Actually, most of my recent music purchases have been DVDs. I haven't been record shopping for a long time. I hate being on a budget.

GangstaFam said:

Yes, they are pretty new to me... I remember I thought something similar when I first heard JD's Substance (my first JD album)... it took me some time to get into (relatively long).

Ceremony, Procession, Blue Mondy, Love Bizarre Triangle are really good. I have to listen some more, for sure. The side two of the Singles (containing songs 1988 up to their latest releases - Krafty etc.), is a bit different, since I am much more into the earlier 80s popular music, but I'll see & hear.

SenseOfDoubt said:

You'll be hooked in no time.

If you decide to pursue them further, I'd say get Power, Corruption and Lies and Brotherhood next.

GangstaFam said:

I'm gonna check it out when I have got some money left, for sure

SenseOfDoubt said:

Do you have JD's albums other than Substance?

GangstaFam said:

All BUT Still & the two live albums. Seems hard to get in Vienna. Basically I was speechless after I had listened through Closer and Unknown Pleasures. There is no single thing going wrong in these albums. This is a rare experience! It's a shame I did not experience them earlier. I problaby would never heard of them, if it wasn't my nephew who had bought an album and borrowed it to me.

SenseOfDoubt said:

They never lose their impact with time either. I can never casually listen to Joy Division. They shake me to the core every time.

t-bone burnett - a true false identity
mark turner - dharma days
whiskeytown - pneumonia
bud shank - the man with the golden arm
marty paich - the marty paich quartet volume 9

Anx said:

Thanks for the heads up on “The Avalanche” – I will definitely check that out! How’s “Michigan”? As for Lady Sovereign, I think you’ll be fairly perturbed by “Vertically Challenged.” It contains eight tracks, but only five songs – the other three are remixes. I like it quite a bit, but that’s just me. If I were you (given your disdain for EPs), I’d wait for a full length release.

And Anxy - were I a female rapper, I’d record an album entitled “Vagally Challenged” and dedicate each and every track to you.

Anx said:

The only thing I have of Sufjan Stevens is Michigan. I listened to the first track, Flint, and thought - woah. This is going to be a fucking awesome CD. And then I got lost as the tracks seemed to be more and more jingly and banjoey (except for the pretty instrumentals like the waterfall one. I forget its name) and less and less like Flint. Are Illinois / Avalanche similarly jingly? (crap adjective, I know, but I don't know how else to describe it. )

jillybean said:

Omadon said:

i think 'michigan' has a couple of stand-out tracks, but the rest of it (in my opinion, anyway) is just kinda pleasant and generic.

'illinois' is quirky and folky and poppy all the way through. it kinda reminds me of the artier side of talking heads, with the odd ingredients of nick drake and phillip glass thrown in.

"illinoise" was originally going to be a double album, but sufjan was talked into paring it down. "the avalanche" is the intended disc 2, with some demos and alternate versions thrown in. he actually went back and re-mixed and re-tooled the tracks for the release of "the avalanche" this summer, so it's not just a tossed-out odds'n'sods disc...and it shows! great stuff.

Nelly Furtado - Loose, released June 20
Madonna - I'm Gonna Tell You A Secret, released June 20
Cat Stevens, Izitso, released 1977
Planit, The Whole Process of Things, released June 23
Ricca Razor Sharp, 12 Steps To A Deffer You, released June 23

Peeping Tom - Peeping Tom
Matmos - The Rose has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast
Madonna - I'm Going to Tell You a Secret
Thom Yorke - The Eraser
Prince - Ultimate

Anx said:

brilliant, thanks. think i'll get illinois & check it out & then hopefully get the avalanche after that. There's enough on Michigan to think it's worth persevering.

eleven said:

Ok for real did this ever get released?

eleven said:

i'm pretty sure i remember when you got 'ultimate'...has it been that long since you got new music? boy, we need to get you to a wrecka stow before you waste away!

Anx said:

~Salt E Peka's here~

1. Vanhunt
2.The best of Lakeside
3.David Bowie Ziggy Stardust
4.One night at MoMo's
5. Lisa Loeb's Greatist Hits

India's Testimony


Stevie's Mind


Jody's Jody


Cameo's Gold


Gnarls' Elsewhere

India.Arie - Testimony, Vol. 1: Life & Relationship


Guster - Ganging Up on the Sun


Split Enz - Time and Tide [Remastered] (to replace my original copy)


Split Enz - Dizrythmia [Remastered] (to replace my original copy)


The Roots - The Tipping Point

Magazine - Real Life
Aphex Twin - I Care Because You Do
Brian Eno - The Drop
Roxy Music - Siren
Miles Davis - Miles Ahead

DIAMANDA GALAS - Plague Mass
FRANK ZAPPA - Shut Up and Play Yer Guitar
RAVI SHANKAR - Ravi Shankar
ALICE COLTRANE - Ptah the El Daoud
THE CRAMPS - Psychadelic Jungle and Songs the Lord Taught Us



I'm in a weird freaking mood this weekend.

heres some more (spent all my money on cds this time...)

- Men At Work: Business As Usual (I really ENJOY THIS A LOT!!! I did not have the plan to buy that, but it "fell" into my hands at the store)
- She's So Unusual (Cindy Lauper)
- Trout Mask Replica - Captain Beefheart
- Visage - Visage (it was cheap as chips, and I am glad it was!)
- Batman - Prince
- Street Player - Rufus and CK
- Masterjam - Rufus and CK

Not a too exciting set, but VERY enjoyable (most of it).

New Edition





Candy Girl





Heather Headley






Anthony Hamilton






De La Soul

CalhounSq said:

"Didja get it yet? Get it yet? Get it yet? Ooh, my secret!"


"Don't you know? Don't you know? It's the real thing, girl!"
[Edited 7/1/06 19:25pm]

Anx said:

That's the only album I own that I'm unable to listen to from start to finish. That's not to say that I dislike it - it's just that I find it's too much of one thing for too long.

If nothing else, it makes good background music when I'm handing out treats on Halloween night.

vashti1999 said:

Isn't that charles barkley? Because he's CRAZAY!

1.Mint Condition-- Live at the 9:30 club
2.Van Hunt-- On the jungle floor
3.Prince -- 3121
4.Teena Marie-- Saphire
5.Barkays-- Propositions