what new cd's have you picked up?

[DevO]

Christmas presents, boxing day sales, birthdays -- in one way or another most of us have picked up some new music over the past two weeks! What've you managed to get? (i guess this thread sorta pulls together several others)

I've gotten a few:

- Miles Davis "Sketches of Spain" - I've always intended to buy this one and I finally did. On first listen, sounds good, but I know it'll take several good sessions before I'm able to grasp the beauty of this work.

- Rinocerose "Music Kills Me" - I bought this one used at Cheapies, just taking a shot in the dark really. And I gotta say, I think this albums BLOWS! Its sort of electronic-y and sounds like music that would accompany a video game like grand theft auto. Actually I wonder if that was the whole point of the album. Either way, initial reaction: it stinks.

- Flaming Lips "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" - Now this is a great album!! Catchy songs with interesting textures and weird sounds and a weird mix altogether. Weird indeed, but accessible enough that I've been humming "but you wonnn't let those roboooots defeat me" for 2 days non-stop.

That's it for me so far. Oh, and I've got "YOu Lost It In People" on the way in the mail. You bastardos got me convinced! I'm looking forward to it.

[Esau]

I actually grabbed nero's "is it morning yet" (again,lost my first one)the other week.

also:

Jerry Alfred:

- Kehlonn

- Nendaa,Go Back

Gordon Lightfoot:

- Songbook (4 CD boxset)

Canned Heat:

-Friends in the Can

[Jaimoe]

I got a bunch of bootleg CD's from Santa Booche and the " other " Santa brought me the Dead DVD: The Closing Of Winterland 1978.

Booche got me:

The White Stripes 06/03/02 ( Thanks Low Roller ! )

John Coltrane Live from 1960-61

Allen Woody, Warren Haynes and Dickey Betts acoustic from 1995

Duane Allman/Eric Clapton 1970 Jams

Television's unreleased demos from 1974-75

[bradm]

My holiday CDs came in three batches:

Batch #1: Acquired at nero 2003.12.19

1. nero / 2003.10.12 (thanks, Groove Fetish!)
2. a 4-CD DSO show w/ Bob Weir (thanks, bones!)
3. an OM Trio live CD
4. Grand Theft Bus / Birth of Confusion

(The non-thanked CDs were part of a prize pack I won in the draw at the show.)

Batch #2: Christmas Presents

1. David Lindley & Wally Ingram / Twango Bango III
2. Thelonious Monk / Criss-Cross
3. Thelonious Monk / It's Monk's Time
4. Fave Brubeck / Brubeck Plays Brubeck

Batch #3: Boxing Day Bonanza

1. Miles Davis / Friday & Saturday Night At The Blackhawk Complete (4 CDs)
2. Bill Evans / Trio '64
3. Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock & Jack Dejohnette / Up For It
4. Metalwood / Chronic

Aloha,

Brad

[guigsy]

i downloaded that tales from the underground / tales from the riverside tom waits set, that esau posted about....

fuck me is it ever good.

[Esau]

I thought it was just store bought...in that case....

nero 11.11.03

nero 11.12.03 (thanks P & T for those)

Scarecrow collection 11.10.03

Van Morrison 01.18.98

Deadset 06.09.00 (the band,not the GD CD)

a440 10.10.03

And in the mail....on their way.

RADIATORS -10-17-03

Pink Floyd "Echoes in the Gardens" 06.18.75

Pink Floyd "Steel Breeze" Ivor Wynne Stadium Hamilton,Ontario 06.28.75

The Clash - Bond's International Casino NYC 06.13.81

Bob Dylan and The Band- Renaldo and Clara Soundtrack

Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mtn Boys Silver City, NM 02.01.01

GD & BD -club front rehearsals '87

Bob Dylan - Sydney 2/17/03

And about 20 "mystery" shows that I dont have,all from a good freind in Utah....dam xmas mail...

[Del]

Me and Alexis both won the gift giveaways at the nero London Holiday show. We got:

Hiway Freeker - Shark

Addison Groove Project - Wicked Live 2

Addison Groove Project - 04-11-03 D1

OM Trio - 10-03-03

Thanks to Pete & Tasha, I got:

nero - 11-11-03

nero - 11-12-03

X-mas:

Grateful Dead - AOXOMOXOA

Grateful Dead - Europe '72

Grateful Dead - Shakedown Street

Bill Monroe - RCA Country Legends

Bill Monroe - Gotta Travel On

Del McCoury Band - It's Just The Night

Plus I got two 35+ disc trades going on with shainhouse and backbacon. Not too bad...

