Last X records you bought, 2nd quarter 2003

Nick S - what do make of the Trojan 12's box? CD3 is particular is absolutely brilliant. Linval Thompson's Pop No Style!

Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Sessions
Mazzy Star - She Hangs Brightly
Opal - Early Recordings LP (possible - nine hours to go on my auction, it's still sub-$30)
Hot Hot Heat - Make Up The Breakdown
The Baptist Generals - No Silver/No Gold
David Cross - Shut Up, You Fucking Baby (so-so)
PiL - Second Edition
Rilo Kiley - Execution of All Things
Uncle Tupelo - Anodyne

Also Boogie Down Productions by all means necessary.

And yesterday I got Nilsson's As time goes by- complete Schmillson in the night sessions.

Manitoba--"Up In Flames"
The Kills--"Keep On Your Mean Side" (ducks)
Ride--"Nowhere" (remaster)
The Rubble Collection

the last is making me very, very, very glad right now...

Goran Bregovic 'Tales and Songs for Weddings and Funerals'
Les Rita Mitsouko 'Bestov'
Tuxedomoon 'live in st. petersberg 2001' (review: insanely dedicated fans only)
I.S.O. 'Gravity Clock'
Art Ensemble of Chicago 'People in Sorrow'
Jan Jelinek 'La Nouvelle Pauvrete' (have already sold this back, I Do Not Understand The Fuss)
Goodiepal/Mainpal Inv. 'B&O' & 'Statoil' 7" singles (excellent as always)
Vladislav Delay 'Multila' (finally found one I like)
Pita 'Early Works'
Robert Ashley 'Wolfman' (if you sprang for the vinyl, i wouldn't rebuy the CD for the extra tracks, as I did, like a dummy. 'Wolfman' itself certainly lives up to its reputation though)

This record, and to an extent this band, is shockingly good. Apparently, someone forgot to make them as famous as Can and Faust.

That ISO record is good.

'malesch' is very very impressive... ok I will go check out 'second'.

You mean 30 minutes of straight sine wave isn't doing it for you?

(note: this is not really my fault. just a whole lot of amazon & ab-cd orders from as far back as february all came through at the same time. rather fucked.)

AMM, Tunes Without Measure or End (Matchless, MRCD44) CD
Amon Duul, Psychedelic Underground (Repertoire, REP 4616-WY) CD
Amon Duul II, Yeti (Repertoire, REP 4748) CD
Art Ensemble of Chicago, Les Stances a Sophie (Nessa, n-4) LP
Comus, First Utterance (Dawn, VICP-62166) CD
Dag Nasty, Field Day (Giant, GR16013-2) CD
Fred Neil, The Many Sides of Fred Neil (EMI Music, CCM-070-2) 2CD
Nico, Chelsea Girl (Polydor, 835 209-2) CD
Charlemagne Palestine, In Mid-Air (Alga Marghen, plana-P19NMN.047) CD
Alan Sondheim, Ritual-All-7-70 (ESP-Disk, 1048-2) CD

Also got tickets for the Boston concert on June 10 at the Molson Ampitheatre. Only $11.70 + surcharges for lawn seats! My sister's coming up for the show.

Turin Brakes - Ether Song
Katatonia - Viva Emptiness
Placebo - Sleeping with Ghosts
Idlewild - The Remote Part
Silverchair - Rarities 1994-1999
Opeth - Still Life
Helium - The Magic City
Foil - Never Got Hip
Kristin Hersh - Strange Angels
Curve - Doppelgänger
Throwing Muses (2003)
The Rolling Stones Singles Collection
Pale Saints - In Ribbons
Minor Threat - Complete Discography
Isis - Oceanic
JJ72 - JJ72
The Chameleons - Strange Times

:-)

Cursive - The Ugly Organ
Orugusu Norihide - Modern
The Delgados - Hate
Mclusky - Mclusky Do Dallas
The Sea & Cake - One Bedroom

The last five albums I downloaded:

Mogwai - Happy Songs for Happy People
Erlend Oye - Unrest
Brendan Benson - One Mississippi
Western Keys - Damage
New Pornographers - Electric Version

CD's:

Archers Of Loaf - Vee Vee €1
Brendan Benson - Lapalco €4
Caesars Palace - Cherry Kicks €5
Fireside - Fantastic Four €1
Guided By Voices - Universal Truth And Cycles (Promo) €4
Hazel - Are You Going To Eat That €1
Nova Mob - Nova Mob €1
The Plan - The Plan €5
Reef - Replenish €1

Compilation CD's:

London Calling Vol. 3 €1
London Calling Vol. 5 €1

Singles/Samplers/EP's (prices range from €0,33 to €1):

