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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: Spinless on 31 May 2006, 09:56
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Like the other thread, but rather than quick namedrops nobody will ever read, TALK about the albums you're buying.
Where'd you buy it? how much? Like it? Disapointed?
For a music discussion forum I don't see much discussing. And when I do it's always metal...
Last Cd I bought was 'Free Sentridoh'. I got it for £3 with 9 other CDs because of a 75% off closing down sale.
I knew it was gonna be LoFi, but this is as Lo-Fi as it gets.
Love Lou, but this isn't as good as I wanted it to be, the songs don't get intense enough. There's some moments.
I think every single track from this is on Barlow's website.
I gotta say my personal favourite for his solo stuff is EMOH.
10 CDs for £27! What's the best deal you've ever got?
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Sweet deal. Cd's are ridiculously overpriced around here, at over 30$ each.
Been weeks since I bought my last cd, can't afford to do so all that often due to the insane prices.
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The last CD I got was the Islands Cd, Return to the Sea. I already had the mp3s and really liked it, so I went to their show and bought the CD and a pin
The show was totally awesome
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The Last CD I bought was At War With The Mystics by The Flaming Lips. It was cool as HMV was having a midnight sale for the release of Narnia, so I grabbed it at Midnight, and low and behold The Flaming Lips were there.
As for the album, it's terrific, it's no Yoshimi, but still one the best albums I've heard in years.
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The last album I bought was The Mogwai EP. I really like it. It's just long enough to be satisfying without getting monotonous, which is sort of a problem with their full-lengths. Stanley Kubrick is a great song.
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Last album I bough was Sonic Youth by Sonic Youth. It's very good and much different to what they do nowadays. At times it sounds like it comes staraight out of a Glenn Branca piece, especially The Ascension (in which Lee Ranaldo played).
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I got two classical CD's yesterday.
Penderecki's St. Luke gospel, and George Antheils 'Ballet Mecanique, Serenade 1 for Strings, Symphony for 5 Instruments, and Concerto for ORchestra'
I've only heard the Antheil so far, but it's really good! I've heard a lot of criticism of him by other people-'He's trying to be Stravinsky but uses weird instruments to justify his creative emptiness' (real quote) but he's so much more than that. I really like his stuff-much more than most 12-tone music, anyway.
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I bought The Falcon's "God Don't Make No Trash *or* Up Your Ass With Broken Glass" EP on iTunes.
My favorite song: "Look Ma! No Fans! or Do You Want Fries With These Songs?"
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All This Sounds Gas - Preston School of Industry.
Well, I commandered it from a Charity Shop.... So it was definitly a good deal.
As for the cd, it is brilliant!
PAAAVVEEEMENT SPINOFFFFFSSS
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The last album I bought was Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous. I got it second hand so it was hell of cheap. I basically only wanted it for 'Portions For Foxes', which is a really great gets-stuck-in-your-head pop song, but the rest of the disc is actually okay too.
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The last album I actually bought....hmmm. I dunno about album. The last CD I bought was Seven Ways To Scream Your Name by Funeral For A Friend. Seven of their best songs from before they signed to a major label and went pop. It's great stuff. They've never lived up to any of it.
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The Jenny Lewis album is brilliant. She is now my second favourite alt country singer (after Neko Case).
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And here's where I embarass myself...
Seven Ways to Scream Your Name is the best they've ever got. Everything else they have done pales in comparison. The Art of American Football was great.
Absolutely. 10:45 Amsterdam Conversation too - my first taste of the band, brilliant stuff. Love it.
Disadvantage of Seven Ways is that it doesn't have Juno on it. Note, Juno not Juneau.
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The last album I bought was T.Rex - The Slider secondhand. It was $4, which is fairly indicative of its condition but this doesn't really diminish what a great album it is. Dude can really howl.
This was my first run-in with T.Rex and I'm well impressed - definitely on the lookout for Electric Warrior and Tanx now.
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Last album bought was Robert Johnson-King of the Delta Blues
I was surprised immensley by how many of those songs I'd heard before, but by Eric Clapton or te White Stripes. I'm enjoying it fairly well, tohuhg haven't listened to it enough yet.
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Last cd I bought was Without Feathers by the Stills
It was $14.99 CDN at HMV. I bought it a few days before going to see them live. Both the album and the show were fantastic. The sound is different to Logic Will Break Your Heart. It seems more mature. Many of the songs focus on the loss of a woman, but they are extremely well-written, and do not seem mopey. They seem pensive, without being self-indulgent. Overall, this album is wonderful.
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Absolutely. 10:45 Amsterdam Conversation too - my first taste of the band, brilliant stuff. Love it.
That is not actually a bad song as far as emocore goes, at least as far as I remember. I can't have listened to it for at least two years.
The last cd I bought was 'The Cult is Alive' by Darkthrone. I had heard good things: Solos! Acoustic guitar! Video!
I was sorely dissapointed however. Despite the fact that some of the songs are pretty damn fun (YOU SAY YOUR METAL IS BLACK, IT IS JUST WEAK AND LAME!), well, Darkthrone shouldn't BE fun. Nor should they be a straight-up black 'n roll Carpathian Forest rip off. I swear I actually heard the riff from CF's 'One With the Earth' on there. But it's not the style as much as the fact that Darkthrone aren't very good at it. It was monotonous and plodding, and completely lacking in the sort of atmosphere I expect from a darkthrone album. Transilvanian Hunger/A Blaze in the Northern Sky this was NOT.
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I last bought me some Gnarls Barkley for fifteen bucks. As outlined in the thread I made, I believe this was a superb choice. Soul records for YES!
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The last CD I bought was The Unintended album, featuring the Good brothers of the Sadies fame and the guy from Eric's Trip going all post-psychedelic. It didn't quite match up to the sum of it's parts. I wasn't into it at all.
Which was really disapointing seeing how I bought it at the local independant music place in Regina and the owner was drooling over it when I bought it.
