Hmm, interesting that you would describe the music as Steely Dan-ish and a little bit 70's, a little bit 70's yeah, but Steely Danish, I'd say no. I liked the earlier Steely Dan stuff myself, such as their music from around the Pretzel Logic era. However, my ears perked up here not because I am a fan of Frankenreiter (it may take me awhile to get into his music...I'll give it some time) but because I just received a CD today from the local radio station for which I'm a sponsor, and their CD of the month has also been described, in part, as reminiscent of Steely Dan. Read on.

Zero 7 "The Garden"
"The Garden is an intriguing listen, showcasing the sophistication that makes Zero 7 the STeen Dan of chillout--wry, intelligent lyrical observations, inteventive musicianship,k a detached sense of cool forged by the duo's heady blend of folk, jazz, '70's soul, and electronica. The Garden is a wonderfully diverse collection of sounds and beats and songs. Zero 7 continue to push vocal based elctronica towards adventurous places." -- commentary sent from my radio station

My 16 yr old son and I listened to some of the CD, and he informed me that "electronica" is not the same thing as "techno"; he states that techno is more dance music than electronica. May take a few spins in the CD player for me. So far, I'm not able to adapt 70's pop style funk now turned electronica into something meaningful enough that I want to hear it more than once. But, I'll give it another listen to. Somehow, I find this style of music boring.

I have "Fool" on my myspace page. I love(love) his new stuff too!
I'll have to wait on the new one... but it's in the plans!

Lol re: the music store obsession. Y'all are silly.
It can't be that way, tho. I need money for things like... shoes and makeup!

make-up wears off daily, shoes wear out frequently, but on my shelves are CDs I bought almost 20 years ago... CDs will be with you when all that "fashion" or "personal hygene" has left you with nothing to show for the investment but some dirty washcloths and a bag full of salvation army donations...

I definitely hear Steely Dan in the songs I mentioned. But just for those keeping score at home, I didn't say the whole CD was Steely Dan-ish merely some of the songs. I also pointed out that there were songs like Josh Rouse and Remy Shand. However the main point is that this is NOT and acoustic CD like Donavon's first CD which if I remember correctly was completely acoustical and totally Jack Johnson-ish (he even sang on one or two songs...) I really like the first one and I like the groove on the new one, but hey, what can I say, I'm a groovy guy...

However, I don't do electronica all that often and never techno pop too 80's for me. I rarely do dance or disco, but sign me up for every funky groove you can find. Big Head Todd & the Monsters to Rufus or Steely Dan (Aja is one of my all time favs) to Remy Shand, Philospher Kings to Level 42 to Little Feat's Feel The Groove.

Foo Fighters: One by One, Foo Fighters: Foo Fighters - liking them both a lot, a whole lot of energy there ~

J. R. Monterose - jazz music recorded in 1956....oh, I just can't keep this one out of my car CD player for very long! I am completely soaked into this CD. Jazz at its finest as far as I'm concerned. If I get brave and take this CD out of my car sometime, perhaps I will be lucky enough to find another jazz CD in the ballpark. This is soooooooooooo good. I liked it well the lst time through, and every subsequent playing I like it even more because I know it more. Wow, I'm so greatful for the recommendation!

Strays Don't Sleep- self titled

A rather interesting combination of Matthew Ryan/Neilson Hubbard on this 2CD set.
Music made for late night for sure.

Eric Bachman- To the Races

Found this as a promo in the used bin, its to be released 8/22.
First album released under his name, has always been Crooked Fingers.
He's also touring with Richard Buckner this fall, 2 of my favorite singer-songwriters.

katie reider - "no retakes" & "i am ready" at her show tonight.

great, great show btw. this girl can seriously rock your socks off.

This is an excellent album IMO. He's a very good songwriter and has a wonderful voice, a little reminiscent of early Elton John circa Tumbleweed Connection.

Todd Snider's new cd, The Devil You Know, arrived in the mail today from Best Buy and it's great. I haven't quite made it throught the whole thing yet, but it might actually be better than his last, East Nashville Skyline (which would be quite an achievement). Between The Devil You Know and Will Kimbrough's powerful Americanitis, I think these two cds pretty much sum up the current state of the union.

A couple weeks back, we saw Greg Trooper and Diana Jones at Moonlight Music Cafe, in Birmingham. We picked up Greg's 2001 live cd, Between Home and a Hard Place, and Diana's new cd, My Remembrance of You. This was the second time my wife and I had seen Greg (we saw him open for Richard Thompson, last summer, in Nashville) and the second time all of us had seen Diana (she opened for Pierce Pettis at Moonlight, last fall).