The Bluetones - Marblehead Johnson
The Bluetones - Slight Return
Dodgy - The Melod-E.P.
The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster - Celebrate Your Mother
Elastica - Line Up
Elastica - Waking Up
Elf Power - Naughty Villain/Great Society (Promo)
Gonzales - Take Me To Broadway
Halo - Cold Light Of Day (Promo)
Halo - Never Ending
Haven - Til The End (Promo)
The Jeevas - Ghost (Cowboys In The Movies) (Promo)
Leaves - Catch (Promo)
Leaves - Race
Longview - When You Sleep
Matthew - Streams
Mull Historical Society - The Final Arrears
Nada Surf - Hi-Speed Soul (Promo)
Nada Surf - The Way You Wear Your Head (Promo)
Ozma - Songs From Rock And Roll Part Three (Promo)
The Raveonettes - Attack Of The Ghost Riders (Promo)
Serafin - Day By Day (Promo)
Six By Seven - I.O.U.
Sparklehorse - Sick Of Goodbyes (Promo)
Spoon - Jonathon Fisk/Stay Don't Go
Stiltskin - Inside
The Wannadies - Hit

does make one envious, really does. there ain't anything remotely resembling that in my homeland any more. 8=(

Killing Joke - s/t
Killing Joke - Night Time
Pere Ubu - Terminal Tower
Birdsongs of the Mesozoic - Sonic Geology
Japancakes - The Sleepy Strange

2 Unlimited, Get Ready
Jon Balke/Oslo 13, Nonsentration
The Beloved, Happiness
Clouds, Thunderhead
The Family Cat, Magic Happens
Five Thirty, Bed
Fudge Tunnel, The Complicated Futility of Ignorance, In a Word
Gay Dad, Leisure Noise
Gobblehoof, Gobblehoof
Monie Love, Down to Earth
Marvelous 3, Hey! Album
O'Jays, The Ultimate
Prodigy, Baby's Got a Temper
Ratcat, Tingles
Scorn, Deliverance
Shudder to Think, First Love, Last Rites
John P. Strohm, Vestavia
Television Personalities, Privilege
To Live and Shave in LA, An Interview with the Mitchell Brothers
Xtra Large, Now I Eat Them
Pay it All Back, Volume 5
Trans Slovenia Express
A Cat-Shaped Hole in My Heart
Kismet (original soundtrack)

Then there was the almost-nothing paid for the DVD for Battlefield Earth. There's always room for laughter at the follies of the likes of Travolta.

Me:
-Jan Jelinek "La Nouvelle Pauvrete"
-Mouse on Mars "Rost Pocks"
-Tok Tok Vs Soffy O
-Le Tigre 1st album

1) carl perkins greatest hits (heavens i love that man so much, "sure to fall" is so pretty)
p.j. harvey - to bring you my love
plus some 45s: nena - 99 luftballons
boney m - rasputin
wang chung - everybody have fun tonight
queen - radio gaga
the eagles - one of these nights
dolly parton - love is like a butterfly.
oh and my very own vinyl copy of the gossip - thats not what i heard, arrived in the mail from elisabeth, vielen danke!

and some more. ..

pentagram _first daze here_
suck _time to suck_
forest _forest_ (the russian black metal band, no the UK folk one)
unearthly trance _hadit_

and i'm still - goddamn it - waiting for my tiny fusetron order to arrive - freedom's children _galactic vibes_ and a ceramic hobs 7".

holy crap!!!

Angel Canales: El Sentimiento del Latino en Nueva York
Tipica 73: Salsa Encendida
Ismael Rivera con Cortijo y su Combo: Sonero #1
Cheo Feliciano: With a Little Help from My Friend

So far: the Canales is at least good. The first track on the Tipica 73 is just amazing.

Todd Edwards - Tales From The Underground
The Muffs - Happy Birthday To Me (this is fantastic, can't believe I've delayed getting my first Muffs CD for so long!)
Flick - The Perfect Kellulight
Len - You Can't Stop The Bumrush
Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun
Tim 'Love' Lee - Confessions of a Selector (the only complete and utter dud from this batch)

Solbakken - 'Pinanti'
Cannanes - 'Troble Seemed So Far Away'
American Music Club - 'San Francisco'
Third Eye Foundation ' 'Little Lost Soul'
Crude - 'Inner City Guitar Perspectives'
David Kilgour - 'Here Come The Cars'

Peter brotzmann sextet/quartet- more nipples
Peter Brotzmann group- fuck de boere (nice cheap second hand goodness).

on the lookout for: i need a collection of mississipi john hurt's early recordings, all of them, but hmv only had the 60s stuff and selectadisc didnt have anything with him. to amazon i go!

