Haven't listened to it yet, been busy packing and preparing for my move. I'll post my thoughts when I do get around to it...

today I bought "Ghost Reveries" by Opeth. It's kind of metal/"stoner rock" and i like it alot.

I plan on buying "Lochloosa" by Mofro when I get a chance, and I think a few of you might want to check them out. They're a pretty mellow southern rock band. Mofro Myspace

I just picked up a CD by the Clumsy Lovers called Smart Kid.

Wow, what a great find! I heard a song by them on XM so I thought I'd check them out. They're hard to describe. I hear some bluegrass. Lots of banjo, mandolin, guitar, but they're not bluegrass. I hear some folk; upbeat folk. iTunes classified them as rock when I loaded them into my library (?). Anyway they are upbeat and fun. They will make you want to dance or at least tap your foot.

They're from Canada and they have several other CD's out. I might have to check them out too.

Souad Massi - Deb
Redbird - Redbird
Mísia - Paixões Diagonais
Brenda Weiler - Cold Weather
Madredeus - Electronico

The Verve - Urban Hymns

Patrik

"Our Man in Amsterdam"-Dexter Gordon
"Goin' Up"-Freddie Hubbard
"Live at the Lighthouse"-Cannonball Adderley Quintet
"416 Ocean Boulevard"-Eric Clapton


Nothing like a 20% off sale and a free CD coupon.

i just bought;
rosanne cash | black cadillac
son volt | retrospective 1995-2000
lucinda williams - live from austin, tx (dvd)
jimi hendrix - live @ woodstock (dvd-his complete set)

my purchases today included-

Brandi Carlile
Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins- Rabbit Fur Coat
i think I'll get the Rosanne Cash tomorrow

kent

edit- b/c i really did get it tomorrow
see the Rosanne Cash topic thread for more details

~fff - np: frank zappa - make a jazz noise here

Jim Gaffigan - Doin' My Time (comes with his Comedy Central Presents on DVD)


((and his first DVD, Beyond the Pale, comes out next tues! 02/07))

dustin and i went a little overboard in columbus. i don't remember what all he got, but i got:

eddie from ohio: _this is me_
the frames: _burn the maps_
suzanne vega: _retrospective -- the best of..._
winterpills: _winterpills_
and a hem ep that i seem to have misplaced at the moment. it's in my car.

Bah. I've been looking for that for like a year.

The following Nirvana CDs:
Nevermind
Bleach
Insecticide
In Utero
(yes, I'm on a Nirvana bender)

and... the Allman Brothers - Live at the Fillmore East (always wanted that CD... one of the classics). The discussion in "Pick One" got me thinking about this one.

I've found that the whole "grunge" scene just sounds better long after the fact. I just recently "got" a couple Nirvana CDs myself. nothing like radio saturation to kill my interest sometimes. Now I can listen to those records objectively, apart from the national hysteria.

Yeah...I got a bit burnt out on Nirvana back in the day but now I can start getting back into them again. Bleach and In Utero are great records, although I still rarely spin Nevermind...the overkill of that one is still wearing off.

Did you get the regular Fillmore East or the deluxe edition? There's been a few different permutations of it over the years, but the two-disc one is killer...they finally restored the entire show to it's correct running order (including the stuff they used on Eat A Peach). Well worth the price of admission.

Jessyka was kind enough to sneak one other disc in there, for me: Nada Surf's Let Go.

My list of things I shouldn't have blown money on include the following:

Ben Folds' Speed Graphic e.p. - bitching cover of "In Between Days" by the Cure and a ton of other goodies.

Oneida's The Wedding - a little strange, still letting this one soak in. Not quite what I expected, but good in that psychadelic garage band kind of way.

Margot and the Nuclear So So's The Dust of Retreat - a local band from Indy writes the best recorded you haven't heard in a long, long time. And I am not just saying that. This is going on an Orchard mix sometime or another...

Beck's Sea Change - had heard a lot of it, liked it even though I tend to not like Beck, so I thought I'd pick it up.

Sweet... 'cept now I can't buy another cd for like three months. I've reached my quota for a while...

