np: list

2024

(opinion decryption matrix at bottom of page along with country list)


my cds were semi-recently taken off the shelf and put into piles for writing purposes, but i'm undoing that now. what i'm doing at the moment is listening to my entire cd collection, in alphabetical-chronological order, as i'm focusing on the writing. this has the effect of drowning out my gross neighbours.

what is listed here will be my physical cds - no bandcamp streams, no tapes, no records, no mp3s. like most people, i don't buy a lot of cds nowadays, but i actually want that to change. i want to collect old and new cds. i want the library. in fact, send me your old cds if you don't want them - email me. more bookshelves can be found on curbs or for cheap second-hand. my steady decrease in cd purchasing over the last 20 years means that i don't have many cds released after 2005 and have almost none released after 2010.

my cd collection has also taken a few hits over the years as i've needed to sell cds a couple of times in my life in order to exist. what's left remains substantive, but what that means is that it's also been purged. this is not the collection it was or the collection i want it to be but it's still a collection of unusual and substantive music that i'm proud of and want to be more proud of.

some of these are in fact rare and out of print and if they're in this list it means i do in fact have an actual physical copy of the cd.

upcoming, 2024-2025

our lady peace			canada
not breathing			us
new teeth			canada
neil young			canada
nick drake			uk+ire
nirvana			us
nine inch nails			us
micronaut			us
mike keneally			us
ministry			us
mogwai			uk+ire
muslimgauze			uk+ire
mr. bungle			us
maurice ravel			france
meat puppets			us
moist			canada
mike oldfield			uk + ire
manorexia			australia / us
miles davis			us
chet atkins			us
mark knopfler			us
my bloody valentine			uk+ire
mahavishnu orchestra			uk+ire/us
mammatus			us
man or astroman?			us
melvins			us
mark lanegan			us
meat beat manifesto			uk + ire
medeski martin and wood (and scofield)			us
meg lee chin			us
lustmord			us
duke ellington			us
louis armstrong			us
larry carlton			us
lee ritenour			us
labradford			us
lard			us
lenny breau			canada
live			us
ludwig van beethoven			germany
karcius			canada
killing joke			uk + ire
kingdom shore			canada
kraftwerk			germany
king crimson			uk + ire
jessica murray (as proverbs)			canada
jessica murray (as tetris)			canada
jessica murray (as throatmotor)			canada
jessica murray (as cycles per second)			canada
jessica murray (as π)			canada
jessica murray (as j's adventures in guitarland)			canada
jessica murray (as akousmatikoi)			canada
jessica murray (as the trivial group)			canada
jessica murray (as fuel true anarchy in the americas)			canada
jessica murray (as rabit is wolf)			canada
jessica murray (as the cynicide collaboration)			canada
jessica murray (as jjjjjjjjj)			canada
jessica murray (as deny everything)			canada
jessica murray (as inri)			canada
jessica murray (as second class citizens)			canada
john zorn			us
joy division			uk+ire
jonny greenwood			uk+ire
john mcaughlin			uk+ire
john cage			us
js bach			germany
john coltrane			us
james iha			us
jack dangers			uk + ire
jaga jazzist			norway
jane's addiction			us
jello biafra and the melvins			us
john scofield			us
ponty & grappelli			france
jean-luc ponty			france
bela bartok			hungary
igor stravinsky			russia
iannis xenakis			greece
i mother earth			canada
hindu love gods			us
hilt			canada
hooverphonic			belgium
hot hot heat			canada
henry mancini			us
hey rosetta			canada
hanged up			canada
hater			us

this post was about the purchases made out of the cbc overflow bin. i am realizing i am missing a pile of cds, and these were never catalogued so let me make sure i'm not missing any. i'll need to delete these as they come up.

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the cd firesale today was 100 discs for $50, or 50 for $35 and with decreasing levels of firesaleiness. i pulled out 81 to start, so i felt i had to pull it up to 100.

they had a large amount of jazz and classical from the cbc libraries. the cbc digitized everything and dumped it at the university, and they put it up for sale. fine with me. none of it is work i had on high priority, but it's all items i'd _eventually_ get, so i decided i'd might as well purchase it when it's $0.50 a piece.

the one rarity i found was the first tea party demo, which was self-released by hand. this is a real find.

for the rest of it, i'm not going to write it all out, i'm going to go by genre and disc number. it won't add up to exactly one hundred because some of the discs have multiple composers.

post-punk:
cocteau twins (1)
david bowie (1)
david sylvian (1)

indie rock:
the hylozoists (1)
pavlov's dog orchestra (1)
hot hot heat (1)

jazz:
metheny (5)
ritenour (5)
medeski, martin, wood (3)
thelonius monk (2)
coltrane (3)
knopfler (1)
atkins (1)
scofield (2)
reinhardt (3)
grapelli (5)
brubeck (2)
basie (4)
charlie parker (1)
larry carlton (2)
jean-luc ponty (7)
ron carter (1)
ellington (1)
louis armstrong (2)
chester thompson (1)
davis (1)
sun ra (1)
benny goodman (3)
dimeola (1)
blind boys of alabama (1)

classical:
tchaikovsky (4)
dvorak (2)
mozart (1)
satie (2)
barber (1)
bristow (1)
ravel (1)
rachmaninov (8). including 5 volume complete piano works.
shostakovich (1)
bach (1)
stravinski (1)
bartok (1)
chopin (3)
moskowski (1)
koprowski (1)
delibes (1)
mancini (1)
steve hackett (1)
paul mccartney (2)
symphonic yes (1)
evelyn glennie (1)
pasero (1)

world:
peter gabriel mix tapes (3)
afro-celt soundsystem (3)

electronic:
delerium (1)

rock music i listened to when i was a kid:
bryan adams (1)
duran duran (1)
tom cochrane (1)

rock music i listened to when i was a teenager:
james iha (1)
tea party (1)

my old blues guitar teacher:
robert farrell band (1)

dec 30, 2024

genesis	the lamb lies down on broadway disc 1	1974	uk+ire	1
genesis	nursery cryme	1971	uk+ire	0
genesis	trespass	1970	uk+ire	1
ralph vaughan williams	fantasy on greensleeves	1928	uk+ire	2
ralph vaughan williams	fantasy on a theme by thomas tallis	1910	uk+ire	0
gustav holst	the planets	1916	uk+ire	1
godspeed you black emperor	yanqui uxo	2002	canada	0
genesis	nursery cryme	1971	uk+ire	0
genesis	trespass	1970	uk+ire	1
ralph vaughan williams	fantasy on greensleeves	1928	uk+ire	2
ralph vaughan williams	fantasy on a theme by thomas tallis	1910	uk+ire	0
gustav holst	the planets	1916	uk+ire	1

dec 30, 2024

this is continuing the youtube run through genesis' broader discography, chronologically from 1986-1987.

anthony phillips	private parts and pieces VII	1987	uk+ire		i had never heard this before at all.	1987:2 total:64
phil collins	12"ers	1987	uk+ire		this is a greatest hits of extended versions of the singles.
eric clapton	august	1986	uk+ire		i had never heard this before at all. collins was heavily involved as a drummer, producer and co-writer.	1986:5 total:62
genesis	invisible touch	1986	uk+ire	4	my dad did not have a copy of this record, but i had a store bought tape when i was a kid and i think i had a cd of it at one point, but it was a long time ago if i did. as with all of the collins-era genesis, it is hit and miss, but this is also the best record since duke, and contains the most interesting epic pieces since wind and wuthering. on some level, they finally get a post-punk take on genesis right on this record, but it also has some of the sappiest and goofiest ballads on it as well, as all of the collins era discs do. this was the first genesis record i had a copy of.
peter gabriel	so	1986	uk+ire	1	i was able to salvage my father's copy of this cd in 2013.
tony banks	soundtracks	1986	uk+ire		i had never heard this before at all.
anthony phillips	private parts and pieces VI	1986	uk+ire	2	i had never heard this before at all.

dec 22-, 2024

as of the 22nd, i'm still sick but feeling better and decided to start over again.

flaming youth	ark 2	1969	uk+ire	2	i had never heard this before at all and had never heard anybody talk about it. this was phil collins' first band and it's an unusual record, with a noticeable psychedelic pop influence and a 60s punk bite. phil periodically plows through the mix with psychotic drumming, but it's a pretty well behaved 60s art rock album, overall. i will criticize a lot of genesis side projects as unfocused, but this is unfocused in a good way, like can or zappa can be unfocused. call it funfocused.	1969:4 total:9
van der graaf generator	the aerosol grey machine	1969	uk+ire	2	produced by john anthony before david hentschell took over for him. van der graaf generator is a lesser known progressive rock band from the 1970s that my uncle richard was a fan of and that arguably was most similar to genesis, slightly before genesis. the common production by john anthony is noticeable. i find the van der graaf material much less interesting than genesis, as art, but it's still interesting to listen to as entertainment.
genesis	demoes from 1967-1975 box set	1969	uk+ire	2	the 1969 demoes lean more towards trespass.
genesis	from genesis to revelation	1969	uk+ire	2	this was their first record and still features the core of banks on keyboards, rutherford on bass and gabriel on vocals, but had different guitarists and drummers than the classic lineup. this is a different sound than genesis would be known for, but it is actually a pretty good record, and actually features some of gabriel's more interesting vocals. it has influences from a wide variety of 60s rock genres.
canterbury glass	prologue	1968	uk+ire	2	i had never heard this before at all. this is an early steve hackett project; it is relatively interesting, but just a song.	1968:4 total:5
genesis	a winter's tale	1968	uk+ire	3	this was their second single and features the core of banks on keyboards, rutherford on bass and gabriel on vocals, but had different guitarists and drummers than the classic lineup. this was not on the record released in 1969.
genesis	demoes from 1967-1975 box set	1968	uk+ire	2	the 1968 demoes are more similar to the first record.
genesis	silent sun single	1968	uk+ire	2	this was their first single and features the core of banks on keyboards, rutherford on bass and gabriel on vocals, but had different guitarists and drummers than the classic lineup.
genesis	demoes from 1967-1975 box set	1967	uk+ire	2	the earliest genesis recordings are from 1967 and are actually most similar to the records from the early 80s. these are extremely enjoyable and very well written 60s pop songs, with gabriel as the main focus as a poetic lyricist. while i was not born yet, it's certainly far more interesting than any of the shitty, boring metal bands from the era and i certainly would have been more interested in music like this at the time than i would have been in any kind of 60s metal.	1967:1 total:1

dec 14-18, 2024

i started again to include work by producers linked to genesis, but had to stop on the 18th when i got the flu..

argent	counterpoints	1975	uk+ire	3	phil collins on drums	1975:7 total:63
steve hackett	voyage of the acolyte	1975	uk+ire	4	this has the guitarist (hackett), bassist (rutherford) and drummer (collins) from genesis, without either singer (gabriel or collins) or the synth player (tony banks), who was replaced on the record with hackett's brother john. there's also some musicians i know from mike oldfield records. i don't remember if this was initially richard's or if it was a gift c. 2006ish. it doesn't have the type of drumming my dad was looking for in listening to genesis, and i don't think he had a copy.
the mothers of invention	bongo fury	1975	us	1	chester thompson on drums.
the mothers of invention	one size fits all	1975	us	1	chester thompson on drums.
elton john	selections from captain fantastic... we all fall in love sometimes, curtains	1975	uk+ire		synthesizers by david hentschell.
jean-luc ponty	aurora	1975	france	1	daryl stuermer on guitars
david henstchell	startling music	1975	uk+ire	3	phil collins on drums
empire	sky at night	1974	uk+ire		drums by phil collins	1974:11 total:56
elton john	step into christmas	1974	uk+ire		synthesizers by david hentschell.
the tremoloes	shiner	1974	uk+ire		synthesizers by david hentschell.
brian eno	mother whale eyeless	1974	uk+ire		drums by phil collins
genesis	the lamb lies down on broadway	1974	uk+ire	1	i was able to recover my dad's copy of this in 2013
the mothers of invention	roxy & elsewhere	1974	us	1	chester thompson on drums.
peter hammil	in camera	1974	uk+ire		synthesizers by david hentschell.
elton john	selections from caribou pinky, solar prestige a gammon, don't let the sun go down on me, ticking	1974	uk+ire		synthesizers by david hentschell.
jimmy webb	land's end	1974	us		synthesizers by david hentschell.
genesis	twilight alehouse	1974	uk+ire	3
mick ronson	hey ma get pa	1974	uk+ire		synthesizers by david hentschel.
home	the alchemist	1973	uk+ire		produced by anthony/hentschel.	1973:14 total:45
chris darrow	selections from under my own disguise whenever you are, old scratch	1973	us		synthesizers by david hentschel.
o'donnel levy	dawn of a new day	1973	us	2	a jazz guitarist i was not familiar with that chester thomspon started his career with.
davey johnstone	selections from smiling face walking out, islands, smiling face	1973	uk+ire		synthesizers by david hentschel.
elton john	selections from goodbye yellow brick road funeral for a friend, all the girls love alice	1973	uk+ire		synthesizers by david hentschel.
genesis	selling england by the pound	1973	uk+ire	0	my dad had a copy of selling england by the pound and i have never purchased or owned it and was disappointed to be unable to locate it on my father's death in 2013.
peter banks	two sides of peter banks	1973	uk+ire	3	hackett and collins
blood sweat and tears	no sweat	1973	us		produced by anthony/hentschel.
genesis	live	1973	uk+ire	1
queen	I	1973	uk+ire	1	produced by anthony/hentschel.
peter hammill	chameleon in the shadow of the night	1973	uk+ire		produced by anthony/hentschel.
byzantium	seasons changing	1973	uk+ire		synthesizers by david hentschel.
roxy music	for your pleasure	1973	uk+ire		produced by anthony/hentschel.
genesis	watcher of the skies single	1973	uk+ire	2
pilot	pilot	1972	uk+ire		produced by anthony/hentschel.	1972:9 total:31
o'donnel levy	breeding of mind	1972	us	2	a jazz guitarist i was not familiar with that chester thomspon started his career with.
home	home	1972	uk+ire		produced by anthony/hentschel.
carly simon	his friends are more than fond of simon	1972	us		synthesizers by david hentschel.
genesis	foxtrot	1972	uk+ire	1	my dad had a copy of foxtrot. i thought i had richard's copy of foxtrot, but i can't find it and haven't been able to find it in years. it may have disappeared during the move in 2013 or there might be a stack of cds somewhere i can't find. or i might be wrong in the first place.
nazareth	exercises	1972	uk+ire		synthesizers by david hentschell.
genesis	happy the man	1972	uk+ire	3	non-album single
elton john	selections from honky chateau rocket man, hercules	1972	uk+ire	1	synths by david hentschell
al stewart	orange	1972	uk+ire		produced by anthony/hentschel.
o'donnel levy	black violet	1971	us	2	a jazz guitarist i was not familiar with that chester thomspon started his career with.	1971:4 total:22
genesis	nursery cryme	1971	uk+ire	0	my dad did have a copy of nursery cryme, but i believe this was initially my uncle richard's copy.
van der graaf generatr	pawn hearts	1971	uk+ire	3	produced by john anthony before david hentschell took over for him. van der graaf generator is a lesser known progressive rock band from the 1970s that my uncle richard was a fan of and that arguably was most similar to genesis, slightly before genesis. the common production by john anthony is noticeable. i find the van der graaf material much less interesting than genesis, as art, but it's still interesting to listen to as entertainment.
peter hammil	fool's mate	1971	uk+ire		produced by john anthony before david hentschell took over for him. van der graaf generator is a lesser known progressive rock band from the 1970s that my uncle richard was a fan of and that arguably was most similar to genesis, slightly before genesis. the common production by john anthony is noticeable. i find the van der graaf material much less interesting than genesis, as art, but it's still interesting to listen to as entertainment.
quiet world	the road	1970	uk+ire	8	i had never heard this before at all. it's some kind of concept record about jesus or something; it's absolutely atrociously terrible and yet oddly enjoyable at the same time. really. i generally despise religious or christian music along with hating christians and religious people in general, but there are ways to integrate spiritual themes without making me want to vomit, and this gets about 70% of the way there. to be clear, it is cringeworthy and worth vomiting over, but intriguiing enough in it's terribleness to get an 8.	1970:9 total:18
van der graaf generator	h is for he, who am the only one	1970	uk+ire	3	produced by john anthony before david hentschell took over for him. van der graaf generator is a lesser known progressive rock band from the 1970s that my uncle richard was a fan of and that arguably was most similar to genesis, slightly before genesis. the common production by john anthony is noticeable. i find the van der graaf material much less interesting than genesis, as art, but it's still interesting to listen to as entertainment.
lindisfarne	nicely out of tune	1970	uk+ire	3	viking folk, produced by anthony/hentschel. it's easy to hear the overlap this has with early genesis which should help a younger listener understand that genesis started off as a "literate folk" band rather than as a crazy 70s fusion collection or as doing 80s art-pop.
genesis	trespass	1970	uk+ire	1	my dad did not have a copy of trespass because it is pre phil collins, but my uncle richard made me a cassette dub of it when i was very young (around 9 or 10) and i ended up picking the copy i have up in a discount bin at a future shop, i believe, some time in the late 90s.
cat stevens	katmandu	1970	uk+ire	2	featuring peter gabriel on flute.
affinity	affinity	1970	uk+ire		i had never heard this before at all. anthony, production.
van der graaf generator	the least we could have done is wave to each other	1970	uk+ire	3	produced by john anthony before david hentschell took over for him. van der graaf generator is a lesser known progressive rock band from the 1970s that my uncle richard was a fan of and that arguably was most similar to genesis, slightly before genesis. the common production by john anthony is noticeable. i find the van der graaf material much less interesting than genesis, as art, but it's still interesting to listen to as entertainment.
genesis	bbc night ride	1970	uk+ire	3	a short bbc radio session containing trespass demoes and unreleased tracks.
genesis	genesis does jackson	1970	uk+ire	1	unreleased genesis demoes from 1970 that were intended for a bbc soundtrack but end up on later records, including trespass and the lamb lies down on broadway. contains some alternate lyrics of some well known tracks.
flaming youth	ark 2	1969	uk+ire	2	i had never heard this before at all and had never heard anybody talk about it. this was phil collins' first band and it's an unusual record, with a noticeable psychedelic pop influence and a 60s punk bite. phil periodically plows through the mix with psychotic drumming, but it's a pretty well behaved 60s art rock album, overall. i will criticize a lot of genesis side projects as unfocused, but this is unfocused in a good way, like can or zappa can be unfocused. call it funfocused.	1969:4 total:9
van der graaf generator	the aerosol grey machine	1969	uk+ire	2	produced by john anthony before david hentschell took over for him. van der graaf generator is a lesser known progressive rock band from the 1970s that my uncle richard was a fan of and that arguably was most similar to genesis, slightly before genesis. the common production by john anthony is noticeable. i find the van der graaf material much less interesting than genesis, as art, but it's still interesting to listen to as entertainment.
genesis	demoes from 1967-1975 box set	1969	uk+ire	2	the 1969 demoes lean more towards trespass.
genesis	from genesis to revelation	1969	uk+ire	2	this was their first record and still features the core of banks on keyboards, rutherford on bass and gabriel on vocals, but had different guitarists and drummers than the classic lineup. this is a different sound than genesis would be known for, but it is actually a pretty good record, and actually features some of gabriel's more interesting vocals. it has influences from a wide variety of 60s rock genres.
canterbury glass	prologue	1968	uk+ire	2	i had never heard this before at all. this is an early steve hackett project; it is relatively interesting, but just a song.	1968:4 total:5
genesis	a winter's tale	1968	uk+ire	3	this was their second single and features the core of banks on keyboards, rutherford on bass and gabriel on vocals, but had different guitarists and drummers than the classic lineup. this was not on the record released in 1969.
genesis	demoes from 1967-1975 box set	1968	uk+ire	2	the 1968 demoes are more similar to the first record.
genesis	silent sun single	1968	uk+ire	2	this was their first single and features the core of banks on keyboards, rutherford on bass and gabriel on vocals, but had different guitarists and drummers than the classic lineup.
genesis	demoes from 1967-1975 box set	1967	uk+ire	2	the earliest genesis recordings are from 1967 and are actually most similar to the records from the early 80s. these are extremely enjoyable and very well written 60s pop songs, with gabriel as the main focus as a poetic lyricist. while i was not born yet, it's certainly far more interesting than any of the shitty, boring metal bands from the era and i certainly would have been more interested in music like this at the time than i would have been in any kind of 60s metal.	1967:1 total:1

dec 13-14, 2024

i realized i missed some material from the early 60s so i started over again.

argent	counterpoints	1975	uk+ire	3	phil collins on drums	1975:6 total:32
steve hackett	voyage of the acolyte	1975	uk+ire	4	this has the guitarist (hackett), bassist (rutherford) and drummer (collins) from genesis, without either singer (gabriel or collins) or the synth player (tony banks), who was replaced on the record with hackett's brother john. there's also some musicians i know from mike oldfield records. i don't remember if this was initially richard's or if it was a gift c. 2006ish. it doesn't have the type of drumming my dad was looking for in listening to genesis, and i don't think he had a copy.
the mothers of invention	bongo fury	1975	us	1	chester thompson on drums.
the mothers of invention	one size fits all	1975	us	1	chester thompson on drums.
jean-luc ponty	aurora	1975	france	1	daryl stuermer on guitars
david henstchell	startling music	1975	uk+ire	3	phil collins on drums
genesis	the lamb lies down on broadway	1974	uk+ire	1	i was able to recover my dad's copy of this in 2013	1974:3 total:26
the mothers of invention	roxy & elsewhere	1974	us	1	chester thompson on drums.
genesis	twilight alehouse	1974	uk+ire	3
o'donnel levy	dawn of a new day	1973	us	2	a jazz guitarist i was not familiar with that chester thomspon started his career with.	1973:5 total:23
genesis	selling england by the pound	1973	uk+ire	0	my dad had a copy of selling england by the pound and i have never purchased or owned it and was disappointed to be unable to locate it on my father's death in 2013.
peter banks	two sides of peter banks	1973	uk+ire	3	hackett and collins
genesis	live	1973	uk+ire	1
genesis	watcher of the skies single	1973	uk+ire	2
o'donnel levy	breeding of mind	1972	us	2	a jazz guitarist i was not familiar with that chester thomspon started his career with.	1972:3 total:18
genesis	foxtrot	1972	uk+ire	1	my dad had a copy of foxtrot. i thought i had richard's copy of foxtrot, but i can't find it and haven't been able to find it in years. it may have disappeared during the move in 2013 or there might be a stack of cds somewhere i can't find. or i might be wrong in the first place.
genesis	happy the man	1972	uk+ire	3	non-album single
o'donnel levy	black violet	1971	us	2	a jazz guitarist i was not familiar with that chester thomspon started his career with.	1971:2 total:15
genesis	nursery cryme	1971	uk+ire	0	my dad did have a copy of nursery cryme, but i believe this was initially my uncle richard's copy.
quiet world	the road	1970	uk+ire	8	i had never heard this before at all. it's some kind of concept record about jesus or something; it's absolutely atrociously terrible and yet oddly enjoyable at the same time. really. i generally despise religious or christian music along with hating christians and religious people in general, but there are ways to integrate spiritual themes without making me want to vomit, and this gets about 70% of the way there. to be clear, it is cringeworthy and worth vomiting over, but intriguiing enough in it's terribleness to get an 8.	1970:5 total:13
genesis	trespass	1970	uk+ire	1	my dad did not have a copy of trespass because it is pre phil collins, but my uncle richard made me a cassette dub of it when i was very young (around 9 or 10) and i ended up picking the copy i have up in a discount bin at a future shop, i believe, some time in the late 90s.
cat stevens	katmandu	1970	uk+ire	2	featuring peter gabriel on flute.
genesis	bbc night ride	1970	uk+ire	3	a short bbc radio session containing trespass demoes and unreleased tracks.
genesis	genesis does jackson	1970	uk+ire	1	unreleased genesis demoes from 1970 that were intended for a bbc soundtrack but end up on later records, including trespass and the lamb lies down on broadway. contains some alternate lyrics of some well known tracks.
flaming youth	ark 2	1969	uk+ire	2	i had never heard this before at all and had never heard anybody talk about it before. this was phil collins' first band and it's an unusual record, with a noticeable psychedelic pop influence and a 60s punk bite. phil periodically plows through the mix with psychotic drumming, but it's a pretty well behaved 60s art rock album, overall. i will criticize a lot of genesis side projects as unfocused, but this is unfocused in a good way, like can or zappa can be unfocused. call it funfocused.	1969:3 total:8
genesis	demoes from 1967-1975 box set	1969	uk+ire	2	the 1969 demoes lean more towards trespass.
genesis	from genesis to revelation	1969	uk+ire	2	this was their first record and still features the core of banks on keyboards, rutherford on bass and gabriel on vocals, but had different guitarists and drummers than the classic lineup. this is a different sound than genesis would be known for, but it is actually a pretty good record, and actually features some of gabriel's more interesting vocals. it has influences from a wide variety of 60s rock genres.
canterbury glass	prologue	1968	uk+ire	2	i had never heard this before at all. this is an early steve hackett project; it is relatively interesting, but just a song.	1968:4 total:5
genesis	a winter's tale	1968	uk+ire	3	this was their second single and features the core of banks on keyboards, rutherford on bass and gabriel on vocals, but had different guitarists and drummers than the classic lineup. this was not on the record released in 1969.
genesis	demoes from 1967-1975 box set	1968	uk+ire	2	the 1968 demoes are more similar to the first record.
genesis	silent sun single	1968	uk+ire	2	this was their first single and features the core of banks on keyboards, rutherford on bass and gabriel on vocals, but had different guitarists and drummers than the classic lineup.
genesis	demoes from 1967-1975 box set	1967	uk+ire	2	the earliest genesis recordings are from 1967 and are actually most similar to the records from the early 80s. these are extremely enjoyable and very well written 60s pop songs, with gabriel as the main focus as a poetic lyricist. while i was not born yet, it's certainly far more interesting than any of the shitty, boring metal bands from the era and i certainly would have been more interested in music like this at the time than i would have been in any kind of 60s metal.	1967:1 total:1

dec 13, 2024

my chromebook crashed before i could get some stuff off of it so i'm restarting this process to be more inclusive.

flaming youth	ark 2	1969	uk+ire	2
genesis	from genesis to revelation	1969	uk+ire	2
genesis	a winter's tale	1968	uk+ire	3
flaming youth	ark 2	1969	uk+ire	2
genesis	from genesis to revelation	1969	uk+ire	2
genesis	a winter's tale	1968	uk+ire	3
flaming youth	ark 2	1969	uk+ire	2	i had never heard this before at all and had never heard anybody talk about it. this was phil collins' first band and it's an unusual record, with a noticeable psychedelic pop influence and a 60s punk bite. phil periodically plows through the mix with psychotic drumming, but it's a pretty well behaved 60s art rock album, overall. i will criticize a lot of genesis side projects as unfocused, but this is unfocused in a good way, like can or zappa can be unfocused. call it funfocused.	1969:2 total:3
genesis	from genesis to revelation	1969	uk+ire	2	this was their first record and still features the core of banks on keyboards, rutherford on bass and gabriel on vocals, but had different guitarists and drummers than the classic lineup. this is a different sound than genesis would be known for, but it is actually a pretty good record, and actually features some of gabriel's more interesting vocals. it has influences from a wide variety of 60s rock genres.
genesis	a winter's tale	1968	uk+ire	3	this was their second single and features the core of banks on keyboards, rutherford on bass and gabriel on vocals, but had different guitarists and drummers than the classic lineup. this was not on the record released in 1969.	1968:1 total:1

this was continuing the youtube run through genesis' broader discography, chronologically from 1986. however, my chromebook crashed before i could get some stuff off of it so i'm restarting this process.

peter gabriel	so	1986	uk+ire	0	i was able to salvage my father's copy of this cd in 2013. this was a very popular record with a number of huge hits on it, but it is also the highest quality pop music that you'll find anywhere, and was also an extremely important piece of experimental electronic music. there's a small number of records over the last 75 years that were both smash hits and actually musically innovative and important, and this makes that very short list.
tony banks	soundtracks	1986	uk+ire	4	i had never heard this before at all. it's banks' third and fourth attempt at movie soundtrack work and it's substantively better, but stil pretty weak. the two suites are a lot better.
anthony phillips	private parts and pieces VI	1986	uk+ire	2	i had never heard this before at all. it's more focused on piano than guitar and has a vague impressionist feel.

dec 11, 2024

this is continuing the youtube run through genesis' broader discography, chronologically from 1985-1986.

anthony phillips	private parts and pieces VI	1986	uk+ire	2	i had never heard this before at all.
anthony phillips	private parts and pieces V	1985	uk+ire	2	i had never heard this before at all.
mike and the mechanics	mike and the mechanics	1985	uk+ire	5	i had never heard this before at all, although i was surprised to recognize a few tracks that i didn't realize were mike rutherford, like "all i need is a miracle". i was expecting the mike rutherford solo material to be the weakest, but that hasn't been the case. that said, the songwriter, a producer named christopher neil that i'm not familiar with, is clearly trying to copy phil collins.
peter gabriel	birdy	1985	uk+ire	1	peter gabriel's first soundtrack is a pastiche of his previous solo records with some mild remixes and compiles some of the most interesting and atmospheric tracks of his early period. my dad was not interested in gabriel's soundtrack work, but i have copies of all of it. i found this in a used bin in the late 90s.
eric clapton	behind the sun	1985	uk+ire	5	i had never heard this before at all. collins was heavily involved as a drummer, producer and co-writer. i'm not much of an eric clapton fan, and these songs are straight-laced, buttoned up and tie-knotted, as far as clapton goes. you can hear collins prominently, and he actually does a few things that are out of character for him, but it's not that interesting.
phil collins	no jacket required	1985	uk+ire	3	i had a dubbed cassette of this when i was a kid and liked it at the time. both this and hello, i must be going are actually a lot better than i remember them, oddly. these are both better records than abacab, but don't compare to anything else genesis did (not even the last two upcoming records).

dec 10, 2024

this is continuing the youtube run through genesis' broader discography, chronologically from 1985-1986.

anthony phillips	private parts and pieces VI	1986	uk+ire	2	i had never heard this before at all.
anthony phillips	private parts and pieces V	1985	uk+ire	2	i had never heard this before at all.	1985:6 total:57
anthony phillips	harvest of the heart	1985	uk+ire		i had never heard this before at all. i couldn't find a stream of it.
mike and the mechanics	mike and the mechanics	1985	uk+ire	5	i had never heard this before at all, although i was surprised to recognize a few tracks that i didn't realize were mike rutherford, like "all i need is a miracle". i was expecting the mike rutherford solo material to be the weakest, but that hasn't been the case. that said, the songwriter, a producer named christopher neil that i'm not familiar with, is clearly trying to copy phil collins.
peter gabriel	birdy	1985	uk+ire	1	peter gabriel's first soundtrack is a pastiche of his previous solo records with some mild remixes and compiles some of the most interesting and atmospheric tracks of his early period. my dad was not interested in gabriel's soundtrack work, but i have copies of all of it. i found this in a used bin in the late 90s.
eric clapton	behind the sun	1985	uk+ire	5	i had never heard this before at all. collins was heavily involved as a drummer, producer and co-writer. i'm not much of an eric clapton fan, and these songs are straight-laced, buttoned up and tie-knotted, as far as clapton goes. you can hear collins prominently, and he actually does a few things that are out of character for him, but it's not that interesting.
phil collins	no jacket required	1985	uk+ire	3	i had a dubbed cassette of this when i was a kid and liked it at the time. both this and hello, i must be going are actually a lot better than i remember them, oddly. these are both better records than abacab, but don't compare to anything else genesis did (not even the last two upcoming records).

dec 9, 2024

this is continuing the youtube run through genesis' broader discography, chronologically from 1984-1985.

peter gabriel	birdy	1985	uk+ire	1	peter gabriel's first soundtrack is a pastiche of his previous solo records with some mild remixes and compiles some of the most interesting and atmospheric tracks of his early period. my dad was not interested in gabriel's soundtrack work, but i have copies of all of it. i found this in a used bin in the late 90s.
eric clapton	behind the sun	1985	uk+ire	5	i had never heard this before at all. collins was heavily involved as a drummer, producer and co-writer. i'm not much of an eric clapton fan, and these songs are straight-laced, buttoned up and tie-knotted, as far as clapton goes. you can hear collins prominently, and he actually does a few things that are out of character for him, but it's not that interesting.
phil collins	no jacket required	1985	uk+ire	3	i had a dubbed cassette of this when i was a kid and liked it at the time. both this and hello, i must be going are actually a lot better than i remember them, oddly. these are both better records than abacab, but don't compare to anything else genesis did (not even the last two upcoming records). daryl stuermer is again the guitarist on the record, which also has backing vocals by sting and peter gabriel.
band aid	do they know it's christmas?	1984	n/a	8	well, do they?	1984:5 total:51
various artists	against all odds ost	1984	n/a	4	features songs written by collins, gabriel and rutherford, as well as stevie nicks and others. the second side is instrumental jazz composed by larry carlton, who i'll be more thoroughly analyzing fairly shortly. i had never heard this before at all; the second side is actually relatiely interesting jazz.
phillip bailey	chinese wall	1984	us	5	besides 'easy lover', i had never heard this before at all. collins was heavily involved as a drummer, producer and co-writer. collins plays his electronic drums on this record prominently; it's an 80s pop update on the earth, wind & fire singer's sound that i think is mostly forgettable. has daryl stuermer on guitars, as well as phil collins on drums.
steve hackett	till we have faces	1984	uk+ire	3	my dad did not have a copy of this and i only know it via digital audio. hackett continues with something that has some recognizable nods to genesis, but he has a noticeable industrial side to his sound which is more prominent here and the record also get a little bluesy (in the process demonstrating that hackett was listening to a lot of zappa) and shows an influence from both solo gabriel and solo collins material. it's an unexpected album that makes sense at points and less sense at others.
anthony phillips	private parts and pieces IV	1984	uk+ire	3	i had never heard this before at all.

dec 7, 2024

this is continuing the youtube run through genesis' broader discography, chronologically.

steve hackett	till we have faces	1984	uk+ire		my dad did not have a copy of this and i only know it via digital audio.
anthony phillips	private parts and pieces IV	1984	uk+ire	3	i had never heard this before at all.

dec 5, 2024

this is continuing the youtube run through genesis' broader discography, chronologically through 1983.

steve hackett	bay of kings	1983	uk+ire	2
anthony phillips	invisible men	1983	uk+ire	5
genesis	genesis	1983	uk+ire	4
robert plant	the principle of moments	1983	uk+ire	3
steve hackett	highly strung	1983	uk+ire	3
tony banks	the fugitive	1983	uk+ire	7	i had never heard this before at all. as with the other solo banks material, it is truly terrible.
tony banks	the wicked lady	1983	uk+ire	7	i had never heard this before at all. it is truly terrible.
steve hackett	bay of kings	1983	uk+ire	2
anthony phillips	invisible men	1983	uk+ire	5
genesis	genesis	1983	uk+ire	4
robert plant	the principle of moments	1983	uk+ire	3
steve hackett	highly strung	1983	uk+ire	3
steve hackett	bay of kings	1983	uk+ire	2	my dad did not have a copy of this and i only know it via digital audio. this is more similar to what i want to hear from hackett, although i'd like to hear it better integrated. i don't actually want to have to choose between classical guitar and psychedelic rock, you can do both, and genesis did do both.	1983:7 total:46
anthony phillips	invisible men	1983	uk+ire	5	i had never heard this before at all. still oldfieldish (i think he samples incantations) but just not that good.
genesis	genesis	1983	uk+ire	4	my dad did not have a copy of this record, but i inherited my uncle richard's copy. this is a better record than the previous one, in that it has some more developed pieces and that the singles are also better written, but it is not nearly as well written as duke. mama is an excellent pop song. it is still similar to most of the other collins period releases in being uneven.
robert plant	the principle of moments	1983	uk+ire	3	i had never heard this before at all. collins was heavily involved as a drummer, producer and co-writer. this is a more developed and interesting record than the previous one.
tony banks	the fugitive	1983	uk+ire		i had never heard this before at all.
tony banks	the wicked lady	1983	uk+ire		i had never heard this before at all.
steve hackett	highly strung	1983	uk+ire	3	my dad did not have a copy of this and i only know it via digital audio. this is a better album with more interesting songwriting that for the first time makes some attempt to sound like classic genesis via the use of organ parts (which are not at all flashy or technical), but still kind of dorky hard rock.

dec 4, 2024

this is continuing the youtube run through genesis' broader discography, chronologically for 1982.

phil collins	hello, i must be going	1982	uk+ire	5	i had a dubbed cassette of this when i was a kid and liked it at the time but, in hindsight, i could imagine his fans being disappointed by it's simplicity, although perhaps not utterly crushed by it's stupidity, at least not quite yet (the complete disillusionment with phil by his fans must have to wait until the next record, no jacket required). further, you have to understand that you can't underestimate the subtle cultural influence of some of these tracks via the ubiquity of radio play hegemony, like michaelangelo showing up in bathroom wallpaper. it's worth pointing out, for example, that the strokes' last night is a complete ripoff of you can't hurry love, and they probably didn't even realize it. it's not very compelling overall, but it actually doesn't have the kind of limp and dead tracks that ruined most of the last several genesis records. i don't want to grade this higher than wind and wuthering or and then there were three, but it's not a hit and miss, it's a weak 3 or a strong 5. features genesis' live guitarist, daryl stuermer.
anni-frid lyngstad	something's going on	1982	sweden	5	i had never heard this before at all. collins was heavily involved as a drummer, producer and co-writer and it's easy to tell. this woman was one of the singers for abba, which i understand as a vacuous disco group that is before my time and that i'm not very familiar with. i don't think i would recognize a single abba song, or that i've ever heard an abba record. neither of my parents listened to abba or liked disco, more broadly (my mom was a heavy metal fan mostly, whereas my dad was a prog rock fan, primarily). the woman doesn't seem to be a very good or talented singer, so all i really hear when you strip away the name recognition is a bunch of throwaway phil collins outtakes with a subpar vocalist, all of which would have been better with a more talented and emotionally invested singer, including phil, himself.
mike rutherford	acting very strange	1982	uk+ire	7	this is rutherford's initial shift towards the mike and the mechanics sound and does not feature other members of genesis (except the live guitarist, daryl stuermer) or sound like genesis at all. it's worth noting that mike rutherford is a more convincing punk rock musician than the other previous members of genesis, in the sense that he might have been a decent 60s rock 'n' roll star, while the others became the 80s equivalents of 60s pop crooners or motown nerds (except gabriel, who was more experimental in a beatlesy kind of way). however, rutherford was in his mid 30s by this point and the record doesn't suit him well at this stage in his life. it's an interesting juxtaposition, at the least, but it's just not compelling.
peter gabriel	IV	1982	uk+ire	0	this is gabriel's second classic record from the 80s. while it no longer has fripp, it does have levin on bass and stick and his 80s backing band of levin on bass/stick, rhodes on guitar and marotta (replaced shortly by manu kache) on drums is finally firmly in place and in control. i was able to recover my dad's copy in 2013.

