Recent purchases

[Guest Kinetic]

I've been a CD-buying fool recently and most of them have been pretty good decisions. Here are the more recent purchases:

 

Talking Heads-More Songs About Buildings and Food

Trail of Dead-Madonna

Air- Moon Safari

Mercury Rev- Deserter's Songs

 

I suspect that the cashier present when I purchased the Trail of Dead album--who somehow rang it up to cost $350--thought that I was buying a Madonna album, rather than an album called Madonna. I've been racking my brain all week trying to figure out a way to change that perception. If word got out that I was listening to Madonna, I shudder to think of what the repercussions might be to my reputation and the community in general.

[Guest redbaron51]

lately i haven't bought many CD's.

 

I think the last one that I did buy was Vitalogy

[Guest BifEverchad]

A couple of days ago I picked up Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way, and treble charger Detox....

 

Even though I have a burner and stuff, I still tend to buy the albums I really really want.

 

anyways, so far so good.

[Guest Incandenza]

Good choice on Mercury Rev, Kinetic. Last CD I bought was about a week ago; in an effort to be as fully prepared as possible before seeing him live in November, I'm stocking up on Elvis Costello. This time out it was Blood & Chocolate.

 

Speaking of Talking Heads, I bought the DVD of Stop Making Sense today. I'll be reviewing it for my next column.

 

No, really.

[Guest Kinetic]

Stop Making Sense is great. If the album version of "Heaven" was as good as the live version used in the film, I'd probably have a new favorite Talking Heads song. Sadly, it isn't included on the film's companion album.

 

Blood and Chocolate was one of the first EC albums I got. My verdict is still pretty much the same: Great first half, decent second half. "Crimes of Paris" and "Next Time Round" are good, though, and "I Want You" definitely ranks in my top ten Costello songs.

[Guest AzkulKazul]

Steel Prophet - Messiah

Steel Prophet - Book Of The Dead

Steel Prophet - Unseen

Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf

Enthroned - Carnage In Worlds Beyond

Impaled - Mondo Medicale

Zao - s/t

Nile - In Their Darkened Shrines

Last Tribe - Witch Dance

Stormwarrior - s/t

Old Man's Child - Revelation 666

Avantasia - The Metal Opera (part I)

 

[Guest Kotzenjunge]

The last album I bought was John Digweed's double album Bedrock, which builds to a climax at the final track of the second disc in an impressive manner. Digweed IS the man for Trance right now.

 

Before that, it was Club Nation America, another two-disc album, put out by the Electronica Ministry of Sound via Johnny Vicious and Tall Paul. The first disc could loop endlessly and I wouldn't care.

 

Finally, I grabbed Daft Punk's Discovery, which is absolutely mind-bogglingly tremendous in every sense, and That Trance Mix, a compendium put out by BPM magazine highlighting fourteen of the world's top DJs. Damn good stuff.

 

Download stuff from any of these albums, and you will NOT be disappointed.

 

Favorite track on each album:

 

Digweed, Bedrock -- "Heaven Scent"

 

Ministry of Sound, Club Nation America -- Paul Van Dyk's "We are Alive(Breathless remix)," which is the best version beside the original

 

Daft Punk, Discovery -- "Superheroes," barely beating out "One More Time(Celebrate)"

 

BPM Magazine/Various Artists, That Trance Mix -- Binary Finary's set. I have yet to see any tracks of this album on Kazaa though

 

There you have it. For the 1% of this board who share my tastes, GET THOSE SONGS.

 

Fo sheez,

Kotzenjunge

[Guest Flyboy]

The latest thing I bought was Avril Lavigne's Let Go.

[Guest MrRant]

::Smites Flyboy::

[Guest mesepher]

Dream Theater's "Change of Seasons" EP.

[Guest Youth N Asia]

Ash

Something Corporate

Riddlin Kids

White Stripes

Student Rick

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

Slayer-God Hates us All was the last cd I spent money on.

[Guest redbaron51]

Slayer-God Hates us All was the last cd I spent money on.

i hope you didn't pay over 15 bucks for that that CD is awful by there standards.

 

oh and i've just ordered Iron Maiden's s/t album off of HMV. Since how, no one carries that CD anywhere

[Guest The Metal Maniac]

I find it all too easy to track down Maiden's self-title.

 

Now, Virtual XI...that's a fucking challenge.

[Guest Flyboy]

::Smites Flyboy::

HEY!

 

What was that for?

[Guest TheArchiteck]

Slum Village-Trinity

[Metal Ed]

I ain't bought nothing in a while, but I did find those Dokken tapes in my dad's tape heap. Got me to bangin' my head pretty good. I got that Slayer album, too, from when my friend Matt let me borrow it. I ain't a purist like some of you, so I thought it was pretty bitchin'. My Rock Box didn't eat it or nothin and I was bangin' my head pretty good, so it was cool. It ain't no South of Heaven, though.

