groan.

last week i bought Frou Frou: Details and i am really enjoying the whole thing!

Frou Frou's CD is delightful. One of my fav CDs that I bought this year...

~fff

love that cd -- my friend sarah would love to cover 'let go'

How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb by U2, which is getting its "maiden listen" tonight.

: )

And the Alfie soundtrack.

Funeral by The Arcade Fire

Victoria Williams Sings Some 'Ol Songs... purchased for A DOLLAR. Duuuuude.

U2's HTDAAB -- LOVE IT!!!!

and Keane's new one which I wasn't too Keane on to begin with because it all seemed to sound the same, but am enjoying more on the extra listens.

If it's the Sarah I'm thinking of (J...)
then, yeah, I'd like to hear that...

~!fff

After a two hour wait in a line that snaked all the way around a huge Soundtrack building and back and forth across the parking lot, in early morning freezing temps....
KBCO Studio C Volume 16.
All live, one of a kind performances.
Track list:

Bob Weir and Ratdog - 'Ripple'
Matchbox Twenty - 'Disease'
Crosby Nash - 'Lay Me Down'
Robert Cray - 'Right Next Door (Because Of Me)'
Sarah McLachlan - 'Angel'
Donavon Frankenreiter - 'Free'
Bruce Hornsby - 'Gonna Be Some Changes Made'
Mindy Smith - 'Come To Jesus'
Gov't Mule - 'Soulshine'
John Mayer - 'Come Back To Bed'
Joss Stone - 'Super Duper Love'
G. Love and Special Sauce - 'Waiting'
David Grisman Quintet - 'EMD'
Alanis Morissette - 'Head Over Feet'
Damien Rice - 'Cannonball'
Toots and the Maytals - 'Pressure Drop'
eastmountainsouth - 'You Dance'

It's a cult thing.

Geez Trudes, just how many cults do you belong to?

Luke and Nichole slept....good choice. I hope they picked one up at a Soundtrack near their house. I heard they were selling out fast.

Ian Moore's latest CD which sounds better than I thought it would

Aimee Mann- Live from St. Ann's Warehouse
Rufus Wainwright- Want Two
Nellie McKay- Get Away from Me (!!!)

Last purchased:

U2 - HTDAAB

i purchased a sanctus real album for $4 canadian. interesting......

i also purchased the entire New Testament on CD for $14 canadian. couldn't pass up the price...

Upland by Griffin House

The first lines of Griffin House's disarming, studied debut come off like Bono quietly singing Johnny Cash. - Paste Magazine

I see the folks at Paste are smoking the same crack as a bunch of Apples.

If there is crack going around I must have missed it.... so....how about it...

um.. Paste has a track record of not knowing what they're talking about. I mean, they were telling me all about this "phantom DVD" in my issue. Every music magazine who doesn't know how to describe someone describes them as Bono-ish, Stonesish, Zepplinesque, Beatles-influenced, blah blah blah...

I understand why they'd say bono-ish for griffin, but I think he's not that close. Nor that strong of a voice.

~fff

All I am saying is that to my ears, Griffin House sounded a bit like Bono ... and I have never, ever smoked crack.

: )

Newest cd bought & listened to: Palomar - Palomar III: Revenge of Palomar.

Newest cd bought & not yet listened to: John Rauhouse - Steel Guitar Air Show

Newest CD bought: OtR's Changes Come, which I love so much, I have to give it away to someone. (This happens a lot. My favorite books -- in other people's possession. My favorite CDs -- in other people's possession. My favorite wind chimes -- in other people's possession. It rarely fails.) It'll make him so happy....

I also bought inexpensive used copies of Natalie Merchant's Ophelia and Dar Williams' Mortal City, but I've come to the conclusion that they were probably left in the back of Mariesa's car. Oops.... Better go send a PM....

Neko Case "The Tigers Have Spoken" - some very powerful stuff on that CD.

