Where did the where did the latest purchases thread go go?

awesome.

First album's as good as any of his earlier stuff, second has its moments.

Currently on order (if that's any help):
Bjork - Medulla
Nick Cave - Abatoir Blues / The Lyre Of Orpheus
The Clash - London Calling 25th Anniversary Editions (with the recently rediscovered "Vanilla Tapes" of demos for the album including several unreleased tracks etc. - yay!)
Dr. Octagon - Dr Octagonecologyst
Ella Guru - the First Album
Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
Groove Armada - Best Of
Interpol - Antics
The Libertines - The Libertines
N*E*R*D - In Search Of....
Dizzee Rascal - Showtime
George Russell - Electroci Sonata For Souls Loved By Nature
The Sdaies - Favourite Colours
Super Furry Animals - Out Spaced
Talking Heads - The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads
Tom Waits - Real Gone
Brian Wilson - SMiLE
Various Artists - Rai Rebels

Frankie Negron: Frankie Siempre Frankie

New Jersey's Latin heart-throb, backed up by producer Sergio George's golden pop salsa touch, puts out another dance-floor filler, with a little of the other kind of filler thrown in. ("Comerte a Besos," "No Me Comparas")

[Do I sound like a real critic? No? It's not as easy as I think is it?]

Stanley Clarke: 1, 2, to the Bass Featuring Q-Tip for that comeback album youth appeal.

Thelonious Monk and Gerry Mullihan: Mullgian Meets Monk Fight tooth decay. Tickle those ivories.

Various: World Library of Folk & Primitive Music: Scotland Uncloog your ears.

The songs by Michael Stuart w/ Gisselle, Kevin Ceballo, Jay Lozada (?!) and Brenda K. Starr (an ambarrassment in general) all pretty bad.

just ordered from Amazon:
Guided by Voices - Get Out Of My Stations EP
Muddy Waters - His Best: 1947 to 1955
Sonny Boy Williamson - His Best
B.B. King - Live At The Regal
Otis Rush - Essential Collection: Classic Cobra Recordings

haven't been doing much record shopping but got radu malfatti/mattin duo 'white noise' (its a joke, its mostly quiet and very gd) and re-bought (I liked it at first then did a 180 and sold it) eno/byrne 'my life in the bush of ghosts' for a quid in the bargain bin after reading a heated discussion over this record on an ilm thread abt this a couple of weeks ago.

when is that from? isn't there a boot of theirs called 'skullfuck'?

Marc Anthony Thompson will keep me satiated with his dead-on Mark Eitzel impression until the new AMC hits the streets.

Honeybus - She Flies Like A Bird Anthology

2CD set of everything they've every done. Kinda shocked that I've never heard of these guys, a fantastic melange of a late 60's sunshine style mixed with a more straight ahead power pop feel. Some really gorgeous tunes on here

Bjork - Medulla

Still gestating. I didn't think much of Vespertine at first either so perhaps I'll eventually adore this. Tracks #3 and #11 are early standouts.

Really? I started listening to the one for Scotland, and I couldn't get into it. I will try again in a different mood.

(I was making some pretty weird typos upthread.)

what are these like milton?

you can't lose with any Dowland for lute really. especially the Julian Bream.

Anyway,

CDs:

v/a - Million Tongues Festival (LSD March, Espers, Fursaxa, Kawabata Makoto + Kinski, Panicsville, etc.)

Tapes:

Phillip Glass / Robert Wilson - Einstein on the Beach 2xCS

LPs:

Amon Duul II - Wolf City
Blue Cheer - Vincebus Eruptum
Holger Czukay - Der Osten Ist Rot
Holger Czukay - Rome Remains Rome
Godz - II
Magma - Attahk
Magma - Live

Just picked up at home during doctor's appointment/lunchbrk. Some of the Gilberto Santa Rosa sounds very good.

I'm a little disappointed with the Body Acoustic. The trumpet playing is too reliant on the Miles Davis model, in my opinion (but then I don't like Miles Davis' sound very much to begin with).

I bought this at BIG Kmart partly because I was shocked to see it there (and it was a bit less than what it would be elsewhere, I think). Also, it has a good cover.

