[Murdoch]

The Shins- Oh Inverted World, Chutes too Narrow
New Pornographers- Electric Version
The Flaming Lips- The Soft Bulletin, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

 

[Leporello]

Chemical Brothers: Singles 93-03
Albert King: King of the Blues Guitar
Clash: London Calling
Bowie: Ziggy Stardust
Art Tatum: 20th Century Piano Genius


Regards,

L.

 

[daycart1]

Old mono DG tulips: Brahms 104
New digital DG: Bruckner 1-3

All scored on ebay!

 

[rsaavedra]

Tierney Sutton "Dancing in the dark". Beautiful voice. Found out about this CD and singer browsing www.musicplasma.com and discovering musicians that were close to Jacqui Naylor in their map.

Rachel Podger, "Antonio Vivaldi, La Stravaganza, 12 Violin Concertos". This CD got 10 out 10 in both recording and music in a recent HiFi+ issue.

Jamie Cullum, "Twentysomething". This guy was singing and playing the piano the other day in Conan O'Brien's show, I had never heard of him but thought he was an excellent musician, great voice and music, reminded me of Harry Connick Jr. a bit. Incidentally, today Cullum's CD was playing at B&N through the bookstore's ambient music system, so went ahead and bougth it on the spot.

John Williams, "El Diablo Suelto, Guitar Music of Venezuela". Learned about this CD today reading HiFi+ in Barnes and Noble, it's one of the reviewed disks in their lattest issue. Went to the bookstore's music section and luckily they had it!, bought it on the spot too. Listening to it right now, I'm biased of course because I'm Venezuelan. If you don't believe me trust HiFi+. Their "recording" ranking was something around 9, music ranking was 10 out of 10, it is really excellent. Listening through and reading the booklet I now realize it has "Seis por derecho", a piece for which there are choral arrangements, and the choir where I used to sing had this in the repertoire. So among others in the CD, I know very well this piece. It sounds awesome, rhythm is incredibly foottapping in particular on that song, also on Diablo suelto, in general all over this CD. And it should of course, this is Venezuelan music after all

. Seriously, this is truly a great sounding selection of Venezuela's legacy to classical guitar music.

rsaavedra

 

[ChiasticSlide]

Polygon Window - Surfing On Sine Waves
Boards of Canada - A Beautiful Place Out In The Country
Autechre - Tri Repetae++
Autechre - Peel Session
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?

 

[pcolbeck]

Up All Night - The Waifs
Australian Country/Folk band led by sisters. Saw them last week on BBC3 appearing at Cambridge Folk Festival last year. Nice harmonies and mouthorgan.

Great Singers - Ferrier
Das Lied von der Erde/ Three Ruckert Lieder - Kathleen Ferrier and Bruno Walter 1952. Sounds great to say Naxos remastered it from old 78s. Great emotion, Ferrier was in great pain (she died the next year) and Bruno Walter was crying as he conducted. Splendid Naxos value at £4.99 (but probably not in the USA due to the longer copywrite laws there).

Motets - Guillaum de Machaut - The Hillard Ensemble
Now officially the oldest music I own, wriiten in the 14th Century, quite beautifull.

Death & Devotion - The Netherlands Bach Society
Very moving performances of music by Bachs immediate predecesors such as Buxtehude. My first SACD too not that I have a SACD player. luckily its a hybrid CD.

Sketches of Spain - Miles Davis
On sale in HMV for £6.99 at present if you live in the UK and donthave it yet (its the 20-Bit remastered version). Havent listened to this yet as I have a stack of stuff to get through.

 

[strike]

The Cure - Join the Dots
Robi Draco Rosa - Mad Love
Belle & Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
The Fire Theft - The Fire Theft
Morrissey - You Are The Quarry

 

[md01]

Just got a couple of albums,

Isaac Hayes - bot buttered soul
Leftfield - rythm and stealth
Leftfield -leftism
Prmlscrm - xtrmntr
Portishead - dummy

 

[Murdoch]

GYBE - Lift your skinny fists
Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville
Magnetic Fields - i
The Beta Band - Heroes to Zeros
Ani DiFranco - Out of Range

 

[JMedeiros]

The Passion ST
Songs Inspired by The Passion-Various Artists
Van Helsing ST
Master & Commander ST
Clint Black-Spend my Time
Josh Turner-Long Black Train

 

[TheGrogman]

My last five used
Danny Wilson - "Meet Danny Wilson" (excellent jazzy pop from 1987)
Shawn Colvin - "Whole New You" (I discovered Shawn Colvin when my daughter got the Elmopalooza video. She does an awesome job with Ernie on "I Don't Want to Live on the Moon." This disc has some interesting songs and I like to listen to this one as background music while I'm doing something else.)
David Sanborn - "A Change of Heart" (One of my favorites of his. It replaces an old vinyl copy I used to play during dinner at weddings back when I was jockin' for a living)
John Mellencamp - "Dance Naked" (My daughter and I love to rock out in the car to "Wild Night." Awesome baselines and tight drums)
Sting - "Brand New Day" (Excellent mix and the loudness is very under control, very diverse recording)

