ILM Snapshot: Last Five Records You Bought

Daft Punk 'One More Time' Spiller 'Groove Jet (If that ain't love)' [these two bought in pop music splurt over the weekend]

[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]

bah, time to learn how to use HTML.

Hey Dirty Vicar, just saw Sigur Ros the other day, and all they had was t-shirts! I feel ripped off! That definitely would have been on my list if they had it at the gig! Dammit!

You're a brave man to admit the third above, Geordie. The man I always try to *avoid* comparing Paddy Kingsland to, I mean :).

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_

Last 3 courtesy of the WFMU record fair in fair NYC: 1) French Kicks - Young Lawyer
2) Autechre - Confield
3) Sly and the Family Stone - Stand!
4) Guitar Wolf - Missle Me!
5) Shellac - Uranus 7"

How're you doing with that, sir? Inside leg not too tight?
1. Hausmeister: Unser
2. Caravan: In The Land Of Grey and Pink
3. Busy Signals: Pretend Hits
4. Groenland Orchester: Nurobic
5. Various: Input 64 (Commodore 64 game music)

This is the most boring thread I've ever seen.

1. Turbonegro: Ass Cobra
2. Turbonegro: Darkness Forever
3. Gluecifer: Soaring With Eagles at Night to Rise with Pigs in the Morning
4. The Hellacopters: Payin' the Dues
5. Jay-Z: Vol. 3...Life and Times of S. Carter

If videos count, I bought Turbonegro: The Movie more recently than the Jay-Z and it's an all-Nordic top-5.

Could be forgetting something, but anyway..

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.

1 John Cale- Andy Warhol Soundtracks 2 Dolly Parton- The sparrow 3 Momus - Stars Forever 4 Paul Simon- Yr the one 5 The American Folk Anthology

Various: The Great Sporting Experience Bright Eyes: Letting Off The Happiness The Jets: Crush On You Patty Pravo: a single, can't remember the name The Equals: ditto

1. Mouse On Mars - Autoditaker; 2. Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady; 3. Hakan Lidbo - Tech Couture; 4. Ski (Oakenfull) - Life Changes; 5. Elephant Man - Comin' 4 You!

Otis, you have GOT to let me borrow those CDs this weekend. Except Jay-Z cos I already have that.

1. Fatboy Slim - Star 69 2. JJ72 - JJ72 3. Brian Eno - Here come the Warm Jets 4. Justin Warfield - My field trip to Planet 9 5. Where is my Mind - Tribute to the Pixies

Very Best of the Carter Family (Carter Family) Over the Rainbow (Judy Garland; a live compilation) The Inimitable Frank Sinatra (live compilation) The Very Best of Patsy Cline (another Best Of) Blues Blues Blues (3 cd box set; various artists)

Songs for swinging voters (1964 flexi issued by the conservative & unionist party); Carcass ("best of" compilation... can't remember the name); Miles Davis "In a silent way" 7 inch ... only the record turned out to be broken, so the guy on the stall gave me the sleeve for nowt); A 2CD compilation of classic Indian film soundtrax (the reverb drenched '60s stuff ... Asha Bhosle, Lata Mangeshkar, Kavita Krishnamurthy etc); 5/ Can't remember.

1. Therese - The Bodines 2. Heard It All - The Bodines 3. Dusty In Memphis - Dusty Springfield 4. Mainstream - Lloyd Cole and The Commotions 5. Love Not Money - Everything But The Girl

1. V/A "I Love Serge (Electronicagainsbourg)" 2. Guided by Voices "Isolation Drills" 3. Momus "Slender Sherbet" 4. Mouse on Mars "idiology" 5. Future Pilot AKA "Tiny Waves Mighty Sea"

somehow i knew Momus bought the Commodore 64 CD.