dec 3, 2024

this is continuing the youtube run through genesis' broader discography, chronologically from 1981-1982.

phil collins	hello, i must be going	1982	uk+ire	6	i had a dubbed cassette of this when i was a kid and liked it at the time but, in hindsight, i could imagine his fans being utterly crushed.	1982:7 total:39
anni-frid lyngstad	something's going on	1982	sweden		i had never heard this before at all. collins was heavily involved as a drummer, producer and co-writer.
mike rutherford	acting very strange	1982	uk+ire	7	this is rutherford's initial shift towards the mike and the mechanics sound and does not feature other members of genesis (except the live guitarist, daryl stuermer) or sound like genesis at all. it's worth noting that mike rutherford is a more convincing punk rock musician than the other previous members of genesis, in the sense that he might have been a decent 60s rock 'n' roll star, while the others became the 80s equivalents of 60s pop crooners or motown nerds (except gabriel, who was more experimental in a beatlesy kind of way). however, rutherford was in his mid 30s by this point and the record doesn't suit him well at this stage in his life. it's an interesting juxtaposition, at the least, but it's just not compelling.
peter gabriel	IV	1982	uk+ire	0	this is gabriel's second classic record from the 80s. while it no longer has fripp, it does have levin on bass and stick and his 80s backing band of levin on bass/stick, rhodes on guitar and marotta (replaced shortly by manu kache) on drums is finally firmly in place and in control. i was able to recover my dad's copy in 2013.
robert plant	pictures at eleven	1982	uk+ire	5	i had never heard this before at all. collins was heavily involved as a drummer, producer and co-writer. i'm not generally a robert plant fan; i should clarify that i don't like led zeppelin very much and the zeppelin i can tolerate is not that which has plant front and centre. to put it mildly, i find plant to be exceedingly irritating. this is a pretty generic and boring late 70s "hard rock" record that accomplishes nothing and has no memorable content. it should be pointed out that collins may have been angling to be led zeppelin's new drummer after john bonham's death, and collins did play at least one show as a member of led zeppelin, but he abandoned the idea in the end. that's what's really going on here. i also suspect that collins may have been trying to reform cream at one point.
genesis	3x3	1982	uk+ire	5	i had never heard this before at all. it's not very good.
anthony phillips	private parts and pieces III	1982	uk+ire	2	i had never heard this before at all. i like these private parts and pieces releases and could listen to them back to back in a 5 disc rotation, but at some point the simplicity and sameness needs to alter, because nobody wants to buy the same record 15 times.
brand x	is there anything about?	1981	uk+ire	2	my dad did not have a copy of this and i only know it via digital audio. it's a less busy and a more psychedelic record and the last to feature meaningful contributions from phil collins.	1981:5 total:32
genesis	abacab	1981	uk+ire	5	my dad did not have a copy of abacab and i have never had a copy at all. this record is not well regarded by core genesis fans and i agree that it's not very good.
steve hackett	cured	1981	uk+ire	5	my dad did not have a copy of this and i only know it via digital audio. i really, really don't like the vocalists or the generic hard rock song writing that hackett uses in his early solo material (hackett sings this one himself, mostly) and am patiently waiting for it to flip over to instrumental and/or classical guitar music. there's moments, but there are less of them than the previous three and the vocals and crappy songwriting kills them. this one is also less psychedelic, which deprives the record of the most interesting moments that the previous three had. these are more developed songs, but at the expense of the musicianship you expect from hackett.
anthony phillips	1984	1981	uk+ire	3	i had never heard this before at all. it has a very 80s mike oldfield sound to it, but isn't quite as good.
phil collins drummer (1971-1991) singer (1976-1991)	face value	1981	uk+ire	0	the first phil collins record, released about the same time i was born, is actually a masterpiece, complete with a cover of tomorrow never knows. my uncle also included i am the walrus on the cassette version i had. as is well known, it was somewhat downhill for phil as an artist from here, although he did well commercially. my dad did not have a copy of this, but i had a dub of this (and all of the other phil collins solo material) when i was a kid and am very familiar with it. the guitarists on this record are live genesis guitarist daryl stuermer and eric clapton, who he would play with through much of the 80s.

dec 2, 2024

this is continuing the youtube run through genesis' broader discography, chronologically from 1979-1980.

steve hackett	defector	1980	uk+ire	4	my dad did not have a copy of this and i only know it via digital audio. while it still contains some vocal material that i don't like at all, it is a better written, better focused and more serious record leaning in a more serious direction.	1980:5 total:27
peter gabriel	III	1980	uk+ire	0	this is gabriel's first real classic record and is notable for featuring the return of phil collins on drums in key sections. the record also features king crimson masterminds fripp and levin, kate bush and some of the other artists that gabriel would work with in the 80s. i was not able to find my dad's copy of this album, which was disappointing.
anthony phillips	private parts and pieces II	1980	uk+ire	2	i had never heard this before at all. this is still more interesting to me than phillips' solo rock material, but it also theatens to get a little samey. there's a 4xcd box set of the first four private parts and pieces releases.
genesis	duke	1980	uk+ire	1	my dad did not have a copy of duke, but i had a copy of it on vinyl for a while and it's something i had on a store bought tape when i was a kid. this is a major change in direction, but it's also a salvaging of the band's concept. it is true that the previous three mediocre records might have been combined into one outstanding record that would blow this one away (and might have been their best, period), but that's not what actually happened, and this ends up as the first and last classic genesis record with collins singing, because it pushes past the psychedelic rock of the gabriel period and into something that is both relevant to 1980 and something that collins could define as his own. genesis were never the same after duke and that's ok.
mike rutherford bass, acoustic guitar (1969-1997) all guitar (1977-1997)	smallcreep's day	1980	uk+ire	3	this is a record that my father highly regarded but i think is overrated. i did recover his copy in 2013. it also fetaures anthony phillips on keyboards and simon phillips (known for his work with mike oldfield amongst others) on drums, so one might hope it leans towards an early genesis sound or an update to it but it actually sounds like a bad emulation of it. simon phillips is a capable drummer, but he's not phil collins. the singer sounds a little like gabriel and does what they paid him to. however, the guitar and synth work - the core of what genesis is (or was), compositionally - is just not there; rutherford is a pretty good bassist, but he's not a lead guitarist, and neither he nor anthony phillips are able to competently fill in on keyboards, they just play these big thick chords using patches from genesis songs and then over do these arpeggiation passages that sound like connecting segments in genesis songs. the result is essentially the worst genesis songs ever written, although the drumming is relatively good, and if that's all you care about then you might enjoy it. by 1980, genesis had ended it's psychedelic rock phase, so some people may have been looking for anything to grasp on to and in the process over rated this record, but the reality is that while it is certainly closer to genesis than the solo records released by the other members of the band, it's just not nearly as good.
tony banks keyboards (1969-1997)	a curious feeling	1979	uk+ire	7	i had never heard this before at all, and i can hear why, now. banks plays all instruments except drums, which are by chester thompson. there is also a singer, who is absolutely terrible. the salvagable moments are very few; this is a truly awful record.
brand x	product	1979	uk+ire	2	my dad did not have a copy of this and i only know it via digital audio. there are a few missteps but it's still an interesting and is a more diverse record overall that relies less on the mahavishnu sound as a driving influence.
steve hackett	spectral mornings	1979	uk+ire	5	my dad did have a copy of this eventually, and i think it might have been his brother richard's copy, which he kept. i did not listen to it much as it didn't appear on the shelf until later. hackett's early solo material has periodic moments of interest but is broadly poorly written and unfocused. hackett built a new band on this record and didn't really look back. i did not recover my father's copy of it in 2013 and am not that upset by that.

dec 1, 2024

this is continuing the youtube run through genesis' broader discography, chronologically from 1976-1979.

tony banks keyboards (1969-1997)	a curious feeling	1979	uk+ire		i had never heard this before at all. banks plays all instruments except drums, which are by chester thompson.	1979:4 total:22
brand x	product	1979	uk+ire	2	my dad did not have a copy of this and i only know it via digital audio.
steve hackett	spectral mornings	1979	uk+ire	5	my dad did have a copy of this eventually, and i think it might have been his brother richard's copy, which he kept. i did not listen to it much as it didn't appear on the shelf until later. hackett's early solo material has periodic moments of interest but is broadly poorly written and unfocused. hackett built a new band on this record and didn't really look back. i did not recover my father's copy of it in 2013 and am not that upset by that.
anthony phillips	side	1979	uk+ire	6	i had never heard this before at all and it's a change in direction for sure, into some kind of disco, when the other previous genesis members were dabbling in punk. it's not any better and i'd avoid this, despite the off-kilter eno influence and the presence of original king crimson drummer, michael giles.
anthony phillips	private parts and pieces	1978	uk+ire	2	i had never heard this before at all, but this one strikes me as a lot more interesting. anthony phillips apparently quit genesis to go to music school and you can tell by listening to this record, which is something more akin to classical guitar music from a contemporary pop culture perspective, like a more technical take on mike oldfield, but stripped down to one or two tracks at a time. i would purchase this if i found it.	1978:5 total:18
peter gabriel	II	1978	uk+ire	3	this is gabriel's take on punk rock (he had always said he wanted genesis to sound less like elp and more like the who and that's why he left the band in 1975, so this is not as cynical as it looks) and is by far his weakest release, but it was actually my dad's favourite gabriel cd. oddly. this has fripp and levin as well as some of the players gabriel would work with in the 80s. i was able to recover my dad's copy in 2013.
anthony phillips	wise after the event	1978	uk+ire	3	i had never heard this before at all. it has a vague genesis feel, but is more similar to something like nick drake or post-floyd syd barrett. it strikes me as well written on first listen, but a little outside of my spectrum. most of the tracks sound like demos.
steve hackett	please don't touch	1978	uk+ire	5	my dad did not have a copy of this one and i only know it via digital audio. this is his attempt to cash in on punk rock and is his worst solo release, although the second side is a lot more interesting than the first. chester thompson (genesis' live drummer) on drums.
genesis	and then there were three	1978	uk+ire	4	my dad did not have this one or anything after this one, but i had a copy of it on vinyl for a while. it's their weakest actual record as they were still trying to be substantive but were no longer into it and are just going through the motions. a couple of tracks would be worth appending to the a trick of a tail / wind and wuthering salvage project, or you could string the three of them together into a 2xcd set with a substantive psych record on one disc and a throwaway pop record on the other.
genesis	spot the pigeon	1977	uk+ire	5	my dad did not have a copy of this but i had a cassette dub made by my uncle richard (who had all of them, from 1969-1997, on multiple formats) at the end of the trespass tape. it's an ep because they're struggling to focus.	1977:4 total:13
brand x	morroccan roll	1977	uk+ire	1	my dad did not have a copy of this and i have only heard it via digital audio. it continues to emulate the mahavishnu fusion sound, with a mild north african gloss, which comes off as campy.
anthony phillips guitarist (1969-1970)	the geese and the ghost	1977	uk+ire	5	my dad had a copy of this but i did not think to look for it in 2013 and am not upset i couldn't find it. it's not in the same category. these are very minimalistic recordings. phil collins does some guest vocals on the record, as well.
peter gabriel singer (1969-1974)	I	1977	uk+ire	1	i was able to recover my dad's copy of this in 2013, which he was more interested in as a robert fripp and tony levin fan. gabriel would continue to work with fripp for a while and levin for many years. i think it's a strong solo record.
genesis	wind and wuthering	1976	uk+ire	4	my dad did not have a copy of wind and wuthering, which was the last record before steve hackett left. i purchased this in a used bin in the late 90s. i think it's a better record overall than the trick of the tail, and has higher points, but it's also a transition record that has components of the direction that collins took the band in once gabriel left (and, probably more importantly, once hackett left). pulling out the substantive parts of a trick of the tail and wind and wuthering into a single lp would have created an outstanding lp, perhaps even their best, but that's not how they did it and they instead have two uneven records when they might have had one outstanding one.	1976:3 total:9
brand x phil collins' fusion side project drummer (1971-1991) singer (1976-1991)	unorthodox behaviour	1976	uk+ire	1	phil collins started a mahavishnu-style fusion band when gabriel left genesis, then abandoned it to become a pop star. my dad did have a copy of this and it is a very good record. i thought i had a copy but i can't find it and i might be wrong.
genesis	a trick of the tail	1976	uk+ire	6

nov 30, 2024

i had some cleaning to do in the bathroom, which is closer to the youtube streaming device i use as a tv. it's a smaller system using a receiver from the 1970s that is fine for youtube but not as good for music. i nonetheless decided to run through the first third of the genesis catalogue over youtube, as i am missing key parts of it on cd.

i will backtrack on a few other artists like this that i'm missing releases from because they were my dad's cds, that i mostly listened to on vinyl or that i only ever listened to mostly via mp3 and never bought physical cds from.

i will eventually fill these in, but remember that i'm pretty poor and that i have these extremely broad, diverse and comprehensve tastes in music and that i actually make an effort to carefuly listen to everything, it's not just an empty commodity fetish. it's not financially feasible for me to have physical copies of all of the tens of thousands (no exaggeration. its probably around 25000) of lps i've listened to in my 44 years. i have not been able to go out to party in the last few years, and i was intending on shifting direction around my 40th birthday anyways, as i'm not interested in hanging out in bars with people half my age, or in spending time with young people at all but i'm pissed off that that got cut off by the government with their fascist covid restrictions and i'll never get over that lingering anger. i don't like young people much, and i really never did, even when i was young; i tended to prefer the company of older members of gen x, rather than of younger millennials. the artists i have spent my life listening to are retiring, the styles of music i have listened to are going permanently out of fashion and i'm not very interested in the types of underground music that young people are listening to or the nature of the culture that's filling up smaller venues. it's time to move on. the money i was spending on concerts will be eventually redirected towards media, once i get my living situation cleared up and fill in the remaining holes in my recording studio, and i'm going to be seeking to do things like raid the cd sections at local used stores for piles of discs at cheap prices (old cds are worthless, now. great.) or try to find widows selling cd collections off for the cost of mailing it over ebay. in the end, i'd like to find a library to house it in and somebody to oversee it.

this is 1970-1976. there is an earlier genesis record from 1969 that's alright but not the same, but i couldn't find a good ad-free stream of it so i skipped it.

genesis	a trick of the tail	1976	uk+ire	6	this was my dad's favourite genesis record, as it documents phil collins taking over the band, and has the most elaborate drum work. i would consider it to be the weakest of the serious releases, although it also has some key tracks (as weak records by important bands tend to). i was able to recover my dad's copy in 2013.
steve hackett guitarist (1971-1977)	voyage of the acolyte	1975	uk+ire	4	this has the guitarist (hackett), bassist (rutherford) and drummer (collins) from genesis, without either singer (gabriel or collins) or the synth player (tony banks), who was replaced on the record with hackett's brother john. there's also some musicians i know from mike oldfield records. i don't remember if this was initially richard's or if it was a gift c. 2006ish. it doesn't have the type of drumming my dad was looking for in listening to genesis, and i don't think he had a copy.	1975:1 total:6
genesis	the lamb lies down on broadway	1974	uk+ire	1	i was able to recover my dad's copy of this in 2013	1974:1 total:5
genesis	selling england by the pound	1973	uk+ire	0	my dad had a copy of selling england by the pound and i have never purchased or owned it and was disappointed to be unable to locate it on my father's death in 2013.	1973:1 total:4
genesis	foxtrot	1972	uk+ire	1	my dad had a copy of foxtrot. i thought i had richard's copy of foxtrot, but i can't find it and haven't been able to find it in years. it may have disappeared during the move in 2013 or there might be a stack of cds somewhere i can't find. or i might be wrong in the first place.	1972:1 total:3
genesis	nursery cryme	1971	uk+ire	0	my dad did have a copy of nursery cryme, but i believe this was initially my uncle richard's copy.	1971:1 total:2
genesis	trespass	1970	uk+ire	1	my dad did not have a copy of trespass because it is pre phil collins, but my uncle richard made me a cassette dub of it when i was very little (around 9 or 10) and i ended up picking the copy i have up in a discount bin at a future shop, i believe, some time in the late 90s.	1970:1

nov 30, 2024

godspeed you black emperor	yanqui uxo	2002	canada	0
godspeed you black emperor	lift yr skinny fists like antennas to heaven disc 2	2000	canada	4

nov 29, 2024

genesis	trespass	1970	uk+ire	1
ralph vaughan williams	fantasy on greensleeves	1928	uk+ire	2	ralph vaughan williams was a british composer of what sounds to me like incredibly lush impressionist music that is idiosyncratically british rather than french in character, but my sample size of his work is a little bit small. he would seem to be the leser known british response to debussy on some level, but i don't know if the music historians would like that analysis or not. the tallis fantasia, which is tagged on to the end of the planets because the theme is british music of the early 20th century (again with the nationalism in classical music...), is one of my favourite pieces of music of all time and has frequently stopped me right in my tracks and knocked me flat on my ass. i have been less impressed by the other ralph vaughan williams i've heard, but i would explore it in the right context. i also believe that ralph vaughan williams may have been an aesthetic or cultural influence on early genesis via the focus on britishness as a musical quality, and that would be another coincidence, as the cycle shifts out of gybe and into genesis via the holst/williams disc as a go between. i've decided to try to find linkages like this as i continue to listen to my cd collection in order.
ralph vaughan williams	fantasy on a theme by thomas tallis	1910	uk+ire	0
gustav holst	the planets	1916	uk+ire	1	gustav holst was an early twentieth century swedish-british composer that existed at the start of the era where western music was no longer classified as classical, due to a combination of printing press and other technological as well as social innovations, but his key works are now over a hundred years old (he died in 1934) so this convention should be revisited. i would consider the planets to be a wagnerian symphonic piece that was popular in it's time frame because it reflected the west's evolution to secular humanism and movement away from christianity. that is to say that if this piece of music had been written or commissioned in the 19th century, it would have certainly been christian in theme, rather than astrological. the british public, and western society in general, was struggling with leaving christianity behind without entirely abandoning it's artistic and cultural legacy, however enforced by papal despotism that might have actually always been. for that reason, this piece is actually slightly over-rated. however, it's also exactly what the west needed, and exactly when the west needed it, at the height of the first world war. as it existed at the junction between the christian past and the secular future, the piece also had an outsized influence on the culture that developed in the 20th century, including on the genres of science fiction and art rock. yes, you might notice that segments of the planets, such as the mars section, have been heavily influential on 20th century film music, and especially on science fiction film music, such as on the theme music for star wars. the riffs have also shown up in heavy metal and progressive rock records, starting in the early 70s. i first learned about holst at school and am only vaguely familiar with holst's other works, which are neither as well known nor as well regarded, but i would look further into holst if i found it around, such as in the cbc overflow bin. this was picked up in the early 00s as a course requirement and also includes the ralph vaughan williams pieces, which i found to be more compelling, personally. it is a coincidence that the long death march at the centre of gybe's yanqui uxo, which is heavily influenced by the planets via the intermediary of early pink floyd, is currently in the same five disc cycle as the planets via the sharing of the first letter g in their respective names, but it also indicates the depth of the symphony's influence on contemporary western culture, more broadly.
godspeed you black emperor	yanqui uxo	2002	canada	0

nov 28, 2024

genesis	trespass	1970	uk+ire	1
ralph vaughan williams	fantasy on greensleeves	1928	uk+ire	2
ralph vaughan williams	fantasy on a theme by thomas tallis	1910	uk+ire	0
gustav holst	the planets	1916	uk+ire	1
godspeed you black emperor	yanqui uxo	2002	canada	0
godspeed you black emperor	lift yr skinny fists like antennas to heaven	2000	canada	4
ralph vaughan williams	fantasy on greensleeves	1928	uk+ire	2
ralph vaughan williams	fantasy on a theme by thomas tallis	1910	uk+ire	0
gustav holst	the planets	1916	uk+ire	1
godspeed you black emperor	yanqui uxo	2002	canada	0
godspeed you black emperor	lift yr skinny fists like antennas to heaven	2000	canada	4
godspeed you black emperor	04-19-99: paris disc 2	1999	canada	2	2xcd cd-r bootleg i made myself from mp3s
godspeed you black emperor	yanqui uxo	2002	canada	0
godspeed you black emperor	lift yr skinny fists like antennas to heaven	2000	canada	4

nov 26, 2024

godspeed you black emperor	lift yr skinny fists like antennas to heaven	2000	canada	4
godspeed you black emperor	04-19-99: paris	1999	canada	2	2xcd cd-r bootleg i made myself from mp3s
godspeed you black emperor	yanqui uxo	2002	canada	0
godspeed you black emperor	lift yr skinny fists like antennas to heaven	2000	canada	4
godspeed you black emperor	04-19-99: paris	1999	canada	2	2xcd cd-r bootleg i made myself from mp3s
godspeed you black emperor	slow riot for new zero kanada	1999	canada	0

nov 25, 2024

godspeed you black emperor	04-19-99: paris	1999	canada	2	2xcd cd-r bootleg i made myself from mp3s
godspeed you black emperor	slow riot for new zero kanada	1999	canada	0

nov 22, 2024

godspeed you black emperor	lift yr skinny fists like antennas to heaven	2000	canada	4
godspeed you black emperor	04-19-99: paris	1999	canada	2	2xcd cd-r bootleg i made myself from mp3s
godspeed you black emperor	slow riot for new zero kanada	1999	canada	0
godspeed you black emperor	yanqui uxo	2002	canada	0	godspeed you(!) black emperor (!) were, and still are, a symphonic post-rock collective from montreal that took a section of the underground music scene by storm in the late 90s and initially dissolved due to political pressure from the iraq war, before reforming in 2012. in fact, they picked up where they left off, but the direction they moved in afterwards was decidedly less political/punk/anarchist and decidedly more religious/christian, and they lost me in the process. this might be subtle to some, and it started with skinny fists, but it was enough to tune me out, especially in the face of the ten years of a silver mt zion that existed in between. you could say i found the idea of gybe reforming, which broke up mt zion, to be a disappointing step in the wrong direction. gybe were initially recommended to me by an internet friend name ren over a mailing list called epilag, and i got a chance to see them in ottawa at the babylon in 1999 on the slow riot tour due to that rec, which got me heavily hooked. i bought my copy of slow riot directly from the hands of aidan girt in 1999 at the show. i will eventually catch up with their discography, and i have listened to most of the post-2012 material via streaming with mixed but largely unmpressed results, but i haven't purchased any of it at this point, so this does stop here.
godspeed you black emperor	lift yr skinny fists like antennas to heaven	2000	canada	4
godspeed you black emperor	slow riot for new zero kanada	1999	canada	0
godspeed you black emperor	f#a#∞	1997	canada	1
godspeed you black emperor	lift yr skinny fists like antennas to heaven	2000	canada	4
godspeed you black emperor	slow riot for new zero kanada	1999	canada	0

nov 21, 2024

godspeed you black emperor	slow riot for new zero kanada	1999	canada	0
godspeed you black emperor	f#a#∞	1997	canada	1
glenn branca	bad smells	1982	us	1
glenn branca	dissonance	1980	us	0
glenn branca	lesson no 1 for electric guitar	1980	us	0

nov 20-21, 2024

i will continue to listen to the cassettes as they come up in sequence, and what i just ran through is indicative of the oddball nature of what remains of my cassette collection (which once had a lot of 90s grunge, including a pretty comprehensive collection of seattle grunge records, a large amount of 80s-90s socal punk (green day, offspring, bad religion, dead kennedys, etc), a bunch of what was called jangle pop or college rock (rem, b52s, barenaked ladies, u2, the cure) and a lot of 80s pop and synth pop, like bon jovi, duran duran, inxs, madonna, 80s genesis and michael jackson), but the gentle giant record is the last one in the list to catch me up to where the cds are at, for now.

gentle giant	free hand the missing piece octopus	1975 1977 1972	uk + ire	1	cassette dub (chrome) made by my uncle richard (i recognize the handwriting) for my father (his brother), probably c. 1990. richard died in, i think, 2006. my father died in 2013. there is some degradation, but it's not as bad as should be expected.	gentle giant were one of the early british progressive rock bands, but they were neither one of the progressive rock bands i decided were worth remembering as they had real artistic value (genesis, king crimson) nor were they one of the progressive rock bands i decided should be forgotten because they were void of artistic value and represented the absolute low point of western culture (yes, elp). in fact, like the zappa tape, i'm not entirely sure how this came into my possession at all, and i think this is the first time i've ever listened to it. gentle giant would have been more richard's thing, actually; i don't remember my dad listening to or talking about gentle giant, probably because they didn't have a kickass drummer for him to listen to (that's what he really liked). my general impression of gentle giant is that it's boring folk rock with synth stabs and string accompaniments, like a pretentious early beegees, but i don't think i've given them a chance since i was a kid, so let's see what i think as an adult. thoughts? yeah, this is pretty awful. i think these are maybe a little later and consequently a little less straight up folk rock and a lot more pretentious (in drawing more from medieval english music or something), but it doesn't make them any less boring. something i had perhaps forgotten was gentle giant's huge influence on cardiacs (william d. drake mostly probably), but they don't have the crunchy punk aesthetic that cardiacs do, and the awkward, aimless keyboard solos end up sounding more like keith emerson, who is a persona non grata in my music review alter-reality. some of the instrumental sections have some potential, but they don't extrapolate and repeatedly demonstrate no counterpoint and no harmonic development; they just stay stuck in I-V to make it easy to solo in without doing any kind of thought about it (there's no wrong notes that way; but there's no interesting notes, either.) and then just noodle and arpeggiate in key. this is a characteristic that frequently defines the worst prog. it is truly boring, at least to anybody that isn't overwhelmingly pretentious, and wants to pretend they understand it without actually understanding it. it's the kind of music that music theory grads that are good with memorizing the math but have no actual creativity or actual musical talent make and like. i would never listen to this, and i'll repeat that i'm not sure how i got it, but it's a cassette dub of three records so i can't sell it. *shrug*. it's not quite as awful as yes or elp, but it's closer to it than i remember it being, probably because these are later records. i beleve that the earlier material is a little more folky and not quite as awful.
gowan	strange animal	1984	canada	1
gowan	strange animal	1984	canada	1
gowan	strange animal	1984	canada	1	cassette only. this 40 year old chrome tape still sounds fine. if you're going to make cassettes in the future, you should really make them chrome tapes, clearly; i know everybody rolled their eyes when the techs said that in the 80s, but they were clearly right, and at this point your old tapes had better be chrome, or bust.	(lawerence) gowan was an 80s synth pop artist from toronto that had a hugely successful album in canada in the late 80s called strange animal, partly because he managed to score peter gabriel's backing band for it, before becoming the singer and songwriter for ultra cheesy disco-prog band styx for several albums, which i take it was sort of his dream job. this was, hands down, my favourite record as a kid; i've had this cassette since 1986 or so and i'm surprised that it plays well still, but i'll note it's a (store bought, not dubbed) chrome tape, which is different than most of the cheap mass manufactured cassettes. i have this on vinyl too but i've never owned it on cd and obviously should but his other releases, both solo and with styx, don't have the same nostalgic effect on me. yes, i still listen to it periodically. the title track, strange animal, isn't a kid's song, but it's a song a kid could like, as you don't really have to know it's about stalking somebody, you could think it's a silly song about cryptozoology.
frustrations	negative reflections	2011	us	2
frustrations	negative reflections	2011	us	2	cassette only.	frustrations were a noise rock band from detroit that i saw in the punk house on kent in ottawa around 2012ish, where i purchased this tape due to the cover of instellar overdrive being impressive. i have not seen any show listings for frustrations since i moved to windsor, but i think i've met a few of these guys at shows by other bands they washed up in.

nov 19, 2024

frank zappa	overnite sensation	1973	us	1	cassette dub (chrome) made by my uncle richard (i recognize the handwriting) for my father (his brother), probably c. 1990. richard died in, i think, 2006. my father died in 2013. there is some degradation, but it's not as bad as should be expected.	i don't actually know how this got in here and i don't think i've ever listened to it. my dad had both of these on cd (overnite sensation was re-released with apostrophe on rykodisc) and remember listening to them that way. this wasn't the tape he used to listen to in the car because it doesn't have apostrophe (and the yellow snow suite).
frank zappa	live at the filmore east	1971	us	1
dead voices on air	piss frond	1998	canada	1	cassette dub made by myself. the quality loss on this tape is pretty terrible, mostly at the ends.	i do remember transferring piss frond to cassette to listen to on the bus in the late 90s. this is a 2xcd album with one cd one each side.

nov 18, 2024

the tear garden	mix (1986-1992)	1998	canada		cassette dub made by myself. this one is not too bad, actually. it is chrome, which is no doubt the difference.	i have a cassette with download on one side and tear garden on the other, which i actually think was made for a friend and never delivered.
download	mix (1995-1997)	1998	canada

nov 17, 2024

download	05-12-1996, huset (denmark)	1996	canada		cassette dub by tape trader. this is a chrome tape but it's still demonstrating substantive quality loss, although the coil bootleg was always bad quality.	i can't remember what i traded this for in 1997 or 1998ish.
coil	05-08-1983, london, magenta club	1983	uk+ire

nov 16, 2024

coil	love's secret domain	1991	uk+ire	0	cassette dub. substantive quality loss, but it's a dub. it's odd because these records are so harmonically complex that the decreased quality just pulls out different sections of the mix. it actually sounds like a remix of furnace from source, but i know it's just quality loss on the high end and increased saturation in the middle.	i appear to have a cassette dub with a mix of download material from 1995-1996 on one side and love's secret domain on the other, which i must have made for listening to in my walkman on the way to work on the bus c. 1997/1998, as i was walking to school by that time (something that substantively cut down on my walkman listening time starting in the 11th grade). i received a discman for christmas in 1997, so it actually must have been late 1997, but is probably the reason i don't remember listening to this much.
download	mixed (1995-1996)	1995-1996	canada
collective soul	hints, allegations and things left unsaid	1993	us	3	cassette only. as with the others, this cassette is in poor shape.	collective soul were a 90s rock band that had an alt-country bent to them and a better guitarist than some of the other similar bands from the time period. i actually spent a lot of time playing collective soul as a young guitarist as the tabs were available to me and the music was accessible during the years i was directly learning to play more developed parts (91-94), but i didn't need to buy the records because my dad was actually a collective soul fan, which he approached from a southern blues perspective, which is roughly correct. it's technically more correct to call it alt-country and talk about bands like the meat puppets and dinosaur jr, but that doesn't matter if you're a like eagles fan or something and just like the songs when you hear them. i had this one on cassette and my dad had the next four on cd. i remember specifically that "gel" was a fun guitar solo to play. i should at least get the second one on cd. collective soul, like most of the bands from the period, eventually lost the plot and got boring by going throught the motions, and people lost interest.
candlebox	lucy	1995	us	2	cassette only. this cassette just ate itself and is permanently destroyed. it appears to have already been twisted at the end, and got caught in the tape deck. *shrug*. i should prioritize upgrading these to cd, but, after hearing how bad the tapes sound, i think that's going to be a general project once i get my housing situation dealt with.	candlebox were a "post-grunge" band from seattle signed to madonna's label in 1992 or 1993 and who had some success with some soul asylum-type ballads before evaporating relatively quickly. while their music has some sonic similarty to pearl jam and alice in chains at points and is defined by the same basic dichotomy of punk singer with metal or blues band that underlies the grunge sound, and that was probably intentional, my young ears picked up that this guy (peter klett) was actually a way better guitarist than either mike mccready or jerry cantrell, and i would actually classify the band as progressive blues, and more similar, overall, to something like dire straits or pink floyd, although i bet the guitarist liked bon jovi (richie sambora) a lot and you can hear a lot of srv in the frequent 9th and 13th chords. if you can find these records (and i would guess they manufactured quite a few of them), they're actually pretty good guitar records. i should upgrade these to cd, but i wouldn't listen to them much, anymore.
candlebox	candlebox	1993	us	2	cassette only. this one has some mild degradation that is noticeable mostly as tape saturation when the guitars get disorted, but it's not as bad as the others. i wonder if it's because i played this one more often. this is actually the same type of tape degradation that occurs from over-use.

nov 15, 2024

bush

sixteen stone

1994

uk+ire

1

cassette only. i had sixteen stone on cassette and razorblade suitcase on cd, but i can't find the cd. this cassette is degraded, and initially seemed to be unlistenable, but it actually impoved over time, oddly, and now it sounds degraded but listenable. oddly, the actual cassette i have is this one: discogs link which has a number of acoustic versions at the end of it. however, this tape is in a casette slip that was manufactured in the brief period before bush had to append an 'x' to their name in canada. the tape and liner notes have different bar codes. the liner notes say distributed by warner canada, but it's the us release of interscope 92531 and does not have the goofy "x" anywhere on it. the tape itself does have the x on it in quotes (bush "x") and is the intc-9000. i have a vague memory of replacing the tape but i also don't remember if i listened to the standard tracklisting on the bus in grade 8 or this one. i do remember that i purchased the tape in the timeframe between when everything zen was a hit in the united states (that song didn't take off in canada. maybe it's the slide. but i picked it up in a guitar world magazine and enjoyed playing it. that was the actual reason i bought sixteen stone before bush was really popular in canada, i liked the guitar parts in everything zen) and they got picked up by muchmusic for some of the more poppy songs on the record and, at that time, bush was kind of obscure and something you had to pick up as an import. i may have purchased a weird release in between the label adjusting to the legalities around the name, or i may have swapped it out, i don't really recall.

bush were a noisy english rock band at the height of the brit pop craze that didn't really fit in in the uk but did very well across the pond. does anybody know what happened to bush? i'm not sure. i did like their first two records as well as that remix disc with mixes by goldie, tricky and mbm and should have the three of them due to the amount of time i spent listening to them, but iirc they took an ill advised swing in the direction of not-very-good pop music and they utterly disappeared. or perhaps gwen stefani ate them for breakfast. i dunno. if i did pick up later bush, it would be with essentially no expectation other than that i probably wouldn't like it much. i think the not so pretty guitarist and obvious actual songwriter left at some point and that might discern the better bush from the worse bush. fwiw, they claim they were big pixies fans, and i don't really see the similarity in sound, although i do notice the similarity in hair.

nov 14, 2024

bryan adams	into the fire	1987	canada	3	cassette only. my copy of reckless is missing, but was in very poor shape and may not be playable if it can be located. i think i sold cuts like a knife. this cassette is also in pretty poor shape.
blind melon	blind melon	1992	us	2	cassette only, although i had this on cd as well at one point and sold it. this cassette is also experiencing extreme degradation.	blind melon were an la rock band from the 90s that emerged during the alternative rock moment and that very much sounded like the early 70s aor sound (led zeppelin) in ways that their grunge contemporaries largely didn't. yes, the bee suit guy. not the one on the simpsons. the singer killed himself in a way that, in hindsight, seems like a cliche. i will eventually replace this record and the other one on cd but it's less of a prority as the records haven't aged as well and the band was always slightly overrated.
baby labour	2016 tour demo	2016	canada	2	cassette only
baby labour	2016 tour demo	2016	canada	2	cassette only	baby labour are a math rock band from guelph (a city in the greater toronto area that, with brantford, will eventually be absorbed into kitchener-waterloo-cambridge and, together, will form the western boundary into the gta, proper) that have an obvious tera melos fetish, and don't appear to deny it. i saw them at phog in windsor in 2016, and the guitarist gave me the demo tape for free (without asking for it) during a smoke break conversation outside in the front of the venue.

nov 13, 2024

animal faces	analytical dreaming	2010	canada	2	cassette only.
animal faces	analytical dreaming	2010	canada	2	cassette only.	i saw animal faces play in the avant garde bar in ottawa in 2011, i believe, and this self-made demo cassette is the only media they had for sale at the time. they were an extremely loud head cave at the time, although i believe they've moved away from that sound. i enjoyed the show, but i haven't kept up with them. i saw them again at the trumbullplex in detroit years later and they were very different. i would purchase further animal faces cds if i saw them. this cassette is 15 minutes and takes up one half of the tape.

nov 11, 2024

alice in chains	nothing safe	1999	us	1		i was and still am a grunge fan and consider it to be a subgenre of punk rock. alice in chains were one of the most prominent grunge bands from seattle, which was now long enough ago that some people might not know much about it. i think i first heard alice in chains on muchmusic c. 1992ish. i did have facelift on cd at one point, but i didn't like it very much and eventually sold it. i have actually never purchased dirt on cd, but i still have my cassette from the early-mid 90s. i've commented elsewhere that alice in chains are more substantive musically than they are often given credit for due to the accidental microtonality in the vocals (in fact, layne staley was tone deaf, and consistently just missed the notes, but his voice was so powerful that it often functions as accidental harmonization. this is the classic alice in chains sound, and it's just a consequence of poor ear training, but it often sounds incredible.). however, of the four major seattle grunge bands, alice in chains also holds up the least well, all of these years later. they were opportunistic metalheads, and that's what's happened with alice in chains post-staley, they became an awful metal band. it's a shame, as there was a mad season record released in the mid 90s that demonstrated a lot of potential and jerry cantrell would likely make more interesting music as a solo artist. as a young guitarist, i bought the last two records new in local corporate music stores within a week of their release in the 90s (which is also where i bought my cassette of dirt c. 1994-1995ish) and specifically recall buying jar of flies at a garage sale for something like $2.00 c. 1995/1996. i should have a copy of dirt on cd, and i'd rebuy facelift if i saw it cheap.
alice in chains	"tripod"	1995	us	2
alice in chains	jar of flies	1993	us	0
alice in chains	dirt	1992	us	1	cassette only. this is a thirty+ year old cassette. with all of the talk of cd rot, it's easy to forget that low quality commercial grade cassettes will lose their data in the upper registers due to the tape demagnetizing. this record was, i believe, always poorly mixed, and maybe intentionally - it always sounded dull. it's still salvagable for now by cranking the treble on the receiver, but it may be for the last time. i will need to finally upgrade this to cd. the 1999 release does have most of the best material on dirt, though.

nov 9, 2024

i'm going to take a detour through my cassettes as i put them in order on the shelf, up to g. i have in the past had cassette holders, but i have decided that the way i'm building my custom shelves means it makes more sense to just put the cassettes in place. the vinyl will never fit, but i can do the dvds that way too and i will (i only have a handful of dvds).

these will be skewed towards the 80s and early 90s because they are cassettes. however, there will also be some handmade dubbed tapes by more contemporary independent canadian and midwestern artists.

