Sun
X-Ray Spex, Germfree Adolescents

...and a slew of comps:
Aliens, Psychos and Wild Things (2 discs, Virginia garage/psych)
Biet-Het is Prop! Volume 2 (Belgian and Dutch psych)
Shakin' in Athens (yep, Greek mid-sixties rock stuffage)
A Heavy Dose of Lyte Psych and A Lethal Dose of Hard Psych (more sixties fun)
Winged We Were: A Tribute to the Incredible String Band
For the Dead in Space (Tom Rapp/Pearls Before Swine tribute)
The Poor Minstrels of Song, Volume 2
What's for Drugs?
Hand/Eye 2 CD

FWIW the past week has yielded

Mahalia Jackson - Gospel dbl Lp on Vogue
Pete Seeger - Best of
Various - rebirth of cool too
Shara Nelson - What silence knows
King Tubby - Dub me Crazy (blood and fire comp)
Candidate - Tiger flies
Stephen Malkmus - Stephen Malkmus

plus a couple of 12"ers These are my people by Members of the house (on underground resistance) and a mystery white label which I haven't a clue about other than I think its deep house(?) c 92/93 and has a spoken intro I've heard people say too much of anything is not good for you baby , but I don't know about that, as many times as we've made love shared love, it just ain't enough and the refrainCan't get enough...of your love, any ideas gratefully accepted.

And the Malkmus CD is k-rub.

I did go on a mini spree just recently though:
Interpol, The Best of Marshall Crenshaw - This is Easy, Big Star - #1 Record / Radio City, The Inbreds - Winning Hearts, Jonathan Richman - Action Packed, Low - Trust, Best of Matthew Sweet 90/00, and I finally picked up the Rheostatics - Blue Hysteria.

Haven't had a chance to listen to either yet, I'm working through the whole lot slowly but surely.

Oh, I like Vainly Cluthing at Phantom Limbs!

Yeah, I saw you had picked up Creatures as well. I have a soft spot for Elf Power, but my fave album is still When the Red King Comes.

grr was there a bardo pond stall at terrastock, ned? i looked quite hard and didn't find one...

It was irregular but it was there -- they moved it here and there (and on the last day may have just run out of room!). Besides the new goodies, they also had both T-shirts and pillowcases. More bands should do the latter.

I don't know what's more impressive the fact that Ned has bought 88 records or the fact he's listed them alphabetically.

I had to do that anyway to sort them into the Raggettstacks. Yay.

Don't you spend any money on food, clothing, and shelter?

Very much so. In fact, that reminds me -- I also got shirts for Ghost, Acid Mothers Temple, Paik, the Iditarod and Terrastock as a whole.

Lungfish, "Necrophones"
Wolf Eyes/Andrew WK split 12"
The Spinanes, "Strand"
Against Me, "Reinventing Axl Rose"
Black Dice, "Beaches & Canyons"

I made a start on this last night - only played disc one so far, but it's fantastic. Marcia G's "Put A Little Love in Your Heart" and The Heptones "Our Day Will Come" (Joe Gibbs at the controls!) are just overwhelming.

I think the only ones I haven't got are Rastafari, Bob Marley and Friends, Upsetter and Skinhead. Do you have any of these Martin?

Swing Easy - Frank Sinatra
Only the Lonelys - Frank Sinatra
Meat is Murder - The Smiths
Holland - The Beach Boys
New Boots and Panties - Ian Dury and the Blockheads

Expecting from ebay:
Scott Walker - Tilt
Sparklehorse - Good morning spider

Buying today from HMV:
Lewis Taylor - Stoned part one
(and anything they 've still got in the sale)

Toya - Toya (disappointing at first instance - v. few discernible tunes)
Spring Heel Jack - Treader (undecided on - must listen more)
Cex - Role Model (first track is brill - got to dig deeper)
Can - Ege Bamyesi (luvvin it luvvin it luvvin it)
Sleater-Kinney - One Beat (predictably great)

...all at rather reduced prices.

Neither of those styles strike me as a bad thing, but I come from the perspective of flat-out adoring their first album There Are Strings, which I reckon is one of the most rhythmically interesting and compulsive, plus dreamy and filmic jungle albums ever.

sonny sharrock- black woman
MEV- patchwork/spacecraft
Derek bailey/Jamie muir- Dart drug
the portable altamont CD on Shock recs (comp feauturing skullflower/coil/current 93 etc).