[Palms]

Here's my recent pick ups. Dunno if anyone knows them, if not that's too bad:

Sunroof "Cloudz" (awesome krautrock inspired drone from the UK, similar to Harmonia or Cluster)

Vibracathedral Orchestra "The Queen of Guess" (more modern psych/drone stuff from the UK, sounds a lot like early Amon Duul)

-both are on VHF Records, owned by an old school Dead fan from the US VHF

Writing On The Wall "The Power Of The Picts" (psych band from Scotland from 1968/69 that was heavily influenced by stuff like Arthur Brown and is pretty heavy, like Randy Holden era Blue Cheer)

Ian Matthews "Valley Hi" & "Some Days You Ear The Bear" 2 for 1 reissue on Water Records (former Fairport Cenvention / Matthews Southern Comfort country rock albums from the early 70s, produced by Michael Nesmith, who also released a number of excellent country albums then)

All are worth checking out.

[Rob Not Bob]

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Originally posted by SPalmer:

Here's my recent pick ups. Dunno if anyone knows them, if not that's too bad:

Sunroof "Cloudz" (awesome krautrock inspired drone from the UK, similar to Harmonia or Cluster)

Vibracathedral Orchestra "The Queen of Guess" (more modern psych/drone stuff from the UK, sounds a lot like early Amon Duul)

-both are on VHF Records, owned by an old school Dead fan from the US

VHF

Ian Matthews "Valley Hi" & "Some Days You Ear The Bear" 2 for 1 reissue on Water Records (former Fairport Cenvention / Matthews Southern Comfort country rock albums from the early 70s, produced by Michael Nesmith, who also released a number of excellent country albums then)

All are worth checking out.

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Sunroof sounds cool, love Amon Duul. How is the Ian Matthews ? I confess, I am only familiar with his Fairport stuff, recently DLBed a cool comp of BBC sessions of theirs.

RnB

[Rob Not Bob]

I'm pretty much drowning in music at this point My sweetpie gave me the new Lynyrd Skynyrd, a Harry Chapin comp, the Chieftains Nashville sessions (with Bela Fleck Earl Scruggs, Alison Krauss, Del McCourey and Gillian Welch, among others), and an awesome Bluegrass comp. My sisters gave me a Peter Gabriel Live DVD, and the 3rd season of Mr. Show which is Frickin' hilarious. I have also DLBed up a storm, with shows from Jason Mraz, Nick Cave, Fairport Convention and a couple of shows from Richard & Linda Thompson, as well as a 5 disc Bob Dylan set and a 8 disc Zeppelin, to go with my 17 disc Dylan set and 11 disc Zeppelin set I also got recently the 2 disc remaster of Rock Of Ages by The Band, with Dylan guesting on the second Disc. Life is good.

RnB

[bouche]

I feel like we're swimming in CD's.

I couldn't possibly remember all of the shows and dates that we received, but I can remember a couple...

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Grateful Dead - 4 CD's of early dead.

The Police - amazing live show that shows what a trio is all about.

Let it Be:naked - holy crap, my favorite album has become PERFECT

[Palms]

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Originally posted by Rob Not Bob:

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Sunroof sounds cool, love Amon Duul. How is the Ian Matthews ? I confess, I am only familiar with his Fairport stuff, recently DLBed a cool comp of BBC sessions of theirs.

[/QB]

The Ian Matthews is much more West Coast early 70s sounding. Very singer songwriter with a country bent. It's not groundbreaking, but it's nice, plus you can hear the arrangement of 7 Bridges Road that the Eagles use (Henley was/is a pal of IM and loved his version enough to use it with the Eagles). The second album is much less country sounding and has Jeff Baxter of Steely Dan, then the Doobie Brothers on pedal steel. This was recorded right around the time of the first Steely Dan album, when Matthews was asked to sing for them when their first singer quit. He initally said yes, until he found out Baxter was quitting and then bailed.

[kung]

Do Make Say Think -

Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn

Constantines -

Shine A Light

Prince (DVD) -

Live at the Aladdin Las Vegas

Martin Tielli-

Operation Infinite Joy

Outkast-

Speakerboxxx/ Love Below

[bouche]

Kung - I have that DVD. There are some really cool jams in there. Prince wails.

[jon.]

well, between time off to d/l stuff and santa...

-GD 10/20/89

-GD 10/23/89

-Richard & Linda Thompson Live 77'

-Radiohead 11/27/03'

-Talking heads: Tokyo 81'

-Buddy Guy: Live 95'

-Legion of Mary...,some 74'

-Reconstruction...some 79'

-dmb%friends...a couple of nights off the last tour.

