This showed up in the mail today...

WOOT!!

~fff

I had problems with the original iTunes 7 release. Playback was distorted, especially if another program was running. There is now an upgrade, and the playback works just fine now.

Continuum - John Mayer

yeah, just d/led the upgrade. i had the same prob. this must have been a fix.

the essential ozzy osbourne.

The Bourne Supremacy - original score. Great driving music, especially winding two-lane roads.

Brandi Carlisle - eponymous debut. Haven't listened to the whole CD yet, but strikes me as a CD custom-made for a content evening at home, reading or writing or something quiet and soul-feeding.

and ::swoon:: mindy hugged me.

I'll have to keep an eye out for her -- I drive 10 miles along the Long Island beaches every morning!

I'm a little late in picking up some of these, but I guess that's kinda inevitable when buying used, eh?


Azam Ali - Portals of Grace
Cindy Alexander - Smash
Devics - Push the Heart
Ekova - Heaven's Dust
Gypsy Soul - Test of Time
Lumin - Datura
Souad Massi - Mesk Elil
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
They Might Be Giants - Factory Showroom

Audioslave Revelations (Wow, I just realized I own their entire catalog)



And

Fiona Apple Extraordinary Machine (I almost own her entire catalog)



Fiona is hot.

Zeno Beach....the comeback album by Radio Birdman featuring the original members Rob Younger and Deniz Tek

Neko Case - Canadian Amp

I went on my first spree in a while because I had a coupon from Borders for Buy 1 get the 2nd half price, plus it was Educator's weekend so there was an additional 25% off...so somehow, I got these two and a $8 book for $32!


This is the new 2 disc version with all the tracks from the DVD. I'm glad to finally replace my lousy audio boot of this DVD. The live version of Witness is worth the price of admission, but all the songs in bold were not released on the original single disc version:

Disc: 1
1. Building A Mystery
2. Plenty
3. Hold On
4. Good Enough
5. Do What You Have To Do
6. Witness
7. Wait
8. I Will Remember You
9. Ice
10. I Love You
11. I Will Not Forget You

Disc: 2
1. The Path Of Thorns (Terms)
2. Mary
3. Adia
4. Fear
5. Elsewhere
6. Vox
7. Into The Fire
8. Posession
9. Ice Cream
10. Sweet Surrender
11. Fumbling Towards Ecstacy
12. Angel


This is the special edition

Disc: 1
1. Move Over
2. Cry Baby
3. A Woman Left Lonely
4. Half Moon
5. Buried Alive In The Blues
6. My Baby
7. Me And Bobby McGee
8. Mercendes Benz
9. Trust Me
10. Get It While You Can
11. Happy Birthday, John (Happy Trails)
12. Me And Bobby McGee (Demo Version)
13. Move Over (Alternate Version)
14. Cry Baby (Alternate Version)
15. My Baby (Alternate Version)
16. Pearl (Instrumental)

Disc: 2
1. Tell Mama (Live)
2. Half Moon (Live)
3. Move Over (Live)
4. Maybe (Live)
5. Summertime (Live)
6. Little Girl Blue (Live)
7. That's Rock 'N Roll (Live)
8. Try (Just A Little Bit Harder) (Live)
9. Kozmic Blues (Live)
10. Piece Of My Heart (Live)
11. Cry Baby (Live)
12. Get It While You Can (Live)
13. Ball And Chain (Live)

I've been wanting this disc for a while, but the hefty $22.99 on Amazon was holding me back.

From Amazon.com:

Janis Joplin's highest charting and arguably most artistically successful album gets the deluxe, expanded treatment on this 2005 reissue. Already re-released once with four extra live tunes, this edition moves those to the second disc, adds nine more (six previously unavailable) from the same summer 1970 tour that predated the original album's January 1971 posthumous release and pads the studio disc with six additional tracks. Those sides--three are inferior, if moderately interesting alternate takes, one is a band jam without Joplin contributing--don't bring much to the table other than to prove that producer Paul A. Rothchild used the correct versions for the final album. But Pearl holds up tremendously well, with Janis focused on some terrific rocking material, yet widening her scope to include a soulful folksy reading of Kris Kristofferson's "Me and Bobby McGee," the album's only major hit.