If you love roots music, you're probably familiar with Greg already, but if you're not, do yourself a favor and check him out. He's been writing great country/folk/rock/soul music for about fifteen years, releasing eight cds in all. If you can get your hands on a copy of Popular Demons (1998), do it! It was produced by Buddy Miller, who also performs on it, as well (Julie, too). His 2005 cd, Make It Throught This World, was produced by Dan Penn. I mean, how much more persuasion do you need, anyway?

Diana Jones, on the other hand, is another story. If you're a fan of Iris Dement or Gillian Welch (and I am), you'll love Diana! Diana's music is actually more authentic and traditional than Iris or Gillian, though. Her family roots are from the East Tennessee hills. Her new cd, My Remembrance of You, is a little brief, but it is fantastic! If you can listen to Pony and not be moved by it, then you must have a heart of stone.

The sad news is that Moonlight Music is closing in September! Apparently, they have not been able to consistently draw crowds for the folks they've been booking (and they've been booking folks like Lucy Kaplansky, Dave Olney, etc.). For example, the crowd for Greg & Diana's show was only a couple dozen people! They both played like it was a full house. What an unfortunate thing for us music fans in Alabama. Come on, people! Is football the only thing you folks think about, around here? (Sorry, rant over.)

Hey, Keith! Glad to hear you picked this up and are enjoying it. I'm still wearing it out, two months running now. I picked it up when we went to see OtR in Nashville, the beginning of June.

sure you guys, just make me keep adding to my list.

tomorrow's cd saturday, so somewhere along the line i'll bet some of these
show up for the ride home.
i saw the new todd snider at best buy for less than 10 bucks, and it had a bonus cd with it,
so thats a for sure.
thanks for the nice reviews of the artists bornagain, will be looking for some of them tomorrow,
as well as the jeffrey foucault

BTW, did anyone catch Todd Snider on Leno, Wednesday night? He and the band sounded great! Just wish he'd done You Got Away With It instead of Looking for a Job (would had loved to hear the audience reaction to that one - it's killer!).

dude. i'm kind of insane when it comes to buying music but, i'm not even in the same ballpark with you.

If you buy more used you will be able to stretch your dollar farther.

i buy a ton of used stuff, still not even close to kent.

Well you do have two kids in college, no fault in not buying as much. Kent and my addictions take a lot of practice hehe.

it helps to finally have the kid out of college, plus when you work a 60-70 hour week sometimes, it can add up to a nice chunk of spare change for the cd addiction

Todd Snider's East Nashville Skyline is a hilarious album, especially if you've ever tried to figure out the lyrics of Louie Louie.

That CD was another birthday gift from my pal Rhonda, I had never heard of him before last month. Guess I'll have to pick up his new one before too long.

kent check katie out at: Katie Reider - My Space, i hate to add another obsession to your compulsion (ok, not really ), but i think you'll dig her. great stuff, and she/they are killer live.

maybe we should stop joking about this "chick singers anon" program and really consider starting it...

Katie does sound good bill, thanks for adding to my compulsive obsession or is it obsessive compulsion.
i did come home with a few more goodies today, i'll list later

i do think we need a trademark tagline for 'chick singers anon' for sure
to go with man-cave ......and
old dudes......and..........cdaholics.......and......

From auctions, the CD club, and my visit to the store today:

Quartet: Russ Freeman with Chet Baker(24bit Japanese remaster)
Chet Baker-The Artistry of Chet Baker(24bit Japanese remaster)
Chet Baker Sextet-Chet is Back!(24bit Japanese remaster)
Don Cherry-Where is Brooklyn?(RVG 24bit remaster)
Clifford Brown All Stars-Best Coast Jazz(Japanese issue)
Muse-Showbiz

I forgot to put Coltrane-Stardust

Allright CHK, your turn to spill it

ok, ok, jimbo here it is-
these are some of my gets this past weekend

Greg Trooper- Make it Through This World
The Glaciers-The Moonlight Never Misses an Appointment
Bee and Flower- Whats Mine is Yours (compared to Low meets the Spinanes)
Flashing Red Airplane- My Life as a Frog (compared to Ida/Cat Power, so had to buy it)
Martha Wainwright- I Will Internalize (an EP by her)
all the above for less than 5.00 plus
The Year Zero- Oceania, I will Return- wonderful dream pop/shoegaze (female vocals of course)
Red Eyed- a new compilation of Mpls Shoegaze/Dream Pop 1992-1998 (has a bunch of stuff I have only on vinyl)
plus got my daughter a couple- Ani diFranco's newest one and Donovan Frankenreiter's newest one,
and I also got a 2nd one of that which i also gave to a friend who wanted it, too.
All used (except the comp), so not too pricy at all, and yes i'm insane!

so are there any good CD stores in Cincy when i go there for CST?, Dayton?

