Last X records you bought, 2nd quarter 2003

anyway, left 2 2nd shops today with these vinyl issues:

Mick Ronson - Slaughter on 10th Avenue
David Bowie & Pat Metheny Group - This Is Not America [12"]
the Psychedelic Furs - s/t & Mirror Moves
Martin Phillips and the Chills - Sunburnt
Roxy Music - Viva! Roxy Music (which is GRAND!)

"the akron complication" has some great stuff on it, thats all i've listened to so far except some bob wills in the car on the way home.

now that's good eatin'. does it have any bonus tracks?

Remind me not to get the rerelease of Mental Funeral, as there's no way they can improve the sound on that.

and on it´s way home to me:
vaselines - son of a gun 12"
faust - the faust tapes lp
and soon
sea urhcins - pristine christine 7"
orange juice - blueboy 7"
girlfrendo - 2nd 7"
(thanks electric sound of jim!)

yeah, "destined to fester" and "in the grip..." were on retribution and the original "severed survival" cd, along with the "retribution" title track. weird...

Well, in my case, it's just that I've sort of recently discovered them. I mean, I was vaguely aware of their existence, but I'd never really sought out their stuff or even heard much of it. I blame Jody Beth Rosen, I guess, since it was her POX thread and the positive responses it got that inspired me to download a few of their songs. Then I picked up Countdown to Ecstasy since it had "My Old School" on it. The album proceeded to quickly grow on me like a vicious fungus. So I picked up the preceding release and then the following one. So far I still like Countdown the best, but I plan to continue on through their catalog until I lose interest - and if I don't lose interest, even better.

First played Tilt last night after a long day filming in an stultifyingly hot abandoned "boys' village" in Wales. Got home, saw Emma, drank a few beers, went to bed at 1am, put it on on headphones. A record has never scared me before. As if A Farmer In The City wasn't ominous and daemonic enough, during the opening moments of The Cockfighter I felt like someone was scratching their fingernails down the inside of the back of my skull, peeling my cerebelum away, and then, on the verge of sleep, it errupted in beautifully hideous and disturbed industrial sense-rape, clattering drum-things shocking me upright and Walker emitting this awful, harrowing ullulation over the top. I was nearly physically sick. It was magnificent.

MIMEO/John Tilbury - The Hands of Caravaggio
Fred Frith - Clearing
Kevin Drumm - Land of Lurches
Kevin Drumm/Lasse Machaug - Frozen by Blizzard Winds
Ravi Shankar - Ragas Hema-Bihag, Malaya Marutam, Mishra-Mand
AC/DC - Highway to Hell
Aerosmith's Greatest Hits
And I borrowed a friend's Paul Oakenfold disc.

!!! – “me and giuliani down by the school yard (a true story)” CDS
v/a – hip hop sessions
v/a – diwali : greensleeves rhythm album #27
norman jay – journeys by dj: desert island mix part2
peggy lee – best of 1952-56
greg davis – arbor
dntel – “(this is) the dream of evan and chan” CDS
ray barretto – the best of
johnny nash – the very best of
judy garland – greatest hits
rush – all the world’s a stage
v/a – the annual, spring 2001 (ministry of sound mix/comp)
ELO – out of the blue
prefuse 73 one word extinguisher
the e.m.i. records 70s pop 3CD box set
an 80s old-skool electro / hip hop comp
Trojan comp CD that came with the book, “young gifted & black”
a couple of nina simone compilations

how d'you like it, sundar?

small faces - ultimate collection (bit disappointed by this)
zombies - singles collection A's & B's (much better)
v/a - strictly the best 30 (reggae comp. from 2002 that i bought in the caribbean, but released on the miami label, VP records - about five really good tracks on it)
an archies compilation CD

eBay italo records monopolising my money just now...

Fatboy Slim - You've Come a Long Way, Baby
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
Michael Torke's Color Music
Tragically Hip - Fully Completely
Chelsea Bridge - Tanamagouche
Susie Ibarra - Flower after Flower

The Enchanting Nayyara Noor
Best of Farida Kwanum Album 1: Geet & Gaazals
Ustad Amrnat [? can't make out the writing] Ali Khan: Whispering Memories Ghazals

Prince - Controversy (This is on track 2. It's so good so far that it actually saddens me that my hippie/indie Dylan-loving, Yes/Queen/Boston/Rush-hating pop music prof loves this album.)
Prince - Music from Purple Rain
Parliament - Funkentelechy vs the Placebo Syndrome
Dr N Ramani & Trichy Sankaran - Lotus Signatures
Ravi Shankar - Three Ragas

freak nasty - freak nasty
michael jackson - bad
michael jackson - dangerous
d mob - a little bit of this, a little bit of that
jomanda - someone to love me
hi-5 - hi-5
prince - parade
kid creole & the coconuts - you shoulda told me you were...
the best of hall & oates
janet jackson - design of a decade

i am relieved that i'll be able to take the kid creole back for credit!

i also got a tape called 'summer of 87' but it didnt have the right cassette inside (a boring soundtrack instead) so i'l take that back too.

Fela Kuti - Zombie
v/a - Postpunk Chronicles: Going Underground
Fountains of Wayne - Welcome Interstate Managers
Ghostface Killah - Ironman
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
Prince - 1999
Blondie - s/t
David Bowie - "Heroes"
This Mortal Coil - It'll End in Tears
Clipse - Lord Willin'
Radiohead - Hail to the Thief