![[Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire]](https://musicwhore.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/RageAgainsttheMachineEvi316565_f.jpg)
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.
Tags: genesis, purchase log, rage against the machine, soundtrack, the white stripes
![[Ray Chen - The Golden Age]](https://musicwhore.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/RayChenTheGoldenAge201282846_f.jpg)
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.
Tags: carol nethen, caroline shaw, daft punk, enya, lianne la havas, pizzicato five, pj harvey, purchase log, ray chen, sarah kirkland snider, seawind, so percussion, soundtrack, stevie wonder, system of a down, the smiths, the white stripes, tristan perich, vagabon, yola
![[Midnight Oil - Resist]](https://musicwhore.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/MidnightOilResist.jpg)
Billed as the final Midnight Oil, Resist finds the environmentally-conscious Australian band topical as ever. And it’s been four decades since they drew attention to these issues. How much progress have we made since?
I saw a lot of people online express excitement over the return of Tears for Fears, and yet, I don’t remember that much attention being drawn to their last album, 2004’s Everybody Loves a Happy Ending. I have to admit, that album is my least played of theirs.
I can’t think of a more appropriate title to describe the zeitgeist of the early 2020s. A digital release on Jan. 19 precedes the physical release in February.
Enya has been around long enough for her albums to receive the deluxe reissue treatment, but I also get the sense she’s pretty ambivalent of such reissues. So this vinyl reissue seems more like the label trying to make sure people know Enya is still around. Jan. 7 is a US import release date. The single is already available in the UK.
This soundtrack gets occasional vinyl reissues that sell out quick and fetch exorbitant prices on Discogs. So yeah, I’m going to try to snag a copy.
I picked up this album and Rid of Me from the thrift store at the same time, and I like both albums. But Rid of Me monopolized more of my player time. I’ve still eagerly awaited this vinyl reissue, nonetheless.
I’d say I’m more interested in the Elephant reissue over Get Behind Me Satan. I haven’t listened to Icky Thump.
Tags: enya, looking ahead, midnight oil, pj harvey, soundtrack, tears for fears, the white stripes, utada hikaru
![[Kylie Minogue - DISCO]](https://musicwhore.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/KylieMinogueDISCO202025589025G2_f-300x300.jpg)
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.
Tags: alice in chains, bill evans, guided by voices, john luther adams, jonsi, killing joke, kylie minogue, pj harvey, purchase log, sia, the white stripes
![[Pop Will Eat Itself - This Is the Day ... This Is the Hour ... This Is This!]](https://musicwhore.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/PopWillEatItselfThisIs205903_f-296x300.jpg)
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.
Tags: aretha franklin, atmosphere, beck, billy idol, bis, bjork, bon jovi, branford marsalis, daniel lanois, david bowie, dawn upshaw, dead or alive, eleanor steber, gyorgi ligeti, jane's addiction, joanna newsom, john coltrane, john zorn, johnny cash, josquin de pres, led zeppelin, lizz wright, lovage, mazzy star, mike patton, millions like us, oingo boingo, olivier messiaen, osvaldo golijov, pj harvey, pop will eat itself, purchase log, queen latifah, robert palmer, roberta flack, sonic youth, soundgarden, soundtrack, spice girls, stephen sondheim, the beatles, the mars volta, the white stripes, thelonious monk, tom tom club, various artists, william grant still, william schuman, xtc, yaz, yvonne elliman
![[MONO - Nowhere Now Here]](https://musicwhore.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/monoNowhereNowHere201920278414IR_f-300x300.jpg)
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.
Tags: bananarama, def leppard, duran duran, mary j blige, mindy smith, mono, nitzer ebb, purchase log, queens of the stone age, salt 'n' pepa, the 2 live crew, the afghan whigs, the white stripes, toto, when in rome
![[Quruli - THE WORLD IS MINE]](https://musicwhore.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/QuruliTheWorldIsMine-300x265.jpg)
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.
If you want an explanation for the length of this list, see 2002: An important year in music for the 2000s. This 2002 list has gone through a few ranking changes and added even more titles.
Other favorites from the year:
I picked up Original Pirate Material for $1 at Lifelong Thrift Shop, and now I understand why it was all over the place in 2002. I couldn’t open a music magazine without seeing Mike Skinner mentioned in it. I’m pretty sure the sample of Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9 sealed my admiration for the album.
THE WORLD IS MINE is something of a mea culpa. At the time of its release, I recognized the album as being Quruli’s most complex, but I just couldn’t get into it. I probably felt that it didn’t go far enough if it was going to be ambitious.
Well, the joke’s on me. I listened to it again before its reissue on vinyl, and I really dug it, much more than Antenna, which I praised effusively at the time. So it knocked Minako’s one and only album off the Favorite 10. UA also had to make room for the Streets.
The extended list includes albums I originally dismissed: Murray Street by Sonic Youth and One Beat by Sleater-Kinney.
I remember stocking Nappy Roots during my shifts at Waterloo Records and wondering what the big deal was. A $1 copy from Lifelong Thrift Shop 16 years later educated me. I probably wouldn’t have been exposed to Nappy Roots, The Decemberists or ISIS without having worked at Waterloo.
Tags: and you will know us by the trail of dead, bugy craxone, caitlyn cary, damien jurado, favorite edition, hajime chitose, hatakeyama miyuki, hem, isis, joan jeanrenaud, kronos quartet, kylie minogue, minako, missy elliott, n.e.r.d., nappy roots, number girl, patty griffin, pedro the lion, queens of the stone age, quruli, rewind, shiratori maika, sleater-kinney, sonic youth, the back horn, the books, the decemberists, the flaming lips, the hives, the roots, the streets, the white stripes, ua, wilco, zoobombs