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Purchase log, 2024-12-31

[Ludwig Van Beethoven - George Szell Conducts Beethoven]

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
  • Adeem the Artist, Anniversary

Catalog

CD
  • Bruce Springsteen, Human Touch
  • Bruce Springsteen, Lucky Town
  • Gillian Welch, Soul Journey
  • Laura Branigan, Branigan
  • Molotov, Solo D’Lira
  • X, More Fun in the New World
  • Various Artists, Rave New World

Reissues

CD
  • Ludwig Van Beethoven, George Szell Conducts Beethoven (Cleveland Symphony)

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Purchase log picks, fourth quarter 2024

[Linda Ronstadt - Live in Hollywood]

Linda Ronstadt, Live in Hollywood

Rhino released the full concert on YouTube, so do yourself a fever and watch it whlie it’s still available. Ronstadt filmed this concert for HBO around the time she released Mad Love.

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Live from the Ryman, Vol. 2

Many of the tracks on this second edition of live recordings from the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville come from Weathervanes, probably Isbell’s best album since Southeastern. So I’m inclined to rank it favorably over the first volume.

Various Artists, Club Epic

This compilation of remixes has some top notch hits from the ’80s: “Fantastic Voyage” by Lakeside, “Saturday Love” by Cherrelle and Alexander O’Neal, “Lover Girl” by Teena Marie, to name a few. I didn’t realize how much I missed hearing these songs.

Painkiller, Samsara

Mick Harris has traded live drums for electronics on this album reuniting the former Napalm Death drummer with bassist Bill Laswell and saxophonist John Zorn. It’s no less frenetic and still mixes well with the wild abandon for which Painkiller is known.

Ray Chen, Player One

I can’t confess to being any sort of video game soundtrack listener, so those tracks which bookend this album are pretty much adornment for the Erich Korngold Violin Concerto, the crunchiest piece of repertoire I’ve heard Chen tackle so far.

Tim McGraw, Standing Room Only

I don’t mind that Tim McGraw engages in a bit of gay-baiting, and he doesn’t move in the same creative circles of Jason Isbell or Sturgill Simpson. But I have to admit Standing Room Only sounds like an album that could imagine a Venn diagram where McGraw, Isbell and Simpson intersect.

Marshall Crenshaw, Field Day

I hadn’t explored much of Crenshaw’s early albums till a number of them showed up at the thrift store. Now I understand how the press was flummoxed that Crenshaw just never stormed the charts.

These fourth quarter picks can be found in the Favorite Edition 2024 Year Final:

  • Perfume, Nebula Romance: Zenpen

These fourth quarter picks can be found in the Favorite Edition 2024 Catalog:

  • Princess Goes, Come of Age
  • Shannon, Let the Music Play
  • SZA, CTRL

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Purchase log, 2024-12-24

[The National - Rome]

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
  • The National, Rome
  • Soundtrack, BLEACH THE BLOOD WARFARE, Pt. II

Catalog

Vinyl
  • Daryl Hall and John Oates, Private Eyes
  • Nakamori Akina, Fu*Shi*Gi
  • Nakamori Akina, Stock
  • Ohta Hiromi, Little Concert
  • Sleater-Kinney, The Center Won’t Hold

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Purchase log, 2024-12-10

[Various Artists - Club Epic]

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

Files
  • SYML, Infinity
Vinyl
  • Tiffany Poon, Diaries Schumann

Catalog

CD
  • Richard Pryor, … Is It Something I Said?
  • Taylor Swift, evermore
  • Various Artists, Club Epic: A Collection Of Classic Dance Mixes, Volume 1
Vinyl
  • Ministry, ΚΕΦΑΛΗΞΘ
Files
  • SYML, Meant to Stay Hid
  • SYML, Mr. Sandman
  • SYML, Take Me Apart
  • SYML, The Dark
  • SYML, The Walker

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Purchase log, 2024-12-03

[Carl Stalling - The Carl Stalling Project]

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
  • Jon Batiste, Beethoven Blues
  • Painkiller, Samsara
  • Taylor Swift, The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology
Vinyl
  • Angelo Badalamenti, Music for Television and Film
  • Billie Eilish, Hit Me Hard and Soft (Isolated Vocals)

Catalog

CD
  • BTS, Love Yourself: Her
  • Crowded House, Crowded House
  • Enigma, Le Roi est Morte, Vive le Roi!
  • Lang Lang, Live in Vienna
Vinyl
  • Faith No More, Angel Dust

