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Purchase log, 2024-05-14

[The Sugarcubes - Stick Around for Joy]

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
  • St. Louis Symphony, Bernstein: Serenade / Williams: Violin Concerto No. 1 (James Ehnes, Stéphane Denève)

Catalog

CD
  • Janet Jackson, All for You
  • John Coltrane, Blue World
  • k.d. lang, Recollection
  • Kacey Musgraves, Pageant Material
  • Ludwig van Beethoven, Violin Concerto / Romances (Maxim Vengerov; Mstislav Rostropovich, London Symphony Orchestra)
  • Paul Simon, Still Crazy After All These Years
  • Salt ‘N’ Pepa, A Blitz of Salt ‘N’ Pepa: The Hits Remixed
  • Voice of the Beehive, Honey Lingers
  • Various Artists, Do You Know House? Vol. 1
Vinyl
  • Bee-Gees, Odessa

Reissues

Vinyl
  • Kirsty MacColl, Titanic Days
  • Sinéad O’Connor, “You Made Me the Thief of Your Heart”
  • The Sugarcubes, Stick Around for Joy

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Purchase log picks, May 2019

[Olivier Messiaen - Turangalîla Symphony]

Anthony De Mare, Pianos and Vocals (Music of Meredith Monk and John Cage)

Given how well De Mare sequenced the pieces on this album, I bet recitals featuring these works would have been amazing.

Easterhouse, Waiting for the Redbird

Contenders is the album that has remained in print, but Waiting for the Redbird appealed to me more as it played on the turntable.

Janet Jackson, Janet Jackson

The Janet we know today began with Control, and it’s the furthest Miss Jackson will go in live performances. Of the two albums that preceded it, this self-titled debut has the better songs.

Justin Timberlake, Futuresex / LoveSounds

I think I reacted more to the production of this album than to the actual songs.

Kacey Musgraves, Same Trailer Different Park

I didn’t find Golden Hour terribly impressive, but I didn’t want to dismiss Kacey Musgraves out of hand. So I picked up Same Trailer Different Park when I found it at the thrift store. That’s when I understood.

Kalapana, Kalapana

I didn’t realize just how much Kalapana’s first album dominated radio broadcast in Hawaii during the 1970s. I picked up a vinyl copy of the album on a whim, having grown up with the name but not necessarily the music. It turns out I heard them a lot when I was still too young to care about building a music collection.

Olivier Messiaen, Turangalîla Symphony (Toronto Symphony, Seiji Ozawa)

I’ve been fascinated by the third mode of limited transposition since we covered them in a music theory class I took in 2017. The Turangalîla Symphony is one of those works you’re told to know, even if takes you a while to get around to listening to it. The 2-disc vinyl edition of this recording includes Toru Takemitsu’s November Steps, which gets dropped on subsequent CD reissues.

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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, 2019-05-14

[Kalapana - Kalapana]

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
  • Anthony De Mare, John Cage / Meredith Monk: Piano and Voices
  • Beck, One Foot in the Grave
  • Camille Saint-Saëns / Olivier Messiaen, Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 / Messiaen: L’ascension (Orchestre de l’Opéra Bastille, Myung-Whun Chung)
  • David Bowie, Space Oddity
  • Death Cab for Cutie, You Can Play These Songs with Chords
  • Def Leppard, Pyromania
  • Dolly Parton, The Very Best of Dolly Parton
  • Elliott Smith, Either/Or
  • Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven!
  • Grace Jones, Inside Story
  • Iggy Pop, Lust for Life
  • John Luther Adams, Red Arc / Blue Veil
  • Justin Timberlake, Futuresex/LoveSounds
  • Justin Timberlake, Justified
  • Kacey Musgraves, Same Trailer Different Park
  • Puffy Ami Yumi, An Illustrated History
  • Talk Talk, It’s My Life
  • Tears for Fears, Everybody Loves a Happy Ending
  • The American Analog Set, From Our Living Room to Yours
  • The Beatles, Let It Be
  • The Magnetic Fields, 69 Love Songs
  • The Mountain Goats, Get Lonely
  • The Mountain Goats, The Sunset Tree
  • The Mountain Goats, We Shall All Be Healed
  • Toto, Hydra
  • Soundtrack, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  • Soundtrack, Lost in Translation
  • Soundtrack, Multiplication Rock
Vinyl
  • C.C.C.P., “American Soviets”
  • Kalapana, Kalapana

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