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Purchase log, 2019-04-30

[Icicle Works - Five Albums]

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.

It was my birthday last week, so I spent it in London, getting more study scores than records. A few of these titles were bought with birthday cash beforehand.

New releases

CD
  • Dead Can Dance, Dionysus

Catalog

CD
  • Beat Furrer, Aria / Solo / Gaspra
  • Beat Furrer, Stimmen / Face De La Chaleur / Quartett / Dort Ist Das Me
  • Carlo Gesualdo, O Dolce Mio Tesoro
  • Everything But the Girl, Eden (Deluxe Edition)
  • Everything But the Girl, Love Not Money (Deluxe Edition)
  • Icicle Works, 5 Albums
  • Perfume, JPN
  • Robert Palmer, 5 Classic Albums
  • The Human League, Dare
  • Utada Hikaru, “Face My Fears”
  • Yaz, Three Pieces
Vinyl
  • 10,000 Maniacs, Hope Chest: The Fredonia Recordings
  • Craig Armstrong, Sun on You
  • Enya, “How Can I Keep from Singing?”
  • Perfume, Future Pop
  • Various Artists, Tom’s Diner

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Purchase log, 2019-04-02

[Molotov - ¿Donde jugaran las niñas?]

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

Vinyl
  • Molotov, ¿Donde jugaran las niñas?
  • Radiohead, The Bends
  • Robert Palmer, Pressure Drop
  • The Icicle Works, If You Want to Defeat Your Enemy Sing His Song
  • Tom Tom Club, Tom Tom Club
  • Wire, Pink Flag
  • Wire Train, Between Two Worlds
  • Wire Train, Ten Women

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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, 2019-03-12

[Weezer - Weezer (Teal Album)

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
  • Weezer, Weezer (Teal Album)

Vinyl

  • Mikami Chisako, I AM Ready!
  • Utada Hikaru, “Face My Fears”

Catalog

CD
  • Aphex Twin, … I Care Because You Do
  • Arvo Pärt, Piano Music
  • Bruno Mars, Doo-Wops & Hooligans
  • Einstürzende Neubauten, Strategies Against Architecture III
  • Elliott Smith, XO
  • Jack Ingram, Midnight Motel
  • M83, Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
  • Marc Ribot, Shoe String Symphonettes
  • MGMT, Oracular Spectacular
  • Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon
  • Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here
  • Robert Palmer, Pressure Drop
  • Stephen Sondheim, Company (Original Cast Recording Remastered)
  • Steve Earle, Guitar Town
  • The Books, Lost and Safe
  • The Pogues, Hell’s Ditch
  • The Wooden Birds, Magnolia
Vinyl
  • Fleetwood Mac, Fleetwood Mac
  • Sly and the Family Stone, Greatest Hits

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Purchase log picks, January 2019

[Toto - Hydra]

Guadalcanal Diary, 2 x 4

I remember seeing Guadalcanal Diary albums filed in a section of Jelly’s Books and Music reserved for “modern rock”, the precursor of “alternative rock” that would distinguish itself from “classic rock”. I wouldn’t explore the band’s albums till nearly 30 years later. Of their four albums released in the ’80s, 2 x 4 is one of the two essentials, the other being Walking in the Shadow of the Big Man.

Perfume Genius, No Shape

I’ve stayed away from Perfume Genius because the 30-second samples I’d hear of various tracks made me conclude I’d be bored at full-length. No Shape garnered a lot of favorable press in 2018, and the thrift store price point convinced me to jump in. I’m glad I did.

Robert Palmer, Secrets

You should own this album for “Doctor, Doctor” alone, but like the rest of Palmer’s early output, this album is reliably funky.

SUPER JUNKY MONKEY, AIETOH

SUPER JUNKY MONKEY albums can get intense for their length, so this four-track EP is the perfect encapsulation of the band. I grabbed this release from the Evil Sharing Networks in the early 2000s and pined for the day I could afford to order it from overseas. Nearly 20 years later, I would get it on Amazon Marketplace for under $5.

Toto, Hydra

Toto IV gets most of the accolades, and while Hydra didn’t capture the mind share of its predecessor, it has some solid tracks, including one of my favorite Toto singlse, “99.”

