Recent Poorchoices/Purchases

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.

i miss buying CD at Amoeba.

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.

Last several weeks of acquisitions:

LPs:
The Lines — Hull Down
Andrew Bird — Are You Serious (with bonus 7")
Glenn Jones — Fleeting
Julia Holter — Tragedy

CDs:
KING — We Are KING
James Blake — The Colour in Anything
Bill Evans — Some Other Time
Julia Holter — Ekstasis
David Byrne — The Catherine Wheel
David Byrne + Brian Eno — My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (remastered + expanded)
Talking Heads — Stop Making Sense (remastered + expanded)
Stephen Stills — Manassas

Kvelertak - Nattesferd 2LP
Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time LP (nice used copy for cheap)
Vektor - Terminal Redux 2LP
King Gizzard & cet. - Nonagon Infinity LP (fancy "Emu Egg" colored vinyl)
Halo of Flies - Music for Insect Minds 2LP reissue
Blood Ceremony - Blood Ceremony LP
Horse Lords - Interventions LP
Bombino - Azel LP
Boredoms - Super Go!!!!! [Shine In * Shine On] 12"
Boredoms - Super Roots 7 12"
Boredoms - Soul Discharge LP
Ulver - Bergtatt LP reissue
Ulver - Kveldssanger LP reissue
Ulver - Nattens Madrigal LP reissue

plus replacement copies of several beloved old deerhoof & stereolab albums

More. Always more.

LPs:
William Tyler — Modern Country
Ben Watt — Fever Dream

CDs:
Talking Heads — The Name of This Band is Talking Heads (remastered + expanded)
Roger Waters — The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking
Roger Waters — Radio K.A.O.S.
Roger Waters — Amused to Death
David Gilmour — self-titled
David Gilmour — About Face
David Gilmour — On An Island
David Gilmour — Rattle That Lock
Pink Floyd — The Endless River
Grimes — Halfaxa
Vampire Weekend — self-titled
Vampire Weekend — Contra
Vampire Weekend — Modern Vampires of the City
Lianne La Havas — Is Your Love Big Enough?
Lianne La Havas — Blood
Neil Young — Live at the Cellar Door
Paul McCartney — McCartney (remastered + expanded)
Paul McCartney — Ram (remastered + expanded)

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 — Moonshine
Vashti Bunyan — Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind: Singles and Demos 1964-1967

LPs:
Angel Olsen — Strange Cacti
Bert Jansch — Avocet
Bert Jansch — s/t
Bert Jansch — It Don't Bother Me
Glenn Mercer — Wheels in Motion

The price of vinyl reissues has really gotten out of hand.

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

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 September
The Names — Swimming
Sad Lovers + Giants — Epic Garden Music
Sad Lovers + Giants — Feeding the Flame
Magazine — The Correct Use of Soap
The Rain Parade — Emergency Third Rail Power Trip / Explosions in the Glass Palace EP

LPs:
Julia Holter — In the Same Room
The Jesus + Mary Chain — Damage + Joy
Spoon — Hot Thoughts

Yes.

hit up an online sale for my birthday week:

porter ricks - shadow boat ep
angelo badalamenti - twin peaks: fire walk with me
second woman - s/w
orphx - archive 93-94

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 - y4k
crystal 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.

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 EP
Sigur Rós — Untitled 1 (a.k.a. "Vaka") EP
Talk Talk — The Party's Over
Talk Talk — It's My Life
Pere Ubu — The Hearpen Singles 1975-1977
Pere Ubu — The Modern Dance
Pere Ubu — New Picnic Time
Uncle Tupelo — Still Feel Gone
Uncle Tupelo — March 16-20, 1992
Roger Waters — is this the life we really want?
Lindisfarne — Nicely Out of Tune
Alice Coltrane — Transcendence
Tom Petty — The Last DJ
Tom Petty — Highway Companion
Tom Petty — Mojo

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 Words
Lift - Too Much To Say EP
Captain Beefheart - Strictly Personal
Slowdive - Slowdive
Justin Currie - This Is My Kingdom Now
Wire - Silver/Lead
Gavin Osborn - all 3 albums he's released

I did not see / was not aware of the Datapanik set, though it does look enticing. Need to digest what I've gotten at this point, but holy hell, the initial singles on the `75-`77 set are all kinds of amazing.

I already had No Depression and Anodyne on vinyl, so that completes them for me.

Strictly Personal is rad. But, hoo boy, what a loud bunch of ruckus. Can only take that stuff in small increments.

