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Purchase log, 2024-10-22

[Jeremy Denk - Ives Denk]

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
  • Charli XCX, Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat
  • Jeremy Denk, IVES DENK
  • Kylie Minogue, Tension II
Vinyl
  • Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Live from the Ryman, Vol. 2

Catalog

CD
  • A Taste of Honey, A Taste of Honey (Deluxe Edition)
  • Emerson String Quartet / Barbara Hannigan / Bertrand Chamayou, Infinite Voyage
  • Fastball, The Harsh Light of Day
  • Feist, The Remainder
  • Gary Jules, Trading Snakeoil for Wolftickets
  • Groove Amanda, Lovebox
  • Princess Goes, Come of Age
  • Talking Heads, Stop Making Sense (Deluxe Edition)
  • The Postal Service, Give Up (Deluxe Edition)
  • Tsubakiya Shijuusou, Shinku Naru Shozou
  • Yes, 90125 (Expanded)
Vinyl
  • Bon Jovi, Slippery When Wet
  • Double, Dou3le
  • Gyorgi Ligeti, String Quartet No. 2 / Lux Aeterna / Volumina / Etude no. 1 “Harmonies”
  • Kylie Minogue, Tension
  • Tim McGraw, Standing Room Only

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Purchase log, 2023-09-12

[The Postal Service - Everything Will Change]

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 Postal Service, Everything Will Change

Catalog

CD
  • Fritz Kreisler, Kreisler Plays Kreisler
  • Girl in a Coma, Exits and All the Rest
  • Shriekback, Go Bang!
  • Various Artists, Ministry of Sound: The Ibiza Annual Mixed By Judge Jules and Boy George
Vinyl
  • Club Nouveau, Under a Nouveau Groove
  • The Dream Syndicate, Out of the Grey

Reissues

Vinyl
  • Prince, Graffiti Bridge

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Favorite Edition Rewind: 2003

[The Wrens - The Meadowlands]

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.

Back in February, I argued 2002 was an important year in music of the 2000s. 2003 is no slouch in that regard either. The list from that year sees no major changes.

  1. Shiina Ringo, Karuki Zaamen Kuri no Hana
  2. ACO, Irony
  3. Molotov, Dance and Dense Denso
  4. Café Tacuba, Cuatro Caminos
  5. ART-SCHOOL, LOVE/HATE
  6. Sasagawa Miwa, Jijitsu
  7. bloodthirsty butchers, Kouya ni Okeru bloodthirsty butchers
  8. Bonnie Pink, Present
  9. downy, untitled third album
  10. Explosions in the Sky, The Earth Is Not a Cold, Dead Place

Other favorites from the year:

  • Outkast, Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
  • Death Cab for Cutie, Transatlanticism
  • Bleach, Bleach
  • The Postal Service, Give Up
  • NUMBER GIRL, Sapporo OMOIDE IN MY HEAD Joutai
  • Onitsuka Chihiro, Sugar High
  • Original Cast Recording, Avenue Q
  • Emmylou Harris, Stumble Into Grace
  • NIRGILIS, Tennis
  • Rufus Wainwright, Want One
  • Hayashi Asuca, Saki
  • Caitlin Cary, I’m Staying Out
  • The Bad Plus, These Are the Vistas
  • DJ Krush, Shinsou ~Message from the Depth~
  • Benjamin Gibbard / Andrew Kenny, Home, Vol. 5
  • The Wrens, The Meadowlands
  • Longwave, The Strangest Things

The only change is switching out Explosions in the Sky for Outkast, and the extended list adds the Wrens and Longwave.

I was working at Waterloo Records in 2003, and legitimate download services hadn’t gotten off the ground yet to stem the tide of rampant file sharing. So I was discovering a lot of great music through word of mouth and on the job.

While I’ve added a number of 2003 titles to my collection in the following years, few have edged their way into this already crowded field.

So I guess I’m pretty set where 2003 is concerned.

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