Dayton: Gem City Music in the Oregon District (5th Street) -- walkable from CST

Cinti: Everybody's Music in Pleasant Ridge -- great used & vinyl selections. the rest is hit or miss for me.
Shake-It in Northside -- great smattering of about everything... and they have a downstairs full of jazz and avant-garde shit (read: the only store I know who carries Tzadik CDs on a regular basis)

~fff - np: chien-yin chen - purr

How to Save a Life - The Fray

As I do much of my listening on uber-nerd headphones, I'm big on upgrades and remasters and such, since digital mastering technology has come a long way since albums were first issued on CD in the 80's.

So I've been trading away some of my old CD's that have been recently re-released on LaLa...old Airplane, Stones, Dylan, Rush, Depeche Mode, etc...and getting some cool stuff in return:

John Wetton - Battle Lines
Steve Lukather - Candyman
Peter Gabriel - Long Walk Home
Ty Tabor - Moonflower Lane
Silverchair - Diorama (just for you, Dan)
Paul Gilbert - King Of Clubs
Jeff Scott Soto - Lost In The Translation
Rachael Yamagata - Happenstance
Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms
Morcheeba - Fragments Of Freedom

Maybe I'm taking advantage of the fact that their site does not yet account for different versions of an album (it even says so right in their FAQ), but hey...I'm getting new CD's out of it.

LaLa is cool... I just can't seem to get into it, yet, though... maybe when my bevy of unwanted titles that aren't selling for me on Amazon or Half.com goes down, I'll list 'em on LaLa and we'll see...

Diorama is great. It's good to know where the band has been, too... but that's a good album anyway.

~fff - np: anthony coleman's sephardic tinge - our beautiful garden is open

I really don't ever need to hear Frogstomp ever again. Maybe if Diorama really clicks with me I'll go one album back from that, but I heard the early stuff plenty of times...meh.

There are some "decent" tracks on Frogstomp, but overall.. I hear ya... their 2nd album, Freak, was a step in the right direction, but still fairly less than what they've grown into...

Diorama and Neon Ballroom are the only two real mature releases of theirs... Neon Ballroom is what piqued my interest in Silverchair. Outside of the lead-off single ("Anthem for the Year 2000"... blech), it's a SOLID album. "Steam Will Rise" and "Emotion Sickness" are fantastic songs...

~fff - np: anthony coleman - shmutsige magnaten

thanks Dan, appreciate it

i got a free CD about why i should buy some of kind of mattress that makes me hurt just listening about it.

So ... is it just me, or is this thread the big ole macho "peeing contest" between Dan and Kent?

maybe Yojimbo and Kent...

I don't post what I recently bought in here all that much (like, only twice in the last four months -- seriously)...

I do reply to what other people bought a lot, though...

~fff

If you read back, this thread is about Apples buying new music. Kent and I do post more than some others, but we aren't the only ones. We just happen to be either more open and/or more addicted to new music than some others. Its just a friendly competition between me and Mr. Cheesehead Kent. Everyone that buys music, no matter how many CD's or tracks is a winner.

Secondly, if you haven't learned already, women pee. Guys piss.

is it really pee? 'cuase i say both.

I have not posted here for some time, and I hate when lists in the "Music" section looks like bragging. I don't think anyone here brags, but is merely suggesting something new or different to fellow Orchard dwellers - be they apples, branches, leaves, roots, ants, or rotten fruit.

With that in mind, here are some acquisitions I came across this summer:

Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones, Rain Dogs and Bone Machine (my next TW purchase will be Franks Wild Years and that tempting rarities box set in November)
Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash - Mile Markers
Death Cab for Cutie - Plans
Louis XIV - The Best Little Secrets are Kept
Sex Pistols - Flogging a Dead Horse
Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
G. Love & Special Sauce -Lemonade
Ben Harper - Both Sides of the Gun
Thom Yorke - Eraser
Paul Simon - Surprise
Nat King Cole - The World of Nat King Cole
Miles Davis - A Tribute to Jack Johnson
Roger Waters - Ça Irá

got a few over the last couple of weeks:

Jackie McLean: It's Time! ...jazz remaster on Blue Note... (used)
Lee Morgan: The Sidewinder...jazz, a Rudy Van Gelder edition (used)
Freddie Hubbard: Straight Life...jazz... (used)
Count Basie Orchestra: Farmers' Market Barbecue ...Japanese Remaster (used)
Elvis Costello: Girl Girl Girls...used, only Disk 1 of 2 (but only $2 also, for 26 songs, not bad)
Tom Petty: Highway Companion....I like it a lot, but I still miss Benmont Tench not being on this one
Cowboy Junkies: Miles from our Home (used)
Cowboy Junkies: Pale Sun Crescent Moon (used)

And for the Biblical interpretation...

