XTC - Skylarking
Meat Puppets - II
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love

The tail end of my Parasol order came in, and I think I've now completed my Lucksmiths collection (at least, everything that's a 5-song ep or larger...) with the arrival of:

Where We We?
A Little Distraction

Slow day for new releases today. My only purchase was the new Fruit Bats album, "Spelled in Bones".

I also picked up the Fruit Bats, along with Goldrush's new one, Ozona. I had gotten my Bob Mould (which also comes out today) several weeks ago...

Sigur Ros - Agaetus Byrgun(sp?
Outkast - Stankonia (Only the second rap album in my collection!)

And I wanted to buy the Thee More Shallows album but they didn't have it.

Edit: And..I ordered Thee More Shallows' album straight from the label website.

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Sigur Ros - Agaetus Byrgun(sp?

105° + Sigur Ros = Coma

!!!- Louden up now
Dizzee Rascal- Boy in da Corner
Pavement- Crooked Rain Crooked Rain
Black Mountain- Black Mountain

from the Cheapo bins...

boards of canada - geogaddi
lambchop - what another man spills
low + dirty three - in the fishtank
Teenage Fanclub single - Mellow Doubt w/Getting Real, Some People Try to F**k With You, and About You (Acoustic Version)
Future Bible Heroes - Eternal Youth
modest mouse - the moon & antartica
wolf parade -ep
mclusky - do dallas

My first purchase in Georgia.

Nina Simone - Wild is the Wind/ High Priestess of Soul twofer. She really seems to have been incapable of making bad music in the 60s.

I went to a small record store in a nearby big city and actually found some used records worth buying, a first for me.

Counting Crows - Hard Candy. This album is so underrated. I think it is quite possibly as good as August and Everything After. Nearly every song is a pop gem.

Eels - Beautiful Freak. Their classic first album. I never liked "Novocaien for the Soul" too much, but there are so many other great ones here like "Rags to Rags," "Your Lucky Day In Hell," and "Manchild" that it was definitely worth picking up. Plus I like the cover art. That freakishly large-eyed girl is creepy, yet captivating.

Went garage sale shopping this morning and picked up a couple of lps (I finally got a new record player to replace my dead one from college).

Brian Eno- Here Come the Warm Jets
Attack of the Killer Bs - this seems semi cool. A sampler of b-sides from talking heads, john hiatt, marshall crenshaw,laurie anderson, gang of four, ramones, peter gabriel, the blasters, the pretenders and one or two others i can't think of.

I ordered

Thee More Shallows - More Deep Cuts

I got it from the label's site. It was just $10 plus $1.50 S&H. Based on a couple listens, I think this has a shot at being my album of the year. I'll listen to it again in a couple of weeks and compare it with Illinoise. It's a very dark album, and I'm a sucker for those. You guys have got to check this band out, though. The music is incredible.

I just recently bought The Offspring Greatest Hits. I really like it! Almost every song is a hit and I like most of them. I would recommend it if you like ummmm rock I guess.

8.5 out of 10

"Mother Popcorn: Vicki Anderson Anthology".

Also picked up tickets to Interpol on September and Antony & the Johnsons in October!

I bought a whole pile o' stuff from my old employer in the ATL upon my return. I'm going off of memory only here, but it included:

Stuart Staples: Lucky Dog Recordings 03-04
Kaiser Chiefs: Employment (UK 2-disc version)
Daniel Wylie: (new one...title?)
Jim Boggia: (title?)
Swervedriver, Slowdive, and Boo Radleys (each 2-disc collections)


There's more, but I can't recall it now.

Thee More Shallows - More Deep Cuts came today. Haven't listened to it yet.

But..erm..it came with another album from the same company, by a band called 'The Contrail'. And..it's packaged in a flap of paper and a rubber band. Which is bizarre, because jewel cases don't cost very much.

Edit:

Okay, now I've listened to 'Thee More Shallows - More Deep Cuts'.

It's..quite good. Thoroughly enjoyable, no particularly bad tracks. But it doesn't really 'astound' me either. Solid B+, quite far from an A-.

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Okay, today's confession:

Basment Jaxx - Singles: Special Edition

After reading a cheapy book on 60s singer/songwriters which included a chapter on Tom Rapp and his band Pearls Before Swine, I picked up their first two albums. I was pretty excited to hear of an ESP label band that I didn't know, and they fit in with the other bands on the label. Sort of the halfway point between the Holy Modal Rollers and the Fugs.

Also, I'm excited because I finally bought all of David Ackles cds online instead of using the burned copies I've been listening to. A chapter on Ackles is actually the reason I bought the book that lead me to Pearls Before Swine. He is definately my first or second favorite discovery of the year, with only Nina Simone offering serious competition.

The albums are definately coming out of the psychedelic scene, and can be a bit overly precious at times, but I'm liking them pretty well.

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Originally posted by philosopherEric:
I bought a whole pile o' stuff from my old employer in the ATL upon my return. I'm going off of memory only here, but it included:

Stuart Staples: Lucky Dog Recordings 03-04
Kaiser Chiefs: Employment (UK 2-disc version)
Daniel Wylie: (new one...title?)
Jim Boggia: (title?)
Swervedriver, Slowdive, and Boo Radleys (each 2-disc collections)


There's more, but I can't recall it now.

Now that I'm in my new house, I've got my office set up: CDs and books are up and shelved. Kitchen, baby's room, then office!

Along with that stuff, I also got copies of:

Ordinary Boys: Brassland
The Best of the Boomtown Rats
Jill Sobule: Pink Pearl
Danko Jones: We Sweat Blood
Caesars Palace (known in the US as the Caesars or, to some, those guys who sing "Jerk It Out" on the iPod commercial): Caesars Palace and Cherry Kicks (two of their early records, released in Scandanavia long before they got popular in the US)
Generation X: Kiss Me Deadly
Bleu: Headroom
20 Greats From the Golden Age of Power Pop

Whew.

Feist - Let it Die

picked this up for super cheap at Borders today. I like it a lot so far. Somewhere between Bjork's older albums and Jolie Holland's last record.