# Recent CD Purchases? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 31, 2003, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-cd-purchases/198762 "2003-08-31T05:02:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cahyay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Cahyay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cahyay)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2003, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-cd-purchases/198762/1 "2003-08-31T05:02:50Z")
There may be a similar topic to this, but I scrolled and scrolled and didn’t find one. So, here goes. What music have your recently purchased? I buy a lot of music, but I’m always looking for new names. In the last week I bought: Gillian Welch’s “Soul Journey”–depressingly fabulous Damien Rice’s “O”–Good, but not what I was expecting. Franky Perez’s “Poor Man’s Son”–Really good. It pop/rock, but it’s done well. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2003, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-cd-purchases/198762/2 "2003-08-31T05:13:09Z")
Ace of Base, Greatest Hits King’s X, Black Like Sunday Rain Fell Within, Refuge After Forever, Decipher Within Temptation, Mother Earth Ministry, The Land Of Rape And Honey ---
**Author:** ![Avalonian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@Avalonian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avalonian)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2003, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-cd-purchases/198762/3 "2003-08-31T05:47:25Z")
Recent purchases in our house: Hybrid - “Wide Angle” Orbital - “The Altogether” James Newton Howard - “Signs” (score) Fiona Apple - “Across the Universe” (unfortunately, this CD arrived snapped cleanly in two… gotta find another one) Coldplay - “A Rush of Blood to the Head” Don Henley - “Building the Perfect Beast” Just bid on tonight on eBay: Thomas Newman - “Erin Brockovich” (score) Peter Gabriel - “Up” ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2003, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-cd-purchases/198762/4 "2003-08-31T08:23:34Z")
_Elephant_ - The White Stripes _ELO’s Greatest Hits_ - Electric Light Orchestra ---
**Author:** ![starman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@starman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/starman)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2003, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-cd-purchases/198762/5 "2003-08-31T09:56:19Z")
Something for Kate - “The Official Fiction” The Sleepy Jackson - “Lovers” -Oli ---
**Author:** ![Husker\_Dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Husker\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Husker_Dude)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2003, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-cd-purchases/198762/6 "2003-08-31T14:24:12Z")
My music purchases from the month of August in chronological order: Dinosaur Jr. - Bug\* Dinosaur Jr. - You’re Living All Over Me\* Ride - Nowhere\* Sugar - Copper Blue\* Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Hearts of Oak Manitoba - Up In Flames Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy - I See A Darkness\* Stephen Malkmus - Pig Lib The Microphones - Glow Pt. 2\* The Smiths - Strangeways, Here We Come\* Brian Eno - Here Comes The Warm Jets\* The Mountain Goats - All Hail West Texas\* The Mountain Goats - Tallahassee\* TV On The Radio - Young Liars EP Songs: Ohia - Magnolia Electric Co.\* The Pixies - Complete B-Sides\* Guded By Voices - Earthquake Glue It was a good month. - Bought used ---
**Author:** ![Intaglio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/71e660/32.png) [@Intaglio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intaglio)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2003, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-cd-purchases/198762/7 "2003-08-31T14:56:51Z")
Live - Birds of Prey ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2003, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-cd-purchases/198762/8 "2003-08-31T18:06:54Z")
Okay, **ultrafilter** , let me see if I got this right. First there is this: > [@](#): > > Ace of Base, Greatest Hits And then, there is this: > [@](#): > > Ministry, The Land Of Rape And Honey ? Hmmm. ---
**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2003, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-cd-purchases/198762/9 "2003-08-31T18:22:44Z")
Greendale, Neil Young & Crazy Horse The Wind, Warren Zevon That’s right. I’m an old guy. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2003, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-cd-purchases/198762/10 "2003-08-31T18:33:26Z")
Last week I bought “Blacklisted” by Neko Case, and I haven’t stopped listening to it. Neko Case is a girl singer in the alt-country genre (which I once heard referred to as “y’allternative”). She is Canadian, she’s a redhead, and she’s drop-dead gorgeous. And on “Blacklisted,” her third album (but the first one I’ve heard), she just about slays me with sultry, smoky, sad songs about love and loss and madness. The songs all exude a dark, cinematic quality that I love. Neko sounds like classic country singer Patsy Cline one moment, and alternative music vixens like Tori Amos or Mazzy Star’s Hope Sandoval the next. Neko also sings in a Candian pop-rock group called the New Pornographers (who took their name from a quote from Jerry Falwell, who said “music is the new pornography.”) I discovered them first, with their brilliant second album “Electric Version,” and that led me to seek out lovely Neko’s solo work. The best songs on “Electric Version” are the two she sings lead on: “The Laws Have Changed” and “All For Swinging You Around.” Apparently there is a video floating around MTV2 or MuchMusic for one or both of these songs, but I’ve never seen it. Anyway, I’ve always been a fan of rockabilly music, its punk-inspired offshoot psychobilly, Western swing a la Bob Wills, old honky-tonk style country, surf music with its twangy, reverb-drenched guitars, and anything by Johnny Cash, Tom Waits, and Mike Ness (of Social Distortion fame). Now I’m getting into alt-country music in a big way, thanks to these other influences. For the first time in years, there are a ton of artists I want to check out, and new CDs I want to buy. Of course Best Buy doesn’t carry the majority of them, and we don’t have a hipster indie record store in Miami (believe it or not). ---
