ILM Snapshot: Last Five Records You Bought

singles: ballboy - girls are better than boys; outkast - ms jackson; missy elliott - get ur freak on.

albums: ash - free all angels; electrelane - rock it to the moon; destiny's child - survivor.

(note: this is as pop as I have got for the last five years, so not sure how representative it is...)

Bill

Cinerama, Disco Volante. Manic Street Preachers, "So Why So Sad" single. Kylie Minogue, Light Years. Josie and the Pussycats soundtrack. St. Etienne, Places to Visit.

I'm certain those aren't even right. My dad bought me the New Art Riot EP, do gifts from others count?

Russian Roulette - Spirit (Timeless); Transcend Me - Afronaught (Apollo); It's Yours - Eskobar featuring Lemon D (True Playaz); B Boyz Revenge - Lemon D (R&S); Planet Dust - Bad Company (Prototype); Jahman - Stereotyp Meets Tikiman (G-Stone); Never Enough - Boris Dlugosch with Roisin Murphy (Peppermint Jam)

If anyone hasn't heard of Tarras I strongly recommend you track down their new album - very folky, but the first track, Arizona, is the best song I've heard this year.

1. Mouse on Mars – actionist respoke
2. S club 7 – don’t stop movin’
3. Clicks & cuts 2
4. Labradford – prazision LP
5. Non – receive the flame

*clambers around huge stacks of CDs in the living room, narrowly avoids being crushed...*

(voice dimly echoing amongst the columns): "...should i mention the no-man stuff i got recently or not or..."

[Cue Marcello: "How HORRIBLE that he's just talking about SIZE again instead of leading proletarian revolutionaries to burn down a Starbuck's..."]

[That record Sigur Ros sell at their gigs that has the old guy singing on it (it doesn't have any further information written on it, so that's all I can tell you about it)]

v/a "All Tomorrow's Parties 1.0" The Ex "Dizzy Spells" [these t wo bought at All Tomorrow's Parties]

Anyway, for me, leaving aside the several CDs I've been sent or got with magazines etc., in reverse order:

Skitz, _Countryman_ Joe Meek and the Blue Men, _I Hear A New World_ Joe Meek, _The Triumph Sessions_ Ty, _Awkward_ Momus, _Folktronic_

Neil Finn - Nil Fun

Gorillaz

The Fiddleheads - live (my brother in law's band)

Folk Implosion - One Part Lullaby

and the fifth most recent could be one of three (mind is gone); The High Fidelity Soundtrack, Matador Records 10th Anniversary, or Spookey Ruben - Modes of Transportation Volume 2. I should qualify that I put my CD buying on near hiatus due to MP3 'almost too much new music' supersaturation.

somehow i knew Momus bought the Commodore 64 CD.

Pinkie Maclure: "From Memorial Crossing"

Ash Ra: "Tropical Heat"

Various Artists: "Blues Harmonica (1926-40)"

The Starseeds: "There is Enough For Everyone"

(all bargoons under a dollar)

1. Burning Spear - Social Living 2. Mouse on Mars - Idiology (like everyone on ILM ;) 3. Tim Buckley - Lorca (the first old record in years I'm getting obsessed with) 4. Tim Buckley - Greetings from L.A. 5. Air - Premier Symptomes 6. Herbert - Bodily Functions 7. Missy Elliott - Miss E...So Addictive

1. techno animal v. reality 2. mark eitzel ... love you too much baby 3. terry callier ... lifetime (beth orton duet is beautiful)... 4. pattern - wet circuit city

and some friends sent over some soon to be released/masters of albums this summer that are going to be classics......

See what I mean? Much more individual and interesting than the expected litany of REM/Elliott/Mouse on Mars/cLOUDDead/Elbow. Yes no no yes?

B) Pure Garage IV

C) Lifelike, by Ui.

D) Back for the First Time, by Ludacris.

E) Electroacoustic collection v.3

F) Muy Divertido, by Marc Ribot.

Just now in work? Guns N Roses - Appetite For Destruction. Made me extremely miserable except for "Sweet Child Of Mine" and the changeover in "Rocket Queen".

On way into work? Mixtape which - again - seemed to take on a gloomy bent as I recorded it. The Dismemberment Plan's "Spider In The Snow" accompanying my 5 minute walk in.

On the Oxford Tube last night? Various Artists - The Rough Guide To West Africa. And before that Various Artists - Afrique Dynamique. African music seems to be the only thing that can relax me currently. Playing them I suddenly wanted to listen to and write about nothing but this stuff. Then it struck me I couldn't say much about it and I only have 5 or 6 records/tapes of it. When I got back in I stayed up for several hours but played nothing.

Before that? "Fear Of Drowning" a single by British Sea Power, who seem promising enough though not as interesting as the last two minutes of a set I caught suggested (consisting of them beating the stage and each other with branches).

(and then he thrusts forward to "Southern Hospitality" again ...)

Can I kill myself in self-contradiction now?

Gurlz-pix next week: Cara Mel I seeXed Boards of Canada but tower's shelving policy is like haXoR-speak w/o norman to talk the plane down...