So and more also do God unto the enemies of David, if I leave of all that pertain to him by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall. I Samuel 25:22 KJV

You'll notice that I hardly ever enter the conversation in this thread, mostly because my stream of piss would be so overwhelming, it would be like torrential rains that wash away the little bitty squirt guns that others here fire at each other... If you are actually able to OPEN and LISTEN to EVERY CD you are buying, well my friend...you and I are just at very different levels of OCD. There just aren't enough hours in the day for me to be able to even open all the CDs I buy, much less listen to. but don't worry, I will stay out of your trite little "peeing contest" to see who buys the most CDs. I wouldn't want to make anyone feel so obviously inferior... Plus, I agree with Pico. I hate it when people brag too.

Second Time Around is a little bit further from Canal Street, but they have a pretty decent selection of used cds (and dvds, although I think their used dvd prices are a little high). I used to buy used lp's there when I was going to the university across the street.

I'll second Dan's Gem City recommendation, although I still have a little grudge with them ever since they closed the Town & Country store in Kettering years ago.

I love to hear about all the latest purchases on this thread!! It gives me ideas when I go out to buy. My latest treasure is by the Weepies and I love it!! OTR fans might really enjoy this one.

They ran Woodstock on VH1 Classic last night...I have it on DVD but I hadn't actually seen it in awhile, and I watched Joe Cocker's version of "With A Little Help From My Friends," which compelled me to go to yourmusic.com and order the deluxe edition of Mad Dogs & Englishmen, and album I've heard much about but never actually heard. I'm looking forward to it.

Brook, I appreciate the nod, but that's not what I meant. I was trying to say what some folks here perceive as bragging isn't really bragging. Like Carrie posted, I feel people post our purchases (and in another thread, what we're listening to) to give others ideas of music to check out.

Some other summer purchases I did not mention before:

Pink Floyd - Wih You Were Here and Animals (finally have them in CD format)
Bob Dylan - remastered Highway 61 Revisited (a steal on sale at Best Buy)
Ray Lamontagne - Trouble
10,000 Maniacs - Campfire Songs: The Popular, Obscure and Unknown Recordings
A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step
Van Morrison - Magic Time
Ryan Adams - Cold Roses
Frank Black - Honeycomb
Elvis Costello - King of America

you know, this thread started out as latest CD (as in one single CD) purchased. lists weren't even allowed back then. ah, but then the liberals came in and started creating their own rules, and now we have divisive lists.

well, here's mine:

Leigh Nash - Blue on Blue
Vas - In the Garden of Souls
The Church - Back with Two Beasts
Sonic Youth - Goo
Sonic Youth - A Thousand Leaves
Sonic Youth - Sister
Sonic Youth - EVOL
Thom Yorke - Eraser
Ani Difranco - Reprieve (bday gift)
The Sugarcubes - Here Today, Tommorrow, Next Week
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Barbed Wire Kisses
Mogwai - E.P.+2
Captain Beefheart - Safe as Milk

Well, I'll play by the original 'rules' of the game (Latest CD, implying one):

Dave Dunlop & Rik Emmett - Strung-Out Troubadours

OK then. Yesterday I went out and bought an entire music store, and now I call dibs on every CD out there.

it was a trade, but new music to add to my collection all the same. . .

Pink Floyd - UmmaGumma, and A Momentary Lapse of Reason.

good stuff.

I never could get all the way through "Momentary Lapse," but good luck to ya.

The live disc of Ummagumma is killer though.

Momentary Lapse definitely has it's bits. . .but if I'm in a good 'floyd mood' for lack of non-incriminating term, I can make it through ok.

plus these two were nice additions, to sort of bookend what collection of Floyd I already have. And I didn't pay anything. . . .So it was kind of hard to pass up.

Fair enough. I have all the Floyd albums in mp3 still from the Napster days (believe it or not)...there's been a few reissues over the years, mostly of "The Wall" and "Dark Side," but I figure as soon as I start buying the Floyd albums I really want on CD (Meddle, Obscured, Piper, etc), the record company will have a "nth anniversary uber-deluxe-remastered by god edition," so I'm still waiting. The CD editions of those "other" Floyd albums have been out for over 15 years, and they realyl don't do justice to how good those recordings were.

I was going to pick up the 30th Anniversary "Dark Side" CD that came out a couple years ago, but I've heard kind of mixed things about the sound of it, so I held off.

Oddly enough, I don't remember. Lemme think.

Wow... I honestly don't know. Jen has bought some great stuff (which I've conveniently ripped) and I've been blessed to have some great, amazing music sent to me.

Suffice it to say I've been on a Patty Griffin bender for about three or four months.