Why do I keep making risky purchases like this? I don't really love this style, well, these styles, of music. I'm really glad salsa happened and the Cuban roots got twisted up into something new that I can relate to more.

I'm being overly negative though. It's not bad, but still this first listen drives home how little connection I really feel to this music. Most of the soloing (except for the percussion stuff) really doesn't interest me either. And the Cuban use of violins and flute is usually really really hard on my ears.

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(I'll take Egyptian oldies over Cuban oldies any day.)

Jefferson Airplane - 2X LP greatest hits
Marc and The Mambas - Untitled
Robin Hitchcock - Black snake diamond role (orig pressing on Armageddon)
Gary Numan and Tubeway Army - Replicas

CD :

Congos - Heart of The Congos (Blood and Fire 2 XCD reissue)
V/A - Rabid/TJM Punk Singles Collection (J.Cooper-Clarke's first recordings, Slaughter and The Dogs, a Distractions track etc etc)
Altered Images - Pinky Blue Plus reissue

Celia Cruz: At the Beginning. . .

I had a hand in this appearing in the collection.

Ellington/Mingus/Roach: Money Jungle
Ellington: Black, Brown and Beige

I was specifically interested in hearing these two albums, although it's unlikely I would buy them without hearing them first, so this is a nice surprise.

Joe Lovano: Viva Caruso

Nothing I expect to like, but worth a try.

Paul Winter/Winter Consort - Icarus (this is great! psych all the way. george martin production and billy cobham even shows up.)
Grover Washington Jr - Mister Magic
Larry Carlton - Alone/But Never Alone (custom pressed on kc 569 blend premium virgin vinyl courtesy of KM in Burbank, California)
Scot Scheer - Night Heat
Hubert Laws - Say It With Silence
Windham Hill Records Sampler '84 - Hedges, Isham, Winston, etc
Windham Hill Records Sampler '86 - ditto with the various, natch
The Wayne Packard Quintet - The Way It Was (private-press jazz from 1971. track listing doesn't look promising, but...you...never...know.)
John Michael Talbot - Beginnings... (sparrow records xian folk from one of the members of Mason Profitt after he found god and started dressing like a monk.)
Heifetz - Beethoven's Kreuzer Sonata (stonecoldmint rca living stereo. the only way to listen to Jascha rock the fiddle)
Gato Barbieri - Ruby, Ruby (Yer in Gadd's country, pardner)

I am all about the quiet storm today.

I do like Groundtruther. I don't quite know why I bothered to make that negative post.

Here's my list:

-ABC: The Lexicon of Love LP (c'mon, $3 for "The Look of Love"? Totally worth it!)
-Japanther: South of Northport (waaaay too short at what, 13 minutes? Fucking best band I saw on my NY trip. Fantastic!)
-Royal Trux: Twin Infinitives (long overdue purchase)
-Super_Collider (forget the name of the particular album. Bargain bin purchase)

"Punishment Of Luxury - Laughing Academy"

What do you think Doc? I missed it at the time but picked it up when it was re-released a few years back and I think it's great - it's like the missing link between XTC and Killing Joke, if anyone was actually looking for one!

Blue vinyl for the Electric Circus, Stew. I dunno why I never had this before - I have the Fall tracks on The Early Years and of course I've heard the Joy Div track. But this is a fantastic recd - even The Drones sound good and the Steel Pulse track is exceptional.

Punilux - I used to have this on tape many years ago, but I haven't heard it for 20 yrs or more, except for Puppet Life, which I have on Seeds 2 and possibly on the 1234 punk box. It's great - I'd forgotten how good they were, fairly proggy at times, great guitarist (Neville Luxury!). The lyrics are a bit sixth-form existential techo-crisis babble, but so what?

Also, I'm supposed to be getting out of my apartment and living, but that is not happening so far.)

My goodness, cdbaby.com is fast.

Farid el Atrache: Wehyat Eineri. That's how it was listed, though that is just the title of the first song here. I already have this song elsewhere, but the remaining songs (which I don't think I've heard before) on this CD, plus the title song, make up a better total package. The other songs are a little draggy, but not horribly so, and there are no embarrassing takes on swing era jazz or the like. "Wehyat Eineri" is really great. The rest of the songs are pretty good, from what I can tell so far; but this would definitely be a decent entry point into Farid's work.

