What CDs have you bought this year?

They don't have to be 2004 releases. Just ones that you bought this year. At the end of June, I'll create a "Best of so far in 2004" topic.

Grades for the CDs you bought are optional.

Here are mine:

Badfinger - Best Of A
Penelope Houston - Pale Green Girl A+
Sarah Harmer - All Of Our Names B (the lyrics help it out)
Abra Moore - Everything Changed A+
Hanson - Underneath A-
Patti Smith - Trampin A+
Mary Lou Lord - Baby Blue A
Indigo Girls - All That We Let In A+
Thea Gilmore - Avalanche A+
Courtney Love - America's Sweetheart B (as a big Courtney fan, I thought it was a little by-the-numbers)
Blondie - Curse Of Blondie A
Butterfly Boucher - Flutterby A
Kenny Chesney - When The Sun Goes Down B
Maren Ord - Waiting A
Good Charlotte - Young And The Hopeless C+ (at best, it's a bad album that you hopelessly sing along to)
Katy Rose - Because I Can A-
Mindy Smith - One Moment More A
Kylie Minogue - Body Language B (nice grooves and improved writing, but a bit slow for her)
10,000 Maniacs - Campfire Songs A

Some CDs I'm anxious to buy: new ones from Alanis, Avril, The Corrs, Finn brothers, Wilco, Vanessa Carlton, U2 (all sure to be A and A+ - well, not completely sure about the Vanessa, but her debut was different and interesting.)

Tower of Power -- The Oakland Zone A
Not their best album, but even their second best is better than most bands.

Oh yeah,

Modest Mouse - Float On :thumbsup:
Of Montreal - Satanic Panic In The Attic :thumbsup:

Er, that's the most recent stuff I've purchased.

I'm looking forward to Wilco as well, now that Jeff Tweedy is out of rehab.

was going to see. Fortunately, here in St. Louis you can't swing a dead cat without hitting a Wilco show so I'm sure I'll get to see them again soon.

I saw The Gourds on the ACL lineup. It looks really tempting right now.

It's gonna be good!

As sad as I was for Tweedy, it was good for me. I was in DC/Phlly the week of their two shows here in Austin, so I would have missed them. Now, I should get to see them! :thumbsup:

It's pretty good funk.

Not one of them is stamped 2004. All the CDs I've bought this year have been old works of bands like Mogwai and Yo La Tengo.

Interesting. Although, I am admittedly eager to pick up the new Bad Religion album coming out this year.

-C

Note to self -- include CDs I've bought this year as requested.

Mogwai - Come On Die Young
Yo La Tengo - May I Sing With Me
Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
Yo La Tengo - Painful
Death Cab for Cutie - Forbidden Love EP
and some other junk.

my CD collection since I pretty much went broke after getting laid off in '02. Here goes:
1. The White Stripes- Elephant- resistance was futile...
2. Pink Floyd-Meddle- Classic
3. Queens of the Stone Age- songs for the Deaf
4. Ramones - NYC 1978
5. Beatles- Let it Be...Naked
6. Hellacopters - Payin' the Dues
7. Fu Manchu- Go for it-Live
8. Nebula- Atomic Ritual

If I missed it, I apologize. It gets an A-, like White Blood Cells does.

but a few nationally known ones would be Eric Bibb, Rory Block, and Maria Muldaur's "Sisters and Brothers", "Best of the Outlaws", Neil Young's "Greendale", Warren Zevon's "The Wind", and a few others which, as I said, I may not recall or may be local bands, which I try and support.

The Remains of Tom Lehrer (You can find it on Amazon.com)

Lehrer was a comedian/musician back in the 50's and 60's. We was a professor of Mathmatices at Harvard and then MIT, but was an excellent pianist and also had a most warped sense of humor. Some of his selections:

The Masochism Tango
Poisoning Pigeons In The Park
Fight Fiercely, Harvard (Gentile football fight song)
The Old Dope Peddler
So Long, Mom (A Song for World War III)

My wife loved his songs so I bought the cd set for her birthday. I think I'm enjoying the cd's more than she :o)

If you have a warped sense of humor, or know someone who has, this would make an excellent gift

Hard as nails, soft as kitten fur.

:loveya: the Petersen Sisters!
dbt

:thumbsup:

I remember that I got it for Christmas.