54-40

smilin' buddha cabaret

2024

canada

3

cassette only

54-40 may be remembered by a lot of people in canada for a handful of extremely successful radio singles in the mid 90s, but they were actually one of the first alternative rock bands out of the pacific northwest and have an underappreciated importance to the music scene that developed out of the region. i remember hearing 54-40 on the radio when i was very young and watching them do a set at the civic centre at the ottawa ex through the fence when i was about 10 or so. i believe it was 1992. for me, 54-40 were in the collection of bands i listened to from about the ages of 9-12, before my tastes changed in 93/94ish and also included rem, barenaked ladies and u2. i had a store bought copy of dear dear which i thought i still had and a couple of cassettes of their earlier material that i dubbed from the ottawa public library's gloucester branch (before they turned it into a kmart) that i don't know what happened to and i never actually bought. i actually should buy the 54-40 back catalog out up to this point, but they moved towards a more direct radio-friendly sound after this record (they were always pretty poppy, but they turned it up a notch) and i lost interest. i'm not sure why i have this one but don't have dear dear and wonder if dear dear is in a box hiding somewhere.

there's a new touche amore album out and i had some cleaning to do in the dining room so i did some touche amore streaming today.

touche amore	spiral in a straight line	2024	us	2	something i've learned over the years is that you have to listen to a new touche amore record a few times because the subtleties are often not discernible on first listen. on first impression - three listens today - the record is simultaneously a movement towards the sound they've been leaning into since 2016 and a movement towards the sound they've been moving away from for as long and i might argue it is a good compromise. the second track stands out on first impression as being a little bit more developed, in the direction they peaked at in 2013, but the record doesn't have a deficit of material intended for a modern alternative rock radio format that as far as i can tell doesn't actually exist any more. it's a moderate improvement over the previous record, which i found to be a little bit too contrived, but it doesn't hit the heights of their best work, or not often. i'd advise giving this a listen if you liked their previous work and have fallen away from them, or if you grew up listening to nirvana and have never found anything to fill that void, and always wanted to.
touche amore	lament	2020	us	3
touche amore	stage 4	2016	us	1
touche amore	is survived by	2013	us	1
touche amore	parting the sea between brightness and me	2011	us	1
touche amore	...to the beat of a dead horse	2009	us	2
touche amore	spiral in a straight line	2024	us	2
touche amore	spiral in a straight line	2024	us	2

nov 6, 2024

the who

won't get fooled again

1971

uk + ire

1

nov 4, 2024

deny everything

curious george

2000

canada

nov 3, 2024

henryck gorecki	string quartet no 2	1990	poland	3	gorecki was a polish composer active in the second half of the 20th century and bleeding a little into the 21st that is known mostly for his third symphony and his other vocal works after about 1970 (he write serialist music before that). i believe that much of his work has yet to be recorded. the two string quartets are on a kronos quartet cd, and he commmissioned some other works for them as well. i was first exposed to gorecki via the track moya by gybe, which is based on the third symphony. gorecki has an audience that overlaps with arvo part's, and his third symphony is very well regarded, but he is not credited with any particular innovation or development of sound.
henryck gorecki	string quartet no 1	1988	poland	3
henryck gorecki	symphony 3	1976	poland	0
godspeed you black emperor	slow riot for new zero kanada	1999	canada	0
godspeed you black emperor	f#a#∞	1997	canada	1
glenn branca	bad smells	1982	us	1	glenn branca was a composer that developed in the new york city punk underground as a composer of noise rock symphonies, and who had a profound influence on modern rock via his influence on new york city guitar luminaries like thurston moore, lee renaldo, paige hamilton, rhys chatham and michael gira, all of whom performed for him in various capacities. "bad smells" features moore and renaldo on guitar. looking at his work from a distance, it may sound like a composed version of sonic youth (or perhaps a little like the syr stuff), but that very much gets the influence backwards. i would like to pick up more branca, but i haven't run across a lot of branca in real life and i'm not sure how much of it ever got released on cd, so it's going to be up to the younger generation to keep this alive via digital media. i believe i picked this up at cd warehouse in ottawa in my serious music kick in the early 00s. he is not well known (outside of noise rock circles, where he is lionzed), but his importance is incalculable.
glenn branca	dissonance	1980	us	0
glenn branca	lesson no 1 for electric guitar	1980	us	0
henryck gorecki	string quartet no 2	1990	poland	3
henryck gorecki	string quartet no 1	1988	poland	3
henryck gorecki	symphony 3	1976	poland	0
godspeed you black emperor	slow riot for new zero kanada	1999	canada	0
godspeed you black emperor	f#a#∞	1997	canada	1
glenn branca	bad smells	1982	us	1
glenn branca	dissonance	1980	us	0
glenn branca	lesson no 1 for electric guitar	1980	us	0

nov 1, 2024

henryck gorecki	string quartet no 2	1990	poland	3
henryck gorecki	string quartet no 1	1988	poland	3
henryck gorecki	symphony 3	1976	poland	0
godspeed you black emperor	slow riot for new zero kanada	1999	canada	0
godspeed you black emperor	f#a#∞	1997	canada	1
glenn branca	bad smells	1982	us	1
glenn branca	dissonance	1980	us	0
glenn branca	lesson no 1 for electric guitar	1980	us	0

oct 31, 2024

henryck gorecki	symphony 3	1976	poland	0
godspeed you black emperor	slow riot for new zero kanada	1999	canada	0
godspeed you black emperor	f#a#∞	1997	canada	1
glenn branca	bad smells	1982	us	1
glenn branca	dissonance	1980	us	0
glenn branca	lesson no 1 for electric guitar	1980	us	0
frank zappa	return of the son of shut up 'n' play yer guitar	1981	us	0	studio project built from pre-existing sound. this is the 1995 3xcd "box set" with the cds in lp-like sleeves on rykodisc (10533-10535)
godspeed you black emperor	slow riot for new zero kanada	1999	canada	0
godspeed you black emperor	f#a#∞	1997	canada	1
glenn branca	bad smells	1982	us	1
glenn branca	dissonance	1980	us	0
glenn branca	lesson no 1 for electric guitar	1980	us	0
frank zappa	return of the son of shut up 'n' play yer guitar	1981	us	0	studio project built from pre-existing sound. this is the 1995 3xcd "box set" with the cds in lp-like sleeves on rykodisc (10533-10535)
frank zappa	shut up 'n' play yer guitar some more	1981	us	0
godspeed you black emperor	f#a#∞	1997	canada	1
godspeed you black emperor	f#a#∞	1997	canada	1
glenn branca	bad smells	1982	us	1
glenn branca	dissonance	1980	us	0
glenn branca	lesson no 1 for electric guitar	1980	us	0
frank zappa	return of the son of shut up 'n' play yer guitar	1981	us	0	studio project built from pre-existing sound. this is the 1995 3xcd "box set" with the cds in lp-like sleeves on rykodisc (10533-10535)
frank zappa	shut up 'n' play yer guitar some more	1981	us	0
frank zappa	shut up 'n' play yer guitar	1981	us	0

oct 30-31, 2024

glenn branca	bad smells	1982	us	1
glenn branca	dissonance	1980	us	0
glenn branca	lesson no 1 for electric guitar	1980	us	0
frank zappa	return of the son of shut up 'n' play yer guitar	1981	us	0	studio project built from pre-existing sound. this is the 1995 3xcd "box set" with the cds in lp-like sleeves on rykodisc (10533-10535)
frank zappa	shut up 'n' play yer guitar some more	1981	us	0
frank zappa	shut up 'n' play yer guitar	1981	us	0
frank zappa	hot rats	1969	us	1	with beefheart, jean-luc ponty and ian underwood

oct 30, 2024

frank zappa	return of the son of shut up 'n' play yer guitar	1981	us	0	studio project built from pre-existing sound. 3xcd box set.
frank zappa	shut up 'n' play yer guitar some more	1981	us	0	studio project built from pre-existing sound. 3xcd box set.
frank zappa	shut up 'n' play yer guitar	1981	us	0	studio project built from pre-existing sound. 3xcd box set.
frank zappa and the mothers of invention	one size fits all	1975	us	3	with the mothers of invention, which mostly featured frank in the role of lead guitarist and had lead vocals by others, like george duke.
frank zappa	hot rats	1969	us	1	with beefheart, jean-luc ponty and ian underwood

oct 27, 2024

frank zappa	return of the son of shut up 'n' play yer guitar	1981	us	0	studio project built from pre-existing sound. 3xcd box set.
frank zappa	shut up 'n' play yer guitar some more	1981	us	0	studio project built from pre-existing sound. 3xcd box set.
frank zappa	shut up 'n' play yer guitar	1981	us	0	studio project built from pre-existing sound. 3xcd box set.
frank zappa and the mothers of invention	one size fits all	1975	us	3	with the mothers of invention, which mostly featured frank in the role of lead guitarist and had lead vocals by others, like george duke.
frank zappa	hot rats	1969	us	1	with beefheart, jean-luc ponty and ian underwood

oct 26, 2024

frank zappa	shut up 'n' play yer guitar	1981	us	0	studio project built from pre-existing sound.
frank zappa	joe's garage (I, II & III in full, unedited) mp3 cd	1979	us	1	mostly a studio project built from pre-existing sound. features members of missing persons.
frank zappa and the mothers of invention	one size fits all	1975	us	3	with the mothers of invention, which mostly featured frank in the role of lead guitarist and had lead vocals by others, like george duke.
frank zappa	boulez conducts zappa: the perfect stranger	1984	us	3	with boulez and his ensemble and zappa and the synclavier
frank zappa	chunga's revenge	1970	us	3	with the turtles, gone snappy. and ian underwood.
frank zappa	hot rats	1969	us	1	with beefheart, jean-luc ponty and ian underwood

oct 24, 2024

i came very close to burning an mp3 cd wth the 1972-1978 material on it, not including one size fits all: waka/jawaka, the grand wazoo, over-nite sensation, apostrophe ('), roxy & elsewhere, bongo fury, zoot allures, zappa in new york, studio tan. that's about 650 mb and doesn't include a few of the later discs, but they aren't as interesting to me. but, i'd have to open a package of cds, and these cds were bought for production, not for burning cds. it makes more sense to get a line out into the system and listen to the dvd, but i may do that in the long run and call the mp3 cd "dad's zappa records".

frank zappa	boulez conducts zappa: the perfect stranger	1984	us	3	with boulez and his ensemble and zappa and the synclavier
frank zappa	chunga's revenge	1970	us	3	with the turtles, gone snappy. and ian underwood.
frank zappa	joe's garage (I, II & III in full, unedited) mp3 cd	1979	us	1	mostly a studio project built from pre-existing sound. features members of missing persons.
frank zappa and the mothers of invention	one size fits all	1975	us	3	with the mothers of invention, which mostly featured frank in the role of lead guitarist and had lead vocals by others, like george duke.
frank zappa	hot rats	1969	us	1	with beefheart, jean-luc ponty and ian underwood
fryderyk chopin	ballade 4	1842	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	ballade 3	1841	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	ballade 2	1839	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	ballade 1	1835	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	scherzo 4	1839	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	scherzo 3	1839	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	scherzo 2	1837	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	scherzo 1	1832	poland/ france	0

oct 23-24, 2024

frank zappa	shut up 'n' play yer guitar shut up 'n' play yer guitar some more return of the son of shut up 'n' play yer guitar next cycle	1981	us	0	my zappa is currently a disheveled mess, as i was really hoping to inherit my dad's zappa collection and it was the one thing i couldn't find when he died. the string of records he had was freak out, the grand wazoo, over-nite sensation, apostrophe ('), roxy & elsewhere, bongo fury, zoot allures, zappa in new york, sheik yerbouti, joe's garage and tinseltown rebellion. this is pretty close to comprehensive, from 1972-1982, which was vaguely zappa's "prog" period. i filled in some of the gaps by picking up copies of hot rats, chunga's revenge, one size fits all, shut up and play yer guitar (the three cd box set) and the perfect stranger. there were also a few random things on vinyl (we're only in it for the money). so, between the two of us, it was a pretty complete zappa collection that i really didn't want to lose track of. i also have a dvd disc with mp3s of almost everything from 1966-1993 (i am familiar with almost all of it) but it doesn't play on my dvd player that i'm using to play these discs, unfortunately. it does play cd-mp3 discs. that's something i may be looking to resolve, but it's also why i bought the pi, which is currently not installed anywhere. we'll see what i end up listening to over the next few weeks but the best option may be to set my music pc back up, which i'm currently avoiding doing because i don't want it to get broken even worse (the retards appear to have tried to overclock an asus p5b with a pentium d from 2005 and almost fried it). frank zappa was something i grew up with. probably my earliest memories of zappa are of my dad listening to the yellow snow suite on a dubbed cassette in the car, as he was driving me around somewhere, at roughly the age of six or seven. i was raised to appreciate the musicianship. eventually, i started playing guitar, and zappa was something i was taught to play. this stack of zappa cds on my dad's shelf in the living room was something i would get into and listen on my own, during various phases, over quite a long period of time. i mean, those zappa cds were just always there, from 1985 to 2010ish, until they were gone when i went to get them. zappa himself came from pseudo-intellectual beginnings (influenced heavily by varese) on the east coast before moving out west and navigating through the jazz, rock and blues underground in the very south-western tip of the united states. he found himself in competition with hippies for venue space and couldn't help but make fun of them, which in the process generated an audience that may not have fully understood the performance art unfolding in front of them. as the styles shifted and changed through the 60s, 70s and 80s, zappa's performance art as satire shifted and adjusted with it; at the end of the process, he left us with a fairly broad cross-section of satire and ridicule, all of it produced with a level of flair and performed with an extremely high degree of musicianship and in ways that almost nobody fully understands. in between the over-the-top satire, he also produced some strictly original and strictly creative jazz fusion recordings as well as a pretty important collection of tape collage experiments. i will rebuild this lost zappa collection over time, eventually.
frank zappa	boulez conducts zappa: the perfect stranger	1984	us	3
frank zappa	chunga's revenge	1970	us	3
frank zappa	joe's garage (I, II & III in full, unedited) mp3 cd	1979	us	1
frank zappa and the mothers of invention	one size fits all	1975	us	3
frank zappa	hot rats	1969	us	1
frankie sparo	arena hostile	2000	canada	5	frankie sparo was the stage name of a lounge singer named chad jones that was lucky enough to release a few records near the top of the constellation records catalog, which feature contributions from the cst records house band (members of a silver mt zion and related projects). these are not bad records, exactly, but they're pretty timid and bland and you have to be into the schtick, which i'm largely not. they came to me as a part of the blind purchase of the first roughly 20 cst records releases when i mail ordered the second mt zion disc as a pre-order in 2000 or 2001.
frankie sparo	my red scare	2001	canada	5
fryderyk chopin	ballade 4	1842	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	ballade 3	1841	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	ballade 2	1839	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	ballade 1	1835	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	scherzo 4	1839	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	scherzo 3	1839	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	scherzo 2	1837	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	scherzo 1	1832	poland/ france	0

oct 23, 2024

fryderyk chopin	ballade 4	1842	poland/ france	0	this is the disc of 8 of chopin's most substantive piano works, as performed by british-canadian pianist valerie tryon, and is a more valued addition to my cd collection than the polish symphonic music disc or the franco-slavic ballet disc. chopin was a half french and half polish romantic era pianist and tentative composer that grew up in poland and identified mostly as polish but spent most of his career in france. while chopin is in many ways the archetype of the starving artistic genius and an icon of romantic culture, he did have periods of financial success and he spent most of his life under the financial shelter of a sequence of wealthy (and attractive) young women, who were intrigued by his unique talent as perhaps the greatest technical piano composer-performer that has ever lived. to add to the mystique, he didn't make it to 40 and died of a mysterious illness that he spent his entire adult life suffering from. this gives chopin a split personality, historically; while he is remembered primarily for his musical genius, he is also remembered for.....the liner notes of this cd describe him as the andy warhol of the romantic era, which is in some ways a trivializing insult, but also has a deep reality of truth to it. chopin wrote almost exclusively for piano and left the world some of the most challenging pieces, both to perform and to listen to, that have ever been and probably ever will be written for the instrument. for that reason, chopin is loved and dreaded by piano students, everywhere. however, chopin also had a dark gothic side that is perhaps his more lasting contribution to popular culture, as the proper intermediary between beethoven and debussy in a short history of the piano in european popular music. i first learned about chopin in the theory book, but there was often chopin playing in the house, growing up, as well. i will pick up more chopin as it is available to me.
fryderyk chopin	ballade 3	1841	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	ballade 2	1839	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	ballade 1	1835	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	scherzo 4	1839	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	scherzo 3	1839	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	scherzo 2	1837	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	scherzo 1	1832	poland/ france	0

oct 22-23, 2024

p'yotr ilyich tchaikovsky	the nutcracker suite, op 71a	1892	russia	0	tchaikovsky was a russian composer that wrote not just a few but several of the most important pieces of music that are from the nineteenth century and continue to be known today and is even one of the five most important musicians in the history of western music, by almost universal analysis. this piece is embedded in the fabric of western culture, from commercials and ringtones to movies and video games to christian and pagan festivals, but you might not fully realize it until you sit down and listen to it. the idea of the nutcracker was actually supposed to be a survey of non-western music, but this has been somewhat obscured in the ballet's success in the capitalist west as a christmas story and as a source of jingles for various musical wallpaper. there was a section about the nutcracker prince in that music theory textbook that went over the modal connections between the dances and their ethnic associatons, which was why the ballet was written the way it was (to allow the composer the space to write in different harmonic considerations), and which was just a good educational resource in that sense for a young person. this suite, which today is the more famous abridgement of a larger work, is in some way at the very beginning of the concept of world music as we understand it in modern terms.	these four compositions make up the ballet disc performed by eugene ormandy and the philadelphia orchestra.
leo delibes	sylvia	1876	france	3	leo delibes was a french composer that wrote fruity ballets a little before tchaikovsky and these two pieces by delibes sound so much like tchaikovsky (it's the other way around, actually) that it threw me for a loop and i had to sit down with the disc and figure out which was which, although, as mentioned, it is the case that all ballet music sounds very similar, by definition. ballet is not supposed to be a very creative form and if you went to town with it you'd break it, which is exacty why you should, but it's not something with a large repertoire. if you like ballet, you should like these ones as well as the next one, which is the nutcracker prince. to me, this sounds a little generic, but i realize i may have the causality reversed, which i'm not interested enough in ballet to carefully rectify. coppelia is based on a story by the same author that wrote the story for the nutcracker. this cd is my first exposure to delibes.
leo delibes	coppelia	1870	france	3
fryderyk chopin	les sylphides (douglas version)	1892/ 1907/ 1936	poland/ france	5	as far as i know, the primary or sole reason that anybody listens to chopin is for the psychotic piano solos and it is also worth pointing out that virtually everything he ever wrote was on piano, too. chopin would consequently seem to be a poor choice for a ballet, a priori, and it's consequently curious that this piece, which was created in the late 1800s out of chopin's works but was not written by or overseen by chopin himself, is the first piece of ballet music in the history of ballet music to not have a narrative story line, but instead just be about ballet people dancing ballet moves. if you're like most people, and you think all ballet music sounds the same, this distinction is just that much more meaningless. apparently, the ballet people like this idea of putting chopin to the spandex dance circuit, but i'm actually sort of appalled by the whole thing. this version was rearranged in 1936 from a version that was rearranged in 1907 from a piece compiled in 1892 of works written in chopin's lifespan, which was 1810-1849. i am not sure who to give credit to, but i strongly suspect that chopin would have vociferously rejected ownership (in whispers, between coughing fits) and denounced everything about this and that's more or less my own view about it as well.

oct 22, 2024

peter paul koprowski	souvenirs of poland for piano and orchestra	1983	poland/ canada	3	peter paul koprowski is a polish-canadian composer that i don't know much about. this piece was a part of the program recorded by the kitchener-waterloo orchestra on the disc i picked up in the cbc overflow bin on the name recognition of the chopin piece, but which was really a program with a theme of polish romantic music. orchestras everywhere tend to cater to nationalism, for some reason, and should really re-evaluate why they do that. this piece is a little more atonal and modern sounding but is basically still generic romantic music and doesn't sell me much on the composer, either.	these three pieces make up the kitchener-waterloo orchestra disc with the polish theme.
moritz moszkowski	concerto for piano and orchestra in e major, op. 59	1898	poland	3	moritz moszkowski was a polish romantic composer that i don't know much about. this piece was a part of the program recorded by the kitchener-waterloo orchestra on the disc i picked up in the cbc overflow bin on the name recognition of the chopin piece, but which was really a program with a theme of polish romantic music. orchestras everywhere tend to cater to nationalism, for some reason, and should really re-evaluate why they do that. this piece is a little bit wandering and unfocused and while it does have some louder moments it doesn't have the epic grandiosity that i like from my romantic music as the full orchestra moments are kind of vanilla and bland and dull. the piano runs through a lot of arpeggios and trills and sounds fast and twinkly and impresssive, but it doesn't have the narrative subtlety of a chopin or a rachmaninov (or a debussy or a beethoven), despite sounding a little like all of them at points. the slower sections are harmonically lacking and don't really move, melodically. i simply don't know much about this guy or whether this is a good starting point or a bad piece, but i'd have to describe this as generic late romantic music that is written by the book to get played and that is done better by others elsewhere (try rachmaninov). it's alright, but it doesn't sell me on moszkowski as something worth looking into further. this is a 37 minute piano concerto that takes up most of the disc.
fryderyk chopin	andante spianato and grande polonaise in e flat major for piano and orchestra, op. 22	1836	poland/ france	1	this relatively short piece by chopin is pretty good, but also sounds a little bit too purposefully put together. the draw is the schroeder-like piano playing, as chopin is hanging out with his buddy the piano, here, but i don't think this is truly finished. if chopin hadn't died so young, he might have finished this, eventually.

oct 21, 2024

dead kennedys

triumph of the swill

1986

us

0

oct 18, 2024

frankie sparo	arena hostile	2000	canada	5
frankie sparo	my red scare	2001	canada	5
p'yotr ilyich tchaikovsky	the nutcracker suite, op 71a	1892	russia	0
peter paul koprowski	souvenirs of poland for piano and orchestra	1983	poland/ canada	3
moritz moszkowski	concerto for piano and orchestra in e major, op. 59	1898	poland	3
leo delibes	sylvia	1876	france	3
leo delibes	coppelia	1870	france	3
fryderyk chopin	les sylphides (douglas version)	1892/ 1907/ 1936	poland/ france	5
fryderyk chopin	ballade 4	1842	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	ballade 3	1841	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	scherzo 4	1839	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	scherzo 3	1839	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	ballade 2	1839	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	scherzo 2	1837	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	andante spianato and grande polonaise in e flat major for piano and orchestra, op. 22	1836	poland/ france	1
fryderyk chopin	ballade 1	1835	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	scherzo 1	1832	poland/ france	0
frankie sparo	arena hostile		canada	5
frankie sparo	my red scare		canada	5
p'yotr ilyich tchaikovsky	the nutcracker suite, op 71a	1892	russia	0
peter paul koprowski	souvenirs of poland for piano and orchestra	1983	poland/ canada	3
moritz moszkowski	concerto for piano and orchestra in e major, op. 59	1898	poland	3
leo delibes	sylvia	1876	france	3
leo delibes	coppelia	1870	france	3
fryderyk chopin	les sylphides (douglas version)	1892/ 1907/ 1936	poland/ france	5
fryderyk chopin	ballade 4	1842	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	ballade 3	1841	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	scherzo 4	1839	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	scherzo 3	1839	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	ballade 2	1839	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	scherzo 2	1837	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	andante spianato and grande polonaise in e flat major for piano and orchestra, op. 22	1836	poland/ france	1
fryderyk chopin	ballade 1	1835	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	scherzo 1	1832	poland/ france	0
frankie sparo	arena hostile		canada	5
frankie sparo	my red scare		canada	5
p'yotr ilyich tchaikovsky	the nutcracker suite, op 71a	1892	russia	0
peter paul koprowski	souvenirs of poland for piano and orchestra	1983	poland/ canada	3
moritz moszkowski	concerto for piano and orchestra in e major, op. 59	1898	poland	3
leo delibes	sylvia	1876	france	3
leo delibes	coppelia	1870	france	3
fryderyk chopin	les sylphides (douglas version)	1892/ 1907/ 1936	poland/ france	5
fryderyk chopin	ballade 4	1842	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	ballade 3	1841	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	scherzo 4	1839	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	scherzo 3	1839	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	ballade 2	1839	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	scherzo 2	1837	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	andante spianato and grande polonaise in e flat major for piano and orchestra, op. 22	1836	poland/ france	1
fryderyk chopin	ballade 1	1835	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	scherzo 1	1832	poland/ france	0

oct 17-18, 2024

frankie sparo	arena hostile		canada	5
frankie sparo	my red scare		canada	5
p'yotr ilyich tchaikovsky	the nutcracker suite, op 71a	1892	russia	0
peter paul koprowski	souvenirs of poland for piano and orchestra	1983	poland/ canada	3
moritz moszkowski	concerto for piano and orchestra in e major, op. 59	1898	poland	3
leo delibes	sylvia	1876	france	3
leo delibes	coppelia	1870	france	3
fryderyk chopin	les sylphides (douglas version)	1892/ 1907/ 1936	poland/ france	5
fryderyk chopin	ballade 4	1842	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	ballade 3	1841	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	scherzo 4	1839	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	scherzo 3	1839	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	ballade 2	1839	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	scherzo 2	1837	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	andante spianato and grande polonaise in e flat major for piano and orchestra, op. 22	1836	poland/ france	1
fryderyk chopin	ballade 1	1835	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	scherzo 1	1832	poland/ france	0

oct 16, 2024

p'yotr ilyich tchaikovsky	the nutcracker suite, op 71a	1892	russia	0
peter paul koprowski	souvenirs of poland for piano and orchestra	1983	poland/ canada	3
moritz moszkowski	concerto for piano and orchestra in e major, op. 59	1898	poland	3
leo delibes	sylvia	1876	france	3
leo delibes	coppelia	1870	france	3
fryderyk chopin	les sylphides (douglas version)	1892/ 1907/ 1936	poland/ france	5
fryderyk chopin	ballade 4	1842	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	ballade 3	1841	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	scherzo 4	1839	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	scherzo 3	1839	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	ballade 2	1839	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	scherzo 2	1837	poland/ france
fryderyk chopin	andante spianato and grande polonaise in e flat major for piano and orchestra, op. 22	1836	poland/ france	1
fryderyk chopin	ballade 1	1835	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	scherzo 1	1832	poland/ france	0

expanded country chart to more ordered and include cities, taking note of eight epicentres (relative to my tastes) that have so far demonstrated themselves: london, new york, chicago, los angeles, seattle, vancouver, montreal, toronto. i expect this list to expand, but the thresheld is ten hits and nowhere else has hit it yet.

oct 11, 2024

p'yotr ilyich tchaikovsky	the nutcracker suite, op 71a	1892	russia	0	i've listened to these three discs several times over the last few days. the nutcracker prince notwithstanding, i'm not very impressed by the ballet disc from the philadelphia orchestra. it's not really a chopin composition, it's something some russian built out of chopin's music and then assigned to him. i may even re-file this under tchaikovsky, instead. it's a good version of a known classic. i'd give the disc a 4. the waterloo symphony disc with the poland theme is variable; the chopin piece is sort of impressionisty, which makes me ask questions about the performer. i haven't seen the score, but chopin is a very romantic pianist, so these blurry chromatic scrawls that are more debussy than beethhoven sound wrong. you can hear chopin's narrated playing style, which is the mark of a virtuoso; chopin is friends with the piano, and he has conversations with it, and it talks back. the other two pieces by the other polish composers are relatively generic. i'd give the disc a 3 overall. the piano disc played by valerie tryon, however, features chopin's characteristically psychotic piano playing, and fluctuates from those narrative moments to impossibly complicated playing to just beating the shit out of the keyboard. this is what you expect from chopin, and these are some of his best pieces. this disc gets a 1 or a 0.
peter paul koprowski	souvenirs of poland for piano and orchestra	1983	poland/ canada	3
moritz moszkowski	concerto for piano and orchestra in e major, op. 59	1898	poland	3
leo delibes	sylvia	1876	france	3
leo delibes	coppelia	1870	france	3
fryderyk chopin	les sylphides (douglas version)	1892/ 1907/ 1936	poland/ france	5
fryderyk chopin	ballade 4	1842	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	ballade 3	1841	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	scherzo 4	1839	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	scherzo 3	1839	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	ballade 2	1839	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	scherzo 2	1837	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	andante spianato and grande polonaise in e flat major for piano and orchestra, op. 22	1836	poland/ france	1
fryderyk chopin	ballade 1	1835	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	scherzo 1	1832	poland/ france	0
p'yotr ilyich tchaikovsky	the nutcracker suite, op 71a	1892	russia	0
peter paul koprowski	souvenirs of poland for piano and orchestra	1983	poland/ canada	3
moritz moszkowski	concerto for piano and orchestra in e major, op. 59	1898	poland	3
leo delibes	sylvia	1876	france	3
leo delibes	coppelia	1870	france	3
fryderyk chopin	les sylphides (douglas version)	1892/ 1907/ 1936	poland/ france	5
fryderyk chopin	ballade 4	1842	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	ballade 3	1841	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	scherzo 4	1839	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	scherzo 3	1839	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	ballade 2	1839	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	scherzo 2	1837	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	andante spianato and grande polonaise in e flat major for piano and orchestra, op. 22	1836	poland/ france	1
fryderyk chopin	ballade 1	1835	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	scherzo 1	1832	poland/ france	0
p'yotr ilyich tchaikovsky	the nutcracker suite, op 71a	1892	russia	0
peter paul koprowski	souvenirs of poland for piano and orchestra	1983	poland/ canada	3
moritz moszkowski	concerto for piano and orchestra in e major, op. 59	1898	poland	3
leo delibes	sylvia	1876	france	3
leo delibes	coppelia	1870	france	3
fryderyk chopin	les sylphides (douglas version)	1892/ 1907/ 1936	poland/ france	5
fryderyk chopin	ballade 4	1842	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	ballade 3	1841	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	scherzo 4	1839	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	scherzo 3	1839	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	ballade 2	1839	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	scherzo 2	1837	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	andante spianato and grande polonaise in e flat major for piano and orchestra, op. 22	1836	poland/ france	1
fryderyk chopin	ballade 1	1835	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	scherzo 1	1832	poland/ france	0
p'yotr ilyich tchaikovsky	the nutcracker suite, op 71a	1892	russia	0
leo delibes	sylvia	1876	france	3
leo delibes	coppelia	1870	france	3
fryderyk chopin	les sylphides (douglas version)	1892/ 1907/ 1936	poland/ france	5
fryderyk chopin	ballade 4	1842	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	ballade 3	1841	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	scherzo 4	1839	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	scherzo 3	1839	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	ballade 2	1839	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	scherzo 2	1837	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	ballade 1	1835	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	scherzo 1	1832	poland/ france	0

oct 10, 2024

peter paul koprowski	souvenirs of poland for piano and orchestra	1983	poland/ canada	3
moritz moszkowski	concerto for piano and orchestra in e major, op. 59	1898	poland	3
fryderyk chopin	andante spianato and grande polonaise in e flat major for piano and orchestra, op. 22	1836	poland/ france	1
p'yotr ilyich tchaikovsky	the nutcracker suite, op 71a	1892	russia	0	these pieces are scattered across 3 chopin cds currently in my 5 disc changer that i picked up together in the cbc overflow bin. i didn't realize one had the nutcracker suite on it. i know chopin and tchaikovsky but i am not familiar with the other composers and will need to listen before i can form an opinion. there seems to be a poland theme on one disc done by the kitchener-waterloo (ontario) orchestra for cbc, a french ballet theme on one disc done by eugene ormandy at the philly orchestra (who i have a lot of recordings by) and a disc strictly of chopin's piano music (four scherzos and four ballades), which is what he is known for. i first learned about both chopin and tchaikovsky in that music theory text book, although the nutcracker suite is an embedded part of western culture that everybody knows, even if they don't actually know it, and you definitely at least know one chopin piece (piano sonata 2, not here). there is a pile of tchaikovsky coming when i get to the p.
peter paul koprowski	souvenirs of poland for piano and orchestra	1983	poland/ canada	3
moritz moszkowski	concerto for piano and orchestra in e major, op. 59	1898	poland	3
leo delibes	sylvia	1876	france	3
leo delibes	coppelia	1870	france	3
fryderyk chopin	les sylphides (douglas version)	1892/ 1907/ 1936	poland/ france	5
fryderyk chopin	ballade 4	1842	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	ballade 3	1841	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	scherzo 4	1839	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	scherzo 3	1839	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	ballade 2	1839	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	scherzo 2	1837	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	andante spianato and grande polonaise in e flat major for piano and orchestra, op. 22	1836	poland/ france	1
fryderyk chopin	ballade 1	1835	poland/ france	0
fryderyk chopin	scherzo 1	1832	poland/ france	0

oct 9, 2024

firewater	green light	1998	us	2	firewater was the band formed by the singer of cop shoot cop and signed to universal records after cop shoot cop failed to sell enough records to stay signed. firewater did not sell well either, but the singer kept the moniker as he went back to the independent label scene, and it emerged later as a band containing this same singer (tod ashley) and members of gogol bordello, amongst others. one of their later records, the golden hour, is one of my favourite records post-2000, but i don't have a physical copy of it. my first exposure to firewater was via this not for resale promo cd, which i picked up in a used bin in the late 90s on name recognition. it contains three anthemic radio rock songs with concerning lyrics (you're going down like a pederast in a boy's school) that predictably had difficulty breaking through to a mainstream audience, despite being pretty catchy. i would like to fill in the firewater, but i was a little apprehensive about it at the time, as the early material on universal records (before they got dropped) is uneven.
fuck buttons	street horrrsing	2008	uk+ire	1	fuck buttons were a sound art duo that was picked up by pitchfork magazine during it's 1337 period and that i stumbled into opening for caribou in ottawa. i bought this cd at the show, in which they performed on a small table on the floor at the now sadly closed babylon. there have been further fuck buttons records, but they shifted towards more of a pop-friendly sound; i would suggest the follow-up project, blanck mass, for something that better continues the sound on this first record, which is dirtier and noisier and influenced by drone and post-industrial bands like coil, nurse with wound and current 93. that would appear to be an ehx big muff pi distorting the fuck out of everything on the disc, which gives it a guitarish feel, even though it's all (soft) synths and (software) sequencers. you should purchase any and all fuck buttons records if you see them; i will eventually fill this out.
fennesz	venice	2004	austria	3
foo fighters	foo fighters	1995	us	1	foo fighters developed quickly as the new project of nirvana's for-hire drummer dave grohl, who is not from seattle but rather grew up in the dc emo/hardcore scene as an ian mackeye etc fan, because the reality is that nirvana had already broken up before kurt cobain killed himself in 1994. grohl has described this as a process of actually being cut out because he wasn't into the drugs. the best nirvana songs were written by the bassist, but nirvana was really rooted in the drumming, so it's perhaps better that we don't have a lot of evidence of what kurt cobain had in mind post-nirvana, as it probably would have been awful. worse, kurt was apparently a complete asshole to grohl, despite grohl's drumming being the key asset that made the sound work. after releasing the record quickly and having it function as a new nirvana record in 1995, grohl assembled a live band consisting of pat smear of the germs (who had been performing with nirvana) and the rhthym section of sunny day real estate, although the drummer was quickly replaced by a session drummer named tayler hawkins (who became a fixture in the band until his recent death) and eventually by josh freeze (who i personally despise) and smear has come in and out of the band, as his job has largely been held by the guitarist for pop band mefirstandthegimmiegimmies. this actually makes foo fighters something of a supergoup, while being the only real extension of nirvana and also being seen mostly as grohl's solo project. as of 2024, they are the last remaining organically constructed global selling arena rock band. however old you are, you probably know the foofighters. i at one point had their first three records on cassette, but i found their second record to be uneven and didn't like their third record much at all. i should point out that i was 14 when the first record was released and 18 when the third was released and that five or so years represents some emotional growth for most people. grohl has stated to the press that he is not as upset about having a very young audience as kurt was, and he's not going to, like, kill himself over it, or anything. but, like nirvana, foofighters is something that people tend to get into fairly young and leave behind as they age. i haven't listened to radio rock, in general, in decades. i've honestly heard very little foofighters over the last 25 years and have little to say about their material after their third record. i picked up a copy of the first record on cd used at some point because my memories of it are more positive, particularly listening to it on the bus as a 14 or 15 year old. i think that later foofighters moved in more of a classic rock direction, but the first record is very much a dc-area hardcore punk record. while the second record is uneven, i should probably also have a copy and do not currently. i would grab anything else they've done for cheap used, but i'm not sure i'd write positive reviews of it.
filter	short bus	1995	us	1	filter has become the solo project of former nine inch nails guitarist richard patrick, who claims to have been involved in the writing for nine inch nails on pretty hate machine and broken (and which reznor disputes), but this first record is a collaboration between patrick and brian liesegang, who was one of reznor's background programmers in the early 90s. the record is most similar to broken, but has a heavier grunge aesthetic. this is a goofy, booming record in some ways, but it's sort of exactly what i wanted when i was 14. i had a version of this on cassette that i upgraded to cd at some point. i believe i first heard filter in an x-files episode, which is funny because his brother (the t-1000) later joined the show. i picked up a copy of their second record, title of record, on cd not long after it was released, but it wasn't what i was interested in at that point of my life and i didn't keep up with them. i haven't heard much that he's done since 2000. there are now quite a few filter records, and they largely aren't something i'd be much interested in, but i would purchase them for cheap if i found them.

