![[Clannad - In a Lifetime]](https://musicwhore.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/ClannadInaLifetime2020231994_f-300x272.jpg)
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.
Tags: clannad, purchase log
![[Andy Gibb - Shadow Dancing]](https://musicwhore.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/AndyGibbShadowDancing19232962_f-300x300.jpg)
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.
Tags: andy gibb, bauhaus, caifanes, camouflage, camper van beethoven, clannad, henry kaiser, hercules and love affair, jay som, meat puppets, melveen leed, mindy smith, post malone, purchase log, shakira, spice girls, talking heads, the b-52's, the damned, the dismemberment plan
![[The National - Boxer]](https://musicwhore.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/TheNationalBoxer2007196415_f-300x300.jpg)
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.
Tags: bill frisell, bjork, herbie hancock, julieta venegas, michael kiwanuka, purchase log, soundtrack, taylor swift, teresa stratas, the national, xtc
![[Sam Sparro - Boombox Eternal]](https://musicwhore.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/SamSparroBoomboxEternal-300x300.jpg)
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.
Tags: ciccone youth, dj krush, eluvium, gabby pahinui, kendrick lamar, purchase log, sam sparro, soundtrack, the roots
![[Robyn - Body Talk, Pt. 1]](https://musicwhore.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/RobynBodyTalkPt12010231348_f-300x300.jpg)
The Studio One compilations planted a notion that maybe I didn’t hate reggae music after all. My coworkers at Waterloo Records would play these compilations, and I would find myself liking what I heard. Dawn Penn’s “No No No” left a particular impression, but many years would pass before I learned the song’s title. The only reggae music I heard growing up was sifted through a Hawaiian music filter, and I didn’t like it.
OK, fellow gays, I understand why you all love Robyn now.
I stocked so many copies of this album during my Waterloo shifts, I got sick of it, having never heard a single note. If it’s that popular, it had to suck, right? Maybe in my more judgmental days …
Another 2019 release up to which I am catching.
It’s not satire. Fight me. (It’s totally satire.)
Tags: picks, purchase log, robyn, soundtrack, the faint, tyler the creator, various artists
![[John Coltrane - Giant Steps]](https://musicwhore.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/JohnColtraneGiantSteps1231997869Z_f-300x300.jpg)
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.
Tags: jean sibelius, john coltrane, philip glass, purchase log, tyler the creator, various artists
![[Kronos Quartet - Short Stories]](https://musicwhore.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KronosQuartetShortStories12898_f-300x300.jpg)
Kronos Quartet
Short Stories
March 9, 1993
March 9, 1993
I was living in New York City at the time this album was released. That season, Kronos performed twice at Alice Tully Hall. Most of the pieces on those programs would eventually make their way to the Night Prayers album. So I was a bit disappointed they didn’t end up on Short Stories.
I sat a few seats away from Osvaldo Golijov at one of those concerts. He stood up when Kronos acknowledged him after starting the concert with a premiere of his work. I congratulated him as he passed me on the way out to intermission.
I had adjusted to life in New York City. I had a rough bout of homesickness the preceding autumn, which I found disappointing because I had waited what felt like an eternity to escape Hawaii.
But I wasn’t totally at ease. I still was in denial about being gay, and I hadn’t learned how to be comfortable with solitude. I did lay the groundwork for what would eventually pivot me away from music and into journalism by writing for the campus newspaper. I had also started to enjoy reading fiction, which was handy because that winter was actually rough.
I bought the album on release day, so same answer as above. I’m pretty sure I took a crosstown bus from Hunter College to the Tower Records at Lincoln Center, which had an entire floor dedicated to classical music.
I do not like Short Stories.
Up to that point, Kronos crafted their albums well, threading diverse pieces into a thematic whole. Short Stories felt like a compilation with uninteresting B-sides.
Perhaps the lack of a thread was the point of the album. I just remember feeling impatience with a number of longer pieces on the album.
If I were to rank Kronos’ Nonesuch albums, Short Stories would anchor it.
Tags: four questions, kronos quartet
![[Freedy Johnston - This Perfect World]](https://musicwhore.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/FreedyJohnstonThisPerfect231322_f-300x296.jpg)
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.
Tags: andrew norman, babymetal, bronski beat, eluvium, freedy johnston, gossip, guns n' roses, mc solaar, philip glass, purchase log, roberta flack, solange, the alarm, the album leaf, the faint
![[Tokyo Jihen - News]](https://musicwhore.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/TokyoJihenNews-300x300.jpg)
I usually wait until concrete release dates are announced before listing an album in these previews, but in the last few days, a number of artists have made announcements worth noting.
I didn’t think I would miss Tokyo Jihen, but I realized I did when their reunion was announced.
I like Gaytheist, but I don’t follow them as closely as I do other bands. So it’s an automated announcement from Bandcamp that informed me of this release.
Roberta Flack’s debut album turns 50. “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” was No. 1 on the week I was born.
When was the last time Rufus Wainwright did a rock album? Right around the time I moved to Seattle in 2012.
I enjoyed The Thrill of It All more than In the Lonely Hour, so I’m hoping this next album continues that trajectory.
The Nashville Sound was good, but it didn’t monopolize my attention the way Southeastern or Something More than Free did. So my anticipation for this album is a bit on the cool side.
I think I’m more excited over another tour than I am about the new album and EP. At the same time, things are so fucked up that Midnight Oil is the right band for these times.
Aside from the title, details are scant about the next Janet album, but she’s already announced a tour.
Tags: gaytheist, janet jackson, jason isbell, looking ahead, midnight oil, roberta flack, rufus wainwright, sam smith, tokyo jihen
![[Various Artists - Studio One Rockers]](https://musicwhore.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/VariousArtistsStudioOneR231434VDXD_f-300x300.jpg)
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.
Tags: donny hathaway, dub specialist, huey lewis, john harbison, kc and the sunshine band, purchase log, roberta flack, robyn, roger sessions, run dmc, soundtrack, starship, sun ra, various artists