Last X records you bought, 2nd quarter 2003

I took out

Fatboy Slim - You've Come a Long Way, Baby
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
Michael Torke's Color Music
Tragically Hip - Fully Completely
Chelsea Bridge - Tanamagouche
Susie Ibarra - Flower after Flower

White Stripes, Elephant
Elvis Presley, 30 #1 Hits
Black Sabbath, Paranoid
Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind OST

Blondie - Plastic Letters
Brian Eno - Another Green World
the Virgin Prunes - ...If I Die, I Die
D.A.F. - Alles Ist Gut

sundar, can you say something about that Susie Ibara CD once you've listened to it? I am curious about it, but I am wondering how out it is. It could sound to unstructured for my taste, but some things I've read about her have made me interest and (stupid reasons): I like her name, and I like the cover. Actually, I often end up trying things because I like the names of the people involved, and sometimes it leads to good things.

Oh, and someone at work made copies of 3 Pakistani CDs for me. I don't know anything about them and haven't heard them yet:

The Enchanting Nayyara Noor
Best of Farida Kwanum Album 1: Geet & Gaazals
Ustad Amrnat [? can't make out the writing] Ali Khan: Whispering Memories Ghazals

Broadcast - Noise made by people
Ladytron - Light & Magic
Lamb - What sound? Deluxe
YYY - Fever to tell
Plaid - Parts in the post

I think I like Nayyara Noor. I want to marry someone named Nayyara Noor, what a great name. Seriously, this is nice kind of mellow stuff. The mood reminds me of something else, but I don't know what, possibly something much closer to home culturally.

Today I took out:

Prince - Controversy (This is on track 2. It's so good so far that it actually saddens me that my hippie/indie Dylan-loving, Yes/Queen/Boston/Rush-hating pop music prof loves this album.)
Prince - Music from Purple Rain
Parliament - Funkentelechy vs the Placebo Syndrome
Dr N Ramani & Trichy Sankaran - Lotus Signatures
Ravi Shankar - Three Ragas

(I should have bought Controversy when I saw it on sale at Tower a couple months back.)

ministry of shit
sugarhill comp (from minna!)
berserkley chartbusters
nouvelle vague (creeping bent comp)

I'm liking this Farida Kwanum, so far.

Joy Division, Heart & Soul box set
Mano Negra, Puta's Fever
Wayne Wonder, No Holding Back
Astrud Gilberto, Look to the Rainbow
and a copy of Human League Dare on vinyl for a few dollars, because I had a friend who needed a copy

Red House Painters - Retrospective (I finally found a used copy! rock!)

latest raid on my favourite second hand books/stamps/cds shop

freak nasty - freak nasty
michael jackson - bad
michael jackson - dangerous
d mob - a little bit of this, a little bit of that
jomanda - someone to love me
hi-5 - hi-5
prince - parade
kid creole & the coconuts - you shoulda told me you were...
the best of hall & oates
janet jackson - design of a decade

i am relieved that i'll be able to take the kid creole back for credit!

i forgot the best bit!
poison - open up and say ah (cassette)

i also got a tape called 'summer of 87' but it didnt have the right cassette inside (a boring soundtrack instead) so i'l take that back too.

wolf eyes - slicer
factrix - artifact
blue oyster cult - s/t
tyrannosaurus rex - a beard of stars
crazy horse - s/t

CDs I've bought since the beginning of the month (not gonna bother with all the vinyl I've accumulated- let's just say that 5 LPs for $1 bins at record shows are a godsend):

Fela Kuti - Zombie
v/a - Postpunk Chronicles: Going Underground
Fountains of Wayne - Welcome Interstate Managers
Ghostface Killah - Ironman
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
Prince - 1999
Blondie - s/t
David Bowie - "Heroes"
This Mortal Coil - It'll End in Tears
Clipse - Lord Willin'
Radiohead - Hail to the Thief

The last thing I got was an album by Ingrid Caven called "Abendstern", which is either the worst thing I ever bought in my life or one of the best, I'm not sure yet - but it was only 99p and has a very attractive cover and vinyl is so much sexier than poxy CDs. Ingrid of course was married to Rainer Werner Fassbinder and this is the other reason i bought it....

