Kevin's Watch

Man, I thought there was a thread like this already...guess not... I buy new music every 6 months or so, here's what I picked up today:

Hello It's Me-Todd Rundgren, kind of a Greatest Hits thing but it does have; Love is the Answer, Bang on the Drum All Day, Time Heals and the great A Dream Goes On Forever.

Ringleader of the Tormentors-Morrissey

and Only You-Harry Connick Jr and his Big Band Orchestra

bought Enya's newest for Tam: Amarantine

What'd you think of Ringleader? I think some of it is damn good, but not quite his best.

Going to pick up Beethoven's Diabelli Variations, which are basically his answer to the Goldberg Variations. Also anxiously awaiting the arrival of Bach's cello suites, Mozart's Eine Kleine Nacht Music (as conducted by Bruno Walter), and Brahms' famous Violin Concerto.

Too bad I'm leaving for Britain in less than 20 days. I need more time to digest this stuff!

Only listened to half of it so far Mhory, but love In The Future When All's Well and Life is a Pigsty.

Yes - Life is a Pigsty is amazing!

I remember you and Lucimay recommending Rundgren to me in chat, danlo. I will check out his stuff one of these days. Honest!

Well I thought Hello It's Me was a compilation of his greatest hits-what it is is a brand new rerecording. This continual sax on the title track is amazing as is the awesome slap bassline on Bang on the Drum All Day (written by Todd, but made a little more famous 1st by Nillson then by Ringo)...and the guitar AND sax on Love is the Answer: incredible...it just keeps getting better and better! What a steal in the bargain bin for $5!!! (Luci get this one if you don't already have it!) A Dream Goes On Forever is crystal clear!

danlo, can you give me a review of Enya's latest? We (the wife and I) have a couple of her stuff and find them very soothing.
(great for those lazy late night glass a wine cuddle sessions)

This week I went on a large shopping spree online. So far nothing's arrived, but I've ordered:

Mogwai - Young Team
Bathory - Hammerheart
Bathory - Nordland I
Explosions In The Sky - Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Live Forever
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F# A# Infinity (on vinyl, with the infamous "infinity" closed loop at the end of the last track )
Aphex Twin - Richard D. James
Björk - Homogenic
65daysofstatic - One Time For All Time
65daysofstatic - The Fall Of Math
Naglfar - Sheol
We Are Scientists - With Love And Squalor
Arab Strap - Monday At The Hug And Pint.

I also found Björk's Post for £6 at a little record shop in town the other day, and I felt rude for looking around the shop for the best part of an hour, so I bought it out of politeness (also, I like it).

It all came to a little under £100, which wasn't too bad, but I also bought a bunch of films and a couple of books.


I spend far too much money.

Mentioned elsewhere: Yesterday I bought the debut album of be your own PET, which I've had on repeat constantly since.

Usivius wrote:danlo, can you give me a review of Enya's latest? We (the wife and I) have a couple of her stuff and find them very soothing.
(great for those lazy late night glass a wine cuddle sessions)

Yeah, tell us what you think, danlo. I'm afraid I've more or less given up on Enya. I haven't bothered checking out her last couple of albums. (Isn't it funny that we still call CDs "albums?" -- unless you actually are buying a vinyl LP, of course.) It seems to me that Enya is sliding into the kind of New Age mush that's about as musically interesting as Muzak, in my opinion. The last album of hers that I enjoyed was 1992's Shepherd Moons. That, along with her classic debut ("The Celts"), and her compilation CD, Paint The Sky With Stars, is about all the Enya I need.

I will! The last Enya I bought her was The Celts, she also has Paint the Sky and A Day Without Rain. Aside from one or two songs Rain is kinda "filler".

My GY!BE record arrived this morning.

It's an amazing package.
The cover is a maroon cardboard (but really nice cardboard) thing, with the band name and album title imprinted into it, and a photo of train wheels on the front - as in, an actually photo, actually stuck on. And then inside it has a screen print of a train, and an envelope containing:
a little leaflet-diagram of "Faulty schematics of ruined machine".
a sort of typewritten prose/diary apparently written in the studio
a flyer for one of their 1999 shows
And a Canadian penny that's been run over by a train.

It's awesome.

LoudBomb : Long Playing Grooves

I had no idea there were lyrics! it is Bob Mould's electronica elabum. i had heard some clips, but none containing lyrics. imagine my surprise.

Bought The Beatles 1. That's the compilation of their US/UK No.1 hits. Wanted to hear how these newer digital remasters sounded, compared to the Beatles on CD I already have.

Also bought a 2002 live performance of Beethoven's 3rd & 4th symphonies by the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Roger Norrington. The CD caught my eye because Norrington was the fellow whose fresh and radical 1987 period instrument recordings of Beethoven's symphonies made many musicians re-think how they played Beethoven -- and all the better for it, in my opinion.

julie bought me for my birthday...

Kevin Salem: Soma City
Pearl Jam: Yield
Bobby Bare: the Moon Was Blue
Mercury Rev: Deserter's Songs
Mercury Rev: the Secret Migration

my wife picked out all but the Kevin Salem.

Happy Birthday!

Bought Vashti Bunyan 'Just Another Diamond Day' yesterday after falling in love with the soundtrack to that T-mobile Flext ad on (UK) tv.

EXTREME HIPPY WARNING!!!!!

But absolutely beautiful tunes and singing.I think I'll get my money's worth from this one!