Last X records you bought, 2nd quarter 2003

Matt Elliott -- The Mess We Made
Flowchart -- Evergreen Noise is Flexible/The Spirit of Kenny G, Pre-2000 Singles and Comp Tracks (both discs)
Martin Gore -- Counterfeit2
Miaow -- When It All Comes Down
Minny Pops -- Secret Stories
The Passage -- Pindrop, For All And None, Degenerates, Enflame, BBC Sessions
Simple Minds -- Life in A Day, Reel to Real Cacophony, Empires and Dance, Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call, New Gold Dream, Sparkle in the Rain (all the new remasters)
Trumans Water -- The Singles 1992-1997

...also the import DVD of Twenty Four Hour Party People, rah!

I just bought Unknown Pleasures and Closer last week too!

chanced on a few cheapos
(and eventually forgot to bag one of 'em, d'oh)

Flowers of Romance, P.I.L.
The Best of ELO - which, miraculously, means in this case: nearly all of the first album, about a third of the second, and a coupla 'early versions' of certain tracks (of "showdown" and "ma ma belle"); darn, those Roy Wood songs sound much better than i remembered.

(and somehow i manages to left behind OMD's Dazzle Ships ...must go back to that li'l shop some day, probbly)

James Chance: Irresistible Impulse Box Set
DAF: Die Kleinen Und Die Bosen
Melt Banana: Teen Shiny
Terence Trent D'Arby: Symphony Or Damn
Cybotron: Clear

then I discovered http://us.yesasia.com/

V/A: Japan For Sale, Volume 1
V/A: Japan For Sale, Volume 2
V/A: Japan For Sale, Volume 3
GhettoBombs & Schizo: STAR Volume 1
CAN: Vol.4 - Grey Market
Drunken Tiger: Vol. 4 - Foundation
OST - Resurrection of the Little Match Girl

Caroliner Rainbow - Scrambled Egg Taken for a Wife
Caroliner Rainbow - Cooking Stove Beast
Kit Clayton - Material Problem ep
Altered States - Lithuania and Estonia Live
Otomo Y / Sachiko M - Warhol Memory Disorder (soundbeds for an installation, not really listenable as an album)
Philip Jeck - Stoke (nice, I guess)
Luciano Berio - Coro
Richard Thompson - More Guitars
Bob Ostertag - DJ of the month (quite good)
Bach - Mass in B Minor, Robert Shaw
Bach - Mass in B Minor, von Karajan
Hugh Le Caine - Compositions / Demonstrations 1946-74
Hecker - Sun Pandamonium
Karen Stackpole - 12" s/t (solo percussion record, atmospheres)
Yasunao Tone - s/t
Micheline Coulombe Saint-marcoux - Impulsion
Max Neuhaus - Fontana Mix Feed (brutally amazing)
various artists - Good Night - music to sleep to

today i got the new Brassy and Misty Dixon for ten aussie schmackeroos apiece. score!

Milk Cult - Project M-13
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Pocket Symphonies...

since 5/28
abbc - tête a tête
avarus - III LP
avarus - avp
barlow/petersen/wivinus - untitled
martyn bates - letters to a scattered family
brainbombs - s/t lp
broom dusters - 23hours 30minutes
butthole surfers - rembrandt pussyhorse
del - projectionist please focus
dj scud/rich kid/panacea - murder sound
dj scud/i-sound - mortal clash
forcefield - lord of the rings modulator
kim fowley - love is alive and well
gai/jin - guncourt 7"
gold sparkle band - fugues & flowers
the hafler trio - how to reform mankind
leningrad blues machine - s/t
lilys - better can't make your life better
migrantes - moon journals LP
migrantes - monsoon moods LP
mindflayer - take your skin off
moviola/handsome family 7"
my cat is an alien - out of the blue... into the white
my cat is an alien - landscapes of the electric city
neutral - motion of
nurse with wound - she and me together fall in free death LP
nurse with wound - the musty odour of pierced rectums
plasticland - s/t
plasticland - mink dress and other cats
pothole skinny - lullaby for a dear generation
shantel - great delay
shrin - rin liminal switch v. 3 LP
slepcy - and again
squarepusher - do you know squarepusher? / alive in japan
sun city girls - cfr2: the dreamy draw
t.a.c. - la nouvelle art du deuil
tower recordings - the futuristic folk of
troum - darv/esh 10"
cristian vogel - dungeon master / live pa 2001
[vrrssn]/greg weeks 7"
wolf eyes - s/t
wolf eyes - slicer
v/a - zod mix.2
v/a - we'll sail out far... maybe a little too far
v/a - windswept trees and houses: a jewelled antler primer #1

summerslastsound, how's abbc? i've seen it a local shop for quite a fair price but somehow i'm still reluctant...

willem, it's good but not great. the Amor Belhom Duo's café Parisienne-isms and classical stylings blend surprisingly well into the Calexicans' spagh-indie western canvas. i'm not wild about the vocals, and the cultural crossweave can be too literal at times (must they drag in the accordion every time sights along the Seine are implied?), but it's a pleasant change of pace with a number of exquisite tracks. if the price is right, and you enjoy Calexico's non-Morricone moments, you should pull the trigger.

oh dear, i'm already way too trigger-happy these last two weeks...