oct 7, 2024

john lennon

working class hero

1970

uk + ire

0

oct 6, 2024

fennesz	venice	2004	austria	3
foo fighters	foo fighters	1995	us	1
filter	short bus	1995	us	1
firewater	green light	1998	us	2
fuck buttons	street horrrsing	2008	uk+ire	1
fuck buttons	street horrrsing	2008	uk+ire	1
fennesz	venice	2004	austria	3
foo fighters	foo fighters	1995	us	1
filter	short bus	1995	us	1
firewater	green light	1998	us	2
firewater	green light	1998	us	2
fuck buttons	street horrrsing	2008	uk+ire	1
fennesz	venice	2004	austria	3
foo fighters	foo fighters	1995	us	1
filter	short bus	1995	us	1
firewater	green light	1998	us	2
fuck buttons	street horrrsing	2008	uk+ire	1
fennesz	venice	2004	austria	3
fly pan am	sedatif en frequences et sillons	2000	canada	3
fly pan am	fly pan am	1999	canada	1

oct 5, 2024

can	horror trip in the paperhouse	1973	germany	2	i found this cd-r of a bootleg of a live performance from 1973 in my pile of cd-rs that i burned in like 1998 or something. i still can't find the spoon releases.
fennesz	venice	2004	austria	3
faust	IV	1973	germany	4
fly pan am	sedatif en frequences et sillons	2000	canada	3
fly pan am	fly pan am	1999	canada	1

oct 4, 2024

fennesz	venice	2004	austria	3	christian fennesz is an austrian guitarist and sound artist that is known for working in a space similar to robert fripp's work with brian eno, and is not particularly far in genre space from some of the guitar compositions i've created myself. fennesz had a lot of hype around him in the early 00s, enough that somebody i knew from high school named sean thought i ought to like his work, and gave me this as a gift at some point around it's release date. it's probably because it's a little too close to my own work that i found it subpar. the big difference between this record and some of the material i've done myself is that fennesz lacks any focus on melodic direction, while my ambient guitar work is very much about the interplay of notes in the musical spectrum. this blurry approach to ambient music was popular in the 00s, but it was never something i found very interesting. music as purely inharmonic and atmospheric sound art can potentially go somewhere, but you need to really be intense about it, and fennesz never is. this consequently barely even functions well as background music. i am generally highly critical of this style of music, broadly, as it developed in the 00s and early 10s and would have more or less the same criticism of similar musicians from the period, like tim hecker or daniel lopatin, who you will note have no presence in my cd list. this fennesz disc was a gift that i haven't got around to selling yet, partially because i've been waiting to give some of his other work a closer listen, and have never gotten around to it. i would like to hear something more musical and focused and less just blobs of formless sound, but that's just my opinon and i can and will listen to something else if i like it better. i realize that this style has an audience, i'm just not in it.
faust	IV	1973	germany	4
fly pan am	sedatif en frequences et sillons	2000	canada	3
fly pan am	fly pan am	1999	canada	1

oct 2, 2024

faust	IV	1973	germany	4	faust were a german rock band from the early 70s that were known for composing abstract sound collages and using motorik beats roughly contemporary to can, who they sounded relatively similar to. i have not delved deeply enough into the faust back catalog to say much informed about it. i read about faust somewhere online, likely at the same time as i was reading about can and took a chance on this when i found it in a used bin in the early 00s. i was living with sarah, so it would have been in 2004, at the height of my dmst fandom. it was a rational thing to take a chance on, but i wish i would have found one of their earlier records, as this one is a little spotty. i will look into their earlier work, eventually, but it hasn't come up yet (and it was a long time ago).
fly pan am	sedatif en frequences et sillons	2000	canada	3
fly pan am	fly pan am	1999	canada	1

oct 1-2, 2024

adrian belew	the guitar as orchestra	1995	us	1	cd-r version given to me as a gift
brian eno + robert fripp	(no pussyfooting)	1973	uk + ire	0	cd-r version given to me as a gift
andy summers + robert fripp	i advance masked	1982	uk + ire	2	cd-r version given to me as a gift
fly pan am	sedatif en frequences et sillons	2000	canada	3	fly pan am are the sometimes terrible kitschy post-punk band that gybe plucked roger tellier-craig from in the 90s after mike moya left, and which were consequently permitted to release a string of initially pretty good to sequentially more awful releases on constellation releases in the 2000s, even after roger tellier-craig quit gybe to focus strictly on fly pan am, in one of the most questionable decisions in the history of rock music. these cds were both a part of my initial mail order purchase from constellation records, in which i bought out the catalog up to the second mt zion disc, which was in pre-release at the time (not including the ones i already had), and got a swell mt. zion poster for my patronage. i initially found the records moderately bland and i haven't kept up very intently, but the first one has grown on me while the remix record has not as much. i saw fly pan am play here in windsor in 2019 without having kept up and it was a little more straight ahead rock than i'd like. as mentioned down the page, i'm overdue for a large cst purchase, and some, and maybe all, of the subsquent releases will get in there, but i'm not sure the reviews of them will be positive. nice est en feu is based on a steve hackett track from voyage of the acolyte called shadow of the hierophant but is nonetheless a substantive piece worth hearing.
fly pan am	fly pan am	1999	canada	1
soundgarden	jesus christ pose	1991	us	1

sept 30, 2024

fly pan am	fly pan am	1999	canada	1
adrian belew	the guitar as orchestra	1995	us	1	cd-r version given to me as a gift
brian eno + robert fripp	(no pussyfooting)	1973	uk + ire	0	cd-r version given to me as a gift
andy summers + robert fripp	i advance masked	1982	uk + ire	2	cd-r version given to me as a gift
brian eno + robert fripp	(no pussyfooting)	1973	uk + ire	0	cd-r version given to me as a gift
andy summers + robert fripp	i advance masked	1982	uk + ire	2	cd-r version given to me as a gift
aphex twin	pseudo- melodies from mars	1995	uk + ire	3	a cd-r of some mp3s i downloaded in the 90s. it's low quality and some of the tracks cut off. rdj has since accepted authorship of the tracks, but at the time they were seen as fake. this is not the version released years later.
adrian belew	the guitar as orchestra	1995	us	1	cd-r version given to me as a gift

sept 28, 2024

aphex twin	pseudo- melodies from mars	1995	uk + ire	3	a cd-r of some mp3s i downloaded in the 90s. it's low quality and some of the tracks cut off. rdj has since accepted authorship of the tracks, but at the time they were seen as fake. this is not the version released years later.	i have a pile of cd-rs around that i haven't been going through up to this point. i have or had another box of unmarked cd-rs; it might have been one of the things thrown out by the upstairs retard when i left it outside my storage space c. 2014 or it might be in a pile of boxes in the back of my apartment. i don't know. i have a much smaller pile of cd-rs at the bottom of one of my cd bookshelves (i currently have two large shelves i'm "installing" by listening to these in sequence), and i'm going to plug these in. these are the cd-rs in that pile for a-->f, not including a fripp/sylvian case that is apparently empty. you'll note a king crimson theme of fripp/eno/belew. david byrne was the singer for the talking heads (who also used belew, albeit too sparingly) and andy summers was the very underrated guitar player for the pop band the police, which was fronted by a singer that used the stage name "sting", who was also a jazz bassist. summers actually started off in the 60s as a progressive rock guitarist, which is not widely realized or appreciated. these four discs were all burned by my dad's friend dieter, who gave them to him as gifts; my dad liked king crimson, but it was because he was a fake drummer (king crimson is known for it's complex time signatures and intricate drum patterns), so these guitar-focused cds with minimal to no drumming weren't that exciting to him. i, on the other hand, am an experimental guitarist. so, they were regifted to me, as i would appreciate them better. the general rule is that my dad didn't like "weird" music and would dump anything he thought was "weird" off on me, which usually worked out, because i'm generally into "weird" so long as it's also musical and, because most of what he listened to was made by progressive rock musicians, that intersection of weird and musical frequently held. so far, other records given to me because they were "weird" were by alan holdsworth and can, and these cd-rs by belew, fripp, eno and byrne are also in that list, which i'll keep track of as i go. so, i was generally happy to get these "weird" records he didn't like. the frippertronics work with eno has become the stuff of legend (i used to have an lp of this record as well), but the belew disc is also pretty good and the summers/fripp disc is underrated. i like the other eno/byrne disc, which is very different, a lot better. i will work the cd-rs in as they come up, as i continue to work through this.
adrian belew	the guitar as orchestra	1995	us	1	cd-r version given to me as a gift
brian eno + david byrne	everything that happens will happen today	2008	uk + ire	6	cd-r version given to me as a gift
brian eno + robert fripp	(no pussyfooting)	1973	uk + ire	0	cd-r version given to me as a gift
andy summers + robert fripp	i advance masked	1982	uk + ire	2	cd-r version given to me as a gift

sept 27, 2024

manorexia	the radiolerian ooze	2002	australia/ us	0
steroid maximus	ectopia	2002	australia/ us	0
foetus	flow	2001	australia/ us	2
wiseblood	pttm	1991	australia /us	1
foetus interruptus	thaw	1988	australia /us	1

sept 22-23, 2024

manorexia	the radiolerian ooze	2002	australia/ us	0
steroid maximus	ectopia	2002	australia/ us	0
foetus	flow	2001	australia/ us	2
wiseblood	pttm	1991	australia /us	1
foetus interruptus	thaw	1988	australia /us	1
manorexia	the radiolerian ooze	2002	australia/ us	0	jim thirlwell emerged simultaneously in the no wave and industrial scenes and seemed to exist in a quantum state that fluctuated in measurable observations between new york and london, allowing him to exist in several places and do several things simultaneously, often in a mostly technical role. his name exists on a startling number of seminal releases from the early 80s, in both genres, such as releases by einsturzende neubauten, swans, sonic youth, nurse with wound, coil, nick cave, lydia lunch, the the, mars and pig in addition to his own various projects, often using the word 'foetus' in some amusingly shocking manner. his technical work continued into the 90s in both genres. i first looked into foetus in the mid 90s in order to explore more of the work created by the person behind the jaw-dropping nine inch nails remixes done by jim thirlwell from 1993-1996 by purchasing a string of his 90s releases and was largely underwhelmed by them. i at one time had just about everything he did in the 90s but i sold all of it in 2002 to raise some cash. while my analysis hasn't changed (they are disappointing releases, without exception), i wish i hadn't sold them, in hindsight, because i would now like to drastically fill out my thirlwell collection. what i have left are two cds not released in the 90s, although i also tried to sell thaw (and keep butterfly potion because it's a wax trax! release), but they ended up in the wrong cases, so i now have a copy of thaw in a butterfly potion case, and somebody bought butterfly potion at discgoround expecting to get thaw (it was gone by the time i realized it). i know now that thirlwell was struggling with alcoholism at the time and that he agrees that these releases were underwhelming. i did go looking for some earlier foetus cds but i could not find anything before thaw anywhere in ottawa, neither used nor new. even record runner didn't have old foetus cds for sale, not even marked up to $50 as they did for records by similar bands like swans or lpd, probably because they were already out of print and impossible to find, even then. i'll point out that this was before bandcamp, before youtube, before torrent seeding and even before napster or mp3.com. i was, nonetheless, able to find a foetus discography in low quality mp3 on an underground ftp site shared on the skinny puppy mailing list (thanks, az) and download it over a 56K modem. the early records, which i have never seen copies of in real life and hence have never had the opportunity to purchase, were closer to what i wanted but still didn't give me something comparable to these brilliant remixes, leaving both artists in the awkward position of having their best and most memorable work attached to each other, and apparently not really liking each other. thirlwell's material began to recover after 2000, first in a string of experimental side projects that produced some legitimate obscure left-field lost classics and eventually doing soundtrack work for comedy central, which was the day job he apparently really needed. he has since shifted into the role of an electronic composer and released an extremely diverse collection of records under a variety of monikers, some of which i have been able to find in physical form via opportunity, but which i am mostly familiar with via digital audio. i think his work after the year 2000 is by far his most substantive (under his own name) and what i would recommend the most. i would definitely like to fill this in, but so much of his discography is out of print or released in limited edition runs that i might never be able to. i think i can do better than this, at least; there must be somewhere in detroit that will sell me a pile of thirlwell cds without needing to order it, but i have yet to look into where. today, thirlwell cds are most likely to be found lurking in unexpected places like garage sales and discount used bins, as only music nerds know who he is, and there's actually something appropriate about that. if you ever find any cd or lp anywhere with the name "thirlwell" on it, buy it and listen to it. this is a minimal but broad cross-section of his work and, as mentioned, i'd really like to fill it out because he has proven himself as one of the most important musicians of the post-punk period, but these are not cds that are easy to find. there are currently physical copies of his first four records listed on ebay for $100-$200.
steroid maximus	ectopia	2002	australia/ us	0
foetus	flow	2001	australia/ us	2
wiseblood	pttm	1991	australia /us	1
foetus interruptus	thaw	1988	australia /us	1

sept 21, 2024

evelyn glennie performs james macmillan	veni, veni emmanuel	1993	uk+ire	2
foetus	flow	2001	australia/ us	2
foetus interruptus	thaw	1988	australia /us	1
einsturzende neubauten	haus der luege	1989	germany	1
einsturzende neubauten	strategies against architecture	1984	germany	8
evelyn glennie performs james macmillan	veni, veni emmanuel	1993	uk+ire	2
foetus	flow	2001	australia/ us	2
foetus interruptus	thaw	1988	australia /us	1
einsturzende neubauten	haus der luege	1989	germany	1
einsturzende neubauten	strategies against architecture	1984	germany	8

sept 20-21, 2024

einsturzende neubauten	perpetuum mobile	2004	germany	3
einsturzende neubauten	silence is sexy (w/pelikanol)	2000	germany	1
einsturzende neubauten	tabula rasa	1993	germany	1
einsturzende neubauten	interim	1993	germany	2

sept 14-15, 2024

einsturzende neubauten	perpetuum mobile	2004	germany	3
einsturzende neubauten	silence is sexy (w/pelikanol)	2000	germany	1
einsturzende neubauten	tabula rasa	1993	germany	1
einsturzende neubauten	interim	1993	germany	2
einsturzende neubauten	perpetuum mobile	2004	germany	3	einsturzende neubauten were really the only true industrial band, making music out of power tools and sheet metal but retaining a basic punk rock aesthetic of screaming over power chords, and being banned from venues for lighting the stage on fire (perhaps accidentally). i don't have much of the early material, but it's very difficult to listen to outside of the novelty of what it is, aesthetically, as a proof of concept. you can pretend to like it, but i have analyzed it and internalized it carefully over the course of many years and decided that is actually a pretentious position, as nobody really does, people just pretend it's brilliant to try to be extreme and cool. it's actually, in truth, unlistenable; it's objectively mostly trash. it took some time for them to develop into abstract noise composers, in parallel to blixa bargeld's work with nick cave, which is when they started to become much more interesting, after about 1985 and especially after 1989. this material (which was still early in their career) integrates the industrial elements into can-influenced noise collages, ideas from experimental classical music (mostly german) and more musical post-punk song structures and is far more enjoyable to listen to and, i think, far more substantive art. what i have on cd is an almost complete collection of albums and singles from 1989-2004 (i do not have a copy of ende neu) that i picked up in various places, mostly by opportunity, and a compilation of their early material called strategies against architecture that is kind of enough for me. i am familiar with the early material solely via digital downloads and i have generally opted to buy something else when given the opportunity, despite frequently holding physical copies of several of their early cds in my hand in the cd store and thinking about it before putting it back, as there was always something else that seemed more compelling to purchase with my finite funds, but i would like to fill this out, eventually. they sometimes sing in german and sometimes sing in english, and sometimes sing in french, and sometimes sing in multiple langages in the same song; this is potentially a barrier for english speakers. most people will want to start with haus der luge and be careful with their early work, but their early work (especially halber mensch) really is the purest and most brutal and probably only real example of industrial music and is worth experiencing at least once for that reason. i think i first heard about einsturzende neubauten in that guitar world article about nine inch nails, but i had to wait a few years before i could do any serious research on them on the internet, which would have been through websites like wired and brainwashed.
einsturzende neubauten	silence is sexy (w/pelikanol)	2000	germany	1
einsturzende neubauten	tabula rasa	1993	germany	1
einsturzende neubauten	interim	1993	germany	2
einsturzende neubauten	haus der luege for next cycle (foetus)	1989	germany	1
einsturzende neubauten	strategies against architecture for next cycle (foetus)	1984	germany	8

sept 10, 2024

evelyn glennie performs james macmillan

veni, veni emmanuel

1993

uk+ire

2

sept 9, 2024

evelyn glennie performs james macmillan	veni, veni emmanuel	1993	uk+ire	2
evelyn glennie performs james macmillan	veni, veni emmanuel	1993	uk+ire	2
erik satie	nocturnes I-V	1919	france	1
erik satie	sonatine bureaucratique	1917	france	1
erik satie	ragtime parade	1917	france	1
erik satie	avant-dernieres pensees	1915	france	1
erik satie	trois valses distinguées du précieux dégoûté	1914	france	1
erik satie	croquis et agaceries d'un gros bonhomme en bois	1913	france	1
erik satie	descriptions automatiques	1913	france	1
erik satie	embryons desseches	1913	france	1
erik satie	poudre d'or	1901	france	1
erik satie	je te veux	1900	france	1
erik satie	pieces froide (danses de travers) I-III	1897	france	1
erik satie	pieces froides (Airs a faire fuir) I-III	1897	france	1
erik satie	prelude de la porte heroique du ciel	1894	france	1
erik satie	gnosiennes I-V	1890ish	france	1
erik satie	gymnopedes I-III	1888	france	1
erik satie	sarabandes I & III	1887	france	1
evelyn glennie performs james macmillan	veni, veni emmanuel	1993	uk+ire	2
erik satie	nocturnes I-V	1919	france	1
erik satie	sonatine bureaucratique	1917	france	1
erik satie	ragtime parade	1917	france	1
erik satie	avant-dernieres pensees	1915	france	1
erik satie	trois valses distinguées du précieux dégoûté	1914	france	1
erik satie	croquis et agaceries d'un gros bonhomme en bois	1913	france	1
erik satie	descriptions automatiques	1913	france	1
erik satie	embryons desseches	1913	france	1
erik satie	poudre d'or	1901	france	1
erik satie	je te veux	1900	france	1
erik satie	pieces froide (danses de travers) I-III	1897	france	1
erik satie	pieces froides (Airs a faire fuir) I-III	1897	france	1
erik satie	prelude de la porte heroique du ciel	1894	france	1
erik satie	gnosiennes I-V	1890ish	france	1
erik satie	gymnopedes I-III	1888	france	1
erik satie	sarabandes I & III	1887	france	1

sept 7, 2024

added country list.


sept 6-7, 2024

evelyn glennie performs james macmillan	veni, veni emmanuel	1993	uk+ire	2
erik satie	nocturnes I-V	1919	france	1
erik satie	sonatine bureaucratique	1917	france	1
erik satie	ragtime parade	1917	france	1
erik satie	avant-dernieres pensees	1915	france	1
erik satie	trois valses distinguées du précieux dégoûté	1914	france	1
erik satie	croquis et agaceries d'un gros bonhomme en bois	1913	france	1
erik satie	descriptions automatiques	1913	france	1
erik satie	embryons desseches	1913	france	1
erik satie	poudre d'or	1901	france	1
erik satie	je te veux	1900	france	1
erik satie	pieces froide (danses de travers) I-III	1897	france	1
erik satie	pieces froides (Airs a faire fuir) I-III	1897	france	1
erik satie	prelude de la porte heroique du ciel	1894	france	1
erik satie	gnosiennes I-V	1890ish	france	1
erik satie	gymnopedes I-III	1888	france	1
erik satie	sarabandes I & III	1887	france	1
evelyn glennie performs james macmillan	veni, veni emmanuel	1993	uk+ire	2
erik satie	nocturnes I-V	1919	france	1
erik satie	sonatine bureaucratique	1917	france	1
erik satie	ragtime parade	1917	france	1
erik satie	avant-dernieres pensees	1915	france	1
erik satie	trois valses distinguées du précieux dégoûté	1914	france	1
erik satie	croquis et agaceries d'un gros bonhomme en bois	1913	france	1
erik satie	descriptions automatiques	1913	france	1
erik satie	embryons desseches	1913	france	1
erik satie	poudre d'or	1901	france	1
erik satie	je te veux	1900	france	1
erik satie	pieces froide (danses de travers) I-III	1897	france	1
erik satie	pieces froides (Airs a faire fuir) I-III	1897	france	1
erik satie	prelude de la porte heroique du ciel	1894	france	1
erik satie	gnosiennes I-V	1890ish	france	1
erik satie	gymnopedes I-III	1888	france	1
erik satie	sarabandes I & III	1887	france	1
evelyn glennie performs james macmillan	veni, veni emmanuel	1993	uk+ire	2
erik satie	nocturnes I-V	1919	france	1
erik satie	sonatine bureaucratique	1917	france	1
erik satie	ragtime parade	1917	france	1
erik satie	avant-dernieres pensees	1915	france	1
erik satie	trois valses distinguées du précieux dégoûté	1914	france	1
erik satie	croquis et agaceries d'un gros bonhomme en bois	1913	france	1
erik satie	descriptions automatiques	1913	france	1
erik satie	embryons desseches	1913	france	1
erik satie	poudre d'or	1901	france	1
erik satie	je te veux	1900	france	1
erik satie	pieces froide (danses de travers) I-III	1897	france	1
erik satie	pieces froides (Airs a faire fuir) I-III	1897	france	1
erik satie	prelude de la porte heroique du ciel	1894	france	1
erik satie	gnosiennes I-V	1890ish	france	1
erik satie	gymnopedes I-III	1888	france	1
erik satie	sarabandes I & III	1887	france	1
evelyn glennie performs james macmillan	veni, veni emmanuel	1993	uk+ire	2	evelyn glennie is a scottish percussionist that operates in the grey area between modern western classical music and experimental rock and electronic music. while she is stone deaf, she claims to be able to hear her own playing through the vibrations in her body, and i would not know how to evaluate that claim. ears and brains evolved together, so virtually all animals with ears have brains. however, the ears physically work by amplifying vibrations picked up in the environment. there is an evolutionary record of species that exist with partial ears that demonstrates how ears evolved but the problem is that they all have primitive brains, or no real brain at all. it's consequently impossible to know what it means to "hear" something via feeling vibration when you have a brain that can process the vibrations, and it comes off as lacking a meaningful or coherent definition on first glance. i might plug my ears and go to a dance club and feel the bass but i know i am not hearing it because i can hear. if i could not hear, i do not know how much of the vibrations in the bass that my brain might be able to learn, through plasticity, to convert into sound to be understood like hearing but i would imagine the brain would have some real but limited ability to do that. i would imagine that a young person that could not hear but was otherwise capable would consequently be attracted to anything that vibrated, like a drum, and anything they could manipulate vibrations of. i could also imagine that they could trick themselves into thinking that was hearing, without being able to experience actual hearing. i have had a few of her records come in and out of my collection over the years and have heard her work with musicians like bjork and steve hackett, who might have interpreted her similarly to an eccentric ruth underwood. this record is a performance of a piece by a composer named james macmillan that i'm otherwise not familiar with but who seems to mostly write religious music for the catholic church, which i wouldn't be interested in. this particular piece is written as a percussionist concerto with accompanying orchestral parts and is some kind of very late romantic music but the frequent solos for instruments like woodblock and marimba make it sound more like late fusion or early progressive rock. it's an odd disc, which is what i'd have to say about all of the glennie i've heard, it's all very idiosyncratic and unusual. this disc was picked up for a $1 in the cbc overflow bin. i would be interested in exploring her work further. my first exposure to evelyn glennie would have been as something my dad picked up cheap looking for complicated drum parts, but left me with because he was disappointed with it.
erik satie	nocturnes I-V	1919	france	1	erik satie was a french pianist and tentative composer that lived roughly contemporary to debussy and was an influence on him, and vice versa. they were friends. satie did not write much for instruments other than solo piano. he was more of a direct extension of beethoven's piano work than debussy, as satie was a traditionally trained pianist, while debussy was an intuitive self-taught idiot savant. debussy was, however, more of an ideological extension of beethoven in his rejection of the theory of bach, which was targeted for destruction by all as suffocating and retarding at the precise moment it was finished but took centuries to thoroughly destroy because it was violently enforced by the church in order to resolve the mathematical problems created by it's precursor pythagorean music theory, which necessitated certain atonalities, which were interpreted as satanic and marked for tonal removal by the church leaders. this is not the language that debussy or satie would have used because they were products of the anti-establishment thinking of the 19th century but it is the correct historical analysis to apply; they may have verbally reacted against romantic music, but they were in reality late romantic composers that were finishing the long process of destroying the theory of bach, which was set in process by beethoven. satie is more melodic and "classical" than debussy, which is often extremely abstract and difficult to linearly deduce from anything at all. satie's core period also differs from debussy in being a more direct precursor to the minimalism of the 20th century, and i particularly want to draw attention to the piano work of arvo part in the 1970s. satie is consequently important to take note of as a kind of missing link between beethoven and the 20th century genres of impressionism and minimalism. however, his work is at times written to be boring on purpose, and he only transcends it in bursts. when satie is on, he's greatly enjoyable, but he's usually off, which reduces much of his works list strictly to background music. this list consists of two cds i got in the cbc overflow that have some overlap and is not comprehensive but is actually a good way of the ways there. my sister used to play satie in the house, but he's also come up in music history courses i've taken on early 20th century music. i will fill in the satie holes for cheap over time, but this is really pretty good in terms of collecting what his substantive compositions were.
erik satie	sonatine bureaucratique	1917	france	1
erik satie	ragtime parade	1917	france	1
erik satie	avant-dernieres pensees	1915	france	1
erik satie	trois valses distinguées du précieux dégoûté	1914	france	1
erik satie	croquis et agaceries d'un gros bonhomme en bois	1913	france	1
erik satie	descriptions automatiques	1913	france	1
erik satie	embryons desseches	1913	france	1
erik satie	poudre d'or	1901	france	1
erik satie	je te veux	1900	france	1
erik satie	pieces froide (danses de travers) I-III	1897	france	1
erik satie	pieces froides (Airs a faire fuir) I-III	1897	france	1
erik satie	prelude de la porte heroique du ciel	1894	france	1
erik satie	gnosiennes I-V	1890ish	france	1
erik satie	gymnopedes I-III	1888	france	1
erik satie	sarabandes I & III	1887	france	1

sept 5, 2024

erik satie

france

sept 2, 2024

erik satie

france

sept 1, 2024

emerson lake and palmer	brain salad surgery	1973	uk+ire	8	emerson lake and palmer must have sat down at some point and decided to make the most pretenious music ever written, as there's not any other way to explain them. they then became the low point of rock music history for a while, before wandering off to write commercial pop music in the 80s like everybody else. i am using the word 'pretentious' with the intent to fully express it's actual meaning, as nothing embodied pretentiousness more than elp. they seeemingly intentionally picked the worst compositions by the worst composers and then intentionally ruined everything those worst composers ever did. brain salad surgery was my dad's cd, and i kept it because i used to make fun of him for listening to it, and often made him laugh because he knew i was right. i bought the self titled disc for $1 at the cbc overflow bin, and it's actually marketed as a radio promo for 'lucky man' rather than as an lp. this first record is a little bit better than their other recordings, as it doesn't have the endless generic prog arpeggios that came to saturate and ruin most of their discography but is a little more musically creative; parts of it could pass as early bowie (as written by rick wakeman) or early king crimson (which had the same singer, greg lake). i would pick up further elp for $1 but it's not because i would enjoy listening to it. there's not much else quite like this in my collection, as the other prog records in the list are there because they have good guitar players or truly memorable songwriting or something else that is a redeemable characteristic, while i just hold on to elp because it's truly awful music that i enjoy making fun of.
emerson lake and palmer	elp	1970	uk+ire	8
electric light orchestra	electric light orchestra	1971	uk+ire	1	the electric light orchestra formed as a supergroup in the early 70s out of members of some obscure 60s rock bands that were of varying quality, with the conscious intent to pick up where the beatles left off, and that is what most people would say about their first record. unfortunately, they then decided to release a string of subpar disco records before jeff lynne decided to literally start a band with tom petty and george harrison. this record is consequently left suspended in history as some kind of missing link between the last beatles compositions and the first queen record. i bought this in a second hand store many years ago with little knowledge of elo and due to having confused roy wood with roy harper and was subsequently surprised by it's quality and have kept it, which then led me to explore their other work via digital media, which i didn't like as much. i will likely fill this out as opportunity allows for it, but there's not much else in their discography worth holding on to.
emerson lake and palmer	brain salad surgery	1973	uk+ire	8
emerson lake and palmer	elp	1970	uk+ire	8
electric light orchestra	electric light orchestra	1971	uk+ire	1
exhaust	cst004	1998	canada	5
econoline crush	the devil you know	1997	canada	1*
eco-hed	positron! 2	1998	us	1
exhaust	cst004	1998	canada	5
econoline crush	the devil you know	1997	canada	1*
eco-hed	positron! 2	1998	us	1
exhaust	cst004	1998	canada	5	exhaust were a project by the drummer for gybe! (aidan girt) and some friends on instruments like clarinet that released a few side projects on constellation records before dissolving. the records are unusual, in being some kind of jazz influenced trip-hop wth live drumming, but are not particularly compelling and border on satirical when they shift into klezmer punk. this was purchased as a part of a large package of cds on mail order from cst and has been kept for that reason, which would be the only reason to purchase further exhaust records, if you like to collect cds like collectibles based on characteristics like record label of release. the very deep clarinet parts are perhaps in some way foreshadowing the rise of deep bass music but are actually difficult to even hear or even reproduce into sound waves at all, so much of this and subsequent records feature muffled rumbles where the bass clarinet ought to be or what seems to simply be silence but is actually a clarinet you can't hear. maybe ask an elephant to translate?
econoline crush	the devil you know	1997	canada	1*
eco-hed	positron! 2	1998	us	1

august 31, 2024

duran duran	electric barbarella (greatest hits promo)	1997	uk+ire	7
doubting thomas	father don't cry	1997	canada	3
econoline crush	the devil you know	1997	canada	1*		*canada only. otherwise, you probably are not familiar with this electronic grunge band from thunder bay, ontario (marketed as being from vancouver) that got plenty of time on muchmusic and headlined some rather gigantic festivals with bands such as the tea party (invented the style muse popularized), i mother earth (invented the style the mars volta popularized) and our lady peace (possibly the first corporate emo band). they started off in the canadian industrial-pop circuit (their previous record, which i no longer have, was produced by rhys fulber of delerium and frontline assembly) before being positioned as crossover pop stars; this record sold very well but the band disappeared shortly afterwards and they're now totally obscure. this was a style of music that was popular at the time, but the record is really more depeche mode than nine inch nails, while having the distinction of having an actual guitarist and drummer in the band (not true of either nine inch nails or depeche mode), which makes these songs more like "post-grunge with hard beats" than "new wave with thrash guitars". these songs are about guitar riffs, not synth bass parts. it's an effective synthesis and it sold for a reason; it still sounds good, to me. i believe i bought this at future shop close to it's release date after seeing a video for the band on muchmusic. i should probably repurchase their older discs, but they are actually not as well produced and i sold them because i didn't listen to them much and needed the cash, and it's not a high priority.
eco-hed	positron! 2	1998	us	1	posi002	eco-hed were a one off project by half of the core of chicago house and industrial-jazz monstrosity die warzau and a frequent die warzau collaborator directly from the chicago house scene (matt warren), who had to put the moniker down because nobody let them do anything anymore due to being too creative for commercial production. zappa coined the term "no commercial potential", which is about what die warzau was by 1998. this was released as the second selection on chris randall's (smg, micronaut) new label, positron!, which was designed to fill the gap of dying chicago industrial labels like wax trax and invisible, but instead learned the hard way why they died in the first place. i purchased the first handful of positron releases via mail order together in the late 90s. this was the kind of music that needed a bandcamp for distribution before there was a bandcamp and just couldn't exist in the corporate consolidation and shit culture of the late 90s and early 00s. these guys were in truth some of the most creative chicago electronic artists of the 80s and 90s, one of the techno epicentres, so it's not fair to accuse them of hopping trends, but this is definitely less of the manic party that die warzau was and more dialing in towards a traditional rave sound.
missing cds: c/d						i don't recall selling but cannot find: garlands - cocteau twins, david bowie - hours..., fresh fruit for rotting vegetables & bedtime for democracy - dead kennedys. it is not clear if they are stolen or lost.
duran duran	electric barbarella (greatest hits promo)	1997	uk+ire	7		duran duran were a vapid 80s pop band that were probably created by a record label executive and were extremely successful and extremely profitable for a relatively long amount of time. i believe that duran duran actually survived the 90s in tact and still as a commercially viable product, but then they just aged too far and disappeared. i had some duran duran tapes when i was a young child in the late 80s, but they've long since disappeared and i never upgraded them to cd as my tastes changed in the early 90s and duran duran was something i put down and away, along with bands like inxs and glass tiger, as they didn't have the artistry or abstraction of, say, david bowie or the cure or peter gabriel. i found this for $1 in the cbc overflow bin and decided it was something that really ought to be on my shelf for historical reasons, as i did listen to this band quite a bit before i turned 10. however, i do not remember the last time i listened to duran duran with any serious intent or thought about them in any way at all except ironically and this is probably all that is necessary, and all that will exist. i would pick up key selections for nothing or almost nothing if the opportunity arose, though.
doubting thomas	father don't cry	1997	canada	3	subcon009	doubting thomas was another project that developed out of the decay of skinny puppy in the late 80s and early 90s and is purported to be "soundtracks for films that don't exist", but in truth sounds a lot like a throwback to the earliest period of skinny puppy, when only key was involved with the music, and entirely minus ogre or the hard ebm beats that came in in the mid 80s. dwayne goettel's technical and compositional facelift on the bites sound is, however, obvious; if key was trying to sound like kraftwerk or tangerine dream (or maybe even genesis) at points of early puppy without having the know how to do it, dwayne helped him get closer to that end point in doubting thomas by applying his vast academic musical abilities. one could consequently consider doubting thomas to be primarily goettel's take on very early skinny puppy, before he had joined the band, as a kind of throwback to the project's initial goals, which is something key would struggle with for decades. whatever skinny puppy and the various side projects were able to accomplish, it never seemed to be what key really wanted, which was rooted in the various projects before 1987. he was always trying to get that back, while dwayne and others were running full steam ahead. doubting thomas released an album on wax trax that is hard to find and i don't have, but i believe this extended single is the only other actual release, and something i would have also picked up at record runner in the 90s.

august 30, 2024

subconscious communications	encore	2003	canada	4	subcon666
download	III steps forward	2002	canada	2	subcon015
download	inception	2001	canada	3	subcon014
download	III	1997	canada	2	subcon013
subconscious communications	paradigm shift	1997	canada	1	subcon012
subconscious communications	encore	2003	canada	4	subcon666
download	III steps forward	2002	canada	2	subcon015
download	inception	2001	canada	3	subcon014
download	III	1997	canada	2	subcon013
subconscious communications	paradigm shift	1997	canada	1	subcon012

august 28-29, 2024

subconscious communications	encore	2003	canada	4	subcon666	download, a project named after the last song on what was intended to be the last skinny puppy record (but was not), was initially intended by two of the three members of the classic lineup (cevin key and dwayne goettel) to be the successor project to skinny puppy. a severe level of disagreement had developed between the singer, nivek ogre, who wanted to sing in a rock band, and the composer and synthesizer player, dwayne goettel, who wanted to drive the band more into the realm of abstract techno and experimental classical music. ogre consequently quit the band because he found dwayne's artistic direction to be unworkable, leaving key and goettel to refocus on this new project called download, which formed with the integration of mark spybey (dead voices on air), phil western, ken marshall (both vancouver area producers that had worked on and would later work on a wide variety of different records) and genesis p-orridge (throbbing gristle, psychic tv). fans of skinny puppy may notice that download lacks the political and social and satirical (punk rock) themes of skinny puppy, and this is at the core of the personality conflict that had developed between ogre and goettel. conversely, download takes the abstract electronic compositions that had become the centrepiece of 90s skinny puppy to the next level and is really next level electronic classical music that is heavily influenced by composers like morton subotnick, in addition to being awesome rave music and, in some sense, still progressive rock. i am of the opinion that this string of download records represents the historic high point of electronic art music, which has been in decline ever since. after dwayne died of a heroin overdose in 1995, download carried on as a techno project with key and western, but it lacked the same level of experimentation and abstraction and i did not keep up with it. goettel was a very special talent and could not have possibly been replicated or replaced and, to their credit, nobody ever tried to. even in the mid 2010s, live skinny puppy shows still featured an empty synthesizer stool. i am overdue on making a big download purchase, but i would not grade the post-goettel releases nearly as highly as the goettel releases. as it is, the download cds that i do have, which is all of them up to that point, were largely purchased in the mid 90s at the old record runner in ottawa, when i was fairly young. the last three were limited edition releases from the first vault series. my interest in download was as the successor project to skinny puppy, and they consequently blur together in terms of being essentially the same project, but the actual truth is that both download and skinny puppy were already defunct due to dwayne's death in 1995 by the time i picked up my first puppy and download records in 1996 and 1997 and i consequently got what was an unbroken discography to explore from 1982-1996. when i get to the puppy in the list, i will work through it that way (including other side projects like the tear garden as well), but i've just isolated the download in the d section for now.
download	III steps forward	2002	canada	2	subcon015
download	inception	2001	canada	3	subcon014
download	III	1997	canada	2	subcon013
subconscious communications	paradigm shift	1997	canada	1	subcon012
download	sidewinder	1996	canada	1	subcon010
download	the eyes of stanley pain	1996	canada	0	subcon008
download	charlie's family	1997	canada	1	subcon005
download	microscopic	1996	canada	1	subcon003
download	furnace	1995	canada	0	subcon002
download	sidewinder	1996	canada	1	subcon010
download	the eyes of stanley pain	1996	canada	0	subcon008
download	charlie's family	1997	canada	1	subcon005
download	microscopic	1996	canada	1	subcon003
download	furnace	1995	canada	0	subcon002

august 26-27, 2024

subconscious communications	encore	2003	canada	4	subcon666	this is a run through subcon001-subcon016 + the encore bonus disc from the first from the vault series, which i did purchase. or almost. i sold the process because it was scratched (i'll buy it again one day, but i have it on flac for now) and that plateau disc is the only other one i don't have, besides the very limited subcon001, which is on paradigm shift. this occupies the space of download on my cd shelf; i stopped at subcon016 because it is the last subcon release with dwayne goettel (d. 1995) on it and this can in some sense also be seen as the posthumous drg archive, much of it being absolutely brilliant. i will pare it down to just download for the next run and do the write up for download itself there.
cevin key	music for cats	1997	canada	0	subcon016
download	III steps forward	2002	canada	2	subcon015
download	inception	2001	canada	3	subcon014
download	III	1997	canada	2	subcon013
subconscious communications	paradigm shift	1997	canada	1	subcon012
plateau	music for grass bars	1997	canada	2	subcon011, which i have never purchased in any form.
download	sidewinder	1996	canada	1	subcon010
doubting thomas	father don't cry	1997	canada	3	subcon009
download	the eyes of stanley pain	1996	canada	0	subcon008
the tear garden	to be an angel blind, the crippled soul divide	1996	canada	2	subcon007
skinny puppy	the process	1996	canada	4	subcon006, but don't have at this time, as it was sold at one point (it had a scratch).
download	charlie's family	1997	canada	1	subcon005
skinny puppy	brap	1996	canada	1	subcon004
download	microscopic	1996	canada	1	subcon003
download	furnace	1995	canada	0	subcon002
aduck/philth	power/touched	1993	canada	0	subcon001, which i don't have, except via paradigm shift.

