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Purchase log, 2021-05-11

[Yo Majesty - Return of the Martriach]

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
  • Princess Goes to the Butterfly Museum, Thanks for Coming
Files
  • Death Cab for Cutie, Live at the Showbox
  • Yo Majesty, The Return of the Matriarch
Vinyl
  • Sturgill Simpson, Cuttin’ Grass, Vol. 2: The Cowboy Shoppe Sessions

Catalog

CD
  • Anne-Sophie Mutter, Berg: Violin Concerto / Rihm: Time Chant (Chicago Symphony, James Levine)
  • Aram Khachaturian, Masquerade Suite / Violin Concerto / Gayaneh Suite (Philharmonia Orchestra, Khachaturian)
  • Arthur Honneger, Symphonies 2 and 3 (Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan)
  • Béla Bartók, Violin Concerto No. 2 / Viola Concerto (Pinchas Zukerman, St. Louis Symphony, Leonard Slatkin)
  • Boogie Down Productions, Edutainment
  • Carlo Gesualdo, Il Quarto Libro di Madrigali, 1596 (La Venexiana)
  • Claudio Monteverdi, Il Combattimento di Trancerdi e Clorinda (Les Artes Florissants)
  • Don Byron, Music for Six Musicians
  • Emerson String Quartet, Meyer: Quintet / Rorem: String Quartet No. 4
  • Four Tet, Rounds
  • Frank Turner, England Keep My Bones
  • Franz Schubert, The Late Quartets and Quintet (Emerson String Quartet, Mstislav Rostropovich)
  • Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 4 (Concertgebouw Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein)
  • Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 5 (Berlin Philharmonic, Claudio Abbado)
  • Itzhak Perlman / Pinchas Zukerman, Bartók: 44 Duos / Shostakovich: Three Violin Duets / Prokofiev: Sonata for Two Violins
  • John Corigliano, Violin Sonata / Etude Fantasy / Fantasia on an Ostinato / Chiaroscuro
  • Johnny Cash, American V: Hundred Highways
  • Josquin des Pres, Motets et Chansons (Hilliard Ensemble)
  • Kansas, Point of Know Return
  • Run-D.M.C., Run-D.M.C.
  • Sergei Prokofiev, Symphonies Nos. 1 and 5 (Chicago Symphony, James Levine)
  • Sergei Prokofiev, Violin Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 / Sonata for Solo Violin (Gil Shaham, London Symphony Orchestra, Andre Previn)
  • Thomas Tallis, Spem in Alium (Hilliard Ensemble)
  • William Bolcom, Violin Concerto / Fantasia Concertante / Fifth Symphony (American Composers Symphony, Dennis Russel Davies)
Vinyl
  • Jack Wagner, All I Need
  • Last Exit, The Noise of Trouble: Live in Tokyo
File upgrades

These albums were purchased as MP3 downloads and upgraded to FLAC.

  • Sacha Sacket, “Aim”
  • Sacha Sacket, “It’s Time”
  • Sacha Sacket, “Just Like Cream”
  • Sacha Sacket, “Low Blow”
  • Sacha Sacket, “Song for Jamey”
  • Sacha Sacket, Viscera

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Purchase log, 2021-03-23

[Nas - God's Son]

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
  • 50 Cent, Get Rich or Die Tryin’
  • Anton Bruckner, Messe in mi mineur / Motets
  • Blur, 13
  • Iggy Azalea, The New Classic
  • Meredith Monk, Atlas
  • Nas, God’s Son
  • Nick Lachey, SoulO
  • Patton Oswalt, Finest Hour
  • Run D.M.C., King of Rock
  • Stephen Sondheim, Pacific Overtures (Original Cast Recording)
  • Sugar, Beaster
  • Soundtrack, Death Note, Vol. 2

Reissues

Boxed Set
  • Gang of Four, 77-81
Vinyl
  • TOUMING MAGAZINE, Our Soul Music (我們的靈魂樂)

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Purchase log, 2020-02-11

[Various Artists - Studio One Rockers]

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
  • Dub Specialist, Studio One Dub
  • Huey Lewis and the News, Fore!
  • Robyn, Body Talk, Pt. 1
  • Roger Sessions / John Harbison, Sessions: Symphony No. 2 / Harbison: Symphony No. 2, Oboe Concerto (San Francisco Symphony, Herbert Blomstedt)
  • Sun Ra, Space is the Place
  • Soundtrack, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
  • Various Artists, Studio One Rockers
  • Various Artists, Studio One Soul
Vinyl
  • KC and the Sunshine Band, Part 3
  • Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway, Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway
  • Run-D.M.C., Run-D.M.C.
  • Starship, Knee Deep in the Hoopla