< I > SEE THIS THORUGH AND LEAVE < I/ > by the Cooper Temple Clause
< I > Apocalypse Dudes < I/ > by Turbonegro
< I > Divine Rites < I/ > by the New Christs
and
the "We're Not Gonna Take It" e.p. by the Donots

Ornette coleman - something else!!!! lp
John Coltrane - a love supreme lp
Miles davis - progy and bess lp
Marva whitney - its my thing lp
Contortions - buy lp
A certain ratio - sextet lp
oh ok - futhermore what mini lp
van dyke parks - discover america lp
jah wobble / the edge / holger czukay - snake charmer mini lp
family fodder - schizophrenia party lp
khia - my back my neck 12"
frank chickens - we are frank chickens lp
the pop group - y lp
various - frankie knuckles presents lp
new order - sub culture 12"
pere ubu - dub housing lp
jurrassic 5 - ep mini lp
maquerade - set it off 12"
nwa - gangsta gangsta 12"
carol williams - lectric lady lp
various - rhythm & rhyme lp
the roots - distortion to static 12"
mystikal - bouncin back 12"
luke - i wanna rock 12"
variousw - b-boy boogie down sampler lp
carole king - wrap around joy lp
emitt rhodes - st lp
chris montez - lets dance lp
mary wells - greatest hits lp
revillos - rev up lp
material - american songs mini lp
bill nelsons red noise - sound on sound l´p
dionne warwick - i say a little prayer lp

* V/A - My House in Montmartre
* cLOUDEAD - cLOUDEAD (£2!!)
* Soft Cell - Very Best Of
* Durutti Column - Domo Arigato
* V/A - Disco Not Disco
* V/A - Studio One Scorchers (Soul Jazz)

and HMV

* Television Personalities - Part Time Punks (best of)
* V/A - Trojan Rastafari Box

& these are new:
Michael J. Sheehy - No Longer My Concern - Sublime.
Noonday Underground Surface Noise - Pretty disappointing, after their swell debut 2 yrs ago.
VA - Studio One Scorcher (Soul Wax) - Bit of a letdown at first listen for straying so little from Skatalites-style ska, but some gems are emerging on repeated plays.
VA - Famous When Dead Two (Playhouse)
VA - Digital Disco (Force Tracks) - I didn't like this at all.
VA Gemeinsam (Bpitch Control)
Playgroup DJ Kicks Very nice.

Um, that's on Soul Jazz - nothing to do with Belgians.

Kompakt Total 4 (amazing, intoxicating, etc. - no surprise there!)
Playgroup - s/t (highly enjoyable - I don't hate fun!)
Fennesz - Field Recordings 1995-2002 (stunning - I like this stuff more than _Endless Summer_)
Warenkorb #4 (okay so this label needs more attention NOW)
Aaardvarck - Find the Cow (this'll take some getting used to, though I like many of the textures right off the bat)
This Heat - Repeat (very glad to have found this)
The Cure - Pornography (Ned and Dan to blame for this - but phew it's good ;-) )
Acid Mothers Temple - Electric Heavyland (like blowing your nose except for it's your brane instead - great fun)
Thomas Fehlmann - Visions of Blah (easily one of the best records I've bought this year - and this is after like two spins)
Yume Bitsu - The Golden Vessyl of Sound (ever-reliable beautiful space-rock from that near-commune of Strange Attractors fokes)
Kelley Polar Quartet - Audition EP (thanks Andy K. - this is hottt)

It's a start.

The Cure - Pornography (Ned and Dan to blame for this - but phew it's good ;-) )

YES IT IS. Now get everything else.

Its Alive - The Ramones - for $10
Lust for Life - Iggy Pop - for $10

Greatest Hits - Manic Street Preachers with bonus remix CD

"i made my boyfriend do it" - nath, that sort of relationship only has one painful ending hah! ;-) or was that another justin bonus track which i didn't get?

missy and tlc both out next monday and i still do not have review copies of EITHER lester you useless sack of sh... ;-)

[the last three for 6.99, bargains!]

peter brotzmannn octet- machine gun

(is there a thread about MCPB? i vaguely remember him getting discussed fairly derisively on some ILX threads but was there one specif about him? does anyone like him? this 12" sounds good right now but of course i have been smokin pot)

here are some MCPB threads:

Paul Barman Release?

mc paul barnham - classic or dud?

