the last 5 CDs you purchased

All used:

The Clash s/t (original)
The Motels-No Vacancy
Iron Maiden-Piece Of Mind (Capitol)
Beastie Boys-Check Your Head (Original)
NIN-Downward Spiral (DualDisc)

 

This got me curious--so I decided to try to figure out what other CDs I've bough in the past year and change.

On Amazon, I came up with:

Tom Petty - Anthology 2-CD set (for my son for Christmas, but we keep it with my CDs. )
Muddy Waters - Rollin' Stone: The Golden Anniversary Collection OOP 2-CD set
Donny Hathaway - Someday We'll All Be Free box

From Amoeba, I remember getting:

Hector Lavoe - Greatest Hits
Teenage Fanclub - A Catholic Education
The Feelies - Time for a Witness
U2 - Achtung Baby
Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Couldn't Stand the Weather (orig. edition)
Probably two or three others.

From the thrifts I got:
Neil Young - Greatest Hits
Velvet Crush - Teenage Symphonies to God (which I gave to a friend)
And maybe five or six '90s alt-rock CDs--I know Meet John Doe, Jason Falkner's Can You Still Feel and a few others were in the mix.

And nothing at all from half.com. I used to spend all my time poring over that site ordering stuff!

 

Deep Purple-Live At The BBC
Grateful Dead-Workingmans Dead
Grand Funk Railroad-E Pluribus Funk
REM-Collapse To Now
Strawberry Alarm Clock-Good Morning Starshine.

 

Direstraits -Markknopfer mix .
Eva Cassidy - Simply Eva .
P.J. Harvey - White Chalk .
Peter Gabriel - Plays Live .
Sade - Soldier of Love .

Sade , and Direastraits are the two jewels .

 

Not too many cd purchases lately...

metheny,pat 80-81 [vinyl]
travers,pat just a touch [cd]
zappa,frank the perfect stranger - boulez conducts zappa [vinyl]
zappa,frank zappa in new york [vinyl, promo]
kessel,barney blue soul [vinyl]

 

All used:

Led Zeppelin - Physical Graf. (Diament) w. cough!
Bob Marley - Legend (Diament)
The Cure - Head On The Door (Diament)
Bad Co. - Straight Shooter (Diament)
Neil Young - Eldorado

 

New Foo Fighters
New Paul Simon
The Layla 40th anniversary 2 cd set
Prince Purple Rain WG target
and....
Stacy Q Better Than Heaven (early Jpn for US pressing)

 

Was the cough worth the extra money?

 

Arcade Fire - Neon Bible, working my way backwards after getting The Suburbs the week it came out (so it wasn't a Grammy bandwagon thing!)

Big Country - The Crossing ('02 remaster), had it on LP when it was new and hocked the vinyl collection around '92...should've gotten this years ago

Robbie Robertson - How to Become Clairvoyant (Best Buy exclusive), snapped it up on release day

Bob Dylan - No Direction Home, by no means a completist here but has plenty of historical value on it

Miles Davis - Complete On the Corner, should've gotten this when it was fresh, and would've saved a few bucks, but $105 new off amazon.ca wasn't bad considering

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On deck:

Traffic - John Barleycorn deluxe edition
The Tubes - Completion Backward Principle ('11 remaster)
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Stevie Ray Vaughn - Texas Flood (MoFi)
Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis, featuring Norah Jones - Here We Go Again

 

1. Supertramp-Breakfast in America (Deluxe) for the live disc. I've heard some complaints about the Calbi remastered first disc but did anyone honestly expect it to sound better than the Mofi? Come on...part of the problem with this album HAS to do with the equipment used to mix it IIRC. It's never going to sound perfect. This doesn't sound horrible. It ain't perfect either.
2. Billy Joel-My Lives. Found an inexpensive used copy of this and picked it up for the unreleased demos. I'm not honestly interested in buying "Piano Man" again to get some of the demos. 5 years later it's BETTER than I remember it being for the most part (I heard it when it was released but didn't buy it). Glad I waited to buy it though because I got it used for $20 in excellent shape.
3. Stevie Wonder-Songs in the Key of Life. AF Despite DJ Wilbur's claim that "no one has raved about it" I HAVE but, well, I guess I'm no one
4. Kinks-Kinks Kontroversy. Is it louder than the PRT? Yes. Is it better sounding? Yes.
5. Kinks-Kinda Kinks-Ditto.