Pernice Brothers - Yours, Mine and Ours - A
Robyn Hitchcock - Robyn Sings - great 2 disc set of Dylan Covers
Robyn Hitchcock - Luxor - A
Los Lonely Boys - Same - A (great guitar band with fantastic harmonies)
Luna - Close Cover Before Striking - B-
Bob Dylan - Live 1975 - A

these come to mind.

I'll try to remember:

Kramer - The Greenberg Variations
The Samples - Live In Colorado
Atom And His Package - Hair: Debatable
Atom And His Package - Attention! Blah Blah Blah
Todd Rundgren - Liars

Probably more, but I've forgotten.

Too many to list them all, here's a representative sampling:

Tipper, Surrounded A+
Arvo Part, Tabula Rasa A+
The Be Good Tanyas, Chinatown B
The Crystal Method, Legion of Boom B+
Kopernik, Kopernik A-
New Pornographers, Electric Version B+
O.S.I., Office of Strategic Influence A
Probot, Probot B
Rachel's, Systems/Layers A-
Rothko, A Continual Search for Origins B+
Various artists, OHM: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music A+++

It was a good year for music, I think.

Tom Waits: Blue Valentine

mmm...

I buy CDs very infrequently. Thinking about getting a new Mary Chapin Carpenter album I saw advertised in the window of Barnes and Nobles.

very little new worth buying.

I boycott copy protected CDs, almost all are in Europe.
It is not understandable: they are more expensive, have an inferior sound quality and won't play in DVD players, Car HiFi systems, ...
I don't see why I should buy a CD, knowing that a pirate will enjoy a better product - no way. Radio will have to do for the time being, until the industry comes to it's senses.
Sadly there is no indication of that happening: several labels recently closed their departments for local artists, even those which were making profit.

Glen Miller: Platinum
Comedian Harmonists: Das Allerbeste
Die Toten Hosen: Kein Alkohol ist auch keine Lösung

Paying for music CDs is an incredible waste of money. I just download what I want.

:hi:

If it's something I would have bought had it not been free, I'll pay for it.

I do this will all marginally free "intellectual property" - music, movies, software, games.

If I go into a WalMart and steal something off the shelf, they don't have it any more and suffer a loss.

If I download media off the internet, they don't have any fewer of it. If I wasn't going to pay for it anyway, they suffer no loss.

I've also started paying for free things that I would buy if they weren't free (like public radio)

so I guess I'm not completely LEGAL, but I think I'm pretty solid morally.

What I do is download songs I'm curious about and delete from the hard drive when I'm done evaluating. I share a few classical files just for the peace of mind that I'm sharing. I'm mad at the RIAA and don't take many risks.

from now on, I just quit my job and will just steal things that I want, paying for cars, food, housing and clothes is an incredible waste of money.

whatever tickles your pickle.

The only CD I've purchased in the last 3-4 years (forget how long ago) is Rock Against Bush Volume 1 (B-)

I don't like the RIAA either, but I'm willing to support the artists I like.

someone wants to shop at Walmart, and and drive SUVs its thier own business aswell.

I don't see the need in that. But, I'm a big music fan and don't mind buying albums. I don't buy a lot of other entertainment items.

the justifications people will use for stealing?

Which of these is wrong?

downloading music without paying for it.
sneaking into a movie theater.
five-finger-discounting a candy bar.
stiffing a cabbie.
not paying the kid who mows your lawn.
mugging and old lady.
bidding on something on eBay and sending a bad check.
selling something on eBay, taking the money and not sending the item.

hey, wait, all of them are the exact same thing! Theft.

If people want to download music, fine, but realize that, if you do this without the permission of the copywrite holder, you are a thief.

But I do see it as immoral. It's kind of an "unauthorized receipt." The RIAA needs to do a lot more to help the artists, and recognize the new technology in a better way. Possibly a small internet tax to those who choose to download, and more affordable pay plans.

you are taking someone's intellectual property without acceptable recompense. that is theft. You don't get to decide WHAT to pay, you pay what the owner of the Intellectual Property wants you to pay. You don't like it, then don't buy it. But because you don't like how that money is spent doesn't give you the right to take the property from the owner.

I don't like how Wal-Mart spends its money. but I don't go into WalMart and steal from them.

If you take someone's intellectual property illegally, without their express permission, you are a thief, by any other name.

Someone who downloads music isnt a thief they are however violating someones copyright.

"You don't get to decide WHAT to pay, you pay what the owner of the Intellectual Property wants you to pay."

Really, thats funny, the owners of the copyrights that I have violated havent asked me to pay anything.

