What's the last al*** you have bought?

Posted by: AL4N on 04 February 2003

Just wondering what musical tastes are catered for,also was it a cd or vinyl?
What are your favourite 2 tracks,
Alan
Posted on: 14 February 2004 by ClaudeP
Last CD was Schumann's string quartetts no 1 & 3 by the Zehetmair Quartett (ECM).

Wow! I sure understand why it made Gramphone's "Album of the year".
Posted on: 14 February 2004 by Steve Toy
The new Norah

Chris Isaac - Wicked Game

The Best of Leanne Rimes Red Face



Regards,

Steve.
Posted on: 15 February 2004 by P


On BlueNote - Double album

What a band!

P - Full of Lurv etc
Posted on: 15 February 2004 by P


On vinyl - Valentines present for the wife (Honest!)

P - Disco Boy
Posted on: 15 February 2004 by P


On vinyl - nice pressing!

A return to form?

Off to see 'em live next week

P - Air Head
Posted on: 15 February 2004 by JeremyB
Back to the $1 vinyl bins - yippee! Here's a sample, mostly dupes but mint
Magazine Play (Brilliant!)
Suzanne Ciani The Velocity of Love
Creedence C.R. Cosmo's Factory
Herb Alpert +Tijuana Brass Casino Royale
Joan Baez Diamonds and Rust
Emmylou Harris Evangeline
The Supremes Right On
Flash and the Pan Lights in the Night
Hall and Oates No Goodbyes
Rodney Franklin Endless Flight
Basia Time and Tide
Ian Dury NB+P
Berlioz Symphony Fantastique Utah Symph
Ernie Watts Sanctuary
Michael Franks Passion Fruit
The Dukes The Dukes
Arthur Lyman Love for Sale
Peter Paul + Mary See What Tomorrow Brings
Wishbone Ash No Smoke Without Fire
Santana Caravanserai
Midnight Oil Red Sails in the Sunset

CDs:
Urge Overkill The Supersonic Storybook
Enigma MCMXC a.D
UFO essential UFO
Acoustic Alchemy Against the Grain
Acoustic Alchemy Positive Thinking
Les Claypool's Frog Brigade Live Frogs set 1
Ultramarine Bel Air
Fripp and Eno No Pussyfooting
Muse Absolution
OutKast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

New LP:
OutKast Aquemini
Posted on: 16 February 2004 by Not For Me
This Weekend's purchases:

In the form of Compact Discs:

Edie Brickell - Volcano
[Ordered from Amazon.com in November 2003!]

Various Artists - Nag Nag Nag
["The Sound of London's hottest Electro-trash club"
New from Tiga / CoS / Superpitcher,
Old from Normal / Delta 5 / DAT / Devo etc.]


On vinyl records:

Dave Clarke / Chicks on Speed - What was her name?
[LFO / Blackstrobe remixes. lurid pink vinyl]

Dave Clarke - Devil's Advocate
[On 180g heavyweight vinyl]

The Rapture - Sister Saviour
[Black Strobe / Tiefschwarz remixes]

Dj Scot Project - FM (Feelin me)

Thomas Rubin - Cold Night
[Mixes by DJ Scot Project / Kramer & Pogadl]

Kai Tracid - Trance & Acid / Pure acid

Blue Amazon - New Oreder / Kraftwerk remix
[An epic trance mash up of Blue Monday and Kraftwerk]

The Fuzz - Fuck my Bitch / Acid Slur

Rowland the Bastard - The Ho's like to Jack it / Incomin

Various Artists - Northern Sessions Volume 1
[Blackout audio / Hydralix / Cluster / The Stranger]

Sparks - Music that you can dance to
Donna Summer - I will go with you / Con Te Partiro

The Fatima Mansions - Nite Flights
The Fatima mansions - The Loyaliser
[I am still seeking an elusive remix by Jack Dangers / MBM of a FM track - anyone got it?]

The Cowboy Junkies - The Caution Horses
Marc Marberg - Hackin'

X-Press 2 - I want you back feat. Dieter Meier
[remixes by Medicine / Par-T-One D. Meier is the Yello main man]

X-Press 2 - The Sound
[Klub Head / Hard Head mixes]

X-Press 2 - The Sound
[Nush / Jamez & Dobre mixes]

X-Press 2 - Say What!
[London Undergroound mixes]
[I was V. impressed with X-P2 mix of Milkshake, so decided to fill out their section in the collection]

Centuras - Chrome Peg

Telex - I still don't like Music Remixes Vol.2
[With Ian Pooley, T-Power, Juan Atkins etc.]

