Bad: a three-sided Joe Jackson mid-80s album that shows Joe messing around in the vicinity of world music while still pathetically sounding like a spunky young white kid circa 1979. I have no excuse for this one, except the gimmick of 3 sides.
Bad: a Jimmy Ruffin greatest hits, despite the presence of "I'll Say Forever My Love' (a song that Dexys fans will doubtless recognise). Jimmy may have been a brother of a Temptation, but he sure got the middling to mediocre Motown stuff during the 60s.
Bad: a Captain Sensible double. I don't know what possessed me, and I don't have the strength of will to withdraw it from its sleeve.
Good: Dr Feelgood - Stupidity. Although I wouldn't advies paying more than £2 for this, this live album rocks very hard indeed. lean, mean and with an extra added dosage of Wilko Johnson.
Great: Various - Soul Archive. It's got a beautiful cover, and three Betty Everett songs on. Tip for anyone seeking out 60s soul: if you go for any compilation with Ms Everett on, you ain't going to be too disappointed. This one also has the Impressions' sublime 'Say That You Love Me' on, and some far obscurer stuff - the Willows, anyone? - so I was in soul heaven.
The remainder was bought on CD in HMV...
Middling: Specials - Stereo-Typical. Now don't get me wrong. I'd been looking for this 3CD compilation for some time now, and the price was reduced to 18 quid, but frankly it's unneccessary. The first two albums are what you need, and the singles, and if you have those - even just the first album at a pinch - then you certainly don't need this (there was a reason why 12-inch extended versions were put on the B-side). If you're really looking to bolster your Specials collection, then buy the BBC Sessions instead. I did. And I'm happy.
Killer: Judy Garland, live at Carnegie Hall. Oh yes. Talk about your drama...
Killer: the Undertones singles box set, marked down to 11 quid for a reason that totally escapes me. Obviously I already have them all - er, three times, including all the original picture sleeves - already, but this set is so sweet! I love CDs that just come in a cardboard slip case: begone you nasty jewelled thing.
Likewise killer are the Magazine and Subway Sect compilations I also picked up for a song. The Magazine one is called "Maybe it's right to be nervous now' and is super-fine, especially their version of Boredom. Take it from one who distrusted them back in the day for being art school ponces.
Middling: Neu 2. Good album, overpriced. (But don't buy the third one, eh?)
― Jerry, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Now if only I could play some of those damn rags on my piano.
Ace stuff Manitoba "Stop Breaking My Heart". amazing love it. Cannibal Ox "The Cold Vien" Innovative hip hop which is very melodic. I haven't bought it yet but I will as soon as I can get hold of a copy -------Four Tet. I've only got MP3's of his stuff but I want to give the man money anyway.
― tom, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Dr. C, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Neu! 2 is mischievous. That's why I like it. You can't imagine Spiritualised (say) being so naughty.
― ethan, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Today I bought a CD by Chavela Vargas, LE CANTA A MEXICO, which I'm listening to right now. It's live, which wasn't mentioned anywhere on the super-ugly packaging. But I love her voice.
I also illegaly copied onto a CD a bunch of stuff by Jimme Dale Gilmore for my wife. I can't stand him.
― Mr. Mark Lerner, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― the pinefox, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I'll go put it on again - wasn't expecting to find such an ardent supporter.
I really do need to get this someday. Soon, soon.
Re: Neu! -- I'm a fan of all three albums and find the varying moods and experiments on each subtly captivating. I still remember when I first heard them back in 1994 or so and realized, "Ah, *that's* what Stereolab was doing!"
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― X. Y. Zedd, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
PS Jerry: I used to be able to play those rags, 15 years ago. But I certainly can't play them now.
Whatever. I certainly won't be playing sides 1 or 3 again, and fortunately there isn't a side 4. But thanks for turning me onto 'Together'. I'll shove it on a compilation tape shortly.
Piano Magic - Low Birth Weight... will possibly become my most listened to album this year.
V/A - Body & Soul 3... b/c the second one was excellent and this has Aztec Mystic's "Jaguar" on it, which = classic. Still haven't listened to it properly, though.
Aaliyah - Aaliyah... my ardour has cooled slightly (there are definitely a few slightly weaker tracks) but otherwise this is hella good and nicely consistent for an R&B album.