Wadi el Safi: Inta Omri ("Legends of the 20th Century" series.) This is, of course, the song made famous by Oum Kalthoum. Good things about having Wadi el Safi cover it: he is a very good singer and he is a man (and therefore less likely to be tempted to closely imitate Oum Kalthoum's performance). It's unusual for as prominent an Arab singer as el Safi to cover such a famous song by an even more prominent singer (when he wasn't the composer of the sing). As I've said a million times before, overall I don't like the direction orchestration and arrangements took in Egyptian music took in the 50s and 60s: particularly, I don't like the formulaic call and response thing between singer and rigid and bombastic sounding violin section. Too much: lalalal pause DRAMA! lalalalalalal pause DRAMA! However, since this is an Abdel Wahab composition there are, typically, nevertheless some interesting twists and turns and passages of beauty.

Wadi el Safi: The Very Best of. . . [Vol. 1? I thought this was supposed to say Vol. 1 but it doesn't.]

Oum Kalthoum: Raq el Habeeb. I think I just read that this was Mohammed El-Qassabji's last composition for Oum Kalthoum. I don't really care for his style, but I don't think I've ever heard her perform one of his songs live, so that could make a difference. If it's not a live performance, why is it being sold all by itself? I hope it's at least 20 minutes long or something. (The price was lower than any of the other CDs in this series, so maybe it's almost more like an EP.)

Ibrahim Hassan: Damascus Passage. Fairly typical Arabic, specifically Syrian, instrumental music, so far. I hate to say it, but this would make good restaurant music. It's good though. You could belly dance to some of this, if you could belly dance. It's got hints of Turkish and Kurdish music as well, as the back cover hints at.

The Penguin Guide is good if you already know what piece you want to buy, but you're not sure which recording to get. It's not very helpful on deciding which composers or pieces to try. It rarely makes any qualitative judgments on the compositions themselves, only on the performances and sound quality.

Black Keys - Rubber Factory
Devendra Banhart - Nino Roja

anyhow, soooo good

HMV sale, following bargains:

Jackie Mittoo/ Drum Song - top-notch compilation of mellow Bunny Lee productions frm, I'm guessing, late 70s/ early 80s. According to Amazon and All Music Guide this album doesn't exist - but it does, it does!

Guided By Voices/ Universal Truths and Cycles - balls-achingly dull, where are the tunes Bob?!?!?! No wonder they're splitting up.

The Fall/ Totally Wired - got the vinyl but don't have any of this stuff on CD. A few quibbles with the track selection: where are "Putta Block", "Slags, Slates", "Stop Mithering"? Why a live version of "The NWRA"? Why the crap version of "New Puritan" from "Totale's Turns" and not the version on the "Kicker Conspiracy" EP? Still, mustn't grumble too much, it was cheap.

(I guess I am back to ILM, but I think I'm through with ILE.)

(also heard bits of the albert ayler box set)

(its klaus lang, btw)

;)

Pardon?

x-post: mark wastell, the guy who owns the shop.

Gonna take awhile to dig into this...

- captain beefheart, trout mask replica (strangely, the one c.b. record i don't save, save for the "tragic band" ones, the live ones, and the elusive lick my decals off [if someone wants to copy the latter for me, i wouldn't mind)

- london is the place for me - comp of calypsos recorded in the uk in the 1950s (very nice packaging and liner notes)

- sugar and poison - david toop-curated double-cd collection of soul ballads, very hard to find, and i got it for an obscene $10 (yay)

- les paul with mary ford, best of the capitol masters - finally

- cecilia bartoli, if you love me: 18th-century italian songs

- archie shepp, attica blues

- anne sofie von otter, lieder melodies - beethoven, meyerbeer, spohr, etc.

not bad really.

Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - United LP
Thee Midnighters - Thee Midnighters LP
Rose Royce - In Full Bloom LP
Doug E. Fresh and the Get Fresh Crew - The Show 12"
Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band - Meets King Penett LP
Change - The Glow of Love LP
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden LP
Bobby Womack - The Womack Live LP
Eddie Kendricks - People Hold On LP

I liked it for awhile. Music Is My Boyfriend is really cool. Now I'm listened to a Britney comp instead.

none.

i've bought less records this year than ever. i've pirated a few, though.