Decoder & Substance - The Clan EP
Boylan - Everybody / Underground
[More from the D3|BC run label]

Intense - 1st Contact / Visions
Subject 13 - Can you fell the vibez / Blacksteele
Paradox - A Certain Sound / Deep Sleep
Ed Rush, Optical & Fierce - Cutslo (Lokuste mix) / Alien Girl

Ed Rush and Optical - English Snog
[D'n'B version of the classic Lil' Louis 'French Kiss' track]

Various Artists - Kingz of the Rollers Volume 4
[Greg Packer / Alias / Total Science / The Insiders]

Benny Benassi - No Matter What you do
[incl. Satisfaction - Robbie Rivera remix]

Client - Here and Now
Venus Hum - Soul Sloshing
Cloudburst - The Mission
Rain Box - Seed scattered
Atlas - Beauty / Beauty Too
Tenth Chapter - Wired

DNC - Flying Saucer
[With O. Lieb / W.J Henze mixes]

Mike Dearborn - Chaotic State EP

Equilibrium - the Devil's Dandruff
[A rare Frankfurt Beat release]

Freax - Shiny Bullets
[A rare Important Extra records release]

RMB - Love EP
Time Unlimited / Tribal Ghost - Naked / The Message
Sunkiss - Reach

DS

ITC - Various Artists - Kris Needs Must

[This message was edited by David Slater on MONDAY 16 February 2004 at 20:45.]
Posted on: 17 February 2004 by Not For Me
A couple more:

On CD

Air Liquide = Superfreaky
[versions and mixes]

On super luxury 6 vinyl LP set in a box

X-Press 2 - Muzikium

DS

ITC - Air Liquide - Red
Posted on: 18 February 2004 by DenisA
Vinyl (180g)
My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves
Lambchop - Nixon
Steely Dan - Cant By A Thrill

Vinyl (standard)
Eels - Shootenanny

Just ordered from CD Baby (Heroic British £s triumph over Third World $s)
THE PUBERT BROWN FRIDGE OCCURRENCE: a once and future thing
JIMMY SPARKS: jimmy sparks & the mist
A FAIR FORGERY OF PINK FLOYD (VARIOUS ARTISTS): a fair forgery of pink floyd
MELISSA FERRICK: listen hard
MELISSA FERRICK: 70 people at 7000 feet

Denis
Posted on: 18 February 2004 by Bruce Woodhouse
Thanks in part to the forum

Mojave 3: Spoon and Rafter. Good stuff, grows on you.
Karsh Kale: Liberation. Bit patchy.
Susheela Raman: Love Trap. Hmm.
Abdelli: New Moon. Excellent stuff.
Sheila Chandra: Ancestors Voices. For my wife. Does nowt for me I'm afraid.
lambchop: AwCmon/NoCmon. Displaced the lot on the CD player for now!
Posted on: 18 February 2004 by Geofiz
Latest from the used shops, all on CD:

Big Shiny Tunes 2- Mostly Alternative and Pop compilation from 1997 and earlier with: Prodigy, Blur, Third Eye Blind, Smash Mouth, Sugar Ray, Bran Van 3000, Marilyn Manson, Holly McNarland, Bush, Matchbox 20, Collective Soul, The Tea Party, The Chemical Brothers, Wide Mouth Mason, Radiohead, The Age of Electric, Stone Temple Pilots.

Big Shiny Tunes 3- Mostly Alternative compilation from 1998 includes tracks from: The Smashing Pumpkins, Fastball, Foo Fighters, Matthew Good Band, Semisonic, Barenaked Ladies, Beastie Boys, Rob Zombie, Third Eye Blind, Sloan, Lenny Kravitz, Placebo, Garbage, Radiohead, Goo Goo Dolls, Big Wreck, Monster Magnet.

The Clash- London Calling

New Order- BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert
Posted on: 18 February 2004 by Not For Me
Today's additions to the trove:

On vinyl: (not heavyweight, not audiophile, just ordinary vinyl)

Pankow - I Never Thought of the Consequences
[A release on Sonic Groove Experiments, a sub division of Sonic Groove, who normally do New York hard techno, so something a bit different for them]

Broadcast - Ha Ha Sound
[I waited for the price to drop to < £11]

On CD (not HDCD, SACD or enhanced, jusr ordinary CDs)

Meat Beat Manifesto - R.U.O.K in Dub
[A Dub version of the album R.U.O.K]

Various Artists - A tribute to Current 93
[A Canadian tribute CD, All the best tunes (Christ and the Pale Queens, The Blue Gates of Death, Ach Golgota, Soft Black Stars, All the Pretty Littel Horses, Not one of the artists has entered my sphere of knowledge before, as they include Engelstaub, Sonne Hagal, Pancreatic Aardvarks, i.e. you get the idea]

DS

ITC - The very best of Mantovani
Posted on: 19 February 2004 by Mekon
On seedy

Fog - Hummer
Posted on: 19 February 2004 by Trevor Newall
added to the Newall music bin yesterday:

Calexico - Feast Of Wire

Elbow - Cast Of Thousands

Josh Ritter - Golden Age Of Radio

Josh Rouse - Under Cold Blue Stars

Lou Reed - The Raven

Ani Difranco - Educated Guess

some courtesy of recommendations in UNCUT.
does anyone else here subsbribe? brilliant mag!