Throwing Muses - University... inspired by the recent discussions here. And lo, it is charming.
The only bad stuff has been review freebies that I feel petty complaining about, but nonetheless: Musiq Soulchild and Real Ibiza 4 are not worthy of your time and money.
― Tim, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Damian, Saturday, 21 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
About Joe Jackson - OK, OK, I admit defeat, or disagreement. But I am surprised, esp. by that 'showtune' claim. I like showtunes too, but I've never thought of this record this way. (It was recorded live, wasn't it? He's one for the gimmicks.)
Look at the tracklist. 'Wild West' is rock-pop; 'Home Town' is a sort of jangle; 'Right & Wrong' is kind of funk-pop. 'Big World' is (as you said earlier) a kind of World pastiche.
'Shanghai Sky' fits your Show bill - but I really like it! He sings a great melody in a bad falsetto, as I recall. 'Forty Years' - hm - that's a big ballad too. 'Survival', that kind of concept-title sounds ominous from Jackson (cf. 'Discipline' on the Blaze of Glory LP, 1989). Side 3 is the worst, in fact.
Oh, well. The 3-side gimmick is notable, if nothing else.
Started on Berlin: Alma Cogan sings 'Cheek To Cheek'. Best version of 'Cheek To Cheek', anyone? Frank?
― the pinefox, Saturday, 21 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Sterling Clover, Saturday, 21 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
1) new unwound. sheer sickness 2) MoM Idiology fantastic as well 3) squarepusher - bleh. was expecting much more from the single i heard. 4) summer hymns - booyah. great summer cd 5) the shins - booyah. great summer cd.
― brock kappers, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
To partially answer the question: I probably shouldn't have bought that Redman LP.
― Robin Carmody, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tim, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― JC, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 19:38 (twenty years ago) link
Today's haul from Amoeba Hollywood:
LPs:Grateful Dead — Two From the VaultWeldon Irvine — Cosmic Vortex
CDs:Miles Davis — Bootleg Series 3 & 4 (Fillmore and Newport sets)Lou Reed — BerlinBrian Wilson — SMiLEGlenn Mercer — Incidental Hum
― austinato (Austin), Saturday, 7 November 2015 00:22 (eight years ago) link
my bloody valentine - isn't anything reissue
― brimstead, Saturday, 7 November 2015 00:30 (eight years ago) link
Ooooohhh, I picked that up on my previous trip to Amoeba on Haight this summer.
― austinato (Austin), Saturday, 7 November 2015 00:55 (eight years ago) link
Today's haul, again from Amoeba in Hollywood:
LPs:Stereolab — Not MusicAbdullah Ibrahim — The Children of AfricaEarth, Wind & Fire — Open Our Eyes
CDs:Fiona Apple — Tidal My Bloody Valentine — Ecstasy and WineKode9 — NothingO.Rang — Fields and WavesSteve Tibbetts — A Man About A HorseBeck — LoserSiouxsie and the Banshees — Through the Looking GlassSiouxsie and the Banshees — A Kiss in the DreamhouseSiouxsie and the Banshees — KaleidoscopeSiouxsie and the Banshees — Join Hands
Yep.
― Austin, Friday, 11 December 2015 21:57 (eight years ago) link
Kind of weird that purchases/poorchoices isn't a pun with greater cultural currency, tbh... It's like the exact kind of corny required of a widespread evergreen dadjoek
― help computer (sleepingbag), Friday, 11 December 2015 22:22 (eight years ago) link
Loser EP is kewl
― "Damn the Taquitos" (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 11 December 2015 22:38 (eight years ago) link
did you get the official Ecstasy and Wine release or the bootleg? the official CD is rare and OOP, and even the bootleg is pretty sought-after, judging by the discogs listings. I've never seen either one in stores.
― scarlett bohansson (unregistered), Friday, 11 December 2015 22:42 (eight years ago) link
xpost: Yeah! I was stoked for all the extras. It was only $2! They also had the promo-only CD single for 'Dreams' for only $40. Haha.
I hope the Ecstasy and Wine I got is official because I paid $30 for it! Is there a way to tell that you know of?
― Austin, Friday, 11 December 2015 22:45 (eight years ago) link
according to the discogs entry, the bootleg has 'no matrix text other than the catalogue number. The center of the disc is painted black, and isn't clear. The text is blurry and the colors lighter.' hopefully you got the real Lazy release.
