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[Joseph]

Alright, so I'll write up stuff about all these later, but I just bought, over the last 3 days:

Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Genesis - Foxtrot
The Smiths - The Queen is dead

[lordjim]

While apartment hunting me and the mrs. went to the chain type book/cd/movie/other store (Hastings in Richmond, KY) and bought a couple of CDs.

Snow Patrol - Eyes Open
Nothing specatular on first listening but when I'm out today I'll give it another go to see if it gets any better.  I do enjoy them but I'm kinda meh on this album.

Muse - Showbiz
Sounds like new Muse but a little rougher and less refined.  Since I like their current album I liked this one.  Makes me wish I found out about them in 99 when they sounded like this and could find them on tour.

Damn I just relaized that the mrs. is converting me to "over the pond" musicians.....

[Thrillho]

You thought Graham Coxon...was Jarvis Cocker? Is Jarvis Cocker's abum even recorded yet? Listen to it wuss.

To be fair, Blur and Pulp share two of the same letters and were two of the premier Britpop bands.

Albums I received in the post today:

Billy Talent II Good on first listen, but that ain't always a good sign.
Matisyahu - Youth Not listened yet, but I know the closing track is good alread.
Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A-Changin' Not listened yet but I'm pretty sure that this version of the album I have is different to the British one.

[Kai]

Tell me if they are different, I have the British one.

[Thrillho]

Does yours open with The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll?

I'm sure it did when I looked at it in a CD shop. This one's tracklisting seems to be a totally dfiferent order. I'm sure Only A Pawn In Their Game was on Another Side Of Bob Dylan, not The Times.

[Kai]

Lonesome Death is second to last on mine. Mine also has Only a Pawn in Their Game.

[Thrillho]

Does yours have a picture of him on the back of it?

[salada]

boards of canada's trans-canada highway EP for nine euro.

bought it in a record store in rotterdam after some deliberation. kept telling myself i don't really need it now but then managed to reason myself into thinking i was going to get it anyway, so i may as well buy it now before i spend the money on mushrooms or something.

not bad, but nothing out of the ordinary if you've heard their other stuff. still, i knew it was going to be like that i guess. favourite track was actually the odd nosdam remix of dayvan cowboy at the end.

[Kai]

Does yours have a picture of him on the back of it?

Not on the back.

[Thrillho]

Does yours have a picture of him on the back of it?

Not on the back.

Right, it appears you also have the American release. The version I saw DID have a picture of him on the back and I'm pretty sure it opened with Hattie Carroll.

[Kai]

*shrug* either way, is the music itself any different on the two releases?

[Thrillho]

This I have yet to establish, because I could've sworn that Chimes is meant to be on Another Side.

[sjbrot]

I finally picked up the new Sonic Youth today. I'm liking it a lot. It suits me much more than Sonic Nurse did, which was initially why I took my time buying this one.

I also picked up the new Lovely Feathers disk, as they have been touring with Metric and this is the second album from Equator Records, the first being Islands' Return to the Sea. It's not bad. Kinda generic indie rock stuff. The second track, "In the Valley" has some of the most inane lyrics imaginable, though. "Rome is in the valley" X 10 000.

[ASturge]

Haha, tomorrow I'm buying the girlfriend a birthday present. . . .
I'm thinking of doing that thing where you buy the new Sonic Youth album, copy it, then give it to the girlfriend who has never listened to the Youth in her life and say

"THERE'S THIS BAND I THINK YOU'D LIKE ALOT...."

Man, I kick 20x the ass of a tiger.

Also, recently got the new Dresden Dolls album! I'm liking it alot. Slightly more gimmiky/cabaret than their last one, but overall, it's definitly better! Some of the lyrics are just so great.

She's the kind of girl who leaves out condoms on the bedroom dresser/ Just to make you jealous of the guys she fucked before you met her

:p love it.

[Praeserpium Machinarum]

ASturge: Yes, Virginia is a bloody good album for most part, but I feel that they could have cut a few weaker tracks like Delilah and ended up with an overall better album. It might just be that I am more inclined to enjoy relatively short albums.

[Thrillho]

DYNAMITE KID!
The first Billy Talent was great, tell me how the new one compares.

The second one is almost as good as the first. It's definitely worth three years waiting. The songs on here are occasionally like the first record (but still good); however a lot of the songs show evolution. There's something more epic going on here, more polished. It's pretty damn great.

[Gryff]

Yesterday I rummaged through two giant tables of cheap-ass CDs, trying seemingly in vain to find something that I actually wanted amongst crappy pan-pipes albums and Peaches and Herb collections, when I stumbled on Sonic Youth's Sonic Nurse for NZ$10 (consider that a full price CD in NZ is about $35). I was all "squee!" and when I took it to the counter I was informed that in fact it was only $5!