I didn't enjoy her solo album as much as I thought I would, but I still enjoyed it.
I really didn't dig More Adventurous at all. I thought it was mediocre album with a radio-friendly (and pretty darn good) single. As Fred Mills pointed out, it was pretty ironic that the album was named as it was. Her solo album was a welcome change, and "Melt Your Heart" is definitely in the running for my favorite song of the year.
Although the Twins do freak me about a bit. The idea of identical twins singing harmonies to your songs might seem normal as a typical rock star excess, but when's it's a gentle, AM radio country album, it's a bit off.
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Solos! Acoustic guitar! Video!
In a Darkthrone album?
WTF?
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Absolutely. 10:45 Amsterdam Conversation too - my first taste of the band, brilliant stuff. Love it.
That is not actually a bad song as far as emocore goes, at least as far as I remember. I can't have listened to it for at least two years.
Exactly. I'm not trying to say that emo music is good; but at least FFAF's was a damn sight better before they got signed to a major label.
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my last purchases were the new swingin utters album... which totally blows and i seriously want my money back. and bad brains - black dots. classic.
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The last cd I purchased was Placebo's "Meds". I got it for ten bucks at FutureShop and it has surprisingly been one of my favorite cds in a long, long time. Good fun and worth every penny. I don't even mind that it's really short, which usually pisses me off to a great degree. Could be because I only paid a tenner for it.
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Meds is a good album and Infra Red is an awesome song.
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I dunno, I used to love Placebo, but the last two albums have disappointed me (despite Sleeping With Ghosts having excellent singles).
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Two more iTunes purchases today:
mclusky - "Falco vs. The Young Canoeist (Live at ULU)" off the third disk of mcluskyism. After the song, some guy in the crowd calls the drummer a pussy and Falco goes off for about two minutes. Hilarious.
"I fuckin' hate you. We let everyone else here in on the guest list. You paid, you fuck!"
mclusky - "She Will Only Bring You Happiness" EP. Title song is great. The two b-sides are also awesome.
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Edit: Gryff, I LOVE that album! Just haven't bought it because it's £13.97 wherever I see it, and I once saw it for £9.99. I refuse to pay anymore than £9.99 for it. Yeah, I'm damn cheap...
What'd you think of Jenny Lewis' solo album? And what about the Elected?
Jenny Lewis' solo album was really good, I thought. My girlfriend has it. The Travelling Wilbury's cover is pretty cute.
Having said that, I agree with E. Spaceman that it's not as good as Neko Case's latest. Fox Confessor Brings The Flood is just stunning. Man that girl can sing!
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the last Cd i bought was
"i thought i was over this: rare, remixed and, b-sides" -- Lali Puna
i enjoyed this two disk compilation very much. lali puna has a spacey and quite way of making music to sit and smoke to while staying home and acting all angsty.
it was about 15 bucks i got at a little independent music store here in town called 180 grams .
i enjoy small stores because the staff is nicer, will talk to you for a extended time and, most importantly they know something about music.
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Solos! Acoustic guitar! Video!
In a Darkthrone album?
WTF?
There's definitely a vid (to 'Too Old, Too Cold') and solos. I had heard before hand there was going to be acoustic guitar, but I didn't notice any on my first pass through. I guess maybe that mistaken hint made me think I was gonna be getting something like Storm or Isengard, which it ain't.
And yes, Meds is a good album.
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mclusky - "Falco vs. The Young Canoeist (Live at ULU)" off the third disk of mcluskyism. After the song, some guy in the crowd calls the drummer a pussy and Falco goes off for about two minutes. Hilarious.
"I fuckin' hate you. We let everyone else here in on the guest list. You paid, you fuck!"
I would be scared shitless if I even considered heckling at a Mclusky concert. Those guys don't sound right in the head on their albums, and live they're just menacing.
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I last bought me some Gnarls Barkley for fifteen bucks. As outlined in the thread I made, I believe this was a superb choice. Soul records for YES!
Do you mean "for yes" in a "FTW" type fashion, or do you mean to imply that it is as if the music is soul produced with the band Yes considered as a potential audience?
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Obviously, he means the former. Both Rick Wakeman and Jon Anderson have expressed a clear preference for Goodie Mob over any of Danger Mouse's canned retro electro noise-collage assemblage.
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I think the only band mentioned so far that I even recognize is Mogwai, and I've never listened to them. Of course, I did just do a quick glance because the page is longish.
For me, the most recent album I got was Stadium Arcadium, the new Red Hot Chili Peppers album. 2 CD's, 28 songs, and I love it. It's one of the best albums I've heard in a long time. It was all I listened to for like two weeks straight after I got it.
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Thanks for writing another song about Califoirnia, Red Hot Chili Peppers. That was something that was definitely missing from my life. I feel like a more complete person now that there is one more Red Hot Chili Peppers song about California.
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I turned off Stadium Arcadium (my sister got it for her birthday) right after I heard the second track rhyme "heyo" with "sayo".
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Not only that, but one that's a rip-off of a Tom Petty song. (http://www.wgmd.com/SOUNDS/FEATURES/051706-petty.mp3)
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Not only that, but one that's a rip-off of a Tom Petty song. (http://www.wgmd.com/SOUNDS/FEATURES/051706-petty.mp3)
Wow.
That's pretty remarkable.
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Thanks for writing another song about Califoirnia, Red Hot Chili Peppers. That was something that was definitely missing from my life. I feel like a more complete person now that there is one more Red Hot Chili Peppers song about California.
Shows how closely you were listening.
Or even how much attention you paid to the billions of press about that song.
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Last album I bought was Destroyer - Rubies.
It was a long ass time ago. Like it was snowing outside long. I bought it because I love New Pornographers, but as much as I enjoyed the few songs I did enjoy, it's not near as fun to listen to in the car as Mass Romantic was. Maybe it'd stand up better to a chill out listen at home. I still need to test this hypothesis.
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Well, I went nuts last time I was in Rasputin.