Reissues

Vinyl
  • Carl Stalling, The Carl Stalling Project, Vol. 1
  • Helmet, Betty
  • King Missile, Happy Hour
  • Olivia Rodrigo, Guts Spilled
  • Scissor Sisters, Scissor Sisters
  • Thievery Corporation, Richest Man in Babylon
  • U2, How to Reassemble an Atomic Bomb

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Purchase log, 2024-11-26

[Tim McGraw - Standing Room Only]

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
  • Michael Kiwanuka, Small Changes

Catalog

CD
  • Linda Ronstadt, Original Album Series
  • SZA, CTRL
  • Thievery Corporation, Culture of Fear
  • Tim McGraw, Standing Room Only
  • Trio Mediaeval, A Worcester Ladymass

Reissues

CD
  • Clannad, Legend (Extended Edition)
  • U2, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb

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Purchase log, 2024-11-19

[TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes]

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
  • Annie Lennox, Nostalgia
  • Arvo Pärt, Kanon Pokajanen
  • Beastie Boys, The In Sound from Way Out
  • Luciano Berio, VOCI (Kim Kashkashian)
  • Slint, Tweez (Remastered)
  • Tears for Fears, Saturnine Martial & Lunatic
  • Trentmøller, Dreamweaver
  • Soundtrack, Top Gun (Special Expanded Edition)
Vinyl
  • Bryan Adams, Reckless
  • Spandau Ballet, Parade

Reissues

Vinyl
  • TV on the Radio, Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes

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Purchase log, 2024-11-12

[Ray Chen - Player 1]

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
  • Ray Chen, Player 1

Catalog

CD
  • Heart, Little Queen
  • John Luther Adams, songbirdsongs
  • Linda Ronstadt, Live in Hollywood
  • Marshall Crenshaw, Live … My Truck Is My Home
  • Sting, The Bridge
  • Soundtrack, City of Angels (Original Cast Recording)
Vinyl
  • Arianna Grande, Eternal Sunshine
  • T’Pau, Bridge of Spies
  • Taylor Swift, evermore
  • Taylor Swift, folklore
  • The National, The First Two Pages of Frankenstein

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Purchase log, 2024-11-05

[Perfume - Nebula Romance]

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
  • Hentona Naoko, UTAHAI
  • Perfume, Nebula Romance: Zenpen

Catalog

CD
  • Édith Piaf, Édith Piaf: Master Serie
  • Kitaro, Kojiki
  • My Morning Jacket, Z
  • Roberta Flack, The Best of Roberta Flack
  • Various Composers, Tangazo: Music from Latin America (Michael Tilson-Thomas, New World Symphony)
Vinyl
  • 10,000 Maniacs, Interview: Lenny Kaye Talks with Natalie Merchant
  • ABBA, Live
  • Cornelius, Point (Deluxe Edition)
  • Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam, Straight to the Sky
  • Mary Jane Girls, Only Four You
  • Midnight Oil, Bird Noises
  • Sinéad O’Connor with MC Lyte, “I Want Your (Hands on Me)”
  • SZA, CTRL
  • Talk Talk, The Colour of Spring

Reissues

CD
  • Duran Duran, Danse Macabre (Deluxe Edition)
  • Nena, Nena (Deluxe Edition)
Vinyl
  • Onitsuka Chihiro, “Gekkou”

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Purchase log, 2024-10-29

[SYML - Infinity]

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
  • Tears for Fears, Songs for a Nervous Planet
Vinyl
  • SYML, Infinity
Files
  • Penzias and Wilson, Low Modes

Catalog

CD
  • Brad Paisley, 5th Gear
  • George Strait, Beyond the Blue Neon
  • Hem, I’m Talking with My Mouth
  • Kruder and Dorfmeister, G-Stoned
  • Radiohead, The King of Limbs
Vinyl
  • Company B, Company B
  • Elliott Carter, Brass Quintet / Eight Pieces for Four Timpanis
  • General Public, All the Rage
  • Marshall Crenshaw, Downtown
  • Marshall Crenshaw, Field Day
  • Marshall Crenshaw, Mary Jean and 9 Others
  • Muse, Absolution
  • Naked Eyes, Naked Eyes
  • Ornette Coleman, Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation
  • Power Station, “Get It On”
  • Shannon, Let the Music Play
  • Sleater-Kinney, Live in Paris
  • Sweet Sensation, Take It While It’s Hot
  • The Motels, All for One

Reissues

CD
  • ABBA, The Singles: The First Fifty Years
Vinyl
  • Sugababes, Angels with Dirty Faces

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