I really dig Learning To Fly...even have the CD single. I have all the PF LPs on CD except Animals which just didn't do it for me. I guess I wanted more Wish You Were Here when they did Animals... IMO, the Wall could have been 1 very good LP. After that, the albums just were not up to par, but there were still strokes of genuis.

Anybody here have any Pineapple Theif or Satellite? I hear the are between PF and Porcupine Tree. I recently picked up It. It's CD Order Through Chaos is interesting, but not quite as PF/PT as I was expecting. But if you really like PF, you gotta get RPWL's World Through My Eyes.

Thanks for not lettin' me down Sko... I'd have been really pissed if I knew all the bands you mentioned....

i went on a cd spree the other day and bought:-

interpol-antics
alice in chains-unplugged
goo goo dolls-let love in.
the black crowes-singles 1990-1999.

Got the 2003 expanded/remastered version for $3.99.

I <3 used CD stores...the few that remain, anyway. Also picked up the 2005 reissue of Red Octopus but I'm not really sure what I think of it yet, other than Craig Chaquico is a pretty good guitarist.

My latest purchase (from SecondSpin.com, as usual) consisted of the following:

Alejandro Escovedo - The Boxing Mirror
Apocalyptica - Inquisition Symphony
José Gonzalez - Veneer
Mary Gauthier - Mercy Now
Vas - In The Garden Of Souls

Griffin House - House of David Volume's 1 & 2

hmm... I just bought that a couple weeks ago. What made you get that / where did you hear about them? I can't remember what drew them to my attention now. I think either Jaz Coleman of Killing Joke mentioned them, or some random Dead Can Dance related link. haven't opened it yet (of course).

IIRC, Amazon recommended them to me since I like Dead Can Dance. About a month or two ago I ran across a used copy of an earlier Vas CD called Offerings, so I picked it up and liked it well enough that I was willing to get In The Garden Of Souls as well when I found it.

Bother members of Vas have other projects (solo and otherwise) that they've been involved with that I need to start looking for now.

Stone Sour - Come What(ever) May

Little heavy for me in places, but I'm adjusting......

(good thing I imported to itunes immediately. I only maintained physical possession of this one for about an hour)

John, I think you should consider something like Lo-Jack for your CD collection.

LOL....... noted. Although I'd just end up at Rachel's house or Jen's room though.....

I"d say he needs NO-Jack for his CD's.

Our lab manager got around this same problem by making two copies and giving the copy to her son. That way if he left it out in the car and it got toasted/scratched, she still had the original. Still the ripping to Itunes is probably a good idea too.

My son downloaded 15 episodes of Lost to iTunes last weekend. I couldn't figure out how my iPod catalog suddenly got up to 30 Gb!

My latest CD purchases:

Cat Power - The Covers Record
Cat Power - Moon Pix
Cat Power - What Would the Community Think?
(yes I am on a Cat Power binge, especially since they were only $7.99 each new on Amazon)
Beethoven's 9th Symphony - John Eliot Gardiner & a cast of hundreds on period instruments and voices
Mozart's Requiem - John Eliot Gardiner & a somewhat different cast of hundreds on period instruments and voices
(yes I am on a John Eliot Gardiner binge as well)
Jenny what's her name with the Watson Twins

Estradasphere - Palace of Mirrors
pre-order... due out Sept 19th


http://www.lobefood.com/store.cgi?pg=prod&...palaceofmirrors

This very well might make my Top 5... in fact, E-sphere's got a damn good chance...

~fff

Ordered today:


(I'm late with this one)



(Needed to complete the Tom Waits trilogy, thanks to some nods from 2esses Stephen and Billy Ivester)



(I had to get Zayne off my back with this one )

Outta my slump...

Breaking Benjamin - Phobia

been 30 minutes and I still have it in my hot little hands......

You won't regret ordering this one John. It is a landmark/seminal album in jazz.

Tck tck tck tck. Still have it?

I finally picked up Tool's last album 10,000 Days. I've only been able to spin it a few (maybe three times) all the way through, but I'm already in love.

Went CD shopping tonight at 3 stores and here's what I bought:

Used CD's in New Condition:

The Jazz Messengers"Hard Bop"
(Bill Hardman, trumpet; Jackie McLean, alto sax; Sam Dockery, piano; Spanky DeBrest, bass, Art Blakey, drums. Recorded Dec 12 & 13, 1956. 24-bit Japanese remaster, all selections issued in stereo for the 1st time.)

