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Purchase log picks, fourth quarter 2024

[Linda Ronstadt - Live in Hollywood]

Linda Ronstadt, Live in Hollywood

Rhino released the full concert on YouTube, so do yourself a fever and watch it whlie it’s still available. Ronstadt filmed this concert for HBO around the time she released Mad Love.

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Live from the Ryman, Vol. 2

Many of the tracks on this second edition of live recordings from the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville come from Weathervanes, probably Isbell’s best album since Southeastern. So I’m inclined to rank it favorably over the first volume.

Various Artists, Club Epic

This compilation of remixes has some top notch hits from the ’80s: “Fantastic Voyage” by Lakeside, “Saturday Love” by Cherrelle and Alexander O’Neal, “Lover Girl” by Teena Marie, to name a few. I didn’t realize how much I missed hearing these songs.

Painkiller, Samsara

Mick Harris has traded live drums for electronics on this album reuniting the former Napalm Death drummer with bassist Bill Laswell and saxophonist John Zorn. It’s no less frenetic and still mixes well with the wild abandon for which Painkiller is known.

Ray Chen, Player One

I can’t confess to being any sort of video game soundtrack listener, so those tracks which bookend this album are pretty much adornment for the Erich Korngold Violin Concerto, the crunchiest piece of repertoire I’ve heard Chen tackle so far.

Tim McGraw, Standing Room Only

I don’t mind that Tim McGraw engages in a bit of gay-baiting, and he doesn’t move in the same creative circles of Jason Isbell or Sturgill Simpson. But I have to admit Standing Room Only sounds like an album that could imagine a Venn diagram where McGraw, Isbell and Simpson intersect.

Marshall Crenshaw, Field Day

I hadn’t explored much of Crenshaw’s early albums till a number of them showed up at the thrift store. Now I understand how the press was flummoxed that Crenshaw just never stormed the charts.

These fourth quarter picks can be found in the Favorite Edition 2024 Year Final:

  • Perfume, Nebula Romance: Zenpen

These fourth quarter picks can be found in the Favorite Edition 2024 Catalog:

  • Princess Goes, Come of Age
  • Shannon, Let the Music Play
  • SZA, CTRL

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Purchase log, 2024-11-26

[Tim McGraw - Standing Room Only]

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
  • Michael Kiwanuka, Small Changes

Catalog

CD
  • Linda Ronstadt, Original Album Series
  • SZA, CTRL
  • Thievery Corporation, Culture of Fear
  • Tim McGraw, Standing Room Only
  • Trio Mediaeval, A Worcester Ladymass

Reissues

CD
  • Clannad, Legend (Extended Edition)
  • U2, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb

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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, 2024-10-01

[Tim McGraw - Live Like You Were Dying]

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
  • MONO, Oath
Files
  • sungazer, Against the Fall of Night

Catalog

CD
  • múm, Summer Make Good
  • The Beautiful South, Welcome to the Beautiful South
  • The Chemical Brothers, Exit Planet Sun

Reissues

Vinyl
  • Tim McGraw, Live Like You Were Dying

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Purchase log, 2023-07-18

[SYML - SYML]

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
  • SYML, SYML
  • The Cranberries, No Need to Argue
  • Tim McGraw, Reflected: Greatest Hits, Vol. II
  • UNKLE, Psyence Fiction
Vinyl
  • Bright Light Bright Light, Fun City
  • David Bowie, Toy
  • Eddie Murphy, Comedian
  • Idlewild, Interview Music
  • Inventions, Continuous Portrait
  • Mastodon, Medium Rarities
  • Sufjan Stevens / Timo Andres, The Decalogue
  • Various Artists, The Problem with Leisure: A Tribute to Andy Gill and Gang of Four
Files
  • Dry Cleaning, Sweet Princess EP
  • UNKLE, The Road, Part II (Lost Highway)

Reissues

CD
  • The Dream Syndicate, The Days of Wine and Roses (40th Anniversary Edition)
Vinyl
  • Enya, A Box of Dreams

