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Purchase log, 2021-05-11

[Yo Majesty - Return of the Martriach]

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
  • Princess Goes to the Butterfly Museum, Thanks for Coming
Files
  • Death Cab for Cutie, Live at the Showbox
  • Yo Majesty, The Return of the Matriarch
Vinyl
  • Sturgill Simpson, Cuttin’ Grass, Vol. 2: The Cowboy Shoppe Sessions

Catalog

CD
  • Anne-Sophie Mutter, Berg: Violin Concerto / Rihm: Time Chant (Chicago Symphony, James Levine)
  • Aram Khachaturian, Masquerade Suite / Violin Concerto / Gayaneh Suite (Philharmonia Orchestra, Khachaturian)
  • Arthur Honneger, Symphonies 2 and 3 (Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan)
  • Béla Bartók, Violin Concerto No. 2 / Viola Concerto (Pinchas Zukerman, St. Louis Symphony, Leonard Slatkin)
  • Boogie Down Productions, Edutainment
  • Carlo Gesualdo, Il Quarto Libro di Madrigali, 1596 (La Venexiana)
  • Claudio Monteverdi, Il Combattimento di Trancerdi e Clorinda (Les Artes Florissants)
  • Don Byron, Music for Six Musicians
  • Emerson String Quartet, Meyer: Quintet / Rorem: String Quartet No. 4
  • Four Tet, Rounds
  • Frank Turner, England Keep My Bones
  • Franz Schubert, The Late Quartets and Quintet (Emerson String Quartet, Mstislav Rostropovich)
  • Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 4 (Concertgebouw Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein)
  • Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 5 (Berlin Philharmonic, Claudio Abbado)
  • Itzhak Perlman / Pinchas Zukerman, Bartók: 44 Duos / Shostakovich: Three Violin Duets / Prokofiev: Sonata for Two Violins
  • John Corigliano, Violin Sonata / Etude Fantasy / Fantasia on an Ostinato / Chiaroscuro
  • Johnny Cash, American V: Hundred Highways
  • Josquin des Pres, Motets et Chansons (Hilliard Ensemble)
  • Kansas, Point of Know Return
  • Run-D.M.C., Run-D.M.C.
  • Sergei Prokofiev, Symphonies Nos. 1 and 5 (Chicago Symphony, James Levine)
  • Sergei Prokofiev, Violin Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 / Sonata for Solo Violin (Gil Shaham, London Symphony Orchestra, Andre Previn)
  • Thomas Tallis, Spem in Alium (Hilliard Ensemble)
  • William Bolcom, Violin Concerto / Fantasia Concertante / Fifth Symphony (American Composers Symphony, Dennis Russel Davies)
Vinyl
  • Jack Wagner, All I Need
  • Last Exit, The Noise of Trouble: Live in Tokyo
File upgrades

These albums were purchased as MP3 downloads and upgraded to FLAC.

  • Sacha Sacket, “Aim”
  • Sacha Sacket, “It’s Time”
  • Sacha Sacket, “Just Like Cream”
  • Sacha Sacket, “Low Blow”
  • Sacha Sacket, “Song for Jamey”
  • Sacha Sacket, Viscera

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Purchase log, 2019-05-28

[Talking Heads - The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads]

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
  • Beck, Midnite Vultures
  • Cannibal Ox, The Cold Vein
  • Electronic, Release the Pressure
  • Frida, Something’s Going On
  • Sparta, Wiretap Scars
  • Talking Heads, The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads
  • The Beatles, Help!
  • The Jesus and Mary Chain, Darklands
  • The Police, Live!
  • The Temptations, All the Million-Sellers
  • Soundtrack, The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Vinyl
  • Abe Vigoda, Crush
  • Fleetwood Mac, Rumours
  • Giovanni Palestrina, Masses and Motets
  • Iannis Xenakis, Metastasis / Pithorprakta / Enota
  • Josquin Desprez, Missa La So Fa Re Mi / Motets / Chansons / Instrumental Music
  • Matsuda Seiko, Tinker Bell
  • Murray Head, Nigel Lived
  • New Order, Brotherhood
  • New Order, Low-Life
  • Santigold, Master of My Make Believe

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Purchase log, 2019-03-19

[Pop Will Eat Itself - This Is the Day ... This Is the Hour ... This Is This!]