I still have trust issues because I bought the Glider and Tremolo EPs in 2011 (thinking that they'd never be reissued) and then the EP collection came out about a year later and rendered my purchase obsolete. to be fair, they were only maybe $5 apiece.
― scarlett bohansson (unregistered), Friday, 11 December 2015 22:53 (eight years ago) link
Well, I remember seeing Ecstasy and Wine at Amoeba in Berkeley about ten years ago and they wanted $40 for it and I've never seen it since so I jumped on this one. For what it's worth, it sounds fine. The center of this one is painted black, but the text isn't blurry (or not what I would call blurry). Enh, I'm happy.
― Austin, Friday, 11 December 2015 22:59 (eight years ago) link
Today's haul, Amoeba in Hollywood. . .
LPs:Steve Tibbetts — Safe JourneyThe Comsat Angels — Chasing Shadows
CDs:David Bowie — Scary MonstersDavid Bowie — LodgerJohn Fahey — RequiaJohn Fahey — The Transfiguration of Blind Joe DeathJulia Holter — Loud City Song
― Austin, Friday, 8 January 2016 23:52 (eight years ago) link
Another haul from Amoeba in Hollywood, all CDs. . .
David Bowie — The Man Who Sold the WorldDavid Bowie — Hunky DoryDavid Bowie — Ziggy StardustDavid Bowie — HeathenDavid Bowie — The Next DayDavid Bowie — ★Beck — Devil's HaircutJandek — Modern DancesEberhard Weber — EncoreRadiohead — Ok Computer Deluxe EditionRadiohead — Kid A Deluxe Edition
― Austin, Friday, 22 January 2016 21:56 (eight years ago) link
My box from Dusty Groove showed up today as well!
Jon Hassell — Earthquake Island vinylAbdullah Ibrahim — Reflections CDAbdullah Ibrahim — African Space Program
― Austin, Saturday, 23 January 2016 01:06 (eight years ago) link
Skids - The Virgin Years boxBarry Andrews - Haunted Box Of Switches Vol. 1&2Aztec Camera - Knife (expanded)David Sylvian - Damage (his mix)Cairo Gang - Goes MissingDavid Bowie - Zeit boxDrive-By Truckers - It's Great To Be Alive 3CDTelevision - TelevisionPosies - Dream All Day (Best Of)Wussy - Attica!V/A - Mojo's Instant GarageV/A - The Roots Of Power Pop
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 23 January 2016 03:31 (eight years ago) link
hey Austin, glad you are still around. funny thing is i just sold Hail to the Thief and The Bends deluxe collector editions for insane money. still have OK Computer up but upped the price on Amazon. i bought them from BMG Music when they were going under but they are the official release. i sold them because i own every CD single anyways and didn't really need all of them collected on one disc if i could make some cash.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 23 January 2016 04:04 (eight years ago) link
i miss buying CD at Amoeba.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 23 January 2016 04:05 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, believe it or not, there were some tracks on the OK Computer deluxe edition that were new to me, even after all these years. They were fairly expensive ($40 for OK Computer and $30 for Kid A). The live stuff on Kid A is totally killer, so hooray. Good poorchoices.
― Austin, Saturday, 23 January 2016 17:01 (eight years ago) link
Last several weeks of acquisitions:
LPs:The Lines — Hull DownAndrew Bird — Are You Serious (with bonus 7")Glenn Jones — FleetingJulia Holter — Tragedy
CDs:KING — We Are KINGJames Blake — The Colour in AnythingBill Evans — Some Other TimeJulia Holter — EkstasisDavid Byrne — The Catherine WheelDavid Byrne + Brian Eno — My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (remastered + expanded)Talking Heads — Stop Making Sense (remastered + expanded)Stephen Stills — Manassas
― Austin, Monday, 30 May 2016 23:55 (seven years ago) link
Kvelertak - Nattesferd 2LP Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time LP (nice used copy for cheap)Vektor - Terminal Redux 2LPKing Gizzard & cet. - Nonagon Infinity LP (fancy "Emu Egg" colored vinyl)Halo of Flies - Music for Insect Minds 2LP reissueBlood Ceremony - Blood Ceremony LPHorse Lords - Interventions LPBombino - Azel LPBoredoms - Super Go!!!!! [Shine In * Shine On] 12" Boredoms - Super Roots 7 12"Boredoms - Soul Discharge LP Ulver - Bergtatt LP reissueUlver - Kveldssanger LP reissueUlver - Nattens Madrigal LP reissue
plus replacement copies of several beloved old deerhoof & stereolab albums
― like $500 billion in stuffed fart sales and I have an idea (contenderizer), Tuesday, 31 May 2016 01:27 (seven years ago) link
More. Always more.
