Feeding the Monster (Albums Bought Today)

[davy]

 

KMFDM - Naive / Hell to Go  /  Ministry - The Land of Rape and Honey

[lordokrakon]

I'm selling Coheed and Cambria's "In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3" 2XLP on orange and white vinyl if anyone is interested. 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200428387017&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT

[ellaguru]

Jay Reatard - Blood Visions


Jay Reatard - Singles 06-07

But not for happy reasons.

[jm]

Yesterday

Fuuuuuuck.  THAT is the album I was trying to think of that I lost that I really wanted back.

[narlus]

got in 3 Six Organs on LP (empty the sun; luminous night; school/flower) and an order from SS that includes the Mayyors 12" and a Dan Melchior 2LP.

[Benmont Tench]

Vampire Weekend - Contra


KISS - KISS

Re: KISS, my curiosity overcame my disdain for Gene Simmons when I saw this for five dollars. I'm actually rather enjoying it, and also quite surprised that it managed to age so well. I would still punch Gene Simmons in the face if I ever saw him, though.

[davy]

3-disc box featuring one disc each for Goth, Industrial, and Remixes. It actually looks nicer in person than that image would lead you to believe. It's got this faux-leather finish. I dunno if it's any good--haven't popped it in yet--but I'm guessing it's worth the $4 I paid for it. It's got the big names.

[davy]

Finally came in today. I picked it up downtown and popped it in the car stereo on the way to pick up Finn. Nice day, windows were down, and all through the first song I was thinking, my god, this guy. This guy is the real deal. He is making the music I most want to hear. This is just fantastic. And then...then the second song came on. Two minutes that had in it pretty much everything I want out of country music. My breath actually caught. I was smiling uncontrollably. I kept shaking my head, like, how'd he know what I wanted this to sound like? And then, perhaps even more surprisingly, the next song was just as good.

"The Other Side" & "Bread and Water"

While I was there, I picked up my other order, The Maldives, and saw that they were selling the new Spoon CD, which I didn't think had been released. I haven't listened to it yet. Gonna wait til I'm in the mood.

[ellaguru]

Hey, did you give that Hayes Carll album that came out last year a try? Those guys kind of live in the same region of my brain.

[auto-da-fey]

at Amoeba and Rockaway in Los Angeles last week (I think there were more, but this is what I remember):





(with this, pretty sure I now have all of Billy Joel's studio LPs. beat that, Ignatius! (I know you can't have the classical album . . . ?)



this falls into the "I'm too lazy to even download that out of curiosity, but for three bucks I'll pick it up for when I'm stuck driving out of L.A. at rush hour" category, for which it serves quite admirably



my new boss this coming fall is a die-hard Marianne Faithfull fan, and I guess this is my opening salvo, announcing that no measure of ass-kissing will henceforth be beneath me; fortunately, I really like the album, at least the first half

[diesel_powered]

KISS - KISS

Re: KISS, my curiosity overcame my disdain for Gene Simmons when I saw this for five dollars. I'm actually rather enjoying it, and also quite surprised that it managed to age so well. I would still punch Gene Simmons in the face if I ever saw him, though.

I find that in order to appreciate Kiss (or at least pre-disco Kiss) you really have to put the personalities of the members outside the context of the band aside. Yes, Gene Simmons is a prick and we all laughed when Terry Gross called him on it. And let's not forget that Paul Stanley is kind of an asshole, too. (Remember his interview from Decline of Western Civilization II?) But within the context of the band, all of that seems to work. In fact, I doubt they would have rocked as hard if they were the nicest people on earth. Nugent is the same way. Does he rock? Yes. Would I like to meet him? No. Although I can concretely say that my chances of surviving punching any member of Kiss are significantly higher than my chances of surviving a run in with Ted Nugent.

[DanielBurns11]

[Antero]

This album is shockingly good.

There are a couple awful tracks, mind, but the synths on the title track are sufficient to justify almost anything.

[Good Intentions]

This album is shockingly good.

There are a couple awful tracks

You and I have very different ways to count an album as 'shockingly good', apparently.

[Andrew_TSKS]

But keep in mind that the phrase "shockingly good" is extremely relative. Applied to a Slayer album, it'd raise my expectations to the level of near-impossible. Applied to a The-Dream album, it means "there are maybe two and a half good songs on here."

[Good Intentions]

I couldn't praise an album as a whole given a significant amount of middling tracks (you might notice me calling a very large number of albums 'uneven' on that account), and never if it contains straight-out stinkers. I get defensive and cagey around the (compulsary listening, might-just-change-your-life) first six Black Sabbath albums, whose flaws are obvious and many. So I'm definitely not going to call anything 'great' if it doesn't connect with all, or damn-near all, its punches. I mean, the high-points of those Sabbath albums are really goddamn high. My support for those types of mixed achievements are always qualified: "dude, you have to listen to Sabbath, they can be corny at times but when they hit their stride you will be rocked to the core by this new and terrifying sound, overtaking you like a the crushing judgement of fate!'