"But because you don't like how that money is spent doesn't give you the right to take the property from the owner."

Nothing is being taken, it is however being copied.

if any single thing is avaliable commercially (that means it is in print and you can buy it) then they have asked you to pay for it.

that the makes of every product that is available on the open market are all asking me to pay them for thier products? And that I have an obligation to pay them all for everything ever made? Because according to you I dont get to decide what to pay, I have to pay what they want me to pay.

decide to pay what they want you to pay, offer them another amount and see if they will accept it, or don't buy it.

no one is forcing you to pay anything, if the opportunity cost of that purchase is too high for you, then you don't need to use the product. simple.

There are things (food, water, shelter) that may be exempt from these moral codes, that forces beyond the market should determine the price of, but music? please. if you don't feel that the CD is worth 18 bucks, then don't buy it. deal.

but you were posting in a public forum and I gave my opinion. I never said you weren't free do do as you like.

No offense taken. :hi:

A++ A compliation of blues artist recreating the White Album.

Blue Illusion A Local WMass band, excellent

Numerous Pearl Jam Albums (pawn shop great pick up!!!) A-C depending on the album

has to be Scissor Sisters, Scissor Sisters

I'm curious about new music.

come to think about it. pseudo-rocking disco, I'd say. very tongue in cheek

Hail to the Thief. I would definitely give it an A.

Wilco - Hotel Yankee Foxtrot A-
Gusgus - This Is Normal B
Lou Reed - The Wild Side (Aussie Import) B+
Camper Van Beethoven - Key Lime Pie A+
Grateful Dead - Without a Net B+
The Strokes - Is This It A

Bach: The Four Great Toccatas and Fugues (SACD)
Patsy Cline's Greatest Hits
Stevie WonderSongs in the Key of Life
Moody Blues Days of Future Passed
Stevie Wonder Talking Book
Dylan Blood on the Tracks (Hybr)
Moody Blues Seventh Sojourn
Beatles Go Baroque
Mavericks - Super Colossal Smash Hits Of The 90's
Roberta Flack - First Take
Handel: Water Music; Music for the Royal Fireworks (SACD)
Mavericks - From Hell to Paradise
Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue
Another Side of Bob Dylan
Norah Jones - Feels Like Home
Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly
Reggae Tribute to the Beatles
Verdi: Requiem (SACD)
Brahms: Symphony No. 4 (SACD) Police - Every Breath You Take: The Classics
Miles Davis - Sketches Of Spain
Rod Stewart - Reason to Believe: The Complete Mercury Studio Recordings
Delerium - Euphoric EP
Delerium - Archives, Vol. 1
The Antiphonal Music of Gabrieli (SACD)
Head of Femur - Ringodom or Proctor

I bought "Elephant" a few months ago. I bought the soundtrack to "Main Hoon Na" (a Bollywood movie) because I loved the music so much (HUGE Bollywood fan!!). I will be buying "You Are The Quarry" (Morrissey's first in 7 years!) sometime in the next few days.

And just a ton of other stuff.

That's the funniest thing I've heard all day!!!

You have about $285 worth of CD's listed....so....

Why pay for what you can get for free???

I'm not going to pay money for a CD when I only want one song on it anyways.

That's part of why I bought all of them.

Mixture of older & newer stuff --

Dandy Warhols - 13 Tales from Urban Bohemia
Lou Reed - Transformer
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
Sweetback - Sweetback
Antonio Carlos Jobim - Stone Flower
Air - Talkie Walkie
10,000 Maniacs - Our Time in Eden
The Mamas & The Papas - All the Leaves Are Brown (Collection)
David Gray - White Ladder
Hooverphonic - A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular


:bounce:

Clash - London Calling - A
Yes - Beyond and Before - B
U2 - Achtung Baby - A
Steve Howe - Portraits of Bob Dylan - A-
Genesis - Selling England by the Pound - A
FM - Black Noise - A
Yes - Close to the Edge - A+
Yes - Tales from Topographic Oceans - A-

Nirvana: Incesticide -- A (better than in some ways than Nevermind)
White Stripes: White Blood Cells -- A (really interesting and different garage rock feel)
REM: Fables of the Reconstruction -- A+ (had the tape back in the day)
Husker DU: New Day Rising -- A+ (one of my top ten)
Give me convience or give me Death: The Dead Kennedys -- A- (some self-indulgent stuff on there in my opinion)

Styx "Return To Paradise" B-
"Best of Bread" B+