LPs:William Tyler — Modern CountryBen Watt — Fever Dream
CDs:Talking Heads — The Name of This Band is Talking Heads (remastered + expanded)Roger Waters — The Pros and Cons of Hitch HikingRoger Waters — Radio K.A.O.S.Roger Waters — Amused to DeathDavid Gilmour — self-titledDavid Gilmour — About FaceDavid Gilmour — On An IslandDavid Gilmour — Rattle That LockPink Floyd — The Endless RiverGrimes — HalfaxaVampire Weekend — self-titledVampire Weekend — ContraVampire Weekend — Modern Vampires of the CityLianne La Havas — Is Your Love Big Enough?Lianne La Havas — BloodNeil Young — Live at the Cellar DoorPaul McCartney — McCartney (remastered + expanded)Paul McCartney — Ram (remastered + expanded)
― Austin, Saturday, 11 June 2016 02:53 (seven years ago) link
Made the drive into LA this morning to do some trading at Amoeba. Walked away with:
CDs:Gang of Four — Solid Gold / Another Day Another Dollar Bert Jansch — MoonshineVashti Bunyan — Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind: Singles and Demos 1964-1967
LPs:Angel Olsen — Strange CactiBert Jansch — AvocetBert Jansch — s/tBert Jansch — It Don't Bother MeGlenn Mercer — Wheels in Motion
The price of vinyl reissues has really gotten out of hand.
― Austin, Wednesday, 22 February 2017 02:15 (seven years ago) link
spock's original post:Les Fleur De Lys -- "Retrospective"-- worth every penny. Amazon sells it cheap.
Liar is a particular gem, but there are too many personnel/style changes to get a handle on their thing
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Thursday, 23 February 2017 20:04 (seven years ago) link
Another trip to Hollywood this morning. . .
CDS:Eyeless in Gaza — Original Album Collection (Photographs As Memories / Caught in Flux / The Eyes of Beautiful Losers EP / Drumming the Beating Heart / Pale Hands I Loved So Well / Recollections + Rarities)Eyeless in Gaza — Rust Red SeptemberThe Names — SwimmingSad Lovers + Giants — Epic Garden MusicSad Lovers + Giants — Feeding the FlameMagazine — The Correct Use of SoapThe Rain Parade — Emergency Third Rail Power Trip / Explosions in the Glass Palace EP
LPs:Julia Holter — In the Same RoomThe Jesus + Mary Chain — Damage + JoySpoon — Hot Thoughts
Yes.
― Austin, Wednesday, 5 April 2017 01:58 (seven years ago) link
hit up an online sale for my birthday week:
porter ricks - shadow boat epangelo badalamenti - twin peaks: fire walk with mesecond woman - s/w orphx - archive 93-94
― a landlocked exclave (mh), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 00:25 (six years ago) link
last weeks cd charity shop excess :
chapterhouse - whirlpool. (original cd as opposed to the reissue as there apparently dreadful sound quality issues with the cherry red reissue.)dj food - kaleidoscope. (been wanting this for years, but all cd copies in charity shops are in dreadful condition (bloody digi-packs!), but this one was perfect.)evil nine - y4kcrystal castles - amnesty. (i really like this. possibly more than the original line up albums.)
digital - excellent groupees/synthwave bundle that includes, albums by dance with the dead, confrontational, absolute valentine, occams laser, meteor, robert parker and timecop1983.
