what was the last cd you bought?

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hopefully for the next record they'll forget the songs completely and go for sonic chaos. I get the feeling they're itching to.

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A lot of my favourite music has always captured that balance between noise and structure - Husker Du, Sonic Youth, MBV, YLT, The Velvets at their best - I think Wilco are moving into this territory, a bit like Lambchop 'cept they keep the noise as a niggling undercurrent.I think this record, like O'Rourke's solo records, works well as a exploration of the relationship between melody and raw sound. And I love Tweedy's new guitar style, really raw and disonant.

Kevin

I know what you mean about the noise/structure thing, I like that too. I just think Wilco need to make a bigger leap. I have the feeling they might end up making a really interesting record if they do, they always seem to be on the verge of discovering something really good but never quite make it, IMO.

-- Ian

From the Sonic Boom coffers:

Galaxie 500 - Today (mmm slowcore)
Galaxie 500 - This Is Our Music (mmm slowcore)
Guided By Voices - The Best of... Human Amusement at Hourly Rates (mmm indie for fair weather GBV fans like me)
Amon Tobin - Bricolage (tbd; so far it's a "so what" record)

[EDIT: Ian I just saw your American Analog Set link and I'm sampling bits now.]

From the Virgin £2 bin:-
Kings of Jazz Guitar - Charlie Christian Django Reinhardt Freddie Green etc.

Howard

Mellow - Perfect Colors

(Excellent French group a bit like Air)

This weeks purchases

Charlie Watt Tentet - Watts at Scotts
Charlie Mingus - AhUm
Charlie Mingus - Mingus, Mingus etc
Charlie Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
Neil Young - This Note's for You
Neil Young - Year of the Horse
Crosby Nash - Crosby Nash (Highly recommended)
Crosby Stills Nash - CSN
Joni Mitchell - The Complete Geffen Recordings
Bob Dylan - Street Legal
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks

cheers

Ludders

Oooh, This is Our Music. That's a fantastic record. I will dig that out for a play tonight.
I'd be interested in how Today compares?
Simon
PS AG - you have PT (unrelated topic)

Faded Seaside Glamour, the Delays; bhazen gets modern (again). Great pop album by this English quartet, reminscent of the Sundays and Cocteau Twins. Atmospheric guitars and vocals; a sleeper. A break from buying Jethro Tull remasters or whatever...

Fritz von Livinginthepastoratleastthesixties

Simon,

I haven't done that comparison but I might soon. I'm very tired after reading Mensa Mick's posts so it will have to wait until tomorrow at the earliest.

Anthony Braxton: For Alto: the Penguin guide to jazz on cd thinks this is one of the most important American recordings: it is certainly an uncompromising but also exhilirating record of solo saxophone pushing the limits of the instrument and of jazz.

Miles Davis: Pangaea: 70's Miles at hismost uncompromising. Two 40 minute tracks of electric jazz improvisation that bear no relation at all to Kind of Blue.

Bill Frisell: Quartet. A really good Frisell record: Guitar, violin, trumpet, trombone. From modern ambient downtown improv.(now there's a pretentious sub-genre!) to a twisted take on trad.

And the more I read of The Penguin Guide the more I like it.I've always like the way Cook and Morton write. This is informative and authoritative and written in a way that makes we want to get hold of the records to hear them.There's a whole bunch of Sun Ra records I now need to hunt down and I realise I've missed some key recordings by all sorts of people - Coltrane, Blythe, Coleman, Ayler, Taylor, EST,even John McLaughlin ..... Should make sure I have very little spare money over the coming months.

A good week!

Kevin

Finn Brothers, Everyone Is Here...wonderful. I've only listened to it twice, but could be the best thing since Neil's Try Whispering This, or maybe even Woodface. Neil's songs just get me in a very emotional way...it's a very dry recording, dessicated even, continuing a trend in the Finn's stuff for the last few years...but oh, those songs, played & sung by those singers...

Jah Wobble, I Could Have Been a Contender. Ace 3 CD compilation on Trojan, with entertaining sleevenotes by the man himself (on good form). I stopped buying Wobble records years ago, for no good reason, must put that right and check out some of his recent stuff.