Happiness is a hidden bargain found.

[Kai]

I was at a bookstore, but it was a bookstore that happened to have a clearance section of records (and a non clearance section, which I'm going back to tomorrow because I am totally picking up Abbey Road and Sabbath albums. Namely Paranoid and Black Sabbath Vol. 4). But anyways, on vinyl:


Pat Metheny Group - American Garage
Boston - Don't Look Back
Rainbow - Straight Between the Eyes
Boston - S/T
Journey - Evolution
Van Halen - 1984
Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill


And don't you dare say anything about Journey or Boston. Because they are ace.

[E. Spaceman]

on vinyl:

Boston - S/T

Whoa! More Than A Feeling in analogue? I'm so jealous.

I don't know if it counts, as it's not a purchase, but I found this, a compilation of VU covers that has a lot of brilliant ones. Particularily Chicago Brass's Heroin.

[Kai]

Not only in analogue, but analogue FOR FIFTY CENTS


FUCK YES FOR CLEARANCE BINS

[Houdinimachine]

I made quite a few purchases recently. All of them were amazing. I've been lucky.

On I-Tunes, I bought Skyclad - Folkemon... and I listened to it for about 8 hours straight last night. I wish they had other music available on I-Tunes because the chances of me finding their other music is going to be hard I think.

On Amazon.com, I bought:

Belle and Sebastian - If you're feeling sinister
Stars - Set Yourself on Fire

I am a recent convert to the church of B & S, so If you're feeling sinister is like a musical revolution in my head right now. This stuff is awesome. It's not quite as poppy and catchy as Life Pursuit is, but it's just as beautiful in its own right.

I can not say enough about Stars. I absolutely defy anyone who likes Arcade Fire to tell me Stars isn't pretty damn cool too. Set Yourself on Fire is pretty much going to be my writing music from now on.

On CDbaby.com, I bought:

Emperor X - central hug/friendarmy/fractal dunes [and the Dreams that Resulted]

Fez Dispenser - Elephant Etiquette

Collin Wade Monk - The Astonished Gratitude of Alectrice Chevroi

I love CDBaby.com. Their 5 dollar specials make me all warm and fuzzy inside.

Emperor X is very cheeky indy pop. This is very decent stuff to listen to when just relaxing and browsing the internet. Preferably at high volume...

Fez Dispenser... Trip Hop has never been my thing until this guy. He just has his shit DOWN. I am constantly amazed by the stuff in this album.

Collin Wade Monk... If I had to explain this album to someone, I'd say it's a low-fi Mofro mixed with Bob Dylan's voice and a little more R&B. I have a fetish for southern fried jazz and R&B, so this is my dirty little secret and none of you can have it.

[Fortnight]

Cesaria Evora - Cabo Verde
Cesaria Evora - Miss Perfumado
Cesaria Evora - Mar Azul
Cesaria Evora - Ragamar

I bought these after I was blown away by a song off of 'Mar Azul' at work and totally fell in love after I played a few more tracks.  I bought the first two at Tower looking for 'Mar Azul', but luckily my workplace is surrounded by record stores and I found it somewhere else, and discovered that the person who rang me up was a fan and convinced me to buy the last one, which came out not too long ago.
I had a bizarre experience where I found some of these albums in another part of the house with stickers from another store, only to find out that my mother has been a big fan for years and already had some of these albums. So she lent me her favorite 'Café Atlantico'.

Otherwise I went to Amoeba and decided to take a chance and bought my first No-Neck Blues Band album, Qvaris. Which is AMAZING. Also since I was very taken with the man on the cover, I bought a collaboration NNCK did with a German band called Embryo called Embryonnck.

Much goodness. Even though that pretty much was my paycheck.

And Houdinimachine, you can find most of Skyclad's albums on Amazon, or on their website.

ICANSNOTTYPE

[Praeserpium Machinarum]

If he lived in Denmark, he could find them at the library. We have pretty nifty libraries.

You can also lend every porn "movie" ever released in Denmark because they are required by law to have at least one copy.

[Skibas_clavicle]

Right, bands that I love have recently put out albums I didn't care for. The Flaming Lips, Built to Spill, blah blah blah.

I'm glad you said this, I also didn't much like the new Built to Spill release. Tha kinda hurt since they're one of my favourite bands.

I didn't buy Goo by Sonic Youth but I did download it yesterday. This is the closest this I've got.

[Thrillho]

Purchases I have made (none of which have arrived, these were all ordered on amazon):
Black Flag - Damaged (can't wait for this to arrive, if for 'TV Party' alone)
Lennon Legend
Nick Cave - Murder Ballads (which I have actually heard most of already)
The Divine Comedy - Victory For The Comic Muse (which I have entirely on MP3 and is fucking brilliant.)