My last five new
Sean Watkins - "Let it Fall" (Cool experiment from the Nickel Creek front man, nice and light. He does a lot of experimentation and there is nice diversity in the styles of each track, but they all fit nicely together, IMO)
Nickel Creek - "This Side" (I bought this together with "Let it Fall." Very nice.)
Aerosmith - "Honkin' on Bobo" (Nice idea but way too loud. Some one ran this thing through the compressor way too many times)
Emily Richards - "Valhalla" (She's the greatest)
U2 - "Greatest Hits 1990 - 2000" (I realized too late that all their good stuff was published before 1991. A couple of good tracks, but not as much fun as the early stuff)

 

[Leto Atreides II]

Beaumont Hannat - Texturology (GPR)
Venetian Snares - Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding (Planet µ)
Kill Bill Vol. 2 Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
OOO - Upon Cycles (Planet µ)
o9 - Church of the Ghetto PC (Planet µ)
Squarepusher - Ultravisitor (Warp)
Squarepusher - Squarewindow (Warp)
Fennesz - Venice (Touch)
Isan - Meet Next Life (Morr)
Various - The Philosophy of Sound & Machine (ART/Rephlex)
Various - Orange Zero Six (Struktur)
Accelera Deck - Digital Headrest (Neo Ouija)

 

[Murdoch]

The latest:

Morrissey- You are the Quarry
Belle & Sebastian- If you're feeling sinister
Digable Planets- Reachin'
Morphine- Cure for pain

Also listening to the Harnoncourt Beethoven Symphonies on loan from my parents.

 

[shade]

Here are mine:

Shura Cherkassky - Historic 40's Recorings (www.IvoryClassics.Com)

Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies - Various Pianists (VAIA) each HR is played by a different pianist (e.g., Cortot, Bolet, Cziffra, Richter) - Fabulous!

Arrau in Germany - Prewar Radio Recordings (Music & Arts)

Bach Harpsichord Music (WTC, GB Variations) 5 CDs - Helmut Walcha (EMI - I had to go to Amazon in Germany for this one!)

Horszowski plays Mozart Piano Sonatas (Arbiter)

All recommended!

 

[pank2002]

****, I just did it again. I've just confirmed an order for ~$172 worth of cds. Cds are very expensive here... if you go to a retailer he'll take around $25 per cd. Damn VISA !

Well, here's the cd I orded. They are all danish and that's partly why I paied so much; it's a hard to get dansih music from cd-wow, which I normally order from, and when you can get danish int'l music it usually sucks (Aqua is the horra example)

Well here it goes:

*Larsen And Furious Jane - Im Glad He´s Dead
These are acctually quite good and quite new. I head a song of theirs on a music festival called spot10 webplayer. I'm looking forward to listen to this album!

*The Fashion Rock Rock Kiss Kiss Combo.
They make kindda disco-rock-80's-kindda stuff. I've heard them some tiems in the radio, and I think I'll enjoy their album. It not as interesting as the the 'larsen and...' album. I'm also gonna hear these guys at a festival in the end of june.

*Grand Avenue - Grand Avenue
They also make good music. It's kindda easy rock and the front singer have a very noticable voice. Looking forward to listen it through.

*Swan Lee - Swan Lee
This is the second album from this groupe. I got their first album second hand and this should be even better. The female front vokal have a very pleasing voice. Good stuff!

*Hempler Claus - Hempler
First album from this guy -- solo at least. I've just heard one song. In a review of the album they claimed he was the best male vokal in danish rock -- and yes that says a lot

*Virgo - YouAndMeVersusTime
I've head a single in the radio which I found way cool. Energized rock when it's best. Kindda like the Fashinon.

*Kashmir - Zitilites
This is a very a album from (IMO) one of the best danish rock groupes. I have only heard few songs. It kindda countrymusic inspired. It should be better than their earlier album 'The good life' which is one of my favorits. Looking forward to this one too.

*Dizzy Mizz Lizzy - 'Dizzy Mizz Lizzy' and 'Rotator'
These two albums are from a long gone band with many classics. Some of it is a bid to sweet for my taste, but a lot of it is really cool. Kindda like a history leasson

*Various Artists - Original 80's Summer Album
I got it for free. It's a compilation so it most likely sucks big time.

Last week I got these two albums second hand:

*Mew - Frengers
A near perfect album. I can't think of any album closer to perfect. Seriues. I think the title is a subtraction of Friends and Stranger -- at least that was what I though last night in a alkohol intoxication.

*Swan Lee - Enter
Cool album. Not as good as the other one though.

Now I just need to get the pack... It's in my mothers name as the store only takes orders from persons >18 year of age. I paid for it myself though.

edit: holy lopster... that became a smaller essay

I wanna do music review for a living. That would be sweet!