Last X records you bought, 2nd quarter 2003

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...

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.

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

a one man beach boys/xtc

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?

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.

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!)

"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.

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

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

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!)

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

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.

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.

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.

!!! – “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

how d'you like it, sundar?

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

eBay italo records monopolising my money just now...

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

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

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