Last X records you bought, 2nd quarter 2003

Message Bookmarked
Bookmark Removed
Not all messages are displayed: show all messages (444 of them)
130 new titles. shopping at distributors' warehouses = classic?
unless someone cares, i won't bore you with a list.

summerslastsound, Wednesday, 11 June 2003 15:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

130?
go on!

willem (willem), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 17:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

I have to say I am always very impressed with your hauls, Summers! So what is all this anyway, just a place where a bunch of returns come back?

Most recent would be the 8 CDR Private Tapes special issue from Kawabata.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 17:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

mostly eBay and dogged stalk-and-grab mailorder activity, with a generous sampling of promos courtesy of friends on high. but i owe this last hefty haul to a drizzly afternoon spent combing the shelves of an actual indie-distro warehouse, breathing in glorious lungfuls of actual indie-distro warehouse dust, plucking one-offs and snatching returns from the brink of supposed oblivion. a rare treat. of course i'll (literally) be paying for the pleasure for months on end. but as long as we only live once, might as well do it all in caps.

summerslastsound, Wednesday, 11 June 2003 17:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

Well done, sir. I know the feeling. :-)

Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 18:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

Last few days:

V/A--"Nice Up The Dance"
V/A--"We Are Getting Bad: The Sound of Phase One"
V/A--"Funky Funky New Orleans Vol. 3"
The Tyde--"Twice"
Radiohead--"HTTT"
Del Shannon--"The Further Adventures of Charles Westover"
Gang of Four--"Entertainment/Yellow" (Infinite Zero ed.)
!!!--"Me And Giuliani etc."
Dexy's Midnight Runners--"Don't Stand Me Down"
Turbonegro--"Apocalypse Dudes"
Simple Minds--"New Gold Dream"

and that Muzik mag with the DFA mix CD on it...

M Specktor (M Specktor), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 18:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

The Cure Trilogy DVD
Serart s/t CD
Radiohead Hail to the Thief CD

nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 19:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

Borrowed from the library:

Duke Ellington: Far Eastern Suite
Coltrane/Olatunji concert
Merle Haggard: The Peer Sessions

Haven't listened to any of them completely so far, and none of them are things I particularly want to listen to at the moment.

I also borrowed a handful of samplers from magazines and so forth, mostly divided between electronic dance (incl. IDM) stuff (just so I can connect names and sounds) and "world music." None of it very inspiring, but I guess that's what happens when you listen to things because they happen to be there (and you want to put off buying more CDs), rather than because you seriously expect to enjoy them.

Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 11 June 2003 22:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

Over the last month or so:

The Aluminum Group, Happyness
Steely Dan, Aja
Steely Dan, Katy Lied
Tes, Take Home Tes
The New Pornographers, Electric Version
Push Button Objects, Ghetto Blaster
Data 80, S/T

and, inspired by Ned's thread:
Simple Minds, Empires and Dance
Simple Minds, Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call

Sean Thomas (sgthomas), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 23:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

7 squires of the subterrain cd-rs:)

a one man beach boys/xtc

keith (keithmcl), Thursday, 12 June 2003 01:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

Sean, how is the new Aluminium Group? I suddenly remembered that I loved them a few days ago and am contemplating filling my knowledge of them beyond Introducing...

Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 12 June 2003 13:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

The Cure Trilogy DVD

I heart the Nickalicious (my copy arrived yesterday).

and, inspired by Ned's thread:

Kewl. What do you think of them, if you've had a chance to get to them yet?

Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 June 2003 13:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

death in vegas latest. dj yoda mixtapes 1 + 2, unklesounds mixtape, james lavelle mix for GU, the strike boys, wall of sound compilation, propoganda compilation
qotsa,audioslave, de la soul - 3 ft high, chainstore massacre (on-u sound comp)
gang of four's entertainment, shriekback stuff, regular fries eps', fischerspooner, audio active - return of the red-i, my computer, free association, xtrmntr primal scream, david holmes - exit lp,
bell x1 'music in mouth, impulsion, buffalo daughter, money marks last album, miguel migs mix, zwan, mott the hoople 'all the young dudes' album, alex gopher, dj shadow - private press, king of woolworths - ming star ..
and on and on it goes .. i need help .. instead i find this place and now i need more.

mark e (mark e), Thursday, 12 June 2003 14:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

Donna Summer - "this needs to be your style"
Broklyn beats - [sic], brutal police menace
Doctor's Cat - "Andromeda"
Doctor's Cat - "Watch out"

Jacob (Jacob), Thursday, 12 June 2003 15:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

hmm, yesterday i picked up

john fahey - old fashioned love (love this)

pernice brothers - yours, mine, and ours (first time ive actually bought one of their records, after a number of recommendations in their direction. i think im liking it, its growing on me. certainly a fair bit of smiths/morrissey influence (who i love) going on, and some cure and new order too, but its got more of a rootsy drive to it, more twangy, so it sounds kinda odd. i think its good though)

i wanted to buy the new nina nastasia as well, cos i really liked her last one and her john peel sessions, but it doesnt seem to be out here yet.

i held off buying "hail to the thief", im not sure i really need another radiohead album in my life right now.

Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Thursday, 12 June 2003 15:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

Tim, I really like Aluminum Group's Happyness album -- though it's the first thing I've heard by them (I was tipped to it by a post here on ILM, can't remember whose). I'd say musically a good comparison is China Crisis or some other light, vaguely jazzy synth-pop -- it *feels* sort of techy, but less in the beats than a vague shimmer around the periphery. It reminds me a little of Gaucho-era Steely Dan or Fagen's Nightfly, though I think that's got as much to do with the lyrics as the music. I turned a friend on to it a few weeks ago, and his four-word summary was "deceivingly layered, literate, timely." Worth checking out...

Sean Thomas (sgthomas), Thursday, 12 June 2003 15:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

i need help .. instead i find this place and now i need more.
haha. yes, that's how this thread works, doesn't it...?
(btw, good to notice that more & more people are buying Entertainment!)

anyway, left 2 2nd shops today with these vinyl issues:

Mick Ronson - Slaughter on 10th Avenue
David Bowie & Pat Metheny Group - This Is Not America [12"]
the Psychedelic Furs - s/t & Mirror Moves
Martin Phillips and the Chills - Sunburnt
Roxy Music - Viva! Roxy Music (which is GRAND!)

willem (willem), Thursday, 12 June 2003 18:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

Mike osbourne- outback
roky erickson and the aliens- the evil one
pharoah sanders- tauhid
music from the nonesuch explorer series- indonesia

Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 12 June 2003 19:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

pile of cheap stuff :
the akron complication - various
robin trower live - robin trower
hospital - gARy young
kimono my house - sparks
the womack "live" - bobby womack
sleeps with angels (cassette) - young/horse
best of or greatest hits or something, can't remember the title 'cause i left it in the car (cassette) - bob wills/tx playboys
last chance to dance (cassette) - hello sailor

"the akron complication" has some great stuff on it, thats all i've listened to so far except some bob wills in the car on the way home.

duane, Friday, 13 June 2003 01:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

Cheap Trick - S/T
Cheap Trick - In Color
Autopsy - Severed Survival rerelease
Neu - Neu 2
Radiohead - Hail to The Thief
Oscar Peterson Trio - We Get Requests
Tschaikowsky - Nutcracker (i usually research before buying classical music, but I found this for one buck, so hey, even if the recording/performance blows, at least I'll get my money back in a used store)

Øystein Holm-Olsen (Øystein H-O), Friday, 13 June 2003 12:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

Autopsy - Severed Survival rerelease

now that's good eatin'. does it have any bonus tracks?

your null fame (yournullfame), Friday, 13 June 2003 14:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yeah, three:
"Funereality", "Destined to fester" and "In the grip of winter"
And for some reason it's remastered too!
I haven't listened to it yet, so I don't know if those three songs are some rare versions, or if they've just for some reason have put the Mental Funeral and Acts Of The Unspeakable version on here. (I guess two of them might be from the Retribution for the dead EP?`)

Remind me not to get the rerelease of Mental Funeral, as there's no way they can improve the sound on that.