The Gladiators: "Trenchtown Mix Up"

Pinkie Maclure: "From Memorial Crossing"

Ash Ra: "Tropical Heat"

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

The Starseeds: "There is Enough For Everyone"

Zan Lyons - Desolate (like 2nd Gen with strings)
Hall and Oates - Rock n' Soul Part 1
Beethoven - 9th Symphony
E.E.Cummings/ T.S.Eliot/ Frost - live readings (remixed by Pole, or maybe that's just the 'car boot sale' effect)
Motown Dance Party - V/A (again)

1. Josie And The Pussycats Soundtrack 2. Aphex Twin-Selected Ambient Works 85-92 3. Menswear-Nuisance 4. Pixies-Complete B-sides 5. Frank Black-Teenager of the Year

1. Memphis horns (forgot the title but got it for a dollar) 2. the pattern - wet circuit city 3. elliott smith - figure eight (charity shop bargoon for one dollar and the next two are as well) 4. public enemy - it takes a nation of millions to hold us back 5. publilc enemy - fear of a black planet 6. counting crows - august and everything after.

(all bargoons under a dollar)

Another week another trip to da dealer for a fix:

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

kings of convenience - quiet is the new loud tim hardin's 1 bob dylan - bringing them all back home on vinyl moe tucker - life in exile after abduction rolling stones - beast of burden 45.

bargain bin shopping again all under three bucks!

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......

It might be more interesting to ask "what were the last five records you listened to?" The answer of course never corresponds with the last five records bought. I've just knocked up a compilation tape for the Oxford Tube on Monday morning, the last five tracks of which are as follows: "Cool Cool Collie" by Hopeton Lewis; "The Music Goes Round And Round" by Henry Hall and his Orchestra, vocal by George Elrick; "Respect" by Rotary Connection; "There Goes Concorde Again" by . . . And The Native Hipsters; and a mix of birdsong recorded by me on Boars Hill at 6:00 this morning and Eric Portman's closing remarks about morality from Powell & Pressburger's "Canterbury Tale." Am yet to decide whether to segue into the Stylistics' "People Make The World Go Round" (album version) or Bomb 20's "Made of Shit" - but may well just leave the tape as it is.

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?

Electroloids - dunno (but it's made by half of Drexciya)
Brian Ferry - Slave to Love, but it came with a free 12" of The Cars 'Drive' and 'Only You' by the Flying Pickets, can't argue with that
Currently on the stereo, thou I didn't buy them:
Manitoba - Start Breaking my Heart (leaf)
Schneider TM - The Light 3000 (electronica remix of The Smiths - There's a light....)
Bobby Conn - Dunno which album, but I'm sure he's bit of a genius?

A) So Addictive, by Missy Elliot.

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.

1..get u r freak on - missy elliot 2..kickin back-beachbuggy 3..miss jackson - outkast 4..wanna be startin something - michael jackson 5..blood on the tracks..bob dylan

1. mahalia jackson 2. black sabbath - we sold our soul to rock and roll 3. johnny cash - mean as hell 4. bruce springsteen - nebraska 5. johnny mercer compilation 6. hives 7. shonen knife - birds and b-sides 8. dean martin as matt helm in the silencer

Last five things I listened to? OK:

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).

Marcello, you have anticipated at least one key element of the new site.

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

Can I kill myself in self-contradiction now?

In a bid to entirely dissolve my personality forevah into that of the ILM Massive:
1. The RZA Hits (Ethan is ahed but I shall catch him oh yes)
2. Roots Manuva: Run Come Save Me (Tom E likes the covah)
3. Daft Punk: Discovery (blimey I'm not just copying YOU foax: if a record says SMASH HIT on the cover it's mine to own)
4. The Beta Band: Hot Shots II (Josh K is a stern god and I am hiz bitch)
5. Basement Jaxx: Eaty (from the gathered admirers I pick Tim Finney becuz online Buffyluv is a treasure to all)
6. Aqua: Aquarius (this is no.six so I do not need to justify: "Candyman" is the gratest song evah written so how can these be any less so)

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...

kleenex/liliput reissue
*nsync "celebrity"
dream syndicate reissue "days of wine and roses"
white stripes s/t
the posies "alive before the iceberg"