― mark e, Tuesday, 2 May 2017 09:24 (six years ago) link
Took a therapeutic trip into Amoeba this morning, traded a bunch of stuff and got a bunch of other stuff. I went in looking to check out some Section 25 albums, but despite having section cards for the band in both the vinyl and CD racks, both were empty. Oh well. Mostly used my credit to fill holes in my collection and used the opportunity to finally delve properly into Pere Ubu. Here's what I came away with:
LPs:Cavern of Anti-Matter — Blood Drums (reissue)
CDs:Sigur Rós — Ba Ba Ti Ki Di Do EPSigur Rós — Untitled 1 (a.k.a. "Vaka") EPTalk Talk — The Party's OverTalk Talk — It's My LifePere Ubu — The Hearpen Singles 1975-1977Pere Ubu — The Modern DancePere Ubu — New Picnic TimeUncle Tupelo — Still Feel GoneUncle Tupelo — March 16-20, 1992Roger Waters — is this the life we really want?Lindisfarne — Nicely Out of TuneAlice Coltrane — Transcendence Tom Petty — The Last DJTom Petty — Highway CompanionTom Petty — Mojo
― Austin, Thursday, 8 June 2017 01:07 (six years ago) link
Should've just got the Datapanik box set while you were at it!
Get the other Uncle Tupelo albums if you don't have them.
Recent physical objects I've acquired (mostly via Amazon):Jane Weaver - Modern Kosmology Kevin Salem - Box Of WordsLift - Too Much To Say EPCaptain Beefheart - Strictly PersonalSlowdive - SlowdiveJustin Currie - This Is My Kingdom NowWire - Silver/LeadGavin Osborn - all 3 albums he's released
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 8 June 2017 18:46 (six years ago) link
The covers of the Stooges cds seem to have been remastered as well as the audio, quite notably with Funhouse. I think it's even more noticeable on the vinyl version since it's larger would love a poster of that same remastered image. Is remastered the right word for an image?Anyway you could feel yourself sinking into the image the quality is that good. I grew up with a pretty bad reproduction on a single non-gatefold sleeve on my vinyl version and the old cd was as bad
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 11:39 (six years ago) link
The covers of the Stooges cds seem to have been remastered as well as the audio, quite notably with Funhouse. I think it's even more noticeable on the vinyl version since it's larger would love a poster of that same remastered image.
funny you should say, but a friend of mine emailed me yesterday saying exactly the same thing re the stooges covers.along with the cover for Led Zep II which he says 'looks like its sun bleached in comparison to the colours on the original.'
― mark e, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 12:09 (six years ago) link
i have kind of a hard time with it (and most pere ubu) to be honest, but I got a deal on it and I'm trying to enjoy it more.
I found Dub Housing to be more conventional, and therefore more accessible, than the one after it (New Picnic Time).
But yeah, in general, I've had a hard time getting into Pere Ubu. But, I've come around lately.
― Austin, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 15:51 (six years ago) link
Pere Ubu for me has always been about The Modern Dance. That was really a small step for David Thomas but a big step for mankind. Unsettling and attractive at the same time. After that nothing ever really brought back that weird feeling of estrangement. Does that word even exist in English?
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Tuesday, 27 June 2017 17:01 (six years ago) link
Hit a used record store on father's day and picked up:
The Egyptian Lover - Egypt, Egypt 12"Monk Higgins - What Fah / Ceatrix Did It 7"JJ Barnes - Baby Please Come Back Home / Chains of Love 7"The Velvettes - These Things Will Keep Me Loving You / Since You've Been Loving Me 7"
― city worker, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 18:11 (six years ago) link
i just picked up a Barbra live cassette and a cassette of native american flute recordings at an outdoor flea market in Woodstock. super cool, both of them
― surm, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 18:14 (six years ago) link
bought a 3-CD lot of In C CDs on ebay from some guy in Wisconsin:
In C (Terry Riley, 1968)In C (Shanghai Film Orchestra, 1989)In C (25th Anniversary Concert, 1990)
the Chinese version is fun, although it has sort of a rushed vibe - "this aleatoric stuff is making me nervous -- can we please just get this over with?" and the 25th anniversary version isn't nearly as out-there as I'd hoped it would be, given the personnel involved. maybe I should try the Acid Mothers Temple version, or maybe I should just download 50 versions at random on slsk
― the baby grew up to be a secessful kid (unregistered), Monday, 10 July 2017 11:32 (six years ago) link
L'Infonie, a weird French Canadian prog group, did a version too.
― Puke and Other Poems (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 10 July 2017 21:47 (six years ago) link
cool, I'll have to check that one out!