I haven't listened to them yet, but my two newest are:

Pushstart Wagon - Squeaky Clean

and

Pushstart Wagon - L.A. Was Our Alamo

Not a CD, but rather a wickedly, brilliant album on vinyl... Fantômas - Delìrivm Còrdia (Ipecac Recordings). On the CD it's one-track/one-song... I guess they'll have to piece it up, obviously for vinyl. Oh well...



It's pretty... had to have it...

~fff

That's disgusting.


I just bout Mr Waits' The Black Rider last night at the local used store...

It is disgusting artwork, but it's crazy-cool packaged. I dig the CD version's packaging. It has a special liner case and everything.

It's a musically unique album, too...

~fff

I just got 3 CD's, one is Emmy Lou Harris' Christmas CD, a Trans-Sibertian Orchestra CD, and since he is from North Carolina, the new Clay Aiken Christmas CD.( I swear I am not a 10 year girl with his poster all over my walls--just wanted to support a fellow Tarheel in the music world).

AMINA - AMINAMINA -EP-

https://www.smekkleysa.net/shop/item.php?id=464

They are Sigur Rós's female string quartet (on the road and in the studio). This is their debut EP... "Beautiful and hypnotic music" per the website... we shall see...

~fff

That sounds like it would be exceptionally good.

we shall see...

U2 - How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (on vinyl... now all I need is Zooropa on vinyl)

-and-

Vitamin Records presents... - The String Quartet Tribute to Elliott Smith (of all the crappy Vitamin Recds stringed tributes out there... this one seems to be purchase-worthy... we'll see after I give it a listen tomorrow)


~fff

CD Christmas gifts:
Miranda Stone's 7 Deadly Sins (an old favorite I keep giving away: "folk in wolves' clothing")
Chris Hale/Aradhna's Satsang (not yet here, but I have high hopes for this album. When performed live, their material is absolutely freaking amazing.)
Jazz for Readers (Umm... I'll get back to you on this one)

Purchased or received for Christmas:









I like 'em all!

Got The Pieces self titled album (Devon Ashley's band) for $3 at a local used place. (thanks Mariesa)



Also picked up the Mutual Admiration Society used...it's a little underwhelming given the level of talent involved, but okay for $6.

yeah, that The Pieces CD is pretty good. poppy goodness.

the Nilsson song at the end of the MAS CD is great.

~fff

i haven't posted here in ages.

Recent buys (and gifts):

Ashley Cleveland - You Are There
John Reuben - Professional Rapper
Over the Rhine - Good Dog Bad Dog (indie)
Sixpence None the Richer - The Best of Sixpence None the Richer
Five Iron Frenzy - All the Hype That Money Can Buy
Over the Rhine - Changes Come
Sam Phillips - A Boot and A Shoe
Radiohead - OK Computer
Steve Taylor - Now the Truth Can Be Told

Random gift from parents:
Ella Fitzgerald's Ken Burns Jazz. Whee!

Scissor Sisters



makes me want to dance around the office. ( but dont worry i wont)

I just bought Marc Cohn's 'Burning the Daze'(really good) and Kyler England's "a flower grows in stone'. Both of which I recommend.

Peter, Paul & Mary "Lifelines Live"

- an amazing collection of artists

Looks like I'll have to revise my Best of 2004 list after all! Thanks to Dan and everyone else who recommended it.

"Songs Of the Unforgiven" -- Crash Test Dummies

I heard it's the closest thing to their first album (The Ghosts That Haunt Me) that they've released, so I bit. I just started listening to it.

U2 - How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb

it's the most i've ever bought at one time (and it's not that many):

loretta lynn, van lear rose
wilco, yankee hotel foxtrot
joni mitchell, ladies of the canyon


keith: how do you like the rachael yamagata cd? i have happenstance, and really love it! i saw her in nyc in august -- great show.

Nina Simone Anthology

Pretty much for "Who Knows Where the Time Goes."

Mansun - Kleptomania

One of my favorite late 90's brit-rock bands...f'ing $35 import. Why can't they just release this stuff in the U.S.?

The music is brilliant though...3 discs of unreleased tracks and b-sides...mmmmm.