The Best of Blue Note "Vol. 2"
(Horace Silver: Senor Blues; Sonny Rollins: Decision; Dexter Gordon: 3 O'Clock in the Morning; Art Blakey: Blues march; Horace Parlan: Wadin; Lee Morgan: The Rumproller; Cannonball Adderley: Somethin' Else; Joe Henderson: Blue Bossa; Herbie Hancock: Watermelon Man)

Gomez "In our Gun" (promo)

Gomez "How We Operate" (promo)

Gomez "Liquid Skin"


New:

Elliot Smith "From a Basement on the Hill"

Art Blakey is da shiat. do tell us how you like that one when you get there...

while i prefer buying from independent record stores, sometimes the big boys have deals too good to turn down...

circuit city, labor day sale all regular priced ($13.99 & under) cd's are $9.99





and a replacement copy of

holy crap. first listen, i am loving this. and i love the "production," especially the jazz/soul vibe on "you can bring me flowers," works perfectly with his voice.

nice peice of work. very nice.

man, i did good today.

this kicks ass.

this is seriously a damn fine record. i can't believe it took me so long to pick it up.

if you haven't given this a listen, or bought it yet, do yourself a favor. get it. now.

4 purchases of male singers music in a row; bruce (cockburn), ray, tbone and tom...

maybe there is something to this "chick singers anon" thing.

New - I like them both!

Till the Sun Turns Black - Ray Lamontagne

Nightcrawler - Pete Yorn


Used CD's

Anywhere (import) - Beth Orton ("includes exclusive new song plus enhanced video")
- contains 3 versions of Anywhere, plus Beautiful World

Sanctuary - 20 Years of Windham Hill (double CD)

French Blend: Celtic Music's French Odyssey



The 20 years of Windham Hill was a treat to find for $2 - am listening to the first CD now and it is a really beautiful, acoustic, instrumental compilation. The double CD contains a collection of 35 artists. Haven't listened to the Celitc/French yet nor the entire Beth Orton CD. Haven't seen the video as I couldn't figure out how to do it. Popped in in the computer and apparently I need a software called Quicktime installed to watch it. Lucky for me, the needed Quicktime software that I need to install is also on the Beth CD. Unfortunately, I was not knowledgeable enough with the software(/loading software in general) to get it to load on the puter.

Jessica Simpsons new cd- A public affair. LOVE IT!!
We also got Kim Taylors new cd

finding a 'steal' this weekend for 4.95 in the used bins

OtR- 'Til We Have Faces- the Scampering Songs edition, in basically gem mint condition, i don't even think the booklet was ever looked at...
wow look at that pic of linford!

modern times - bob dylan

haven't listened closely, but i love the sound

REM - And I Feel Fine... The Best of the I.R.S. Years 1982-1987 (2 CD edition)

Very different from her three earlier country-flavored albums, but I really like most of it!

New

Freddie Hubbard: Here to Stay - Rudy Van Gelder Edition. New 2006 24-bit remaster, recorded about 7 miles from where I grew up, December 27, 1962 at the Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.


Dexter Gordon: A Swingin' Affair - Rudy Van Gelder Edition. New 2005 24-bit remaster, recorded at RVG's Englewood Cliffs studio also. Got this at the "used" price because a hinge was damaged.
Used

John Coltrane: Blue Train. Not sure when this was recorded, but it has Philly Joe Jones on drums, and he played also on the Freddie Hubbard CD recording above. Just can't get enough of his drumming!

All the music above is so full of surprises, so interesting, so full of great musicianship. The anti-boring, this music is called "hard bop". It seems I can't get enough of it lately, and yet I can listen to the same CD's that I have and be just as blown away the 2nd or 3rd time around with the hard bop CD's I have in my collection as when I heard them the first time. Did I mention that I really like Philly Joe Jones?

Thank you, Rudy Van Gelder, wherever you are. You've publicly stated that you feel like you have a mission to deliver this music to people once again and have taken the effort to digitally remaster so many gems & make them available to a new generation. God bless.

Blue Train was recorded in 1957.