Motorhead - "No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith" £2.99
Kelis - "Wanderland" £3.99

Inflatable boy clams - 2x7"
The Suspicions - Laughing policeman 7" (!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Pulp - low flying aircraft 7"
Tronics - Love backed by forces LP
Field mice - emmas house 7"
L voag - the way out Lp
L voag - Move ep 7"
The Fear Merchants - Mental cassette (!!!!!!!!!)
Narky Brillans - Narky Brillans Goes Into Orbit cassette (!!!!!!!!!!)
avocado baby /tullycraft split 7"
action biker - sandy edwards 7"
lone pigeon - touched by tomoko 7"
dorotea - ep1 7"
tv personalities - wheres bill grundy 7" (kings road)
huggy bear - her jazz 7"
palais shaumburg - wir bauen ein neuen stadt 7"
Pink floyd - pipers at the gates of dawn LP
God´s gift - Discipline 7"

and Y pants - Beat it down LP n its way

Last X record I bought was Exene Cervenka's new band, Original Sinners, a big step up from her previous Auntie Christ.

Susumu Yokota - Overhead
Har Mar Superstar - You Can Feel Me

ORIS Amplifier Worship
MERZBOW Merzbeat
PSYCHO-BABA On The Roof Of Kedar Lodge
SIGH Imaginary Sonicscape
AMON DUUL II Yeti

POP TATARI - BOREDOMS
CHOCOLATE SYNTHESIZERS - BOREDOMS
Pixeltan - Pixeltan

Erase Errata - 'Dancing Machine' Remix CD
Glass Candy - 'Love Love Love' CD
Red Monkey - 'Get Uncivilised' 7inch
Stinking Lizavetta/Regulator Watts - Split 7inch

SUPER ROOTS(8) [CD]
By: BOREDOMS

VISION CREATION
By: BOREDOMS

Rebore(1)
By: BOREDOMS, UNKLE

SUPER ROOTS(7)
By: BOREDOMS

Rebore(3)
By: BOREDOMS, DJ KRUSH

would it be safe to say you're on a boredoms kick?

Hot Snakes - Automatic Midnight
Shotmaker - Complete Discography 1993-96
Oneida - Each One Teach One

Today I borrowed

Allman Brothers Band - Dreams (4-CD set)
Pharaoh Sanders - Tauhid
Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Complete Mercury Recordings (11-CD set)

I like when the cymbals go "ssssk!"

Simon & Garfunkel - Greatest Hits
Supertramp - Breakfast in America
Styx - Equinox

budget cd extravaganza:

entombed - morning star
pentagram - sub-basement
voivod - dimension hatross
tom tom club - s/t
necessary evils - sicko inside me

(from cheapo bin @ penny lane in sydenham : ) bob dylan "self portrait", a nother country moog album (i got 3 now!), a louis prima /keely smith best-of....not from the sale bin but also quite inexpensive, a comp. of del shannon's late 60s/early 70s stuff (same shop)...from cats protection league shop, a record by someone called lynn todd (? dunno) that i bought cause of a cover of "rebel rebel"

also from penny lane's 3for$10 - an animals compilation, rolling stones big hits high tide and green glass with booklet cover and creedence clearwater cosmos factory

no i mean high tide and green grass

no i mean high tide and green grass not glass

anal magic and rev. dwight frizzell beyond the black crack paradigm
paradise island lines are infinitely fine dim mak
xiu xiu fag patrol free porcupine society

Peter Brotzmann's die like a dog quartet- little bords have fast hearts vol.1

Peter Brotzmann's die like a dog quartet- little bords have fast hearts vol.2 (both on FMP)

Borbetomagus- songs our mother taught us (agaric)
amm- generatative themes (matchless)

i was about to say, "how's that new borbetomagus album." but i'm guessing it sounds like borbetomagus.

w/ borb every record is 'the same' and yet 'different': a cliche but kind of true here. their collective playing does go through a bit of a change i'd say. i need to spend more time with it to say whether its great or not (i'm not sure).

anyway: null, ans my borb thread from a couple of days ago:

Songs our mother taught us

abbc - tête á tête
eels - shootenanny!
radiohead - hail to the thief (finally there it is)
mogwai - happy songs for happy people
tindersticks - waiting for the moon + don't let go-ep

high on fire - the art of self defense
darkthrone - goatlord
old man gloom - III
enslaved - eld
blutsiphon - tammus

gonna be a HEAVY weekend. excepting blutsiphon, which is only the second gefriem release i've been able to track down.