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Purchase log, 2019-12-03

[U2 - U2-3]

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
  • MONO, Before the Past
Vinyl
  • Midnight Oil, Breathe Tour ’97

Catalog

CD
  • Patsy Cline, The Patsy Cline Collection
Vinyl
  • Gram Parsons, GP
  • Run-D.M.C., King of Rock
  • The Dukes of the Stratosphear, 25 O’Clock
  • The Housemartins, London 0 Hull 4
  • Wendy Carlos, Beauty in the Beast

Reissues

Vinyl
  • CHAI, Wagamamania
  • U2, U2-3
  • Soundtrack, Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas

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Purchase log, 2019-08-20

[Sleater-Kinney - The Center Won't Hold]

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
  • Sleater-Kinney, The Center Won’t Hold

Catalog

CD
  • Andrew Lloyd Webber, Jesus Christ Superstar (Original Broadway Cast)
  • Bill Frisell, Good Dog, Happy Man
  • Branford Marsalis Quartet, Requiem
  • Bruce Springsteen, The Wild, The Innocent and the E Street Shuffle
  • CHVRCHES, The Bones of What You Believe
  • Devo, Greatest Hits
  • Don Byron, Bug Music
  • Information Society, Peace and Love, Inc.
  • LFO, LFO
  • Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam, Spanish Fly
  • Los Amigos Invisibles, Arepa 3000: A Venezuelan Journey into Space
  • Mr. Lif, I Phantom
  • Queen, A Night at the Opera
  • Wye Oak, Civilian
Vinyl
  • Béla Bartók, Mikrokosmos, Vol. 6 / Out of Doors / Sonatina (Stephen Bishop-Kovacevich)
  • Fugazi, End Hits
  • George Crumb, Makrokosmos, Vol. II (Robert Miller)
  • George Crumb, Music for a Summer Evening (Makrokosmos III)
  • Grizzly Bear, Shields
  • My Bloody Valentine, Isn’t Anything
  • Nico Muhly and Teitur, Confessions
  • Re-Flex, The Politics of Dancing
  • Run DMC, Raising Hell
  • Ryan Stout, Touché
  • Sting, 57th and Ninth
  • The Beach Boys, Pet Sounds

Reissues

Vinyl
  • Explosions in the Sky, How Strange Innocence
  • Explosions in the Sky, The Rescue
  • NUMBER GIRL, NUM-HEAVYMETALLIC
  • NUMBER GIRL, SAPPUKEI
  • NUMBER GIRL, SCHOOL GIRL DISTORTIONAL ADDICT

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Favorite Edition Rewind: 1986

[Nakamori Akina - Fushigi]

A decade ago, I wrote a series of entries ranking my favorite albums from 1985 to 2004. My collection has expanded greatly since then, particularly in the last five years. So I wanted to see what has changed in 10 years.

In 2008, my collection tapered off with releases before 1987. I went so far as to call 1986 an uninteresting year. I’ve since had time to explore the year in greater depth.

  1. The Art of Noise, In Visible Silence
  2. Janet Jackson, Control
  3. Soundtrack, Megazone 23 Song Collection
  4. Paul Simon, Graceland
  5. XTC, Skylarking
  6. The Smiths, The Queen is Dead
  7. Prince & the Revolution, Parade
  8. Nakamori Akina, Fushigi
  9. Duran Duran, Notorious
  10. Club Nouveau, Life, Love and Pain

Other favorites from the year:

  • Anita Baker, Rapture
  • Bananarama, True Confessions
  • Fishbone, In Your Face
  • Run DMC, Raising Hell
  • Peter Gabriel, So
  • John Adams, Harmonielehre
  • Enya, Enya
  • Dwight Yoakam, Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc. Etc.
  • R.E.M., Lifes Rich Pageant
  • Pet Shop Boys, Please
  • Kronos Quartet, Music of Sculthorpe, Sallinen, Glass, Nancarrow, Hendrix
  • The Human League, Crash

If you told Younger Me that Older Me would like So and Raising Hell, Younger Me would wretch. At the time, Run DMC and Peter Gabriel were so ubiquitous, I felt I would never need to hear “Walk This Way” or “Sledgehamer” for the rest of my life.

One advantage of growing older is no longer caring about looking at all fashionable.

Younger Me would have been puzzled by the inclusion of Dwight Yoakam on the extended list, to which Older Me would have to tell Younger Me to wait 9 years.

Younger Me: Oh, I was wondering whether I should get that Human League album. Is it really that good?
Older Me: Yeah, but I don’t think you’d quite appreciate it at your station in life. Wait a few years.
Younger Me: Really? How many?
Older Me: 30.

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