Recent CD Purchases

laughingcrow · Post by **laughingcrow** » Sun Mar 28, 2004 6:45 pm

Tom Waits...Alice
Fairport Convention...30th anniversary of Cropredy boxset
Talking Heads...Stop Making Sense reissue
The Smiths...The Queen Is Dead (finally bought this again after giving it away as a lovelorn undergraduate!)

bambooneedle · Post by **bambooneedle** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 7:56 am

The Very Best Of The Meters. An excellent package (just one cd though) with very good explanatory liner notes and pictures. Issued by Rhino. And they sound fantastic, each of them are first rate players... love those 70's sounds.

crash8_durham · Post by **crash8_durham** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 8:02 am

Echo and the Bunnymen boxset

Poppet · Post by **Poppet** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 9:53 am

oooh, do tell Crash8 - how is it???

i picked up Goodbye Cruel World this weekend.

Elvis is right. It's pretty sucky. Lovely songs buried under tons and tons and tons of crap.

Mr. Average · Post by **Mr. Average** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 9:53 am

Tom Waits: Mule Variations
David Bryne: Grown Backwards

Post by **BlueChair** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 7:50 am

Poppet wrote: i picked up Goodbye Cruel World this weekend.

Elvis is right. It's pretty sucky. Lovely songs buried under tons and tons and tons of crap.

The reissue comes out in like a month or two (hopefully)... couldn't you wait?

pip_52 · Post by **pip_52** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 9:05 am

The Kinks: The Ultimate Collection

selfmademug · Post by **selfmademug** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 10:41 am

Kewl Pip!

And I still listen to GCW start to finish. Just not as often as most of the others. It's a good record.

Poppet · Post by **Poppet** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 11:15 am

blue, i could NOT wait! i'd NEVER heard it. it was only $9, and the guy at the counter liked my choice. i like to impress the record store help, i do it so rarely.

and, i can sell it and recoup a couple bucks. it's all good.

well, except for the cd itself. (bwa haha ha ha ha!)

so lacklustre · Post by **so lacklustre** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 3:23 pm

Got the Bob Dylan Live 1964 latest in the bootleg series.

Any brits without any of the EC reissues should check out MVC as several of them were going for £8 in my local store AND they were 'buy one get one half price'.

senior_service · Post by **senior_service** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 4:49 pm

Nick Lowe - The Convincer
Bob Marley & the Wailers - African Herbsman
Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits ......this is the Peter Green incarnation of Fleetwood Mac, not the crap version

HungupStrungup · Post by **HungupStrungup** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 5:21 pm

senior_service wrote:Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits ......this is the Peter Green incarnation of Fleetwood Mac, not the crap version

Ahhhhh, "Black Magic Woman," "The Green Manalishi" etc. That was a worthy band!

s_s, is your African Herbsman the edition with all the bonus tracks, the "versions" by the Upsetters and Big Youth? I have a vinyl copy of the original album, and I've sometimes wondered if the CD was worth getting for the "bonus tracks" and improved sound. Is it actually improved?

senior_service · Post by **senior_service** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 6:25 pm

It is the edition with the bonus tracks, etc. I've only listened to it once. The versions are good, but I'm not sure they warrant the purchase if you're happy with your vinyl version. I too have it on vinyl, but I haven't listened to it in many years. Not sure how "improved" the sound is.

The Fleetwood Mac album is great. Hadn't heard much of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, but it has been recommended to me so many times that I thought I should give it a try. Well worth it!

crash8_durham · Post by **crash8_durham** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 6:28 pm

popet wrote:

[/quote]oooh, do tell Crash8 - how is it???

It was pretty much like it was in the 80's. I like them. Especially Sugar Kisses. Bring on the dancing horses is great too.

crash8_durham · Post by **crash8_durham** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 6:29 pm

By the way this quote button does not work like in other forums. I don't get it.

HungupStrungup · Post by **HungupStrungup** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 7:50 pm

crash8_durham wrote:By the way this quote button does not work like in other forums. I don't get it.

You have to start typing after all the brackets and leave them (the brackets:

Poppet wrote:

) untouched. You can edit the text between them, but what's inside each of the bracket sets ("[]") has to be left alone.

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 4:09 pm

senior_service, how do you like The Convincer?

I was finally able to locate a copy of Nick Lowe and His Cowboy Outfit!!!!! and I didn't have to sell my first born to get it. (still taking offers on him).

Post by **BlueChair** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 8:28 pm

I don't care what anybody around here says about Eric Clapton. He's a fine musician, especially when it comes to playing the blues. Sure, he's released a lot of cheese over the years, but he's also released some quality material. Particularly when he was known as "God."

For that reason, I picked up his new album Me and Mr. Johnson, which is entirely made up of Robert Johnson covers.

Gillibeanz · Post by **Gillibeanz** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 2:55 pm

Travis - '12 Memories'

Really laid back album to chill out to............

goodbyegirl · Post by **goodbyegirl** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 10:23 pm

Picked up
Alicia Keys- The Diary of Alicia Keys Can't believe how good this is! I'm not much of a hip-hop listener, but you don't have to be to appreciate this cd. The piano playing is amazing. It just brings in a whole new element to the music.

Air- Talkie Walkie Still trying to figure out what all the hype is about. I will give it a few more listens though because some music takes a few plays to really sink in.

pip_52 · Post by **pip_52** » Fri Apr 02, 2004 9:50 pm

Picked up The Velvet Underground and Nico, The VU's White Light/White Heat and The Byrds Untitled all on vinyl today . . .

HungupStrungup · Post by **HungupStrungup** » Sat Apr 03, 2004 8:38 am

These are brand new purchases and not even liberated from their shrink wrap yet:

Witness, Under a Sun
GP, Your Country
The Undertones, Listening In: Radio Sessions 1978-82

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Sat Apr 03, 2004 8:56 am

recently freed from the shrinkwrap--and could they PLEASE find a new way to wrap these things up????

GP, Your Country. wonderful.
Rockpile, Seconds of Pleasure--I had forgotten how much fun this record is. early onset Alzheimer's.
The Band, Music from Big Pink. I think I've heard most of this at one time or another, but never all together. Time warp.
The Pogues, If I Should Fall....--my first Pogues record. I played it nonstop in the car for 3 days. The cover confused me.

Post by **BlueChair** » Thu Apr 08, 2004 11:15 am

I had my last class today (still got exams, but...) so I decided to reward myself with:

Tom Waits - Frank's Wild Years
Josh Rouse - 1972

Poppet · Post by **Poppet** » Thu Apr 08, 2004 12:58 pm

MOOD - does the rockpile album title have anything to do w/ EC? 'Seconds of Pleasure' is a mighty familiar phrase.....

BC - WHOO HOO!!!!!!! congrats on completing coursework!!!!!

and, best wishes for the exams.