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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, 2019-10-01

[The Replacements - Dead Man's Pop]

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
  • Sturgill Simpson, Sound and Fury

Catalog

CD
  • Aretha Franklin, Young, Gifted and Black
  • Dolly Parton, Jolene / My Tennessee Mountain Home
  • Dr. Dre, 2001
  • Dusty Springfield, Dusty in Memphis
  • Elvis Costello and the Attractions, Imperial Bedroom
  • Goldfrapp, Black Cherry
  • Gossip, Music for Men
  • Prince, Dirty Mind
  • Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, 100 Days, 100 Nights
  • Scissor Sisters, Night Work
  • The B-52’s, Funplex
  • Tracey Ullman, You Broke My Heart in 17 Places

Reissues

CD
  • The Replacements, Dead Man’s Pop
Vinyl
  • Pinback, Summer in Abaddon

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Purchase log, 2018-11-20

[Hajime Chitose - Hajime Uta]

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
  • Hajime Chitose, Hajime Uta ~Hajime Chitose Amami Shimauta-shuu~
  • Midnight Oil, Armistice Day: Live at the Domain, Sydney

Catalog

CD
  • ABC, Absolutely
  • Brooklyn Rider, Spontaneous Symbols
  • Dead Can Dance, Spleen and Ideal
  • Franz Josef Hadyn, String Quartets, Op. 20 “Sun”, 1-3 (Kodály Quartet)
  • Franz Josef Hadyn, String Quartets, Op. 20 “Sun”, 4-6 (Kodály Quartet)
  • Godspeed You! Black Emperor, F# A# ∞
  • Scissor Sisters, Ta-Dah
  • The Notwist, Neon Golden
  • The Rustavi Choir, Georgian Voices
Vinyl
  • Olivia Newton-John, Physical
  • Renée Fleming, Dark Hope
  • The Pointer Sisters, Break Out

Reissues

CD
  • Art of Noise, In No Sense? Nonsense! (Deluxe Edition)
  • Fastball, All the Pain Money Can Buy (Deluxe Edition)
Vinyl
  • Eurythmics, Peace
  • Fastball, All the Pain Money Can Buy (Deluxe Edition)

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Favorite Edition Rewind: 2004

[Madvillain - Madvillainy]

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 first half of the 2004 list has remained unchanged. The last half has undergone extensive revision.

  1. Arcade Fire, Funeral
  2. Eluvium, An Accidental Memory in Case of Death
  3. Kicell, Mado Ni Chikyuu
  4. Dylan Rice, Wandering Eyes
  5. The Killers, Hot Fuss
  6. Madvillain, Madvillainy
  7. Loretta Lynn, Van Lear Rose
  8. The Streets, A Grand Don’t Come for Free
  9. Mindy Smith, One Moment More
  10. STRAIGHTENER, LOST WORLD’S ANTHOLOGY

Other favorites from the year:

  • Pinback, Summer in Abaddon
  • SUPERCAR, ANSWER
  • Kanye West, The College Dropout
  • ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION, Solfa
  • Bonnie Pink, Even So
  • Fuji Fabric, Fuji Fabric
  • Sacha Sacket, Shadowed
  • m-flo, Astromantic
  • The Butchies, Make Yr Life
  • Scissor Sisters, Scissor Sisters
  • ZAZEN BOYS, ZAZEN BOYS II

A lot of these revisions are retrospective. I listened to SUPERCAR’s ANSWER when it was reissued on vinyl, and I didn’t find the album as engaging as I originally thought. I’ve come to like Hot Fuss more as time has passed, and I don’t feel as much attachment to Van Lear Rose.

My growing appreciation for hip-hop means Madvillain and The Streets knock Quruli’s Antenna off the list entirely.

I’m still a bit skeptical about keeping Mindy Smith in the Favorite 10, or bumping STRAIGHTENER into the upper echelon. I picked up Pinback’s Summer in Abaddon from Goodwill out of curiosity, and I have a sense that in short time, it will nudge Smith or STRAIGHTENER down to the extended list.

As we go further back to the start of the Aughts, the extended list grows longer. A lot of great music came out at the start of the century. If the Internet hadn’t splintered the mass market, it might have been a galvanizing golden age of popular music.

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Favorite Edition Rewind: 2012

[Cody ChesnuTT - Landing on a Hundred]

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.

What I find most remarkable about the 2012 list is the number of albums listed under honorable mentions. The revised list has culled a lot of those titles. I probably listed so many because I didn’t feel passionate enough about any of them.

  1. Solange, True
  2. Santigold, Master of My Make-Believe
  3. Jeremy Denk, Ligeti/Beethoven
  4. … And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead, Lost Songs
  5. Frank Ocean, channel ORANGE
  6. Cody Chesnutt, Landing on a Hundred
  7. ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION, Landmark
  8. ZAZEN BOYS, Stories
  9. Tokyo Jihen, Shinyawaku
  10. Duran Duran, A Diamond in the Mind

Other favorites from the year:

  • Scissor Sisters, Magic Hour
  • Roomful of Teeth, Roomful of Teeth
  • Gossip, A Joyful Noise
  • Tokyo Jihen, Tokyo Collection
  • TOUMING MAGAZINE, TOUMING MAGAZINE FOREVER
  • OBLIVION DUST, 9 Gates of Bipolar
  • Gaytheist, Stealth Beats

Cody ChesnuTT dislodges Scissor Sisters from the original list, and Frank Ocean jumps up a few spots. Otherwise, there are no remarkable changes.

If anything, 2012 has turned out to be something of a dud year. When I review my purchases in subsequent years, 2012 releases are scant, and most of the albums I bought that year only garner no more than a 3-star rating.

 

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Purchase log, 2018-08-28

[David Bowie - Scary Monsters]

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
  • Band of Horses, Everything All the Time
  • Darren Hayes, The Tension and the Spark
  • Enigma, The Cross of Changes
  • Mary J. Blige, What’s the 411?
  • Missy Elliott, Miss E … So Addictive
  • Scissor Sisters, Scissor Sisters
  • The Zombies, Odessey and Oracle
Vinyl
  • Alphaville, Forever Young
  • Cliff Richard, We Don’t Talk Anymore
  • David Bowie, Scary Monsters
  • Lucinda Williams, Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
  • Television, Marquee Moon

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