I thought it sounded alright enough when it was going down, but I never "got" it. I completely understand what you're saying and I think it applies to me a bit. I'm on a mission now to uncover all kinds of the stuff. Interesting how checking out one band produces all kinds of leads on other bands (post and pre the original band) like The Melvins, Mudhoney, Scream, The Vaselines, The Germs, etc.


I started with the Unplugged disc (oddly enough), the Sliver set and then got all the studio CDs. I would have to say that (after listening to them all a few times) IU is my fav so far followed closely by Nevermind and Bleach (tie).

I think I'm scaring my wife...

The ABB discs are, indeed, the deluxe edition. Mighty fine listening I must say (although most of my "ear time" is spent on the Nirvana stuff lately).

john/steve, if you guys are into/or are getting back into the ABB you might wanna check out these discs. they ain't the fillmore, but they are some pretty damn excellent shows.


* they played these shows (2 sets during the festival, incl a smokin' closing set) for about 300,000+ only about 15 miles from the front door of their farmhouse in macon


allman brothers band - live from american university 12/13/70
the original line-up w/duane. again.

I've got a few pre-Fillmore East bootlegs and they're smokin'. Haven't heard the stuff they've officially released, but I'm sure I'll get around to it eventually.

I'm also a fan of the two mid-90's live albums they put out ("An Evening With..." and "2nd Set"). The downside is that they're the worst kind of live album...chopped together pieces from various shows with no real sense of cohesion or track order, but the performances themselves are great. Dickey Betts and Warren Haynes were an amazing guitar team...I still can't believe they're continuing without Dickey, what a crock.

Slow Dazzle-good stuff on Misra records, reminds me a little of Mazzy Star
Mark Gardener-Solo effort from former Ride frontman
Goldrush
The Volebeats-great 60's vibe
Robert Skoro on Yep Roc records
Flock of Seagulls LP (I believe it is their second release)
Chris Knight-not very good, don't waste your time
Cat Power's newest
Quarter After
Cerulean

Nice Bill... I believe this would qualify as getting "back into." The soundtrack of my teen years most definitely includes the ABB. I had some vinyl of them, but I had a LOT of vinyl that is not around anymore (shame). Thanks for the suggestion.
J

Incidentally, you can get those two ABB 90's live albums I mentioned on half.com for under $3 each. Worth it for the acoustic tracks alone..."An Evening With" features a breathtaking acoustic version of "Melissa" and "2nd Set" has a really cool acoustic take on "In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed."

Both those albums are also a good way to skim over the high points of their 90's studio output...the better tracks from those albums are on there: "End Of The Line," "Nobody Knows," "Sailin' Cross The Devils Sea"...good stuff.

well, I fought the reality of grunge tooth and nail (as Dokken would say), and so was a fair bit biased against it when it was happening. I'm an 80's pop metal head myself (or was back then). grunge was not my friend.
oddly enough, before I realized it was killing 80's metal, I actually loved Smells Like Teen Spirit, and got into that CD before it got the massive radio saturation it did. What I mean to say is that I was into Nirvana's Nevermind before it was cool! (which, as it turns out, was all of a few days after it's release)

It's really a shame that 80's rock and grunge couldn't find a way to co-exist peacefully. Especially after grunge and other trends forced some 80's bands to re-examine their craft and make really great 90's albums that no one heard (Extreme's "III Sides To Every Story," Def Leppard's "Slang," INXS' "Welcome To Wherever You Are"). Although I suppose a Nirvana fan listening to Poison was the same as a punk kid going to see Yes in the 70's.

yeah, those 2 styles were about as antithetical as they get. one was about partying and forgetting about life's cares, and the other was about expressing suicidal depression over life's cares. and really, could any grunge rocker get away with wearing shiny spandex and pretty make-up? could eddie vedder be eddie vedder if he were to blow a kiss to the camera during a photo shoot?

