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...rrrr ...rrrr ...i'm waiting for my copy of Natacha's Something Dangerrrrrous to arrrrrive any day now ....RRRRRRRRRR

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Sunday, 15 June 2003 15:02 (twenty-three years ago)

What is up with the Steely Dan backcatalog flying off the shelves around here? Is it just that time of year?

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.

― o. nate (onate), Sunday, 15 June 2003 19:25 (twenty-three years ago)

!!! - Me & Giuliani...
Scott Walker - Tilt

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.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Sunday, 15 June 2003 19:48 (twenty-three years ago)

(ILM is behind the sudden interest in Steely Dan world-wide.)

― Rockist Scientist, Sunday, 15 June 2003 19:51 (twenty-three years ago)

kat onoma - kat onoma digipack
benjamin biolay - rose kennedy

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Sunday, 15 June 2003 20:31 (twenty-three years ago)

hey alex. been to france for a holiday? ;) how's that kat onoma album?

― willem (willem), Monday, 16 June 2003 06:56 (twenty-two years ago)

sale bin ultra cheep :
prince - sign o the times
roger mcguinn - same
cheap trick - found all the parts e.p.
john martyn - london conversation
bob pegg & nick strutt - same
lois - bet the sky
vic godard/subway sect - what's the matter boy (already got this but i picked up this copy for livvie, hey livvie if yr readin this i got you a copy of what's the matter boy, i'll put it in the mail tomorrow if i don't forget)
+ not from sale bin but pretty cheap -
kool keith - matthew

― duane (24 hour troubleshooter), Monday, 16 June 2003 07:00 (twenty-two years ago)

if you live in dunedin you should go look in the sale bin @ echo, there's some good stuff in there right now. i didn't buy "mechanical ape/proud idiots parade" by thug (already gots) but if you don't know that rec & it's still there, buy it, it's great

― duane (24 hour troubleshooter), Monday, 16 June 2003 07:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I went insane in Montreal:

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.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 16 June 2003 12:11 (twenty-two years ago)

haven't done this for a while. here's some of what i got today and over the last couple of months (not counting free CDs with magazines):

!!! – “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

― zebedee (zebedee), Monday, 16 June 2003 16:03 (twenty-two years ago)

and:
al green - gets next to you

― zebedee (zebedee), Monday, 16 June 2003 16:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Fred Frith - Clearing
-- sundar subramanian

how d'you like it, sundar?

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Monday, 16 June 2003 16:09 (twenty-two years ago)

haven't listened too much to the kat onoma yet, willem. there are some excellent songs but there are some disposable ones as well. "que sera votre vie?" is very catchy.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Monday, 16 June 2003 18:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I listened to the Frith once. I thought it was fucking great.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 16 June 2003 18:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Parliament - Up For The Down Stroke
Temptations - A Song For You and Masterpiece (a twofer)
Plastic Surgery 2 (D&B comp)
All Saints - All Hits (£3 - their stock has fallen!)
J Rawls - The Essence Of J. Rawls

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 16 June 2003 19:42 (twenty-two years ago)

some more i forgot:

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

― zebedee (zebedee), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 10:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Doctor's Cat - "Andromeda"
Doctor's Cat - "Watch out"

eBay italo records monopolising my money just now...

― Jacob (Jacob), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 12:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I took out

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

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 20:24 (twenty-two years ago)

White Stripes, Elephant
Elvis Presley, 30 #1 Hits
Black Sabbath, Paranoid
Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind OST

― Millar (Millar), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 20:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Blondie - Plastic Letters
Brian Eno - Another Green World
the Virgin Prunes - ...If I Die, I Die
D.A.F. - Alles Ist Gut

― willem (willem), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 20:35 (twenty-two years ago)

sundar, can you say something about that Susie Ibara CD once you've listened to it? I am curious about it, but I am wondering how out it is. It could sound to unstructured for my taste, but some things I've read about her have made me interest and (stupid reasons): I like her name, and I like the cover. Actually, I often end up trying things because I like the names of the people involved, and sometimes it leads to good things.

― Rockist Scientist, Tuesday, 17 June 2003 23:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, and someone at work made copies of 3 Pakistani CDs for me. I don't know anything about them and haven't heard them yet:

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

― Rockist Scientist, Tuesday, 17 June 2003 23:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Broadcast - Noise made by people
Ladytron - Light & Magic
Lamb - What sound? Deluxe
YYY - Fever to tell
Plaid - Parts in the post

― Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 23:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I think I like Nayyara Noor. I want to marry someone named Nayyara Noor, what a great name. Seriously, this is nice kind of mellow stuff. The mood reminds me of something else, but I don't know what, possibly something much closer to home culturally.

― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 18 June 2003 01:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Today I took out:

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

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 20:10 (twenty-two years ago)

(I should have bought Controversy when I saw it on sale at Tower a couple months back.)

― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 18 June 2003 21:47 (twenty-two years ago)

ministry of shit
sugarhill comp (from minna!)
berserkley chartbusters
nouvelle vague (creeping bent comp)

― gaz (gaz), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 22:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm liking this Farida Kwanum, so far.

― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 18 June 2003 22:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Joy Division, Heart & Soul box set
Mano Negra, Puta's Fever
Wayne Wonder, No Holding Back
Astrud Gilberto, Look to the Rainbow
and a copy of Human League Dare on vinyl for a few dollars, because I had a friend who needed a copy

― Adam A. (Keiko), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 23:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Red House Painters - Retrospective (I finally found a used copy! rock!)

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 23:14 (twenty-two years ago)

latest raid on my favourite second hand books/stamps/cds shop

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!

― minna (minna), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 23:42 (twenty-two years ago)

i forgot the best bit!
poison - open up and say ah (cassette)

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.

― minna (minna), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 23:44 (twenty-two years ago)

wolf eyes - slicer
factrix - artifact
blue oyster cult - s/t
tyrannosaurus rex - a beard of stars
crazy horse - s/t

― your null fame (yournullfame), Thursday, 19 June 2003 01:04 (twenty-two years ago)

CDs I've bought since the beginning of the month (not gonna bother with all the vinyl I've accumulated- let's just say that 5 LPs for $1 bins at record shows are a godsend):

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

― Mike Ouderkirk (Mike Ouderkirk), Thursday, 19 June 2003 01:26 (twenty-two years ago)

The last thing I got was an album by Ingrid Caven called "Abendstern", which is either the worst thing I ever bought in my life or one of the best, I'm not sure yet - but it was only 99p and has a very attractive cover and vinyl is so much sexier than poxy CDs. Ingrid of course was married to Rainer Werner Fassbinder and this is the other reason i bought it....

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 19 June 2003 17:53 (twenty-two years ago)

The other day I bought Dr Ring Ding 'Bombs Over Baghdad' 7" and the Locust/Melt Banana split 7" on GSL

― ss, Thursday, 19 June 2003 18:04 (twenty-two years ago)

small record fair yesterday, bought the last lp's i'll buy this quarter:
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
Amon Düül II - Carnival in Babylon
Cluster & Eno

― willem (willem), Friday, 20 June 2003 07:32 (twenty-two years ago)

more super bargains today, bargain bins are going off big style @ roy's & (esp.) @ Echo (hey btw does anyone know if any of these are any good - gentle giant (can't remember which one but a quite early one), curt boetcher solo album from 1972, it's a beautiful day's "choice quality stuff", "them boners be poppin'" v/a on boner, fun seekers (from minneapolis, on treehouse), the accused - "more fun than an open casket funeral", john stewart's "california bloodlines", joe ely's 80s albums?)(anyway tho, here's what i got & it was all real cheap & also it was good 'cause at roy's i traded in some boring ones i got in the echo sale bin the other day for like 2x what i paid for em, yay, music sounds better cheap!) --
jefferson airplane - early flight
radiopuhelimet - 2 1/2
rolling stones - black & blue (a very underrated (by me!) stones album, it made me dance)
sonny okosuns - revolution II
ringo moya - dancez zaire
choeur gregorien de paris - mort et resurrection, sorry i couldn't be bothered looking up the html to get all the accents acute & cedillas & stuff
the telescopes - same
le grand maitre franco et son tout puissant ok jazz - ekaba-kaba
mahlathini & the mahotella queens - thokozile
soweto compilation [replacement copy]

― duane, Friday, 20 June 2003 10:25 (twenty-two years ago)

other stuff that was in the bins that i nearly bought but then i thought oh that'll turn up cheap again don't bother but now i wish i had, i hope they're still there tomorrow -
adam ant - hits
orchestral manoeuvres in the dark - (whatever their hits album is called)
steve harley & cockney rebel - can't remember the name but it was from like 1976
also if anyone needs a copy of in search of space by hawkwind (attn: [esp.] beth) there's 1 at roy's for like 2 or 3$)
man i luv this thread, yes nick i read this bugger every day!

