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Purchase log, 2024-07-30

[Bad Brains - I Against I]

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

Vinyl
  • Cocco, Beatrice
  • Johnny Blue Skies, PASSAGE DU DESIR

Catalog

CD
  • Bad Brains, Rock of Light
  • Material Issue, International Pop Overthrow
  • Pierre Henry, Collector
  • Split Enz, History Never Repeats: The Best of Split Enz
Vinyl
  • Daft Punk, Random Access Memories
  • DEVO, Duty Now for the Future
  • Einstürzende Neubauten, 80-83: Strategies Against Architecture
  • LCD Soundsystem, Sound of Silver
  • Shakira, Laundry Service (Washed and Dried Edition)

Reissues

CD
  • Bad Brains, I Against I
  • The Police, Synchronicity (Deluxe Edition)
Vinyl
  • Duran Duran, Big Thing
  • Linkin Park, Meteora

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Purchase log, 2024-04-09

[Omar Apollo - LIve for You]

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
  • Dave Matthews Band, Everyday
  • Haim, Women in Music, Pt. III
  • Lianne La Havas, Is Your Love Big Enough?
  • Oaktown 3.5.7, Fully Loaded
  • Shakira, Laundry Service
  • Slint, Slint
Vinyl
  • Omar Apollo, Live for Me

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Purchase log, 2024-03-26

[Sinéad O'Connor - I'm Not Bossy, I'm the Boss]

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

Vinyl
  • Kim Gordon, The Collective
  • Sleater-Kinney, Little Rope

Catalog

CD
  • J. Cole, 4 Your Eyez Only
  • John Zorn, 444
  • John Zorn, Film Works III: 1990-1995
  • John Zorn, Film Works V: Tears of Ecstacy
  • Michael Gordon, Clouded Yellow (Kronos Quartet)
  • Sade, Lovers Live
  • Shakira, Oral Fixation, Vol. 2
  • The Time, Ice Cream Castles
  • Vangelis, Blade Runner
  • X Japan, X Japan Best ~Fan’s Favorite~
Vinyl
  • The Sugarcubes, Great Crossover Potential
  • Tyondai Braxton, Telekinesis

Reissues

Vinyl
  • Sinéad O’Connor, I’m Not Bossy, I’m the Boss

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Purchase log, 2022-09-26

[Paula Cole - This Fire]

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
  • Andy Taylor, Man’s a Wolf to Man
  • Kylie Minogue, Tension

Catalog

Vinyl
  • Omar Apollo, Stereo

Reissues

CD
  • The Replacements, Tim: Let It Bleed Edition
Vinyl
  • Paula Cole, This Fire
  • Shakira, MTV Unplugged

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Purchase log, 2022-08-23

[Shakira - ¿Dónde están los ladrones?]

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
  • Duke Ellington and John Coltrane, Duke Ellington and John Coltrane
  • Isaac Hayes, Shaft
  • Marvin Gaye, Trouble Man
  • Old 97’s, Early Tracks
  • Prince, Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic
  • Temple of the Dog, Temple of the Dog
  • Wham!, The Final

Reissues

CD
  • Madonna, Finally Enough Love
  • R.E.M., Chronic Town
Vinyl
  • Shakira, ¿Dónde están los ladrones?

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Purchase log, 2022-03-01

[bloodthirsty butchers - yamane]

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, The Tipping Point

Catalog

CD
  • Black, Wonderful Life
  • Cheap Trick, Cheap Trick
  • Jack Ingram, This Is It
  • Leonard Cohen, Songs of Love and Hate
  • Mekons, I Have Been to Heaven and Back: Hen’s Teeth and other lost fragments of unpopular culture, Vol. 1
  • Nick Drake, Five Leaves Left
  • Paula Cole, This Fire
  • Scorpions, Lovedrive
  • Vanessa Williams, The Comfort Zone
  • Ween, 12 Golden Country Classics
  • Ween, Pure Guava
DualDisc
  • Shakira, Fijación oral, Vol. 1
Vinyl
  • John Coltrane, Sun Ship
  • Sarah Brightman, The Songs That Got Away

Reissues

Vinyl
  • bloodthirsty butchers, Kouya ni Okeru bloodthirsty butchers
  • bloodthirsty butchers, yamane

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Purchase log, 2020-03-17

[Andy Gibb - Shadow Dancing]