Ordered from Discogs today:

Fred Anderson, Dark Day/Live in Verona 2CD
Fred Anderson/Kidd Jordan/William Parker/Hamid Drake, 2 Days in April 2CD

Purchased from a Facebook friend:

V/A, Best of House Music, Vol. 1-4 box set (the old Profile Records compilations)

buying CDs in 2017 is embarrassing

thrift shop poorchoices:

Innocence Mission - s/t
Mono - Formica Blues (it's a cutout, but the front cover is autographed by the band: "TO Laurie Love Siobhan De Maré + Martin Virgo")
Lee Perry - Arkology box set
Stereolab - Transient Random-Noise Bursts
Stereolab - Mars Audiac Quintet
Jan Garbarek - Dis
George Russell - Ezz-thetics
Boards of Canada - MHTRTC
Boards of Canada - Campfire Headphase

[there were a ton of krautrock/progressive electronic CDs in the new arrivals bin (early Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Steve Hillage, Edgar Froese) but most of them were priced at $10-$15, so they probably consult discogs]

record store poorchoices:

Max Tundra - Mastered by Guy at the Exchange
Max Tundra - Parallax Error Beheads You
Xela - In Bocca Al Lupo
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi

tack>>head : the lost tapes - 2 cd set, one cd of unreleased tracks from their golden era, another cd of random remixes of their recent comeback album.
tack>>head : the message - a dubstep/jungle/dub reversion album of their recent comeback album by rob bass hi-fi.
kraftwerk : 3d the catalogue - had to be done.
prince far i : cry freedom dub ("come for the voice, stay for the dub")
shy fx and t power : set it of.

Ark-Ology is such an honorable attempt at compiling such a ludicrous amount of great music.

until now the only the only Perry I'd heard was Super Ape, so it's definitely a lot to take in.

Ape-ology is also good as is the Wonderman years and I think there are a couple of other good ones in that Sanctuary Trojan series.

I think there are a couple of other good ones in that Sanctuary Trojan series

the sanctuary era of trojan was a wonderful wonderful thing.
a lot of care and attention went into those releases.
the packaging, the extensive sleevenotes, the deep archive album releases with tons of extra tracks,
the mad themed comps ..
suspect we will never see that kind of reissue program for the catalogue again.

At least the ones that came out at the time seem to have reappeared over the last couple of years after being OOP for several years.

Was in downtown LA this morning for a meeting, so I made a trip over to Amoeba to do some more trading. Here's what I came away with (all CDs):

Bobby Hutcherson — Live at Montreux
Abdullah Ibrahim — Good News From Africa
Alice Coltrane — Translinear Light
Fugazi — 13 Songs
Fugazi — Repeater + 3 Songs
Fugazi — Steady Diet of Nothing
Fugazi — In on the Kill Taker
Fugazi — Red Medicine
Fugazi — End Hits
Fugazi — The Argument

Bought the 2005 2CD reissues of the Stooges' s/t debut and Fun House, just 'cause I didn't have physical copies in the house (though I do have the Complete Fun House Sessions box).

I found the following used records last week and am very happy with them

Ultravox! : s/t
Locust: Morning Light
Pere Ubu: Dub Housing
Tuxedomoon: Half Mute
Danielle Dax: Jesus Egg That Wept

Those Stooges 2CD deals are pretty great.

I also recently got Dub Housing and I like it!

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 was wondering what cds that promised to be great ended up stinking up your earholes.

Pumarosa - The Witch
Joan Shelley - s/t

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

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.'

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.

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?

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"

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

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

L'Infonie, a weird French Canadian prog group, did a version too.

cool, I'll have to check that one out!

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...)

Cool! Glad to hear it.

Sadly, I did get into minidiscs in the early 2000s.

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.

a buck a pop:

Slipknot Iowa
Gravenhurst Flashlight Season
Cannibal Ox Cold Vein
The Format Dog Problems
Beach House Teen Dream
My Morning Jacket Circuital

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 Flag
Wire — Chairs Missing
Wire — 154
Abdullah Ibrahim — Anatomy of a South African Village
Siouxsie and the Banshees — The John Peel Sessions
Gil Scott-Heron + Jamie xx — We're New Here

LPs:
Modern English — Take Me to the Trees
The Raincoats — The Raincoats
Cluster — Cluster II

I’ve pre-ordered the new King Crimson 3CD/1Blu-Ray live thing. I saw the tour; it was good.

I liked the tour too. But why on earth didn't they play "21st Century Schizoid Man" in Berlin?

Got back in the game yesterday. . .

CDs:
Bert Jansch — Rosemary Lane
Abdullah Ibrahim — No Fear, No Die (S'en Fout La Mort) OST
Abdullah Ibrahim — Cape Town Flowers
McCoy Tyner — Time for Tyner
Terry Callier — First Light
Jon Lucien — Rashida
Gary Burton — Alone At Last

LPs:
Jon Lucien — Song for My Lady
Jon Lucien — Romantico
Bobby Hutcherson — Un Poco Loco
Abdullah Ibrahim — Black Lightning
Weldon 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.

Today's haul. . .

LPs:
Ralph Towner / John Abercrombie — Five Years Later
Jan Garbarek Group — Wayfarer
Cal Tjader — Puttin` it Together

CDs:
Gary McFarland / Steve Kuhn — The October Suite
Chick Corea — Return to Forever
Chick Corea — Light as a Feather
Abdullah Ibrahim — African Magic
The Meters — A Message from the Meters
Sonny Rollins — The Bridge
The Free Design — Kites are Fun
The Free Design — You Could Be Born Again