Monthly Archives: February 2019

Purchase log picks, February 2019

[James Blake - Assume Form]

Boston, Boston

Sometimes, you just can’t argue with conventional wisdom.

Del tha Funky Homosapien, No Need for Alarm

There’s something about beats made around 1993 that I really dig.

James Blake, Assume Form

The Colour in Anything made me approach Assume Form with caution. It turns out this album is vying for a spot on the year-end Favorite Edition list.

James Tenney, Postal Pieces

It’s amazing how much music can be generated by scores that fit on postcards.

Jeremy Denk, c.1300-c.2000

This survey of Western classical music spanning seven centuries is another album vying for a spot on the year-end Favorite Edition list.

Lou Reed, Transformer

“Satellite of Love” and “Walk on the Wild Side” are obvious choices for why this album should be in my collection, but really, it’s because it has “Perfect Day”, which Duran Duran covered on Thank You.

Phoenix, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

I dismissed Phoenix back in 2009 as that band in the car commercial. Thing is, “Listzomania” is damn catchy, as is the rest of the album.

Sly and the Family Stone, Greatest Hits

Most of this collection consists of tracks from Stand! It also includes “I Wanna Take You Higher”, which Duran Duran also covered on Thank You.

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Purchase log, 2019-02-26

[James Blake - Assume Form]

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
  • James Blake, Assume Form

Catalog

CD
  • Beck, Sea Change
  • Boston, Boston
  • Buffalo Daughter, Captain Vapour Athlete
  • Gidon Kremer, Glass: Violin Concerto / Schnittke: Concerto Grosso No. 5
  • MC 900Ft Jesus, Welcome to My Dream
  • Nitzer Ebb, Belief
  • Phoenix, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
  • Rihanna, Good Girl Gone Bad
  • William S. Burroughs, Dead City Radio
  • Yo La Tengo, And Nothing Turned Itself Inisde-Out
  • Soundtrack, Bugs Bunny on Broadway
Vinyl
  • Christine and the Queens, Chris
  • Object Collection, It’s All True

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Purchase log, 2019-02-19

[Ornette Coleman Quartet - This Is Our Music]

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
  • Extreme, Extreme II: Pornograffitti
  • Franz Ferdinand, Franz Ferdinand
  • James Tenney, Postal Pieces
  • John Zorn, Lucifer: Book of Angels, Vol. 10 (Bar Kobha)
  • Ólafur Arnalds, Found Songs
  • Thee Silver Mt. Zion Orchestra and Tra-La-La Orchestra, Horses in the Sky
  • Thelonious Monk, Brilliant Corners (Remastered)
Vinyl
  • Art of Noise, Re-works of Art of Noise
  • Deafheaven, Sunbather
  • Johnny Cash, At San Quentin
  • Ornette Coleman Quartet, This Is Our Music

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Purchase log, 2019-02-12

[Atmostphere - God Loves Ugly]

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
  • Jeremy Denk, c.1300-c.2000

Catalog

CD
  • Atmosphere, God Loves Ugly
  • Built to Spill, There’s Nothing Wrong with Love
  • Del tha Funkee Homosapien, No Need for Alarm
  • Iron and Wine, The Shepherd’s Dog
  • Lou Reed, Transformer
  • Sly and the Family Stone, Greatest Hits
  • Talking Heads, More Songs About Buildings and Food

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Purchase log, 2019-02-05

[Styx - Paradise Theatre]

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
  • Alfred Schnittke, Concerto for Choir / Two Short Pieces for Organ
  • Beck, Odelay
  • David Foster, The Symphony Sessions
  • Jean Sibelius, The Complete String Quartets (The Sibelius Academy Quartet)
  • John Coltrane, The Major Works of John Coltrane
  • Living Colour, Biscuits
  • Olivier Messiaen, Vingt regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus, Nos. 1-6 (Anton Batagov)
  • Olivier Messiaen, Vingt regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus, Nos. 7-14 (Anton Batagov)
  • The Who, Who’s Next
  • Tom Goss, Wait
Vinyl
  • Easterhouse, Contenders
  • Rick Springfield, Living in Oz
  • Styx, Paradise Theatre

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Hiatus extends while I sort through some spoils

It looks like the January break is going to last for a bit longer.

At the start of January, I took a trip home to inspect a box of records my mom discovered. It turned out to be most of my dad’s records and a fraction of my brother’s collection. My two sisters’ meager collections were nowhere to be found.

I shipped everything worth taking. (A number of Disney storybook records were unsalvageable.) Alas, I had run out of shelf space to accommodate the new arrivals.

So I spent a weekend assembling new shelves and moving old shelves around, all the while listening to some my brother’s penchant for hard rock and light metal.

By the time I was finished organizing everything, the month had ended. So I’ve written nothing, but I’ve listened to a lot.

And I’ll share it with you once I make sense of it.

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