Recent Purchases

[DCMaximo 0]

Just picked up "Twilight" by the Twilight Singers. Seems pretty good so far, Greg Dulli is reliably good.

[PLAGIARISM! 0]

Been d/lin' stuff - Death From Above 1979 are passable, and the Arcade Fire are good, I have attained today thus far.

[Edwin MacPhisto 0]

Just picked up "Twilight" by the Twilight Singers. Seems pretty good so far, Greg Dulli is reliably good.

"Twilite Kid" and "Verti-Marte" are my favorites off that. If you like Dulli and don't have Blackberry Belle, the follow-up album, you should.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

I haven't finished listening to my previous purchases, but was at Best Buy with a friend buying video games. I had tax refund money in my pocket. Oh no. Figured I'd get more of what I liked from the last spree.

 

Miles Davis-On the Corner

Frank Zappa-Tinseltown Rebellion

Frank Zappa-Shut Up n Play Your Guitar

David Bowie-Station to Station

 

I had the Miles Davis cd in my hand when the soliciting service parasite guy came up to me. His name is Eric.

 

Eric inquired as to what I was looking for. I humored him, and made the critical mistake of saying I was still looking around. I watched the inside of his head as the genre shill flowchart went into effect.

 

New Releases-->Jazz

 

"Are you into vocal jazz at all? Jamie Cullum's new album here.." He sort of trailed off as he got a cd from the rack. I'd heard that name before but couldn't place it. Something from a late night talk show musical guest or something. I wasn't interested.

"Not especially, I'm getting more into the fusion sort of material," I said.

"Have you ever heard any Boney James?" He replied. It was late in the day for me, seeing as how I'd been up about seven times longer than most folks at that hour. Seeing as how I wanted to end this conversation peacefully due to my fatigue, I wondered when my ADD afflicted friend would choose a game. I wanted a quick out. I ended up just confessing "No."

 

Eric really thought he had me now. He said it was "Really good." He suggested that I listen to it with their Rhapsody deal on the computer. I never bother giving the customer service reps a chance, but I wasn't aware this service was available. I figured at a later date I might want to listen to something before I buy it if I'm iffy on the recommendation. I wasn't interested in Boney James at all, but there I was. Me, Boney, and Eric; three pals in the world of commercial smooth jazz.

 

"Tepid and lifeless," I mused aloud. "I think I've heard this before actually, probably the soundtrack to Fatal Passions. Think it was on Cinemax real late." He gave a conspiratorial chuckle. Oh I bet you know the cast, too, you pudgy uniformed servant. I really doubt he heard much of what I said. I usually have to repeat myself to people. Probably just being agreeable and doing what he's paid to do. Fair enough, I figured.

 

"Here's that Jamie Cullum," as he clicked without asking if I wanted to hear it.

 

Fuck, it was that guy I saw on Conan that does some Harry Connick Jr. bullshit.

 

"Yeah, I don't like that at all." I said matter-of-factly.

"Not into vocal jazz, huh?" He said as if he were part of a cool clique of quoteunquote vocal jazz fans.

"I don't suppose I am. Thanks a lot, though, Eric."

 

Then I hid from him over by the Zappa and snagged Bowie on the way out.

[tekcop 0]

Acid Bath -- When the Kite String Pops

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Cullum must die.

[Gary Floyd 0]

Pink Floyd-More

[Murmuring Beast 0]

Arcade Fire: Funeral

Pink Floyd: Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

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I feel I should point out the Arcade Fire are only good when they don't lapse into atrocious scenester Joy Division drumbeats or let the guy sing.

[Carnival 0]

After i claimed recently that i would never purcahse another CD, I roke down and bought Esham "A 1 Yola". I bought it cuz it comes with a DVD with videos for every song on the album.

 

And i will say this, if you want to see to lowest-quality music videos you've EVER seen, i highly recommend this. It's putrid, it's so bad, it's comical.

[cbacon 0]

I splurged today:

 

Broken Social Scene - You Forget it in People

Bright Eyes - Digital Ash in a Digital Urn

Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning

K-OS - Joyful Rebellion

[Lord of The Curry 0]

Good fuckin call on YFIIP.

[Murmuring Beast 0]

Television: Adventure

Yardbirds: The Very Best Of, Shapes Of Things

[Si82 0]

 

"Silent Alarm" - Bloc Party

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"O & B-Sides" - Damien Rice

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"Funeral" - The Arcade Fire

[Hank Kingsley 0]

Blonde on Blonde, finally. The remastered version, too, so it's not an inconvenient two-discer like the SACD is.

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

 

Which I'm liking very much.

