![[Jam & Lewis - Volume 1]](https://musicwhore.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/JimmyJamTerryLewisJam271415FPHQ_f.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, camper van beethoven, cracker, jam and lewis, purchase log, the pointer sisters
![[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
![[Sleater-Kinney - The Center Won't Hold]](https://musicwhore.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/SleaterKinneyTheCenterWo219433XS48_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: andrew lloyd webber, bela bartok, bill frisell, branford marsalis, bruce springsteen, chvrches, devo, don byron, explosions in the sky, fugazi, george crumb, grizzly bear, information society, lfo, lisa lisa and cult jam, los amigos invisibles, mr. lif, my bloody valentine, nico muhly, number girl, purchase log, queen, re-flex, run dmc, ryan stout, sleater-kinney, teitur, the beach boys, wye oak
![[Soundtrack - Macross: Ai Oboete Imasu Ka?]](https://musicwhore.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Macross211459_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.
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.
Tags: a-ha, bill frisell, branford marsalis, dwight yoakam, everything but the girl, franz josef haydn, giovanni palestrina, grizzly bear, jamila woods, janet jackson, johnny cash, joy division, kacey musgraves, kronos quartet, marilyn manson, megadeth, olivier messiaen, purchase log, robert palmer, seawind, shovels & rope, soundtrack, tomita, various artists, witold lutoslawski
![[Kate Bush - Rematered Part I]](https://musicwhore.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/KateBushRemasteredPartI1981527DX4_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: anthrax, bill frisell, deafheaven, death cab for cutie, husker du, johnny cash, kate bush, led zeppelin, madonna, mastodon, ministry, purchase log, siouxsie and the banshees, the b-52's, the beatles, the jesus and mary chain, the juliana hatfield three, the mars volta
![[Slint - Spiderland]](https://musicwhore.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/SlintSpiderland2014131919_f-300x300.jpg)
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.
Other favorites from the year:
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.
Tags: bill frisell, black sheep, electronic, elliott carter, enya, favorite edition, fishbone, guns n' roses, hamada mari, igor stravinsky, kronos quartet, lou harrison, mazzy star, metallica, mr. bungle, my bloody valentine, nirvana, painkiller, pearl jam, r.e.m., rewind, slint, smashing pumpkins, soundgarden, soundtrack, throwing muses, u2
![[Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)]](https://musicwhore.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/WuTangClanEntertheWuTa189076_f-300x300.jpg)
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.
Instead of providing an extended list for 1993, I rag on a number of critical favorites from the year. I’ve mellowed out about Björk’s Debut and U2’s Zooropa, but Siamese Dream and janet. are still overrated.
Other favorites from the year:
This time, I’m providing an extended list, and it demonstrates where I was as a listener and where I am.
That Favorite 10 is stuffed to the gills with some really avant-garde titles, the kind put together by a young person trying to be more cosmopolitan than his peers.
The extended list includes music that would have been ignored by the person who compiled the Favorite 10.
My younger self would have scoffed at my older present self for deigning to include hip-hop, and my older self would tell my younger self to examine what social pressures may be coming to bear for his opposition.
Younger self would complain about how hip-hop culture is fetishized by his ethnic cohorts, which older self would acknowledge but caution against succumbing to the racial dynamics of the country.
Younger self would have no idea what older self would be talking about, since younger self hadn’t yet moved to he Mainland US to see these dynamics in action.
All that to say maybe I’ve been resistant to hip-hop because the music that most appeals to me is made predominantly by upper middle class white men.
Tags: bill frisell, charles ives, clannad, cypress hill, digable planets, duran duran, emerson string quartet, emmylou harris, evan gallagher, favorite edition, john zorn, judy dunaway, julee cruise, kate bush, michael nyman, naked city, pigpen, rewind, samuel barber, spiny norman, sting, the love gods, u2, wayne horvitz, wu-tang clan
![[Janet Jackson - The Velvet Rope]](https://musicwhore.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/JanetJacksonTheVelvetRop139241_f-300x300.jpg)
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.
1998 and 1999 were probably the most productive years of the ’90s. 1997 slightly less so. That said, there isn’t much change from the original list, a few shuffles aside.
Other favorites from the year:
I wouldn’t rediscover The Velvet Rope till 2014. I disliked its predecessor, janet., but I was also disappointed Janet didn’t switch up her theme. I’ve come to realize The Velvet Rope was the album I wished janet. would have been.
Earthling is the very first album by David Bowie I’ve ever owned. I actually liked it at the time, but I didn’t love it. So it got cut during a collection purge. My recent deep dive into the his work made me revisit Earthling, and as unlikely as an EDM Bowie album might sound, he makes it work.
Sleater-Kinney and Missy Eliott are retroactive additions to the list. I didn’t explore their works until recently.
Tags: 10000 maniacs, 8 1/2 souvenirs, bill frisell, bjork, china digs, cocco, david bowie, duran duran, favorite edition, jack ingram, janet jackson, john taylor, kronos quartet, missy elliott, molotov, pizzicato five, prodigy, rewind, sleater-kinney, soundtrack, the old 97s
![[Wayne Horvtiz - The Snowghost Sessions]](https://musicwhore.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/WayneHorvitzTheSnowghost19605945SB_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.
Vinyl
Tags: beyonce, bill frisell, camper van beethoven, charles mingus, d'angelo, doctors mob, love, ponga, purchase log, soundtrack, wayne horvitz
![[Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer]](https://musicwhore.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/janelle-monae-dirty-computer-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: amuro namie, backstreet boys, bill frisell, craig armstrong, eminem, freedy johnston, huun-huur-tu, janelle monae, john adams, kd lang, lisa gerrard, lou harrison, love and rockets, purchase log, semisonic, shakira, shudder to think