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

I believe I bought "From the muddy banks of wishkah" last, it's a live album by Nirvana. And it's great!!!:)

Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
Andrew Bird - Fingerlings 1
Andrew Bird - Fingerlings 2
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
Clay Pigeons OST
Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Yanqui U.X.O.


And with that, I've reached 500 CDs.

Crowded House's FAREWELL TO THE WORLD was the last one I bought, I think.

Bright Eyes - "Cassadaga"

BRILLIANT

I just preordered:

Pig Destroyer - Phantom Limb
Cephalic Carnage - Xenosapien

I'm excited for some new grind!

my last order at amazon:
Hotel Rwanda Soundtrack

Pommbaer

Amy Winehouse - "Frank"

Thanks to the thread started here on TFP, no less.
It is a really great album, and I haven't even finished the entire thing!
(On Track 10 - "October Song" right now)

It is a very different sound, but pleasing nonetheless. Very well-composed.
I don't think I'm gonna be able to stop complimenting this album, so I'll stop here. :D Grreat!

The Blackening - Machine Head

and it is a damn fine CD

Solace - Ion Dissonance
In a Flesh Aquarium - Unexpect
Bergtatt - Ulver
From Mars to Sirius - Gojira
Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven - Godspeed You! Black Emperor

Kings of Leon - Because of the Times

Took me a while to enjoy it, but I do enjoy it. Very different from the first two albums.

A friend of mine who I tree planted with recently put out an album. You can check him out at his Myspace link below.

Andy Trithardt and the Bad Memories. http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm...endid=15903002

Warren Zevon - Preludes

Just got it this AM, it is a collection of his early stuff on disk 1, including some of his fan favorites, all recorded before 1976. Plus a 2nd disk with 3 songs and several interviews.

I don't think I post in here enough.

Blue October:
I got this when i heard the song: "hate me" on the radio. it's a damn good album. I recommend to everyone who wants some chill rock.
rating:9/10

Creedence Clearwater Revival greatest hits
Beach Boys greatest hits

Systematic Chaos - Dream Theater

Blaqk Audio - Stiff Kittens (Single)
Nick Drake - Family Tree
Apoptygma Berzerk - Harmonizer
Omni Trio - Byte Sized Life
Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come

Kim Richey's CHINESE BOXES was the last one I bought. Produced by Giles Martin (son of George), it's a wonderful disc, although at 10 tracks, a bit short for my liking.

But then, I've liked all of Richey's albums so far.

Technically the last CD i bought was Patton Oswalt's Werewolves and lolipops but thats a comedy CD...The last music CD i bought was Queens of the Stone Age, Era Vulgaris. Amazing.

Just bought "Easy Tiger" by Ryan Adams at a starbucks today; sadly. To be fair it was an impulse buy. Very solid album, best since Heartbreaker. Very good album; good if you like mello-country/folk. Very good. Sort of got a jazzy feel to it.

Neil Young - Live At Massey Hall 1971

acoustic - beautiful - strong voice

liars liars

Merzbow - Merzbeat
Schoolyard Heroes - Abominations
HORSE the Band - A Natural Death
Boris - Absolutego

Also, not a CD, but I picked up an unopened copy of Merzbow's '92 Recycle Music Series cassette off of ebay.

saw them at Bumpershoot..........The Aggrolites "Reggae Hit L.A."

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Though I don't like much mainstream rap, T.I is one of the few mainstream rappers that I'll listen to. Sublime is the shit.

new smashing pumpkins zeitgeist

Kenny Wayne Shepherd - 10 Days Out

saw his band in concert again over weekend, and Im glad his attempt go mainstream failed, he's to damn good to be stuck doing top 40 crap.

just got the black audio cd, they sound like depeche mode...i like it...

I recently bought Aberkok's cd of wonderful jazz tunes.

CD
 

1.)Paramore

the last cd i bought was Operation Ivy - Energy

Portishead - Dummy
Tricky - Maxinquaye

oh. my. god. I need payday to come to get more of this, can not stop listening to it!

Kanye West - Graduation

Brilliant indeed. I was a little turned off to the fact that it was so structured and country bit grew on me and I definitely love it.

The new Cephalic seems to be lacking something. I can't quite put my finger on what's missing but I'm guessing part of it is that Xenosapien seems a little too straight forward. It's good but I expected more from them.

And the new PxDx is just plain awesome.

Ulver - Shadows On The Sun
Ulver - Sved Neger Soundtrack
Ulver - Lycantropen Themes (soundtrack)
El-P- Fantastic Damage
Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass

Dethklok - The Dethalbum

That Blaqk Audio single rocks my face off. Is the whole CD good?

Dave Gahan - Hourglass

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Naked Ape: For the sake of the naked.
The Killers-SawDust
The Donnas-Bitchin
Alicia Keys-As Am I

Manu Delago's album Living Room
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you're smokin' rocks, it's not good, and I heart Disturbed.

CD Purchases
 

My latest cd purchase was Fade To Black by Amy Weinhouse. Fantastic!!:thumbsup:

Bubblegum Crisis, complete vocal collections, 3 disc set. I didn't buy it becuase it was anime music, I bought it because it sounds exactly how the 80's sounded... with Japanese voices. I wish I could find the English versions I heard, because those were kick ass 80's too.

Before that it was Cold's A Different Kind of Pain and Tiesto's In Search of Sunrise vol 5/

Protest the Hero - Fortress
The Mars Volta - The Bedlam in Goliath

I don't purchase cd's very often, only highly desired new releases, but I swap them a lot.

Some recent acquisitions:

Emiliana Torrini - Love in the Time of Science
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XTC - Oranges and Lemons
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Julee Cruise - The Art of Being a Girl
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Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill
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Steely Dan - The Royal Scam
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Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic (these three albums complete my lost Steely Dan collection - yay!)
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Sonya Kitchell - Words Came Back to Me
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The Zombies - Odessey & Oracle
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The Buddy Holly Collection
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The Devlins - Waves
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Ron Sexsmith - Other Songs
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Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead
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The Flaming Lips - Clouds Taste Metallic
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Cannonball Adderley - Somethin' Else
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The Who - Tommy
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Cat Power - You Are Free
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Rickie Lee Jones - Rickie Lee Jones
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Beck - Mutations
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Tom Waits - Bone Machine
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And assorted greatest hits cds from: The Ohio Players, Ernest Tubb, Squeeze, Madness, Loretta Lynn, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Donny Hathaway, The Byrds, The Beach Boys, Bill Monroe, Siouxsie & the Banshees...

And many more that I can't remember right now.

I love trading. It's the only way I can satisfy my fetish for music both legally and financially. :)

Good get on Emiliana Torrini. I first listened to her first album during my Björk - Debut and Post phase. I particularly like Unemployed In Summertime and Wednesday's Child off this album.

Her second album, Fisherman's Woman, strips out nearly all the possible electronic themes from the music and goes almost full on accoustic.

Yes, I have Fisherman's Woman on my wish list. But being that she's a fairly popular newer artist, her cd's rarely pop up. I was thrilled to get this one.

I love her voice.

Hey Mixed, thanks to your recommendation I sampled some Sonya Kitchell. I really like her. So thanks.

And I gotta throw a plug in for Grateful Dead's "Workingman's Dead". One of my favourite albums.

Fucking sublime album.

Some early morning finds...

Love samba!
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lol, couldn't resist...
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