![[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
![[... And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - X: The Godless Void and Other Stories]](https://musicwhore.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/AndYouWillKnowUsByTheTrailOfDeadX-300x300.jpg)
When Trail of Dead announced they would take a hiatus after releasing their ninth album, it felt like the right time. They’d been at it for 20 years, and they sure deserved the break. Their return is also nicely timed — I have to say I’ve missed them.
I’m still somewhat surprised Ben Watt has spent his post-Everything But the Girl solo career thus far being a troubadour.
I came around to this album quite late, but I’m glad to see it get some deluxe treatment.
The closest thing we’ll get to a MEAN MACHINE reunion.
Onitsuka Chihiro commemorates the 20th anniversary of her debut with yet another compilation, this one spanning three major labels.
If the pre-release single “Everything” reflects the remainder of the album, I’m on board.
I probably don’t need this anthology given the depth of my Clannad collection, but I wait eagerly for news of US dates on their farewell tour.
Another band celebrating their 20th anniversary is LOVE PSYCHEDELICO. The 20th Anniversary Box compiles 4 CDs of singles, a Blu Ray or DVD of the duo’s acoustic tour, an LP of acoustic recordings and a score book. I’m tempted by the score book alone. The singles collection will also be sold separately (COMPLETE SINGLES 2000-2019), and the acoustic recordings will be released on vinyl (TWO OF US Acoustic Recording Session at VICTOR STUDIO 302.)
Tags: and you will know us by the trail of dead, ben watt, clannad, looking ahead, love psychedelico, neneh cherry, onitsuka chihiro, sam sparro, yuki
![[Shiina Ringo - Newton no Ringo]](https://musicwhore.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/ShiinaRingoNewtonNoRingo-300x265.jpg)
Kim Gordon’s music career spans numerous decades, but only now does she release a solo album. Of course I’m curious.
I bought a used copy of Message in a Box, so I really don’t need this set. I want it, but I don’t need it.
Many popular Japanese artists release multiple career-spanning retrospectives. Shiina Ringo releases her first after 20 years.
Billed as “A Tribute to Harry Smith,” this 4-track, 7-inch EP features Amidon performing songs from Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music.
No details have emerged yet of this career-spanning compilation, but the Brennans embark on a farewell tour to support it. They will be missed.
Yes, please. Thank you.
Rule of thumb for Shiina Ringo vinyl releases: place a pre-order because they will be gone.
Tags: clannad, everything but the girl, kim gordon, looking ahead, sam amidon, shiina ringo, the police
![[Torche - Admission]](https://musicwhore.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/TorcheAdmission20192163613P45_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: abba, alabama shakes, atta isaacs, bangles, clannad, cyndi lauper, elliott smith, fleetwood mac, front 242, gabby pahinui, grandaddy, hapa, john zorn, johnny cash, krzysztof penderecki, leonard bernstein, lorde, morrissey, mumford and sons, new jersey percussion ensemble, purchase log, reo speedwagon, sing like talking, skrillex, stephen sondheim, the alarm, the style council, torche, tricky, various artists
![[Blondie - Parallel Lines]](https://musicwhore.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/BlondieParallelLines1978160432_f-300x300.jpeg)
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.
Our retrospective ends at 1978 because my collection starts thinning out at this point. I was 6 years old at the time and just starting to become aware of songs on the radio. Of course, nothing on this list would have appealed to 6-year-old me.
Other favorites from the year:
I loved Blondie’s “Heart of Glass”, but when my dad saw her perform on Solid Gold, he hated her on sight. “She looks drugged,” he would complain, so I wasn’t allowed to listen to Blondie. That didn’t stop my brother from picking up the 7-inch singles for “The Tide Is High” and “Rapture.”
I can only imagine what dad would have said if he saw Kate Bush dancing in “Wuthering Heights.”
If any album on this list would have appealed to 6-year-old me, it would be Rap Reiplinger’s Poi Dog. Local radio played Reiplinger’s skits regularly, and I enjoyed hearing “Room Service” over and over again.
