Nobody - Soulmates
Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
CSS - Cansei de Ser Sexy
Melvins - Stoner Witch
K's Choice - Almost Happy
Pitty Sing
Kill Rock Stars (KRS201)
Jurassic 5 - Power In Numbers
Ted Leo & Rx - Living W/ The Living
S - Puking & Crying
Mostly from the dollar sale at work.
Oh yeah, and coincidentally I bought
Linda Ronstadt & Dolly Parton - Western Wall
I freakin' love Sweet Spot.

Ah, "Time and Tide"...such a great record! Definitely one of my favorite Split Enz releases.

I lost my bookmarks awhile back, so I hadn't visited a lot of my favorite mp3 blogs in awhile, which was kind of good because now there's a huge backlog of stuff to absorb. Over the past couple days I've hoovered down a few hundred tunes, mostly older stuff. Can't wait to dig in.

Let's see--I picked up some records at a friend's yard sale--some local punk, the 'Basketball Jones' (Cheech and Chong) and 'I Love Rock and Roll' (Joan Jett, natch) 7-inches, an inexplicable Biz Markie, like that. And somebody gave me two David S. Ware CDs, and I ordered a few Jamaican ones--Harold Butler, Ernest Ranglin, Niney the Observer. I'm trying to cut back.

(Those sitar comps are both pretty good, by the way.)

(That reminds me--pup, if you're reading, do you want a picture-sleeve Joan Jett 7-inch?)

I picked up the latest Arcade Fire one. And the latest Stooges.

That's a fine selection, klangklangston.

"S - Puking & Crying"

I've actually never heard of that until just now.

I've been getting into prog rock lately so I picked up Aqualung by Jethro Tull and Second Album by Curved Air. The record store also had some CDs for one quid each so I also got a Sweeney soundtrack album (classic seventies cop show), High by The Blue Nile and also an album by the Quireboys (not for the music but for other reasons I won't bore you with).

Yesterday I went to the store to get Arcade Fire's "Neon Bible." Sold out. Instead:

Eric Dolphy "Out There"
John Zorn "The Unknown Masada"
Neil Young "Live at Massey Hall 1971"
"Gerry Mulligan Meets Johnny Hodges"

Coming in the mail is some Nina Simone, Ali Farka Toure, Velvet Underground and an SACD version of the Kinks' "Low Budget."

One of the more interesting thing I heard this week was Prince's "Lolitta" from his "3121" album. Smokin'. That album is on the "to purchase soon" list.

The Harlem Globetrotters especially impressed me.

It wasn't music by the Globetrotters. All the songs were covers, or written by Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield for the TV show, or by other prominent bubblegum songwriters. I'm sure the entire thing was manufactured by session musicians.

CSS is pretty good, though I was kinda dissappointed. Somebody on MeCha long ago pointed me to a Brazillian internet sampler that had This Month, Day 10 on it. I didn't like anything else, but that was great, and I ended up spending hours digging up the CSS stuff, only to a) have them explode here, and b) feel like little else on the album lived up to that song.
Is Pitty Sing any good? And how's the Ted Leo album? I loved Hearts of Oak, was kinda not so into the last one, but I hear he's on the good tip again.
(I also should get hte new Arcade Fire, but the Stooges looked like it was gonna suck).

I picked up the latest Arcade Fire one.

I wish I'd gone in for the regular edition, but I was impulsively hopeful that the +$5 edition would actually be worth the extra dough. Stupid flip books.

I like Pitty Sing. Haven't met anyone else who's enjoyed it, though. It's the cheesiness that gets me good. The CSS is oh-kaay, but yeah, what you said. $1 is $1. My favorite TL&Rx is Tyranny of Distance, and I love it so much that I go in for everything he puts out even though none of it has lived up to that one. LW/L rocks pretty hard; the bonus EP is extra super good. I too avoided the new Stooges, on word that it did in fact suck.

puke & cry: it's a great album, even for a straight boy like me.

The Stooges album is OK. I'd put it middling. I just have to own everything, ever, by them.

I like Pitty Sing too, btw.

This week I've picked up:

Simple Kid - 1
Symbol - Prince
More Parts Per Million - The Thermals
We All Belong - Dr. Dog
Lynn Teeter Flower - Maria Taylor
Take To The Skies - Enter Shikari

Have ordered:

Greatest Hits - Poison (cough!)
Joy - Phil Campbell
Chaos and Disorder - Prince

It's bonus pay day on Wednesday and there will be splurging. Oh yes.

Animals - Every One of Us (kept four songs)
Crosby & Nash - Wind on the Water (listened once & deleted)
John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers - The Hard Road (kept two songs)

Jerry Lewis - Last Man Standing (outstanding record with a slew of guests, "Rock & Roll" w/Jimmy Page was an unexpected delight)
Monkees - Head (much better than I expected though some of the spoken-word tracks probably will not survive)
Mr. Bungle - Mr. Bungle (new band [for me] of the week!)
Siouxsie & the Banshees - Kaleidoscope (meh, maybe I listened to it too early in the morning and I'll give it another chance)
Voltaire - Devil's Bris (unplugged death metal and it works!)

