Actually, don't shoot me, but I found it pretty disappointing. I liked Speak For Yourself much more.

My girlfriend's roommate bought me Bob Dylan's Modern Times and, my favourite new CD, Corb Lund's Hair In My Eyes Like a Highland Steer
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It'll make anyone like country.

At the moment I'm concentrating on replacing my old vinyl collection. My last purchase, which I found in a second-hand record shop was the album Over by Peter Hammill.

Jay-Z Kingdom Come...



Damn... that is one badass mother fucker...

Yesterday I bought Blair Harvey & The Dregs.
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Blair is a local musician who plays about 3 or5 gigs a week in various bars around St. John's. His style is best described as rockabilly/blues.

Listen to his stuff here:
http://www.myspace.com/blairharvey

Derek Trucks Band - Songlines
Bobby Bare - Down and Dirty...plus


Have you tried any of the following?
Gram Parsons - Grievous Angel
The Byrds - Sweetheart of the Rodeo
The Flying Burrito Bros. - Guilded Palace of Sin

They will make you like country (well country rock) even more.

Really into Barenaked Ladies "Barenaked Ladies Am I". Really different from all the other stuff I've heard from them, but has a definite replay value. The song I listen most from that CD is "Home".

Brand New - the devil and god are raging inside me

Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold as Love
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Stooges - Stooges (2CD)
White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of This Country
Jenny Lewis w/ Watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat
Beth Orton - Central Reservation
Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road

The Shins - Wincing the Night Away

Had the leaked mp3s since November, but somehow still couldn't wait til I had the actual CD.

Great first half, okay second half. Chutes Too Narrow remains their best album by far.

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Midival Punditz - Midival Punditz is on the way.

As always I agree whole heartedly. Sleeping Lessons still gives me chills. Chutes is best by far; although Oh Inverted Word grew on me after a long time and I have a feeling this will as well.

Jenny Lewis and The Watson Twins was amazing. Really enjoyed The Creek Drank The Paddle which I just picked up. Not as good as Our Endless Numbered Days but I still enjoyed it.

Congrats on getting these four albums! Yea/Nay on Camera Obscura? You can probably guess why I'm asking.

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Bought today at Amoeba Music (all used):

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Eleni Mandell - Miracle of Five
Its not actually released until February 6, so this is probably a promo or advance copy. Either way I had to grab it because Eleni Mandell is my current favorite female solo artist, and has been for at least the past 5 years.

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Tralala - Tralala
One of the most fun albums of 2005/2006. Listen to: All Fired Up

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A Camp - A Camp
Nina Persson from the Cardigans side project. Was the prelude and possibly major factor in the sound that came from the Cardigans following album "Long Gone Before Daylight". I thoroughly enjoyed both of these albums. Note: This is an Import title and only cost $8.00. Buy? YES.

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Ryan Adams - Gold
Probably the only Ryan Adams album I can listen to from beginning to end. :eek:

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Conjure One - Extraordinary Ways
I haven't decided if I like this album (Rhys Fulber) or Delerium - Nuages du Monde (Rhys Fulber & Bill Leeb)

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Nina Gordon - Bleeding Heart Graffiti
Because I really liked her album "Tonight and the Rest of My Life" from 2000. And the song of the same title. After she left Veruca Salt.

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Sixpence None The Richer - Divine Discontent
Leigh Nash has a wonderful voice. Anyone remember the rest of the band? Sadly, no. It could have been Leigh Nash & Sixpence None The Richer, or Sixpence Featuring Leigh Nash for all we know. In any case, lovely album.

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spleen, I think that Conjure One CD was really disappointing. The first one was great though.

The last CD I bought was Front Line Assembly - Artificial Soldier. I was surprised to find it at Best Buy when I was trolling through, looking for a way to blow the $20 gift certificate I got for Christmas.