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
  • Andy Gibb, Shadow Dancing
  • Bauhaus, Burning from the Inside
  • Caifanes, La Historia
  • Camouflage, Greyscale
  • Camper Van Beethoven, II & III
  • Camper Van Beethoven, Camper Vantiquities
  • Henry Kaiser, Those Who Learn History Are Doomed to Repeat It
  • Hercules and Love Affair, Hercules and Love Affair
  • Jay Som, Anak Ko
  • Meat Puppets, Meat Puppets II
  • Melveen Leed, Melveen’s Hawaiian Country Hits
  • Mindy Smith, Long Island Shores
  • Post Malone, Hollywood’s Bleeding
  • Shakira, Pies Descalzo
  • Talking Heads, True Stories
  • The B-52’s, Party Mix / Mesopotamia
  • The Damned, Machine Gun Etiquette
  • The Dismemberment Plan, A People’s History of the Dismemberment Plan

Reissues

Vinyl
  • Spice Girls, Spiceworld

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Favorite Edition Rewind: 1998

[Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea]

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.

As much as I loved the ’80s, I can’t say the ’90s holds as much sentiment. I feel more affinity for the Aughts than I do the ’90s. That said, 1998 has proven to be rich with favorites, and I would consider it the pinnacle year in the decade. This list has gone through extensive revision from the original.

  1. Neutral Milk Hotel, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
  2. Madonna, Ray of Light
  3. Lauryn Hill, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
  4. Lucinda Williams, Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
  5. Fastball, All the Pain Money Can Buy
  6. Patty Griffin, Flaming Red
  7. SUPERCAR, Three Out Change
  8. Various Artists, For the Masses: A Tribute to Depeche Mode
  9. Bruce Robison, Wrapped
  10. Cocco, Kumuiuta

Other favorites from the year:

  • Shakira, ¿Dónde Están Los Ladrones?
  • Wendy and Lisa, Girl Bros.
  • Midnight Oil, Redneck Wonderland
  • 8 1/2 Souvenirs, Happy Feet
  • UA, Ametora
  • Kronos Quartet, Alfred Schnittke: The Complete String Quartets
  • the brilliant green, the brilliant green
  • Bang on a Can All-Stars, Music for Airports
  • Craig Armstrong, The Space Between Us
  • Julieta Venegas, Aquí
  • Aterciopelados, Caribe Atómico
  • Macha, Macha
  • Idlewild, Hope Is Important
  • Pansy Division, Absurd Pop Song Romance
  • Orgy, Candyass

A number of titles that held positions in the Favorite 10 switched places with ones in the extended list.

I didn’t give Fastball much credit 10 years ago because the album had been all over Austin at the time of its release. I got caught up in that hype, then dismissed it as such later. I was wrong. All the Pain Money Can Buy needs to be in the Favorite 10.

For the Masses actually turned me into a Depeche Mode fan. Some of the covers on the tribute album rival the originals. In the case of “Shake the Disease” and “Everything Counts”, they straight up improve them.

Madonna dominated the top position of this list for 10 years before Neutral Milk Hotel nudged her down a notch. SUPERCAR makes another revisionist ranking, pushing 8 1/2 Souvenirs off.

Idlewild makes an appearance with a debut album that’s at times bratty and tuneful. It’s a mess compared to its follow-up, 1000 Broken Windows. But it’s a riveting mess.

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Purchase log, 2018-10-02

[Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer]

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
  • Craig Armstrong, Sun On You
Vinyl
  • Janelle Monáe, Dirty Computer

Catalog

CD
  • Amuro Namie, SWEET 19 BLUES
  • Backstreet Boys, Millennium
  • Bill Frisell, In Line
  • Eminem, The Marshall Mathers LP (Explicit)
  • Freedy Johnston, Can You Fly
  • Huun-Huur-Tu, 60 Horses in My Herd
  • John Adams, Doctor Atomic Symphony / Guide to Strange Places
  • John Adams, El Dorado
  • k.d. lang, Absolute Torch and Twang
  • Lisa Gerrard, The Mirror Pool
  • Lou Harrison, Scenes from Cavafy
  • Love and Rockets, Earth, Sun, Moon
  • Semisonic, Feeling Strangely Fine
  • Shakira, MTV Unplugged
  • Shudder to Think, 50,000 B.C.

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