― duane, Friday, 20 June 2003 10:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Disco Inferno - DI Go Pop
O.Rang - Herd Of Instinct
Radiohead - Hail To The Thief (proper copy to replace my long-lost CDR review copy thing)

Just ordered Ebverything's Alright Forver by Boo Radleys.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Friday, 20 June 2003 11:09 (twenty-two years ago)

swollen left index finger?

― willem (willem), Friday, 20 June 2003 11:12 (twenty-two years ago)

sorry, "these records are in the cheap bin, should i buy them" & "records i didn't buy but i prob'ly oughta" should be off in their own threads really

― duane, Friday, 20 June 2003 11:13 (twenty-two years ago)

The Susie Ibarra disc is lovely. I had listened to it before actually. It has warmth, gentleness, and subtlety. The instruments play against each other in a way that comes off perfectly relaxed and 'natural'. I don't think it's *too* wild. There are a lot of warm melodic phrases in it that clearly suggest the South/East Asian influences, some beautiful dynamics in the intricate percussion work. I find some of it a little mysterious-sounding, and much of it sort of sensual (which might be partly because it reminds me of a Susie Ibarra fan I had a crush on some years ago).

A little more on the Frith: I'm happy with the crispy clean, full production. Everything feels very impassioned, from the pretty and sometimes aching melodies to the full strumming to the violent noise.

At the end of the day I'm still not a huge Prince fan so far. The Parliament is awesome though.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 20 June 2003 22:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yeah, there's a brief droney Pauline Oliveros accordion solo on the Ibarra. Somehow I get the impression this disc might appeal to you, RS. It's on the 'mellow-garde' side.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 20 June 2003 22:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Friend of my boyfriend works at BMG Music Online, so we dropped in last week while I was briefly in NYC. There were abandoned CDs everywhere and she said help yourself and made it clear I should take a lot. But most of these CDs were abandoned for good reasons, I have to say.

CDs I kept:
Nonesuch Explorer Series (reissues on CD) - Tahiti (Gaugin Years), Java (Jasmine Isle), Bali (Music for the Shadow Play)
I Muvrini - Pulifunie
Ahmed Abdul-Malik - Jazz Sounds of Africa
Alfred Schnittke - Choir Concerto & other choral works
Chemical Brothers - Come With Us

A few other CDs went to my boyfriend's Mom, and the rest I traded in, at a shop back home, for:
Loud Family - Tape of Only Linda
Belle & Sebastian - Lazy Line Painter Jane EP box set
Drive Like Jehu - Yank Crime reissue
!!! - "Me & Giuliani..." EP
Beach Boys - Sounds of Summer compilation

Also while in NYC, I bought:
Audio Bullys - Ego War
Thomas Fehlmann - Visions of Blah

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Saturday, 21 June 2003 05:27 (twenty-two years ago)

''Nonesuch Explorer Series (reissues on CD) - Tahiti (Gaugin Years), Java (Jasmine Isle), Bali (Music for the Shadow Play)''

got a couple of discs of this series (both are gamelan discs). good stuff.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 21 June 2003 07:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm pretty excited about the Java and Bali discs -- among other things, I think they'll give me a basic idea about the different gamelan traditions in these two regions. The school where I teach has a large gamelan program, with both Javanese and Balinese ensembles, and I've always felt I ought to know the basic differences. (Something beyond "Balinese = faster and more sparkling"...)

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Saturday, 21 June 2003 16:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Orange Juice - Ostrich Churchyard
A Disco 2CD set (Emotions! Patrice Rushen!!)
V/A - Upsetter Box
The FAll - the new BBC sessions 2CD thingy

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Saturday, 21 June 2003 18:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Walker Brothers - Portrait
Walker Brothers - Take it easy
Walker Brothers - Images
Scott Walker - Scott
Scott Walker - Scott 2
Scott Walker - Scott 3
Scott Walker - Scott 4
Def Jux 2 Anthology
Associates - Fourth drawer down

and about a dozen Al Bowlly LP's.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Saturday, 21 June 2003 18:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Duane, 1976 Cockney Rebel would be Timeless Flight - it's a good one, but not as good as Human Menagerie or Psychomodo.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 21 June 2003 18:47 (twenty-two years ago)

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