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Purchase log, 2023-06-13

[Jason Isbell - Weathervanes]

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
  • Janelle Monáe, The Age of Pleasure
  • Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Weathervanes

Catalog

CD
  • Dokken, Back on the Attack
  • Metal Church, The Dark
  • Pere Ubu, Tenement Year
  • Sugababes, Angels with Dirty Faces
  • The Specials, Singles
  • Tim McGraw, All I Want

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Purchase log, 2023-06-06

[SYML - The Day My Father Died]

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
  • Jake Shears, Last Man Dancing
  • NUMBER GIRL, Mujo no Hi
  • SYML, The Day My Father Died

Catalog

CD
  • Cyndi Lauper, She’s So Unusual (Remastered)
  • George Michael, Faith (Expanded)
  • Linkin Park, Meteora
  • Low, The Curtain Hits the Cast
  • The Black Keys, El Camino
  • Tim McGraw, A Place in the Sun

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Purchase log, 2022-10-25

[Hajime Chitose - Shima Kyora Umui]

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
  • Taylor Swift, Midnights

Catalog

CD
  • Black Sabbath, Black Sabbath
  • Brodsky Quartet, Brodsky Unlimited
  • Brothers Johnston, Greatest Hits
  • Club Nisei, Japanese Music of Hawaii
  • Hajime Chitose, Shima Kyora Umui
  • Sarah Brightman, The Songs that Got Away
  • Tim McGraw, Everywhere
Vinyl
  • Everything But the Girl, Love Not Money
  • Prefab Sprout, Two Wheels Good
  • RJD2, Deadringer
  • Queen, The Game
  • We’ve Got a Fuzzbox and We’re Going to User It, “What’s the Point (The Boisterous One)”

Reissues

Vinyl
  • Kylie Minogue, Impossible Princess

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Purchase log, 2022-09-27

[Missing Persons - Spring Session M]

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
  • Built to Spill, You in Reverse
  • Chara, Strange Fruit
  • clipping., CLPPNG
  • Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Concerto Grosso / Symbolon / Concerto For Trumpet And 5 Players / Double Quartet For Strings
  • Everything but the Girl, Adapt or Die: 10 Years of Remixes
  • Kylie Minogue, Kiss Me Once
  • Marvin Gaye, Here, My Dear
  • Missing Persons, Spring Session M
  • The Lilac Time, & Love for All
  • The Roots, Rising Down
  • Tim McGraw, Not a Moment Too Soon
Vinyl
  • Beastie Boys, Paul’s Boutique
  • R.E.M., Chronic Town EP
  • Whiskeytown, Strangers Almanac

Reissues

CD
  • Duran Duran, Pop Trash
  • Duran Duran, Red Carpet Massacre

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Purchase log, 2022-07-19

[Hole - Live Through 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.

New releases

Vinyl
  • The Linda Lindas, Growing Up

Catalog

CD
  • Andrew Lloyd Webber, Starlight Express (Original Cast)
  • Brandy, Never Say Never
  • Dmitri Shostakovich, The Jazz Album (Riccardo Chailly, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra)
  • Domenico Scarlatti, Keyboard Sonatas (Andras Schiff)
  • Julie Miller, Broken Things
  • k.d. lang and the Reclines, Angel with a Lariat
  • Linkin Park, Hybrid Theory
  • Modeste Mussorgsky, Panorama
  • Pyotir Tchaikovsky, The Tchaikovsky Album (Sir Georg Solti, Chicago Symphony Orchestra)
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers, Blood Sugar Sex Magik
  • Sergei Rachmaninoff, Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 4 (Philippe Entremont, Eugene Ormandy, Philedelphia Orchestra)
  • The Time, Pandemonium
  • Tim McGraw, Damn Country Music
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Don Giovanni
Vinyl
  • Ben Watt, North Marine Drive
  • Guns N’ Roses, Use Your Illusion I
  • Hole, Live Through This
  • Ryuichi Sakamoto, B-2 Unit

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