The real meat of this version consists of the thirteen concert recordings, plucked from the Canadian leg of Joplin's only tour with Full Tilt Boogie. It finds her and the band chugging through ragged but emotionally charged versions of her classics, along with a few tunes from the forthcoming Pearl. Sequenced to mirror her set list, it's a roaring example of Joplin in her prime, comfortable with her band and confident in her astounding abilities to tear into the soul of blues and R&B with vocals that come straight from the heart. Hal Horowitz

And since I was getting 25% off...


A total whim!

My daughter digs this one so to keep her legal...

Then I had to check out Best Buy since I was just a couple doors down...


Kent has convinced me...


I was looking for a clean used copy of this disc because my original one will not play in my computer for some weird reason. I have a lot of CDs and this is one of the few that refuses to cooperate. When I found this new one for $7.99...well, used is only a $1 less...and I don't think the one I had has You've Lost The Lovin' Feeling.

So, now I'm in St. Louis for the week hunting for the good CD stores up here... Anybody have any suggestions?

www.google.com


St. Louis and CD and store or and used CD and store

http://www.sleazefest.com/AddressBook/USA/MO/recordstores/

Been there, done that, didn't do me much good. With the one exception that I found out that Vintage Vinyl now has an online store.

Check out:

http://www.sleazefest.com/AddressBook/USA/MO/recordstores/


You could also beg/plead with Rachiska and Joel the Conner for info since they are from that area or nearby.

Then there is always the phone book

i found some by googling

indie music stores st. louis

and sometimes in this day and age they might not be there anymore,
if its anything like it is here, sad to say

Finally bought Green Day's American Idiot. Really sorry, now, that I didn't pick it up, a lot sooner. It deserved ALL the attention it got!

Picked up three of the Steve Hackett remasters last week...I'm a huge fan of 70's Genesis but I'd never heard Hackett's early solo stuff, and I'm reall sorry it took me this long to discover it. 1975's Voyage Of The Acolyte is almost like the Genesis disc that never was (since it came out while he was still in the band) but 1978's Spectral Mornings is really the find of the bunch...amazing melodic, gorgeous progressive rock.

Picked up two of Todd Snider's old cds at Grimey's in Nashville, last Saturday, after his in-store appearance: Happy to Be Here and New Connection. A little over-produced than I prefer Todd's stuff, but a lot of gems there, still. My wife also just gave me Old Crow Medicine Show's first cd, O.C.M.S., which is fantastic! Can't wait to get the newer one, Big Iron World. 'spect I'll put that one on my Christmas list.

beck, the information (thanks to pico's strong recommendation!)

I dig your pix of the Coliseum!!!

Very good choice of buying the Special Ed of Pearl!! Compliments!
JANIS RULES!!

Very good choice of buying the Special Ed of Pearl!! Compliments!
JANIS RULES!!

I picked up Dan Bern's Breathe record. He seems to be getting more and more mainstream as he goes along (if working with Chuck Plotkin doesn't prove that ....). Not my favorite by any means, but I'm still listening.

ah......another chick singer, just picked up yesterday


michelle anthony- frozenstarpalace

this is a nice ep from her, now gotta find her first cd- 'stand fall repeat' from 2004


heres a link to her web site
michelle anthony

Chick singers are the best!

oops.

go buy this. right now.

seriously. stop reading. go buy it. now.

Word, it's a really cool show. (although WHY WHY WHY not include the whole show including the acoustic half? Come on, Neil...)

I got Mark Knopfler's Sailing To Philadelphia and The Ragpicker's Dream for $4 each at the used CD store, and Sarah McLachlan's Mirrorball: The Complete Concert double CD for $8 Go me. Why can't all old CD's be that cheap?

because they need to think of next christmas' cd sales. or the deluxe version to come in 6 months.

I just bought the new Priestess CD and the new Johnny Cash American: V CD.

I love music. Hurray!