....more to come!!

[mikey d]

i just picked up:

tom waits - alice

&

vic chessnutt - the salesmen and bernadette

my 2 favourite songwriters, both amazing albums.

[Rob Not Bob]

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Originally posted by phish stick:

i just picked up:

tom waits - alice

&

vic chessnutt - the salesmen and bernadette

my 2 favourite songwriters, both amazing albums.

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Both awesome albums, have you heard Blood Money by Waits, which came out at the same time as Alice? Perhaps Alice is superior by a hair, but I have a deep love of Blood Money, more of a dark jazz piece.

RnB

[Rob Not Bob]

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Originally posted by bouche:

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Grateful Dead - 4 CD's of early dead.

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Something of a guilty pleasure of mine, 71 Dead doesn't get a lot of props but I have a bunch of cool shows from that year, including some huge sets from this run. I love this set, I'm a big Constanten fan and he is great in his guest appearance.

RnB

[gentlemonkey]

I got some new LPs and one dvd for Xmas..

- Neil Young, Decade

- Talking Heads, Stop Making Sense- so good.

- Mahavishnu Orchestra, Live

- (DVD) Tenacious D- Masterworks. (you need lubrication honey)

and bought a bunch of boxing day cds..

-New Deal, gone gone gone, (meh, tight but lame)

-Modest Mouse. (cant remember name, but kickass)

-Flaming Lips, Transmissions from the Sattelite Heart- (older album, raw, not as cool as the last 2 in my opinon)

-Beck, Sea Change- fuckin genius as usual.

Need to exchange some stuff for Ween-Mollusk and some TransAM.

[Tungsten Gruvsten]

- Rinocerose "Music Kills Me"

Hey KevO - this is their second album...i bought it and sold it the same day...major dissapointment. Check out there first album though, it's awesome, kinda St. Germain-ish, some cool guitar work.

Also, GM - dissapointed in 'Transmissions'?? yer crazy! not only does it have their one big 'hit single' on it but the first track 'Turn it On' is wicked. Also notice track 11...hmm band name?

anyways, if you don't have 'Clouds Taste Metallic' 1995 then grab it, it's kinda where the talent to noise ratio started balancing out...

As for Trans Am, grab the first album(blue/white) cover...definitely the best one. or I could copy it for ya.

Hmmm what did I get...finally got Stephen Malkmus Pig Lib and Flaming Lips Soft Bulletin on CD...i can trash the mp3's now. Also got Mark Farina's full length debut, it's pretty good. Manitoba's second album, Up In Flames is currently kicking my ass, some really cool stuff going on there, he seems to have broken out of the boards of canada mold.

[kung]

We must be on the same page cause Up In Flames is kicking my ass lately as well. It's definitely no Boreds of Canada- the live drum sound is exhilirating and I could see where this material plays out well live.

[Esau]

Iactually downloaded this a week or two ago and had'nt listened to it completey today...great show.

Little Feat

Ram's Head Tavern

Annapolis, Maryland

October 24, 2003

Full Band Acoustic

Early & Late shows (4 discs)

"Corasones Y Sombres" w/ Ron Holloway on Sax

New song,1st time played live...sweet tune.Jimmy Buffet-esque/spanish flow to it,gradually pickin' up the pace.

[Velvet]

I got Let It Be Naked. Cool Beatles porn. Love the bonus cd of them fuckin' around in the studio.

Chicago, 1974 (thanks Tungsten)

John Prine in Moncton and a copy of the Air Guitar in Oulu video (thanks Davey Boy)

nero somewhere recent (thanks Karl)

Joni Mitchell video (thanks earthfreak)

I am blessed with good friends and good music.

[Raven_Space]

I haven't got that many new CDs lately, but I have recieved some new vinyl:

PROBOT - debut 7" (this is the metal project of Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighters. He pays tribute to his fave 80s thrash and speed metal bands. Every track has a different singer. The 7" has songs featuring Cronos of Venom and Wino from the Obsessed)

ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE - The Day Before The Sky Fell In America LP - Live set recorded on 9/10/2001 at Reckless Records in Chicago by Japan's craziest psychedelic jam band. If you've never heard them, imagine if Hawkwind were Japanese and lived in a commune.

ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE - St. Captain Freak Out & The Magic Bamboo Request CD - new CD on a Finnish label. Their most Beefheartian album yet. This is some of the most out there modern psych, along with Sunburned Hand Of The Man, Circle and maybe No Neck Blues Band.