How is it? Well, for FLA, I like Civilization a lot more, but its one of their best efforts anyways. This album plays like a "greatest hits" mashup... a mix of what was good about their old style with some of their new style flavor. Too bad there aren't any brilliant moments. My favorite track is Future Fail, featuring vocals from the Front 242 dude.

I pre-ordered this album but I had no idea it had been leaked. I'm anxious to receive it. Since I purchased it in December it is officially one of the two cd's I was willing to purchase new last year.

That'd be a YEA. Vocals aside, it reminds me a lot of Tigermilk and The Boy With the Arab Strap. Which, of course, is a very good thing.

Lewis/Watsons, oddly enough, was my least favorite of the four. Bought it based on the cover of "Handle With Care" and... guess I was just expecting more or something. Plus, those other three satisfied me well. Beth Orton was a nice surprise, like Sarah McLachlan with much better consistency. (She never did top "Building a Mystery", as I see it.)

Sia - Colour the Small One



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I heard her song Breathe Me on Sirius Channel 35 (Chill) and I got hooked. I'm also now hooked on that channel, too. I'm currently looking for an artist named Camille because I heard one of her songs called Ta Douleur on Sirius 35, as well.

Unfortunately I would have to agree. The worst part is that I'm either mildly obsessive compulsive, or a completionist and couldn't pass up the album regardless of whether I enjoyed it or not. I had downloaded it a few weeks ago and was pretty much bored out of my mind. On the same note, the Delerium - Nuages du Monde just doesn't sit with me that well either. I only listened to it once though, and I'm hoping both albums grow on me with time.

*Edit - Since only listened to both albums once and only once each I'll have to refrain from making any further comments on either album.

*Edit2 - warrrreagl, you just forced me to download Camille's Le Fil album off Soulseek.

*Edit3 - Because it is going to combine the posts anyway for double posting -

Just bought off Amazon, and should be receiving sometime next week:

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Hot Club of Cowtown - Continental Stomp
Live album for the hot jazz/western swing band! Finally talked myself into getting it

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Beirut - The Gulag Orkestar
Gypsyish or something from a guy out some midwest state. Very good, and interesting, listening

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Lady Sovereign - Public Warning
Because I thought Random, A Little Bit Of Shh and Love Me Or Hate Me were good songs, dammit.

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Lily Allen - Alright, Still
Finally got released in the states this week, huzzah!

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Well this is kind of embarassing for myself. I was organizing my CDs, and I came across my Conjure One - Extraordinary Ways album. That I bought in 2005. So I now have two copies of the album, whoops!

I guess it didn't make that much of an impact on me at the time then either since I bought it again as a used CD ($6 so not bank breaking).

Recently picked up Lupe Fiasco - Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor. Very good album, especially if you're into hip hop that isn't all about the money, cars, and hos.

Nice choices Mean. Beirut is amazing, you should see them live if you haven't already... such talent out of a 19 year old.

Architecture in Helsinki - In Case We Die
Hank Williams - 24 of Hank Williams' Greatest Hits
Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
Beck - Sea Change
Erin McKeown - Grand
Lily Allen - Alright, Still

Of those, only heard Of Montreal in its entirety so far. And it's lots of fun. Never expected to hear something like "The Past is a Grotesque Animal" come out of that band.

I went to a show here in capital city to see a guy named Royal Wood. He's an up and comer Torontonian. He has a few albums out, but the one I purchased is called A Good Enough Day. Not a bad effort. If you want to sample a few tunes, I suggest "Juliet", "A Mirror Without" or "The Spirits and I".

I had to repurchase Slayer's Christ Illusion because my copy was lifted. On a side note, I saw them on 7 Feb, it was one hell of a show. They still got it.

Dalbello - Whore

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I had a 50 dollar gift certificate for itunes...so I invested in the following:

Damien Rice - 9
The Weepies - Say I Am You
Anberlin - Cities
30 Seconds to Mars - A Beautiful Lie
Stone Sour - Come What(ever) May

and loads of random singles. Also aquired the new Fall Out Boy CD. Haven't made a ruling on it yet. lol

Let me know how the Lucinda Williams album is!