Basement Jaxx - Rooty
For some reason, it hasn't grabbed me by the throat and shaken me violently than (in particular) Remedy. Still, it's pretty amusing stuff. A particular Latin influence buried in there, especially in the middle stretch.
LFO - Sheath
It's LFO, alright. Gut-rumbling bass and head-spinning drum-machine programming. Will get your foot tapping, at least. More likely, this is going to make you freak. (this...is going...to make you freak...this...is going...) . Vocoders for life.
Atmosphere - You Can't Imagine How Much Fun We're Having
This album has been attracting a fair degree of bad press. To the general public: let it be known that, while Atmosphere's releases seem to be more club-friendly on each iteration, this is not a bad thing. Still, it's the same damned lyrical content, with a few refreshing bits like "That Night." For once, Ant's production is consistently solid, and Slug is still rapping about girls. Very little else, to be honest.
DJ Krush - Krush
Krush's debut is less turntable and more composition. While 4109 was all about a live set, and Jaku and Kakusei were moody collections of hip-hop compositions, Krush plays like a jazzier version of RJD2's more melodic works. And there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. As a high-school friend once said of it, "mellow music for non-violent people."
John B - in:transit
Ever get an album that you, despite that persistent nagging that you'll wear the damn thing out, could simply not stop listening to? Well, this is one of those. John B's infectious mixture of trance and jungle is very hard to put down, alternating dreamy trance vocals ("Mercury Skies") with balls-out dark technical DnB lines ("Vampire Eyes"). Additionally, "Take Me Home" may be the reductio ad absurdum of Ibiza/Club party songs. I think the line "That's my bellybutton, genius" sums it up nicely.
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Last night I bought J Dilla's Donuts. I've been hearing and admiring this guy's production work in other stuff for ages, but this was the first opportunity I'd had to get any of his solo stuff.
Donuts is a collection of 31 short hip-hop instrumentals - the whole CD only comes up to 43 and a half minutes. As such, it's an engaging album to listen to - as soon as you've caught the flavour of the beat, it's a new track.
It's amazing. Brilliant. Can't recommend it highly enough. I can't pigeonhole it - but think very tight drums, intriguing samples, and an overall feeling that manages to be raw and perfect at the same time.
Some of my current favourite tracks are Workinonit, The Diff'rence, Time: The Donuts Of The Heart, and Two Can Win. If you like any of these, you'll love the album. Again, highly recommended.
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Bought a couple of Fatboy Slim albums on iTunes
You've Come A Long Way, Baby - Whee! Dancable fun in a can, I tells ya! This album is catchier than the best bait you've ever fished with. Leave out the last two tracks (Love Island and Acid 8000), and ignore the fact that "You're Not From Brighton" doesn't use it's own synth vocoder line enough and it's damn near perfect
Palookaville - Haven't listened to as much of this one yet, but I like what I've heard. I mostly bought this album for "Don't Let the Man Get You Down", "Slash Dot Dash", and "The Joker".
I need to get his first album, Better Living Through Chemistry
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There's definitely a vid (to 'Too Old, Too Cold') and solos. I had heard before hand there was going to be acoustic guitar, but I didn't notice any on my first pass through. I guess maybe that mistaken hint made me think I was gonna be getting something like Storm or Isengard, which it ain't.
I simply must get me a copy of that album.
Also, is their first album, Soulside Journey, any good?
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The last album I bought is still the Delays - You See Colours and I really urge everyone who isn't instinctively allergic to jangly indie-guitar-pop to listen to some because its soooo good. The vocals are awesome, and the range on them is so varied on this second album. The sound is generally more dark, electronic and less floaty than the first album, a couple of the songs on the album (Too Much In Your Life, Lilian, This Town's Religion) have really strong stompy choruses.
Um...I think (if i remember correctly) I got this from HMV (yay, NUS discount!) on the day it was released because I'd been looking forward to it and had seen them live playing it the day before!
http://www.myspace.com/delays
The last album I downloaded was The Kooks - Inside In, Inside Out and it is also excellent. I do like singers who allow their real voices and accents to come through.
Next I shall be buying the Futureheads - News and Tributes.
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Thanks for writing another song about Califoirnia, Red Hot Chili Peppers. That was something that was definitely missing from my life. I feel like a more complete person now that there is one more Red Hot Chili Peppers song about California.
Shows how closely you were listening.
Or even how much attention you paid to the billions of press about that song.
Yeah, I'm aware that it's about a girl named California, not California the place, but what difference does it make?
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I'm on emusic, so I don't buy CDs much anymore. But on a whim I just got the Gnarls Barkley album, but unlike Mr C up there I got it for $9. HA!
I like it a lot. It's lively and funky and soulful and fun. I think my favorite tracks at this point are Crazy (about which at first I didn't see what all the fuss was, but it grew on me), Feng Shui, Just a Thought and Necromancer.
The Boogie Monster is pretty dumb though. I could do without that one.
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Thanks for writing another song about Califoirnia, Red Hot Chili Peppers. That was something that was definitely missing from my life. I feel like a more complete person now that there is one more Red Hot Chili Peppers song about California.
Shows how closely you were listening.
Or even how much attention you paid to the billions of press about that song.
Yeah, I'm aware that it's about a girl named California, not California the place, but what difference does it make?
Oh, not much. Only the ENTIRE LYRIC.
Oh, and don't take this as me just being defensive about the song. I have a love/hate relationship with it, and it annoys me that it sounds exactly like most of the songs they've done since 1999.
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New new new:
The Ornette Coleman Quartet - This Is Our Music
Early recordings of Ornette's quartet, hav'nt listened to it yet but it should be amazing.
John Coltrane - Blue Train
I was hanging out with my tenor/alto sax playing friend and asked him to recommend me a few CDs to get into Coltrane. This is one of them.
he actually recomended Giant Steps as a first Coltrane album, but I could'nt find it, so I bought Blue Train.
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Slow Riot For Zero Kanada
Downloaded it a year ago and I've been looking for it ever since. This is probably one of their best works.