1. Magma, "Trilogie au Trianon"
2. Stereolab, "Sound-Dust"
3. Bjork, "Vespertine
4. Neu!, "Neu!"
5. Neu!, "Neu!'75"

last five I bought in order from most recent onward - DJ Shadow - Endtroducing..... - Suede - Dog Man Star - Graham Coxon - The Sky Is Too High (Japanese cover - I used to have the card cover but it really gave me the shits) - Uilab - Fires - Radiohead - Pyramid Song CD2. last five I listened to - Idaho - Pomegranate Bleeding and The Palms EP and Sentridoh - The Original Losing Losers (can all be explained by the fact I'm making a tape for someone) - Beta Band (library copy,just wanted to hear It's Not Too Beautiful and decide if I did actually want to buy the album) - a CDR of Lucksmiths songs that was burnt for me

My last five:

Five - Kingsize

The Strokes - Is This It

The Human League - Reproduction (Dignity of Labour on CD yum)

Adam Ant - Hits

Madness - The Rise And Fall

Another week another 5 purchases:

DJ Kicks - Truby Trio (gets pretty good after awhile)

Pathways to Unknown Worlds/Friendly Love - Sun Ra (super)

The Magic City - Sun Ra (at work people makes shooting gestures when this comes blaring out of my headphones)

Black Beauty - Miles Davis (already my favourite live Miles album)

In Search of... - N*E*R*D (veryverygoodindeedsir)

And Mine. All a quid each, on vinyl.

1. Human League - Reproduction (!)

2. Japan - Quiet Life

3. Fleetwood Mac - Tusk (even the inner sleeves have inner sleeves!)

4 and 4a) Bowie - Tonight and Let's Dance

5. Scritti Politti - Provision (So I can see if Tom and Robin were right after all!)

Aaliyah: Aaliyah
Cannibal Ox: The Cold Vein

Dunno about Robin, Dr C, but I'm sure I've never said Provision's any good. Cupid & Psyche 85 is the one you want.

Last 3 (sorry):
Aaliyah - Aaliyah
Seventeen Seconds - The Cure
Black Monk Time - The Monks (which still hasn't turned up yet. Hmph!)

Oh sorry, guilty of a Scritti mix-up, I guess. I'll look out for Cupid + Psyche - won't pay more than £1.00 though!

Last five--curiously all downtempo/acid/IDM:

Two Lone Swordsmen - Tiny Reminders Clifford Gilberto - I was Young, I needed the Money Princess and the Warrior Soundtrack Sonar Collektive K&D Sessions

But in my defense, the last five before that were:

The Mavericks - Best Of Catatonia - Sticks and Stones Maxwell - Now The Jayhawks - Tomorrow the Green Grass and R. Srinivas

n.e.r.d = lapdance
a loud records hip hop sampler
boards of canada - music has the rights... (yeh, well, my taped copy was getting a bit worn)
ol' dirty bastard = return to the 36th chamber: the dirty version (replace copy lost in the mists of time - ie nineties)
another record

Kirsty MacColl--"Tropical Daydreams"

Before that a batch of 8 Arabic CDs I ordered and received as one package (7 Oum Kalthoum--really early stuff which I can't get into so far, 1 George Wassouf covering Oum Kalthoum songs).

I also have Sussan Deyhim's CD "Madman of God" on order at the moment, but haven't received it yet.

1. Plaid - Double Figure 2. Tweaker - Attraction to all things Uncertain 3. Beta Band - Hot Shots II 4. Takako Minekawa - Cloudy Cloud calculator 5. Aesop Rock - Labor Days

Autechre - Tri Repetae (Rockist Alert!)
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album
Third Eye Foundation - Little Lost Soul
The Beta Band - Hot Shots II
(on order- The D-Plan - Change) (purposefully exluding XTRMNTR and a Boo Radleys record, 'cos I plan to get rid of them.)

Oh yeah, stick Outkast's Aquemini somewhere in there, too

"bought" is stretching it a little, but...

1. britney spears - britney

2. daft punk - alive 1997

3. v/a - superlongevity

4. les savy fav - go forth

5. v/a - 500% dynamite! (and it is too.)

6. glenn branca - songs 1977-1979

7. xenakis - electronic music

8. mogwai - young team

1)Foxy Brown -- Broken Silence

2)Ginuwine -- The Life

3)The Harder They Come Soundtrack

4)Sugar Hill Records Story Box Set

%)Nas -- Illmatic