[Scuba_Steve]

Today I picked up Joy Division's Closer for 10$ (cdn.). Normally, I don't like pruchasing CDs in big chain stores (Best Buy, this time) but damn, none of my local independant shops would even have it for anywhere near the price. So I picked it up after having to decide between it and John Frusciante's "Niandra Ladies...." which was 2$ mroe.

[El Opium]

Skullflower-Infinityland
-I love Skullflower so I was especially chuffed to nab this. Not so into the opening track, but "White Fang" and "False Magic Kingdom" destroy all comers for blown-out heavyness.

[karl gambolputty...]

Mojave 3 - Puzzles Like You

Extremely pretty, and a lot more upbeat than their earlier stuff.

[Thrillho]

Today I picked up Joy Division's Closer for 10$ (cdn.). Normally, I don't like pruchasing CDs in big chain stores (Best Buy, this time) but damn, none of my local independant shops would even have it for anywhere near the price. So I picked it up after having to decide between it and John Frusciante's "Niandra Ladies...." which was 2$ mroe.

That album is like a 45 minute orgasm.

Admittedly, a very, very, very depressing orgasm, but still an orgasm.

[schimmy]

An emorgasm, then?

It was my birthday recently, so I got a bunch of CDs. My favourite one at the moment is Sugarplastic's Will.
I'm pretty dissapointed about Sufjan's Michigan, though. It's nowhere nearly as good as Illinois, which I got several weeks ago.

[Merkava]

An emorgasm, then?

Holy crap. I laughed so hard after reading that. Thank you. Thank you so much.

[SensoryOssuary]

Gorge Trio - Open Mouth, O Wisp (Skin Graft)

I downloaded an EP of theirs a while ago and enjoyed it, and bought this mostly because of the kick-ass cover art. I'd describe it as guitar-driven sci-fi free-improv. Nothing particularly inventive, but it has a few moments of math-rocky brilliance among the atmospheric psuedo-melodic sludge.

And Spiders - In the Woods (We're Twins)

Local (freak-)folk band. Pretty conventional but catchy folk riffs augmented by some anachronistic drum machine, and the pleasing amateur duo vocals. Nice enough.

[Kwi]

Just recently bought "My life in the Bush of Ghosts" by everyones favourite collaboration duo Brian Eno and David Byrne.  The whole album plays as one flawless track that really belongs in the drug induced dream sequence of some movie.  The one disadvantage is that nothing really stands out.  Just an easy smooth listen from start to finish.

[Thrillho]

An emorgasm, then?

It was my birthday recently, so I got a bunch of CDs. My favourite one at the moment is Sugarplastic's Will.
I'm pretty dissapointed about Sufjan's Michigan, though. It's nowhere nearly as good as Illinois, which I got several weeks ago.

Indeed. Much like nailing a hot emo chick.

Named 'Ian Curtis' apparently.

[Kai]

I'd bone Ian Curtis.




garage sales are ace for getting new stuff.

On vinyl:
Jesus Christ Superstar
Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water

On Tape:
Lennon/Yoko - Double Fantasy
Steely Dan - Gaucho
Roxy Music - Manifesto
Bruce Springsteen - The River

EDIT:

Supertramp - Crime of the Century: Picked this up basically just to complete the 2 for $15 deal at Future Shop with Endtroducing. It's your typical Supertramp, and it'd definately not bad. Not absolutely amazing, but definately worth its half of the $15 dollars.

You get bonus points.

[Thrillho]

I'd bone Ian Curtis.

So would I.

Less so in his current state...

[schimmy]

Not technically a recent purchase, seeing as how it's my dads, but I'm currently listening to Glass by Joy Division. I think it's pretty good, but so far I don't see what all the Joy Division fuss is about. What songs should I be listening to, everyone?

[Thrillho]

Atmosphere, Atrocity Exhibition, Love Will Tear Us Apart, Decades, The Eternal.

To be fair, they sound quite pedestrian now. But they've been ripped off quite a lot.

[Praeserpium Machinarum]

Recent purchases with pictures!



I really hyped myself with this one, especially when it proved somewhat difficult to find. A reviewer coined "post-rock" in an effort to describe them which I found most intriguing.
But I haven't actually listened to it yet.



I really enjoyed Leviathan so I figured I'd get their their debut Remission which is nearly as good. The funny thing is that contrary to so many other bands I can accept the somewhat shallow/spare lyrics. I have thought up some reasons:
1. I can't really understand growl anyway
2. the music is just that fricking awesome
3. ditto is the apparent concept



Oh boy oh boy oh boy have I longed for this album for a long time!
Christmas is such a fantastic song that I simply had to own this album and I am pretty sure that over time it will become a good if sinister friend.
A funny thing: I found it on the Heavy shelve at TP Music Marked.
It does not belong there, Blood Inside is, if you wanna genrify, experimental electronica and the only thing reminiscent of Heavy or metal is the lyrics.