august 23, 2024

ren and stimpy	happy happy joy joy	1995	us	1
do make say think	you, you're a history in rust	2007	canada	3
do make say think	winter hymn secret hymn country hymn	2003	canada	1
do make say think	& yet & yet	2002	canada	0
do make say think	goodbye enemy airship / the landlord is dead	2000	canada	0
do make say think	do make say think	1998	canada	1

august 22, 2024

django reinhardt	the indispensable (1949-1950)	recorded 1949-1950 released 1983	belgium/ france	1	it's easy to not realize just how foundational django reinhardt was and is to the development of all electric guitar playing that follows him, with or without his friend stephane grappeli. django lived a difficult life that started with his playing hand being badly deformed young, then went through the depression before existing as a precarious minority in occupied europe during the second world war under constant threat but ultimate protected status. he apparently never got over the guilt he suffered from surviving the nazi occupation and lived the rest of his life in a state of depression over the depravity of living through the war, which is something you can tell via the tone of his later output, which lacked the pizazz of his earlier playing. however, his work in the 30s changed the way the guitar is played. yes, they called it 'gypsy jazz' in france, which is the genre he's known for developing. almost a hundred years later, his recordings are still enjoyable to listen to, even as they are obviously very dated. if you have ever played the guitar, educate yourself about django by listening to him and understand that he's really at the true starting point for the modern instrument. two of these are cbc overflow pickups, whereas one of them was purchased cheap in a used bin years earlier. my dad had some django in his collection, as it was something his own father listened to, apparently, but i didn't inherit any of it or even look for it at the time as it didn't cross my mind (my sister sold all of his cds the day he died, before i could get at them). i don't remember where i first read about django reinhardt.
django reinhardt	swing 39	recorded 1939 released 2000	belgium/ france	1
django reinhardt & stephane grappelli	continental style	recorded 1935-1938 released 1994	belgium/ france	1
do make say think	you, you're a history in rust	2007	canada	3	my ds are unusually canadian. it's fitting, as cana-duuuuuh deserves a D-rating nowadays.
do make say think	winter hymn secret hymn country hymn	2003	canada	1
do make say think	& yet & yet	2002	canada	0
do make say think	goodbye enemy airship / the landlord is dead	2000	canada	0
do make say think	do make say think	1998	canada	1

august 21, 2024

do make say think	you, you're a history in rust	2007	canada	3
do make say think	winter hymn secret hymn country hymn	2003	canada	1
do make say think	& yet & yet	2002	canada	0
do make say think	goodbye enemy airship / the landlord is dead	2000	canada	0
do make say think	do make say think	1998	canada	1
do make say think	you, you're a history in rust	2007	canada	3	do make say think were the core of a secondary but arguably more interesting constellation post-rock vertex during the mid to late 90s, and centred out of toronto rather than montreal. they produced a string of the best psych records of the turn of the century before converting into a pop band called broken social scene, under the direction of metric lead primadonna emily haines, which is a transformation that did not last and more or less ruined the band in the process. their last two records are not here but are also both outstanding, but the format is essentially unworkable, and the band had nothing left to do but implode and go in different directions. i need to fill in the holes of the last two records; i purchased most of these blindly by mail order in the very early 00s and was extremely impressed by them. they're still some of my favourite records.
do make say think	winter hymn secret hymn country hymn	2003	canada	1
do make say think	& yet & yet	2002	canada	0
do make say think	goodbye enemy airship / the landlord is dead	2000	canada	0
do make say think	do make say think	1998	canada	1
die warzau	engine	1994	us	0	die warzau emerged out of the electronic music chicago underground as a kind of psychotic industrial jazz supergroup, incorporating elements of chicago house, the wax trax industrial sound and mississippi river jazz instrumentation and tonality. i wasn't there, but i hear it was a helluva party. their earlier and later work is spotty and hard to find so i may never collect it (i had their second record at one point but didn't like it very much), but this record is an outrageous leftfield classic that is really unlike anything else i've ever heard. my die warzau was all picked up used, as it was even out of print in the 90s. this was purchased solely on the name recognition of the wax trax label, but is a tvt release.
delerium	flowers become screens	2004	canada	2	delerium, as i understand it, is primarily where the material created by rhys fulber under the fulber/leeb partnership is published. that is, this is the fulber-directed side of frontline assembly, which focuses mostly on vocal music paired to a more sensual take on electronic body music. it has at times included female guest vocalists and at times utilized samples from gregorian chant in a way that draws from world music. the 2004 release is a greatest hits record ( i thought it was a single when i bought it for $1) and the 1994 release is one of the most unique pieces of electronic music i've ever heard, reminding me of a philip glass quote stating something like "this music avoids all of the tonal controversies that define music history and is consequently void of historical context, making it impossible to date to any specific period; it could have been made at any time since the dark ages.". i picked up semantic spaces used in the 90s before the mp3 era and solely because it was on nettwerk, without being entirely sure what it was, and was very pleasantly surprised. some delerium is better than others; i believe this is actually the best of it, but delerium is the one leeb project i like, and the one i intend to fill in.
delerium	semantic spaces	1994	canada	0
dead voices on air	piss frond	1998	canada	0	dead voices on air is the moniker of anlo-canadian noise composer mark spybey, who has at this point created a very large body of sound that more or less all sounds exactly the same. this captures a brief period where he worked with a canadian producer named daryl neudorf, also known for his work with sarah mclachlan and 5440. my interest in dvoa is due to his work in download. while i had some other dvoa records at one point, this is the only one i kept and he hit something pretty awesome with it, however accidentally. there are a few more releases from around 2000 with members of legendary pink dots that are more musical, before he collapses back into abject noise. a little bit of spybey can perhaps cleanse the soul, but i would advise avoiding spending large amounts of money collecting these cds, which don't seem to be created with much attention to detail. i bought this from a friend on the internet in 1998 because he didn't like it; i liked it quite a bit.
dead kennedys			us		my dead kennedys cds, which only included fresh fruit for rotting vegetables and bedtime for democracy, have disappeared. i do not remember selling them.
david sylvian	dead bees on a cake	1999	uk+ire	5	david sylvian emerged out of the new wave scene in the band japan during the late 70s as a bowie or eno type and is well regarded in certain circles but i'm actually not very familiar with his work. i bought this in the cbc overflow bin for $1 out of curiosity and am not impresssed by it. i'm not sure if i'd get any more or if i'll hang on to it.
david gilmour	on an island	2006	uk+ire	2	david gilmour was initially signed up to perform pre-written guitar parts for the 60s psychedelic and proto-punk band pink floyd, specifically to play shows in underground uk venues while barrett focused on being a psychotic drug addict and flailing lead singer, which cut into his ability to play guitar in real time. eventually, gilmour replaced syd on guitar (after he was found having a conversation with a trash can at a rest stop) and bassist roger waters took over on vocals, but gilmour eventually also became the singer at the terminal point of pink floyd in the late 80s. throughout the 70s, gilmour became known for an uncomplicated guitar style that cut through the mix with an obnoxiously tasty tone that just makes all guitarists starving. this record was largely written by his wife, but features enough of that guitar tone to increase your appetite. it's a good record. gilmour's work with pink floyd is absolutely essential to all; however, i would avoid the other solo gilmour records because they aren't very good. this was a new purchase on release in 2006. pink floyd was so ubiquitous to a young person growing up in the 80s that it's hard for somebody my age to pinpoint where they first heard them, but i have a specific memory of hearing the bassline for one of these days while transiting somewhere in a car in the mid to late 80s as a very young person and wanting to know more about what the fuck that was all about. that early memory of one of these days in the car is actually one of the most formative musical experiences i've had in my whole life. it set me going. really. i don't know if they still make the kind of car audio systems that bass-heavy tracks like one of these days or immigrant song were specificaly written for, but you're missing out if you haven't experienced it. i actually also have very young memories of the hit single "learning to fly", with gilmour singing, which sounded pretty spacey to me at the time, via multiple mediums from 87 or 88ish, when i was 6 or 7.
dave brubeck	we're all together again for the first time	1973	us	1	dave brubeck was an american bandleader known for writing jazz standards during the later, whiter and more eurocentric and academic phase of american jazz, called cool jazz, when the white eggheads began to convert what was really just black people jamming and having fun into an academic theory involving inverted augmented 13th chords. sus 17. just cause. i like brubeck, but i get that he's dry, too, and really only for serious nerds. i have had various brubeck lps and cds come in and out of my collection (including time out); these both came from the cbc overflow relatively recently. i get brubeck when i see it cheap or not at all. i believe i first heard take five in a music course in grade school, but i also think my stepmother's father had brubeck records lying around his house, which i got into and infiltrated at some point. i have a more clear memory of listening to his louis armstrong records and reading his copy of lord of the flies.
dave brubeck	dave digs disney	1957	us	1

august 20, 2024

david sylvian	dead bees on a cake	1999	uk+ire	5
david gilmour	on an island	2006	uk+ire	2
dave brubeck	we're all together again for the first time	1973	us	1
dave brubeck	dave digs disney	1957	us	1
david bowie	reality	2003	uk+ire	6	david bowie emerged from under a table somewhere in the most pretentious fringes of the late 60s uk art rock scene, and managed to convince yes keyboard and synth whiz rick wakeman to work with him, which resulted in a left field radio pop hit. from there, bowie (not his real name, btw) essentially took over the world, becoming one of the industry's biggest names by the time he started doing duets with freddie mercury and john lennon. what makes bowie memorable even now in the landscape of bad 70s and 80s pop music is that he wasn't content with merely producing a product, he wanted to make marketable art...until he didn't anymore, and until he did again, which led him to a sometimes underlooked renaissance in the 90s, where he found himself discovering the pixies (there's a reason nirvana did a bowie cover on the unplugged record, and it was that it was actually bowie that commercially broke grunge and alt rock), writing the pallas athena theme that clint mansell ripped off as that song in all the movies in the late 90s and collaborating with billy corgan and trent reznor, in addition to getting mike garson and brian eno back in the band, which was key. bowie then disappeared in the early 00s and while he was quiet and reserved about it it later emerged that he found himself disillusioned with the mediocre state of modern music and disinterested in participating in it, which is perhaps his last visionary statement. i mean, he was right. right? bowie died of cancer in 2016, after returning to the studio for a last hurrah, which took on the form of a retro delve into his glory years, which is ok when you're literally dying. these are my bowie cds. my 70s and 80s bowie collection was almost complete (i did not have a copy of tonight on any medium) but always on vinyl (except never let me down, which was cassette only), and i never upgraded it, which is why the christiane f cd functions as a greatest hits collection from the berlin period that is in some ways good enough, although i am also missing key records from the spiders period (space oddity, man who sold the world, hunky dory). ziggy stardust (which was my first exposure to bowie and forms an important memory in my young childhood) and aladdin sane were actually my father's cds, and were the only two he had; my own bowie cds are heavily skewed towards the 90s, because that is when they were bought, and out of my own interest in him. my dad had long lost interest in bowie by the mid 90s, although the reason i don't have a copy of hours... is because he borrowed it and never gave it back, and i wasn't able to find it after he died. he enjoyed responding that mick jagger said "time is on my side". i need to fill these gaps in, but i also need to point out that there are quite a few bowie records from the 70s and 80s that really aren't very good at all, as well. while i will eventually complete this discography, and it may even be the first one i complete for the exercise/review project, the truth is that the three early spiders cds plus station to station and the berlin trilogy and also hours.. and blackstar and maybe let's dance just for the stevie ray vaughn guitar parts would be enough (in addition to what's listed here); the rest of bowie's discography is middling to awful. i would personally consider the mid 70s soul period (diamond dogs and young americans) to actually be worse than the 80s pop period, but those are the two phases to avoid. for a long time, bring me the disco king was the last bowie song (if his discography is laid front to back) and perhaps it should have stayed that way as it sounds like a more fitting end, to me.
david bowie	heathen	2002	uk+ire	3
david bowie	i'm afraid of american	1997	uk+ire	1
david bowie	earthling	1997	uk+ire	1
david bowie	outside	1995	uk+ire	0

august 15, 2024

david bowie	i'm afraid of american	1997	uk+ire	1
david bowie	earthling in the city	1997	uk+ire	2
david bowie	earthling	1997	uk+ire	1	earthling got savaged when it was released as an old man copying the styles, but bowie wasn't actually that old at the time, and it was really the analysts that couldn't keep up. it's not really a drum 'n' bass record at all; in fact, it's one of bowie's most guitar-focused records, over his entire career. to the extent that it is jungle, it is the only jungle record i've ever heard with a live band, making it more like a reggae record except on par with a level of musicianship shown in the genre at the time really only by tom jenkinson (in fact, earthling was released before music is rotted one note). these are top notch studio musicians, as one expects from bowie, taking on the idea of a jungle record as a challenge, and having fun with it. it's acually a jazz record, and a good one at that, and in that sense bowie was actually a couple of years ahead of the genre, which shifted massively towards jazz in the early 00s.
david bowie	heart's filthy lesson	1995	uk+ire	1
david bowie	outside	1995	uk+ire	0
david bowie	i'm afraid of american	1997	uk+ire	1
david bowie	earthling in the city	1997	uk+ire	2
david bowie	earthling	1997	uk+ire	1
david bowie	heart's filthy lesson	1995	uk+ire	1
david bowie	outside	1995	uk+ire	0
david bowie	white tie black noise	1993	uk+ire	3
david bowie	tin machine	1989	uk+ire	3
david bowie	christiane f	1981	uk+ire	2
david bowie	aladdin sane	1973	uk+ire	0
david bowie	ziggy stardust	1972	uk+ire	1

august 14, 2024

david bowie	white tie black noise	1993	uk+ire	3
david bowie	tin machine	1989	uk+ire	3
david bowie	christiane f	1981	uk+ire	2
david bowie	aladdin sane	1973	uk+ire	0
david bowie	ziggy stardust	1972	uk+ire	1
cyberaktif	temper sigle	1990	canada	1
cop shoot cop	release	1994	us	3
cop shoot cop	white noise	1991	us	1
cyberaktif	temper sigle	1990	canada	1	the classic skinny puppy lineup was cevin key, nivek ogre and dwayne goettel, but goettel was not a part of the band for the earliest releases. the initial third member was wilhelm schroeder, aka bill leeb, who left before mind:tpi was released to form frontline assembly, and was then replaced by goettel. cyberaktif formed in the very late 80s as an alternate history experiment, and included key, goettel and leeb. ogre was not involved, but blixa bargeld of einsturzende neubauten was. the tracks are closer to fla than puppy, but have goettel's odd sense of humour interspersed in them via the sampling work. meltdown has the odd characteristic that it sounds uncannily like daft punk's around the world, released several years later. i was initially underwhelmed by this single and did not pursue purchasing the lp, but it has grown on me over the years and i would now like to find a cpoy of the lp as it was released on wax trax. i received this cd single for free from a cd distro company that was giving out unlimited free cds (under $10) to people that already knew how to clear their cookies by the mid 1990s and learned about what cyberaktif was by reading the online skinny puppy discography, as put together by todd zachritz.
cop shoot cop	release	1994	us	3	cop shoot cop were a late no wave band to emerge from new york with notable influences from foetus, swans and black flag. they were picked up by a major record label in the post-nirvana craze and disbanded after failing to sell enough records, but their early releases have become left field cult classics amongst no wave and industrial fans. white noise was initially of interest to many for featuring contributions from jim thirlwell, but fans of post-reformation swans or some phases of xiu xiu may be interested in some early phil puleo drum work. i picked it up on the thirlwell collab, but became interested in the vocalist and his follow-up band, firewater (often featuring members of gogol bordello). these were both picked up used; i am missing consumer revolt and ask questions later as well as some eps and will grab them one day when i see them.
cop shoot cop	white noise	1991	us	1
count basie	the essence of count basie	1991	us	1	count basie was one of the mot popular piano players from the big band era and was known for his work in a number of jazz subgenres including swing and vocal jazz from as far back as 1925. it's less that count basie is known for inventing or popularizing any specific sound and more that he's known for constantly leading a band through a fairly lengthy period of time that changed with the times to adjust to what was popular. my understanding is that the most exciting basie material would be the earliest material, and that much of it could not have been recorded well in the 20s or 30s and mostly wasn't ever recorded at all, leaving only an oral history, which really sucks. this is a selection of basie i picked up in the cbc overflow bin and while there are some pieces at a faster tempo, it has a lot of slower pieces and vocal pieces, as well. i would prefer the faster, swingier pieces. i will eventually fill this out, but there are no notable actual lp releases (count basie mostly existed before the lp era) and the various compilations have a lot of overlap, so i wouldn't want to pay much for any of it. i probably first heard about count basie in a book or in an article on the internet; i don't remember.
count basie	high voltage	1970	us	1
count basie	one more time	1959	us	1
count basie	the complete atomic basie	1958 (1994 reissue)	us	1
paul mccartney and stevie wonder	ebony and ivory	1982	uk+ire	7
the supremes	stop in the name of love	1965	us	1

august 13, 2024

the beatles

being for the benefit of mr kite

1967

uk+ire

0

august 12, 2024

nirvana

stay away

1991

us

3

august 9, 2024

count basie	the essence of count basie	1991	us	1
count basie	high voltage	1970	us	1
count basie	one more time	1959	us	1
count basie	the complete atomic basie	1958 (1994 reissue)	us	1
coma lodge	what kind of mind do you have?	1996	canada	5	this is an ottawa band from the mid-90s that sounds like the mid-90s. i knew the guitar player, at the time. it's not very good.
coil	songs of the week 1 & 2	2000	uk+ire	4	in the late 90s, john whitney started posting these weekly coil outtakes tracks on brainwashed and demanded nobody bootleg them. an internet friend of mine named mark promptly bootlegged them, but only for select friends on the epilag list. well, whitney told him not to, so he had to, obviously. i learned years later that mark succumbed to his multiple sclerosis in the mid 00s. i think he probably made less than 20 of these.
coil	presents time machines (live)	2000	uk+ire	1
coil	musick to play in the dark vol 2	2000	uk+ire	1
coil	musick to play in the dark vol 1	1999	uk+ire	0
coil	astral disaster	2000	uk+ire	3
coil	summer solstice	1998	uk+ire	1
michael jackson	black or white	1991	usa	0

august 8, 2024

coil (various artists)	foxtrot	1998	uk+ire	1	coil were one of two projects to emerge out of the collapse of the seminal industrial music project throbbing gristle, and were defined by a relationship between it's two members, peter christopherson and john balance (geoff rushton), with a revolving group of talented and sometimes uncredited collaborators. my first exposure to coil was via nine inch nails remix records. i have a selection of coil cds (i wish i didn't sell horse rotorvator) but am familiar with most of their discography. while generally seen through a historical prism primarily as one of the primary artistic forces behind the development of "industrial music", their output is actually extremely varied and diverse but it is also slightly overrated. time will not remember coil as the important cultural force that genesis p-orridge was. these are mostly just pretty good records that are really not particularly ground-breaking or experimental, but they are also mostly pretty good records. coil was arguably at their best a little later in their career when they were more interested in writing songs. coil ceased to exist when balance died and christopherson has also since perished. more recently, genesis p'orridge also died of cancer. at this point, i would purchase any physical coil cd i happened to find anywhere, as their discography is almost entirely out of print and will likely never get repressed. i'd like to fill this in, but doubt it's even possible. settle for the flacs, kids. i mail ordered some of these from the band in the 90s and bought some of them in used bins, as i found them, as they were already out of print even then.
coil	backwards demos	1995	uk+ire	8
coil	the snow	1992	uk+ire	2
coil	love's secret domain	1991	uk+ire	0
coil	panic	1983	uk+ire	1
cocteau twins	heaven or las vegas	1990	uk+ire	3
cocteau twins	blue bell knoll	1988	uk+ire	2
cocteau twins	echoes in a shallow bay	1985	uk+ire	1	oddly, my kefs sound better when my celestions are drawing power away from them. they're brighter, and have more definition, which is supposed to be what they're good at. these speakers are sometimes criticized for not having enough bass, but they sound better when the bass they do have is being pulled away. it could be my choice of records. it could be the small space. i dunno.
cocteau twins	tiny dynamine	1985	uk+ire	2
cocteau twins	treasure	1984	uk+ire	1

august 3, 2024

cocteau twins	heaven or las vegas	1990	uk+ire	3	this four cd rotation was played a couple of times in june and july as well, but i don't remember the exact dates. i was getting some weird interference on my speakers in april and may that has now thankfully resolved, so i mostly just shut down for a bit to shake it off. i think it was the losers upstairs trying to hack an analog receiver over wifi, with the expectation that it was a cell phone or something. ugh. right now, only the kefs are connected; i'll be connecting the celestions again soon.
cocteau twins	blue bell knoll	1988	uk+ire	2
cocteau twins	echoes in a shallow bay	1985	uk+ire	1
cocteau twins	tiny dynamine	1985	uk+ire	2
cocteau twins	treasure	1984	uk+ire	1

july 31, 2024

kermit the frog (apparently with kenny rogers)

put the lime in the coconut

1979

usa

1

july 30, 2024

david bowie

five years

1972

uk+ire

1

july 23, 2024

gaytheist

i quit

2015

us

1

july 22, 2024

frank zappa

joe's garage

1979

us

0

july 10, 2024

the byrds

turn turn turn

1965

us

7

july 8, 2024

rap news

eurodivision

2015

australia

1

june 24, 2024

new kids on the block

hangin' tough

1988

us

12

louis riel song. it even has indian chanting, like at an atlanta braves game.

june 8, 2024

nine inch nails

still

2002

us

0

tongue-in-cheek for the losers upstairs.

may 28, 2024

pink floyd + syd barrett selections

wish you were here

1975

uk+ire

0

my copy of wish you were here is from the box set and i actually wasn't expecting selections from relics, pipers and a saucerful of secrets to come on at the end of it.

may 24, 2024

the great tyrant	adorable	2011	us	0
pearl jam	daughter	1993	us	3

may 16, 2024

claude debussy	preludes II	1912	france	0
claude debussy	preludes I	1910	france	0
claude debussy	nocturnes	1899	france	0
claude debussy	la mer	1905	france	0

may 13, 2024

econoline crush

elegant

1997

canada

2

may 8, 2024

claude debussy	preludes II	1912	france	0
claude debussy	preludes I	1910	france	0
claude debussy	nocturnes	1899	france	0
claude debussy	la mer	1905	france	0

may 7, 2024

claude debussy	preludes II	1912	france	0
claude debussy	preludes I	1910	france	0
claude debussy	nocturnes	1899	france	0
claude debussy	la mer	1905	france	0

may 6, 2024

claude debussy	preludes II	1912	france	0
claude debussy	preludes I	1910	france	0
claude debussy	nocturnes	1899	france	0
claude debussy	la mer	1905	france	0

april 27, 2024

dead voices on air	piss frond	1998	canada	1
delerium	semantic spaces	1994	canada	0
dead voices on air	piss frond	1998	canada	1
cyberaktif	temper	1990	canada	2
cevin key	the ghost of each room	2001	canada
cevin key	music for cats	1997	canada

april 25, 2024

jjjjjjjjj

ambient works vol 1 & 2

2003/2015

canada

april 19, 2024

claude debussy	preludes II	1912	france	0
claude debussy	preludes I	1910	france	0
claude debussy	nocturnes	1899	france	0
claude debussy	la mer	1905	france	0

april 17, 2024

claude debussy	preludes II	1912	france	0	claude debussy is a unique accident in the history of western music, as a discovered illiterate prodigy whose brilliance was in approaching music composition intuitively rather than being taught about it in a school as a theory to be applied academically. debussy's contribution to the deconstruction of western music theory is so profound that music historians talk of music before and after debussy, as they talk of music before and after beethoven and before and after bach. in debussy, and for the first time in western music history, the sterile rules of the theory of bach become mere suggestions and are even often rendered outright irrelevant in the composition process, to be replaced by a strictly intuitive approach as to what feels right. this replacement of the stifling mathematically correct theory of bach with pure intuition has been described as creating an effect of blurred notes and fuzzy audio and variously labeled as impressionism or symbolism, but this is a comparison to the painting of the period and is rather imprecise; the idea that debussy finally truly picked up where beethoven left off is a better analysis. as such, debussy was the true successor to beethoven, finally, and several generations removed. i only currently have two debussy cds, but these include his most substantive pieces, namely la mer, the nocturnes and the two books of piano preludes. i previously had a cd with prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune, the images and the printemps suite, in addition to la mer and the nocturnes, but i sold it because it had a scratch and only replaced it with a disc with the latter two. while i would like to fill in the holes in my debussy collection, and actually consider it a priority, it should be pointed out that, as an intuitive composer that was also illiterate, not all of debussy's works are substantive or compelling and there really isn't much else to explore. his works tend to sound relatively similar. replacing the aforementioned pieces is a priority, but there is not a lot left after that. i initially became interested in debussy via reading music history texts on western classical music (i found a first year music history textbook at a garage sale when i was about 15 and used it as a primary reference text for years), but i also took a first year music history course in early 20th century music that covered debussy and debussy is one of the things my sister played on piano, so it was frequently heard in the house. the reality is that his core works are not voluminous and that a 2xcd set with piano preludes on one disc and la mer and a few orchestral pieces on the other is really all there actually is.
claude debussy	preludes I	1910	france	0
claude debussy	nocturnes	1899	france	0
claude debussy	la mer	1905	france	0

april 16, 2024

download	the eyes of stanley pain	1996	canada	0
fuck buttons	street horrsing	2008	uk+ire	0

april 15, 2024

inri

inriched

1999/2016

canada

april 14, 2024

coil

musick to play in the dark vol 1

1999

uk+ire

0

april 11, 2024

coil	backwards demos	1995	uk+ire	8
coil	the snow	1992	uk+ire	2
coil	love's seret domain	1991	uk+ire	0
coil	panic	1983	uk+ire	1
claude debussy	preudes II	1912	france	0
claude debussy	preudes I	1910	france	0
claude debussy	nocturnes	1899	france	0
claude debussy	la mer	1905	france	0

april 9, 2024

my bloody valentine	loveless	1991	uk+ire	0
delerium	semantic spaces	1994	canada	0

april 8, 2024

sergei rachmaninov	piano concerto 3	1909	russia	0
sergei rachmaninov	piano concerto 2	1901	russia	0
philip glass	symphony 3	1995	us	0
philip glass	symphony 2	1994	us	0
ludwig van beethoven	symphony 9	1824	germany	0
ludwig van beethoven	symphony 8	1814	germany	0
ludwig van beethoven	symphony 7	1813	germany	0
ludwig van beethoven	symphony 6	1808	germany	0
ludwig van beethoven	symphony 5	1808	germany	0
claude debussy	la mer	1905	france	0

april 7, 2024

garbage

garbage

1995

uke+ire

1

april 4, 2024

einsturzende neubauten

total eclipse of the sun

2000

germany

1

april 3, 2024

chris cornell	euphoria morning	1999	us	3
chris connelly	phenobarb bambalam	1992	us	3
chester thompson	a joyful noise	1991	us	3
charlie hunter & pound for pound	return of the candyman	1998	us	3

april 2, 2024

cocteau twins	heaven or las vegas	1990	uk+ire	3	cocteau twins emerged out of the darker side of the scottish post-punk scene and conjure up images of scottish banshees wailing through space-time from pre-history, seeking to escape from the ether in order to track down and scalp some dastardly roman soldiers, haunting them as they trudge through the hills and rainforests, for the crime of daring to venture north of hadrian's wall. elizabeth fraser is not singing in gaelic, but she'd might as well be to many listeners, as the music has such a brooding, celtic tonality that it sounds like she ought to be. this spooky, pre-historical, celtic, pagan presentation from the subarctic fringe of the scottish islands may or may not be intentional. the rumour i heard was that the cocteau twins actually stumbled through the 80s doing too much cocaine, barely remember it and then wanted to write normal music with normal vocals when they came down, which very quickly led them nowhere at all. they never recovered. i initially explored the cocteau twins over mp3 in the 90s due to their association with other bands from the period and era and have slowly picked up cds in used bins when i've found them; these discs were collected sporadically as i came across them, and the holes are overdue to be filled in. i am missing my copy of garlands, apparently.
cocteau twins	treasure	1984	uk+ire	1
cocteau twins	blue bell knoll	1988	uk+ire	2
cocteau twins	echoes in a shallow bay	1985	uk+ire	1
cocteau twins	tiny dynamine	1985	uk+ire	2

april 1, 2024

nine inch nails	ghosts I-IV	2008	us	2	halo 26. i legitimately enjoyed this when it came out, but it's certainly a shift in a different direction that morphed into way too many generic soundtracks. i have not found subsequent nine inch nails releases to be very exciting, but the trilogy of eps does have some interesting instrumental sections. rather, i think the most exciting thing reznor has done since 2005 is the piece he did for the tetsuo soundtrack. i will likely eventually purchase the eps, but the rest of it will be for cheap or not at all. i wonder if i could get some of his soundtracks at the next cbc sale.
nine inch nails	year zero	2007	us	3	halo 24. i tried to listen to with teeth at least 50 times and have never enjoyed it. it's like his brain fell out or something. he may have suffered some brain damage from shooting testosterone. year zero was a legitimate attempt to return to form and he gets a B for effort, but it's just not as good as his earlier material. i should have a copy of halo 25 but just never bought it. with teeth was now over 20 years ago, and it's an open question whether i should try to collect it or not given that it's just a flat out bad record; it'll have to be in the $2 bin or not at all.
nine inch nails	still	2002	us	1	i might have picked up a version of halo 15 if i saw it, but i never did. i tried to listen to halo 16, as i wanted the abstract remixes, and was devastated by how awful it was. i do not tend to enjoy live records, but i mail ordered halo 17b for the instrumental pieces and consider it reznor's last substantive release.
nine inch nails	the fragile (jessica's one disc abridgement)	1999	us	2	halo 14. sort of. when this album was released, nine inch nails had been my favourite band for over five years but i was lukewarm about it. i liked the instrumental tracks (i was listening to post-rock and experimental art-rock like sonic youth, so the instrumental parts made sense to me) but i really did not like the delves into arena rock and found some of the vocals to be so cringey that it was unlistenable. i resolved this by deriving my own tracklisting and burning a new cd with 14 tracks: the way out is through, the frail, we're in this together, the fragile, just like you imagined, even deeper, pilgrimmage, the mark has been made, ripe, underneath it all, complication, the new flesh, the day the world went away (quiet), the great below. this let me enjoy something that was otherwise developing in an opposite direction as i was. i eventually sold the 2xcd store version. in 2016, reznor released an instrumental version of the fragile that i have not yet picked up but which i have listened to via digital audio and which i think should have been the actual release. i believe reznor has acknowledged that the album was recording during a period of heavy alcohol use, and that this heavy alcohol use led to bad artistic decisions. i would give the full 1999 release a "4" and the 2016 re-release a "1".
nine inch nails	the day the world went away	1999	us	9	halo 13
david bowie	i'm afraid of americans	1997	uk+ire	0
nine inch nails	quake	1996	us	0	this is an often ignored lost classic
various artists	lost highway ost	1996	us	4
various artists	natural born killers ost	1994	us	4
nine inch nails	sin	1990	us	2	halo 4
nine inch nails	head like a hole v2	1990	us	1	halo 3
nine inch nails	head like a hole v1	1990	us	1	halo 3
nine inch nails	pretty hate machine	1989	us	1	halo 2, but i didn't actually listen to it on this day. my physical copy of pretty hate machine developed a nasty scratch many years ago and i never replaced it. when i listened to it frequently, i listened to it as a cd-to-cassette dub on an old walkman c. 1993-1995ish and that cassette (which is also now lost) was what i listened to anyways, so replacing it was never important. i will, eventually. this is the only one i'm missing of the classic period, halo's 0-11.
nine inch nails	down in it	1989	us	3	halo 1
nine inch nails	purest feeling	1988	us	8	halo 0
my life with the thrill kill kult	days of swine and roses	1990	us	9

mar 31, 2024

nine inch nails	the perfect drug	1997	us	1	halo 11
nine inch nails	further down the spiral (v2)	1995	us	0	halo 10 v2
nine inch nails	further down the spiral (v1)	1995	us	0	halo 10
nine inch nails	closer to god	1994	us	0	halo 9
nine inch nails	the downward spiral	1994	us	1	halo 8
chris cornell	euphoria morning	1999	us	3
chris connelly	phenobarb bambalam	1992	us	3
chester thompson	a joyful noise	1991	us	3
charlie hunter & pound for pound	return of the candyman	1998	us	3

mar 30, 2024

nine inch nails	the downward spiral	1994	us	1	halo 8
nine inch nails	march of the pigs	1993	us	2	halo 7
nine inch nails	fixed	1993	us	0	halo 6
nine inch nails	broken	1992	us	1	halo 5

mar 29, 2024

corey hart

never surrender

198

canada

1985

mar 27, 2024

chris cornell	euphoria morning	1999	us	3
chris connelly	phenobarb bambalam	1992	us	3
chester thompson	a joyful noise	1991	us	3
charlie hunter & pound for pound	return of the candyman	1998	us	3

mar 26, 2024

chris cornell	euphoria morning	1999	us	3
chris connelly	phenobarb bambalam	1992	us	3
chester thompson	a joyful noise	1991	us	3
charlie hunter & pound for pound	return of the candyman	1998	us	3

mar 25, 2024

chris cornell	euphoria morning	1999	us	3
chris connelly	phenobarb bambalam	1992	us	3
chester thompson	a joyful noise	1991	us	3
charlie hunter & pound for pound	return of the candyman	1998	us	3

mar 24-25, 2024

chris cornell	euphoria morning	1999	us	3	chris cornell was initially the drummer for seattle "slow blues" band soundgarden, before becoming the vocalist and subsequently playing a dominant role in the development of the grunge subgenre. soundgarden saw some success in the mid-90s, but the band was unhappy with the characteristics of it's audience and broke up in 1997 (soundgarden formed out of university in 1984, making them almost ten years older than nirvana and closer to twenty years older than their audience in 1995, and they seem to have been alienated by it, as they wanted to return to their small venue roots, while continuing to play in arenas. maybe they wanted to be sonic youth. rather than let it go, they disbanded.). i believe that the first soundgarden material i heard was videos released as promos for superunknown in 1994. this record (which features the band eleven as backup and actual primary songwriters) was released in a brief phase when cornell was trying to be a croony rock star, and before he formed a band called audioslave out of the remnants of the shitty nu metal band rage against the machine, which thoroughly sucked. i actually enjoyed this record, while acknowledging it's flaws, but i understand why a lot of soundgarden fans wouldn't like it. i picked this up in 1999 in a corporate music store, close to the release date, as soundgarden was actually one of my favourite bands in the 90s (and you can tell if you listen to my guitar playing. soundgarden was one of the primary bands that i learned how to play guitar to.). i have avoided audioslave because i have always despised rage against the machine but i will need to evaluate it properly at some point; i used to have an eleven record, and this disc is fairly similar to it, as a better comparison point, if you want an honest analysis as to who actually wrote it and played on it. it should have been released as an eleven record with chris cornell on guest vocals rather than as a solo cornell record. eleven also had an association with the red hot chili peppers in the early 90s, worked briefly with billy corgan when the pumpkins were imploding in the late 90s and was responsible for collaborating with josh homme on some classic desert rock in queens of the stone age in the mid 00s.
chris connelly	phenobarb bambalam	1992	us	3	chris connelly is best described as being in the extended friend group of the now historical chicago-based wax trax! industrial collective. he wasn't an industrial musician himself, but was rather a singer-songwriter; however, his name appears on a startling number of 80s and 90s industrial releases, mostly as a guitarist or a backup singer. he seems to have been always just hanging around, for a few years. this record was mostly written by martin atkins and has some members of ministry playing on it. i must have heard about chris connely somewhere on the internet, but i may have also been attracted specifically to the wax trax! label on the disc; i don't fully recall. the copy i have is a wax trax! promo release with "not for resale" stamped on it, that i bought in a second-hand bin in the mid 90s. there are other chris connelly cds.
chester thompson	a joyful noise	1991	us	3	chester thompson was a session drummer known primarily for his creative work with frank zappa and his live performances filling in for phil collins in genesis, so phil could run around like a goof while he was singing and i know him via name recognition from my father's interest in "progressive rock" drumming. this was another disc that was picked up for cheap in the cbc overflow bin. it is largely a cheesy 80s electronic jazz record that would cause most people to cringe, but it is competently enough put together and can work as background music, if you've spontaneously broken your leg and can't get up to change the disc. it may have some left-field interest to fans of jazz-influenced post-rock acts like tortoise. i would advise purchasing anything with chester thompson's name on it, for cheap.
charlie hunter & pound for pound	return of the candyman	1998	us	3	charlie hunter is best known for his work with michael franti, but that is his day job; he'd rather be focusing on his eight-string guitar and writing tributes to guitarists you've never heard of, like joe pass and lenny breau. the record is initially not very flashy and might be disappointing, until you realize he's playing multiple parts with his hands. it's more technical than it sounds. nonetheless, this is a musician's record, and is not particularly notable as one, at that. i found this in the cbc overflow bin and purchased it out of curiosity because it was cheap, but i was familiar with charlie parker's work with michael franti and spearhead, specifically (as i had dated a girl that liked that kind of hip-hop). i would pick up further charlie hunter for cheap if i found it.
cevin key	the ghost of each room	2001	canada	3	cevin key was initially the drummer for a synth-pop band called images in vogue before quitting the band to focus on a side project called skinny puppy, which he spent the next ten or so years in as either a hanger on or as the main writer (depending on who you asked, in 1996). key's subsequent post-goettel discography, or lack thereof, has clarified the point relatively clearly. ogre would rather work with mark walk. music for cats is probably 95% dwayne, whereas the ghost of each room was put together from outtakes meant for other projects, like the tear garden, and features other collaboraters in prominent roles. while whatever it is that key actually does, besides play drums and apparently sell drugs, is unclear, he does have the ability to pull together interesting pieces of music written by his friends into enjoyable records. i bought the 1997 release at record runner in 1997 and was given the 2001 release as a gift in 2001. i believe there are two further "cevin key" records (one mostly written by ken marshall, and the other written by some kids from japan he's been following around), both of which i'll need to pick up at the right time. i initially learned about skinny puppy in a guitar world article about trent reznor that was a history essay about the commercialization of industrial music and that also named dropped einsturzende neubauten, foetus, ministry, cabaret voltaire and throbbing gristle, amongst others.
cevin key	music for cats	1997	canada	0