I don't know that I agree with you on the "great 90's albums". Extreme III was good, yes, but then they weren't really trying to change for the times as far as I can tell. but Slang? really?? I thought one of the worst most embarracing things about the 90's was watching 80's metal bands try to incorporate grunge reality into their look or sound. all the haircuts... all the "dutch boy" shoulder length cuts... oh the horror. all that "updated sound" bullshit. I hated most of the albums put out by 80's metal bands in the 90's. they didn't know who the hell they were or what they were good at... didn't know they couldnt' just wear grunge like another fashion trait. it just didn't work that way... betrayed a fundamental misunderstanding of what grunge was all about to think of it in terms of fashion...

what the hell am I rattling on about? sorry...

My slightly tragic take on the grunge era is that I was totally aware of the complete change in the way everything sounded when Nevermind came out, I was in exactly the right age to get that "This is so REAL, Music is suddenly so IMPORTANT" feeling, but I was too f-ing religous at the time to actually let myself get into it. I remember me really wanting to get Nevermind, Ten and all those others, but I sort of felt I wasn't supposed to. It's the one thing about my faith that really bothers me.

A few years later I did get "vs.", and now I have most of the major grunge albums. It still bothers me, though, that I was around for one of the great moments in the history of pop music, and was held back by idiotic ideals of what a christian should listen too..

(Mind you, I never sank so low as to get the DC Talk album a few years later. Even then I felt that would have been to betray my own teenage years.)



Patrik

LOL!

that brought me much joy.

things got a little out of hand today at the record store,
and it helps to have a few connections

today I got-
Belle and Sebastian- The Life Pursuit
Hem- No Time for Tom
Beth Orton- Comfort of Strangers
KT Tunstall- Eye to the Telescope
plus
Amandine (swedish folk-alt country band)
Stone Jack Jones (he sounds along the lines of Tindersticks, Nick Cave) ,and he has
Patty Griffin play and sing on the album

So I'll be busy for a while...

kent

sounds like it!

just got the new Sarah Harmer "I'm a Mountain' CD

whew, what a week of releases!

kent

I had fun today! I got the new Belle and Sebastian, KT Tunstall, Beth Orton, Sarah Harmer, and Elbow. Crazy, but joyful!! Just for kicks they threw in a free sampler of Mary Gauthier (Keith will be happy since I've never listened to her before!) and a sampler with a Susan Tedeshi song on it! Oh, the simple delights of music! I listened to a little bit of each one. Some wonderful, beautiful melodies, lyrics and moments to be had.

KT Tunstall - Eye to the Telescope (damn you keith)
Brandi Carlisle - Live From Neumo's (damn you zayne)

enjoying them both.

Herbie Hancock-"Takin Off"
Joe Strummer and the Mescalaros-"Streetcore"

I need to practice my tantric CD shopping

The New Pornographers-Electric Version
Dizzy Gillespie Quintet-Copenhagen Concert
Jimmy Smith-Softly As A Summer Breeze
Freddie Hubbard-Hub-Tones


Dang, I have to stop going to the used bins, they call to me: Jim, Jim come to us, we have good things for you. Evil CD bins, bagh.

ditto

i hear the same voices Jimbo. i already hit them today.

picked up the new Jason Collett- Idols of Exile. He's in Broken Social Scene and that whole Canadian collaborative (Stars, Metric, Feist, etc) helps him out on this one
also got Mary Lorson and Saint Low- Realistic- she's ex- of the truly great band from the early to mid 90's Madder Rose.

tomorrow will be another story- its my usual CD saturday
who knows what it will bring

kent

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!! "Out from Blown Speakers" is my theme song.

Anyways, last CD I bought - "The Life Pursuit" (deluxe edition) by Belle and Sebastian. I also bought the iron and wine live, I-tunes exclusive recently as well as a the Arcade fire / David Bowie live EP.

well today i got
The New Pornographers- Twin Cinema (finally)
Beth Orton- The Comfort of Strangers with the 5 song bonus disk

kent

Sing Sing- Sing Sing and I
from a former Lush member- Emma Anderson
any ol' Lush fanatics out here?

this CD frenzy is getting out of hand (and out of the wallet)

kent

James Blunt -- Back to Bedlam

wow.

yes yes yes yes!!!!

live from neumo's -- very cool.

amazing artist and a great venue.