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.

This past weekend was the Friends of the Seattle Library Book Sale, which usually provides a few weeks’ worth of listening.

Catalog

CD
  • Aretha Franklin, Aretha’s Best
  • Atmosphere, Overcast!
  • Beck, Mutations
  • Billy Idol, Idolize Yourself: The Very Best of Billy Idol
  • bis, The New Transistor Heroes
  • Björk, Drawing Restraint 9
  • Bon Jovi, Slippery When Wet
  • Branford Marsalis Quartet, Crazy People Music
  • Daniel Lanois, Acadie
  • David Bowie, Pin Ups
  • Dawn Upshaw, Voices of Light
  • Einstürzende Neubauten, 80-83 Strategies Against Architecture
  • György Ligeti, Ligeti Edition 5: Mechanical Music
  • Jane’s Addiction, Nothing’s Shocking
  • Joanna Newsom, Ys
  • John Zorn, The Gift
  • Johnny Cash, American Recordings
  • Josquin des Prez / Giovanni Palestrina, Motets / Masses
  • Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin II
  • Lizz Wright, The Orchard
  • Lovage, Nathaniel Merriweather Presents … Lovage: Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By
  • Mazzy Star, So Tonight That I Might See
  • Mike Patton, Adult Themes for Voice
  • Oingo Boingo, Dead Man’s Party
  • Osvaldo Golijov, Ainadamar
  • PJ Harvey, Let England Shake
  • PJ Harvey, Rid of Me
  • Pop Will Eat Itself, This Is the Day … This Is the Hour … This Is This!
  • Queen Latifah, Nature of a Sista
  • Robert Palmer, Addictions Volume 2
  • Roberta Flack, First Take
  • Sonic Youth, Washing Machine
  • Soundgarden, Louder Than Love
  • Spice Girls, Spiceworld
  • Stephen Sondheim, Putting it Together (Original Cast Recording)
  • The Beatles, Yellow Submarine
  • The Mars Volta, De-Loused at the Comatorium
  • The White Stripes, Get Behind Me Satan
  • Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane, At Carnegie Hall
  • Tom Tom Club, Tom Tom Club
  • William Grant Still, Africa
  • XTC, Nonsuch
  • Yaz, You and Me Both
  • Various Artists, Stay Awake
  • Soundtrack, Pride and Prejudice (BBC Television serial)
  • Soundtrack, Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi (Spirited Away)
  • Soundtrack, Sense and Sensibility
Vinyl
  • Dead Or Alive, Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know
  • Eleanor Steber, Barber: Knoxville: Summer 1915 / LaMontaine: Songs of the Rose of Sharon
  • Millions Like Us, Millions Like Us
  • Olivier Messiaen, Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum / Couleurs de la Cité Celeste
  • Olivier Messiaen, Petites Liturgies de la Présence Divine
  • Olivier Messiaen, Tashi Plays Messiaen – Quartet for the End of Time
  • Robert Palmer, Clues
  • Robert Palmer, Double Fun
  • Robert Palmer, Maybe It’s Live
  • Robert Palmer, Pride
  • Robert Palmer, Sneakin’ Sally Through the Alley
  • Stephen Sondheim, Pacific Overtures (Original Broadway Cast)
  • William Schuman, Symphony No. 3 / Symphony for Strings
  • Yvonne Elliman, Yvonne
  • Soundtrack, A Room with a View

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Purchase log, 2018-05-22

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
  • Aphex Twin, Syro
  • Eric Dolphy, Out to Lunch
  • Lucinda Williams, Essence
  • Lucinda Williams, Lucinda Williams
  • The Tallis Scholars, The Tallis Scholars Sing Josquin
  • The Wrens, The Meadowlands
  • William Byrd, Missa in Tempore Paschali (Chanticleer)
  • William Byrd / Thomas Tallis, Choral Works (St. John’s College Choir, Cambridge, George Guest)
Vinyl
  • Joni Mitchell, Court and Spark
  • Györgi Ligeti, Streichquartett No. 1 / Streichquartett No. 2 (Arditti Quartet)

 

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