[Zaarin]

Spacemen 3 - Dreamweapon


Neu! - Neu![/i]

First of all, it might seem a bit odd for a guy with a Klaus Dinger avatar to only just be buying Neu!'s self titled, but you have to understand that I could not find it anywhere for the longest time. I downloaded it years ago and fell in love with it, and have sought it out at shops here ever since. And at a JB Hi-Fi here in Sydney, I practically walked smack into it while looking absent mindedly at a Neutral Milk Hotel CD. It was $26 and I thought "hmm..." for a split second before autopilot kicked in and I grabbed it.

And then, two minutes later, I find Dreamweapon under "S". Fuck! Best $50 I've spent for years! Two of my most favouritest albums of evah.

[Teh_Shinobi]

Just bought Sufjan Stevens "The Avalanche" yesterday at Lou's Records in Encinitas, CA for ten bucks. Best money I've ever spent. Ever. I've been listening to it non-stop since yesterday. I highly recommend it to anyone.

[sjbrot]

I bought Smoosh's She Like Electric the other day at HMV. I had ordered it there a little over a year ago, and since it was an import, I had to pay have the cost upfront. When I went in to pick it up, it took them ten minutes to figure out how to allow me to pay. Ten minutes where the music went from the new Johnny Cash to the Dixie Chicks.

The album itself is pretty cool. I don't know if it was worth import prices and a year's waiting, but hearing a pair of twevle year old girls rock the heck out is almost always a good plan, especially when they have some kind of writing talents.

[Praeserpium Machinarum]

Reviving this because for once I got me some cds mang!
I bought them from an acquiantance who was cleaning out his record collection. I got it all for circa. 30 bucks.

Kitchens of Distinction - Strange Free World

Poppy shoegaze from the early 90's, it is pretty harmless but the occasional gay-themed lyrics are great.

Everything But the Girl - Walking Wounded

First album I have heard by them and it is very good. Essentially it is triphop but more songbased than say Massive Attack. Tracy Thorn's vocals are as great as ever.

Stars - Heart

Finally got this one and it is even better than I remembered. This is indiepop at its absolute finest and easily the equal of Set Yourself on Fire.

Sonic Youth - Bad Moon Rising

Very unlike EVOL, my favourite SY album, this is ambient as done by a rockband. I am not sure what to think of it.

Under Byen - Det er Mig Der Holder Trĉerne Sammen and Kyst

Despite the rabid fandom I have for Under Byen I didn't actually own all their albums until now. About time too, it is afterall the best band in the world;)

I now own a grand total of 56 actual albums. Bask in my brilliance!

[Kai]

Bad Moon Rising is my favorite Sonic Youth album, I think. That or EVOL.

[space_oddity]

Sister was always my favorite SY album.
I just purchased Reckoning from REM myself. Between Peter Buck's guitar and Micheal Stipe's voice, it's pure pleasure, as is all their early stuff. "Seven Chinese Brothers" is particularly lovely.

[Misereatur]

Great Jewish Music: Marc Bolan

A Tzadic tribute CD for Marc Bolan of T. Rex fame. With the fucking Melvins, Medeski  Martin & Wood, Fantomas and loads of other artists.

Forever Einstein - Artificial Horizon

First album for this instrumental avant-grade trio. It's pretty amazing, but very hard to listen to.

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Grand Opening and Closing

The only thing I have to say about this album is OMG SO GODAMN HEAD EXPLOADING AMZING.

[Spinless]

Shit, I forgot about this thread. I've bought like 20 CDs since it died too.

[Joseph]

Tuesday, after the dentist, I decided I needed CDs.  So, I bought two:

T.Rex - Electric Warrior
Completely awesome glam rock, with a ton of bonus tracks on this copy of the album.  I love it.

The Cure - Disintegration
Spectacular synths and keyboard lines.  Really great for walking to.  I wish I'd splurged for the reissue though.

[Count_Zero]

I'm an evil, evil man, thus have not been spending my ill-gotten cash on cds too much recently, which I regret, but money is money. I expect the RIAA any second now

But to attempt to counter this, I have today purchased the Young Knives' 'Voices Of Animals And Men', and Peter, Bjorn and John's 'Writer's Block' from HMV online, which has prompted me to dust off my little-used account there. Which has reminded me that instead of buying new cds, I could just listen to all the ones I've bought and not done so. Like the Concretes. Gah.

*CZ

[Joseph]

I went into an A&B Sound yesterday with a friend, since she needed to buy some DVDs for her sister, and noticed that they had changed the selection on their 2 for $10 wall thingy!  Not too much amazingness, but what was good was excellent, so I picked up:

Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet (best driving music ever!)