ILM Snapshot: Last Five Records You Bought

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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.

― paul, Thursday, 17 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

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......

― [email protected], Friday, 18 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

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?

― Marcello Carlin, Saturday, 19 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

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?

― K-reg, Sunday, 20 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

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.

― Sterling Clover, Sunday, 20 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

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

― cockney red, Sunday, 20 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

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

― [email protected], Sunday, 20 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

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).

― Tom, Monday, 21 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

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?

― Robin Carmody, Monday, 21 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

three months pass...

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...

― mark s, Saturday, 25 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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

― nathalie, Saturday, 25 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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

― dleone, Wednesday, 29 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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

― Damian, Wednesday, 29 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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

― Tom, Thursday, 30 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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)

― Omar, Thursday, 30 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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!)

― Dr. C, Thursday, 30 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Aaliyah: Aaliyah
Cannibal Ox: The Cold Vein

― mark s, Thursday, 30 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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.

― Tom, Thursday, 30 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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

― DG, Thursday, 30 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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!

― Dr. C, Thursday, 30 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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

― Mickey Black Eyes, Thursday, 30 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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

― gareth, Thursday, 30 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

two months pass...

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.

― DeRayMi, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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

― Honda, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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.)

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"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

― jess, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

1)Foxy Brown -- Broken Silence

2)Ginuwine -- The Life

3)The Harder They Come Soundtrack

4)Sugar Hill Records Story Box Set

%)Nas -- Illmatic

― Sterling Clover, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

stop me before i kill again:

1. n.e.r.d. - lapdance

2. einsturzende neubauten - ende neu

3. melt banana - mxbx blahblahwhatevah

4. him - new features

5. richie hawtin - de9: closer to the edit

― jess, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

1. Le Tigre-Feminist Sweepstakes

2. The Soundtrack of Our Lives-Extended Revelation for the Psychic Weaklings of the Western Civilization

3. Elsa Lanchester-Songs for a Shuttered Parlor

4. Beyond the Fringe '64 Original Cast Album

5. Oneida-Anthem of the Moon

And my old roommate burned me Pulp's We Love Life cause it's not out here for some ridiculous reason.

― Arthur, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

1) Jan Jelinek - loop-finding-jazz-records (glistening glitchy warmth, almost as lovely as Luomo)

2) Foul Play - Suspected (lost jungle classic)

3) Mis-Teeq - Lickin' On Both Sides (buy for the UK Garage, hang around for the R&B)

4) V/A - Cocoon Compilation B (pimpin' Cologne house)

5) Dettinger - Intershop (best ambient spangle since that Global Communications album with da numbers)

― Tim, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

hmpph. Seems that I've bought next to nothing since those five back in May. Did get that Beta Band thingie, but it sounds all a bit too even, or something. It's ok though. Sebadoh's Harmacy I got as a gift. Jamiroquai - Funk Odyssey, appeared mysteriously. I also got a commemorative CD from the Split Crow pub in Halifax. Almost bought a Pinback one, but the sticker price was a bit rich so feh... *yawn* I'm all terribly dull and stuff.

― Kim, Wednesday, 7 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Now posting to the proper thread

The Raw and the Cooked - Fine Young Cannibals
Candleland - Ian McCulloch
Bandwagonesque - Teenage Fanclub
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
A Day Without Rain - Enya
Rag-na-Rok - GWAR

and a mini-boxset for 12 bucks that contained three Black Sabbath CD's: (Black Sabbath, Paranoid and Sabbath Bloody Sabbath) -- Lord Custos ([email protected]), November 07, 2001.

― Lord Custos, Wednesday, 7 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

And now we'll all have to meet in this thread in one months time and let each other know if it was a smart purchase or not.

― Lord Custos, Wednesday, 7 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Today:

Alvo Noto - Transform
Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - Easy Pieces (This is on right now. It is making me angry.)
Genesis - Nursery Cryme
The Best Disco In Town (a 1977 Tee Vee Records compilation)

― sundar subramanian, Wednesday, 7 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sundar, is your Easy Pieces a CD? (I'd like to get it in that format.) How can 'Why I Love Country Music' make you angry?

Stuff I'm waiting for:
Negatives box set
Nowhere - Ride (rerelease with bonus tracks)
Going Blank Again - Ride (rerelease with bonus tracks)
The Early Hi-Ball Years - the Coctails (Finally. It wasn't the next next time, as I had predicted.)