mar 23, 2024

can	ege bamyasi	1972	germany	1	can emerged out of what was then called the german krautrock scene (that name has fallen out of favour, athough i don't think it's very racist, myself) as an attempt by german academics to integrate american rock music into german art music, at the height of the american occupation of west germany. while can is known for a specific drum pattern called motorik, the truth is that can's music shifted extremely dramatically over a short period of time, from heavy sequencer music to davis-influenced abstact jazz to hendrixian psych rock, and finally into somewhat vapid and boring pop music. in the end, they collapsed into disco, like everybody else. these two particuar sa-cds, which are by far their best records, were christmas presents, but they were regifted; my dad's friend dieter gave them to him, and my dad subsequently gave them to me, as he thought they were "weird". they are in fact amongst the weirdest music ever made. i was familiar with them at the time via mp3 downloads and believe i was first exposed to can via reading about them in some kind of music press like wired or brainwashed, but my physical can collection at that point was composed strictly of live bootlegs and a couple of the spoon releases (which have since disappeared). i personally greatly prefer can as a live band, but these two recordings are extremely important in the history of rock music. i am not prioritizing the purchase of future can (besides the spoon releases), but would pick up any can cheap if i saw it.
can	tago mago	1971	germany	0
cabaret voltaire	red mecca	1981	uk+ire	8	cabaret voltaire is often credited as being one of the first industrial artists but the well-informed know that the claim is dubious as they really didn't invent or do anything first at all. more truthful is that they may have invented a specific marketing image on the fringes of the post-punk scene (in the uk) that became associated with what was called industrial music in the 80s, and that the actual music they actually made was a poor emulation of truly innovative artists like kraftwerk and tangerine dream, who did everything first and everything better (and were themselves preceeded by composers like reich and varese). i found this in a used bin in the 90s after reading about them online and purchased it without expecting much from it and i had my expectations met. they are something everybody interested in "industrial" music will eventually need to grapple with on their own, but i find them to be overrated and generally not very interesting. they notably never came even close to selling any substantive number of records. i would buy any cabaret voltaire i found anywhere for cheap, but their records are generally marked up very highly due to their association with that specific marketing image, and i've broadly decided they aren't worth the inflated price. i would expect that these prices will eventually come down, if they haven't already.
missing records: a/b	*	*	*	*	i don't recall selling but cannot find: aphex twin - girl/boy, brand x - unorthodox behaviour (phil collins jazz project), bush - razorblade suitcase (the good bush record), billie holiday - lady in satin (she was a drunk, but this is the sweeping orchestral disc. it is what it is.). it is not clear if they are lost or misplaced.
bryan adams	waking up the neighbours	1991	canada	1	bryan adams was a canadian singer-songwriter that stumbled through the 70s before becoming a global superstar in the mid 80s and then fizzled out as rock music changed and left him behind. i was a big fan of reckless as a young child (i was born in 1981) and already had all of the bryan adams tapes when this came out, but i sold them all years ago; i found this for $0.50 in the cbc overflow bin and decided i should have it on my shelf, for nostalgic value. i think i still have the copy of reckless on cassette that i bought used with allowance money when i was about seven and if i found it or any of the other 80s releases on cd for $0.50 i would also grab it but i'm not interested in bryan adams releases after 1991.
bruce cockburn	stealing fire	1984	canada	2	bruce cockburn first emerged in the late 60s as a jimi hendrix style guitar hero before disengaging from rock culture and releasing a series of christian records in the 70s. ymmv with these, but i am not a christian and don't listen to christian music. he re-engaged with secular culture in the early 80s as a 60s activist anachronism in the reagan era and made a name for himself on the fringe of the post-punk scene as a talented guitarist writing jazz-influenced electronic pop music with hardcore punk themes. i have a certain level of respect for bruce cockburn, but this is really the only record of his that i'm interested in, and it may be his best-selling. i have distinct memories of the jarring video for if i had a rocket launcher, which comes off as a jazz remix of a clash song and remained in late night rotation on muchmusic, perhaps for cancon reasons, for years after it's release and that would have been my introduction to bruce cockburn in probably the early 90s. cockburn is also known as the original writer of "lovers in a dangerous time", which has been covered by many, including by the barenaked ladies, which is something i was familiar with in the early 90s. there was also the video for "if a tree falls", which also received heavy rotation for many years. this was initially my dad's cd, but it's mine now.
brian eno & jah wobble	spinner	1995	uk+ire	2

mar 22, 2024

brian eno & jah wobble	spinner	1995	uk+ire	2
brian eno & david byrne	my life in the bush of ghosts	1981	uk+ire	1
brian eno	music for films	1978	uk+ire	1

mar 18-19, 2024

brian eno & jah wobble	spinner	1995	uk+ire	2	brian eno started off in a cheesy pop band called roxy music before releasing a handful of solo records in the mid 70s that presented him as a kind of tongue-in-cheek messianic figure as a sort of parody on medieval religion. i am too young to have any memory of it, but my understanding is that the brian eno fan club was a kind of a joke cult and that it is this messianic way in which he presented himself that formed the basis of his following in the 80s and beyond but this is a kind of a blurry historical point that you may find difficulty constructing clear references for, as it was never meant to be taken seriously and was largely forgotten about. eno then shifted into production work and became known for his role in incorporating synthesizers into rock music in a specific way, as can be heard on records by david bowie, talking heads and u2, to name a small selection of examples. my first exposure to eno was via u2 in the late 80s. however, during this period, his main focus and what he will be remembered primarily for was not on production work but on releasing a string of lps that developed a type of ambient music that was intended to exist as background sounds embedded into landscapes, which is an idea that he unfairly took credit for inventing. there's a writeup a little down the page on arvo part, who eno entirely stole the concept from. nonetheless, eno was one of the most important producers of the rock era (1960-1995) due to his responsibility for the integration of ambient music production techniques into commercial rock music (where the streets have no name is unquestionably the biggest, best, most commercially successful example) and he forms a bridge from the long defunct rock era into the development of current and contemporary modern music production techniques as they have evolved since the end of the rock era. eno himself has really not been relevant, except historically, in decades. my eno collection has ebbed and flowed over the years, with much of it initially existing on vinyl (including all of the early material), or as cd-rs that were given to me as gifts by my father via his friend dieter (i had both cd-rs and vinyl versions of the eno/fripp material, for example, and actually still have the cd-rs, but they are not listed here). these are all of the store bought physical cds i have, and while it's a small subset, it's also a relatively complete representative sample that touches essentially all of the concepts that eno developed (i also have a lot of bowie, u2 and other eno produced recordings). i will eventually fill this out, but because i'm already familiar with all of the eno material, i tend to only pick it up in discount bins. my copy of music for airports is apparently missing, or maybe i sold it.
brian eno & david byrne	my life in the bush of ghosts	1981	uk+ire	1
brian eno	music for films	1978	uk+ire	1
brian eno	before and after science	1977	uk+ire	1
brian eno	taking tiger mountain (by strategy)	1974	uk+ire	1
bowery electric	beat	1996	us	2	bowery electric got some buzzy press when the term post-rock first appeared in the early 90s and subsequently disappeared without really releasing anything of substance. they've been remembered as one of the initial bands to get labeled as post-rock, rather than for the substance of their work. i pulled this out of a used bin in the early 00s because it was released on kranky and have kept it for that reason. i don't have any particular plans to buy more bowery electric, but i might if i see it.
bjork	medulla	2004	iceland	2	bjork was initially an icelandic child prodigy that ran away to new york to start a punk band before emerging as an it girl at the fringe of the uk techno scene and using the buzz it created as a launching pad for a string of abstract and interesting solo pop records. i've been accused of giving her more credit than she deserves, but my perception is that she's in full artistic control and that suggestions otherwise are off-base; at the least, she has impeccable taste in picking what she wants to pair to her vocal compositions. i did sell a couple of bjork records i bought in the 90s because i decided they'd be easy to find and have reclaimed some but not all of them; i should repurchase a copy of homogenic at the least. as for her post-2005 work, it did hit a low point with volta, but it hit a high point with vulnicra. the discography gets a little spotty after 2005, but i'll probably just fill this in in totality and iron out the mistakes in the review process. i first heard bjork on muchmusic in the early to mid 90s doing some horn-heavy peter gabrielish pop music. one of my dead uncles was a big bjork fan before he died.
bjork	vespertine	2001	iceland	0
bjork	post	1995	iceland	1
billy corgan	the future embrace	2005	us	4	billy corgan emerged in the late 80s as the virtuoso guitarist and lead singer of the psychedelic rock band the smashing pumpkins and systematically became a dominant cultural force in american music before sabotaging his own career by insisting on writing subpar 80s synth pop about ten years before it came back into fashion and then on continually being an asshole with bad politics in public ever since. my first exposure to the smashing pumpkins was via the rhinoceros video c. 1992ish; i did not buy gish until later, but i bought siamese dream (on cassette) not long after it was released and actually due to being interested in the guitar riff for geek usa, which i pulled out of a guitar world article. corgan briefly had a column in guitar world. i had already been playing guitar for a few years and had at that point taken basic acoustic and more advanced blues guitar lessons, but i taught myself how to play guitar more seriously primarily via learning early smashing pumpkins (and soundgarden) songs. i believe that this 2005 release, which i purchased close to it's release date, was written primarily by bon harris of nitzer ebb and it is largely forgettable and disappointing. i was a substantive smashing pumpkins fan in junior high school and high school (1993-2000) and have a nearly complete discography of the original lineup, from 1989-2001. it may take more than a day to listen to all of the smashing pumpkins cds i have, in order. i do not have any of the smashing pumpkins releases after 2001 at all, but i should probably buy the 2007 and 2012 releases just to shelve them. i don't have any interest in billy corgan's work after about 2015 or so, but i'll probably eventually buy it anyways, just to slam it. he still has time to refind himself, but it would require reacquianting himself with his guitar, and he doesn't seem to want to do that. there was such a drastic decrease in the quality of the guitar playing after 1996 that i've wondered over the years if somebody else played guitar on his early releases and f corgan was in truth just an actor in a fake band (or if it was even his father playing) and my own interest in corgan is going to wane until or if he ever gets his guitar style back, which i'm not holding my breath for. i'm not looking for loud and stupid, i'm looking for abstract and psychedelic; i'm just not interested in listening to corgan try to be a songwriter, as that was never his strength as a musician, if it was even him playing at all. nor do i want to listen to corgan try to be a keyboard player. corgan, in recent years, is clearly just interested in the cash, and has consistently made awful artistic decisions in an attempt to appeal to 80s hair metal boneheads, which is what he appears to have actually been, himself.
billy cobham	spectrum	1973	panama	0	billy cobham is a drummer that initially appears with john mclaughlin on a series of late 60s miles davis records before he and john mclaughlin left davis' band to start the mahavishnu orchestra. the earliest cobham-mclaughlin pieces are on a string of davis records, which can function as pre-mahavishnu if what you really want is that mclaughlin/cobham pairing. this classic record has the distinction of featuring tommy bolin (who was ritchie blackmore's initial replacement in deep purple) on guitar rather than john mclaughlin. i am a john mclaughlin fan and picked this up used in the early 00s on that basis but do not have much else with cobham; as with bruford, i would consider anything that features cobham on it to be worth purchasing, if found in the right bin. however, the other cobham solo discs are drum-oriented and do not feature prominent guitar playing, so may be less interesting unless you are looking for drum work, which i am not.
bill bruford	one of a kind	1979	uk+ire	1	bill bruford initially emerged in the late 60s as the drummer for the band yes, but was at some point stolen by robert fripp and ended up as the drummer for king crimson, instead. these two bruford/holdsworth (there's a write-up for holdsworth down the page) collaborations happened during a down period for king crimson, when fripp was working on the berlin trilogy with brian eno and david bowie. the 1977 release also features robert fripp's wife on vocals. these records were initially released on brian eno's record label (eg records) and one of the discs i have (both inherited from my father, who was not a drummer but pretended he was and was a bill bruford fan for that reasob) is an eg release, while the other is a re-release printed by bill bruford himself. now, i'm no drummer, i'm a guitarist and my cd collection is consequently guitar-centric rather than drum-centric, but it has a fair amount of bruford in it; there's a reason that bill bruford has the distinction of having worked with almost every substantive guitarist of the 70s and 80s and it's that he was the best drummer out there for years. for me, the draw to these records is that they feature alan holdsworth essentially as a temporary replacement for robert fripp and in the process feature a distinct shift towards holdsworth's style rather than fripp's. they are (along with the uk record) the best introduction to alan holdsworth. there is a third bruford record, but it doesn't have holdsworth on it. i don't have any of the earthworks releases, which are more drum-focused, but i have most of his work with king crimson and yes. i actually have a relatively complete bruford discography, minus the earthworks material, which i would pull out of the right bin, but which i'm not actively seeking. if you find any lp or cd with bll bruford's name on it, it is worth purchasing, if found in the right bin.
bill bruford	feels good to me	1977	uk+ire	1
benny goodman	bg in hifi	1955	us	1	benny goodman was a clarinet player from chicago and real as shit motherfucking gangster that is known for his work in developing the subgenre of swing. i probably first read about benny goodman on the internet, but i don't have a clear recollection of my first exposure to him. i have long had a nurturing interest in barn-burning, drunken, rowdy swing music, of which this mostly isn't. these three cds all came out of the cbc overflow bin for a $1 each. benny goodman largely existed before the lp era so there's major overlap in the various compilations available on cd, but i would purchase any benny goodman i saw anywhere, for cheap. these collections do not feature any performances by any of the most notable benny goodman band members, such as gene krupa or louis armstrong.
benny goodman	small groups (1941-1945)	1989	us	1
benny goodman	the best of benny goodman and his orchestra (1935-1945)	1990	us	1
belle and sebastian	dog on wheels	1997	uk+ire	9	belle and sebastian first arose out of the remnants of the shoegaze movement in the uk in the late 90s and have developed in a way that i find to be frustrating. i want to hear belle and sebastian write more involved and elaborate compositions, but they are frequently more interested in writing lo-fi material, whic is frustrating to me as i find the idea of cutesy little boys crooning on sparkly guitars to be trite and cliched and boring. there's a talented singer-songwriter in this band that has been stunted by the expectation of conformity within the indie rock scene, which he's fallen in line with rather than railed against. i would have been exposed to belle and sebastien via communicating with radiohead fans on the internet in the mid 90s. i purchased this ep in a used bin in ottawa for cheap out of curiosity, on that basis. i've kept this out of print ep around because it is legitimately an interesting teaser, but a deeper exploration into their discography didn't generate much further interest in them from me and i've long since given up on them. however, i dated a girl in the early 00s that pulled this ep off my shelf and loved it so much that she bought a bunch of their better known records and played them in the house, which familiarized me more with their discography up to that point. i don't currently expect to purchase further belle and sebastien cds, but a careful survey and evaluation of their discography is possible and it is foreseeable that i might pull a thing or two out of it, if it happens.
barry adamson	as above, so below	1998	uk+ire	2	barry adamson emerged out of uk post-punk scene as the bassist for alternate reality genesis cover band magazine and then, under the heavy influence of blixa bargeld, nick cave and jim thirlwell (as a member of the bad seeds), morphed into a jazz/techno artist with a heavily idosyncratic sound. this particular record tells a story that is somewhat of a concept record and is considered a high point. while i am not familiar with most of his discography, i would nonetheless expect to fill this in over time. finding records by bands like magazine at this late a date in small cities in canada is hopeless, i'll have to order it. this disc was purchased second hand in ottawa c. 1999ish. it has an imported to montreal sticker on it, indicating somebody ordered it from the uk. i would have picked this up on name recognition.
barenaked ladies	gordon	1991	canada	1	the barenaked ladies eventually had a hit single that was some kind of a reggae song, and they are known for that in the united states, but that was on something like their fifth record. their earlier records were highly successful in canada; they were a household name in canada from 1992 on. they emerged on a street corner in toronto and conquered the country during the alternative rock moment and alternative rock is broadly what they were; i don't want to call this a children's record exactly, although they were appealing to young people and were extremely popular amongst teenagers in canada in the early 90s. at the time, their audience would have been in the 15-25 age range; young, but not kids. this was and remains one of my biggest influences, and for good reason as it's an incredibly well produced and diverse cd. i at one point had copies of their next couple of records, but my tastes changed around 1993 and i was no longer interested in the type of music they created, which also suffered from a dramatic decrease in complexity. they tried to become a by-the-textbook, poppier, jangly college rock band after this for a few years, and i don't think the results were very interesting. it's likely that gordon will remain stranded in this list. however, the (very talented) rhythm section has released some instrumental jazz records since then, and i may find myself more interested in exploring that at some point.

mar 17-18, 2024

autechre	untilted	2005	uk+ire	2	autechre emerged out of the late 80s uk electronic music scene as a duo that was less interested in being intelligent, exactly, and more interested in not being dumb and what makes their records better than almost everything in the techno universe is that they've succeded for decades in avoiding being dumb. while generally seen as one of the key and seminal artists in the history of techno, they in truth have few imitators and their use of tools like max and c++ gives them more in common with modern classical music composers than with djs in the dance music culture. they stand alone as unique sound design artists. autechre is the second artist in this list that i would label a favourite band and as something i've followed closely since the 90s. i did decide to sell the bass cadet single because it was tvt, and somebody stole my copy of confield; those two omissions and some small eps not withstanding, this is otherwise a very nearly complete discography from 1993-2005 that was collected slowly over that time frame and temporarily ends when i generally stopped buying cds altogether. i am familiar with everything autechre has done since 2005 and would consider oversteps and sign/plus as high points. i will eventually fill this in. autechre have spoken about being influenced by industrial luminaries like skinny puppy and coil, while dwayne goettel indicated late in his life that he was inspired by early autechre, which was a primary influence on the direction taken by goettel in download, and it would have actually been via exposure in industrial music circles, rather than techno music circles, that i became interested in autechre.
autechre	draft 7.30	2003	uk+ire	3
autechre	gantz graf	2002	uk+ire	0
autechre	peel session 2	1999	uk+ire	3
autechre	peel session	1999	uk+ire	9
autechre	ep 7.2	1999	uk+ire	0
autechre	ep 7.1	1999	uk+ire	3
autechre	lp5	1998	uk+ire	1
autechre	chiastic slide	1996	uk+ire	0
autechre	tri repetae	1995	uk+ire	1
autechre	anvil vapre	1995	uk+ire	2
autechre	garbage	1995	uk+ire	2
autechre	amber	1994	uk+ire	1
autechre	anti	1994	uk+ire	1
autechre	incunabula	1993	uk+ire	3
arvo part	spiegel im spiegel	1978	estonia	0	arvo part is a contemporary minimalist composer that began writing expressive orchestral compositions before he took a drastic shift in direction strictly into religious music, which i'm not interested in. these pieces are from before his shift to religious music and are some of the most intensely emotional pieces of classical music i've ever heard. these cds were picked up at cd warehouse in the 90s. i believe that i first heard about arvo part via communication with gybe fans.
arvo part	tabula rasa	1977	estonia	0
arvo part	fur alina	1976	estonia	0
arvo part	symphony 3	1971	estonia	2
arvo part	collage uber bach	1964	estonia	2
arnold schoenberg	pelleas et melisande	1905	austria	5	arnold schoenberg was an austrian composer that is best known for completely ruining music. it's not the break from tonality by introducing the tone row that is catastrophic about schoenberg (i slam mozart, i slam schoenberg, what do i want?) but the fact that he just wasn't a talented composer, and his teachers told him that. his melodies suck, his harmonies are shit, etc. instead, schoenberg repeatedly resorts to calculated delves into contrived drama via the overuse of extreme tension, making his music the perfect soundtrack to an old man dying of a heart attack (or perhaps a mime being filmed interpreting the event). i bought this cd for cheap to do required listening for a 20th century music course, and i've kept it around because it has an absurdist niche as halloween music or as the kind of thing you can upset your asshole neighbours with. there's something to be said about completely terrible music. these symphonies are highly valued in some circles, but the truth is that they're vapid shock rock with little real musical value (making schoenberg somewhat akin to the alice cooper or marilyn manson of his era) and that schoenberg was really an overrated hack. yet, i would and probably will buy more schoenberg in order to shelve it and ultimately to slam it.
arnold schoenberg	verklarte nacht	1902	austria	5
aphex twin	richard d. james album	1996	uk+ire	0	richard d. james (aka the aphex twin amongst other things) emerged out of the acid house scene in the late 80s as a very young electronic sound artist and has become one of the most important progenitors of an idiosyncratic form of british techno. my aphex twin collection took a hit in the early 00s when i sold most of it because it was all reprise imports i bought cheap second hand; i expected to replace them with warp imports but i never got around to it. this particular album is considered a high point. i'm overdue to fill this in and that will happen when i get to doing it. i believe i was first exposed to aphex twin via the nine inch nails record further down the spiral, which features two original compositions.
antonio carlos jobim	stone flower	1970	brazil	0	antonio carlos jobim was a mega superstar in brazil who was known for developing and popularizing the subgenre of jazz known as bossa nova. this cd is considered a high point in his discography. i picked this up in a discount bin in the mid 90s out of curiosity after first hearing his work on the lost highway soundtrack and it's become one of my favourite records over the years. if i found more jobim records in the right bin i would grab them, but his popularity in latin america has not transferred to canada, where he is an obscure mid-20th century composer.
wolfgang amadeus mozart	piano quartet no. 1 in g minor	1785	austria	5	mozart was a child prodigy whose commercial breakthrough came with the brilliant masterpiece "twinkle twinkle little star" (< /sarcasm>) and who then spent his career delighting bourgeois acadamics and church leaders alike by approaching music composition like he was solving an engineering problem by perfectly applying the theory of bach without interjecting any discernible level of heretical creative or independent thought. i find mozart to be boring. this piece is on one of the dvorak discs.
antonin dvorak	piano quintet in A major	1888	czechia	3	dvorak was a slavic ethnomusicologist and late romantic composer working in eastern europe c. 1900. these pieces come from two dvorak cds that i purchased in the cbc overflow bin for cheap to shelve, out of curiosity. i was mildly familiar with dvorak (i had a cd with the new world symphony at one point but haven't seen it in years and guess i sold it, although i don't remember it explicitly), but not with these pieces. i first learned about dvorak in a music history course i took when i was a university student. i was not overly impressed by either piece. if the dances have some value as folk music, that value is lost on their appropriation by the bourgeois academic.
antonin dvorak	all slavonic dances	1886	czechia	5
angels of light	sing other people	2005	us	3	this is the acoustic version of michael gira, who otherwise releases under the name swans with a collection of new york no wave musicians. the intial angels material was strong, but these two records catch gira in somewhat of a rut and i'd avoid them. back in the late 90s and early 00s, gira always charged so much for his records (which you had to mail order) that he priced me out, and i just downloaded them instead. i'm long overdue to buy them, but is he still charging $40/disc? the reason i have these two cds is that i bought them at angels of lights concerts in montreal in 2003 and 2005 and they're actually both signed by gira for that reason. my interest in angels of light is as outgrowth of my interest in swans, which i learned about from the internet community i was a part of in the mid 90s.
angels of light	everything is good here / please come home	2003	us	3
animal collective	hollinndagain	2006	us	3	animal collective was a loser geek boy phenomenon in the early 00s and something i strenuously avoided for some time because my initial impression of them was that i thought they were dumb. i think i first heard about them via online chatter, but i can't pinpoint exactly where. they were a buzz band; i heard about the hype, and then wasn't remotely impressed. however, as a music critic and cd collector, i eventually had little choice but to carefully survey their discography, because it reached a level of popularity where they could no longer be ignored. after listening to their discography very carefully, my analysis of their output didn't change, but this record did differentiate itself as a unique anomaly in ther discography. while sorting through this list will expose an interest in experimental music, the reality is that my primary interest is in actual music and i need a real level of musicianship to root the sound in when listening to anything labeled as experimental. i need my experimental music to be actual music, too. there's a difference between a controlled experiment and shitting on a canvas, and animal collective has simply never passed the bullshit test. these kids weren't actually musicians, and it was obvious from the start. i grasp that that might actually be appealing to some, but i've consistently labeled early animal collective as what it actually is, which is pretentious rich children that don't know what they're doing aimlessly fucking around with equipment that they don't understand and trying to mass manufacture it as a corporate product, which they succeeded in doing. the buzz that was generated by the loser geek boys that bought their records got them signed to a lucrative recording contract, and they then quickly converted into a generic pop band, probably because the record label started ordering producers to write the music for them because the suits realized they were talentless hacks that couldn't be effectively marketed and yet wanted to protect their investment, having already fallen for the hype. however, there was a brief moment around feels where they had developed enough experience to just begin to start to know what they were doing a little but hadn't sold out yet and in that brief moment they accidentally stumbled on to something that is both substantive and interesting. feels is a pop record, but it has no clear parallel in pop music history (which is not true for their later releases, which are generic pop records that sound like radiohead or coldplay or u2). i don't hear much worth taking note of before feels, and what is after feels is just boring generic pop music, but i have to accept feels as a substantive and interesting record. i bought these cds together used at cd warehouse in ottawa c. 2006 for a couple of dollars, total, because they were there. i don't have any particular intention to buy more animal collective, but it's the kind of thing that i'd pull out of the $2 bin if i found it in there just to rip it apart. note: i just learned that a member of the mope-rock band mum, who was dating one of the losers in the band at the time, was the primary writer and performer on this record, and that is likely the reason it stands out as a singular release that is more substantive than anything they did before or after this record. i haven't listened to much mum as i've found it to be too mopey, but i would certainly list it as more compositionally interesting than animal collective. she seems to have been responsible for providing the vital injection of musical understanding that they lack on all records before and after, which allowed them to express their ideas in ways that they did not understand how to do on their own, as they had absolutely no idea what they were doing, whatsoever.
animal collective	feels	2005	us	1
allan holdsworth	atavachron	1986	uk+ire	2	allan holdsworth initially emerged out of the canterbury prog scene via performing in a handful of bands like soft machine and gong and in the process gained a reputation as being both a highly technical and highly expressive guitarist, which is rare. he became known in that scene primarily as a hendrix replacement (because everybody wanted to find the soul of jimi hendrix on the curb somewhere), but has since been cited by a number of prominent guitarists as being next level, technically. he eventually released his most substantive recordings with a drummer named bill bruford, who had previously worked with both yes and king crimson (i have these bruford/holdsworth records and value them highly). this particular cd was given to me by my father because he thought it was too weird for him, which is how i came into posession of a number of left-field prog and fusion classics and how i learned about holdsworth more generally. he tended to like his prog to be straight forward and driving (he was not a drummer, but he like to pretend he was one, so his record collection was heavy on drummers like bruford and collins) and would periodically take chances on these discs via name recognition and just not like them. this record contains a selection of holdsworth's experiments with a device called a synthaxe, which is an instrument that is technically a synthesizer that is shaped like a guitar and is played half like a guitar and half like a synth and is in fact fairly weird. it's not a midi guitar, exactly. unlike my dead father, i like weird, but this record is also a little cheesy. holdsworth can be esoteric, overbearing and tedious to non-guitarists; he's essentially the james joyce of guitar players, so you have to be willing to work through it to enjoy it, but any serious guitarist will speak of his work highly, even if it's not reflected in this particular record. the bruford discs that are coming up are a better starting point for holdsworth, who recently died. i would like to find more holdsworth, which has always been obscure, but may never find them, especially now given his death.

mar 16, 2024

alice in chains	nothing safe	1999	us	1	i was and still am a grunge fan and consider it to be a subgenre of punk rock. alice in chains were one of the most prominent grunge bands from seattle, which was now long enough ago that some people might not know much about it. i think i first heard alice in chains on muchmusic c. 1992ish. i did have facelift on cd at one point, but i didn't like it very much and eventually sold it. i have actually never purchased dirt on cd, but i still have my cassette from the early-mid 90s. i've commented elsewhere that alice in chains are more substantive musically than they are often given credit for due to the accidental microtonality in the vocals (in fact, layne staley was tone deaf, and consistently just missed the notes, but his voice was so powerful that it often functions as accidental harmonization. this is the classic alice in chains sound, and it's just a consequence of poor ear training, but it often sounds incredible.). however, of the four major seattle grunge bands, alice in chains also holds up the least well, all of these years later. they were opportunistic metalheads, and that's what's happened with alice in chains post-staley, they became an awful metal band. it's a shame, as there was a mad season record released in the mid 90s that demonstrated a lot of potential and jerry cantrell would likely make more interesting music as a solo artist. as a young guitarist, i bought the last two records new in local corporate music stores within a week of their release in the 90s (which is also where i bought my cassette of dirt c. 1994-1995ish) and specifically recall buying jar of flies at a garage sale for something like $2.00 c. 1995/1996. i should have a copy of dirt on cd, and i'd rebuy facelift if i saw it cheap.
alice in chains	"tripod"	1995	us	2
alice in chains	jar of flies	1993	us	0
al dimeola	heart of the immigrants	1993	us	2	al di meola is an academically trained guitarist that first appeared as chick corea's virtuoso new kid guitarist and then released a string of albums under his own name starting in the mid 70s. i believe al di meola was first recommended to me by my first guitar teacher, at a small music school in suburban ottawa. i don't have the classic trio of di meola albums on cd, but i did used to have them on vinyl. i sold all of my vinyl several years ago. i am not a vinyl enthusiast. i have flacs. i'm familiar with almost all of his discography and plugging in the holes in his discography with physical cds has been something i've been meaning to get around to and something i'll do when i get back to the review project. these particular cds were both purchased second hand in discount bins. di meola is the very rare example of a guitarist that excels both as a technical player and as a feel player and, for that reason, di meola was probably the most important guitarist of the second half of the 20th century, even if these records are not the best example of that. however, scenario features both phil collins and bill bruford on drums and jan hammer on synthesizers and is an underrated album, as a piece of music.
al dimeola	scenario	1983	us	1
aix em klemm	aix em klemm	2000	us	2	this is a collaboration between members of labradford and stars of the lid that i picked up second hand in ottawa (at a store called discgoround) due to seeing the name listed in the new releases at brainwashed and which is an exercise in debussy worship. it is arguably better than any stars of the lid or labradford record. my interest would have been from the labradford half, as i find stars of the lid to be tedious and boring.
afro celt sound system	sound magic	1996	uk+ire	2	i was already familiar with this world fusion group on real world records when i picked these three records up in the cbc overflow bin due to work they'd done with sinead o'conner and label owner peter gabriel. i don't listen to this every day, but it's a nice change of pace once in a while. i would pick up further afro-celt records if found for cheap.
afro celt sound system	release	1999	uk+ire	2
afro celt sound system	anatomic	2005	uk+ire	2
adrian belew	side three	2006	us	3	solo albums by member of king crimson and session guitarist for frank zappa, talking heads, david bowie and nine inch nails (to name a few), who i initially heard via his work with one of those artists, although i don't recall exactly which. he is best known for his work with king crimson. his backing band for the 2004 release was danny carey and les claypool. his earlier out of print material is more abstract; good luck finding it. i picked the three sides up in the 00s when they were released and the other two randomly in used bins. i have yet to hear adrian's entire discography, which has always been somewhat obscure and hard to find. while one of the most important session guitarists of the last 50 years, adrian is know for his expressive playing, rather than for his technical prowess.
adrian belew	side two	2005	us	2
adrian belew	side one	2004	us	1
adrian belew	op zop too wah	1996	us	3
adrian belew	here	1994	us	4
adam saikaly	tropigogic	2010	canada	5	local ottawa musician, i must have picked this up at a show he played at. it was at giraffes giraffes, probably.
thee silver mt zion memorial orchestra	fuck off get free we pour light on everything	2014	canada	1	this was really the successor project to gybe until gybe reformed and one of the bands that i followed very closely in the 00s. i purchased the first mt zion cd at record runner in ottawa shortly after it's release. this is a complete or close to complete collection of mt zion cds on constellation records slowly collected in real time from 1999-2014. it's not clear if there wil be further mt zion recordings as efrim menuck and jessica moss don't seem to be getting along as well as they used to anymore.
thee silver mt zion memorial orchestra	kollaps tradixionales	2010	canada	4
thee silver mt zion memorial orchestra & tralala band	13 blues for thirteen moons	2008	canada	0
thee silver mt zion memorial orchestra & tralala band	horses in the sky	2005	canada	4
thee silver mountain reveries	pretty little lightning paw	2004	canada	1
the silver mt zion memorial orchestra & tralala band with choir	this is our punk rock, thee rusted satellites gather + sing	2003	canada	1
the silver mt zion memorial orchestra & tralala band	born into trouble as the sparks fly upward	2001	canada	3
a silver mt zion	he has left us alone but shafts of light sometimes grace the corner of our rooms	1999	canada	0
1000 homo djs	supernaut	1990	us	9	one-off ministry side project featuring a black sabbath cover (with trent reznor), a lard experiment (with jello biafra) and a couple of ministry outtakes with live guitars that are almost grungey. i sold most of my ministry cds but kept the classic records and also kept a selection of rarities like this one. this was initially released on wax trax!, but this is a tvt version i found in a used bin in the mid 90s and which i learned about by reading the fucking faq at alt.music.nin.
1 speed bike	droopy butt begone!	2000	canada	2	this is aidan girt from gybe's lofi techno project and something i purchased in a large mail order from cst records in 2001. i didn't keep up with this, but there are several other 1 speed bike records released off constellation that i'll probably only ever purchase if i find them somewhere for cheap.

i haven't been able to log in here to keep track of this over the last two+ months, but i am going to take note of the pile of cds i have on my computer desk and list them alphabetical-chronological before i put them away. i did listen to all of these at some point over the last couple of months.

the result of what's going on with my neighbours is that i'm forcing myself to move my writing completely offline. i don't know what their issue is, but they have some desperate need to control me. so, i'm redesigning my web pages for offline storage and will be slowly converting everything into pdf documents for upload instead of web pages and blogs. the result will be more readable, but it will also mean that it won't update as often. i recently set up my stereo system so that it's a four way speaker system to allow me to listen to music when i'm typing and i'm going to be taking advantage of that fact as i recover from this attempt at dominance. i will be documenting the steps that i take in a new technical blog in the form of a series of walk throughs in pdf format.

i am still planning on using the pi as a front-end for my music review archive, but what i'll be doing over the next several weeks is just listening to everything as i put it back on the shelf. this has been life for me over the last several years, constant distractions forcing me to constantly start and restart everything i' doing and that prevent me from getting any work done. this sucks, but it's reality.

mar 15, 2024

autechre	chastic slide	1997	uk+ire	0
dave grohl (with butch vig)	phoney baloney	2016	us	8
dead voices on air	piss frond	1998	canada	1
fuck buttons	street horrsing	2008	uk+ire	0
inri	cassette demo #1	1996/2013	canada
inri	cassette demo #2	1997/2013	canada
inri	inricycled	1997/2013	canada
inri	fuck the dead	1998/2016	canada
inri	skaters	1998/2016	canada
inri	useless	1998/2016	canada
inri	confused	1998/2016	canada
inri	hey god	1998/2016	canada
inri	i did your mom	1998/2016	canada
inri	why	1998/2016	canada
inri	nope	1998/2016	canada
inri	i think i feel much better now	1998/2016	canada
inri	on sexual confusion in adolescence	1998/2016	canada
genesis	the brazilian	1986	uk+ire	0
radiohead	ok computer	1997	uk+ire	0
rem	out of time	1991	us	1
sonic youth	syr 1	1997	us	0
soundgarden	superunknown	1994	us	0
soundgarden	down on the upside	1996	us	2
squarepusher	music is rotted one note	1998	uk+ire	0
steve reich	reich remixed	1999	us	1
tears for fears	songs from the big chair	1984	uk+ire	0
the cure	the head on the door	1985	uk+ire	1
the cure	disintegration	1989	uk+ire	0
tortoise	standards	2001	us	1
u2	the joshua tree	1987	uk+ire	0
u2	the unforgettable fire	1984	uk+ire	0
u2	under a blood red sky	1983	uk+ire	0
u2	war	1983	uk+ire	1
u2	boy	1980	uk+ire	1

feb 9, 2024

radiohead

karma police

1997

uk+ire

1

feb 2, 2024

rem

world leader pretend

1988

usa

1

jan 21, 2024

la dispute

harder harmonies

2011

usa

1

jan 9, 2024

u2	the joshua tree	1987	uk+ire	0
u2	the unforgettable fire	1984	uk+ire	0
u2	under a blood red sky	1983	uk+ire	0
u2	war	1983	uk+ire	1
u2	boy	1980	uk+ire	1

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note: when i first moved to windsor, i bought a stack of cds for $0.50/cd that belonged to the local cbc station and the station was moving out of their library. they were mostly shelf items that a collector "ought" to have and consequently sat in a box for the next sever`al years. i am finally sorting through those cds. this is the reason i'm currently listening to old swing and jazz records, as well as some classical music, starting with afro-celt and moving forwards alphabetically.

also note that i reject the youtube or spotify streaming model (i don't use spotify. at all. i won't.) as a source of revenue and instead accept the bandcamp model, which designates streaming as a means of advertising. to youtube, the customers are the advertising companies that are placing ads on what they call "content". artists don't get a substantive cut in this model because they are not producing a desirable product; the artist merely produces "content", to which an ad may be appended, and the transaction of value occurs between the customer [the advertising company] and their audience [the person watching the youtube video]. the item being sold becomes the item in the ad. to maintain this model, youtube needs to convince you that buying music is obsolete and that the relationship between artist and listener is no longer financial. in the bandcamp model, however, the relationship between artist and listener is maintained and the "content" is actually the product, which is being advertised via the stream. in this model, youtube admittedly becomes a chump by providing the free lunch of free server space, but that's their fault for creating a foolish model, and it's not my problem.

as such, i feel no responsibility to watch an ad in order to send paltry amounts of ad revenue to the artists that created the music, and reject the premise as disingenuous; the music i listen to is especially not interested in trying to generate income from youtube or spotify but rather uses those sites as a means of advertising to send listeners to their bandcamp sites, or their own pages, where listeners can become customers and purchase the actual music. i will continue to support the artists i like by buying tickets to concerts and by buying physical cds.

i am not going to be distracted by google's delusions in pretending it has undone the bandcamp model, as it hasn't and as it can't. youtube can be a replacement for the radio and be an improvement over the radio, but spotify can't replace or function as a personal music library and poses no serious threat to the independent music market. spotify should actually strongly consider opening itself up to a general web interface instead of requiring an app for download, as it really offers no benefits over youtube, which is easier to access and use and remains free. as a radio replacement, spotify cannot compete with youtube. i just went to spotify and searched for 'cardiacs' and it took me to the cardigans. useless. in order for spotify or youtube to be a serious threat to the independent music market, they would need to offer the things that consumers of independent music actually want, namely access to independent music, high quality audio streams and physical packages that are both visually appealing and allow the consumer to feel as though they've purchased something worth collecting. the basic truth is that i'm a cd collector; it's a commodity fetish, and there's no way for streaming audio to compete with this. i'm currently sorting through the cst catalog and i may buy things i'd never listen to just so i can have them, as cst releases. digital audio offers no analog to this. as a basic pre-requisite, it would need to begin by matching or bettering the sound quality, which it will not do because of the amount of server space required. the bandcamp model is capable of offering me what i want, as a consumer; the youtube model is not.

i am checking on wikipedia right now and it claims that amazon, apple and tidal are the serious options for services that offer lossless audio and might seriously compete with bandcamp, not youtube or spotify. i would argue the smart money is on amazon being the one that wins, as amazon is the service offering consumers what they actualy want, but tidal looks most interesting to me. i permanently boycott everything apple out of spite due to their shitty advertising and won't consider their streaming audio service. i recently bought a phone like android device without a sim card for $100 for use with this pi as a streaming peripheral and it is likely that tidal is the option i will go with, but i need to do more research, first. neither tidal nor amazon use the yotube model, either, they are subscription services that want to sell you access to a library of high quality audio as high quality audio, not trick you into buying a music subscription in order to in turn sell you as a listener to an advertising company, who is the real customer. actual access to a real limitless virtual library of lossless audio is something else that is different than an update to the radio (which was also a medium to place ads), and it may have it's use value in my life, but it is still an adjunct to purchasing the physical item and adding it to the collection and can still never replace it.