I didn’t realize those skits were available on an album. I thought only radio could broadcast them, so it wasn’t until Poi Dog was reissued on CD in 1992 that I could relive that thrill.
Reiplinger forged the Honolulu stand-up comic scene, and it died when he did in 1984. Or maybe it was the humorlessness of the 1980s.
Tags: andrew lloyd webber, andy gibb, blondie, brian eno, clannad, emmylou harris, favorite edition, kate bush, rap reiplinger, rewind, steve reich, the police, willie nelson
![[The Waitresses - Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful?]](https://musicwhore.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/TheWaitressesWasntTomorrowWonderful_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.
From here on out, you’ll see a lot of names repeat on these lists. These selections reflect my tastes as an adult rather than what I would have been listening to at the time.
The only album on this list I actually listened to in 1982 was the soundtrack to Tron. I was all about the video game, and I dug the special effects in the movie. I was, however, too young to understand how awful the screenplay was.
I saw the Waitresses on Solid Gold and absolutely loved “I Know What Boys Like.” By the time I would start collecting music, the Waitresses had already recessed into one-hit wonder memory. But the song left such an indelible print, I would seek it out in my first year of college.
Duran Duran’s Rio was released that year, but I had no inkling of it at the time. Music was a passive activity. The car radio or my siblings’ boomboxes keep me informed of the days’ hits, but my passion lie with video games — an activity my parents curtailed because they equated it with gambling.
Tags: abc, bruce springsteen, clannad, duran duran, favorite edition, kate bush, midnight oil, rewind, roxy music, soundtrack, the waitresses, x
![[Duran Duran - Seven and the Ragged Tiger]](https://musicwhore.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/DuranDuranSevenandtheRa39957_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.
The 1983 Favorite Edition list is not terribly cosmopolitan. And why should it? I would have been 11 years old at the time, and pre-teens, even precocious ones, aren’t renowned for sophistication.
Other favorites from the year:
MTV was the big driver of music in this era, but I wouldn’t have known it because my parents refused to subscribe to cable. The household wouldn’t welcome cable TV till well after I had moved out after college … in 1997.
So my exposure to music in 1983 was limited to American Bandstand and Solid Gold. For a short while, a syndicated TV show called Prime Time Videos aired on broadcast affiliates, but it would not last.
I was still heavily into Pac-Man, even though my parents refused to welcome a game console or computer into the house. It’s a wonder how I’ve made computer programming my career.
So if this list seems particularly safe, it’s a reflection of the limited avenues of consumption. It’s probably why I have such a voracious appetite now.
Tags: 10000 maniacs, clannad, culture club, cyndi lauper, david bowie, duran duran, eurythmics, favorite edition, huey lewis, r.e.m., rewind, the pointer sisters, the police, the waitresses, toto, u2, violent femmes
![[The Outfield - Play Deep]](https://musicwhore.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/TheOutfieldPlayDeep1985142461_f-300x294.jpeg)
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.
This list is the last of the original years covered in my previous survey. The Favorite 10 hasn’t changed, but the extended list has gotten longer.
Other favorites from the year::
Younger Me would approve of most of this list.
He would have gasped at the inclusion of Prince, considering the Sibling Rivalry Collection Race was at its height, and this kind of intrusion would be accompanied by a drubbing.
And he would groaned at the inclusion of The Outfield. Older Me would then advise him to wait 20 years before a real appreciation could begin.
I capped this survey at 1985 because my collection before that year wasn’t extensive enough for much punditry. Weekly visits to thrift shops in the last three years have allowed me to fill in enough gaps to keep going till 1978.
Tags: 10000 maniacs, abc, andrew lloyd webber, arcadia, camper van beethoven, clannad, eurythmics, favorite edition, hiroshima, husker du, inxs, kate bush, lisa lisa and cult jam, midnight oil, prince, sade, simple minds, soundtrack, sting, the family, the outfield, the pogues, the power station, the replacements
![[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