― youn, Wednesday, 7 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

it seems to me this sort of thing is also good introductory material. hi!
1. death cab for cutie - photo album (with bonus disc!) and something about airplanes
2. burning airlines - identikit
3. my bloody valentine - ecstasy and wine
4. heavenly - heavenly vs. satan, le jardin de heavenly, space manatee single
5. amy linton/stewart anderson split single
annnd
6. simple machines neo metro box set

the first two were bought because i just saw them together in richmond & it was great great great... the heavenly stuff all came together in one blissful package of happiness... the neo metro box set (speaking of split 7s and simple machines, which people were) was tucked away in the used record store for cheap-o, and is uplifting to look at.

― ginny, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

youn: It's on vinyl. I sat through the first side. The godawful fucking voice was what was making me angriest. What's he trying to do, parody a hillbilly accent or something? Aside from that, the mediocre guitar playing and the fruity arrangements didn't help. I'll probably give it another chance though.

And it's Alva Noto, sorry.

― sundar subramanian, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

20 i bought this week

01 Me'Shell Ndgecello - Plantion Lullabyes
02 Buck 65 - Man Overboard
03 Various Artists Nuggets Vol 1
04 " " " " 2
05 George Clinton live in Detroit - Bootleg
06 Nina Simone-Syncopated Funk
07 Best Of Italian Disco
08 Hollaneder- Sampler
09 Schubert- Leider (Naxos)
10 Le Tigre - Femminst MAnnifesto
11 Screwed: Al Goldstein and the American Sex Industry
12 Mojave 3- Aske ME Tommorow
13 Original Cast Recording : Cannibal the Musical
14 Wilf Carter-Blue Yodel
15 Barbra Sfgra- Oh What A Thrill
16 Paul Simon - Hearts and Bones
17 Soundtrack Umbrellas of Cherbourg
18 Brian Eno-Music for Airports
19 The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
20 The New George Jones

― anthony, Sunday, 11 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

wow!

― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 11 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

1. Pulp - We Love Life 2. X-Ray Spex - The Anthology (Germ Free Adolescents + singles + demos + live set at the Roxy + 1995 trax) 3. Pink Floyd - Echoes 4. White Stripes - White Blood Cells 5. Augustus Pablo - Jah Inspiration

― Dr. C, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one month passes...

Bonnie Prince Billy - ease on down the road
Marriane Faithfull - True: The Collection
Belle and Sebastion - The Boy w. the Arab Strap.
Teh Sixths- Hyanciths and Thistles
A cheap New York Dolls Reissue

― anthony, Friday, 21 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

New Defisis 12" Universal Soldiers: Street Veterans 1 & 2 CD Numskullz LP Biff Bang Pow!: Oblivion / Songs For The Sad Eyed Girl CD Promo of the forthcoming New Flesh LP

Plus various xmas presents which I'm not going to tell you about for fear of spoiling surprises...

― Tim, Friday, 21 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

1. Madonna - Ray Of Light 2. ESG - South Bronx Story. 3. V/A - The Freakbeat Scene 4. V/A (Don Letts) - Dread meets Punk Rockers Uptown 5. The Passage - For All And None (vinyl)

― Dr. C, Friday, 21 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ah, what the hell, let's do this one more time:

Jan Jelinek - "loop-finding-jazz-records"
Kelis - "Wanderland"
Britney Spears - I'm A Slave 4 U (single)
Destiny's Child - "The Writings On The Wall" (w/4-track bonus CD)
Twarres - Wêr Bisto (single) [= dutch bastard children of The Sundays in MOR tribute to gravy (no, not really re gravy). She: plays acoustic guitar, sings lead, writes the songs, has stud in jaw just below lower-lip, HARD. He: sits on stool looking pretty and/or angst- ridden, sings backup, WUSS. A no.1 in Holland, apparently.]

― Jeff W, Friday, 21 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i have bought/accquired so much new music between nov. 6th and now it's vaguely nauseating.

― jess, Friday, 21 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Satoko Fujii Quartet, Vulcan
Ground Zero, Consume Red
Various, Paris Lounge
Cylob, Mood Bells
Hoppy Kamiyama, Hypnotique

― dleone, Friday, 21 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Happy XMas to me, and only me, y'all:

Rufus Wainwright - Poses
Neurosis - Enemy of the Sun
Beach Boys - Sunflower / Surf's Up (boy, is this sucker uneven)
Nuggets II boxset
Rolling Stones Singles Collection

― David Raposa, Friday, 21 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

David Bowie - "Heroes"
Keith Jarrett - Solo Concerts
John Cale - Fear
Fela Kuti - The Best Best
Basement Jaxx - Rooty

― Mark, Friday, 21 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

1) Mathias Schaffhauser - Love & Business
2) Low - Christmas
3) De La Soul - AOI: Bionix
4) Hood - Cold House
5) Pulp - We Love Life

― Tim, Friday, 21 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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