Øystein Holm-Olsen (Øystein H-O), Saturday, 14 June 2003 07:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

y pants - beat it down Lp
the go-betweens - 1978 - 1990 2LP
jowe head - pincer movement lp

and on it´s way home to me:
vaselines - son of a gun 12"
faust - the faust tapes lp
and soon
sea urhcins - pristine christine 7"
orange juice - blueboy 7"
girlfrendo - 2nd 7"
(thanks electric sound of jim!)

Jens (brighter), Saturday, 14 June 2003 08:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

(I guess two of them might be from the Retribution for the dead EP?`)

yeah, "destined to fester" and "in the grip..." were on retribution and the original "severed survival" cd, along with the "retribution" title track. weird...

your null fame (yournullfame), Saturday, 14 June 2003 08:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

Steely Dan - "Can't Buy a Thrill" & "Pretzel Logic"
Duke Ellington - "Never No Lament: The Blanton-Webster Band"
Ella Fitzgerald - "Pure Ella"

o. nate (onate), Sunday, 15 June 2003 00:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

cecil taylor feel trio: 2T's for a lovely T (10 CD box set).

Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 15 June 2003 12:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

What is up with the Steely Dan backcatalog flying off the shelves around here? Is it just that time of year? I just got my copy of Can't Buy A Thrill last week - odd coincidence I suppose

Millar (Millar), Sunday, 15 June 2003 13:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

...rrrr ...rrrr ...i'm waiting for my copy of Natacha's Something Dangerrrrrous to arrrrrive any day now ....RRRRRRRRRR

t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Sunday, 15 June 2003 15:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

What is up with the Steely Dan backcatalog flying off the shelves around here? Is it just that time of year?

Well, in my case, it's just that I've sort of recently discovered them. I mean, I was vaguely aware of their existence, but I'd never really sought out their stuff or even heard much of it. I blame Jody Beth Rosen, I guess, since it was her POX thread and the positive responses it got that inspired me to download a few of their songs. Then I picked up Countdown to Ecstasy since it had "My Old School" on it. The album proceeded to quickly grow on me like a vicious fungus. So I picked up the preceding release and then the following one. So far I still like Countdown the best, but I plan to continue on through their catalog until I lose interest - and if I don't lose interest, even better.

o. nate (onate), Sunday, 15 June 2003 19:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

!!! - Me & Giuliani...
Scott Walker - Tilt

First played Tilt last night after a long day filming in an stultifyingly hot abandoned "boys' village" in Wales. Got home, saw Emma, drank a few beers, went to bed at 1am, put it on on headphones. A record has never scared me before. As if A Farmer In The City wasn't ominous and daemonic enough, during the opening moments of The Cockfighter I felt like someone was scratching their fingernails down the inside of the back of my skull, peeling my cerebelum away, and then, on the verge of sleep, it errupted in beautifully hideous and disturbed industrial sense-rape, clattering drum-things shocking me upright and Walker emitting this awful, harrowing ullulation over the top. I was nearly physically sick. It was magnificent.

Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Sunday, 15 June 2003 19:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

(ILM is behind the sudden interest in Steely Dan world-wide.)