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fuchsia is the color code for the ones i have. i'll order the first ten five greens when they come up, along with a couple of yellows, and repeat until i'm at athe end. the remaining yellows may turn green over time, and some of the reds may turn fuchsia anyways. red also means "undetermined yet". i'll have to see how many end up left. the strikes are the ones i definitely don't want. i'm generally going to avoid the acoustic or folk material that dominates after 2005ish, as well as most of the more conventional rock bands in the middle of the catalog. the shalabi, sharp, moss and stetson are high probability to turn green, whereas i'm actually lukewarm on the gybe material after 2012.

i've decided that i'm going to be starting the music web project back up with a silver mt zion, which means filling these holes in, first.

cst001

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i'll get back to that later.

2023

my upstairs neighbours are trying to control my pi remotely and i do not want to get into a hacking war with them over it. i decided to format/reinstall at the end of november and haven't yet set it back up. instead, i'm using it as a camera to try to catch them breaking in. they have a camera set up in the basement filming me, so they know i have a camera set up and are consequently avoiding it. these are extremely aggressive stalkers that want to control my internet persona(s) and ultimately seem to think i'm a famous blogger, vlogger and musician; they think i'm rich and want to steal the source of my wealth. they're drug addicts and appear to be tied to organized crime. in fact, i don't sell anything at all and i'm dirt poor and live on welfare; my "source of wealth" is government disability. for such stupid people, they've been frustratingly difficult to catch and prosecute.

it could be a while before this is functional again, and i'm just sad and frustrated by it.

dec 2, 2023

pink floyd

wish you were here

1975

uk+ire

1

nov 22, 2023

eatliz

sunshine

2007

israel

1

nov 20, 2023

rem

so. central rain.

1984

us

0

nov 17, 2023

st vincent	IV	2014	us	1
st vincent	strange mercy	2011	us	1
st vincent	actor	2009	us	1
st vincent	marry me	2007	us	1

nov 15, 2023

black ox orkestar	nisht azoy	2006	canada	9	cst038.
fly pan am	n'ecoutez pas	2004	canada	7	cst031
black ox orkestar	ver tanzt?	2004	canada	9	cst029.. if i'm going to skip any, it should be this one, but the reality is that none of these are actually bad records, with the exception of the one fly pan am record called "don't listen to this" in french. i'm supposed to be archiving cds in a library, and i'm mostly done with partying. so, i should just be systematic. right? am i going to save money on shipping if i buy in bulk? that was the point. if not, maybe i should just do a by-year monthly order until i catch up.

nov 14, 2023

this is just a reminder that my youtube watch channel is also here:
https://www.youtube.com/@koalaoversightcommittee

polmo polpo	like hearts swelling	2003	canada	5	cst026.
frankie sparo	welcome crummy mystics	2003	canada	9	cst023.
exhaust	enregistreur	2002	canada	5	cst021.
fly pan am	ceux qui inventent n'ont jamais vécu (?)	2002	canada	3	cst019.

nov 13, 2023

do make say think	other truths	2009	canada	1	cst062.. this is where i'm stopping for now as i have my five buys: cst022, cst032, cst034, cst046, cst062. i will need to supplment that with an unclear number of yellows, so i'll be more carefully sorting through the yellows and reds from cst019-cst062.
evangelista	prince of truth	2009	us/canada	3	cst061.
vic chesnutt	at the cut	2009	us/canada	3	cst060.
elfin saddle	ringing for the begin again	2009	canada	3	cst059.
land of kush	against the day	2009	canada	3	cst058.
clues	clues	2009	us/canada	3	cst057.
jem cohen + vic chesnutt + silver mt zion	empires of tin	2009	us/canada	9	cst056. i'll watch this, though.
tindersticks	the hungry saw	2008	uk	5	cst055.
the dead science	villainaire	2008	us	3	cst054.
the dead science	throne of blood (the jump off)	2008	us	n/a	cst053 was a 7" tour ep for the dead science from 2008.
eric chenaux	sloppy ground	2008	canada	3	cst052.
a silver mt zion	13 blues for thirteen moons	2008	canada	0	cst051.

nov 12, 2023

a silver mt zion	13 blues for thirteen moons	2008	canada	0	cst051.
evangelista	hello voyager	2008	us/canada	3	cst050.
feu therese	ca va cogner	2007	canada	3	cst049.
hrsta	ghosts will come and kiss our eyes	2007	canada	3	cst048.
vic chesnutt	north star deserter	2007	us/canada	2	cst046.
do make say think	you, you're a history in rust	2007	canada	2	cst045.

nov 11, 2023

hrsta	ghosts will come and kiss our eyes	2007	canada	3	cst048.
sandro perri	tiny mirrors	2007	canada	7	cst047.
vic chesnutt	north star deserter	2007	us/canada	2	cst046.
do make say think	you, you're a history in rust	2007	canada	2	cst045.
lullabye arkestra	ampgrave	2006	canada	3	cst044.
eric chenaux	dull lights	2006	canada	5	cst043.
sandro perri	plays polmo polpo	2006	canada	5	cst042.
carla bozulich	evangelista	2006	us/canada	3	cst041.

nov 10, 2023

feu therese	feu therese	2006	canada	3	cst040.
a silver mt zion	fuck you draculas	2006	canada	n/a	cst039 was a silver mt zion live record that was never released.
black ox orkestar	nisht azoy	2006	canada	9	cst038.
glissandro 70	glissandro 70	2006	canada	3	cst037.
hrsta	stem stem in electro	2005	canada	3	cst036.
elizabeth anka vajagic	nostalgia/pain	2005	canada	3

nov 9, 2023

black ox orkestar	nisht azoy	2006	canada	9	cst038.
glissandro 70	glissandro 70	2006	canada	3	cst037.
hrsta	stem stem in electro	2005	canada	3	cst036.
elizabeth anka vajagic	nostalgia/pain	2005	canada	3

nov 7, 2023

hanged up	clatter for control	2005	canada	1/2
a silver mt. zion	horses in the sky	2004	canada	1
re:	alms	2004	canada	2

nov 6, 2023

re:	alms	2004	canada	2
fly pan am	n'ecoutez pas	2004	canada	7
a silver mt. zion	pretty little lightning paw	2003	canada	1

nov 5, 2023

elizabeth anka vajagic	stand with the stillness of this day	2004	canada	2/3
a silver mt. zion	this is our punk rock (thee rusted satellites gather and sing)	2003	canada	1

nov 4, 2023

a silver mt. zion	this is our punk rock (thee rusted satellites gather and sing)	2003	canada	1
polmo polpo	like hearts swelling	2003	canada	5
do make say think	winter hymn country hymn secret hymn	2003	canada	1
godspeed you black emperor	yanqui uxo	2002	canada	0

nov 3, 2023

hanged up	kicker in tow	2002	canada	1
do make say think	& yet & yet	2002	canada	0

oct 28, 2023

count basie

the complete atomic basie

1958 (1994 reissue)

us

1

oct 27, 2023

the smashing pumpkins	mellon collie and the infinite sadness	1995	us	1
the smashing pumpkins	pisces iscariot	1994	us	0
the smashing pumpkins	earphoria	1994	us	3
the smashing pumpkins	siamese dream	1993	us	0
count basie	the essence of count basie	1991	us	1
count basie	high voltage	1970	us	1
count basie	one more time	1959	us	1
count basie	the complete atomic basie	1958 (1994 reissue)	us	1

oct 26, 2023

various

testing

images in vogue, legendary pink dots, smashing pumpkins, do make say think, silver mt zion. bass was blurry. i think the cause was the fan in my recording pc.

oct 24, 2023

the smashing pumpkins

siamese dream

1993

us

0

oct 23, 2023

elizabeth anka vajagic	nostalgia/pain	2005	canada	3	cst035. marked for tentative purchase.
hanged up	clatter for control	2005	canada	1/2	cst034. marked for purchase.
a silver mt. zion	horses in the sky	2004	canada	1	cst033. own on cd.
re:	alms	2004	canada	2	cst32. marked for purchase.
fly pan am	n'ecoutez pas	2004	canada	7	cst31. not marked for explicit purchase.
a silver mt. zion	pretty little lightning paw	2003	canada	1

oct 21, 2023

a silver mt. zion	pretty little lightning paw	2003	canada	1	cst030. own on cd.
black ox orkestar	ver tanzt?	2004	canada	9	cst029. not marked for explicit purchase.
elizabeth anka vajagic	stand with the stillness of this day	2004	canada	2/3
a silver mt. zion	this is our punk rock (thee rusted satellites gather and sing)	2003	canada	1
polmo polpo	like hearts swelling	2003	canada	5

oct 20, 2023

djoto ub313

tales of the wild I1

2016

japan

1/2

oct 19, 2023

djoto ub313	tales of the wild I1	2016	japan	1/2
the odorous beast	tales of the wild 1	2016	japan	1/2
djoto ub313	ostrich raindrops	2013	japan	2
djoto	slow motion burn	2010	japan	2
otto von schirach	magic triangle	2010	us	7
otto von schirach	8000 bc	2001	us	3

oct 18, 2023

otto von schirach	8000 bc	2001	us	3
otto von schirach	bass low (partial)	2009	us	12
otto von schirach	dracula (partial)	2018	us	12
otto von schirach & qebrus	ottobrus	2021	us	3
elizabeth anka vajagic	stand with the stillness of this day	2004	canada	2/3	cst028. marked for tentative purchase.
a silver mt. zion	this is our punk rock (thee rusted satellites gather and sing)	2003	canada	1	cst027. own on cd.
polmo polpo	like hearts swelling	2003	canada	5	cst026. not marked for explicit purchase.
do make say think	winter hymn country hymn secret hymn	2003	canada	1

oct 17, 2023

otto von schirach & qebrus	ottobrus	2021	us	3
otto von schirach	el caballo	2023	us	12
otto von schirach	magic triangle	2010	us	7	subcon 38
djoto	slow motion burn	2010	japan	2

oct 16, 2023

djoto	slow motion burn	2010	japan	2	subcon 39
plateau	gort spacebar	2009	canada	3

oct 15, 2023

plateau	gort spacebar	2009	canada	3	subcon 41
banana sloth (cevin key?)	zombie battle 2019	2009	japan / canada	4	subcon 36

oct 14, 2023

do make say think	winter hymn country hymn secret hymn	2003	canada	1
godspeed you black emperor	yanqui uxo	2002	canada	0
hanged up	kicker in tow	2002	canada	1
do make say think	& yet & yet	2002	canada	0
nina paley	this land is mine	2012	us	0

oct 13, 2023

melt banana	fetch	2013	japan	1
white lung	sorry	2012	canada	1
nine inch nails	still	2002	us	0
son lux	tomorrows	2021	us	1

oct 10, 2023

son lux

tomorrows

2021

us

1

oct 9, 2023

son lux	tomorrows	2021	us	1
screaming females	rose mountain	2015	us	2
screaming females	all at once	2018	us	2
screaming females	desire pathway	2023	us	3
sonic youth	rather ripped	2006	us	3
download	microscopic	1996	canada	1
download	furnace	1995	canada	0
aduck/filth	power/touched	1993	canada	1
deny everything	acidosis	2000	canada
johann sebastian bach	allegro from the italian concerto in f major	1735	germany	1	john williams, lute music vol II (1967)
johann sebastian bach	trio sonata no. 6 in g. major	1730	germany	1	john williams, lute music vol II (1967)
johann sebastian bach	adagio from violin sonata no. 4	1723	germany	1	john williams, lute music vol II (1967)
unknown author	fugue in g major	1881	germany	1	piece atributed to bach but apparently unknown before 1881. was it written by a descendant of bach? john williams, lute music vol II (1967).
johann sebastian bach	wachet auf	1731	germany	1	john williams, lute music vol II (1967)
johann sebastian bach	bourees I and II from cello suite no 3	1723	germany	1	john williams, lute music vol II (1967)
johann sebastian bach	prelude, fugue and allegro in e-flat major	1735	germany	1	john williams, lute music vol II (1967)
johann sebastian bach	chaconne from violin partita in d minor	1720	germany	1	john williams, lute music vol II (1967)
johann sebastian bach	lute suite no. 4 in e major	1737	germany	1	john williams, lute music vol II (1967)./td>
mahavishnu orchestra	the inner mounting flame	1971	uk+ire	0
mike keneally + metropole orchestra	the universe will provide	2004	us/netherlands	0

oct 8, 2023

godspeed you black emperor	yanqui uxo	2002	canada	0
do make say think	& yet & yet	2002	canada	0
manorexia	the radiolerian ooze	2002	us/australia	0
steroid maximus	ectopia	2002	us/australia	0
wiseblood	pttm	1991	us/australia	1
mr. bungle	disco volante	1995	us	0
bjork	post	1995	iceland	1

oct 7, 2023

imagine	john lennon	1971	uk+ire	1
the trivial group	{e}	not yet released	canada
the trivial group	reflections	2003/2015	canada
jjjjjjjjj	chamber works	2003/2018	canada
jjjjjjjjj	orchestral works	2003/2015	canada
jjjjjjjjj	ambient works vol 1-2	2003/2015	canada

oct 6, 2023

benny goodman

small groups: 1941-1945

1989

us

1

oct 3, 2023

do make say think	winter hymn country hymn secret hymn	2003	canada	1	cst025. own on cd.
godspeed you black emperor	yanqui uxo	2002	canada	0
do make say think	& yet & yet	2002	canada	0

oct 2, 2023

wugazi

13 chambers

2011

us

8

oct 1, 2023

count basie	the essence of count basie	1991	us	1
count basie	the complete atomic basie	1958 (1994 reissue)	us	1
benny goodman	the best of benny goodman and his orchestra	1990	us	1
benny goodman	bg in hifi	1955	us	1
benny goodman	small groups: 1941-1945	1989	us	1

sept 30, 2023

count basie	the essence of count basie	1991	us	1
count basie	the complete atomic basie	1958 (1994 reissue)	us	1
benny goodman	the best of benny goodman and his orchestra	1990	us	1
benny goodman	bg in hifi	1955	us	1
benny goodman	small groups: 1941-1945	1989	us	1

sept 29, 2023

godspeed you black emperor	yanqui uxo	2002	canada	0
hanged up	kicker in tow	2002	canada	1
do make say think	& yet & yet	2002	canada	0
jjjjjjjjj	jjjjjjjjj^2	2002/2014	canada
fuel true anarchy in the americas	ftaa	2004/2021	canada
jjjjjjjjj	jjjjjjjjj^2	2002/2014	canada

sept 28, 2023

godspeed you black emperor	yanqui uxo	2002	canada	0	cst024. own on cd.
frankie sparo	welcome crummy mystics	2003	canada	1	cst023. do not own. did not listen to while bicycling. not marked for explicit purchase.
hanged up	kicker in tow	2002	canada	1
do make say think	& yet & yet	2002	canada	0
fuel true anarchy in the americas	ftaa	2004/2021	canada
jjjjjjjjj	jjjjjjjjj^2	2002/2014	canada

sept 27, 2023

hanged up	kicker in tow	2002	canada	1	cst022. marked for purchase
exhaust	enregistreur	2002	canada	5	cst021. not marked for explicit purchase.
do make say think	& yet & yet	2002	canada	0
lard	hellfudge	1989	us	0
genesis	jesus he knows me	1991	uk+ire	1
benny goodman	bg in hifi	1955	us	1
frank zappa	joe's garage	1979	us	8
benny goodman	bg in hifi	1955	us	1
jjjjjjjjj	jjjjjjjjj^2	2002/2014	canada
fuel true anarchy in the americas	ftaa	2004/2021	canada
jjjjjjjjj	jjjjjjjjj^2	2002/2014	canada

sept 26, 2023

benny goodman	bg in hifi	1955	us	1
frank zappa	joe's garage	1979	us	8
benny goodman	bg in hifi	1955	us	1
jjjjjjjjj	jjjjjjjjj^2	2002/2014	canada
fuel true anarchy in the americas	ftaa	2004/2021	canada
jjjjjjjjj	jjjjjjjjj^2	2002/2014	canada

sept 25, 2023

frank zappa	joe's garage	1979	us	8
fuel true anarchy in the americas	ftaa	2004/2021	canada
jjjjjjjjj	jjjjjjjjj^2	2002/2014	canada

sept 24, 2023

benny goodman	the best of benny goodman and his orchestra	1990	us	1
benny goodman	bg in hifi	1955	us	1
fuel true anarchy in the americas	ftaa	2004/2021	canada
jjjjjjjjj	jjjjjjjjj^2	2002/2014	canada
benny goodman	the best of benny goodman and his orchestra	1990	us	1
benny goodman	bg in hifi	1955	us	1

sept 23, 2023

benny goodman	the best of benny goodman and his orchestra	1990	us	1
benny goodman	bg in hifi	1955	us	1
do make say think	& yet & yet	2002	canada	0	cst020. own on cd.
fly pan am	ceux qui inventent n'ont jamais vécu (?)	2002	canada	3
benny goodman	the best of benny goodman and his orchestra	1990	us	1
benny goodman	bg in hifi	1955	us	1
django reinhardt & stephane grappelli	continental style	193x/ 1994	belgium/ france	1
django reinhardt	the indispensable (1949-1950)	1983	belgium/ france	1
django reinhardt & stephane grappelli	continental style	193x/ 1994	belgium/ france	1
django reinhardt	the indispensable (1949-1950)	1983	belgium/ france	1
benny goodman	the best of benny goodman and his orchestra	1990	us	1
benny goodman	bg in hifi	1955	us	1
django reinhardt & stephane grappelli	continental style	193x/ 1994	belgium/ france	1

sept 22, 2023

django reinhardt & stephane grappelli	continental style	193x/ 1994	belgium/ france	1
django reinhardt	the indispensable (1949-1950)	1983	belgium/ france	1

sept 21, 2023

django reinhardt & stephane grappelli	continental style	193x/ 1994	belgium/ france	1
django reinhardt	the indispensable (1949-1950)	1983	belgium/ france	1
fuel true anarchy in the americas	ftaa	2004/2021	canada
django reinhardt & stephane grappelli	continental style	193x/ 1994	belgium/ france	1
django reinhardt	the indispensable (1949-1950)	1983	belgium/ france	1
jjjjjjjjj	jjjjjjjjj^2	2002/2014	canada

sept 20, 2023

fly pan am	ceux qui inventent n'ont jamais vécu (?)	2002	canada	3	cst019. marked for tentative purchase.
a silver mt zion	born into trouble as the sparks fly upwards	2001	canada	6--->2
fuel true anarchy in the americas	ftaa	2004/2021	canada
jjjjjjjjj	jjjjjjjjj^2	2002/2014	canada

sept 19, 2023

jjjjjjjjj	jjjjjjjjj^2	2002/2014	canada
fuel true anarchy in the americas	ftaa	2004/2021	canada
jjjjjjjjj	jjjjjjjjj^2	2002/2014	canada

sept 18, 2023

jjjjjjjjj	jjjjjjjjj^2	2002/2014	canada
fuel true anarchy in the americas	ftaa	2004/2021	canada
jjjjjjjjj	jjjjjjjjj^2	2002/2014	canada

sept 17, 2023

65daysofstatic	we were exploding anyways	2010	uk+ire	0
a place to bury strangers	a play to bury strangers	2007	us	2
glenn branca	bad smells	1982	us	1	this features thurston moore and lee renaldo on guitar in 1982, when sonic youth was just starting.
glenn branca	lesson no 1 for electric guitar / dissonance	1980	us	1
django reinhardt & stephane grappelli	continental style	193x/ 1994	belgium/ france	1
django reinhardt	the indispensable (1949-1950)	1983	belgium/ france	1
count basie	the essence of count basie	1991	us	1
count basie	high voltage	1970	us	1
count basie	one more time	1959	us	1
count basie	the complete atomic basie	1958 (1994 reissue)	us	1

sept 16, 2023

count basie	the essence of count basie	1991	us	1
count basie	high voltage	1970	us	1
count basie	one more time	1959	us	1
count basie	the complete atomic basie	1958 (1994 reissue)	us	1

sept 15, 2023

nirvana

nevermind

1991

us

1

sept 14, 2023

count basie	the essence of count basie	1991	us	1
count basie	high voltage	1970	us	1
count basie	one more time	1959	us	1
count basie	the complete atomic basie	1958 (1994 reissue)	us	1
a silver mt zion	born into trouble as the sparks fly upwards	2001	canada	6--->2	cst018. own on cd
frankike sparo	arena hostile	2001	canada	5	cst017. own on cd. did not listen to while bicycling. too mild/boring.
hanged up	hanged up	2001	canada	3	cst016. own on cd
count basie	the essence of count basie	1991	us	1
count basie	high voltage	1970	us	1
count basie	one more time	1959	us	1
count basie	the complete atomic basie	1958 (1994 reissue)	us	1
al dimeola	splendido hotel	1980	us	3

sept 13, 2023

al dimeola	casino	1978	us	2
al dimeola	elegant gypsy	1977	us	0
al dimeola	land of the midnight sun	1976	us	1

sept 12, 2023

garbage

special

1998

uk+ire

1

sept 11, 2023

re:	mnant	2001	canada	3	cst015. own on cd
1-speed bike	droopy butt begone	2000	canada	3	cst014. own on cd
frankie sparo	my red scare	2000	canada	5	cst013. own on cd. did not actually listen to while bicycling. too mild/boring.
godspeed you black emperor	lift your skinny fists like antennas to heaven	2000	canada	6	cst012. own on cd. cd is kranky.
al dimeola	land of the midnight sun	1976	us	1

sept 10, 2023

al dimeola	land of the midnight sun	1976	us	1
al dimeola	elegant gypsy	1977	us	0
al dimeola	land of the midnight sun	1976	us	1
al dimeola	elegant gypsy	1977	us	0

sept 9, 2023

al dimeola	land of the midnight sun	1976	us	1
al dimeola	kiss my axe	1991	us	1
fly pan am	sédatifs en fréquences et sillons	2000	canada	2
do make say think	goodbye enemy airship / the landlord is dead	2000	canada	1
al dimeola	kiss my axe	1991	us	1
al dimeola	world sinfonia	1991	us	2
al dimeola	tirami su	1987	us	2

sept 8, 2023

al dimeola	world sinfonia	1991	us	2
al dimeola	tirami su	1987	us	2

sept 7, 2023

al dimeola	world sinfonia	1991	us	2
al dimeola	tirami su	1987	us	2

sept 6, 2023

al dimeola	tirami su	1987	us	2
al dimeola	world sinfonia	1991	us	2
fly pan am	sédatifs en fréquences et sillons	2000	canada	2	cst011. own on cd.
do make say think	goodbye enemy airship / the landlord is dead	2000	canada	1	cst010. own on cd.
a silver mt zion	he has left us alone but shafts of light sometimes grace the corners of our rooms	2000	canada	0	cst009. own on cd.
al dimeola	tirami su	1987	us	2
al dimeola	world sinfonia	1991	us	2

sept 5, 2023

al dimeola	tirami su	1987	us	2
al dimeola	world sinfonia	1991	us	2

sept 4, 2023

al dimeola	tirami su	1987	us	2
al dimeola	world sinfonia	1991	us	2

sept 3, 2023

al dimeola	tirami su	1987	us	2
al dimeola	world sinfonia	1991	us	2
fly pan am	fly pan am	1999	canada	2	cst008. own on cd.
sackville	principles of science	1999	canada	5	cst007. own on cd. did not actually listen to while bicycling. too mild/bland.
godspeed you black emperor	slow riot for new zero kanada	1999	canada	0	cst006. own on cd. cd is kranky. cd purchased directly from the blistered hands of aidan girt after ottawa show at babylon club, 1999.
do make say think	do make say think	1998	canada	1	cst005. own on cd.
exhaust	exhaust	1998	canada	5	cst004. own on cd.
al dimeola	world sinfonia	1991	us	2

sept 2, 2023

al dimeola	tirami su	1987	us	2
count basie	the essence of count basie	1991	us	1
count basie	high voltage	1970	us	1
count basie	one more time	1959	us	1
count basie	the complete atomic basie	1958 (1994 reissue)	us	1

sept 1, 2023

count basie	one more time	1959	us	1
count basie	the complete atomic basie	1958 (1994 reissue)	us	1

august 31, 2023

al dimeola	tirami su	1987	us	2
al dimeola	soaring through a dream	1985	us	3
benny goodman	the best of benny goodman and his orchestra	1990	us	1
benny goodman	bg in hifi	1955	us	1
benny goodman	small groups: 1941-1945	1989	us	1
godspeed you black emperor	f#a# forever	1997	canada	1	cst003. own on cd and vinyl. cd is kranky.
sofa	grey	1997	canada	3	cst002. own on cd. also have cst001 on vinyl.
al dimeola	soaring through a dream	1985	us	3

august 30, 2023

al dimeola

soaring through a dream

1985

us

3

august 28, 2023

al dimeola	cielo e terra	1985	us	2
godspeed you black emperor	peel session	1999	canada	1
godspeed you black emperor	lift your skinny fists like antennas to heaven	2000	canada	6
fly pan am	sédatifs en fréquences et sillons	2000	canada	2
a silver mt zion	he has left us alone but shafts of light sometimes grace the corners of our rooms	2000	canada	0
al dimeola	cielo e terra	1985	us	2

august 27, 2023

al dimeola	cielo e terra	1985	us	2
al dimeola	scenario	1983	us	1
al dimeola	electric rendezvous	1982	us	2
al dimeola	splendido hotel	1980	us	3
al dimeola	casino	1978	us	2

august 26, 2023

al dimeola	elegant gypsy	1977	us	0
al dimeola	land of the midnight sun	1976	us	1

august 25, 2023

fly pan am	fly pan am	1999	canada	2
godspeed you black emperor	slow riot for new zero kanada	1999	canada	0
godspeed you black emperor	f#a# forever	1997	canada	1

august 23, 2023

fly pan am	fly pan am	1999	canada	2
godspeed you black emperor	slow riot for new zero kanada	1999	canada	0
godspeed you black emperor	f#a# forever	1997	canada	1
godspeed you black emperor	all lights fucked on the hairy amp drooling	1994	canada	12
a silver mt zion	he has left us alone but shafts of light sometimes grace the corners of our rooms	2000	canada	0
weird al	fat	1988	us	1

august 19, 2023

hot snakes	audit in progress	2004	us	1
hot snakes	jericho sirens	2018	us	1
nirvana	in bloom	1991	us	1
skinny puppy	addiction / deep down trauma hounds	1987	canada	1
white zombie	supersexy swingin' sounds	1995	us	8
queen	sheer heart attack	1974	uk+ire/ iran	1
skinny puppy	rarities cd-r	1998	canada		welt - noreen (a demo that has ogre singing but became the fall, by ministry), mutual mortuary (ogre/leeb), raw dog (ogre/rave), lee chubby king (hilt fuckaround), a chud convention (87 ambient brap), pre-ohgr (descent II soundtrack), puppy remix, key/goettel solo (resonance)
hot snakes	jericho sirens	2018	us	1

august 18, 2023

obits	moody, standard and poor	2011	us	3
obits	i blame you	2009	us	2
hot snakes	audit in progress	2004	us	1

august 17, 2023

hot snakes	audit in progress	2004	us	1
hot snakes	sucide invoice	2002	us	1
hot snakes	automatic midnight	2000	us	1
drive like jehu	yank crime	1994	us	0
drive like jehu	drive like jehu	1991	us	1
hot snakes	jericho sirens	2018	us	1
hot snakes	audit in progress	2004	us	1
hot snakes	sucide invoice	2002	us	1
coil	everything keeps dissolving ("presents time machines")	2000	uk+ire	1
coil	queens of the circulating library	2000	uk+ire	1
coil	constant shallowness leads to evil	2000	uk+ire	1
hot snakes	automatic midnight	2000	us	1	i learned of the death of rick froberg yesterday.

august 16, 2023

drive like jehu	yank crime	1994	us	0
drive like jehu	drive like jehu	1991	us	1	i learned of the death of rick froberg today.
the black heart procession	two	1999	us	1
the black heart procession	one	1998	us	2
masada	masada sextet live in marciac	2008	us	3
nirvana	breed	1991	us	1

august 15, 2023

jane's addiction	nothing's shocking	1988	us	1
swans	the seer	2014	us	2

august 14, 2023

son lux	alternate forms	2023	us	3
radiohead	the bends	1995	uk+ire	1
jjjjjjjjj	jjjjjjjjj & jjjjjjjjj^2 (maximal recombination)	2023	canada

august 12, 2023

the trivial group	interplanetary isomorphism	2004	canada
the trivial group	the fundamental theorem of poeticity	2004	canada
cycles per second	the spontaneous combustion of leonardo pisano	2004	canada

august 11, 2023

son lux	alternate forms	2023	us	3
future of the left	the peace and truce of future of the left	2016	uk+ire	1
future of the left	travels with myself and another	2009	uk+ire	1
future of the left	curses	2007	uk+ire	1
future of the left	arming eritrea	2009	uk+ire	1
son lux	alternate forms	2023	us	3

august 10, 2023

garbage	version 2.0	1998	uk+ire	1
the trivial group	xenophanes	2004	canada
benny goodman	the best of benny goodman and his orchestra	1990	us	1
benny goodman	bg in hifi	1955	us	1
benny goodman	small groups: 1941-1945	1989	us	1
al dimeola world sinfonia	heart of the immigrants	1993	us	3

august 9, 2023

the trivial group	xenophanes	2004	canada
ministry	every day is halloween	1984	us/cuba	1

august 8, 2023

the trivial group

{e}

2004

canada

august 7, 2023

chester thompson	a joyful noise	1991	us	3
charlie hunter & pound for pound	return of the candyman	1998	us	3
benny goodman	bg in hifi	1955	us	1
benny goodman	small groups: 1941-1945	1989	us	1
al dimeola world sinfonia	heart of the immigrants	1993	us	3

august 6, 2023

the trivial group

{e}

2004

canada

august 4, 2023

the offspring

pretty fly (for a white guy)

1998

us

8

august 3, 2023

benny goodman	bg in hifi	1955	us	1
benny goodman	small groups: 1941-1945	1989	us	1

august 2, 2023

benny goodman	bg in hifi	1955	us	1
benny goodman	small groups: 1941-1945	1989	us	1

august 1, 2023

the smashing pumpkins	pisces iscariot	1994	us	1
trent reznor & atticus ross	teenage mutant ninja turtles soundtrack	2023	us

july 31, 2023

chester thompson	a joyful noise	1991	us	3
charlie hunter & pound for pound	return of the candyman	1998	us	3
benny goodman	bg in hifi	1955	us	1
benny goodman	small groups: 1941-1945	1989	us	1
al dimeola world sinfonia	heart of the immigrants	1993	us	3
the smashing pumpkins	the end is the beginning is the end (fluke promo cd + comprehensive remixes cd-r)	1997	us	3
the doors	the end	1967	us	8
wiseblood	pttm	1991	us/australia	1
antonio carlos jobim	stone flower	1970	brazil	1
john zorn (w/ dave lombardo & fred frith)	xu feng (game pieces vol 1)	2000	us	1
benny goodman	small groups: 1941-1945	1989	us	1

july 30, 2023

benny goodman	small groups: 1941-1945	1989	us	1
benny goodman	bg in hifi	1955	us	1
al dimeola world sinfonia	heart of the immigrants	1993	us	3
chester thompson	a joyful noise	1991	us	3
charlie hunter & pound for pound	return of the candyman	1998	us	3
wolfgang amadeus mozart	piano quartet no. 1 in g minor	1785	austria	5
antonin dvorak	piano quintet in a major	1888	czechia	3

july 29, 2023

ministry	the record colloquially referred to as "psalm69"	1992	cuba/us	1
son lux	tomorrows, I	2020	us	1
the trivial group	all you need	2003/2022	canada
jjjjjjjjj	orchestral works	2003/2015	canada
anamanaguchi	dawn metropolis	2009	us	1
anamanaguchi	power supply	2006	us	1
adebisi shank	this is the second album of a band called adebisi shank	2011	uk+ire	1
adebisi shank	this is the third album of a band called adebisi shank	2014	uk+ire	1

july 28, 2023

benny goodman	bg in hifi	1955	us	1
al dimeola world sinfonia	heart of the immigrants	1993	us	3
chester thompson	a joyful noise	1991	us	3
charlie hunter & pound for pound	return of the candyman	1998	us	3
wolfgang amadeus mozart	piano quartet no. 1 in g minor	1785	austria	5
antonin dvorak	piano quintet in a major	1888	czechia	3
antonin dvorak	slavonic dances (full set)	1886	czechia	5

july 27, 2023

al dimeola world sinfonia

heart of the immigrants

1993

us

3

july 26, 2023

chester thompson	a joyful noise	1991	us	3
charlie hunter & pound for pound	return of the candyman	1998	us	3
wolfgang amadeus mozart	piano quartet no. 1 in g minor	1785	austria	5
antonin dvorak	piano quintet in a major	1888	czechia	3
antonin dvorak	slavonic dances (full set)	1886	czechia	5
al dimeola world sinfonia	heart of the immigrants	1993	us	3
afro-celt sound system	anatomic	2005	uk+ire	5
afro-celt sound system	volume 2: release	1999	uk+ire	2
afro-celt sound system	volume 1: sound magic	1996	uk+ire	1

july 25, 2023

the trivial group	all you need	2003/2022	canada
jjjjjjjjj	orchestral works	2003/2015	canada
afro-celt sound system	volume 2: release	1999	uk+ire	2
afro-celt sound system	volume 1: sound magic	1996	uk+ire	1

july 24, 2023

skinny puppy	last rights	1991	canada	0
skinny puppy	too dark park	1990	canada	0
skinny puppy	rabies	1989	canada	1
skinny puppy	vivisectvi	1988	canada	1

july 23, 2023

skinny puppy	vivisectvi	1988	canada	1
skinny puppy	cleanse fold and manipulate	1987	canada	1
red hot chili peppers	fire	1985	us	1
red hot chili peppers (with dave navarro)	warped	1995	us	1
rollins band	liar	1994	us	1
black flag	drinking and driving	1985	us	1

july 22, 2023

weezer	the blue album	1994	us	1
jjjjjjjjj	orchestral works	2003/2015	canada
jjjjjjjjj	ambient works, vol 1-2	2003/2015	canada
rem	automatic for the people	1992	us	1

july 21, 2023

skinny puppy	vivisectvi	1988	canada	1
skinny puppy	cleanse fold and manipulate	1987	canada	1
jello biafra and doa	full metal jackoff	1989	us/canada	1
bad religion	true north	2013	us	1
bad religion	against the grain	1990	us	1
bad religion	no control	1989	us	1
bad religion	suffer	1988	us	1
dead kennedys	bedtime for democracy	1986	us	1
skinny puppy	hexonxonx	1989	canada	1
skinny puppy	fascist jock itch	1989	canada	1

july 20, 2023

the cure	three imaginary boys	1979	uk+ire	1
coil	musick to play in the dark vol 2	2000	uk+ire	1
coil	musick to play in the dark vol 1	1999	uk+ire	1

july 19, 2023

william orbit	pieces in a modern style	2000	uk+ire	1
karcius	kaleidoscope	2006	canada	2

july 18, 2023

karcius	kaleidoscope	2006	canada	2
sunsquabi	live 2019	2020	us	2

july 17, 2023

i mother earth	scenery and fish	1996	canada	1
adebisi shank	this is the third album of a band called adebisi shank	2014	uk+ire	1
adebisi shank	this is the second album of a band called adebisi shank	2011	uk+ire	1
adebisi shank	this is the album of a band called adebisi shank	2008	uk+ire	1

july 16, 2023

adebisi shank	this is the album of a band called adebisi shank	2008	uk+ire	1
adebisi shank	this is the ep of a band called adebisi shank	2008	uk+ire	1
adebisi shank	this is the second album of a band called adebisi shank	2011	uk+ire	1
colossal squid	swungert	2019	uk+ire	2
genghis tron	dream weapon	2023	us	6
colossal squid	swungert	2019	uk+ire	2
colossal squid	colossal squid	2016	uk+ire	2

july 15, 2023

three trapped tigers	remix or die	2012	uk+ire	3
three trapped tigers	numbers: 1-13	2012	uk+ire	1
three trapped tigers	route one or die	2011	uk+ire	1
cardiacs	guns	1996	uk+ire	3
cardiacs	sing to god	1996	uk+ire	4
rem	so. central rain.	1984	us	1
cardiacs	heaven born and ever bright	1992	uk+ire	2
squarepusher	hard normal daddy	1997	uk+ire	1
three trapped tigers	numbers: 1-13	2012	uk+ire	1

july 14, 2023

three trapped tigers	numbers: 1-13	2012	uk+ire	1
three trapped tigers	route one or die	2011	uk+ire	1
genghis tron	board up the house	2008	us	1
melt banana	fetch	2013	japan	1
nine inch nails	fixed	1993	us	0
nine inch nails	broken	1992	us	1
cardiacs	songs for ships and irons	1991	uk+ire	1
cardiacs	on land and in the sea	1989	uk+ire	1

july 13, 2023

cardiacs	a little man and a house and the whole world window	1988	uk+ire	1
cardiacs	rude bootleg (reading festival, 1986)	1986	uk+ire	1
cardiacs	the seaside	1983	uk+ire	0
cardiacs	archive cardiacs	1982	uk+ire	8
lush	spooky	1992	uk+ire	1
lush	gala	1990	uk+ire	1
lush	mad love	1990	uk+ire	1

july 12, 2023

lush	scar	1989	uk+ire	1
lush	spooky	1992	uk+ire	1	still
eurythmics	sweet dreams (are made of this)	1983	uk+ire	1	again with the short red hair.
david bowie	aladin sane	1973	uk+ire/detroit	1	my short red hair has me feeling very aladdin sane.

