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Purchase log, 2023-02-21

[Sam Hunt - Montevallo]

I catalog my music purchases on Collectorz and Discogs, but they don’t give me a sense of change over time. So I’m noting them here weekly as well.

Catalog

CD
  • Parliament, Mothership Connection
  • The Damnations, Where It Lands
  • The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, Hipocracy is the Greatest Luxury
Vinyl
  • Sam Hunt, Montevallo

Reissues

CD
  • Marshall Crenshaw, Marshall Crenshaw (Deluxe Edition)

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Purchase log, 2023-02-14

[INXS - Shabooh Shoobah]

I catalog my music purchases on Collectorz and Discogs, but they don’t give me a sense of change over time. So I’m noting them here weekly as well.

New releases

CD
  • Kelela, Raven

Catalog

CD
  • Arthur Honneger, Symphonie No. 1 / Pastorale D’été / Pacific 231 / Rugby / Mouvement Symphonique No. 3 (Charles Dutoit, Bavarian Radio Symphony)
  • Bruce Springsteen, The Promise
  • Okkervil River, Black Sheep Boy Appendix
  • Q-Tip, The Renaissance
  • Queens of the Stone Age, … Like Clockwork
Vinyl
  • INXS, Shabooh Shoobah
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers, Mother’s Milk

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Purchase log, 2023-01-31

[Empty Ensemble - Black Transits]

I catalog my music purchases on Collectorz and Discogs, but they don’t give me a sense of change over time. So I’m noting them here weekly as well.

New releases

Files
  • Empty Ensemble, “Black Transits”

Catalog

CD
  • Antonín Dvorák, Slavonic Dances, Op. 46 and 72, Complete (Minnesota Orchestra, Antal Dorati)
  • Bettye LaVette, Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook
  • Beyoncé, 4
  • David Bowie, Changesbowie
  • Dmitri Shostakovich, String Quartets Nos. 4 and 8 (Borodin String Quartet)
  • Orchestral Maneouvres in the Dark, Sugar Tax
  • Poi Dog Pondering, Poi Dog Pondering
  • Poi Dog Pondering, Wishing Like a Mountain and Thinking Like the Sea
  • The Jesus and Mary Chain, Psychocandy

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Purchase log, 2023-01-24

[Miami Sound Machine - Primitive Love]

I catalog my music purchases on Collectorz and Discogs, but they don’t give me a sense of change over time. So I’m noting them here weekly as well.

Catalog

CD
  • Arnold Schoenberg, The Complete String Quartets (New Vienna String Quartet)
  • Charles Ives, Symphonies No. 1 & 4 / Central Park in the Dark (Andrew Litton, Dallas Symphony Orchestra)
  • Daryl Hall and John Oates, Private Eyes
  • George Carlin, What Am I Doing in New Jersey?
  • Kim Kashkashian, Asturiana: Songs of Spain and Argentina
  • Kylie Minogue, Impossible Princess
  • Lou Harrison, Works for Piano (Keith Jarrett)
  • Max Richter, The Blue Notebooks
  • Robert Pollard, From a Compound Eye
  • Robyn, Honey
  • Samuel Barber, Vanessa
  • The Fixx, Greatest Hits: One Step Leads to Another
  • Vince Gill, When Love Finds You
  • Virgil Thomson, Four Songs to Poems of Thomas Campion / Violin Sonata / Praises And Prayers
Vinyl
  • Aphex Twin. Syro
  • Jayne Cortez, Unsubmissive Blues
  • Miami Sound Machine, Primitive Love

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Purchase log, 2023-01-17

[Shiina Ringo - Hyakuyaku no Cho]

I catalog my music purchases on Collectorz and Discogs, but they don’t give me a sense of change over time. So I’m noting them here weekly as well.

New releases

CD
  • Shiina Ringo, Hyakuyaku no Cho

Catalog

CD
  • Clara Schumann, Piano and Chamber Works
  • Dmitri Shostakovich, Piano Quintet in G / Piano Trio No. 2 (Beaux Arts Trio)
  • Portishead, Dummy
  • Randy Travis, Always & Forever
  • Sinéad O’Connor, Collaborations
  • The Rolling Stones, Flowers
  • The Rolling Stones, Goats Head Soup

Reissues

Vinyl
  • Information Society, Peace and Love Inc.

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Purchase log, 2023-01-10

[The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots]

I catalog my music purchases on Collectorz and Discogs, but they don’t give me a sense of change over time. So I’m noting them here weekly as well.

Catalog

CD
  • easy life, MAYBE IN ANOTHER LIFE …
  • Randy Travis, High Lonesome
  • Rodney Crowell, Life Is Messy
  • The Flaming Lips, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (Deluxe Edition)
  • Tori Amos, Little Earthquakes
  • Turin Brakes, The Optimist LP
  • Vince Gill, I Still Believe in You

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Purchase log, 2023-01-03

[Randy Travis - No Holdin' Back]

I catalog my music purchases on Collectorz and Discogs, but they don’t give me a sense of change over time. So I’m noting them here weekly as well.

New Releases

Vinyl
  • Royal Wood, What Tomorrow Brings

Catalog

CD
  • David Mead, Indiana
  • Garth Brooks, No Fences
  • Randy Travis, No Holdin’ Back
  • Tanita Tikaram, Ancient Heart
  • Vince Gill, High Lonesome Road

Vinyl

  • M.I.A., Maya

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Purchase log picks, fourth quarter 2022

[Taylor Swift - Midnights]

Hilary Hahn, Eclipse

Jesus, that Ginastera concerto is a monster!

Taylor Swift, Midnights

I don’t know if Taylor Swift has a Dirty Computer or Karuki Zaamen Kuri no Hana in her, but it feels like she’s tip-toeing in that direction. I doubt she’d ever go fully weird because her branding is too big to fail.

Judy Tenuta, Buy This, Pigs!

I’ve known about Judy Tenuta since high school, but my media consumption somehow managed never to cross paths with her stand-up. YouTube has since rectified that, and upon hearing the news of her passing, I felt compelled to seek out her comedy debut album, which has so far never been reissued on CD or fully digitized on a streaming platform.

Huey Lewis and the News, Picture This

Sports is the 800-pound gorilla in the Huey Lewis and the News oeuvre, but Picture This is no slouch either. I rather thank it’s been unfairly overshadowed by its immediate descendant.

Hajime Chitose, Shima Kyora Umui

It’s taken me 20 years to purchase an actual physical copy of this album. Hajime’s major label career has mostly ignored these earlier youthful recordings, but they’re super informative on her singing style, let alone how well she adapted it to a pop setting.

Royal Wood, What Tomorrow Brings

Wood calls this album the first he’s didn’t abandon, paraphrasing the quote: “Art is never finished, only abandoned.” It definitely shows. He makes some slight but adventurous tweaks to his sound, incorporating more synths and drum machines without losing his folk crooner vibe.

Miami Sound Machine, Primitive Love

The singles from this album were ubiquitous at the time, which dissuaded both my brother and me from staking claim on it. Enough time has passed to reveal those singles to be incredibly durable and fitting well with the album on the whole.

The Dismemberment Plan, Emergency & I

You kinda need to have this album if you remotely like Changes.

These fourth quarter picks can be found in the Favorite Edition 2022 Year Final:

  • Charlie Puth, CHARLIE
  • Robin Holcomb, One Way or Another, Vol. 1

And one more pick can be found in the Favorite Edition Catalog 2022:

  • Club Nisei, Japanese Music of Hawaii

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