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Purchase log, 2025-07-08

[The Adventures - The Sea of Love]

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
  • Apollo Saxophone Quartet, First & Foremost
  • Bill Frisell, East / West
  • Dmitri Shostakovich, Hamlet / The Gadfly (Leonard Grin, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra)
  • Dmitri Shostakovich, Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 / The Assault on Great Gorky (Dmitri Alexeev; Jerzy Maksymiuk, English Chamber Orchestra)
  • Joan Tower, Made in America (Leonard Slatkin, Nashville Symphony Orchestra)
  • John Mayer, Room for Squares
  • Kylie Minogue, Golden
  • Maria Bachmann, Kiss on Wood
  • Patty Griffin, A Kiss in Time
  • The Little Willies, For the Good Times
  • The Tallis Scholars, Russian Orthodox Music
  • Various Artists, The Acid Jazz Test, Vol. 1
Vinyl
  • Death Cab for Cutie, Kintsugi
  • The Adventures, The Sea of Love

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Purchase log, 2025-03-25

[Bill Frisell - Have a Little Fath]

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
  • Kronos Quartet, Mary Kouyoumdjian: Witness

Catalog

CD
  • Franz Josef Haydn, Piano Sonatas, Vol. 4
  • Franz Josef Haydn, Prussian Quartets, Op. 50 (Tokyo String Quartet)
  • Franz Josef Haydn, String Quartet, Op. 33, Nos. 3-6 (Kodaly Quartet)
  • Pyotir Tchaikovsky, Symphonies Nos. 4-6, Manfred (Vladimir Ashkenazy, Philharmonia Orchestra)
Vinyl
  • Bill Frisell, Have a Little Faith

Reissues

CD
  • Tina Turner, Private Dancer (40th Anniversary Edition)

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Purchase log, 2023-03-14

[Bill Frisell - Good Dog, Happy Man]

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
  • Drive-By Truckers, Go-Go Boots
  • Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend
  • Luscious Jackson, Electric Honey
  • The Clash, Super Black Market Clash
  • Toni Childs, The Woman’s Boat
Vinyl
  • Bill Frisell, Good Dog, Happy Man

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Purchase log, 2022-02-08

[Kraftwerk - Computer World]

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
  • Air, Pocket Symphony
  • Aterciopelados, Gozo poderoso
  • Autechre, Untilted
  • Baz Luhrmann, Something for Everybody
  • Bill Frisell, Ghost Town
  • Bob Dylan, The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan
  • Carol Nethen, A View from the Bridge
  • Cocteau Twins, The Pink Opaque
  • Daft Punk, Musique, Vol. 1: 1993-2005
  • Duffy, Endlessly
  • Esperanza Spalding, Radio Music Society
  • Four Tet, Everything Ecstatic
  • Garbage, Version 2.0
  • Gary Numan, “Cars” (1993)
  • Simon and Garfunkel, Bookends
  • Trentmøller, The Last Resort
  • Soundtrack, 2001: A Space Odyssey
Vinyl
  • Kraftwerk, Computer World

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Purchase log, 2020-03-10

[The National - Boxer]

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
  • Björk, Selmasongs
  • Bill Frisell, The Intercontinentals
  • Herbie Hancock, Future Shock
  • Herbie Hancock, Head Hunters
  • Julieta Venegas, MTV Unplugged
  • Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift
  • Teresa Stratas, The Unknown Weill
  • XTC, Mummer
  • Soundtrack, The Book of Mormon (Original Broadway Cast)
Vinyl
  • Michael Kiwanuka, Home Again
  • The National, Boxer

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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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Purchase log, 2019-05-21

[Soundtrack - Macross: Ai Oboete Imasu Ka?]

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.

I traveled to Austin for the record convention this past weekend. I didn’t find much of what I wanted, but I did find a lot of what I didn’t know I wanted. This list includes purchases at Waterloo Records and End of an Ear.