july 11, 2023

the trivial group	{e}	2004	canada
jjjjjjjjj	ambient works vol 1 + 2	2003	canada

july 10, 2023

nirvana	breed	1991	us	1
coil	musick to play in the dark vol 1	1999	uk+ire	0
autechre	oversteps	2010	uk+ire	0
lingouf	doeme	2011	france	0
pinkish black	self titled	2012	us	2
the great tyrant	there's a man in the house	2011	us	0
speedy ortiz	major arcana	2013	us	2
screaming females	all at once	2018	us	2
screaming females	desire pathway	2023	us	3

july 9, 2023

rx

bedside toxicology

1998

canada/us

1

july 8, 2023

mammatus	sparkling waters	2023	us	1
mammatus	expanding majesty	2015	us	1
defeater	empty days + sleepless nights	2011	us	1
touche amore	is survived by	2013	us	1
rem	up	1998	us	1

july 7, 2023

delerium

semantic spaces

1994

canada

0

july 4, 2023

mike oldfield

tubular bells III

1998

uk/spain

1

july 1, 2023

a silver mt zion

teddy roosevelt's guns

2005

canada/quebec/montreal

1

june 26, 2023

mr. bungle

disco volante

1995

us

0

june 20, 2023

the trivial group	{e}	2005	canada
the trivial group	throatmotor fragment	2005	canada
the trivial group	impressionist jazz punk	2005	canada
jjjjjjjjj	the symphony of psilocybin induced madness	2006	canada
tetris	the crash	2007	canada
jjjjjjjjj	percussive works	2007	canada
the trivial group	guitar jam demo	2008	canada
tetris	evil is a human construction	2010	canada
the trivial group	grungesong #31415	2010	canada
proverbs	proverbs	2011	canada

june 17, 2023

nine inch nails

piggy (nothing can stop me now)

1995

us

1

june 16, 2023

dead kennedys	fresh fruit for rotting vegetables	1980	us	1
son lux	remedy	2017	us	1
son lux	stranger forms	2016	us	1
son lux	bones	2015	us	1
son lux	alternate worlds	2014	us	1
son lux	lanterns	2013	us	1
son lux	tear	2013	us	1
son lux	we are rising - remixed	2012	us	1
son lux	we are rising	2011	us	1
son lux	weapons	2010	us	1
son lux	at war with walls and mazes	2008	us	1
indricothere	indricothere	2007	us	0

june 15, 2023

garbage	garbage	1995	uk+ire	1
st vincent	st vincent	2014	us	1
st vincent	strange mercy	2011	us	1
st vincent	actor	2009	us	1
st vincent	marry me	2007	us	3

june 14, 2023

indricothere	indricothere	2007	us	0
mammatus	heady mental	2013	us	1
autechre	tri repetae	1995	uk+ire	1
son lux	remedy	2017	us	1
son lux	stranger forms	2016	us	1
son lux	bones	2015	us	1
son lux	alternate worlds	2014	us	1
son lux	lanterns	2013	us	1
son lux	tear	2013	us	1
son lux	we are rising - remixed	2012	us	1
son lux	we are rising	2011	us	1
son lux	weapons	2010	us	1
son lux	at war with walls and mazes	2008	us	1

june 13, 2023

la dispute

somewhere at the bottom of the river between vega and altair

2008

us

1

june 5, 2023

bad religion

the kids are alt-right

2018

us

8

may 30, 2023

die warzau	engine	1995	us	1
autechre	gantz graf	2002	uk+ire	0

may 19, 2023

the smashing pumpkins	pisces iscariot	1994	us	0
the smashing pumpkins	earphoria	1994	us	1
the smashing pumpkins	a version of mashed potatoes on one cd-r	1994	us	9
various	no alternative	1993	us	4
the smashing pumpkins	disarm	1994	us	1
the smashing pumpkins	today	1993	us	1
the smashing pumpkins	siamese dream	1993	us	0
the smashing pumpkins	cherub rock	1993	us	1

may 18, 2023

various	singles soundtrack	1992	us	4
the smashing pumpkins	i am one	1992	us	1
the smashing pumpkins	peel sessions	1991	us	2
the smashing pumpkins	lull	1991	us	1
the smashing pumpkins	gish	1991	us	1
the smashing pumpkins	02/12/91	1991	us	9
the smashing pumpkins	02/09/91	1991	us	9
the smashing pumpkins	6/16/90	1990	us	9
the smashing pumpkins	second 89 demo	1989	us	3
the smashing pumpkins	first 89 demo	1989	us	3
the smashing pumpkins	3/16/89	1989	us	9
the smashing pumpkins	5/10/88	1988	us	9

may 17, 2023

mike keneally + metropole orchestra

the universe will provide

2004

us/netherlands

0

may 16, 2023

steve reich	reich remixed	1999	us	1
cevin key	music for cats	1997	canada	0
jimi hendrix	if 6 was 9	1967	us/uk+ire	1
lenny kravitz	are you gonna go my way?	1993	us	1

may 15, 2023

arvo part	tabula rasa	1977	estonia	0
henryk gorecki	symphony no 3	1976	poland	1
steve reich	new york counterpoint	1985	us	1
steve reich	eight lines (octet)	1979/1983	us	1
skinny puppy	last rights	1991	canada	0
nine inch nails	further down the spiral	1995	us	0
the tear garden	the last man to fly	1993	canada/netherlands	1
barenaked ladies	gordon	1992	canada	1
sonic youth	syr1	1997	usa	0
philip glass	symphony 2	1993	us	0
philip glass	symphony 3	1995	us	1
claude debussy	la mer	1905	france	0
claude debussy	nocturnes	1900	france	0
frank zappa	joe's garage	1979	us	8
steroid maximus	ectopia	2002	us/australia	0
manorexia	the radiolerian ooze	2002	us/australia	0
download	the eyes of stanley pain	1996	canada	0
sergei rachmaninov	piano concerto no 2	1901	russia	0
sergei rachmaninov	piano concerto no 3	1909	russia	0

may 14, 2023

a silver mt zion	13 blues for 13 moons	2008	canada/quebec/montreal	1
david bowie	i'm afraid of americans	1997 v	uk+ire/us	1
philip glass	koyaanisqatsi	1982 (1997 v)	us	0

may 11, 2023

human eye	they came from the sky	2011	us	1
autechre	oversteps	2010	uk+ire	0
claude debussy	nocturnes	1900	france	0
sergei rachmaninov	piano concerto 2	1901	russia	0
do make say think	frederica	2003	canada	0
mahavishnu orchestra	noonward race	1971	uk+ire	1
mike oldfield	qe2	1980	uk+ire	1
the white stripes	black math	2003	us	1
the white stripes	little acorns	2003	us	0
download	the eyes of stanley pain	1996	canada	0
live	where fishes go	2000	us	1
wellwater conspiracy	tidepool telegraph	2000	us	1
godpeed you black emperor	slow riot for new zero kanada	1999	canada/quebec/montreal	0
do make say think	goodbye enemy airship the landlord is dead	2000	canada	1
coil	musick to play in the dark vol 1	1999	uk+ire	0
a silver mt zion	he has left us alone but shafts of light sometimes grace the corners of our rooms	2000	canada/quebec/montreal	0

may 9, 2023

the great tyrant

adorable

2011

us

1

may 6, 2023

inri

why

1998

canada

may 5, 2023

reagan youth

usa

1984

us

1

may 2, 2023

bruce cockburn	if i had a rocket launcher	1984	canada	0
our lady peace	hope	1994	canada	1

may 1, 2023

inri

too cold

1999

canada

april 23, 2023

stone temple pilots

trippin' on a hole in a paper heart

1996

us

0

april 17, 2023

nirvana

all apologies

1993

us

1

april 15, 2023

red hot chili peppers

suck my kiss

1992

us

1

april 9, 2023

my life with the thrill kill kult

the days of swine and roses

1990

uk

1

april 7, 2023

nine inch nails

heresy

1993

us

1

april 5, 2023

rap news

the singularity

2014

australia

0

mar 31, 2023

reagan youth

usa

1984

us

1

mar 7, 2023

crash test dummies

superman song

1991

canada

1

february 12, 2023

sergei prokofiev	scythian suite	1915	russia	2
sergei prokofiev	violin concerto no 1	1917	russia	2
sergei prokofiev	symphony no 1	1917	russia	5
sergei prokofiev	chout suite	1920	russia	2
sergei prokofiev	piano concerto 3	1921	russia	1
sergei prokofiev	piano concerto 2	1923	russia	2
sergei prokofiev	violin concerto no 1	1917	russia	2
sergei prokofiev	scythian suite	1915	russia	2
sergei prokofiev	chout suite	1920	russia	2
sergei prokofiev	piano concerto 1	1912	russia	3
sergei prokofiev	piano concerto 2	1923	russia	2
sergei prokofiev	piano concerto 3	1921	russia	1
sergei prokofiev	the love for three oranges, piano march	1922	russia	2
sergei prokofiev	the love for three oranges, orchestral suite	1924	russia	5
sergei prokofiev	le pas d'acier (orchestral suite)	1926	russia	5
sergei prokofiev	divertissement	1929	russia	5
sergei prokofiev	sinfonietta in a	1929	russia
sergei prokofiev	iron and steel (symphony no 2)	1924	russia	1
sergei prokofiev	the fiery angel (symphony no 3)	1928	russia	1
sergei prokofiev	the proficient prokofiev	2023	russia	1	playlist
bela bartok	the listenable bartok	2023	hungary	7	playlist
depeche mode	the salvageable depeche mode	2023	uk+ire	1	playlist
depeche mode	songs of faith and devotion	1993	uk+ire	6
depeche mode	ultra	1997	uk+ire	6

february 11, 2023

the beatles	the baffling beatles (aka the buckets of paint thrown against the wall album)	2023	uk+ire	1	playlist
sergei prokofiev	scythian suite	1915	russia	2
sergei prokofiev	violin concerto no 1	1917	russia	2

february 10, 2023

the beatles

the baffling beatles (aka the buckets of paint thrown against the wall album)

2023

uk+ire

1

playlist

february 7, 2023

sergei prokofiev	chout suite	1920	russia	2
sergei prokofiev	piano concerto 3	1921	russia	1
sergei prokofiev	piano concerto 2	1923	russia	2
sergei prokofiev	the love for three oranges, piano march + orchestral suite	1924	russia	5
sergei prokofiev	iron and steel (symphony no 2)	1924	russia	1
sergei prokofiev	le pas d'acier (orchestral suite)	1926	russia	5
sergei prokofiev	the fiery angel (symphony no 3)	1928	russia	1
sergei prokofiev	divertissement	1929	russia	2
sergei prokofiev	sinfonietta in a	1929	russia
sergei prokofiev	the proficient prokofiev	2023	russia	1	playlist

february 6, 2023

various artists	a history of satire in clips	2023	global	1	playlist
sergei prokofiev	scythian suite	1915	russia	2
sergei prokofiev	violin concerto no 1	1917	russia	2
sergei prokofiev	symphony no 1	1917	russia	5
sergei prokofiev	chout suite	1920	russia	2
sergei prokofiev	piano concerto 3	1921	russia	1
sergei prokofiev	piano concerto 2	1923	russia	2
sergei prokofiev	the love for three oranges, piano march + orchestral suite	1924	russia	5
sergei prokofiev	iron and steel (symphony no 2)	1924	russia	1
sergei prokofiev	the proficient prokofiev	2023	russia	1	playlist

february 5, 2023

sergei prokofiev	dreams	1910	russia	12
sergei prokofiev	autumnal	1910/ 1934	russia	12
sergei prokofiev	piano concerto no 1	1912	russia	3
sergei prokofiev	scythian suite	1915	russia	2
sergei prokofiev	violin concerto no 1	1917	russia	2
sergei prokofiev	symphony no 1	1917	russia	5
sergei prokofiev	the proficient prokofiev	2023	russia	1	playlist

february 4, 2023

sergei prokofiev	sinfonietta in a	1904/ 1929	russia	5
sergei prokofiev	dreams	1910	russia	12
sergei prokofiev	autumnal	1910/ 1934	russia	12

february 3, 2023

bela bartok	violin concerto 2	1939	hungary	5
bela bartok	the listenable bartok	2023	hungary	7

february 2, 2023

bela bartok	suite no 1 for orchestra	1905	hungary	5
bela bartok	two pictures	1910	hungary	5
bela bartok	four pieces	1912	hungary	5
bela bartok	the miraculous mandarin (suite)	1926	hungary	7
bela bartok	the wooden prince	1916	hungary	5
bela bartok	violin concerto 2	1939	hungary	5

february 1, 2023

bela bartok	suite no 2 for orchestra	1907/ 1943	hungary	3
bela bartok	suite no 1 for orchestra	1905	hungary	5

january 31, 2023

sergei prokofiev	symphony no 6	1947	russia	2
sergei prokofiev	symphony no 4 (v 2)	1947	russia	3
sergei prokofiev	pushkin waltzes	1949	russia	5
sergei prokofiev	summer night	1950	russia	5
sergei prokofiev	cello concerto for orchestra (v 2)	1951	russia	3
sergei prokofiev	orchestral suite from the tale of the stone flower pt 1-3	1951	russia	5
sergei prokofiev	symphony 7	1952	russia	3
sergei prokofiev	the proficient prokofiev	2023	russia	1	playlist
bela bartok	scherzo in c major from (unfinished) symphony in E flat major	1902	hungary	5
bela bartok	suite no 1 for orchestra	1905	hungary	5
bela bartok	suite no 2 for orchestra	1907/ 1943	hungary	3

january 30, 2023

sergei prokofiev	violin concerto no 2	1935	russia	5
sergei prokofiev	suite from romeo & juliet no 1-3	1936	russia	5
sergei prokofiev	russian overture	1937	russia	3
sergei prokofiev	cello concerto	1938	russia	2
sergei prokofiev	alexander nevsky	1938	russia	5
sergei prokofiev	suite from semyon kotko	1941	russia	2
sergei prokofiev	the year 1941	1941	russia	1
sergei prokofiev	symphony 5	1944	russia	2
sergei prokofiev	ivan the terrible pt 1 & 2	1945	russia	5
sergei prokofiev	suite from cindarella no 1-3	1946	russia	5
sergei prokofiev	waltz suite for orchestra	1946	russia	5
sergei prokofiev	the proficient prokofiev	2023	russia	1	playlist

january 29, 2023

sergei prokofiev	american overture	1928	russia	5
sergei prokofiev	divertissement	1929	russia	2
sergei prokofiev	sur le borysthene	1931/1933	russia	1
sergei prokofiev	piano concerto 3	1921	russia	1
sergei prokofiev	iron and steel (symphony no 2)	1924	russia	1
sergei prokofiev	the fiery angel (symphony no 3)	1928	russia	1
sergei prokofiev	divertissement	1929	russia	2
sergei prokofiev	the prodigal son (symphony no 4)	1930	russia	2
sergei prokofiev	sur le borysthene	1931/1933	russia	1
sergei prokofiev	piano concerto 4	1931	russia	2
sergei prokofiev	piano concerto 5	1932	russia	2
sergei prokofiev	suite from lieutenant kije	1934	russia	5
sergei prokofiev	suite from egyptian nights	1934	russia	3
sergei prokofiev	violin concerto no 2	1935	russia	5
sergei prokofiev	the proficient prokofiev	2023	russia	1	playlist

january 28, 2023

sergei prokofiev	iron and steel (symphony no 2)	1924	russia	1
sergei prokofiev	american overture	1928	russia	5
sergei prokofiev	the fiery angel (symphony no 3)	1928	russia	1
sergei prokofiev	divertissement	1929	russia	2

january 26, 2023

bela bartok

the listenable bartok

2023

hungary

7

playlist

january 25, 2023

bela bartok

the listenable bartok

2023

hungary

7

playlist

january 24, 2023

bela bartok	violin concerto no 2	1939	hungary	5
bela bartok	concerto for two pianos, percussion and orchestra	1940	hungary	3
bela bartok	piano concerto no 1	1926	hungary	7
bela bartok	piano concerto no 2	1931	hungary	7
bela bartok	music for strings, percussion and celesta	1936	hungary	8
bela bartok	concerto for two pianos, percussion and orchestra	1940	hungary	2
bela bartok	concerto for orchestra	1943	hungary	2
bela bartok	piano concerto no 3	1945	hungary	2
bela bartok	the listenable bartok	2023	hungary	7	playlist
sergei prokofiev	iron and steel (symphony no 2)	1924	russia	1

january 23, 2023

bela bartok	music for strings, percussion and celesta	1936	hungary	8
bela bartok	divertimento	1939	hungary	5
bela bartok	concerto for orchestra	1943	hungary	2
bela bartok	violin concerto no 2	1939	hungary	5

january 22, 2023

various artists	the zero list	2023	global	0	playlist
claude debussy	nocturnes	1899	france	0
sergei rachmaninov	piano concerto no 2	1901	russia	0
ralph vaughan williams	fantasia on a theme by thomas tallis	1910	uk+ire	0
scott joplin	the entertainer	1902	us	5
pyotr ilyich tchaikovsky	symphony 5	1888	russia	1
irving berlin	puttin' on the ritz	1927	us	0
bela bartok	piano concerto no 1	1926	hungary	7
bela bartok	rhapsody no. 2 for violin & orchestra	1928	hungary	5
bela bartok	piano concerto no 2	1931	hungary	7
bela bartok	piano concerto no 3	1945	hungary	2

january 21, 2023

depeche mode

the salvageable depeche mode

2023

uk+ire

1

playlist

january 20, 2023

depeche mode	the salvageable depeche mode	2023	uk+ire	1	playlist
depeche mode	pipeline	1983	uk+ire	0

january 19, 2023

depeche mode	black celebration	1985	uk+ire	3
depeche mode	music for the masses	1987	uk+ire	3
depeche mode	violator	1990	uk+ire	2

january 18, 2023

depeche mode	a broken frame	1982	uk+ire	7
depeche mode	construction time again	1983	uk+ire	7
depeche mode	some great reward	1984	uk+ire	7
kmfdm	sucks	1993	germany/us	8

january 17, 2023

65daysofstatic	decomposition theory live 091117	2020	uk+ire	2
morton subotnick	silver apples of the moon	1967	us	0
65daysofstatic	disquiet	2020	uk+ire	5
65daysofstatic	utopian frequencies	2020	uk+ire	3
jesus jones	doubt	1991	uk+ire	3
jesus jones	perverse	1993	uk+ire	3
depeche mode	some great reward	1984	uk+ire	7
depeche mode	black celebration	1985	uk+ire	3
depeche mode	music for the masses	1987	uk+ire	3
depeche mode	violator	1990	uk+ire	2
the grapes of wrath	now and again	1989	canada	3
the grapes of wrath	these days	1991	canada	3
depeche mode	violator	1990	uk+ire	2
depeche mode	songs of faith and devotion	1993	uk+ire	6
depeche mode	ultra	1997	uk+ire	6

january 11, 2023

the doors	the end	1966	us	8
neil young	my my, hey hey (out of the blue)	1979	canada/us	8
neil young	hey hey, my my (into the black)	1979	canada/us	8
r.e.m	it's the end of the world as we know it (and i feel fine)	1987	us	0

january 3, 2023

bush	rhineland: 16-08-1997	1997	uk+ire	2	youtube playlist
radiohead	new york city: 19-12-1997	1997	uk+ire	2
spice girls	viva forever (album version)	1997	uk+ire	0
emf	unbelievable	1990	uk+ire	0
jesus jones	right here,right now	1991	uk+ire	1

january 2, 2023

our lady peace	montreal: 29-06-1997	1997	canada	2	youtube playlist
the jesus lizard	new york city: 31-12-1997	1997	us	2

january 1, 2023

dead kennedys	triumph of the swill	1986	us	0
dead kennedys	nazi punks fuck off	1981	us	3
skinny puppy	tin omen	1989	canada	0

2022

december 31, 2022

the dead science	los angeles: 14-10-2008	2008	us	3	youtube playlist
the smashing pumpkins	chicago: 26-10-1996	1996	us	3
moist	toronto: 16-01-1997	1997	canada	3
i mother earth	newfoundland: 18-03-1997	1997	canada	1
age of electric	banff: 11-04-1996	1996	canada	3
blue rodeo	toronto: 13-03-1991	1991	canada	3
blue rodeo	diamond mine live	1991	canada	0
jeff healey	toronto: 17-02-1989	1989	canada	3
54-40	banff: 1995	1995	canada	3
collective soul	montreal: 27-02-1997	1997	us	4
the tea party	montreal: 29-06-1997	1997	canada	2

december 30, 2022

65daysofstatic	utopian frequencies	2020	uk+ire	3
65daysofstatic	disquiet	2020	uk+ire	5
quest for fire	toronto: 27-11-2010	2010	canada	3	youtube playlist
the dead science	los angeles: 14-10-2008	2008	us	3

december 29, 2022

65daysofstatic	kazimir	2019	uk+ire	3
65daysofstatic	fugue state	2019	uk+ire	3
65daysofstatic	looped future	2019	uk+ire	3
65daysofstatic	ptolyweirds	2019	uk+ire	3
65daysofstatic	exvironments, pt 1	2019	uk+ire	5
65daysofstatic	miniatures	2019	uk+ire	5
65daysofstatic	7over8	2019	uk+ire	5
65daysofstatic	decomp sketches	2019	uk+ire	5
65daysofstatic	tempo heavy	2020	uk+ire	5
65daysofstatic	resistor/noise	2020	uk+ire	5
65daysofstatic	exvironments, pt 2	2020	uk+ire	5
65daysofstatic	endings	2020	uk+ire	5
pink floyd	the fletcher memorial home	1983	uk+ire	0

december 27, 2022

65daysofstatic

a year of wreckage

2019/2020

uk+ire

5

december 26, 2022

65daysofstatic	wild light	2013	uk+ire	3
65daysofstatic	we were exploding anyways (w/ heavy sky ep extension)	2010/2011	uk+ire	0
65daysofstatic	wild light	2013	uk+ire	3
65daysofstatic	no man's sky	2016	uk+ire	3
65daysofstatic	replicr	2019	uk+ire	3
65daysofstatic	a year of wreckage	2019	uk+ire	5

december 25, 2022 - happy saturnalia

65daysofstatic	we were exploding anyways (w/ heavy sky ep extension)	2010/2011	uk+ire	0
65daysofstatic	silent running	2011	uk+ire	3
65daysofstatic	wild light	2013	uk+ire	3
65daysofstatic	no man's sky	2016	uk+ire	3
65daysofstatic	wild light	2013	uk+ire	3

december 24, 2022

the smashing pumpkins	oceania	2012	us	4
the smashing pumpkins	zeitgeist	2007	us	4
65daysofstatic	replicr	2019	uk+ire	3
john lennon	happy xmas (war is over)	1971	uk+ire	1
weird al yankovic	christmas at ground zero	1986	us	1
night birds	the less the merrier	2013	us	2
65daysofstatic	replicr	2019	uk+ire	3
65daysofstatic	we were exploding anyways (w/ heavy sky ep extension)	2010/2011	uk+ire	0
night birds	the other side of darkness	2011	us	2
night birds	born to die in suburbia	2013	us	2

december 23, 2022

son lux	everything everywhere all at once (original motion picture soundtrack)	2022	us	2
65daysofstatic	replicr	2019	uk+ire	3

december 22, 2022

the smashing pumpkins	zeitgeist	2007	us	4
son lux	everything everywhere all at once (original motion picture soundtrack)	2022	us	2

december 21, 2022

nine inch nails	broken	1992	us	0
nine inch nails	fixed	1992	us	0
nine inch nails	march of the pigs single	1994	us	1
the smashing pumpkins	atum, act I	2022	us	7
the smashing pumpkins	zeitgeist	2007	us	4

december 20, 2022

the trivial group

bedroom cassette demos ep

2003/2023

canada

unreleased

december 11, 2022

juice media	rap news 22 - the second heliocentric revoluton	2014	australia	0
juice media	rap news 31 - eurodivision	2015	australia	0
juice media	rap news 33 - dope francis	2015	australia	0
juice media	rap news 30 - new world order	2014	australia	1

december 7, 2022

cardiacs	in a city lining	1988	uk+ire	0
peter gabriel	games without frontiers	1980	uk+ire	0
radiohead	exit music (for a film)	1997	uk+ire	0
garbage	#1 crush	1995/1997	uk+ire	1
the tear garden	ophelia	1986	canada/uk+ire/dutch	1

opinion decryption matrix:

0 = a mind-shattering, genre defying outburst of pure creativity. benchmarks. if you were trapped on an island...
1 = an absolutely amazing piece of work that will transcend the ages (a "classic").
2 = what a fucking great album!
3 = good but not great.
4 = hit and miss; should have been an ep.
5 = meh.
6 = what a disappointment; it had so much potential.
7 = yeah, that's pretty fucking awful, but it has it's points.
8 = this is absolutely fucking terrible, and that's why i love it!
9 = it's a "collector's item".
10 = i kept the mp3s and sold the disc.
11 = downloaded strictly for review and then immediately deleted in shame.
12 = let us never speak of this again.


full country list:

cities with more than ten hits identified as major cultural centres and denoted in red.

country			listed	examples
armenia			no	i have previously owned system of a down records but not currently
australia			yes	rap news
	canberra
	new south wales		not yet	inxs will come up
	victoria		yes	jim thirlwell
		melbourne	yes	juice media, jim thirlwell
	western australia		not yet	tame impala will come up
austria			yes	mozart
	burgenland		yes	fennesz
	salzburg		yes	mozart
	vienna		yes	schoenberg
belgium			yes	django reinhardt
	hainault (wallonia)		yes	django reinhardt
	east flanders (flanders)		yes	hooverphonic
brazil			yes	jobim
		rio de janeiro	yes	jobim
canada			yes	tear garden
	alberta		yes	dwayne goettel (aduck)
	british columbia		yes	54-40
		kelowna	yes	the grapes of wrath, andrew judah
		vancouver	yes	54-40, moist, skinny puppy, download, the tear garden, cevin key, delerium, doa, phil western, white lung, images in vogue, elfin saddle, plateau, cyberaktif, dead voices on air, econoline crush, doubting thomas, hilt
		victoria	yes	frankie sparo, hot hot heat
	manitoba		yes	neil young
		winnipeg	yes	neil young, crash test dummies
	newfoundland		yes	hey rosetta
		st john's	yes	hey rosetta
	nova scotia		yes	sarah mclachlan
		halifax	yes	sarah mclachlan
	ontario		yes	quest for fire
		guelph	yes	baby labour
		kingston	yes	bryan adams
		ottawa	yes	jessica murray (inri, jjjjjjjjj, trivial group, proverbs, cycles per second, rabit is wolf, deny everything, ftaa, cynicide collaboration, tetris, j's adventures in guitarland, etc ), bruce cockburn, adam saikaly, coma lodge
		toronto	yes	quest for fire, jeff healey, blue rodeo, i mother earth, our lady peace, do make say think, barenaked ladies, sandro perri, glissandro 70, lullabye arkestra, james anagnoson & leslie kinton, cowboy junkies, animal faces, gowan
		waterloo (regional municipality) kitchener-waterloo-cambridge	yes	kitchener-waterloo symphony orchestra
		windsor	yes	the tea party
	quebec		yes	a silver mt zion
		montreal	yes	a silver mt zion, godspeed you black emperor, karcius, fly pan am, sofa, exhaust, 1-speed bike, re:, hanged up, elizabeth anka vajagic, black ox orkestar, hrsta, feu therese, eric cheneux, clues, land of kush, corey hart, janina fialkowska, leonard cohen
	saskatchewan		yes	age of electric
		regina	yes	the age of electric
chile			kind of	alain johannes
		santiago	kind of	alain johannes
cuba			yes	al jourgenson
		havana	yes	al jourgenson
czechia			yes	dvorak
		prague	yes	the prague quartet
democratic republic of congo			yes	remmy ongala
		kindu	yes	remmy ongala
estonia			yes	arvo part
france			yes	debussy
	auvergne-rhone-alpes		yes	walter gieseking
		lyon	yes	walter gieseking
	grand est		yes	philippe entremont
		reims	yes	philippe entremont
	loire		yes	leo delibes
		montbrison	yes	pierre boulez
	ile de france		yes	django + grapelli
		paris	yes	debussy, django + grapelli, ensemble intercontemporain (boulez)
	normandy		yes	lingouf
		le havre	yes	satie
	nouvelle-aquitaine		yes	ravel
germany			yes	kmfdm
	berlin		yes	einsturzende neubauten, david bowie
	bremen		yes	faust
	hamburg		yes	kmfdm, the beatles, dietmar schwalke
	north rhine westphalia		yes	can
		bonn	yes	beethoven
		cologne	yes	can
	saxony		yes	johann sebastian bach
		liepzig	yes	bach
	saxony-anhalt		yes	handel
		halle	yes	handel
hellenic republic			yes	iannis xenakis
	attica		yes	xenakis
		athens	yes	xenakis
hungary			yes	bela bartok
		budapest	yes	budapest philharmonic orchestra
iceland			yes	bjork, mum
		reykjavik	yes	bjork
ireland			yes	adebisi shank
	connacht
	leinster		yes	adebisi shank
		dublin	yes	u2, my bloody valentine
		fethard	yes	adebisi shank
		wicklow	yes	god is an astronaut
	munster		yes	richard d. james
		limerick	yes	richard d. james
	ulster (including northern ireland)		yes	the ulster orchestra
		belfast	yes	the ulster orchestra
israel			yes	eatliz
		tel aviv	yes	eatliz
india			yes	shankar
	uttar pradesh		yes	shankar
		varanasi	yes	shankar
italy			yes	mascagni, vivaldi
	tuscany		yes	mascagni
		livorno	yes	mascagni
	venetia		yes	vivaldi
		venice	yes	vivaldi
jamaica			yes	mantronik
	middlesex		yes	mantronik
		spanish town	yes	mantronik
japan			yes	melt banana
	hokkaido		yes	ken ishii
		sapporo	yes	ken ishii
	kansai		yes	nobukazu takemura
		kyoto	yes	nobukazu takemura
	kanto		yes	melt banana
		tokyo	yes	melt banana, djoto, yuji takahashi
mexico			no	i have previously owned santana records but not currently.
morocco			yes	daniel varsano
		casablanca	yes	daniel varsano
netherlands			yes	metropole orchestra
new zealand			yes	gloria saarinen
	otago		yes	straightjacket fits
		dunedin	yes	straghtjacket fits, the verlaines
norway			not yet	jaga jazzist is coming. supersilent.
pakistan			yes	nusrat fateh ali khan
	punjab		yes	nusrat fateh ali khan
		faisalabad	yes	nusrat fateh ali khan
panama			yes	billy cobham
poland			yes	gorecki
	greater poland		yes	joanna kozlowska
		poznan	yes	joanna kozlowska
	lodz		yes	koprowski
		lodz	yes	koprowski
	lower silesia		yes	gorecki
		wroclaw	yes	gorecki, moszkowski
	masovia		yes	chopin
		warsaw	yes	chopin, warsaw philharmonic orchestra
russia			yes	tchaikovsky
	bashkortostan		yes	vladimir spivakov
		ufa	yes	vladimir spivakov
	donetsk		yes	prokofiev
	kaliningrad		yes	eta hoffmann
		konigsberg	yes	eta hoffmann
	moscow		yes	sergej bezrodny, alexander malter, olga kern, ussr symphony orchestra,
	novgorod		yes	rachmaninov
	pskov		yes	mussorgsky
		karevo	yes	mussorgsky
	saint petersburg		yes	stravinsky
	udmurtia		yes	tchaikovsky
		votkinsk	yes	tchaikovsky
scotland			yes	shirley manson / garbage
		aberdeen	yes	evelyn glennie
		edinburgh	yes	shirley manson / garbage, chris connelly, scottish chamber orchestra
		glasgow	yes	belle & sebastien, david byrne, howie b
		grangemouth	yes	cocteau twins
		rural	yes	james macmillan
sweden			yes	cat rapes dog
uk			yes	radiohead
	east		yes	depeche mode
		cambridge	yes	david gilmour
		chemlsford	yes	squarepusher
		ipswich	yes	brian eno, photek
	east midlands		yes	tindersticks
		nottingham	yes	tindersticks
	london		yes	cardiacs, pink floyd, spice girls, bush, coil, david bowie, foetus, eurythmics, lush, three trapped tigers, colossal squid, william orbit, the cure, afro-celt sound system, queen, legendary pink dots, jah wobble, brand x, david sylvian, emerson lake and palmer, the philharmonia orchestra, lesley hatfield, rebecca hirsch, the sound, king crimson, atticus ross, coldcut, d*note, nedry, evil ex, la2019, blak nite, summer camp, the orb, adrian sherwood, nurse with wound, current 93, the who, gentle giant
	northeast		yes	mark spybey (zoviet france)
		newcastle upon tyne	yes	mark spybey (zoviet france)
	northwest		yes	john lennon
		liverpool	yes	john lennon, the beatles, paul mccartney,
		manchester	yes	autechre, barry adamson, ghosting season
	southeast		yes	peter gabriel
		abingdon	yes	radiohead
		canterbury	yes	soft machine, alan holdsworth, andy summers, jimi hendrix, fred frith, gong, bill bruford
		pembury	yes	andrea parker
		portsmouth	yes	valerie tryon
		reading	yes	mike oldfield
		surrey	yes	peter gabriel, genesis
	southwest		yes	jesus jones
		bath	yes	tears for fears
		bournemouth	yes	andy summers, robert fripp, bournemouth symphony orchestra
		bristol	yes	fuck buttons, teej
		cheltenham	yes	gustav holst
		cornwall	yes	aphex twin, plug
		cotswald	yes	ralph vaughan williams
		devon	yes	olugbenga
		swindon	yes	meat beat manifesto
	west midlands		yes	duran duran
		birmingham	yes	duran duran, electric light orchestra, black sabbath
	yorkshire and the humber		yes	65daysofstatic
		bradford	yes	allan holdsworth
		doncaster	yes	john mclaughlin
		leeds	yes	juffage
		sheffield	yes	65daysofstatic, cabaret voltaire
ukraine			yes	prokofiev, victor eresko
		kiev	yes	victor eresko
us			yes	the smashing pumpkins
	arizona		yes	duane eddy
		phoenix	yes	duane eddy
	california		yes	weird al
		eureka	yes	mr bungle
		los angeles	yes	weird al, the doors, morton subotnick, the mothers of invention, bad religion, touche amore, weezer, black flag, rollins band, red hot chili peppers, the offspring, jane's addiction, carla bozulich, the byrds, the lovemongers, tool, l7, the hollywood pursuaders (paul buff), dr. dre, juliette lewis, the dogg pound, ice cube, dave navaro, john cage, tranquility bass, baths, the turtles, captain beefheart, blind melon
		san diego	yes	mike keneally, the black heart procession, drive like jehu, hot snakes, obits, diamanda galas, stone temple pilots, scott weiland
		san francisco	yes	dead kennedys, charlie parker, dave brubeck, american music club, sf seals, kronos quartet, spacetime continuum
		santa cruz	yes	mammatus
		stockton	yes	pavement
	colorado		yes	son lux
		boulder	yes	jello biafra
		denver	yes	son lux, sunsquabi
	district of columbia		yes	fugazi, henry rollins, dave grohl, american balalaika symphony orchestra, dj spooky
	florida		yes	otto von schirach
		miami	yes	otto von schirach
	georgia		yes	collective soul
		athens	yes	rem, vic chestnut, hindu love gods, matthew sweet
		atlanta	yes	collective soul
		savannah	yes	the nighty nite
	illinois		yes	the smashing pumpkins
		chicago	yes	the smashing pumpkins, die warzau, rx, benny goodman, ministry, lard, tortoise, 1000 homo djs, aix em klemm, billy corgan, chris connelly, nina paley, my life with the thrill kill kult, eco-hed, urge overkill, deru
	indiana		yes	michael jackson
		gary	yes	michael jackson
	kentucky		yes	adrian belew
		cincinnati (suburbs)	yes	adrian belew
	louisiana		yes	darren king
		new orleans	yes	darren king
	maryland		yes	philip glass
		baltimore	yes	philip glass, frank zappa, chester thompson, animal collective
	massachusetts		yes	defeater
		boston	yes	defeater, new kids on the block, boston symphony orchestra, buffalo tom, jonathan richman, dan zanes, frank black, the pixies
		springfield	yes	speedy ortiz
	michigan		yes	the white stripes
		detroit	yes	the white stripes, human eye, the supremes, stevie wonder, frustrations
		grand rapids	yes	la dispute
	minnesota		yes	paul westerberg
		duluth	yes	bob dylan
		minneapolis	yes	paul westerberg, soul asylum, bob mould
	mississippi		yes	jim henson
	missouri		yes	uncle tupelo
		st louis	yes	uncle tupelo
	new jersey		yes	night birds
		jersey city	yes	al di meola
		new brunswick	yes	screaming females
	new york		yes	irving berlin
		buffalo	yes	goo goo dolls
		new york city	yes	reagan youth, manorexia, steroid maximus, sonic youth, steve reich, lenny kravitz, indricothere, genghis tron, anamanaguchi, john zorn, wiseblood, swans, masada, white zombie, count basie, glenn branca, a place to bury strangers, angels of light, billy cobam, mahavishnu orchestra, bowery electric, cop shoot cop, firewater, beastie boys, patti smith, bob dylan, robert downey jr, angelo badalamenti, lou reed, rick rubin, philip glass ensemble, bang on a can, olga bell, virtual flannel, keith leblanc, flood
	ohio		yes	nine inch nails
		cleveland	yes	nine inch nails, filter, henry mancini, devo
		dayton	yes	breeders
	oklahoma		yes	annie clark
		oklahoma city	yes	the flaming lips
		tulsa	yes	annie clark
	oregon		yes	gaythiest
		portland	yes	gaytheist, the thermals, yuuki matthews
	pennsylvania		yes	live
		philadelphia	yes	the philadelphia orchestra, samuel barber
		rural	yes	live, god lives underwater
	rhode island		yes	charlie parker
	south dakota		yes	russel means
	texas		yes	the jesus lizard
		austin	yes	the jesus lizard, aix em klemm (stars of the lid), zorch
		dallas-fort worth	yes	the great tyrant, pinkish black, st vincent
		houston	yes	kenny rogers
		texarkana	yes	scott joplin
	virginia		yes	aix em klemm (labradford)
		richmond	yes	aix em klemm (labradford)
		rural	yes	patsy cline
	washington		yes	the dead science
		olympia	yes	nirvana
		seattle	yes	the dead science, wellwater conspiracy, jimi hendrix, nirvana, soundgarden, alice in chains, chris cornell, pearl jam, foo fighters, hater, mudhoney, mother love bone, screaming trees, melvins, candlebox
	wisconsin		yes	butch vig / garbage
		madison	yes	butch vig / garbage
uruguay			yes	sergio cervetti
	soriano		yes	sergio cervetti
		dolores	yes	sergio cervetti
wales			yes	future of the left
		cardiff	yes	future of the left
		wrexham	yes	gallops