Isis - Oceanic
This album is just perfect, no question about it.
The Jesus Lizard - Liar
After listening to this album you get what Tomahawk and FNM's King For A Day Fool For A Lifetime album were trying to do.
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I'm on emusic, so I don't buy CDs much anymore. But on a whim I just got the Gnarls Barkley album, but unlike Mr C up there I got it for $9. HA!
TO HELL WITH YOU, BARGAIN HEATHEN
Also: I'm surprised nobody really likes "Transformer." It's kind of abrasive but damned if I don't love it. But thank you, Valrus, for confirming that the album is in fact awesome.
And "Dani California," despite having a massive chorus, well, I don't think it bodes well for the rest of the (double-)album.
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Stadium Arcadium is a really bad album name!
hmmm, I bought me the Geatest Hits of Dr John.
It's just.... funkerifica.
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Stadium Arcadium is a really bad album name
THANK YOU! I keep on telling people that and they keep going "I don't think it's that bad" but it's godddamn terriblamn.
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Also: I'm surprised nobody really likes "Transformer." It's kind of abrasive but damned if I don't love it. But thank you, Valrus, for confirming that the album is in fact awesome.
I love Transformer, the Lou Reed album.
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the last cd i bought that you guys would have heard of...was probably coldplay's parachutes.
yes, i am incredibly lame, but i really do like it, it makes me quite happy.
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oK!
Well, im slightly annoyed since, after buying this Dr John cd, I find that my parents are really big fans and already own it and would've given it to me, along with the rest of his catalog AND, that they went to see him live a few weeks ago and didn't invite me!
Seriously, how ghey?
I'm thinkin' reeeaal ghey.
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Parachutes is a great record.
Stadium Arcadium is a really bad album name
THANK YOU! I keep on telling people that and they keep going "I don't
think it's that bad" but it's godddamn terriblamn.
What does it even fucking mean?
The cover art looks like it was made in MSPaint.
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New cds which I'm really happy about owning:
Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase
Cat Power - You Are Free
Dinosaur Jr. - Green Mind (for 11 bucks, not too shabby)
M.I.A. - Arular
Nada Surf - Let Go (one of my favourite albums I've gotten in a while)
The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? (better than I expected)
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The most recent purchase of mine were:
Under Byen - Samme Stof som Stof
I love Under Byen. I mean I whore them almost as much as Kai whore Residents or Khar Skyclad. It is that level of fanboyism. Their newest album, which this is, is of course incredible and really deserves to be praised on a grander scale. David Fricke likes them, hell Stylus (http://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/under-byen/samme-stof-som-stof.htm) likes them and that review was way off in every other aspect than the score, though the score was too low. I am thinking Sigur Ros kind of big, not bigger than that since it is demanding music no doubt, but just as with Sigur Ros it is rewarded tenfold. Actually comparing them to Sigur Ros is not that off since both them sing in obscure languages but their music is good enough to compensate for that.
This is their website (http://www.underbyen.dk/download.htm), give them a listen if you please, chances are you won't regret it.
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The cover art looks like it was made in MSPaint.
It's terrible cover art, terrible name, and terrible in of itself, really.
EDIT: You mentioned my whoring of the Residents and so I'm required to talk about them now. I'm pretyt pumped cause they relese their whole little River of Crime project in about a week AND are releasing an album on October 2nd. I'm so excited.
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I just bought most of A Silver Mt Zion's (and other names) releases, for the amazing price of $10 at a garage sale. I've only listened to "He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts Of Light Sometimes Grace The Corners Of Our Rooms" and I really like it. It's GY!BE but simpler and more concise.
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I just been shopping, man. Lots o' good CDs for cheap!
I got Neko Case's Blacklisted, because, as I was sayin' earlier in the thread, she's got a brilliant, mournful kinda country voice. I've been meaning to get Blacklisted for about 2 years, but I only just found it at the right price, so I'm very happy about that.
Also Hex Enduction Hour by the Fall, because Mark E. Smith is awesome, and I've been told this is a good album. After hearing other Fall stuff I've been looking for recommendations (since they have like 500 different releases or something).
Paul's Boutique by the Beastie Boys is another I've been meaning to get for forever, because it's just hell of good.
The wild card is Weird War's album, because I know nothing about them but have heard good things. Here's hoping I heard right!
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Also Hex Enduction Hour by the Fall, because Mark E. Smith is awesome, and I've been told this is a good album. After hearing other Fall stuff I've been looking for recommendations (since they have like 500 different releases or something).
Fall recomendations? well:
-This Nation's Saving Grace (epic rockabilly-punk? hells yes)
-Perverted By Language (Dark stuff)
-Live At The Witch Trials (Early punk)
-Grotesque (one of the wierdest & best)
Tool- 10,000 Days
Not a popular band round these parts, but hell I enjoy them and that needs no rationalisation. Not a bad album but could've been so much more. Too much filler as always.
Eric B & Rakim- Follow The Leader
As much as I love Paid In Full (The rap equivalent of a garage band) this is a step beyond. masterful.
Tom Waits- Blue Valentine
Bought it for 'Christmas Card From A Hooker...' but I'm pleasantly surprised by every other track- sweet, perverted lounge and swing. damn good.
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What does it even fucking mean?
Who cares, it fucking rhymes.
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I think you can only play that card if you're using all real words.
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What does it even fucking mean?
Who cares, it fucking rhymes.
So does Masturbation Station. Doesn't make it a good album title.
Except it's totally awesome.
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See that's awesome because here in St. Louis we used to have a kids radio station called the Imagination Station so I keep singing Masturbation Station in the same sing song style and it amuses me.
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What, because I just told you it? Or you always have?
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No just now after I read it. It's done amusing me now.
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I amused you briefly though, and that's awesome.
You avatar makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside, and I have saved it to my computer. I want to put it on a shirt, were it bigger.