 

1. Hot Tuna Steady As She Goes – 2011

2. Paul BOTR - 2010 release

3. John Walls & Bridges / DF Stripped - 2010 release

4. Dylan – Witmark Demos / Brandeis U

5. Arlo Guthrie - In Times Like These (Live w/ Symphony Orchestra)

Bonus: Neil Young - Dreamin' Man (Live '92)

 

Beatles Mono Box
Lennon Signiture Box
Lennon Anthology Box
Paul Simon So Beautiful Or So What
Lennon Menlove Avenue

 

What do you think of the Simon album? I've read mixed reviews (or head them).

I liked what I heard when it was posted on the web.

 

I don't know what to make of it yet. When I listen to it I like it but I don't have much of a desire to replay it over and over if that makes any sense?

 

new york noise compilation
venting machine- a death to your scene
missy elliot -respect ME
freak power - drive through booty
slide five- people places things

 

KINGDOM COME - RENDERED WATERS
FASTWAY - TRICK OR TREAT
PUBLIC IMAGE LTD - ALIFE 2009 (3CD)
LOUDNESS - LOUDEST BALLAD COLLECTION
THE BABYS - HEAD FIRST

 

1.) Night Ranger - Midnight Madness ( Japan 1st Pressing- $4.97)
2.) The Who - Tommy (Japan 1st Pressing)
3.) The Who - It's Hard ( West German Red Target)
4.) R.E.M.-Collspse Into Now
5.) The Who - Live at Leeds (40th Ann SHM/Japan)

 

Was the cough worth the extra money?




You bet!!

 

I really like the new Paul Simon and I've only listened to it twice. There's a lot going on here musically to sink your teeth into all at once; I feel this'll be a major "grower".

It's sonically brilliant and excellent musically.

Familiar yet fresh!

His best since 1990's "Rhythm Of The Saints" which I loved.

 

Bukka White-Mississippi Blues (reissue of John Fahey's 1963 rediscovery recordings)

Speckled Red-Dirty Dozens (blues piano from the late 50s on the great Delmark label)

Sleepy John Estes-I Ain't Gonna Be Worried No More, 1929-1941 (on the Yazoo label)

Rev. John Wilkins-You Can't Hurry God (on the Fat Possum/Big Legal Mess label, stunningly great gospel recordings with a bluesy instrumental style by the son of Rev. Robert Wilkins, who wrote "Prodigal Son" later recorded by the Rolling Stones)

Byrds-Younger Than Yesterday (Audio Fidelity mono!)

 

The Feelies-Here Before
R.E.M. -Collapse Into Now
Gang Of Four-Shrinkwrapped
Blitzen Trapper-Destroyer of the Void
The Fireman (Paul McCartney) -Electric Arguments

 

Rolling Stones - debut (CD Maximum)
Rolling Stones - no. 2 (CD Maximum)
Rolling Stones - Out Of Our Heads (CD Maximum)
Rolling Stones - Between The Buttons UK (CD Maximum)
Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers (CD Maximum)

I got all five CD's for $10 at this nearby estate sale. Mint condition. Best steal ever.

 

Paul Simon - So Beautiful, So What
Decemberists - The King is Dead
Elvis Presley - Elvis Is Back (Legacy Edition)
Duke Ellington - Anatomy of a Murder
Nat King Cole Trio - Instrumental Classics

 

outstanding score!

 

What are these, counterfeits/bootlegs?