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Purchase log, 2025-04-15

[Emmylou Harris - Spyboy]

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
  • downy, untitled (eighth album)
Vinyl
  • Kelela, In the Blue Light
  • Post Malone, Post Malone Tribute to Nirvana
  • Sting, Sting 3.0 Live

Catalog

CD
  • Blind Idiot God, Cyclotron
  • Lounge Lizards, Live in Berlin, Vol. 1
  • Ned Doheny, Ned Doheny
  • Various Artists, Studio One Classics
  • Various Artists, Studio One Funk
  • Various Artists, Studio One Kings
  • Various Artists, Studio One Rude Boy
Vinyl
  • D’Angelo, Voodoo
  • Queens of the Stone Age, In Times New Roman …
  • SYML, In My Body

Reissues

Vinyl
  • a-ha, Hunting High and Low: The Demos
  • Charli XCX, Number 1 Angel
  • Dead or Alive, Youthquake Remixes
  • Duran Duran, DANSE MACABRE DE LUXE Bonus Tracks
  • Emmylou Harris, Spyboy
  • Hindu Love Gods, Hindu Love Gods
  • Lianne La Havas, Is Your Love Big Enough?
  • Neurotic Outsiders, Neurotic Outsiders
  • Passengers, Original Soundtracks, Vol. 1
  • Paul Hardcastle, Paul Hardcastle
  • Prince and the New Power Generation, Live at Grand Slam
  • Rage Against the Machine, Live on Tour 1993
  • Shudder to Think, Pony Express Record
  • Slint, tweez (tweethan mix)
  • Talking Heads, Live on Tour
  • Thievery Corporation, The Cosmic Game
  • Throwing Muses, Live in Providence

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Purchase log, 2024-12-31

[Ludwig Van Beethoven - George Szell Conducts Beethoven]

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
  • Adeem the Artist, Anniversary

Catalog

CD
  • Bruce Springsteen, Human Touch
  • Bruce Springsteen, Lucky Town
  • Gillian Welch, Soul Journey
  • Laura Branigan, Branigan
  • Molotov, Solo D’Lira
  • X, More Fun in the New World
  • Various Artists, Rave New World

Reissues

CD
  • Ludwig Van Beethoven, George Szell Conducts Beethoven (Cleveland Symphony)

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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, 2024-12-10

[Various Artists - Club Epic]

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

Files
  • SYML, Infinity
Vinyl
  • Tiffany Poon, Diaries Schumann

Catalog

CD
  • Richard Pryor, … Is It Something I Said?
  • Taylor Swift, evermore
  • Various Artists, Club Epic: A Collection Of Classic Dance Mixes, Volume 1
Vinyl
  • Ministry, ΚΕΦΑΛΗΞΘ
Files
  • SYML, Meant to Stay Hid
  • SYML, Mr. Sandman
  • SYML, Take Me Apart
  • SYML, The Dark
  • SYML, The Walker

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Purchase log, 2024-05-21

[Brian Fennell - Safety Songs]

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
  • Brian Fennell, Safety Songs
  • The Geto Boys, The Geto Boys
  • Ricky Martin, Ricky Martin
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, The Late Symphonies (Neville Marriner, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields)
  • Various Artists, Definitive Jux Presents … Company Flow
Vinyl
  • M.I.A, Matangi

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Purchase log, 2024-05-14

[The Sugarcubes - Stick Around for Joy]

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
  • St. Louis Symphony, Bernstein: Serenade / Williams: Violin Concerto No. 1 (James Ehnes, Stéphane Denève)

Catalog

CD
  • Janet Jackson, All for You
  • John Coltrane, Blue World
  • k.d. lang, Recollection
  • Kacey Musgraves, Pageant Material
  • Ludwig van Beethoven, Violin Concerto / Romances (Maxim Vengerov; Mstislav Rostropovich, London Symphony Orchestra)
  • Paul Simon, Still Crazy After All These Years
  • Salt ‘N’ Pepa, A Blitz of Salt ‘N’ Pepa: The Hits Remixed
  • Voice of the Beehive, Honey Lingers
  • Various Artists, Do You Know House? Vol. 1
Vinyl
  • Bee-Gees, Odessa

Reissues

Vinyl
  • Kirsty MacColl, Titanic Days
  • Sinéad O’Connor, “You Made Me the Thief of Your Heart”
  • The Sugarcubes, Stick Around for Joy

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Purchase log, 2023-10-24

[Sampha - LAHAI]

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
  • Sampha, LAHAI

Catalog

CD
  • Beastie Boys, Hello Nasty
  • Cream, Disraeli Gears
  • fIREHOSE, fROMOHIO
  • Pharrell Williams, G I R L
  • Soul Asylum, And the Horse They Rode On
  • The Replacements, Goodbye Bozos
  • Whiskeytown, Rural Delivery Service
Vinyl
  • Beastie Boys, Licensed to Ill
  • Dmitri Shostakovich, Quartet No. 4 / Quartet No. 8 (Borodin Quartet)
  • Grace Jones, Living My Life
  • Grace Jones, Slave to the Rhythm
  • Interpol, Turn On the Bright Lights
  • Johann Sebastian Bach, Inventions and Sinfonias (Gustav Leonhardt)
  • Mr. Mister, Welcome to the Real World
  • Nonesuch Explorer Series, Golden Rain
  • Prince, Sign O the Times
  • Samuel Barber, Piano Sonata / Souvenirs / Nocturne (Ruth Laredo)
  • Talking Heads, Naked
  • The Godfathers, More Songs About Love and Hate
  • The Highwomen, The Highwomen
  • The Tourists, Luminous Basement
  • Wham!, Music from the Edge of Heaven

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Purchase log, 2023-08-01

[Sinéad O'Connor - Gospel Oak EP]

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
  • Don Caballero, World Class Listening Problem
  • Lina, Stranger on Earth
  • Sinėad O’Connor, Gospel Oak EP
  • The Donnas, Gold Medal
  • Tiësto, In Search of Sunrise 6: Ibiza
  • Soundtrack, Star Trek Voyager: The Caretaker
  • Various Artists, Hal Wilner Presents Weird Nightmare: Meditations on Mingus

Reissues

Vinyl
  • Rufus Wainwright, Want One

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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, 2023-05-23

[The National - The First Two Pages of Frankenstein]

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 National, The First Two Pages of Frankenstein

Catalog

CD
  • Broken Social Scene, Broken Social Scene
  • Earth, Wind & Fire, The Best of Earth, Wind & Fire, Vol. 1
  • Nena, Original Album Classics
  • Rosanne Cash, King’s Record Shop
  • Various Artists, Living In Oblivion, Vol. 5
Vinyl
  • Kylie Minogue, Kylie

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