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Was out in the Hollywood area again and popped into Amoeba Music for used CD hunting

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TRALALA-is that the TRALALA
Followup from their debut that I bought the last time I was in Amoeba. More fun rock!

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Bobby Bare Jr's Young Criminals Starvation League - the longest meow
The band put on a great performance at the 2005 Austin City Limits festival on both the smaller stage to cover for an act that could not make it, and on one of the main stages. Hopefully this CD can help pin down their great live performance

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Lizzie West & the White Buffalo - I Pledge Allegience to Myself
Her first album, Holy Road, was really really good. Now that she named her band as part of the artist, there may be a wider range of sounds.

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Everything But the Girl - Like The Deserts Miss The Rain
Compilation that includes a lot of their early acoustic stuff. I remember downloading it about 4-5 years ago in college, but finally got around to buying this great partial 'best of' album

The Casket Lottery - Smoke and Mirrors
Feist - Let It Die

Feist is a repurchase, after a loan to a friend turned indefinite. $6 used, so what the hey. Casket Lottery is emo hard rock along the lines of Cursive. The EP has three crap tracks and one solidly good title track, but $3 used, so what the hey. It was a what-the-hey kind of day.

MeanSpleen:

I like the new Lucinda album...it's not much of a departure from her earlier albums and a few of the songs are a little...eh, baffling. Not as strong as others. It's pretty dark. Surprise! lol But I tend to like that about her.

I like it and am glad to have it, but it hasn't blown me away

wife got 10 free album downloads via her frequent flier points so:

TV on the Radio - "Return to Cookie Mountain" (pretty good, but way overhyped)
Starsailor - "On the Outside" (Brit rock without much substance, but I still love them)
Sean Lennon - "Friendly Fire" (Really, really great)
The Raconteurs - "Broken Boy Soldiers" (Look Ma! Rock n' Roll!)
Metallica - "Kill Em' All" (One of those albums I never got around to buying on CD....guess I can throw my cassette away now)
Thom Yorke - "The Eraser" (Definitely have to be in the right mood for this one)
Flaming Lips - "At War With the Mystics" (Not quite as good as "Yoshimi", but still fantastic)
Muse - "Black Holes and Revelations" (Not as good as "Absolution", but I like it)

the bombay connection vol. 1: funk from bollywood action thrillers 1977-1984

in a world piled so high with cheese, talking is difficult.
that is why words fail me about this cd.

BLAMMO! Only took freaking forever for it to come out in the states... and they left off Addicted! DANG IT

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Amy Winehouse - Back To Black

A Whisper in the Noise - As the Bluebird Sings
Fields - 7 From the Village
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
Cat Power - Moon Pix
Peter Bjorn and John - Writer's Block

Fields' "Song For the Fields" has been my favorite song for a couple weeks now. It's on their myspace page (although it's the newer LP version that strikes me as significantly less compelling).

Mitch Forman - Mr. Clean

Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Living With the Living
Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
John Vanderslice - Time Travel is Lonely
Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire - The Swimming Hour
Hell is For Heroes - Transmit Disrupt
Richmond Fontaine - The Fitzgerald
Gomez - Liquid Skin
Olivia Tremor Control - Music from the Unrealized Film Script, Dusk at Cubist Castle

My boyfriend gave me the Live at Massey Hall 1971 cd by Neil Young and I'm really loving it. It's a real keeper. Probably one of my favorite live recordings ever.

The Corrs - Home. \m/

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As a gift for someone.

Best of Kansas
Best of Boston
Best of Blue Oyster Cult
30 seconds to mars
aventura
the crow soundtrack
Daughtry
Nickelback
The Classic Crime
2pac

Kickass, I've heard her but never knew who it was, many thanks to you.


Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
Roger Waters - Amused to Death