― the baby grew up to be a secessful kid (unregistered), Monday, 10 July 2017 23:49 (six years ago) link
Austin & grawlix, I've been finding things to check out through your posts--on the basis of things I've had 30, 40, even 45 years that you are checking out now that you list as successes. So thanks for that, I'll take a chance on things NOT in my collection that you've picked up. Now, I don't think I would've picked up Fugazi & Abdullah Ibrahim or Alice Coltrane on the same trip, but if I recall, the last (only) time I've been to Amoeba & Rasputin in Berkeley, I came away with equally disparate choices.
I have the unique perspective of having bought many of these (on this entire thread) in LP, cassette, and CD--haha, I never got sucked into mini-disc format!!!!
The last several years, I've been in paring down mode, selling off cds as I digitize. Maybe some of my recycles will end up in your hands (though I'm in Michigan, so...)
― j arthur rank, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 00:51 (six years ago) link
Cool! Glad to hear it.
Sadly, I did get into minidiscs in the early 2000s.
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Tuesday, 11 July 2017 01:22 (six years ago) link
Indeed, nice to hear.
Just got a copy of Sunn O)))'s Oracle in the mail - bought it on Discogs for $25. It's not easy to come by on CD; the 2-disc version (the one I got) was only 2000 copies, made specifically for an Australian tour in 2007 or so. It's great, though; the main disc is two long tracks that sound like their tribute to Einstürzende Neubauten (James Plotkin plays jackhammer!), and the bonus disc is a 48-minute montage of live clips. It's one of their least-known releases, but one of my favorites.
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 11 July 2017 15:26 (six years ago) link
a buck a pop:
Slipknot IowaGravenhurst Flashlight SeasonCannibal Ox Cold VeinThe Format Dog ProblemsBeach House Teen DreamMy Morning Jacket Circuital
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Saturday, 15 July 2017 05:45 (six years ago) link
From today's visit to Amoeba. . .
CDs:Stereolab — Oscillons from the Anti-Sun (this was missing the DVD —which I don't really care about anyway— so it was only $5!)Wire — Pink FlagWire — Chairs MissingWire — 154Abdullah Ibrahim — Anatomy of a South African VillageSiouxsie and the Banshees — The John Peel SessionsGil Scott-Heron + Jamie xx — We're New Here
LPs:Modern English — Take Me to the TreesThe Raincoats — The RaincoatsCluster — Cluster II
― outside, you're never alone. (Austin), Sunday, 12 August 2018 02:00 (five years ago) link
I’ve pre-ordered the new King Crimson 3CD/1Blu-Ray live thing. I saw the tour; it was good.
― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 12 August 2018 02:33 (five years ago) link
I liked the tour too. But why on earth didn't they play "21st Century Schizoid Man" in Berlin?
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 17:54 (five years ago) link
Got back in the game yesterday. . .
CDs:Bert Jansch — Rosemary LaneAbdullah Ibrahim — No Fear, No Die (S'en Fout La Mort) OSTAbdullah Ibrahim — Cape Town FlowersMcCoy Tyner — Time for TynerTerry Callier — First LightJon Lucien — RashidaGary Burton — Alone At Last
LPs:Jon Lucien — Song for My LadyJon Lucien — RomanticoBobby Hutcherson — Un Poco LocoAbdullah Ibrahim — Black LightningWeldon Irvine — The Sisters
Jon Lucien's super dope. I remember in the early 2000s, places like Turntable Lab and Dusty Groove were really gushing over some reissues of his. I vaguely recall finding a copy of Song for My Lady at a Salvation Army around the time and checking it out. I remember it being nothing like it actually is. I was way more into early Cure and Radiohead at the time.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Sunday, 10 February 2019 16:28 (five years ago) link
Today's haul. . .
LPs:Ralph Towner / John Abercrombie — Five Years LaterJan Garbarek Group — WayfarerCal Tjader — Puttin` it Together
CDs:Gary McFarland / Steve Kuhn — The October SuiteChick Corea — Return to ForeverChick Corea — Light as a FeatherAbdullah Ibrahim — African MagicThe Meters — A Message from the MetersSonny Rollins — The BridgeThe Free Design — Kites are FunThe Free Design — You Could Be Born Again
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Saturday, 21 September 2019 22:32 (four years ago) link