ILM Snapshot: Last Five Records You Bought

helen, have only heard the Josh Rouse once now, but it sounds nice enough, like his other two. Will try to report back.

Sodding hell. Why didn't anyone tell me about this?

• Thomas Chapin & Borah Bergman - Inversions
• Thomas Chapin - Radius
• The Clientele - Suburban Light
• Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children (long overdue for my own copy of this)
• Claude Debussy - Piano Works (Pascal Rogé, piano) (see above)
• Charles Ives - Symphony No. 1 / Three Places in New England, Ormandy/Philadelphia Orchestra, plus Robert Browning Overture, Stokowski/American SO

but you're still a show-off, Ned!

If anything, I want to show off the quality of the stores around here - - I wish everyone could have such a thing nearby! We could all be pathetically happy.

André Popp - Popp Musique
Pink - M!55UNdAZ7OOd
The Notwist - Neon Golden
Shirley Bassey - Something
v/a - la musique de Paris Dernière

all very good or better.

I was going to raid the dance section as well, but I couldn't find most of Tim's recent recommendations.

What's the Willard Grant Conspiracy and Telefunk thing like?

When heard, I will comment.

"Farid el Atrache Forever. . . Vol.2" Om Kolthom "Habebi ysaad awkatoo" (with two other songs) Mohammed Abdel Wahab (no title given in English, but starts with two songs: "Toul Omri" and "Egri Egri" Kazem Essaher "La Ya Sadiki" Stevie Wonder "Greatest Hits Vol.2"

The first three Arabic CDs are all really good overall, but I already had some of the songs on cassette, so I knew what I was getting. Kazem Essaher is another matter and I can't recommend this recording. I bought these at a store I was told about. It used to actually have these CDs on display, but has basically given up on trying to sell them. I picked through a few piles of dusty CDs stored under the main display cases. The first time I went there I bought nine. It's nice to be able to walk into a store and buy them instead of ordering them online, especially when the price ends up being the same or maybe a little less (since they gave me a discount).

2) R. Kelley -- TP-2.COM (Dumber title than Twelve Play, much better production AND a song named "The Greatest Sex")

Ja Rule -- Pain Is Love (Y'all know the songs on this already, but I just had to have the whole album)

Mya -- Fear of Flying (Why oh why did I not buy this earlier?)

Madonna -- s/t.

All of these were downloaded from Emusic. I love my Emusic subscription--since I'm not a pirate, it's the closest I'll ever get to my fantasy of running through a record store grabbing everything I can. (Naked. I'm weird that way.)

This isn't in order of download, BTW.

1:Eclectic Electric, a 245 minute Emusic-only electronica comp. (I've heard about half of it so far. Half classic, half cud, none dud.)

2:Songs In The Key Of Z, Irwin Chusid's (in)famous novelt^H^H^H outsider music comp. (Peter Grudzian rocks! Also, it'll help tide me over until I can get some Shaggs and Jandek on CD.)

3:Take The Guitar Player For A Ride, Peter Laughner. (Eehh, middling.)

4:Songs Of The Naked City, late-seventies New York punk comp. (Fleshtones, Blondie, NYD, Suicide, Richard Hell, Bloodless Pharoahs, Ramones. I reconized the uncredited last track as the Fleshtones' version of "96 Tears.")

5:First Suicide album. (However did I live my life without owning this?)

Inner Mystique - Chocolate Watch Band

Jimmy Castor Bunch - Phase III

Siegel-Schwall - Say Siegel-Schwall

Doors - Strange Days

(ditto) - Waiting for the Sun

Boards of Canada - Geogaddi

Electr-o-pura - yo la tengo

but the last 5 songs I downloaded were:

stroke of genius - Freelance hellraiser (but can I find a download of it without the xfm announcer at the end of it? can I fuck)

Photobooth - Death cab for cutie

match of the day theme tune

I just can't get enough pills - freelance hellraiser

showstopper - The Cashmeres

The Raincoats - Odyshape - from e/bay - maybe the seller will send it to me one day!

Altered Images - The Best Of Altered Images.

Am dumping some rubbish at RTE later today and will be buying shedloads of new stuff. Will report back.

V/A - Dub, Original Bass Culture

Silver Apples - both albums on 1 CD

Section 25 - Always Now LTM Reissue

The Wake - Holyheads LTM Reissue

David Sylvian - Everything and Nothing

The Move - Singles As and Bs

V/A - The Beat Scene (Decca/Deram comp)

V/A - Invicta Chartbusters (Freda Payne/Chairmen of the Board/Honey Cones)

V/A - Pebbles Essential Collection + Insanely Rare

ABC - The Lexicon of Love - CD remaster. I wore out the vinyl.

carpet musics - weekday

pipas - new 7"

Sportique - modern museums 10"

v/a - shotclub

tahnk you twee kitten

2) Playgroup - Playgroup
I like how Playgroup's vision of the eighties extends way into the early nineties with lotsa dubby house influences. For some reason though I've yet to listen to this more than once, even though I really enjoyed it.

3) V/A - American Gigolo
This is like washing detergent, all those blaring synth riffs and brittle machine beats feel cleansing and slightly rasping against your skin. The best stuff on this is either a) the housier stuff, or b) the poppier stuff. So "Sunglasses At Night", which is both poppy and housey, is automatically the best thing on offer.

4) New Flesh - Understanding
The good stuff is fantastic - snapping, whirring electro-dancehall with indecipherable ragga chatter. The more conventional stuff is a bit boring and I'm pretty sure that all the guest MCs bar Roots are crap. There's a perfect ep here though.

5) V/A - Fuse Presents DJ Hell
Haven't listened to this yet, but I found it cheap and it has the Patrick Cowley extended mix of "I Feel Love" so it *must* be good.

Boredoms Super AE (Much better than I remember them being 5 years ago)

Psychic TV Force The Hand of Chance (Hit or miss, better than some other Genesis stuff I've heard)

Prince Charming Fantastic Voyage (For a friend. I already own it and it's ridiculously good)

Sand Ultrasonic Seraphim (Weird kraut-folk record, "May Rain" is great, rest is still pretty good)