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Fall recomendations? well:
-This Nation's Saving Grace (epic rockabilly-punk? hells yes)
-Perverted By Language (Dark stuff)
-Live At The Witch Trials (Early punk)
-Grotesque (one of the wierdest & best)
I already have This Nation's Saving Grace, and yes, it is fucking great. I love Mark E. Smith -- grouchy old bastard that he is. The best bit in Hex Enduction is in 'The Classical' where he's ranting "Where are the obligatory niggers? Hey there, fuckface! Hey there, fuckface! There are twelve people in the world. The rest are paste." It's great.
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What does it even fucking mean?
Who cares, it fucking rhymes.
So does Masturbation Station. Doesn't make it a good album title.
Except it's totally awesome.
CONFLAGRATION INVESTIGATION IN THE MASTURBATION STATION
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So, we both got that album for basically the same price?
Billy Bragg & Wilco - Mermaid Avenue V. II
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I just got Scott Walker - The Drift...
Man, maybe I just don't know enough about music, but there's a point where I draw the line between genius and complete gibberish disguised as pretentious asshattery. The critics love this album, so I said... hey why not. I bought it... and I am so disappointed. I dunno, maybe I'm too obsessed with pop sensibilities. I like my songs to be fun to listen to and, god forbid, sing along too.
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Not really a fan of hip hop but i stumbled into this groups page and fell in love. Cd's are on the way now i'm excited!
Crown Control - Debaser
and
Tied to Things - Simple
can hear a couple of their songs here
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=73071549
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It's terrible cover art, terrible name, and terrible in of itself, really.
sjbrot described it as looking "like a Smashmouth album" and I am inclined to agree.
I bought The Stills' latest, Without Feathers, today. Ugly album art aside, it's very very VERY different from what I expected. But it's fantastic; I'd call it "pastoral" if it wasn't so loud.
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I'm pretty inclined to agree; that is definitely the best comparison ever.
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Blood Axis - The Gospel of Inhumanity
Martial post-industrial with extensive sampling of sources such as A Clockwork Orange, The Wicker Man, Charles Manson and Johann S. Bach.
I can't believe it took me as long as it did in life to discover the neo-folk scene.
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Last album i bought was Murder by Death's 'in al bocca lupo'
Very folksy and a pretty big change from their traditional style, but i love it just as hard as their other stuff.
funny thing about the album name is that its an italian wine toast. 'In al bocca lupo' is 'in the wolf's mouth' loosley translated, and the response is 'so that the wolf may die'
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I bought Mint Records' group Immaculate Machine's first album, Transporter, at their concert tonight. I was kinda worried because they played pretty much every song off their second album, Ones and Zeros, and only did two off this one, and so in my logic that could mean that they were somehow admitting that it wasn't as good.
But that's sillyness. It's good. And when I bought it from Kathryn Calder (who also has a gig as the touring replacement for Neko Case in the New Pornographers since Carl Newman is her uncle) after the show, she seemed like a real sweetheart, which is always cool.
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'in al bocca lupo'
I assume that should be 'In bocca al lupo', which is a phrase to mean 'good luck' in Italian. Not literally, kind of in the same way as 'break a leg'.
To which you reply "crepi il lupo" - 'the wolf dies'.
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Also: I'm surprised nobody really likes "Transformer." It's kind of abrasive but damned if I don't love it.
The first time I heard it I was like "What the fuck is this?!" but it's grown on me. I've sort of partitioned the album into "Take it" and "Leave it" songs, and that one is in the first category. Lively and rambunctious and doesn't wear out its welcome.
M.I.A. - Arular
Second'd. This album rollicks hard.
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Are we talking about Lou Reed's Transformer? Because I do like that album.
ALMOST AS MUCH AS METAL MACHINE MUSIC LOLZ!*
*I actually do like Metal Machine Music. I am pretty sure this makes me a terrible person.
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My last purchase was the Silver Jews album "Bright Flight" I now own all of the Silver Jews albums except for their first "The Arizona Record" as it is only on vinyl (I belive) and a little tough to find.
Bright Flight was a nice suprise though, after listening to the first track and not being too interested I had put it away for a few days but when I finally got around to listening to the whole thing I was quite impressed. David Berman ditches Malkmus' great guitar work from "American Water" and trades it in for some great piano parts and a more complete band sound. His then girlfriend, now wife, Cassie Berman also does some vocal work on the album which brings an intresting touch to the record. I reccomend it highly.
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Are we talking about Lou Reed's Transformer? Because I do like that album.
ALMOST AS MUCH AS METAL MACHINE MUSIC LOLZ!*
*I actually do like Metal Machine Music. I am pretty sure this makes me a terrible person.
Yeah I think you're now going to hell.
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after somewhat reading this thread it seems people may or may not be hating on Transformer the Lou Reed album. If they are I am sad, actually thinking about makes me think that they're PROBABLY talking about the Gnarls Barkley album, but I enjoyed that album as well.
I'm bored, and tired, and sick.
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I haven't gone to the record store in ages, due to lack of funds. But my last purchase ended up being alone. I think it actually turned out to be my first CD purhcase using the internet, which is odd.
I bought Jumbo Shrimp's only album, called Thingie. Jumbo Shrimp was the band Klaus Flouride and East Bay Ray (of Dead Kennedys fame) formed in 96. It contains a lot of surf tunes (Ray's speciality on guitar) and is really good. It has a cover of Weezer's Buddy Holly and all the songs are instrumental and really catchy. I hear the CD is quite rare and I ended up getting it for 68 cents about $4 after S&H.
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Recently I acquired by birthday and my own pocket:
Gåte - Iselilja(gift from my little sister)
Norwegian folk songs getting attacked by anything from electronica to hard rock, I now have all their albums and their mini live cd. I like Gåte :)
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F#A#(Infinity)
GY!BE is awesome and so is my little brother for getting me this!
Eels - Electro-Shock Blues
Despite by being a declared Eels fan, I have actually never listened to ESB with the exception of selected tracks like Cancer for the Cure.