New releases

CD
  • Jamila Woods, Legacy! Legacy!
  • Kronos Quartet with Masha and Marjan Vadat, Placeless

Catalog

CD
  • a-ha, Hunting High and Low
  • Bill Frisell, Before We Were Born
  • Dwight Yoakam, Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room
  • Grizzly Bear, Shields
  • Johnny Cash, At Folsom Prison
  • Joy Division, Closer
  • Robert Palmer, Pride
  • Robert Palmer, Some People Can Do What They Like
  • Shovels & Rope, Swimmin’ Time
  • Tomita, The Planets
  • Witold Lutoslawski, Symphonies / Concertos / Vocal and Choral Works
Vinyl
  • Branford Marsalis Quartet, Crazy People Music
  • Everything But the Girl, Everything But the Girl
  • Franz Josef Haydn, Streichquartette, op. 20, 2 & 4 (Quarteto Esterhazy)
  • Giovanni Palestrina, Pope Marcellus Mass / Stabat Mater / Three Motets (Pro Cantione Antiqua, Bruno Turner)
  • Janet Jackson, Janet Jackson
  • Johnny Cash, At Folsom Prison
  • Kacey Musgraves, Same Trailer Different Park
  • Marilyn Manson, Antichrist Superstar
  • Megadeth, So Far … So Good … So What!
  • Olivier Messiaen, La Nativité du Seigneur (Jennifer Bate)
  • Olivier Messiaen / Toru Takemitsu, Messiaen: Turangalîla Symphony / Takemitsu: November Steps (Toronto Symphony, Seiji Ozawa)
  • Seawind, Seawind
  • The Old 97s, Too Far to Care
  • Soundtrack, Macross: Ai Oboete Imasu Ka?
  • Soundtrack, The Iron Giant
  • Various Artists, Brown Bags to Stardom
  • Various Artists, Boulez, Messiaen & Koechlin
  • Various Artists, Music by Busoni, Franz Schmidt and Lutoslawski

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Purchase log, 2018-11-27

[Kate Bush - Rematered Part I]

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
  • Anthrax, Persistence of Time
  • Anthrax, Spreading the Disease
  • Deafheaven, Sunbather
  • Death Cab for Cutie, The Forbidden Love E.P.
  • Hüsker Dü, Land Speed Record
  • Hüsker Dü. Zen Arcade
  • Johnny Cash, At San Quentin (The Complete 1969 Concert)
  • Led Zeppelin, III
  • Mastodon, Blood Mountain
  • Mastodon, Crack the Skye
  • Mastodon, Leviathan
  • Ministry, The Land of Rape and Honey
  • Siouxsie and the Banshees, Superstition
  • The Beatles, The Beatles (White Album)
  • The Jesus and Mary Chain, Automatic
  • The Julianna Hatfield Three, Become What You Are
  • The Mars Volta, Amputechture
  • The Mars Volta, Frances the Mute

Reissues

CD
  • Kate Bush, Remastered Part 1
Vinyl
  • Bill Frisell, Nashville
  • Kate Bush, The Red Shoes
  • Madonna, Ray of Light (RSD Black Friday 2018)
  • The B-52’s, Cosmic Thing (RSD Black Friday 2018)

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Favorite Edition Rewind: 1991

[Slint - Spiderland]

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.

I’m not sure other music writers would agree that 1998 is an important year in music for the ’90s. 1991 saw Guns N’ Roses cap the era of hair metal and Nirvana usher the unfortunately-named alternative rock. But it didn’t have Neutral Milk Hotel.

  1. Smashing Pumpkins, Gish
  2. Nirvana, Nevermind
  3. R.E.M., Out of Time
  4. U2, Achtung Baby
  5. Throwing Muses, The Real Ramona
  6. Soundtrack, Bubblegum Crisis Vocal Collection, Vol. 1
  7. Guns N’ Roses, Use Your Illusion II
  8. Enya, Shepherd Moons
  9. Lou Harrison, Music of Lou Harrison
  10. Elliott Carter, Music of Elliott Carter

Other favorites from the year:

  • Pearl Jam, Ten
  • Igor Stravinsky, Le Sacre du Printemps/Symphony in Three Movements (Zubin Mehta, New York Philharmonic Orchestra)
  • Mazzy Star, She Hangs Brightly
  • Soundgarden, Badmotorfinger
  • Bill Frisell, Where in the World?
  • Fishbone, The Reality of My Surroundings
  • Metallica, Metallica
  • Kronos Quartet, Lutoslawski: String Quartet
  • Black Sheep, A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
  • Hamada Mari, Tomorrow
  • Electronic, Electronic
  • Slint, Spiderland
  • My Bloody Valentine, Loveless
  • Painkiller, Guts of a Virgin
  • Mr. Bungle, Mr. Bungle

Slint and My Bloody Valentine are additions 2004-me would have made. 1991-me would have side-eyed 2004-me.

And he would have scoffed at 2018-me for including Black Sheep, after emitting a gasp at seeing Fishbone on the list at all.

He would have begrudgingly nodded at the additions of Metallica and Hamada Mari, and he would have been curious about Electronic. And he would have gone out and found Painkiller the first chance he got.

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