Last music you acquired

Still, that's not the kind of music that shows up in thrift stores around here. Like, ever. Our thrift stores only have four kinds of music: country (at least 75% of which I already have), classical, Christmas music, or barely-remembered toothless pop acts from 10-15 years ago (e.g., O-Town).

Finding one of those albums would've been roughly equivalent to finding a unicorn. Three is like finding a unicorn, dragon, basilisk, cockatrice, manticore, hippocampus, Bigfoot, the Michigan Dogman, and a bat-otter at the same time.

edited 7th Sep '14 10:50:08 PM by Twentington

• The Jazz Crusaders: The Pacific Jazz Quintet Studio Sessions. 6 CD box set.
• Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra: The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia, and Master Recordings. 11 CD box set.

The Beatles - I Want to Hold Your Hand/I Saw Her Standing There and Day Tripper/We Can Work It Out

The Rolling Stones - Let's Spend the Night Together/Ruby Tuesday

Talking Heads - Fear of Music

edited 12th Sep '14 2:47:23 PM by ColonelCathcart

Pretty much the entire discography of TheMinutemen last week (spent my money on junk food and movies this week)- had 'em all as 256 kbps mp3s before, now I have hard copies and higher-quality mp3s.

Classic stuff, all of it. Highly recommended to anyone who like Hardcore Punk, Post-Hardcore or just Alternative Rock in general...

Blind Guardian - A Traveler's Guide to Space and Time, which is a 15-disc (!) box set containing all their albums from the Virgin Records era, including live albums and compilations.

Incidentally, guess what I've been listening to at work for two days straight now.

I think only someone who didn't read the first part of your post would fail to guess this. And honestly, there are many, MANY far worse things to listen to for two days straight. Blind Guardian kinda kick ass...

Great way to spend a few days, sounds like...

edited 3rd Oct '14 5:33:14 PM by sharkcrap11

And the albums are all remastered too, and I can really tell a difference...a lot of the brickwalling on A Night at the Opera is reduced or gone.

That's always good, IMO.

Some guy had to sell his music collection to raise money for a trip. His loss is my gain.

• Lost Dogs: Little Red Riding Hood
• Joy Electric: CHRISTIANsongs, Unelectric, The Art and Craft of Popular Music
• Neon Horse: Haunted Horse: Songs of Love, Defiance, and Delusion
• Scaterd Few: Sin Disease
• The Deadlines: The Death and Life of..., Fashion Over Function
• Andy Hunter: Life, Colour
• Sheltershed: International Plastic
• The Company: self-titled

Disraeli Gears, Who's Next and The Who Sing My Generation.

Still on the way are Black Monk Time, Sweetheart of the Rodeo, Dr. Byrds and Mr. Hyde and Piper at the Gates of Dawn.

Aw yeah, Black Monk Time is one of my all-time favorites.

Jerry Cantrell, Degradation Trip Volumes 1 & 2.

Black Monk Time is probably in my top 5 favorites.

Oh, The Monks. Such a strange band, and very ahead of their time to boot... Classic stuff.

Anywhoo, just got the three-disk deluxe remasters of Definitely Maybe and What's The Story (Morning Glory)? by Oasis and the remasters of Oxygene and Equinoxe by Jean-Michel Jarre (classic 70s Electronic Music, for those not in the know...). Good stuff.

2 days ago I finally got the official (not a bootleg) copy of Wolf's Rain soundtrack volume 2 in the mail. Yoko Kanno is amazing, and the quality of the audio is amazing (proving once again that pirate bootlegs suck).

Diablo Swing Orchestra - Pandora's Pinata To-Mera - Exile Lee Fields & The Expressions - Emma Jean Benny Goodman Sextet - The Benny Goodman Sextet Featuring Charlie Christian The George Benson Quartet - It's Uptown The Allman Brothers Band - Live At The Atlanta Pop Festival Circle of Illusion - Jeremias (Foreshadow Of Forgotten Realms) Florence + The Machine - MTV Unplugged

Still going through them all but so far the Diablo Swing Orchestra one is my favorite. A little disappointed in the Allmans album but I can't put my finger on why, and I'm a little hung up trying to pick out the lyrics on Jeremias to actually enjoy it - since it's meant to be a musical of sorts, being unable to follow it properly is making me batty even when the music has some cool surprises.

edited 11th Oct '14 7:58:19 PM by MrMatt

Just got the deluxe double-disk editions of The Velvet Underground & Nico and White Light / White Heat by, obviously, The Velvet Underground. Listening to to 'em now... Brilliant as ever.

Speaking of which, has anyone heard if they're doing a double-disk version of the self-titled third album they did? I'd like that, too...

Is six disks enough for you?

I'm amused by the existence of a mono version of The Murder Mystery. How am I supposed to find out what they're saying with that?

I'll stick with the double version- though it does sound kinda tempting. Don't wanna break the bank, as it were...

That's a very good point- the whole raison d'etre of that tune was the weird panning and the way the vocal tracks bounced off each other, and the narrative they told... I don't listen to much in mono anyways, though, unless the stereo version REALLY sucks (which isn't that common).

edited 17th Oct '14 4:51:08 PM by sharkcrap11

I'm sort of reminded of a discussion I saw elsewhere re: "The Murder Mystery" and "The Gift" (since it also uses Gratuitous Panning to interesting effect). Someone claimed those songs are harder to appreciate for modern listeners because most people are listening to their music on computers, where you can't as easily disconnect one speaker or another to focus on one part of the song... But I pointed out that, on the other hand, probably as many people are listening to music on ipods as on computers, and you can just pop out one earbud or the other.

House of Pain - Same As It Ever Was (CD)
Blake Babies - Sunburn (CD)
Huey Lewis And The News - Sports (record)
Steve Martin - Let's Get Small (record) ^note I decided I can count stand up comedy albums if I want to, damn it. Anyway, there is a little music on it

edited 18th Oct '14 11:03:59 PM by MikeK

• Gordon Giltrap: Visionary
• Gordon Giltrap: Perilous Journey (both CD reissues on Esoteric with bonus tracks)
• Interpose+: 1st

The new remasters of the fourth Led Zeppelin album (whatever it's called) and Houses Of The Holy. Classic albums already, but now the sound't noticeably better...

Dark Side of the Moon, Beatles For Sale and Bringing it All Back Home.

Almost also got Philosophy of the World (but it was out of my price range) and a solo hard rock album from the man behind Wooly Bully, Sam "the Sham" Samudio (but it was too expensive for an ironic purchase).

Two Record Store Day scores, both film soundtracks in "obsolete" formats: The Big Lebowski (on what the packaging describes as "White Russian" vinyl), and Guardians of the Galaxy (on cassette). Fun fact: I do not own a working cassette player - I ended up going for Guardians soundtrack anyway because 1) it comes with a free download code, and costs the same as just plain buying the album on itunes would, and 2) it's kinda cool to have in mock-mix-tape form, both because that's where all the licensed music was coming from in the movie, and because I'm old enough to have fond memories of actual mix tapes. I was also hoping for Faith No More's "Motherfucker" single, but they sold out of it.

edited 28th Nov '14 11:44:31 PM by MikeK

The Beach Boys - All Summer Long

Big Star - #1 Record

The Modern Lovers