Recent Purchases

[Cuban Linx]

[cbacon]

 

Stars - Set Yourself On Fire

Bloc Party - Silent Alarm

[Guest JebusNassedar]

 

Looked into the band because of the name. It's an aquired taste, but once you get used to it, they're not bad at all.

Do you prefer the first or second album? I own the first one, and thought it was good, but like Inc has said before, while listening to it I always just wish I was listening to something else like, say, Echo and the Bunnymen. But it's still good for what it is. But yes, has their sound changed at all, and if so, is that a good or a bad thing?

"The Decline Of." Really a lot.

 

Open Season is almost an entirely different band. I do like versitility, yes, but there were huge jumps made. Slower, mellower, but decent. It's just that "The Decline Of" is so great that it makes "Open Season" look subpar in a lot of ways. But that's just my approach, and I have been wrong many times before.

 

Moving on.

 

[Guest Derek Bailey]

Steve Reich -- Music for 18 Musicians

When was yours recorded? I have one from nineteen-seventy-something, but recently heard a performance from 1998 that blew it away, for reasons I can't quite pin down.

 

What I've heard of Philip Glass has struck me as little more than Steve Reich lite. Maybe I've just heard the wrong stuff.

[Giuseppe Zangara]

 

and

 

[B. Brian Brunzell]

 

I spent the last month up in Columbus, OH and finally had decent places to buy music. I'm pretty sure that's ll of my purchases, but I could be wrong. I'll have to look again.

[Cuban Linx]

[B. Brian Brunzell]

There was one more:

 

[Youth N Asia]

"The Woods," new album by Sleater-Kinney that came out today. Crap packaging though

[Guest JebusNassedar]

[Guest PlatinumBoy]

All this for 22 bucks... not bad at all:

 

 

 

 

 

[5_moves_of_doom]

Steve Reich -- Music for 18 Musicians

When was yours recorded? I have one from nineteen-seventy-something, but recently heard a performance from 1998 that blew it away, for reasons I can't quite pin down.

 

What I've heard of Philip Glass has struck me as little more than Steve Reich lite. Maybe I've just heard the wrong stuff.

Mine was released in 1978, yeah. I might be interested in that other version, though.

 

In the last few days I've picked up:

and

 

Both are good yet somewhat dissapointing.

 

I also picked up Super Ae and Vision Creation Newsun when I saw the Boredoms live last week. They're both utterly fantastic, though I prefer the crazier Boredoms style (Pop Tatari) slightly more. The band live is a revelation, though, even though I think I saw them in V00rdoms form, or something, aka just "Eye" and three accompanying drummers.

 

Nonetheless, it was unlike anything I'd ever seen before.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

Fuckin' A, thanks for reminding me that this is out now.

 

I went to a local metal show over the weekend, and picked up the following from the friendly local merch dude for 20 bucks altogether:

 

Nasum-Human 2.0 (re-buy)

Nasum-Helvete (way better)

Neuraxis-I can't remember the title, but it's good as fuck.

Godflesh-Hymns.

and a Solidification demo. Pretty ok local death band.

[Edwin MacPhisto]

I didn't feel like eating dinner, so instead I went shelf-shopping, and ended up with the new remaster of Gang of Four's Entertainment, along with a used copy of Husker Du's Warehouse: Songs and Stories, which I'm absolutely loving.

[5_moves_of_doom]

 

THANK YOU AMAZON!

 

If anyone has any commentary on any of these albums, then please. The albums are shipping right now and I've heard very little off of any of them, so I'd like to know what to expect, especially with the later-days Beefheart and the Univers Zero. Actually, I'm yet to hear a Fela Kuti song. I suppose I should be shot.

 

Oh, and does anyone know if the new Malkmus is any good? I want it very badly.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

I don't think anyone really likes In The Wake of Poseidon too well compared to other King Crimson. It's obviously too much like their debut, but it does have "Cat Food" which is an awesome song, and "Pictures of a City" which is more energetic as well. Spare the rest unless you really like mellotron, I think. You should give Lizard a try if you thought this was alright enough, and liked the tracks I highlighted.

 

I think they've been rather hit or miss at points in the band's history, first few albums being one of them, but when they're on (73-75) (81-83), they're one of my very favorite groups.

 

I have that Fripp & Eno album as well, and don't really know what to think of it. No Pussyfooting is my favorite that I've heard thus far, but I can only listen to it if I'm in a certain mood kind of deal.