A Certain Ratio -- Early
Always -- Thames Valley Leather Club
Butthole Surfers -- Humpty Dumpty LSD
Byrds -- Farther Along
Chemical Brothers -- Come With Us
Clikatat Ikatowi -- Live August 29th and 30th 1995
Coil -- Windowpane and the Snow
Current 93 -- Emblems, Faust, The Great in the Small
Czars -- The Ugly People vs. the Beautiful People
Einsturzende Neubaten -- Strategies Against Architecture III
John Foxx -- The Garden
Fushitsusha -- Origin's Hesitation
Gizmos -- 1975-1977: Demos and Rehearsals
Goblins -- Missing Fits
Goldfrapp -- Felt Mountain (bonus disc version)
Goma -- some disc
Holly and the Italians -- Holly Beth Vincent
Hot Snakes -- Automatic Midnight
James -- B-Sides Ultra
John's Children -- The Complete John's Children
Makato Kawabata/Richard Youngs -- s/t
Takako Minekawa -- Fun 9
Mountain Goats -- Ghana
Mus -- Aida
Ninety-Nine -- 99
Stina Nordenstam -- People Are Strange
Oasis -- The Hindu Times (single and DVD), Stop Crying Your Heart Out (DVD)
The Orb -- Auntie Aubrey's Excursions Beyond the Call of Duty Part 2
Quintron -- Unmasked Organ Light Year of Infinity Man
Radiohead -- I Might Be Wrong
Rocket From the Tombs -- The Day The Earth Met...
Schema -- s/t
Stereolab -- The First of the Microbe Hunters
Styrofoam -- The Point, Misser
Supernova -- Pop as a Weapon
The The -- 45 RPM (double disc)
Trans Am -- TA, Extremixx
Tristeza -- Mixed Signals
Von Lmo -- Future Language
Wreckless Eric -- Greatest Stiffs
Robert Wyatt -- Nothing Can Stop Us
Richard Youngs -- Making Paper
The Machines (Simple Machines comp)
1990-1997 -- Plus 8 Classics
Better than the Beatles: A Tribute to The Shaggs

...plus a promo DVD with all the Massive Attack videos and Cerrone's Supernature on vinyl. Rah!

Planning To Buy:
Pearl Jam - Riot Act
Sigur Ros - ()

All recommended, even Timbo.

Sacrilege. Not when a song like "Drink" exists.

The Cure "Faith" -- never had this one.
The Cure "Pornography -- not this one either.
Crescent "Now" -- liked the other two I had by these guys.
The Posies "Frosting on the Beater" -- $4 bucks...I remember liking some of the songs I heard, so I took a chance.
Swervedriver "Raise" -- used to have it, but it got nicked a long time ago.
Red Red Meat "Jimmiewine Majestic" -- used to have this one also, it also dissapeared somewhere along the line.
The Creation "Our Music Is Red with Purple Flashes" -- this one was new, but I love the couple of songs I have heard by them.

Steel Pole Bathtub, "Scars From Falling Down"
Smart Went Crazy, "Now We're Even"
Polvo, "Exploded Drawing"
The Gerbils, "Are You Sleepy?"

In the mail from No Idea--

Palatka/Asshole Parade split LP
Yaphet Kotto 7" (the new one on Council)
All The President's Men compilation
Car Vs. Driver, "Deja Grateful"
This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb, "Front Seat Solidarity"
Assfactor 4, "Sports"

Savage Republic -- reissue box set plus live 1981 to 1983 disc
Scenic -- Spheres, The Acid Gospel Experience
Autumnfair -- 1986-1989
Origami Galaktika -- Skysail Palace: Manufactured Manipulations
Legendary Pink Dots -- All the King's Men

Rah!

stevie wonder - songs in the key of life
jay-z - the blueprint 2
missy - under construction
vert - the koln conzert
herbert - bodily functions
kompakt total 4
the notorious b.i.g. - ready to die
dave holland big band - what goes around
ll cool j - 10

What I'm saying is, they're good. Damn good!

Trina - Diamond Princess
Holly Valance - Footprints
V/A - Electric Ladyland: Clickhop Version 1
Sugababes - Angels With Dirty Faces
Roni Size - Touching Down
V/A - Dancer (Italic)
V/A - Extra Yard
Green Velvet - Whatever
Justin Timberlake - Justified
Ms. Jade - Girl Interrupted

Latest downloads:
Guitar - Sunkissed
Desperate Bicycles - Another Commercial Venture
The Homosexuals' Record
Loose Fur (Jim O'Rourke & Jeff Tweedy) - s/t
Asian Dub Foundation - Enemy of the Enemy
Cat Power - You Are Free
Erland Oye (Kings of Convenience) - Unrest

• Klaus Schulze - 2001


• The The - Disinfected


• Comsat Angels – My Minds Eye (positive surprise)


• Grandaddy – The Sophtware Slump limited edition 2 CDs


• Hayden – Skyscraper National Park (this is very good)


• Mountain Goats - All Hail West Texas


• Neu! - 75 (disappointing after the 1st)


• No-Man – Returning Jesus (disappointing)