I've been enjoying the classic jazz era stuff lately as well, and Blue Train certainly ranks up there in the top 10 of all time jazz classics.
re: RVG remasters, for the most part they're great, but you probably want to stay away from Sonny Rollins' Saxophone Collossus (if you haven't gotten it already, which you should), as it has flutters and channel drops that the previous issue doesn't have. I think he dropped the ball a little on that one.

People have commented on the flutter in both the 1999 K2 20bit and the 2006 RVG 24bit remastered editions. The rumor going around was/is that the master tape has some problems in it at particular spots. Whether that is true or not I don't know. It is a great album though, well worth purchasing in whatever format you like.

that might be true of the remasters, I've not heard the 20bit one (I have heard that about the master tapes too). I got a copy of the regular old "original jazz masters" edition from the library and compared it to my RVG, and the OJM edition did not have the flutter/drop in this one specific spot I checked that is obvious on the RVG.

on topic: I just spent 23 bucks this morning on iTunes gathering up a bunch of U2 bsides (I'm a little late, I know). but there are 10 or so originals (i.e. not remixes or live) that you can only get by buying the whole shbang, which sucks, because a few of those sounded great (Native Son for one). but I'm not going to drop 150 for 10 tracks. so, you know, if any of y'all have the whole package and want to email me, maybe you can "let me know how you like those tracks" (nudge nudge wink wink), and I can maybe let you know how I like some other tracks or something...
either way, I'm pretty happy with my new homemade U2 bsides CD.

Did you do that using the new iTunes(7)? Is it worth an upgrade?

I have not upgraded in a while. last time I tried (probably with 7) it failed, and so I said t'hell with it. do you know what makes the upgrade better (or would make it worth it)?

Album art and gapless playback are all kind I can remember right now

ps. yojimbo - how's about ranking like your top 20 Coltrane CDs somewhere? that 44 in your sig made me go "oooh" like at a fireworks show just now. I'm fairly new to jazz (past couple years only) and have what I think are probably considered Coltranes 10 best CDs, but I'm looking to expand that collection as he's one of my favs.

(this is not a hijack because yojimbos suggestions will lead to a "latest CD purchased" for me and probably a few others here)

I'd rather PM you so that someone won't get their underwear or panties in a twist and think that I'm engaging in "peeing" behaviour.

that number in your sig is already squirting all over the place... might as well go with it! (plus I think others would be interested in that info too). but whichever way you like is cool with me...

(oh, and in response to that "other" line in your sig that I can't help but feel a little responsible for, I would say that OCD is when you have over a hundred CDs still shrink-wrapped and yet you continue to buy more. opening and listening to them is just simple common sense. BUT...last week I found a CD at the library that I owned but had not yet opened, and so I was able to listen to it and then return the unopened CD for store credit. so you see, it pays to keep them wrapped until you're ready to absorb them)

This IS a hijack. everyone please remain calm...

iTunes 7 is WORTH the upgrade...

Main reason: It'll now go out and download album artwork for your imported CDs...

it looks nicer, too...

Yeah, when I figure out how to use my MP3 player for more than just radio, this might come in handy.

Neko Case - Blacklisted (wow.)

that wow should be capitalized, as in WOW!

Eastmountainsouth (self titled)

still can't believe there won't be any new music from these two.

Technically, you are correct, dear sir. But see, I'm so good-sensory-overwhelmed at the moment by it that the lower-case & period after had to suffice for I need to be externally calm to deal with the internal rush.



edit: i should mention that this is my first Neko Case purchase. a friend lent me Foxconfessor... and i had it for a few days, that was months ago, but after hearing her KCRW show from last week... dude, i had no choice but to purchase...

OMG, you mean Neko actually managed to penetrate your twang radar??

Well isn't this some joyful news -- Michelle turns on to Patty and Neko in the space of two weeks! Blacklisted really is hopelessly brilliant, isn't it? Now we'll have to make you a member of the 3-Way Licky Licky club, you can expect some mail before long.

Practically effortlessly at that! That voice alone coulda done it but she's pretty mindblowing as a whole musical unit. I've read she's described herself as country-noir and considering I could see her music all over a David Lynch film I can't think of a better description as a newbie.

And speaking of Patty, A Kiss In Time just arrived in the mail today from secondspin.com. Again, my first Patty purchase. I was having a hard time figerin' what to buy so I went for the live cd/dvd package... when a voice is that beautiful live...



I 'preciate the thought Keith, but I'm straight.