Last X records you bought, 2nd quarter 2003

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

Boogie Witch s/t CD
DJ Kicks: Kemistry & Storm CD
Ruins: Refusal Fossil CD
The Fall: New 2CD peel sessions thing
Legend of a Mind decca 3cd box
Otis Redding: Love Man CD
Nitro: O.F.R. CD
Fushitsusha: 1978

brian- how's the 1978 disc?

at my beloved opportunity shop right next door to my house... a 7" vinyl 1968 copy of desmond dekker's the israelites for 10 cents.

Myra Melford's The Same River Twice - "Above Blue"
Yamamoto Seiichi - "Nu Frequency"
Augustus Pablo - "King Tubby's Meets Rockers Uptown"

Received in the mail:

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.

Boulez - Piano Sonatas Nos. 1-3 (Biret, Naxos)
Dr. Dooom - First Come, First Served
Earland, Charles - Leaving This Planet
Hindemith - Kammermusik (Chailly, Decca records)
Hollmer, Lars - Sola: Lars Hollmer's Global Home Project
Lincoln, Abbey - Straight Ahead
Lutoslawski - Orchestral Works Vol. 6 (Wit, Naxos)
Mahler - Symphony No.7 (Abbado, Deutsche Grammofon)
Reinhardt, Django - Djangology Vol.2 1938-39
Smith, Jimmy - Root Down
Stockhausen - Stimmung (Rose, Hyperion)
Wagner - Der Ring Des Nibelungen Boxset (Solti, Decca)

half string - eclipse/oval/hue
mountain goats - tallahassee

3 prince cassettes for a dollar ea. : dirty mind/controversy 2-on-1, parade, new power generation but that one seems to be fucked up oh well only a buck & i can probably go back & swap it

it's third quarter now (hint hint)

Purchased / ordered since my last post above (14/05):

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.

ooh i so want those LTM comps..

Yes you do Jim - and you can still get a free Crispy Ambulance live CD with Black Music if you order it soon (they appear to have sold out of free the Section 25 CD that was given away with initial copies of The Night Watch).

Because I compiled that list from my on-line order history at various places I managed to omit one of the - if not THE - best album I've acquired recently:

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?

Demo Moe--Demolish N.Y.C.
Tellus Tools
Rudolf Eb.er's Gurgelstock 12"
Deepkiss 720--Pace X Friction
Throbbing Gristle--Thee Psychick Sacrifice
D. Cherry/K. Penderecki--Actions

brunettes 'boyracer' ep
sound of leamington spa 3
needles 'choc toxique'
slipslide 'the world can wait'
maual and icebreaker international

Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
James Yorkston and the Atheletes - Moving Up Country
Verve - Northern Soul, i lost my other copy and the review by Nick made me go out and get it again.