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Purchase log, 2019-01-15

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
  • Deee-Lite, Infinity Within
  • George Antheil, Ballet Mecanique (Maurice Peress, New Palais Royale Orchestra)
  • Perfume, Triangle
  • T. Rex, Electric Warrior
  • The Pointer Sisters, Break Out
Vinyl
  • Buffalo Daughter, New Rock
  • Robert Palmer, Secrets

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Purchase log, 2018-10-23

[Jason Isbell and 400 Unit - Live from the Ryman]

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
  • Jason Isbell and 400 Unit, Live from the Ryman

Catalog

CD
  • Benjamin Britten, String Quartets 2 & 3 / Sinfonietta (Amadeus Quartet, Vienna Octet)
  • Cyndi Lauper, She’s So Unusual
  • Hot Hot Heat, Make Up the Breakdown
  • John Zorn, The String Quartets
  • Kahimi Karie, The Best of Trattoria Years Plus VCD
  • Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, The Heist
  • Gram Parsons and the Fallen Angels, Live 1973
  • Simon and Garfunkel, Sounds of Silence
  • Talking Heads, Little Creatures
  • Various Artists, Trojan Reggae
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphonies Nos. 40 and 41 (John Eliot Gardiner; English Baroque Soloists)
Vinyl
  • Boris, Pink
  • Icicle Works, Icicle Works
  • Frida, Something’s Going On
  • Painkiller, Guts of a Virgin
  • Robert Palmer, Sneakin’ Sally Through the Alley

Reissues

Vinyl
  • Kylie Minogue, Fever

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Purchase log, 2018-08-07

[Parquet Courts - Wide Awake!]

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
  • Parquet Courts, Wide Awake!

Catalog

CD
  • BADBADNOTGOOD, III
  • Band of Horses, Cease to Begin
  • Boris, boris at last -feedbacker-
  • Cypress Hill, Cypress Hill
  • Eminem, The Slim Shady LP
  • Jesu, Silver
  • Oscar Peterson Trio, Night Train
  • Pelican, Australasia
  • Peter Gabriel, Peter Gabriel (third album)
  • The Velvet Underground, Loaded
  • The Velvet Underground, The Velvet Underground
Vinyl
  • Animotion, Animotion
  • Cliff Richard, I’m No Hero
  • Robert Palmer, Some People Can Do What They Like
  • The Stone Roses, The Stone Roses
Files
  • Brandon Stansell, Dear John
  • Brandon Stansell, Slow Down
  • Trey Pearson, Love Is Love

Reissues

Vinyl
  • U2, Achtung Baby

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Purchase log, 2018-03-20

[Roxy Music - Avalon]

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 annual Big Book Sale by the Friends of the Seattle Public Library, so I should have enough music to last me for weeks, right? Right.

Catalog

CDs
  • Anita Baker, Giving You the Best That I Got
  • Beastie Boys, Check Your Head
  • Victor Borge, Live(!)
  • Glenn Branca, Symphony No. 2: Peak of the Sacred
  • Cameo, Word Up!
  • Capercaillie, Secret People
  • John Coltrane, Giant Steps
  • John Coltrane, Meditations
  • John Coltrane, My Favorite Things
  • John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman, John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman
  • Eazy-E, Eazy-Duz-It
  • Bill Evans Trio, Waltz for Debby
  • Fugazi, End Hits
  • Peter Gabriel, Shaking the Tree
  • Guns N’ Roses, G N’ R Lies
  • Heart, Bad Animals
  • The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Are You Experienced?
  • Ketsumeshi, Ketsunopolis 4
  • LL Cool J, Mama Said Knock You Out
  • Milt Jackson and John Coltrane, Bags and Trane
  • Joni Mitchell, Court and Spark
  • Morrissey, The Best of Morrissey
  • Mother Love Bone, Mother Love Bone
  • Nirvana, Incesticide
  • Robert Palmer, Clues
  • Prince, Musicology
  • R.E.M., Dead Letter Office
  • Radiohead, The Bends
  • Rage Against the Machine, Rage Against the Machine
  • Einojuhani Rautvaara, Symphony No. 7: Angel of Light / Annunciations
  • Sonny Rollins, Saxophone Colossus
  • Roxy Music, Avalon (Remastered)
  • Soundgarden, Ultramega OK
  • Bruce Springsteen, The Rising
  • They Might Be Giants, Flood
  • TLC, Ooooooohhh… On the TLC Tip
  • Värttinä, Seleniko
  • Soundtrack, Pride and Prejudice
DVD
  • Tokyo Jihen, Dynamite Out

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Purchase log, 2018-03-13

[Tracey Thorn - Record]

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

CDs
  • Tracey Thorn, Record

Catalog

CDs
  • Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band, Trout Mask Replica
  • Elvis Costello, Brutal Youth
  • M.I.A., Arular
  • Madonna, MDNA
  • Robert Palmer, Sneakin’ Sally Through the Alley
  • Radiohead, In Rainbows
  • The Roots, Things Fall Apart
  • Stephen Sondheim, Company (Original Cast Recording)

 

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