-- Ian

Ian,

Some of the 30Hz stuff has been quite good, Like Deep Space Network and Molam Dub.

Not too keen myself on the William Blake readings, but there you go.

DS

ITC - Pere Ubu - Datapanik in the Year Zero 1975 - 1977

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Richard Buckner, Since. The cut titled "Ariel Ramirez", currently featured in a VW Touareg commercial, prompted me to buy the cd. It's a nice, earthy, Son Volt-ish kinda roots thing, mostly acoustic with a few rockers mixed in. Great songwriting.

Cheers David, there's a couple of the Molam Dub tracks on the compilation, very good stuff so will definitely check out that album.

-- Ian

Stopped at Birdland Jazz in Sydney on the way home from work - some good listening for the weekend.....

Keith Jarrett - The Out of Towners

Eleni Karaindrou - The Weeping Meadow

Geri Allen/Dave Holland/Jack deJohnette - The Life of a Song

John Coltrane - My Favorite Things

Fred Hersch Trio +2

Bill Frisell - Unspeakable

Jon Balke & The Magnetic North Orchestra - Diverted Travels

Cheers

From E-Bay to fill a couple of holes:-
Peter Gabriel - First album (remastered)
Rush - Hold Your Fire (remastered)

Howard

A wet Sunday so visited the CD shop again for 2nd weekend blitz

Paul Brown - Upfront (don't normally buy smooth jazz but this ain't bad)

The Necks - Sex
The Necks - Aquatic
The Necks - Drive By
The Necks - Hanging Gardens

The Finn Brothers - Everyone is Here

Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde

John Abercrombie - Class Trip

Uri Caine - Live at the Village Vanguard

Fred Hersch Trio - Live at the Village Vanguard

Marilyn Crispell Trio - Storyteller

Marc Copland/Gary Peacock - What it Says

Dave Douglas - Soul on Soul

John Coltrane - Interstellar Space

Peter Knight Quartet - Between Two Moments (first rate aussie jazz from Melbourne)

Kenny Wheeler/John Taylor - Where do we go from here?

Cheers

Bob Marley & the Wailers - Exodus (on remastered CD). Yet another purchase complete after the riders evening - Ta Ernie.

Just love this, have it on LP and an older version of the CD (donated that to my Ma's).

andy c!

The last CDs that I bought (apart from the Mister CD cds) were:

Bitstream - One Third Standard Lux
[an electronic CD by the Conner brothers, not available on vinyl]

Jack Dangers - Forbidden Planet Explored
[The main man of Meat Beat Manifesto's specially created soundtrack to the classic sci-fi film, performed live at I.D.E.A festival in Nantes in June]

DS

OTD - Green Velvet - Land of the Lost

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Bang Bang Machine - Geek Love

From eBay, trying to get hold of this since it featured in Peel's Festive 50 about 12 years ago. And, er, no, it doesn't sound like the future of music (which I thought at the time).

Anthony Braxton: 23 Standards: a limited edition 4 cd set containing great versions of... 23 standards - Coltrane, Brubeck(!!), Davis, and others. One of the best cds I've bought for ages. Wonderful playing, utterly engaging and listenable yet also quite challenging. A interesting alternative to the Jarrett standards trio, really trying to make something new out of familiar material rather than just nostalgic reworkings.

Stevie Wonder:Music of my Mind - purely for Mary Wants to Be A Superwoman.The rest is
ok-ish but no "Talking Book".

Thru the letter box this morning:
Blue Nile - High.
Back to Mine - Faithless.

andy c!

Via E-bay,
Pink Floyd - Meddle (MFSL) replaces rather worn vinyl, sounds great to me.

Howard

Prodigy - Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned Hmmm, bit disappointed with this so far maybe because its not as immediately bangin' as 'The Fat of the Land'.

The Finn Brothers - Everyone is Here Very well written songs on this as you'd expect from the Finns of course!

Roy Orbison - The Platinum Collection The ear worm inside my head has been playing 'You Got It' and 'I Drove All Night' for some reason recently so I thought I'd placate it with this 3CD set.

Steve