The other day I bought Dr Ring Ding 'Bombs Over Baghdad' 7" and the Locust/Melt Banana split 7" on GSL

small record fair yesterday, bought the last lp's i'll buy this quarter:
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
Amon Düül II - Carnival in Babylon
Cluster & Eno

more super bargains today, bargain bins are going off big style @ roy's & (esp.) @ Echo (hey btw does anyone know if any of these are any good - gentle giant (can't remember which one but a quite early one), curt boetcher solo album from 1972, it's a beautiful day's "choice quality stuff", "them boners be poppin'" v/a on boner, fun seekers (from minneapolis, on treehouse), the accused - "more fun than an open casket funeral", john stewart's "california bloodlines", joe ely's 80s albums?)(anyway tho, here's what i got & it was all real cheap & also it was good 'cause at roy's i traded in some boring ones i got in the echo sale bin the other day for like 2x what i paid for em, yay, music sounds better cheap!) --
jefferson airplane - early flight
radiopuhelimet - 2 1/2
rolling stones - black & blue (a very underrated (by me!) stones album, it made me dance)
sonny okosuns - revolution II
ringo moya - dancez zaire
choeur gregorien de paris - mort et resurrection, sorry i couldn't be bothered looking up the html to get all the accents acute & cedillas & stuff
the telescopes - same
le grand maitre franco et son tout puissant ok jazz - ekaba-kaba
mahlathini & the mahotella queens - thokozile
soweto compilation [replacement copy]

other stuff that was in the bins that i nearly bought but then i thought oh that'll turn up cheap again don't bother but now i wish i had, i hope they're still there tomorrow -
adam ant - hits
orchestral manoeuvres in the dark - (whatever their hits album is called)
steve harley & cockney rebel - can't remember the name but it was from like 1976
also if anyone needs a copy of in search of space by hawkwind (attn: [esp.] beth) there's 1 at roy's for like 2 or 3$)
man i luv this thread, yes nick i read this bugger every day!

Disco Inferno - DI Go Pop
O.Rang - Herd Of Instinct
Radiohead - Hail To The Thief (proper copy to replace my long-lost CDR review copy thing)

Just ordered Ebverything's Alright Forver by Boo Radleys.

swollen left index finger?

sorry, "these records are in the cheap bin, should i buy them" & "records i didn't buy but i prob'ly oughta" should be off in their own threads really

The Susie Ibarra disc is lovely. I had listened to it before actually. It has warmth, gentleness, and subtlety. The instruments play against each other in a way that comes off perfectly relaxed and 'natural'. I don't think it's *too* wild. There are a lot of warm melodic phrases in it that clearly suggest the South/East Asian influences, some beautiful dynamics in the intricate percussion work. I find some of it a little mysterious-sounding, and much of it sort of sensual (which might be partly because it reminds me of a Susie Ibarra fan I had a crush on some years ago).

A little more on the Frith: I'm happy with the crispy clean, full production. Everything feels very impassioned, from the pretty and sometimes aching melodies to the full strumming to the violent noise.

At the end of the day I'm still not a huge Prince fan so far. The Parliament is awesome though.

Oh yeah, there's a brief droney Pauline Oliveros accordion solo on the Ibarra. Somehow I get the impression this disc might appeal to you, RS. It's on the 'mellow-garde' side.

Friend of my boyfriend works at BMG Music Online, so we dropped in last week while I was briefly in NYC. There were abandoned CDs everywhere and she said help yourself and made it clear I should take a lot. But most of these CDs were abandoned for good reasons, I have to say.

CDs I kept:
Nonesuch Explorer Series (reissues on CD) - Tahiti (Gaugin Years), Java (Jasmine Isle), Bali (Music for the Shadow Play)
I Muvrini - Pulifunie
Ahmed Abdul-Malik - Jazz Sounds of Africa
Alfred Schnittke - Choir Concerto & other choral works
Chemical Brothers - Come With Us

A few other CDs went to my boyfriend's Mom, and the rest I traded in, at a shop back home, for:
Loud Family - Tape of Only Linda
Belle & Sebastian - Lazy Line Painter Jane EP box set
Drive Like Jehu - Yank Crime reissue
!!! - "Me & Giuliani..." EP
Beach Boys - Sounds of Summer compilation

Also while in NYC, I bought:
Audio Bullys - Ego War
Thomas Fehlmann - Visions of Blah

''Nonesuch Explorer Series (reissues on CD) - Tahiti (Gaugin Years), Java (Jasmine Isle), Bali (Music for the Shadow Play)''

got a couple of discs of this series (both are gamelan discs). good stuff.