• Rocket from the Tombs – The Day the Earth Met the Rocket from the Tombs (great proto-punk)


• Sonic Youth & ICP & The EX - In the Fishtank (free-jazzy)

Franklin Bruno - A Cat May Look At a Queen
V/A - Rough Trade - Rock And Roll 1
Black Dice - Beaches & Canyons
Shannon Wright - Dyed In the Wool
Sue Garner - Shadyside

Thanks to chain stores of various repute:

Jay-Z - The Blueprint 2
Missy Elliot - Under Construction
Christina Aguilera - Stripped
Pearl Jam - Riot Act
Streets - Original Pirate Material
Low - Trust
Augustus Pablo - Classic Rockers

And they're all good! (Shocking, I know.)

If you're a hardcore early Human League fan, you need it.

No-Man – Returning Jesus (disappointing)

Really? I thought it was their take on late Talk Talk with a more formal song structure, worked rather well as that.

V/A: London Is The Place For Me: Trinidadian Calypso in London, 1950-1956
DJ/Rupture: Gold Teeth Thief
The Snivelling Shits: I Can't Come
Hrvatski: Swarm & Dither
Sun City Girls: Flute and Mask
Sun City Girls: Wah
Vanity: Wild Animal
Jack Rose: Red Horse, White Mule
V/A: DJ Drank's Greatest Malt Liquor Hits
V/A: Painted Black
Melt-Banana/Big D and the Kids Table: split 7"
Trees: On the Shore
Nirvana: Incesticide

No wonder I love it!

also I was sent a copy of the Playgroup Party Mix CD - rant to follow on relevant thread

Last "old" CDs bought as a preferred option to spending whole weekend rummaging through my garage for the vinyl original(s): Bow Wow Wow "See Jungle" (inspired by both Anthony E and Simon R) and Bonzo Dog Band "Cornology" box set in t'HMV sale.

I had forgotten how frightening a piece of music Neil Innes' "Slush" was.

(all half price hurrah)

All lovely vinyl.

Vinyl:
Astrobotnia - "Part II" (EP)
Scott Joplin - "Piano Rags of Scott Joplin Vol. 2" (Joshua Rifkin)
Steve Reich - "Octet; Music for Large Ensemble; Violin Phase"

The Roots - Phrenology
System of a Down - Steal This Album
Ani DiFranco - UpUpUpUpUp
...on CD, and...
Miles Davis - He Loved Him Madly
...on LP

Casino Versus Japan - Whole Numbers Play the Basics (I'm pretty sure I read about this on ILM and, if I did, thank you to whoever recommended it)
BOC - Twoism
Safety Scissors vs. Kit Clayton - Ping Pong
Golden Boy w. Miss Kittin - Or
Les Savy Fav - 3/5
Kopakt Total 1, 2 & 3 (better late than never)

And the best purchase I've made all month is the Marvin Gaye box set.

Christian Vander, Les Cygnes et Les Corbeaux
Fuck, this one's out already? How is it?

King Crimson, Happy With What You Have to Be Happy With (terrible!)
The title track would be good, if it had a real chorus I think they need another chorus cuz emulating David Byrne a good twenty years down the road is nothing but a Drrraaaaaaag...Seriously, I think Fripp needs to regroup; he's getting sacked by the defense.

Add N to (X) -- Loud Like Nature
Apoptygma Berzerk -- 7
Appliance -- Are You Earthed?
The Avengers -- Died For Your Sins
Daniel Bedingfield -- Gotta Get Thru This
Built to Spill -- Ancient Melodies of the Future
Clinic -- Walking With Thee
Ornette Coleman -- Skies of America
The Coral -- Skeleton Key
Cousteau -- Sirena
DJ Me DJ You -- Can You See the Music
Echoboy -- Giraffe
Enon -- High Society
Jellyfish -- Fan Club
Man or Astroman? -- Intravenous Television Continuum
Meat Beat Manifesto -- RUOK?
Melt-Banana -- Scratch or Stitch
Moistboyz -- III
The Mountain Goats -- Tallahassee
Outkast -- Aquemini
Pulp -- We Love Life
The Real Tuesday Weld -- I, Lucifer
Spooky -- Gargantuan

scarface - the fix
stereolab/nww - crumb duck
naughty by nature - st
glenn gould - the complete goldberg variations
dave holland - the razor's edge
herbert - around the house
ludacris - back for the first time
nappy roots - watermelon, chicken & gritz
v/a - ayia napa the album 2001

Vikter Duplaix - International Affairs v1.0
Brooks - You, Me and Us
Carsten Jost - You Don't Need a Weatherman
Phantom Ghost - Phantom Ghost
Various - Scattered Snares

ned - echoboy! i'm starting a thread

Purchased Friday because fuck Buy Nothing Day and fuck Adbusters:

New Bad Things, Ennui Go
Bob Dylan, Live 1975
New Pornographers, Mass Romantic
Galaxie 500, On Fire
The Feelies, Only Life
764-HERO, Salt Sinks & Sugar Floats

And today, some 7"s:

Pirate Jenny, "Men of the Sea"
New Bad Things, "Freemason Love Triangle"

And I suppose you've already bought everything you're 'supposed' to have bought by now. ;-) Now that said:

Ned you just got We Love Life?!?!!