AC/DC - State College, Towson, 1979 (great bootleg)
Faces - Paris Theatre, London, 1973 (excellent bootleg)

Insert "Lee" ^^^ between Jerry and Lewis. heheh

All I've picked up over the past week is:

Dufus - Legend of Walnut

... but it hasn't come in, yet.

I'd bet that Jimmy Page would be an unexpected guest on a Jerry (No Lee) Lewis album.

I got:
Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
Low - Drums and Guns
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer
My Latest Novel - Wolves
Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther
Deerhunter - Cryptograms

LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver

Ben Folds - Rockin' the Suburbs

Ry Cooder - My Name is Buddy

Various - Plague Songs

Rickie Lee Jones - The Sermon On Exposition Blvd

Low - Drums and Guns (this one was a stupid purchase as my wife was getting two free copies for doing the fold-out artwork, but I didn't know it at the time and she was out of town, ah well)

Stax 50th anniversary collection

Air - Pocket Symphony
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
Dean & Britta - Back Numbers
Yoko Ono -- Yes, I'm a Witch
Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity
Sondre Lerche - Phantom Punch
Bloc Party - A Weekend in the City

Edgeways, how is the Plague Songs CD?

I got "The Glory (????) of the Human Voice" by Florence Foster Jenkins, "the screeching diva". I can't see listening to it over and over, but it certainly is an interesting novelty. Picked it up after my wife mentioned the chapter about Jenkins in OOPS: 20 Life Lessons from the Fiascoes That Shaped America.

After 2 crappy months of not buying anything or having any desire to really listen to anything, I finally snapped back and picked up some new CDs last week. That was quite a relief, because my emotional state has NEVER affected my love of music before, and I was getting a bit frightened that I somehow stopped loving music.

The most recent Sloan album is kicking my butt (their strongest in about a decade). The Fratellis has also been a fave for a while (I bought the CD to replace the illicit MP3 version I've had for the past few months).

I also bought an album by HelloGoodbye, which was some kind of mistake - I could have sworn they were a fun punk pop band I heard on college radio last year, but it turns out to be some bland electronica based alternative "pop" band. I'm normally pretty anal retentive with my music wish list, so I almost never buy something is outright not what I thought it was.

I also picked up an old Shins single for the Mrs (she loves her Shins) and finally got the Midlake from last year (also replacing an album I've already had on MP3 for a while). If you like CSNY and America but still want to listen to a new artist, that Midlake is the album for you.

And on Friday I got a promo of the Kaiser Chiefs new album, which is fun as hell and will most likely be near the top of my year end list. I'll also recommend the Little Ones EP, and it fits in nicely with Kaiser Cheifs since they're touring together. Actually, I've got to buy tickets for that now before I forget and it sells out.

Arcade Fire, Modest Mouse, and Low are on my buy list, but I want to hear a bit first, but I'm sure in the next week or two I'll own them. I usually buy at least an album or two a week, so I feel like I've got some catching up to do after a haitus away from new music

I got LCD Soundsystem, Modest Mouse, and Adult's new ones, and picked up The Stooges last week (I agree with gaspode- underwhelming, esp. lyrically, but I had to have it). The new Low album should be coming in this week.

Three issues of EBTG to replace some vinyl:
Love Not Money
Everything But the Girl
Idlewild

Carla Bruni because she caught my ear on a movie soundtrack:
Quelqu'un M'a Dit

and Soweto Gospel Chorus: Blessed

It seems I'll always be 20 years behind.

My own recent acquisitions:

The Church, "Of Skins and Hearts" (to replace the one I had on vinyl one million years ago -- ZOMG I FORGOT WHAT AN AWESOME RECORD IT IS!!!!) and "El Momento Descuidado"

Chris Bell, "I Am the Cosmos" (to replace the bootleg cassette I've been lugging around since the '90s that finally gave up the ghost)

The Charlatans, "Some Friendly" (to replace long-lost cassette from the '90s. Holy shit I loved this record in college)

Amy Winehouse, "Back to Black" (burned courtesy of a friend who is in serious lurve with her)

Tim Finn, "Imaginary Kingdom" (promo copy courtesy of my ex)

Oh, and how could I forget?!? Also got a bootleg of Paul Weller's second show at the Avalon in Los Angeles last month. Of course. Because that's the kind of obsessive-compulsive loyal fan I am.

This week:
Turing Machine - Zwei
Various Artists - World Psychedelic Classics, Vol. 3 - Love's A Real Thing
Fetchin' Bones - Cabin Flounder (Yay! Replaces long-lost LP)
Eddie Hazel - Game, Dames, and Guitar Thangs

Also, for dodgygeezer & anyone else interested in prog (and psych and all sorts of nutty electronic stuff that I don't go for so much but the kids seem to like), I've found some great full-album downloads of obscure out-of-print goodies at FM Shades and Mutant Sounds. There's some chaff in there, of course, but a fair amount of wheat, too.