[DCMaximo 0]

"Make Believe" by Weezer- yeah, it's not as good as Pinkerton or the Blue album, but considering how bad Maladroit was, it's pretty good. "The Other Way" alone is better anything on the last album.

[5_moves_of_doom 0]

Boredoms -- Pop Tatari

-- Seeing them live on Tuesday night. Pretty crazy stuff. Not many individual tracks stick out, but it's not really song-oriented... just an entire album of crazy Japanese screaming and guitar distortion. Which could be bad, but trust me -- it isn't.

 

Ugly Casanova -- Sharpen Your Teeth

-- I'm an OK Modest Mouse fan and a BIG fan of Brian Deck's production, so obviously this is a good choice for me. But it really is a mixed bag -- some REALLY good songs, but some throwaways too.

 

Tyrannosaurus Rex -- My People Were Fair and Had Sky in Their Hair But Now They're Content to Wear Stars on Their Brows

-- Holy cow. I always saw T. Rex as a good but semi-overrated outfit, but this is completely different from Electric Warrior, and I LOVE it. Now I know where this Devendra guy gets all his stuff from.

 

Neu! -- Neu!

-- Not as good as some other Kraut-rock favorites of mine, but I've liked this album for a long time and it's nice to finally own it. I'd say I love three tracks here and the other three are just alright.

 

Eric Dolphy -- Out There

-- Not as good as Out to Lunch, of course, but I'd still rank this pretty high on my free-jazz list. Starts out decent and only gets better as the album progresses. I love Dolphy's style of playing on pretty much any instrument he plays.

 

Tortoise -- TNT

-- I know a lot of people on this board love this album, and -- well -- I probably love it for the same reasons you do. I want to get their second album though, which I hear is even better.

 

The Birthday Party -- Junk Yard

-- Owned this for a few months but I let my friend borrow my copy and he broke it. So since it was $9, I went ahead and picked up a new copy. One of my favorite all-time albums, so yeah, good to have a working copy again.

 

Steve Reich -- Music for 18 Musicians

-- I figured it was time to get into minimalism and this album is just great. I read the liner notes first and thought the concept sounded awesome but sort of expected a really flat, inorganic, monotonous sound. Luckily these expectations were wrong. Everything instrument here is acoustic and it's just one hour of greatness that all flows together perfectly. All I'm afraid of now is that this album has set my standards for minimalist music too high and from now on I'll be dissapointed with all that I listen to.

 

Leonard Cohen -- New Skin for the Old Ceremony

-- Leonard's one of my favorite artists and it's really, really weird that I didn't own this album yet. I own the three before it and most of his newer albums, but sort of skipped the middle of his discography. Anyhow, this is great. Probably my second or third favorite album of his.

 

And then the rest, which I haven't listened to yet--

Leonard Cohen -- Death of a Lady's Man

Bonnie "Prince" Billy -- I See a Darkness

Dead Meadow -- Feathers

Terry Riley -- A Rainbow in Curved Air

Boredoms -- Seadrums/House of Sun

 

 

Good use of my birthday money, and the only true dissapointments were that they didn't have a lot of Mike Patton-related stuff that I was in need of, and also they had little in the way of SPARKS, whom I was finally hoping to get into.

Edited May 16, 2005 by 5_moves_of_doom

[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.

[5_moves_of_doom 0]

 

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?

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

Hey, the Birthday Party didn't do Funhouse.

[5_moves_of_doom 0]

Hey, the Birthday Party didn't do Funhouse.

Geh. That's a weird typo, I've never even heard Funhouse all the way through.

[PLAGIARISM! 0]

They covered 'Loose' and the title track though.

[PLAGIARISM! 0]

The cover of 'loose' is one of my favourite ever covers, actually.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

Steve Reich -- Music for 18 Musicians

-- I figured it was time to get into minimalism and this album is just great. I read the liner notes first and thought the concept sounded awesome but sort of expected a really flat, inorganic, monotonous sound. Luckily these expectations were wrong. Everything instrument here is acoustic and it's just one hour of greatness that all flows together perfectly. All I'm afraid of now is that this album has set my standards for minimalist music too high and from now on I'll be dissapointed with all that I listen to.

 

Phillip Glass-"Floe"

[Gary Floyd 0]

 

Pink Floyd-The Piper at the Gates of Dawn and A Saucerful of Secrets

[PLAGIARISM! 0]

Just grabbed Psychic...Powerless...Another Man's Sac by the Butthole Surfers and Gibby Hayne's recent solo effort off ebay. It's worth mentioning that aside from Pulp, the Surfers are the only band that I ADORED at 12 that a still adore at 21.

[Si82 0]

"A Certain Trigger (Limited Edition)" - Maximo Park