[ArkhamGlobe]

A local record store having 50% off on everything in the store can only mean one thing, more albums for me:

 

Vinyl:

 

Jean-Luc Ponty - Enigmatic Oceans

 

CD:

 

The Byrds - Sweetheart of the Rodeo

John Cale - The Academy in Peril

Can - Soundtracks

Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (')

[Giuseppe Zangara]

I didn't feel like eating dinner, so instead I went shelf-shopping, and ended up with the new remaster of Gang of Four's Entertainment, along with a used copy of Husker Du's Warehouse: Songs and Stories, which I'm absolutely loving.

Warehouse is my favorite HD, though not that band's best album (that would be Zen Arcade); so many good songs on it. The first five songs on the album are nearly flawless, plus you get "It's Not Peculiar" and the stretch of the last three songs (not a great a song by any means, but how perfect of a closer—and a career capper—is "You Can Live at Home"?). Really, no matter how much better Zen Arcade, New Day Rising and Flip Your Wig is, it's Warehouse I listen to the most. But I'm a sucker for 80s college rock, anyway.

[Giuseppe Zangara]

Oh, and does anyone know if the new Malkmus is any good? I want it very badly.

I've yet to hear anything from the new Malkmus—though I really, really need to—but, as far as the albums you've mentioned, Solid Gold is fantastic. "What We All Want," "Outside the Trains Don't Run on Time" (which is superior to the rather dry version from the Yellow ep)...fuck. Sometimes I prefer it to Entertainment.

[Giuseppe Zangara]

This is easily Outkast's worst album, but still fairly decent. What say you?

[PLAGIARISM!]

The bonus tracks on Solid Gold kick Entertainment!'s arse, but the album doesn't.

[5_moves_of_doom]

I approve of both the new Malkmus and the new Sleater-Kinney whole-heartedly, as it turns out.

[Giuseppe Zangara]

[King Kamala]

The Essential Bruce Springsteen

 

The Best of the Boomtown Rats

[Anorak]

Belle And Sebastain - Push Barman To Open Old Wounds

The Boo Radleys - Learning To Walk

Gene Clark - White Light

Low - The Curtain Hits The Cast

South San Gabriel - Welcome, Convalescence

South San Gabriel - The Carlton Chronicles

Richmond Fontaine - The Fitzgerald

[Guest Derek Bailey]

Face the Truth's pretty good, much better than his last two efforts.

 

Although does finally live up to the Fall rip-off accusations I never really got by blatantly nabbing the bass riff from, uh, that song on This Nation's Saving Grace that serves as the full version 'Mansion'. There's a good chance this is an example of that classic Malkmus sophisticated wit, though, the very wit that has resulted in him doing such things as telling people he was going to do a set of Pavement songs before instead doing a set consisting entirely of new material (which didn't make this album) and at least three very long and very boring guitar solos.

 

I haven't done much in the way of purchasing lately since I've managed to spend almost all of the money that was supposed to last me for five months in one, but I did get these:

 

Animal Collective - Prospect Hummer

Four Tet - Everything Ecstatic

Jane - Berserker

Sun Ra and His Intergalactic Research Arkestra - It's After the End of the World

Comets on Fire - Blue Cathedral

Taurpis Tula - Sparrows

 

I guess that is quite a lot, really. Oh well.

Edited June 1, 2005 by R2DFooster McSockman

[B. Brian Brunzell]

This is easily Outkast's worst album, but still fairly decent. What say you?

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Even though you weren't asking me, I still agree. Of course, a bad OutKast album is better than most other artist's good album. Though I wouldn't call Souternplayalistic a bad album.

[ArkhamGlobe]

Today, while rummaging through the albums at a local used records store I managed to find a copy of Sparks' Kimono My House for 15 swedish crowns, roughly $2 (I think). Nice deal, I think.

Edited June 1, 2005 by ArkhamGlobe

[PLAGIARISM!]

If you don't like it, and are fairly weak or disabled, I'll fight you.

[PLAGIARISM!]

I got The Residents' Have a Bad Day. It's categorically the worst thing I've heard by them. They really didn't kick back to life till Roadworms in 99, in my opinion. I also purchased Pink Flag again, cos I was missing it. And I finally got Bizarro by The Wedding Present, though it's a 'blueprint' album that contains their breakthrough singles and otherwise hasn't aged well.