Fetchin' Bones - Cabin Flounder (Yay! Replaces long-lost LP)

Yay is right! "Here in the kitchen! The kitchen of life!!"

initapplette, I actually like it quite a bit, I originally got it cause I'm a Laurie Anderson fan, but there is a very high signal to noise ratio over the whole album.

For, those with an actual turntable, Al dropped of a few Drums & Guns LPs tonight, the artwork is much better on the large format sleeve (imo)

New:
Karen Dalton. It's So Hard To Tell Who's Going To Love You The Best & In My Own Time. Wow.
The Who—The Who Sell Out. Sure it's old, but I liked that stuff. Odorono, Armania City in the Sky.
Arcade Fire—Neon Bible —Whoot, I'll be seeing them soon.
Besnard Lakes—Are The Dark Horse. Go Montreal./
Royal Wood —A Good Enough Day.
The Shins—Wincing The Night Away

Listening Lately To:
Cadence Weapon— Is The Black Hand— "The Gorilla Is For Sandracing" — Edmontonian electro hop. Rap.
CoCo Rosie— Radio 1 Breeze Block Sessions. Voodo-ish. Dark, dark night. Rain.
Dolly Parton & Porter Wagoner—Jeanie's Afraid of the Dark, Just Someone I Used To Know, Please Don't Stop Loving Me. Ouch. great stuff from way back. What a duo./
Tanya Tucker & Hoyt Acton— You Taught Me How To Cry. Ouch.
Loretta Lynn—Van Lear Rose — after reading the Delia Derbyshire post.
Goldie Looking Chain—Your Mother's Got a Penis. A Scottish rap group, tongue in cheek, ripping off Queen beats, but funny.
Great Lake Swimmers—Ongiara. Latest release from this chilled out serene artist.
RDB ]Rhythm Dhol Bass[ — Urban Flavas2. Hindi D&B hip hop.

klangklangston, OMG, atomic rooster, wei. Great track that.
edgeways, how do you like the latest from LCD soundsystem. Saw them when they passed through town with the last CD. great show and sound.

alicesshoe, I like it but it might take me awhile to grow into it as much as the 1st one. North American Scum is catchy as are one or two others, it's a little more polished then the 1st, and that's fine for now, but I am a fan of honest clumsiness/rawness, especially if that is the way a particular band starts out its recording career so sometimes when bands get to the point where they are too slick I feel a lot has been lost (the last Yeah Yeah Yeahs for example)

these are the ones I'm curious about:
Yoko Ono -- Yes, I'm a Witch
Soweto Gospel Chorus: Blessed
Amy Winehouse, "Back to Black"
Turing Machine - Zwei
Various Artists - World Psychedelic Classics, Vol. 3 - Love's A Real Thing
Fetchin' Bones - Cabin Flounder (Yay! Replaces long-lost LP)
Eddie Hazel - Game, Dames, and Guitar Thangs
Cadence Weapon— Is The Black Hand— "The Gorilla Is For Sandracing"
RDB ]Rhythm Dhol Bass

Aliceshoe— Wei isn't on this one, though Death Walks Behind you is a kickin' track.

klang - Turing Machine has sort of a krautrock/post-rock vibe, all instrumental and pretty enjoyable, if you like that sort of thing. The World Psychedelic Classics album is a collection of West African psych from the late sixties - early seventies which I haven't listened to all the way through yet but have quite liked so far. Fetchin' Bones were one of the early post-REM Southern bands, sorta quirky female vocals over kinda jangly instrumentation, but fun; Don Dixon produced the album. The Eddie Hazel disc is a solo album he put out back in 1977 that pretty much sank without a trace. It's pretty spotty, but there are a couple of cool covers ("California Dreamin'", "I Want You (She's So Heavy)"), as well as some quasi-Funkadelic-sounding pieces. George Clinton co-produced.

Oh, and Turing Machine, Fetchin' Bones and the World Psych compilation are all on Emusic.

I got:

Low - Drums and Guns
The Black Angels - Passover
Elvis Perkins - Ash Wednesday
The Chameleons - The Return of the Roughnecks

klangklangston, wei, pronounced way, is the equivalent of !whoa. Asian style exclamation. heh, heh.

Amy Winehouse I like. Nice vocals. The Back To Black track intro is a 50's hit by the Rondells¿ Shondells¿ Ask jonmc, he'll nail it. Baby, baby, baby, now that you've left me... can't remember the name of the tune though. You must have heard "Rehab" by her, by now.

Cadence Weapon caught my eye, because I loved the title of this song, The Gorilla is for Sandracing, but at first listen, I thought, WTH¿ This is messed up. But the damn thing grew on me and I started to explore more of his scratching style. Dizzee Rascal-y of sorts. Don't call it grime though.
Breaking Kayfabe is another CD of Cadence Weapon's. Wicked, really. Grim Fandango, Oliver Square, some songs to listen.

RDB are Punjabi DJ production team, desi stuff. I love Arabic and Middle Eastern music and all the Hindi style stuff too. Wicked and sexy. Hell, even Cheb Khaled I like, of course more westernized than hard core Persian. Sample from 2007. Here's an interview with them on MyBindi.