cure - trilogy live at the tempodrom, berlin, november 2002, dvd (have got mixed feelings about this. still think that pornography is totally overestimated. there is an amazing song though. a strange day. it's better in the concert than on the original cd. this song is like an ascent to heavens. the drums are fantastic. building up to droneland. there is a moment when the guitar plays when time stands still. simon gallup on bass is ace. and his live performance is very cool. stopped the video after the first song on disintegration. can't digest those mystic hovering wagner-vorspiel like keyboards anymore. can't hold back from the notion that this is fascistic aesthetics. haven't listened to the rest. will probably never listen to bloodflowers. i must admit that i regret very much not having seen that concert though. the video has got something very professional and cool about it. smith doesn't look like a forty-something. as if his body had been frozen somewhen in the eighties. maybe he is ageless. still hate the same thing about videos i have always hated about them. too many cuts. there is no camera shot of more than two or three seconds.)

Last poets - Last Poets
Reel Stuntman - I like to move it
Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band - Trout mask replica
Miles Davis - On the corner
Nithin Sawney - Beyond skin
Kool and the Gang - Celebration (hits 79-84)
Rufus Thomas - Funky Chicken
Various - Best reggae album in the world...ever (erm, no not with Ace of Base on it but still has some good stuff)
Ananda Shankar - Ananda Shankar

me :

Jefferson Airplane box - ugh!!
V/A - 60's Oz punk/freakbeat comp (Big Beat)
Trojan Upsetter box
Cabaret Voltaire - 78-82 comp
The Passage - Enflame CD
The Passage - BBC Sessions
Stranglers - Aural Sculpture (vinyl)
Modern English - Ricochet Days (vinyl)
Sly and The Family Stone -Essential 2CD
23 Skidoo - Just Like Everybody (Part 2)
V/A - 70's Disco 2 CD set (Whispers, Emotions, Candi Staton, Heatwave, Donna Summer, KC, Boney M, Oddessy, Earth Wind and Fire etc etc etc)

Manu Chao, Esperanza
some cheapo 2disc set of German folktunes
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle OST
Best Of Eric Clapton

From the Dollar Bin:
AC/DC - Back in Black
Johnny Cash - The Walls of A Prison
Johnny Cash - Greatest Hits Volume 1
Stan Getz - With Joao Gilberto
The Marx Brothers - The Very Best Of Volume 1
The Marx Brothers - The Very Best Of Volume 2
Rolling Stones - Between The Buttons
X - Under The Big Black Sun

Farid el Atrache: Eternal Songs, Vol. 1
Abdel Halim Hafez: Resala

The string sections on these Farid songs are getting to me a little. I think I like the stuff on Vol. 2 more, but it wasn't available. I don't like the chorus too much either. (So glad Oum Kalthoum mostly did away with having a chorus in the background.)

Borrowed from the library:

Murray ("Piranha") Perahia w/ the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields performing Bach Keyboard Concertos Nos. 1, 2 & 4
Eleni Karaindrou: Trojan Women
Nikos Skalkottas: Duos with Violin
Kronos Quartet: Nuevo
Steve Reich: Triple Quartet

I don't know anything about the Greek CDs.

Asian Dub Foundation – Rafi’s Revenge
Aspera – Sugar & Feathered
Kevin Ayers – Joy Of A Toy
Boo Radleys – Learning To Walk
Boo Radleys – Everything’s Alright Forever
Billy Bragg – Don’t Try This At Home (replacing old vinyl copy)
British Sea Power – The Decline Of....
Coral – Magic & Medicine
Creatures - Bestiary
Essential Logic – Fanfare In The Garden
Fountains Of Wayne – Welcome Interstate Managers
Josef K – Young & Stupid
Killing Joke – Killing Joke
Kitchens Of Distinction – Capsule
Los Lobos – Good Morning Aztlan
Love & Rockets - Sorted
Momus – Forbidden Software Time Machine
New Pornographers – Electric Version
Shriekback – The Y Records Years
Super Furry Animals – Phantom Power
Thrills – So Much For The City
Various Artists – Black Music
Various Artists – The Night Watch
Various Artists – Rough Trade Shops 25 Years
Various Artists – Rough Trade Shops Post Punk 1

Still no sign of me getting this thing under control.

FourFathers - Dust

I'd start a thread about The FourFathers and their incredibly talented and verstaile bass player Benjamin Horrendous if I thought there was a reasonable chance that anyone else here had heard of them and might contribute to such a thread rather than leaving it to sink slowly and ignominiously to the depths.

Everyone who likes good experimental rock music - especially Captain Beefheart - really should give them a try 'though: http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~bgwaters/Mymusic.html

Then, maybe, when you've bought all the albums (tell Ben I sent you if you are ordering anything btw!), we can have a proper thread about them, eh?