[Guest godthedog]

i'm rather poor, especially lately. the last record i went out & BOUGHT was 'presence', by zeppelin. that was about 3 weeks ago, since then i've been downloading albums like a madman up here at school, sometimes as many as one a day. i've downloaded, in their entireity:

 

the who sell out

cowboy junkies, 'the trinity sessions'

bjork, 'vespertine' and 'homogenic'

r.e.m., 'chronic town'

pixies, 'surfer rosa'

bob dylan, 'blonde on blonde'

portishead, 'portishead'

 

portishead was the last one, just a couple days ago. i've also been trying to download all the tracks from 'murmur' and 'london calling', but i keep running into problems.

 

UPDATE: yes! i finally got all of 'murmur'! i had to work at it till 5 in the morning, but i got it!

[Guest bravesfan]

I also tend to stay away from the music stores, but the last album I have bought was RHCP "By The Way"...definitely worth the money.

[Guest MaxPower27]

I've had to stock up on CD's that I lost in the breakup with the girlfirend.

 

-System of a Down- System of a Down

-Taproot Gift

-White Stripes (still need to get)

-Bad Religion Stranger than Fiction

-Punk-O-Rama's 2, 3, 4, 5, & 7

 

 

That is all. I want to pick up the new Disturbed, as well. When does that come out?

[Guest Anorak]

The Guthries -- "Off Windmill"

Gorky's Zygotic Mynci -- "The Blue Trees" EP

Richard Hawley -- "Late Night Final"

 

I bought the Guthries album after getting their second album a couple of months before and really liking it. The Gorky's EP is more of a folky/accoustic set which is excellent and the Richard Hawley album is very 'classy' and relaxing. Ruth Minnikin of the Guthries and Hawley have especially great voices.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

Slayer-God Hates us All was the last cd I spent money on.

i hope you didn't pay over 15 bucks for that that CD is awful by there standards.

I thought it was pretty fuckin' tough. Not as good as their older stuff, IMO, but it was a SHITLOAD better than Diabolus in Musica. The lyrics on GHUA are hateful as hell, and the guitars are there, just not as many solos.

[Guest Kotzenjunge]

This is honestly not me trying to be a dick, but is toughness how you measure the quality of metal albums? I know there are different key description words for different genres, and I was just curious if "tough" was one for metal.

 

Rap: Phat, raw, bumping

Pop: Kylielicious, catchy

Mainstream rock: Ehh, I don't know this one.

Dance: see Rap.

 

Fo sheez,

Kotzenjunge

[Guest Edwin MacPhisto]

My most recent purchases have all worked out pretty nicely thus far:

 

Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

David Bowie - Heroes

Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted

Elliott Smith - Either/Or

Prince - Purple Rain

 

The Wilco album's already become one of my absolutel favorites, and everything else has gone into permanent rotation on the CD player. Purple Rain for 7 bucks...this is a wonderful world we live in, folks.

 

::listens to "Let's Go Crazy"::

[Guest treble charged]

Sam Roberts' The Inhuman Condition is the last CD that I purchased.

 

It's got some good tunes on it, including the song that has taken Canada by storm, Brother Down.

[Guest Will Scarlet]

Well, I received a ton of albums as belate birthday gifts. I received:

 

No Secrets by No Secrets - not that bad. I have a soft spot for cheesy American pop music.

 

Euro pop by Eiffel 65? I did not like this one at all. The song I most wanted to hear(Blue) was not the same version as on the radio, and, in fact, was much crappier.

 

Baby VOX - Special album - short forms of every awesome Baby VOX song I have on mp3. I hate that they are rather short, but are usually well done, so I do not care.

 

Papaya - 01

 

Papaya - 02

 

SES - Sea Eugene Shoo

 

Fin KL - Now

 

I just wish I could decide which one to listen to first. I have some of the songs on mp3, but I just find it so cool that I have the albums, because some of the songs are hard as all hell to obtain on mp3. I feel like a kid in a candy store.

[Guest Kinetic]

Matador is issuing a HUGE ten year anniversary edition of Slanted and Enchanted that includes, amongst other things, several truly excellent Pavement b-sides. Even though I already have the album, I'm definitely considering picking it up. It's got "Box Elder" and "Texas Never Whispers," two of my favorite non-album Pavement tracks, and it would mean that I'd never be tempted to buy the Watery, Domestic EP. Plus, it's a double at single CD price.

[Guest Edwin MacPhisto]

Matador is issuing a HUGE ten year anniversary edition of Slanted and Enchanted that includes, amongst other things, several truly excellent Pavement b-sides. Even though I already have the album, I'm definitely considering picking it up. It's got "Box Elder" and "Texas Never Whispers," two of my favorite non-album Pavement tracks, and it would mean that I'd never be tempted to buy the Watery, Domestic EP. Plus, it's a double at single CD price.

Damn it all! I feel like a fool now. When's this getting issued, Kinetic? I already bought a copy of Beggar's Banquet in June, unaware that the Stones' Abco remasters would be appearing in August.

 

Oh well. Worst case scenario, I get the re-issue and pawn the original off to someone else.

[Guest Kinetic]

It comes out next month, I believe.

[Guest redbaron51]

The only other albums from Maiden I need is Bailey's stuff, but i am in no hurry to buy them.