TN
Posted on: 19 February 2004 by BigH47
Thanks to Cancer Research Salisbury branch vinyl:-

Carly Simon - Greatest Hits Live.
Eric Clapton - August
Huey Lewis and the News - Sports

Howard
Posted on: 19 February 2004 by Not For Me
Today's Additions:

On Vinyl

Whistling Jack Smith - Around the World With Whistling Jack Smith
[See WJS thread for a history of this]

On CD

Various - Domino sampler "A snapshot from the 2004 Domino Ten-Day"

DS

OTD - "Tom Hark", from Around the World With Whistling Jack Smith by Whistling Jack Smith
Posted on: 19 February 2004 by Geofiz
Went looking for used vinyl and came back with used CDs,

Sloan - Smeared

Bif Naked - Essentially Naked

Bif Naked - Bif Naked

Covers - Mama Told Me Not To Come, A collection of Alternatives Interpretations - Interesting comp with Bauhaus (Ziggy Stardust), Buffalo Tom (Heaven); The Wolfgang Press (Mam Told Me Not To Come); James (Sunday Morning); The Cardigans (The Boys Are Back In Town); Frank Black (Hang On to Your Ego); Red House Painters (I Am A Rock); Love & Rockets (Ball of Confusion); The Wonder Stuff (Will The Circle Be Unbroken); The Breeders (So Sad About Us)

The Tea Party - Splendor Solis

Soul Asylum - Let Your Dim Light Shine

Beautiful Noise - The Apocalypse

Jan Arden - Love is the Only Soldier

Patti Smith - Gone Again

Buffalo Springfield - 4 CD Box Set of rereleases by Rhino and as HDCD

Arvo Part & John Tavener - Out of the Night

Sergei Rachmaninoff - Vespers (All-night Vigil), Mass for Unaccompanied Chorus
Posted on: 20 February 2004 by Mekon
On CD

Andrew Broder - Modern Hits EP
Andrew Broder - Andrew Broder's More Modern Hits
Posted on: 20 February 2004 by Dev B
Hospital Mix No 1, 2, and 3
Dizzee Rascal - Boy in Da Corner
The Bug - Pressure (the Bug is Kevin Martin, aka God and Techno Animal).
Fabric Live 16 - DJ Spinbad

Pressure is brilliant, but weird.
Posted on: 20 February 2004 by Dev B
quote:

ITC - Kelis - Milkshake video (2 versions)

[This message was edited by David Slater on TUESDAY 27 January 2004 at 19:34.]


I love this song, it's really good, quite growelly, but nice
Posted on: 20 February 2004 by Not For Me
The last CD I brought was :

Various Artists - Kraut 2000 "In Search of a New Planet"

Includes To Rococo Rot, FSK, Air Liquide, Tarwater, Fuxa, The Dark side of the Moog,

So a bit of a round up of New Kraut Musik.

DS

ITC - Merzbow - Ikebana

ps Dev - Have a go on the X-Press 2 mix of Kelis Milkshake - very catchy. Nice video too!
Posted on: 20 February 2004 by ErikL
Air- Talkie Walkie (first impression: ho hum; haven't watched the included DVD yet)
Biosphere- Substrata
Califone- Heron King Blues (I always categorize them with Calexico (c-a-l-...), but I think they're much better)
Mum- Finally We Are No One
Anouar Brahem- Astrakan Cafe (excellent!)
Richard H. Kirk- The Number of Magic
Stars of the Lid- Per Aspera Ad Astra
The Walkmen- Bows & Arrows
Basement Jaxx- Kish Kash (remarkable how so many beats, snyths, and basslines sound similar to Speakerboxxx/The Love Below dance tunes)
Explosions in the Sky- Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Die
Electrelane- Power Out (like a Zen'd out early Stereolab)
Prefuse 73- Vocal Studies & Uprock Narratives (excellent, of course)
Heather Duby- Come Across The River (local folky Cat Power meets Kristin Hersh meets Tori Amos stuff)
Stereolab- Margerine Eclipse (my fav band so it must be great Wink)
Del Tha Funkee Homosapien- Best of the Elektra Years (John on KEXP's morning show is right- you can't get "Mistadobalina" out of your head)
Mo' Horizons- New Bohemian Freedom
Telefon Tel Aviv- Map of What Is Effortless

(weird- my original post disappeared so I had to re-post)
Posted on: 21 February 2004 by JeremyB
Took advantage of President's day to visit the record shop:

Vinyl:
Wishbone Ash Front Page News
Solomon Burke Don't Give Up on Me
The Olivia Tremor Control Presents: Singles and beyond
Electrelane The Power Out (Ludwig, isn't this good?)

CD:
Tony Rice The Bluegrass Guitar Collection
Aerosmith Aerosmith
Oneida Secret Wars
Alien Ant Farm Anthology
Porcupine Tree The Sky Moves Sideways
Flaco Jimenez Squeeze Box King
Bill Evans You Must Believe in Spring
Lasse Lindh you wake up at sea tac
Lori Carson Stolen Beauty
The Ebonys The Ebonys


isn't life wonderful?

Jeremy
Posted on: 21 February 2004 by Mekon
On vinyl

The Beat: Wha'ppen
The Beat: Special Beat Service
Posted on: 21 February 2004 by BigH47
On vinyl:-
Touch Me - The Enid