Recent CD Purchases

[bambooneedle]

Not to be a pain, but how did you determine that? I wasn't going by any logic other than just by reading it aloud and how it sounded to me. I guess you did the same, just a bit differently? Or somehow else?

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Really fresh, bouyant energy about this band. They fused punk sounds really well with new wave and rock and were quite imaginative with it. Remastered with bonus tracks, sounds great.

[so lacklustre]

Pretentious post-punk at it's worst imo.

[bambooneedle]

imo

Doesn't count. Just some lazy self-absorbed brain fart as far as anyone can see, not like you even know what you're talking about.

[so lacklustre]

At least I have a brain to fart with. I actually went to the same school as Billy Idol, not at the same time. Not that that means that my opinion is any more relevant. But it was a genuine opinion.

[Otis Westinghouse]

Now, now.

Not to be a pain, but how did you determine that? I wasn't going by any logic other than just by reading it aloud and how it sounded to me. I guess you did the same, just a bit differently? Or somehow else?

Seemed pretty obvious from the syntax, despite, as I said, the odd use of the expression. I had to read it a couple of times in relation to your comment to see where you were getting the ambiguity from. That was the hard part!

[bambooneedle]

Things might be more obvious to me next time hopefully. No big deal.

it was a genuine opinion.

Everyone's got a genuine opinion, but it's boring just to read your opinion if you don't give at least some small clue as to how do you arrive at it, is all i'm saying.

[pophead2k]

Old 97's- Blame it on Gravity. (Once a poor man's Whiskeytown, this band has really turned into something special. The first single, 'Dance With Me' is excellent).

Replacements - Let it Be. (Rhino reissues of the band's first four albums. Bonus tracks are great and worth it for the sorely needed remastering alone).

The Band- Music from Big Pink. (Never been the biggest fan, but this is one of those albums that needs to be in the collection. I'm looking forward to exploring it again).

[Otis Westinghouse]

Planning how to spend my £50 fantasy football winnings when the organiser deigns to forward it. I'm normally '£12 dad', not '£50 dad' (a consumer profile term here used to indicate people of my generation who go into a place like Fopp and are happy to spend £50 unplanned cash). So I'll enjoy a change of role for a day. New Martha Wainwright has to be on the list, and maybe a couple of £5 backlist items in Fopp, but not sure what else yet. It's like Christmas!

[BlueChair]

Picked up Air's Walkie Talkie, Gene Clark's No Other and Suzanne Vega's Beauty & Crime yesterday. Al Green's new one, Lay It Down, also arrived in the mail.

[BlueChair]

Just picked up the following at Amoeba Records in Hollywood:

- Leonard Cohen, Songs From A Room (remastered)
- Neko Case & Her Boyfriends - Furnace Room Lullaby
- Josh Rouse - Under The Cold Blue Stars
- The Who - Who Sings My Generation (Deluxe Edition)
- Al Green - Gets Next To You

Wheeeee!!!

I probably had twice that number in my basket before narrowing it down. I love that record store.

[Jackson Monk]

Best debut album I've heard in years.....

[so lacklustre]

Write up here: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter ... 51873.html

[blooch]

my purchases in the last month.

Momofuku
22 dreams- Paul Weller
Faithful- Alan Tyler
The Collection- Steve Earle
Wishstar- Aeroplane(a band from NORWICH UK)
The Singles Collection- The Bluebells
Up Front & Down Low- Teddy Thompson
The Platinum Collection- Mari Wilson
Going To California-The arlenes

I bought all these at bargain prices ranging from 98p to £6.99
Some might say i was still robbed but i like them all.


Whats so funny about Peace, love & Understanding?

[Otis Westinghouse]

Best debut album I've heard in years.....

Quite so. Another fan! I was playing it again this evening. Much of it makes the hair stand up. It's just an incredible mixture of elements in there. Gospel, Beach Boys, folk, sunny 60s pop. And the voices!

[Jackson Monk]

Just picked this up for the first time. Looking forward to seeing if it is the classic I've been told it is.

Beautifully packaged whatever.

One of those things Otis says is that downloads are ok, but they just don't come with the beauty of the whole package (I'm paraphrasing) - so true when you get this kind of re-issue.

[Otis Westinghouse]

Happy to be quoted that way. A colleague REALLY pissed me off recently by trying to make out I was sooo passé by wanting to go out and buy some CDs when a) you buy almost as much for downloads if you're buying them given the prices you can get in Fopp, HMV or online, b) downloads aren't the same file quality by a long chalk and c) OK it's not 12", but the packaging is part and parcel of the experience. I'm interested to hear that record too, so await your assessment keenly.

[Jackson Monk]

I download quite a lot, but it is usually only to get a taste of a band before I fork out for the CD. I got all the Squeeze reissues recently and they were so well presented that no download could come close. Sometimes its just nice to have the object...something tangible.

Anyway, I'm slowly getting into Pacific Ocean Blue and will reserve judgement for a while. It's certainly not a Beach Boys album and despite the fact that I knew this would be the case, the album title and artist left me expecting something very different to what I'm hearing...if that makes sense

Anyhow, give me a week or two and I'll let you know.

[StrictTime]

Lucinda's West, Liz Phair's Exile In Guyville and my own copy of the O Brother Where Art Thou? soundtrack (finally!). Local used CD store = win.

[so lacklustre]

P.Weller - 22 Dreams
Seth Lakeman - Poor Man's Heaven
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Kate Rusby - Awkward Annie
Dirty Pretty Things - Romance at Short Notice
Ruth Notman - Threads

[Otis Westinghouse]

I await your assessment of Weller, and also to see if you too get the Fleet Foxes bug.

[Mr. Average]

for birthday:

Momofuku - Elvis Costello
A Man Called Trane - John Cltrane
Keep it Simple - Van Morrison REM - Accelerate
Lou Reed - Transformer . Sweet Lou.
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig Lazarus Dig
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid.
Motown Classics Gold (2 CD's) Motown records

[Otis Westinghouse]

Pleased to see the fear that HMV would betray Fopp in purchasing their flagship stores was entirely unfounded. Yesterday's visit revealed more £5 classics than ever, and more £3 bargains worth snagging. I got a Best of Proclaimers and a Dusty complete A and B sides.

Also, Yep Roc delivered Ron Sexsmith's Exit Strategy of the Soul, complete with signed booklet. Ron signs it RSXith (with only the dot for the 'i'). Can't wait.

In addition to yet another exciting Word compilation, the new music stash was also expanded by a Pretenders Best of, Kraftwerk's Tour de France [a bit muzaky, but nice muzaky], and Janacek's ravishing string quartet pieces Kreuzer Sonata and Intimate Letters played by the Talich Quartet.

[Jackson Monk]

looking forward to receiving this. Great reviews.

[ice nine]

Matapedia - Kate & Anna McGarrigle

[pophead2k]

Beck- Modern Guilt (Excellent!)
Ron Sexsmith - Exit Strategy for the Soul (Excellent!!)