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Purchase log, 2020-11-24

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

Dirty Vegas, Dirty Vegas
Dixie Chicks, Wide Open Spaces
Hilary Hahn, Mendelssohn and Shostakovich: Violin Concertos
Hiroshima, Providence
PJ Harvey, Dry
The Sugarcubes, It’s-It

Reissues

Vinyl

Emmylou Harris, Wrecking Ball (clear vinyl)

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Purchase log, 2020-11-17

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

Jónsi, Shiver
Kylie Minogue, DISCO

Catalog

CD

Bill Evans and Jim Hall, Undercurrent
Guided By Voices, Alien Lanes
Killing Joke, Night Time
Sia, 1000 Forms of Fear
The White Stripes, De Stijl

Reissues

CD

John Luther Adams, The Become Trilogy (Seattle Symphony, Ludovic Morlot)

Vinyl

Alice in Chains, Facelift
PJ Harvey, 4-Track Demos
PJ Harvey, Dry

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Purchase log, 2020-11-10

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

Duran Duran featuring Andy Wickett , Dreaming of Your Cars: 1979 Demos, Part 2

Catalog

CD

SUPERCAR, OOKeah!!
SUPERCAR, OOYeah!!

Vinyl

Marshall Crenshaw, Marshall Crenshaw
Rolling Stones, Emotional Rescue
Sheena Easton, Sheena Easton
Stephen Sondheim, Follies In Concert

Reissues

Vinyl

Peter Gabriel, Secret World Live

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Looking ahead, November-December 2020

Onitsuka Chihiro, HYSTERIA, Nov. 25

Syndrome was a return to form for Onitsuka Chihiro, and the pre-release singles seem to indicate she’s retracing those steps.

Sigur Rós, Odin Raven Magic, Dec. 4

It’s not so much a “new” album as a “new-ish” album. This orchestral collaboration premiered in 2002 and finally sees a release 18 years later.

Sturgill Simpson, Cuttin’ Grass, Dec. 11

Simpson returns to his indie roots with a survey of his early works filtered through a bluegrass lens.

Vinyl

Alice in Chains, Facelift, Nov. 13

Nirvana may have ushered in alternative rock in 1991, but Alice in Chains had softened the ground a year before with their major label debut, which turns 30 years old in 2020.

Soundtrack, Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi (Spirited Away), Nov. 20

A big vinyl reissue campaign of Joe Hisaishi scores for Miyazaki Hayao films finally reaches Spirited Away.

Spice Girls, Forever, Jan. 22

I don’t even have this album on CD, but I already have the other albums on vinyl. Might as well be consistent. I’m sure the thrift store will have a CD copy at some point.

Tags: alice in chains, childish gambino, looking ahead, onitsuka chihiro, soundtrack, spice girls, sturgill simpson

Purchase log, 2020-11-03

[Eponymous 4 - Shinkyoku Moratorium Nihongohan]

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

Midnight Oil, The Makarrata Project
Mr. Bungle, The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny Demo
Sam Amidon, Sam Amidon
Sam Smith, Love Goes

Files

Eponymous 4, Shinkyoku Moratorium Nihongohan

Catalog

CD

Chanticleer, Magnificat
Dixie Chicks, Fly
Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 9 (New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein)
Old 97s, Wreck Your Life
PJ Harvey, 4-Track Demos
Propellerheads, Decksandrumsandrockandroll

Vinyl

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Song and Dance: The Songs (Bernadette Peters)
Roger Daltrey, Under a Raging Moon
Whitney Houston, Whitney Houston

Reissues

CD

U2, All That You Can’t Leave Behind (Deluxe Edition)

Vinyl

Soundtrack, The Descendants

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Purchase log picks, October 2020

Ned Doheny, Hard Candy

Tokyo Jihen introduced me to Ned Doheny with a blistering cover of “Give It Up for Love”. Doheny’s original is far mellower but epitomizes his blue-eyed soul. This album wasn’t a success at the time, but the collector’s market all but demanded a reissue.

Soundtrack, Schoolhouse Rock: Grammar Rock

When I was a kid, I dug the Schoolhouse Rock shorts between cartoons because they were catchy. As an adult, I find the Schoolhouse Rock songs rather sophisticated. Strip the didacticism from the songs, and you get pop music every bit as durable as anything in the American songbook.

PJ Harvey, 4-Track Demos

I have a TASCAM four-track recorder from 1991 that still works, but I’ve never really perceived it as a very robust tool. Then I heard this album, and I wonder if I can push it’s capabilities. I’m nowhere near the performer of Polly Jean, though.

Mr. Bungle, The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny Demo

My interest in Mr. Bungle pretty much started and ended with the self-titled debut, although I did own California for a brief time. But I couldn’t pass up hearing the band’s earliest work re-recorded with Slayer’s Dave Lombardo and Anthrax’s Scott Ian.

Propellerheads, Decksandrumsandrockandroll

Propellerheads was one and done, but Decksandrumsandrockandroll was good enough to garner a Mercury Prize nomination. My introduction to the band happened in a gay bar in Chicago.