A Very Special Christmas 3


I needed more Xmas music for the drunken 'bust out and toss up the christmas shit' shindig I'm having at my house Friday w/ my buddies.

At Everybody's in Cincinnati I bought Traffic's Gold, a 2-CD compilation of their music that includes remastered versions of most of the songs from their first two albums with Dave Mason. I'd forgotten how brilliant and original a lot of that stuff was.

used CD shopping in Ann Arbor on Saturday, filling in some holes in my Tom Waits collection - found Big Time, The Black Rider, and Early Years 1 (someone apparantly dumped their entire Tom Waits collection, as there was just about everything by him there in Encore). also picked up The Doors 1st CD, and a Godspeed e.p.

in the mail I recieved a bunch of classical CDs I had ordered through Amazon - mostly Dvorak String Quartets on Naxos (Vlach Quartet). a couple more of those are still on their way.

and I am still awaiting the arrival of my Tom Waits Orphans set.

happy christmas to me...

i preordered some stuff from a little duo out of ohio.

Christmas gift for my wife.

mmm...Janet...

picked this up last night, a live 2CDer of mark doing solo, sun kil moon, red house painters material.
sounds real nice.

I'm sure it sounds nice, but it's not nearly as fun to look at as Janet.

Once mighty fine, she's been altered too much for my tastes.

mmm....altered Janet...

Gotta agree ... she's never been sexually undesirable to me ... except maybe for her "Penny" days on Good Times!

Besides, I was way into Thelma. Mmmmm ... Thelma.

dude, you need to quit eating those brownies.

just got Def Leppard - Hysteria: Deluxe Edition!
they FINALLY do an expanded remastered edition of Hysteria with ALL of the ORIGINAL B-sides (not remixed ala RetroActive). I've been waiting for this little beauty for like 15 years now...

Did Christmas with the in-laws and my wife's nephew and his wife, yesterday morning, and received k.d.lang's hymns of the 49th parallel and REM's reckoning (The IRS Years Vintage 1984 edition [made in Holland] with five bonus tracks) from my in-laws.

I can't believe I didn't run out and get hymns when it came out, two years ago. I've listened to a little over half of it, and it is stunning! k.d. covers Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Bruce Cockburn, and a few more Canadian songwriters you're probably familiar with, as well. Absolutely gorgeous! I'll check out the remainder, tomorrow, along with reckoning which I've only ever had a copy of on cassette. Looking forward to hearing it, finally, in digital.

Wore out a little something called Snow Angels while we were having our get-together. What a beauty of an album!

Rodrigo y Gabriella (self titled/titled the same)


Reviews
"One of the best guitar albums in ages; one of the best discs this year" - Billboard review
"This music is the sound of passion as interpreted by and spoken for in a new rock and roll language." - Allmusic.com
"An idiosyncratic dueling-guitar style that brims with rock 'n' roll energy" - The Boston Globe


Rodrigo and Gabriela have finished off their John Leckie (Radiohead, Stone Roses, New Order and Muse) produced studio album. World renowned violinist Roby Lakatos, is guesting on two of the tracks.

Fun Stuff! Has a DVD with it too!

Lenny just got Cash: American V: A Hundred Highways as a Christmas gift. Excellent. Thanks to Kylie for clueing us in with that video 'God's Gonna Cut You Down'.
Looking at American IV: The Man Comes Around, too. Preview sounds as awesome.
I'm liking his voice as an older man...has so much character.
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I just downloaded Revival from Gillian Welch's website. also excellent. (thanks Bill for the preview of Gillian's music while riding around in the car with you last weekend.)
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Last weekend at Taft I bought Mary Gauthier's Mercy Now. She graciously signed it, as well. She is WONDERFUL. I'm totally loving it and her, now. Learning to play MN on my guitar, too but I can't finger the strings so fast. She inspirational, though.
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Mary's accompanying guitarist and back-up vocalist Thomm Jutz's album 'Second Thoughts' (also signed at the concert) is indeed another great purchase. He's an extremely accomplished guitarist and singer in his own rite.
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Of course, I'm LOVING Snow Angels.