I started in a sort of weird way with hearing Shootenanny!(which I love) first, then Souljacker and Blinking Lights. I am rather excited considering they say that it is their masterpiece :)
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i just got Sonic Youth's new one, Rather Ripped. it's not bad, but not really what i was hoping for. it's plenty noisy, but almost half the record sounds like it could have been make by a quasi-shitty pop band borrowing SY's equipment. however, there are a few songs that are truly brilliant ("Pink Steam" being my favorite). many of us on the SY forum were a bit disappointed, but i bet that this'll get them a few new fans.
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I was never into electronica/dance. Then I saw Barbara Morgenstern open for The Mountain Goats. She sings in German and is very adorable. I really like the CD I picked up after the show, "Nichts Muss." It's quite mesmerizing.
Also:
Tallahassee by The Mountain Goats and their Babylon Springs EP. The former is better than the latter. I still prefer the early stuff, but good production can work in their favor too. No Children is an excellent song. The EP is sadly missing Hollering John, and from what I've heard live, the next album, Get Lonely, will be lacking in that area as well.
Some other stuff that hasn't really soaked in yet:
Eels - Blinking Lights
Vetiver - To Find Me Gone
My Morning Jacket - Z
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I recently purchased a set of records containing a recording of Shostakovich's opera "The Nose" by Rozhdestvensky. It was damn hard to find and I am very excited. I also bought a device to transfer all my records to CDs, so it's like I'm getting 30 or so new CDs in the next week or so. Doubly excited!
I also bought Lightning Bolt's "Wonderful Rainbow" recently, but was confused, as I had heard a lot of Ruins comparisons, which do not match. It's still a good noisy album with enough tunes to be enjoyable.
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Rather Ripped
Damn stupid-ass name.
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Today, I purchased:
Stereolab - Mars Audiac Quintet
I've already listened to this album a lot before I had purchased it, so there was really no surprise factor. I don't remember the last time I purchased an album without listening to it beforehand. Anyway, it's probably currently my favorite Stereolab album, although Stereolab albums tend to sound ridiculously similar to each other anyway. But they have such a winning template for their music! Frenchy lounge-pop with their 60'sique melodies that hates on capitalism! It's simply for the win.
and
The Book of Lists - Red Arrows EP
I think the first time I listened to the Book of Lists was early 2005? Maybe even earlier than that, then I saw them perform over the summer of 2005, but didn't buy anything of theirs, and only listened to those three tracks on their website over. and over. and over again. I really hadn't gotten sick of it, ever. This EP gives me an additional three songs, which are pretty good but just aren't up to the caliber of stuff like Sweet Malady, although Pacifist Revolt is pretty good. This EP is overall good even if it's not earth shattering, definitely a Vancouver band to watch.
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I just got Looking For Europe, the history of neo-folk, and it comes with a quadruple compilation disk which is pretty damn fantastich. Even though I'm familiar with a lot of the bands, especially on the middle two discs, there's lots of bitching unreleased or exclusive material, and there's some great new stuff I've never heard before. The first disc, which is mainly folk rock experimentation from the 70's which grew into neo-folk, is particularly nice.
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Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets
I like this a lot. Much more straight-up and punky than Another Green World, which I also own. The drag act from the album cover also comes through brilliantly witty and vibrant on record, rather than just obstinately & carelessly trashy.
What is it about Eno's stuff that always sounds so timeless? (I believe that AGW & HCTWJ sound just as current today as they probably did 30 years ago). I guess probably that he has a great deal of pretenders to the throne today might be it.....
Gold Chains - Young Miss America
Wickedly diverse beats and some instances of real poetry, even if there are times when the rhymes revert to misogynist gangsta rap cliché (really guys, you don't need that crutch to lean on.)
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Golden D - Graham Coxon
I bought this record in a 4 for £20 deal HMV had on. I mistakenly thought Graham Coxon was the guy from Pulp (Jarvis Cocker, I think). Now it sits on my shelf. Mocking me, daring me to listen to it. I have yet to even put it in any CD-playing device, I'm scared of it, I really am. What if I put it on and I don't like it. What then?
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I was giving serious thought to buying rather ripped, but after 'At War with the Mystics' decided I didn't want to risk it. Even though I know the yoof can't possibly make anything that's THAT bad.
I'm lost. Are you saying that you didn't buy Rather Ripped because At War with the Mystics didn't suit you? If so, I'm at a bit of a loss.
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Their surname's both have a naughty word in them, I couldn't get past it.
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Jarvis Cocker has released "solo" albums with Relaxed Muscle but I doubt that was what Schimmy was after.
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You thought Graham Coxon...was Jarvis Cocker? Is Jarvis Cocker's abum even recorded yet? Listen to it wuss.
And rather ripped.
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 scared that Sonic Youth will continue this trend.
You should give it a try. It's somewhat like Murray Street filtered through Sonic Nurse so it has the Murray Street sound but tighter and less jammy.
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DJ Shadow - Entroducing...: Pure awesome. I'm absolutely loving this, it's perfect for basically every mood, whether I have it on in the background, or whether it's all I'm paying attention to. I'd downloaded it before, so it was no real surprise, but it sounds a lot more vital and intricate on the CD. Just the regular version though, the delux versio was 5 times the price.
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.
Amy Millan - Honey From the Tombs: I love Amy Millan. Her voice is spectacular, easily my favorite in current music. I'd meant to pick this up the day it was released, but I was lazy. Anyway, I don't find it measures up to her work with Stars, but still, it's an amazing record. Definately a lot of alt-country influence on it, with Skinny Boy being the closest to a typical Stars song that she would sing on. Still, the alt-country stuff is pretty great, and this should have a fairly easy time ending up on my best-of list at year end.
Massive Attack - Blue Lines: I loves me some trip-hop, but until now, beyond some Bjork, I didn't actually own any. I love this album, the lounge room vibe and the cool, detatched vocals leave you feeling like you're in a kind of surreal state. Definately a must have.