I'm pretty excited about the Java and Bali discs -- among other things, I think they'll give me a basic idea about the different gamelan traditions in these two regions. The school where I teach has a large gamelan program, with both Javanese and Balinese ensembles, and I've always felt I ought to know the basic differences. (Something beyond "Balinese = faster and more sparkling"...)

Orange Juice - Ostrich Churchyard
A Disco 2CD set (Emotions! Patrice Rushen!!)
V/A - Upsetter Box
The FAll - the new BBC sessions 2CD thingy

Walker Brothers - Portrait
Walker Brothers - Take it easy
Walker Brothers - Images
Scott Walker - Scott
Scott Walker - Scott 2
Scott Walker - Scott 3
Scott Walker - Scott 4
Def Jux 2 Anthology
Associates - Fourth drawer down

and about a dozen Al Bowlly LP's.

Duane, 1976 Cockney Rebel would be Timeless Flight - it's a good one, but not as good as Human Menagerie or Psychomodo.

recently:

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'

some recs i bought last week

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

I am SO ANGRY!! I bought this 2CD set 'Disco Freakout' to get some tracks to burn for my friend John's birthday party mix CDs. This mutha was £16.99 and guess what - they've (spit) *remixed* all the tracks together in one continuous sequence. Imagine some fake-tanned Ibiza-twit Darren fucking with the tempo and adding 'nu' beats onto such classics as 'Boogie Nights' and 'And The Beat Goes On' and 'He's The Greatest Dancer'!! There were also fake shouts and whoops of joy from people 'partying' dubbed on!! Imagine that!! How dare this, this.... THING exist! It never said on the packaging ANYWHERE! There could have been a warning - " Remixed exclusively by D.J Clueless C*nt from Basildon". Needless to say it went right back to HMV today. Arse!!

items of note:
devendra barnhart - oh me oh my... (finally picked this up and its really good)
nina nastasia - run to ruin (love this too, jim white on drums = genius)
AC/DC - dirty deeds done dirt cheap (figured i needed some more ac/dc in my collection. of course it rocks like a muhfukka)

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!

martin, yeah "timeless flight", i did go back & buy it too, & i like it quite a lot....only other one i really know - i only got into his stuff pretty recently - is "human menagerie" which, yeah, is great.

Animal Collective - Here Comes the Indian
Gang of Four - Entertainment!
Spacemen 3 - The Perfect Prescription
Scott Walker - Tilt

jesus lizard- goat
diamanda galas- vena cava
pere ubu- terminal tower

Flaming Lips - Flight Test EP
Les Rallizes Denudes - High or Die, on the way from Ed Eclipse
Bill Hicks - Philosophy

radiohead - hail to the thief (on one hand i am slightly disappointed that the versions are so close to the mp3s which emerged on the interweb a couple of months ago. godrich was bullshitting everyone. on the other hand those versions could not be topped. very angry about the record company that the cd does not run on my cd-rom drive. swearing to myself that i won't buy copy-protected cds anymore. probably i won't be able to hold that promise to myself.)

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.)

The trick with live DVDs if you can't stand to watch them is to just listen to them. Mmm.

Just picked up Glenn Branca's The Ascension and Triple R Friends. My god!! I listened to the Branca last night extremely loud, and it floored me. The opening bassline in the first movement is completely badass. And jeebus is Friends ever amazing! Track 1 sounds like all the good parts about the opening 1-2 punch of "Everything in its Right Place"/"Kid A" made into an extract and laced with an actual groove -- all the way down to the slightly-distressed-but-bored glitch vocals and the billowy synths (heck, even the chord changes are reminiscent of "EIIRP"). Beautiful.

Heh, Marcello played "The Ascension" on his show the other day and damn it was good indeed. Good to finally hear it after years of hearing about the darn thing.

Car boot sale booty today (all CD)

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

Billy's buys are always a thing of beauty!

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)

yesterday at the megamall:

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

Dr C , I recommend you check out the Miles disc. No doubt Marcello or mark s can discuss it more eloquently than me, sufficient to say it's the under acknowledged bedrock of all that scratchy post punkfunk we know and love.

Bardo Pond - Set and Setting CD
Everlasting The Way - Magic Eye Singles 7"
High on Fire - Surrounded by Thieves LP
Julia - Kathy Revisited 7"
Mr. Brinkman - 06 05 03 CD-R

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