Congos - Heart of the Congos
Durutti Column - LC
Galaxie 500 - On Fire
Kitchens of Distinction - Death of Cool (for $4)
Ruts DC - Rhythm Collision Dub

3 indie canon heavy-hitters:

the fall - this nation's saving grace
talk talk - laughing stock
stereolab - emperor tomato ketchup

secondhand vinyl-

Bob Dylan-"Highway 61 Revisited"
It's A Beautiful Day-"At Carnegie Hall"
Haircut 100-"Pelican West"
Butthole Surfers-"Locust Abortion Technician"

luma lane, the brunettes cd, kuchen meets mapstation(who knew i could learn to love meriel barham), edwin moses(fake soul alright), ulrich schnauss' new cd(very much like manual on this one i think)

Slowdive-"Pygmalion"
AR Kane-"i"

Heart - The Essential
Guns'n'Roses - Lies

I got Lies for my birthday in Gr 5 or 6. My mother confiscated and hid it. I've still never listened to it.

Secondhand vinyl yesterday, $1.50 each:

Alice Cooper - The Alice Cooper Show
Carpenters - Singles 1969-1973
Southside Johnny & The Asbury Dukes - Hearts of Stone
Brian Eno - Music From Films
Cheap Trick - Live At The Budokan
Steve Martin - A Wild and Crazy Guy
Igor Stravinsky - The Firebird Suite
Rolling Stones - Hot Rocks
Martha & The Vandellas - Greatest Hits

and on tape for a quarter

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Coming Out of Our Shells
which is absolutely stunning.

it's almost time to start another one of these isn't it?
Oh well.
The following are all on the way from amazon and various other resellers:

V/A: Cambodian Rocks
V/A: Club Classics 1982-84 Volume 1
V/A: Original Chicago House Classics
Pret-A-Porter: OST
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas OST
Rober Palmer: Addictions Volume 1
Iggy Pop: Lust For Life
Steely Dan: Can't Buy A Thrill
Technotronic: Pump Up The Jam
Huey Lewis & The News: Sports
Ken Ishii: Future In Light
Bangs: Call & Response
Monks: Black Monk Time
Missing Persons: Best Of
Blur: Best Of

it's been ages since I bought sth: JAMES CHANCE BOXSET. Julio, email me if you wanna have a copy of it (by the year 2525)

Spent the whole weekend listening to recently acquired and long lusted-after:

D-Train - "You're the one for me"
Coati Munid - "Que Pasa/Me no Pop I"

I took out the Yesyears box set, the Well-Tuned Piano box set, and Heavy Metal Hits of the 80s, Vols 1-3.

Kofi, A Very Reggae Christmas
XTC, Oranges & Lemons
Sheila E 's 1987 live in S'Frisco rekkid (a boot', f'course)
Primal Scream, Echo Dek
Queen Latifah and the Original Flavor Unit

Mono - One More Step and You Die

AR Kane - Americana
Bug - Pressure
Medicine - Shot Forth Self Living

On my quarterly trip to Berlin, last w-e:

Wire - Send
John Fahey - The Essential
Dilinger - Kingston Ruler
Luomo - Vocalcity
Jan Jelinek - Loop-Jazz-Finding Records

The Passage - Pindrop,
For All & None,
Degenerates,
Enflame,
BBC Sessions (all the LTJ CD re-issues)
OMD - 'OMITD' + 'Organisation' (new CD re-issues with extra tracks)
Punishment Of Luxury - CD issue of 1979 'Laughing Academy' LP with extra tracks (AFTER YEARS OF SEARCHING AMAZON COMES THROUGH YEEHA)
Spike Jones & City Slickers - 4CD box set

Currently awaiting delivery of:
'Musical Box Dances' CD
'Victorian Musical Boxes' CD
'Singing Bowls Of Tibet' CD
'Fortune My Foe' LP (12th & 13th century music with booklet illustrating early instruments)

130 new titles. shopping at distributors' warehouses = classic?
unless someone cares, i won't bore you with a list.