Rockist Scientist, Sunday, 15 June 2003 19:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

kat onoma - kat onoma digipack
benjamin biolay - rose kennedy

alex in mainhattan (alex63), Sunday, 15 June 2003 20:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

hey alex. been to france for a holiday? ;) how's that kat onoma album?

willem (willem), Monday, 16 June 2003 06:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

sale bin ultra cheep :
prince - sign o the times
roger mcguinn - same
cheap trick - found all the parts e.p.
john martyn - london conversation
bob pegg & nick strutt - same
lois - bet the sky
vic godard/subway sect - what's the matter boy (already got this but i picked up this copy for livvie, hey livvie if yr readin this i got you a copy of what's the matter boy, i'll put it in the mail tomorrow if i don't forget)
+ not from sale bin but pretty cheap -
kool keith - matthew

duane (24 hour troubleshooter), Monday, 16 June 2003 07:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

if you live in dunedin you should go look in the sale bin @ echo, there's some good stuff in there right now. i didn't buy "mechanical ape/proud idiots parade" by thug (already gots) but if you don't know that rec & it's still there, buy it, it's great

duane (24 hour troubleshooter), Monday, 16 June 2003 07:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

I went insane in Montreal:

MIMEO/John Tilbury - The Hands of Caravaggio
Fred Frith - Clearing
Kevin Drumm - Land of Lurches
Kevin Drumm/Lasse Machaug - Frozen by Blizzard Winds
Ravi Shankar - Ragas Hema-Bihag, Malaya Marutam, Mishra-Mand
AC/DC - Highway to Hell
Aerosmith's Greatest Hits
And I borrowed a friend's Paul Oakenfold disc.

sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 16 June 2003 12:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

haven't done this for a while. here's some of what i got today and over the last couple of months (not counting free CDs with magazines):

!!! – “me and giuliani down by the school yard (a true story)” CDS
v/a – hip hop sessions
v/a – diwali : greensleeves rhythm album #27
norman jay – journeys by dj: desert island mix part2
peggy lee – best of 1952-56
greg davis – arbor
dntel – “(this is) the dream of evan and chan” CDS
ray barretto – the best of
johnny nash – the very best of
judy garland – greatest hits
rush – all the world’s a stage
v/a – the annual, spring 2001 (ministry of sound mix/comp)
ELO – out of the blue
prefuse 73 one word extinguisher
the e.m.i. records 70s pop 3CD box set
an 80s old-skool electro / hip hop comp
Trojan comp CD that came with the book, “young gifted & black”
a couple of nina simone compilations

zebedee (zebedee), Monday, 16 June 2003 16:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

and:
al green - gets next to you

zebedee (zebedee), Monday, 16 June 2003 16:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

Fred Frith - Clearing
-- sundar subramanian

how d'you like it, sundar?

t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Monday, 16 June 2003 16:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

haven't listened too much to the kat onoma yet, willem. there are some excellent songs but there are some disposable ones as well. "que sera votre vie?" is very catchy.

alex in mainhattan (alex63), Monday, 16 June 2003 18:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

I listened to the Frith once. I thought it was fucking great.

sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 16 June 2003 18:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

Parliament - Up For The Down Stroke
Temptations - A Song For You and Masterpiece (a twofer)
Plastic Surgery 2 (D&B comp)
All Saints - All Hits (£3 - their stock has fallen!)
J Rawls - The Essence Of J. Rawls

Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 16 June 2003 19:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

some more i forgot:

small faces - ultimate collection (bit disappointed by this)
zombies - singles collection A's & B's (much better)
v/a - strictly the best 30 (reggae comp. from 2002 that i bought in the caribbean, but released on the miami label, VP records - about five really good tracks on it)
an archies compilation CD

zebedee (zebedee), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 10:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

Doctor's Cat - "Andromeda"
Doctor's Cat - "Watch out"

eBay italo records monopolising my money just now...

Jacob (Jacob), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 12:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

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

sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 20:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

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

Millar (Millar), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 20:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

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

willem (willem), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 20:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

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.

Rockist Scientist, Tuesday, 17 June 2003 23:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

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

Rockist Scientist, Tuesday, 17 June 2003 23:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

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

Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 23:49 (twenty-one years ago) link


You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.