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Purchase log, 2019-12-10

[Les Miserablés - Original French Concept Album]

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
  • ACO, Sing Sing Sing

Catalog

CD
  • Antonio Salieri, Piano Concerto in B-Flat Major / Concerto in C Major for Flute and Oboe (I Solisti Veneti, Claudio Scimone)
  • Band of Susans, Love Agenda
  • Baths, Cerulean
  • Deltron 3030, Deltron 3030
  • Donkey, Slick Night Out
  • Eagles, Hotel California
  • Fleetwood Mac, Tusk
  • Franz Josef Haydn, String Quartets, Op. 71, Nos. 1-3 (Kodály Quartet)
  • Franz Josef Haydn, String Quartets, Op. 76, Nos. 4-6 (Kodály Quartet)
  • Jamila Woods, HEAVN
  • McCoy Tyner, Sahara
  • The Band, Music from Big Pink
  • The Band, The Band
  • Tsuji Ayano, CALENDAR CALENDAR
  • William Grant Still, Oregon Festival of American Music Presents William Grant Still
  • Soundtrack, Les Miserablés (Original London Cast)
  • Soundtrack, Les Miserablés (Original French Concept Album)
Vinyl
  • Big Country, The Crossing
  • Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven!
  • John Coltrane, Om
  • Midnight Oil, Earth and Sun and Moon
  • Missy Elliott, Supa Dupa Fly
  • S’Express, Original Soundtrack
  • The Zombies, Odessey & Oracle
  • Soundtrack, Love, Simon

Reissues

CD
  • Prince, 1999

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Purchase log picks, April 2019

[Hapa - Hapa]

Big Country, The Crossing

My prior exposure to Big Country, I’m sorry to say, was when Girl Talk mashed up “In a Big Country” with “Whoomp! (There It Is)”. I rather like how Scottish this album is without being crossover about it.

eX-Girl, “The crown of Dr. Keroninstan”

The vinyl reissue of Kero! Kero! Kero! prompted Kirilola to bring eX-Girl back from Planet Kero. I have to admit some degree of envy when the band announced its return to SXSW.

Hapa, Hapa

I grew up listening to some really awful Hawaiian music, pumped mostly into elevators and department stores. I picked up this self-titled debut at the thrift store, curious to see why it gets such breathless accolades in Hawaii media. I’m hoping someone emerges as the Astor Piazzola for Hawaiian music, and Hapa has so far come closest.

Robert Palmer, Pressure Drop

Palmer continues the funk workout of Sneakin’ Sally Through the Alley, augmenting it with explorations into other genres, notably the reggae of the title track.

The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Time Out

It’s unfortunate when a single track from an album overshadows the rest of it. For the longest time, I’ve avoided Time Out because of “Take Five.” How silly of me. “Blue Rondo a la Turk” is damn awesome.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs, It’s Blitz

It’s not the nuclear blast of Fever to Tell, but it’s still a good listen.

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Purchase log, 2019-04-23

[Killing Joke - Killing Joke]

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
  • Big Country, The Crossing
  • Bob Mould, Black Sheets of Rain
  • Fleetwood Mac, Fleetwood Mac
  • General Public, All the Rage
  • Olivier Messiaen, Poèmes Pour Mi / Trois Petites Liturgies de la Présence Divine (Seattle Symphony, Ludovic Morlot)
  • Ornette Coleman, Sound Grammar
  • Yeah Yeah Yeahs, It’s Blitz!
  • Various Artists, The Hamilton Mixtape
Vinyl
  • Killing Joke, Killing Joke
  • The Jets, The Jets

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