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I just bought Belly's album, Star -- I have a weakness for nineties alt-pop. Belly was Tanya Donelly's band after she left the Breeders (which was after Throwing Muses). I got this on the strength of 'Feed The Tree' and I have not been disappointed.
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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
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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.....
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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.
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Tell me if they are different, I have the British one.
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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.
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Lonesome Death is second to last on mine. Mine also has Only a Pawn in Their Game.
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Does yours have a picture of him on the back of it?
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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.
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Does yours have a picture of him on the back of it?
Not on the back.
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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.
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*shrug* either way, is the music itself any different on the two releases?
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This I have yet to establish, because I could've sworn that Chimes is meant to be on Another Side.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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, (http://cableandtweed.blogspot.com/2006/04/velvets-revisited.html) a compilation of VU covers that has a lot of brilliant ones. Particularily Chicago Brass's Heroin.
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Not only in analogue, but analogue FOR FIFTY CENTS
FUCK YES FOR CLEARANCE BINS
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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.
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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 (http://www.skyclad.co.uk).
ICANSNOTTYPE
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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.
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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.
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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.)
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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.
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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.
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Mojave 3 - Puzzles Like You
Extremely pretty, and a lot more upbeat than their earlier stuff.
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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.
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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.
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An emorgasm, then?
Holy crap. I laughed so hard after reading that. Thank you. Thank you so much.
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:)
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'd bone Ian Curtis.
So would I.
Less so in his current state...
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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?
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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.
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Recent purchases with pictures!
(http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf000/f036/f036995z5c6.jpg)
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.
(http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf200/f293/f29312t3334.jpg)
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
(http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drg900/g919/g91994sojco.jpg)
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.
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(http://image.listen.com/img/0/0/0/0/0/1/4/2/2/2/8/1422288.jpg)
Spacemen 3 - Dreamweapon
(http://www.furious.com/perfect/graphics/neu1.jpg)
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.
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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.
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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.
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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 Træerne 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!
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Bad Moon Rising is my favorite Sonic Youth album, I think. That or EVOL.
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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.
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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.
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Shit, I forgot about this thread. I've bought like 20 CDs since it died too.
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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.
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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
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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!)
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Rain Dogs is a classic, to be sure. Good choice!
I just got Swordfishtrombones myself, and it's nearly as good.
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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.
How can you forget Transmission!??!
They don't sound "pedestrian" now, no matter how many bands have ripped them off. That's saying The Beatles sound pedestrian today because plenty of bands have been heavily influenced by them.
Joy Division aren't for everyone though. They're so empty-sounding.
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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.
How can you forget Transmission!??!
Because I'm a dick, that's one of my favourite ones. Have you heard the version from the Eindhoven bootleg?
They don't sound "pedestrian" now, no matter how many bands have ripped them off. That's saying The Beatles sound pedestrian today because plenty of bands have been heavily influenced by them.
Joy Division aren't for everyone though. They're so empty-sounding.
That's what I meant. A lot of modern production isn't very spacious, whereas Joy Division were sparse as hell.
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I never buy CDs and last week I just bought a zillion of them
On Wedesnday i went to see Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Anthony Rochester and Clue to Kalo. I bought CDs from all the artists, and i bought both the Clue to Kalo album and the tour EP. I got them and the Casiotone CD signed.
I haven't fully listened to them all, but i bought them because i LOVE pretty literate indie-pop, and i don't have enough... and i wanted to support local artists. From what i listened to I loved
Friday i bought more local music at another gig- The Panda Band, New Rules for Boats, and Jeff Strong. I already like The Panda Band, and New Rules for Boats just blew me away with their perfect power-pop... so i needed that music. The New Rules for Boats albums aren't ripping, but i enjoy them... and the Panda Band are great
Sunday were impulse thirft store purchases-- a Monkees Greatest Hits (been listening to them at a party before) for $10, a Sweet greatest hits ($10), which is awesome and fun; Jimmy Ruffian Greatest Hits which is disappointing (though i still love "What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?") and a Peabody (local band) EP. I also picked up the new Dylan album for $30, which i will post about on the appropriate thread when i've listened enough to it
i probably spent around $200, but its all good music and i want to give something back to the artists, especially since i'm not paying to get into their gigs (as a reviewer)
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William Elliott Whitmore-Ashes To Dust.
He played an instore a few weeks ago and having only heard one or two songs prior to this I picked up one of his albums. He played again the next day and he blew.me.away. Quite possibly one of the best shows I've ever been to.
And consisdering the price of cds over here most of the time it only cost me £9.00. Bargain.
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Oh man, I am soooo excited. I just bought like 6 CD's for like $50 of Amazon. They'll arrive sometime next week, at which time I will post my impressions of them. But here's the list:
The Mercury Program - From The Vapor of Gasoline
The Mercury Program - A Data Learn The Language
The Mercury Program - All The Suits Began To Fall Off EP
I'd been meaning to get some of The Mercury Program, ever since I first heard them earlier this year, so I jumped at the chance.
Don Caballero - Don Caballero 2
Don Caballero - What Burns Never Returns
I heard Don Cab on Last.fm, and asked you guys for suggestions. tommy recommended What Burns Never Returns, and the Last.fm previews of both albums convinced me.
Slint - Spiderland
Thanks to tommy again for the recommendation on this one.
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William Elliott Whitmore-Ashes To Dust.
What a coincidence, I just got a copy of his new album Song of the Blackbird for reviewing.
(http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drh400/h448/h44850a3549.jpg)
Though I must say after a couple listens I am not really as impressed as you seem to be. But I will reserve judgement to later when I actually write the review.
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I finished the job I had for the last three weeks at my aunt's office today, and got paid, so I went and bought some CDs. I was in a noisy rock sort of mood.
Sonic Youth - EVOL
Sonic Youth - Confusion Is Sex
The Stooges - Fun House
Be Your Own Pet - Be Your Own Pet
I'm madly excited about all of them.