[Benmont Tench]

Yourmusic'd:


Brand New - Daisy

I think it's missing an insert, as that isn't the cover that I have--mine is a picture of the band members. For the rest who bought this, what insert(s) did yours include?

[Andrew_TSKS]

I couldn't praise an album as a whole given a significant amount of middling tracks (you might notice me calling a very large number of albums 'uneven' on that account), and never if it contains straight-out stinkers. I get defensive and cagey around the (compulsary listening, might-just-change-your-life) first six Black Sabbath albums, whose flaws are obvious and many. So I'm definitely not going to call anything 'great' if it doesn't connect with all, or damn-near all, its punches. I mean, the high-points of those Sabbath albums are really goddamn high. My support for those types of mixed achievements are always qualified: "dude, you have to listen to Sabbath, they can be corny at times but when they hit their stride you will be rocked to the core by this new and terrifying sound, overtaking you like a the crushing judgement of fate!'

Hey, I agree with you overall philosophy here, but I gotta say--I LIKE those medieval sounding instrumentals on Black Sabbath albums. And "Solitude," off "Master Of Reality," or "Planet Caravan," from "Paranoid," are both some of my favorite Sabbath songs.

I guess you have a point with "Who Are You" and maybe "Supertzar," but beyond that I don't want to call any Sabbath track a low point.

[ellaguru]

(with this, pretty sure I now have all of Billy Joel's studio LPs. beat that, Ignatius! (I know you can't have the classical album . . . ?)

Let's see: I don't have that one, Storm Front, River of Dreams or the classical one. But I do have the live Songs from the Attic and КОНЦЕРТ. Do I at least get third prize?

[Black Amnesia of Heaven]

Yourmusic'd:


Brand New - Daisy

I think it's missing an insert, as that isn't the cover that I have--mine is a picture of the band members. For the rest who bought this, what insert(s) did yours include?

I think it's definitely missing something, as it should have that specific cover. I just have the vinyl edition, though, so I can't be certain.

[Benmont Tench]

Yourmusic'd:


Brand New - Daisy

I think it's missing an insert, as that isn't the cover that I have--mine is a picture of the band members. For the rest who bought this, what insert(s) did yours include?

I think it's definitely missing something, as it should have that specific cover. I just have the vinyl edition, though, so I can't be certain.

I haven't found anything on the interweb to suggest that there was an alternate cover, so it seems certain that something is missing. The only concern I have is that every Yourmusic copy has the same issue, as was the case when I ordered JAMC's Stoned & Dethroned from them which had the correct cover but the liner notes were actually from Everclear's So Much For the Afterglow! Three copies later I gave up and paid significantly more for it elsewhere. That will probably also be the case here, but I might as well give them one chance.

[DanielBurns11]

Yourmusic'd:


Brand New - Daisy

I think it's missing an insert, as that isn't the cover that I have--mine is a picture of the band members. For the rest who bought this, what insert(s) did yours include?

I think it's definitely missing something, as it should have that specific cover. I just have the vinyl edition, though, so I can't be certain.

I haven't found anything on the interweb to suggest that there was an alternate cover, so it seems certain that something is missing. The only concern I have is that every Yourmusic copy has the same issue, as was the case when I ordered JAMC's Stoned & Dethroned from them which had the correct cover but the liner notes were actually from Everclear's So Much For the Afterglow! Three copies later I gave up and paid significantly more for it elsewhere. That will probably also be the case here, but I might as well give them one chance.

Yeah, you're missing an insert. In addition to that booklet with the band photo is a single piece of paper with the cover art and recording information on the back. Makes me weary of yourmusic.com...

[narlus]

got the new Major Stars LP _Return To Form_ tonight @ their record release show.

[Antero]

This album is shockingly good.

There are a couple awful tracks

You and I have very different ways to count an album as 'shockingly good', apparently.

"Shockingly good" in the sense of "Hey, this is good!  I am shocked!"  The only song on The-Dream's first album (yeah I had to check it out 'cause of this one) that doesn't abjectly blow is such a precise Prince rip-off that it's almost creepy to listen to.  This one, on the other hand, is expertly-manicured futuristic R&B.

Practically speaking, it's an album that has a number of spectacular highs and some abyssal lows, and even some of the lows show such a clever grasp of pop arranging techniques that you're almost swayed.  Let's say, out of the 12 primary album tracks, 8 succeed and 4 fail (often by being intensely idiotic - "I'm all up on you, like 'Shorty what's up.'").  The successes tend to be incredible - the sonic and conceptual motion over the course of "Fancy" is brilliant, the rumbling synths on "Love vs. Money" caused exclamations of excitement, the duet with Mariah Carey could have worked for Thriller-era Jackson.

And then at the end there's that Lil'-Jon-enabled song about booty which is gloriously retarded and is only salvaged by the unexpected use of barbershop-quartet-sounding harmonies and its own heedless plunge into absurdity.

It's certainly the best mainstream pop album of the year, though.

[edit]: Much better than Lady Gaga, ffs.

[reebty]

Transference is hands down my favourite album of the decade so far. You name any other album released this decade that I've heard and I guarantee it won't stack up.

(You get the idea. I kicked off my 10s collection the other day)