Cowboy Junkies - Live!

I didn't know this disc existed. It's not listed on the Cowboy Junkies website, nor AllMusic.com. John Prine is actually performing on the live version of If You Were The Woman And I Was The Man. It was recorded at Berekely Community Theatre on May 15, 1992. It's a BMG disc, so that rules out a boot. Here's the song listing:

This Street, That Man, This Life,3:32
If You Were The Woman And I Was The Man (featuring John Prine),4:36
Hot Burrrito No. 1,4:17
Sweet Jane,6:02

Keith or anyone else know anything about this recording? It's the most upbeat recording I've heard from CJ and I have quite a bit of their stuff, although I've never seen them in concert... Even Sweet Jane is kind of jazzy/country-ish and much more upbeat than the studio recording on Trinity Sessions. It almost reminds me of the Marshall Tucker Band, which is kind of funny when you consider it's a Lou Reed song...

skoe-
I've got this 2CD set called 200 more miles- Live performances 1985-1994. It's from 1995.
It's on RCA/BMG and includes 2 performances from that date at Berkeley, including the If You Were... and its with John Prine but timed at 3:58 and also has Pale Sun on it from that date and venue. The discs version of Sweet Jane is from Toronto December 1993 and is 3:50 in length. The other 2 are not on the disc at all.
Cool- a 6 minute version of Sweet Jane. Maybe Keith or some of the other Cowboys can figure this one out.

kent

we do what we do out of love for you!

***make sure you see brandi LIVE soon. she and the twins put on a pretty nifty show.

***i need to find out how to get the kt conan appearance in windows media format.

peace,
zayne

I saw The Violet Burning this past weekend for the first time and WOW. All those years I was at Cornerstone and never went to one of there shows They really can rock. Anyway I bought their new cd Drop Dead and I can't stop playing it.

i really hate to support this type of marketing. i understand why it happens and why it can be good for the artist and the business, but i don't like the idea of "exclusives".

but, damn it's good. i loved dylan in this "period" he really seems into during this time. good stuff.



Live at the Gaslight 1962
Bob Dylan

A Starbucks Hear Music exclusive of never-before-released live Dylan. Recorded before Bob Dylan emerged as the “voice of a generation,” this Starbucks Hear Music exclusive of a never-before-released live recording captures an ambitious upstart steeped in the rich folk and blues traditions, but beginning to assemble what has become one of the richest oeuvres in American popular music.


1 A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall Bob Dylan Live at the Gaslight 1962

2 Rocks And Gravel Bob Dylan Live at the Gaslight 1962

3 Don't Think Twice, It's All Right Bob Dylan Live at the Gaslight 1962

4 The Cuckoo Bob Dylan Live at the Gaslight 1962

5 Moonshiner Bob Dylan Live at the Gaslight 1962

6 Handsome Molly Bob Dylan Live at the Gaslight 1962

7 Cocaine Bob Dylan Live at the Gaslight 1962

8 John Brown Bob Dylan Live at the Gaslight 1962

9 Barbara Allen Bob Dylan Live at the Gaslight 1962

10 West Texas Bob Dylan Live at the Gaslight 1962


np: john brown (sadly still a relevant song. how ****ing sad)

Barry Manilow: The Greatest Songs of the '50s

(for my girlfriend ... for her birthday ... shhhhhhh!! She adores Barry, as do I!!)

: )

oh my god, I almost just puked up my midnight snack at the thought of that...
coming right after that mouth-watering Dylan bit especially! (why haven't I bought that CD yet? I'm stupid? I'm an idiot? I'm retarted? all of the above? I like starbucks too, despite their corporate takeover of the world. great mochas)

TODAY:

The Tigers Have Spoken - Neko Case
For a Decade of Sin: 11 Years of Bloodshot Records - Bloodshot Records Compilation (42 tracks for 18 bucks, doesn't get much better than that!)

Cher

I really wanted this one, but our Starbucks is out.

Cher