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Fun House is pretty much one of the best albums of ever.
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Bob Dylan - Modern Times
It's great. Not as good as Love And Theft, but it's really good. Has a couple of songs where the music is almost as important as the words, which is a rarity with Dylan no matter how good his music usually is.
However, Twilight Singers' Powder Burns remains the best album I've heard all year.
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ok, going to school right next to a record store is horrible for my bank account. Ive dropped 100 bucks in 2 days on the following cd's
Mogwai- Mr. Beast
Zero 7- The Garden
M83- Deadcities, Redseas & Lostghosts
Explosions in the Sky- The Earth is not a Cold Dead Place
Ratatat- Classics
Muse- Black Holes and Revalations
Im pretty blown away by all of them, especially the Mogwai and M83 albums, but Ratatat and Muse arent as good as i hoped.
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(http://www.rockdetector.com/assets/img/covers/30267.jpg)
Sounds like it'll be a grower. But the obvious ones still rock, and I'd have bought it just for 'Won't Get Fooled Again' anyway.
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I recently bought an interesting cd. I don't know if any of you watched the Adventures of Pete and Pete, back when Nickelodeon was good tv. Anyway, I really liked their theme song, and it turns out the band who did their theme song, Polaris, has a whole album called "Music from the Adventures of Pete and Pete"
Well worth the buy, I thought. But I think I like it mostly for nostalgic reasons. But the music is fun and kind of quirky. so yay.
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Oh man I've been looking for the name of that album for ever, thanks! The Adventures of Pete and Pete was one of my favorite shows.
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I just bought the new Audioslave album, Revelations, for $14.99 (seems to be the going price for new CDs in this area).
So far, so good. Only listened to the first 4 tracks so far and I know I like the 5th song (it's the single, Original Fire, they released not too long back.. it's on their website if you want to hear it.)
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no prob, Misereatur. It's definitely an awesome album, I think
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ok, going to school right next to a record store is horrible for my bank account. Ive dropped 100 bucks in 2 days on the following cd's
Mogwai- Mr. Beast
Zero 7- The Garden
M83- Deadcities, Redseas & Lostghosts
Explosions in the Sky- The Earth is not a Cold Dead Place
Ratatat- Classics
Muse- Black Holes and Revalations
Im pretty blown away by all of them, especially the Mogwai and M83 albums, but Ratatat and Muse arent as good as i hoped.
WORTH IT.
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yea, those are pretty fucking awesome albums.
Yet again, i shall travel to the store of CD's tomorrow, and am curious as to what you people suggest. Having a job and nothing to spend my money on but cd's and copious amounts narcotics is fun.You can see what I like from my previous post, but i also want to get these:
The Album Leaf
Action Action(maybe, kinda iffy in this one)
Island(iffy as well)
Bell Orcheste
Broken Social Scene
Massive Attack
what else people?
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God Is An Astronaut - A Moment of Stillness
I bought this only because the band was called 'God Is An Astronaut', it's very good though, ambientish postrockm maybe like a more laid back HSFHP era mogwai.
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My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
Loveless is way better.
Foo Fighters - One by One
Got it from a lala.com trade. It's typical Foos, which means it's good to me.
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Emilio, God Is an Astronaut = love.
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I need to acquire some God Is An Astronaut. My previously mentioned CDs have not yet arrived. I AM BEING DEPRIVED OF MATH ROCK GOODNESS. CALL THE POLICE.
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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/44/ThePolice.jpg)
yes?
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Close enough.
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The Panda Band - This Vital Chapter
The Mountain Goats - Tallahassee
TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
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The last thing I bought was Ghosts of Our Vegas Lives by The Renderers. I saw them play on Friday night and I was so mightily impressed that I had to go out and buy it.
Their live set was amazing -- they were like an alt country Sonic Youth. The record is more country, less noisy. Still very good though.
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I just got these:
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(http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drg100/g131/g13182a8kv3.jpg)
Charalambides - Unknown Spin
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v245/Santhsynth/derblut_timeistheeenemy.jpg)
(http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc800/c867/c8678738pu8.jpg)
The first three I got dirt cheap at 25.58$ which what you normally give for one cd in Denmark. The last I bought over the internet.
All in all I very happy with the purchases :)
The Constantines one seems pretty cool.
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Forgotten Silence - Bya Bamahe Neem
Six Degrees - s/t
Seventeen Migs of Spring - Ice
Fugazi - Steady Diet of Nothing
Oren Ambarchi - Grapes From the Estate
Boris - Amplifier Worship
NOW I DONT HAVE ANY MONEY. GAODAMN YOU CDS.
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My vast array of recent purchases:
Duels - The Bright Lights And What I Should Have Learned - Brilliant
Eminem - The Eminem Show - Very good
Roger Waters - Amused To Death - Very Good
Bob Dylan - Modern Times - Brilliant
The Mars Volta - Amputechture - Wank
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Very Good
Nick Cave - Tender Prey - Okay
Pink Floyd - The Wall - Brilliant
Thom Yorke - The Eraser - Very Good
Ryan Adams - Gold - Brilliant
Raconteurs - BRoken Boy Soldiers - Very Good
Bruce Springsteen - The Ghost Of Tom Joad - Okay
More details to come as I see fit.
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I just got a rather interesting package from Geiger:
Envy - Insomniac Doze
Japanese hardcore with post-rock influence.
Growing - Color Wheel
Guitary Drone. I don't know anything about it to be honest.
Geoff Muellen - Thirtysxtrillnmnfstns
handmaded, one out of just 1080 copies.
Not that it will ever be worth anything but it makes it kind of special.
In the press material, it says that it is similar to Fennesz and Jim O'Rourke.
Which is a very good thing indeed :)
GTUK - Herzschlag
handmade too. Basically its C64 music with distorted screaming by a deranged german.
I think I might say to my editor that I really do not know what to say about it :?
Obscuro and pretty novelty-like. It seems akin to The Shaggs, you either get it or you don't.