In this case, I've had the mp3s for a year. Just saw a copy used -- the American release, no less! -- and thought, "Eh, what the hell." I admit I've only heard the album about twice all this time, but I can count the amount of albums I've bought in the last couple of years and listened to more than once or twice on my hands (and maybe a foot).

ned - echoboy! i'm starting a thread

Rah! I like that first album of theirs (or rather his), so I was pleased to see this new one. Now to get Volume 2.

Ned, how many times do you listen to each of those CDs?

Answer sorta explained above. I think there are things in the Raggettstacks that I've had for about a decade that I've still never heard. I sure wouldn't be surprised!

And as for Josh: v/a - ayia napa the album 2001 - !!!!

Ned, do you like the remix of Invasion of the Dragonmen?

(*is it just me or are the charts much better these days?)

Theoretical Girls compilation

Oh Me Oh My... - Devendra Banhart

Slanted and Enchanted: Luxe and Reduxe - Pavement

and on the way
LCD Soundsystem - gve it up 7"
BLACK STROBE - Me and madonna 12"
The Future / Human league 12"
I monster - daydream in blue 7"
Noise addict - def 10"
Simian - never be alone 7"
Girls on top - i wanna dance with number 12"

*ponders* You referring to the Add N to (X) "Invasion of the Polaroid People"?

Ned you know I am in fact your lovechild.

My twelve year old self was busier than I knew.

talib kweli - quality
the roots - phrenology
missy - supa dupa fly
v/a - 8 mile ost

Jimi Hendrix - Blue Wild Angel: Jimi Hendrix Live At the Isle Of Wight

Django Reinhardt - Hot Club de France

Lungbutter - Dr Rush's "Tranquilizer"

Super Furry Animals - Rings Around The World (listening to disc two right now - very happy with this)
The Flashing Lights - Sweet Release (already played - fun!)
Bourbon Tabernacle Choir - 1985-1995 (not yet listened to)
The Replacements - Don't Tell A Soul (not yet listened to)
The Cure - Disintegration (FINALLY)

XTC - Skylarking

Yes, after only, what, thirteen years? ;-)

Totally mad splurge at a car boot sale in Glasgow yesterday. Some will no doubt be eBayed, I don't have high hopes for Incubus or BRA for example. I'll give them a fair crack of the whip, which means I'll listen to the first 30 seconds. (all CD btw)

Total cost £29.50!

Freedom Suite - David S. Ware Quartet

O'Neal's Porch - William Parker Quartet

Tiny Bell Trio - Dave Douglas

The Sevens - Tim Berne

Sustain - Mat Maneri w/ Joe McPhee

Going to Church - Maneri Ensemble

(used)
Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies
(remastered cd, used to have this one on tape)

Flaming Lips - Finally the Punk Rockers are Taking Acid
(I used to have Telepathic Surgery, but it was sold when I dead broke back around 93. I had never heard their first ep or "Oh My Gawd", so this was a very welcome find.)

Come - Eleven: Eleven
(I used to have this one but it got sold I think in the same sudden death rent purge. I forgot how much I liked this one, it is some beautful sleazy sounding music.)

Will Oldam - Joya (I just never picked this one up, as the last one I bought was the Last Blues collection.)

(mail ordered)

Papa M- Whatever Mortal
Bonnie Prince Billy - I See A Darkness
Eric's Trip - Forever Again (used)

Mine:

Spring Heel Jack, Amassed
Wolf Eyes, Dead Hills
Electrelane, Rock It To The Moon
Frank Denyer, The Fired City
Radian, Rec. Extern
Nmperign, 44:38/5

Tim: Grrr. you bought last temptation and already you wrote something about it on Skykicking which captures a good half of the things I was gonna say.

Tracer - no, it's the first Tiny Bell Trio alb from 1993 - same line-up as 'Constellations', tho. Douglas and Black sound great on the rec in question - so strong and swinging - but I wasn't quite as convinced by the gtrist, who didn't strike me (on a first listen) as esp. distinctive or challenging.

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