**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2003, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-cd-purchases/198762/11 "2003-08-31T18:39:44Z")
Kathleen Edwards is a Canadian whose music has been described as “Alt-Country”. I’m not a country music fan but I love her album “Failer”, another recent purchase. (I didn’t know anybody thought of it as Alt-Country when I bought it, I just knew that it had great lyrics, pretty melodies and frequently _ROCKS!_) Highly recommended. But you don’t know me and I don’t know you. ---
**Author:** ![Electronic\_Chaos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Electronic\_Chaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electronic_Chaos)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2003, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-cd-purchases/198762/12 "2003-08-31T18:46:40Z")
“Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy” by Mindless Self Indulgence just a couple weeks ago. Before that was…“Adrenaline” by Deftones a few months ago. Money hasn’t exactly been flowing for me lately, so my music collection hasn’t been expanding as much as I’d like. ---
**Author:** ![Sacrilegium](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f05b48/32.png) [@Sacrilegium](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sacrilegium)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2003, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-cd-purchases/198762/13 "2003-08-31T18:48:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Big Bad Voodoo Lou \* > \*\*Neko Case is a girl singer in the alt-country genre (which I once heard referred to as “y’allternative”). She is Canadian, she’s a redhead, and she’s drop-dead gorgeous. > \*\* You sure about that Canadian part? She was born in Virginia and considers Tacoma, Washington home. She lived in Canada for a while, but not any longer. [cite](http://www.mintrecs.com/bands/speak/neko/neko.html) I saw her open for Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds last year, which was my first exposure to her music. I also dig _Blacklisted_, especially the title track. > [@](#): > > \*\* > Now I’m getting into alt-country music in a big way, thanks to these other influences. For the first time in years, there are a ton of artists I want to check out, and new CDs I want to buy. \*\* Sounds like you’re at about the same place I was early last year. My favorite out of the bands I’ve discovered is [Sixteen Horsepower](http://16horsepower.net/). If you love the depressing, moody sound of _Blacklisted_ you should definitely pick up Sixteen Horsepower’s _Folklore_. I’d also recommend [Tarantella](http://www.taran-tella.com/), [Myssouri](http://www.myssouri.com/), [Molasses](http://www.alien8recordings.com/molasses.php3) and [Trailer Bride](http://www.bloodshotrecords.com/bands.php3?bandid=25). ---
**Author:** ![Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krisfer_the_Cat)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2003, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-cd-purchases/198762/14 "2003-08-31T18:55:07Z")
Korn… hey it seemed like a good idea at the time! ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2003, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-cd-purchases/198762/15 "2003-08-31T18:56:15Z")
**Sacrilegium** and **randwill** , I’ll definitely look into your alt-country recommendations. In particular, I’ve heard nothing but great things about Trailer Bride. What I’d love is a gift certificate to just go crazy ordering CDs from Bloodshot Records! Their website has been a wealth of information and provides great reviews and info about their artists. ---
**Author:** ![big\_alex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e56c9b/32.png) [@big\_alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/big_alex)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2003, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-cd-purchases/198762/16 "2003-08-31T18:59:41Z")
The Darkness debut album, which I haven’t listened to yet. The Thrills - So Much for the City Ocean Colour Scene - North Atlantic Drift ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2003, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-cd-purchases/198762/17 "2003-08-31T19:06:46Z")
I was feeling nostalgic all week, so it’s mostly stuff I loved in college but had to sell back the CDs to pay for textbooks or food. **Poi Dog Pondering** - _In Seed Comes Fruit_. They keep changing, and they lost me somewhere in the past couple of years, but I like the first track on their new album a lot. I haven’t heard the rest of it yet. **Manu Chao** - _Clandestino_. Kept meaning to buy this one, but it’s now out of print; I had to buy a used copy online. It’s one of those albums you have to listen to the whole way through. **The B-52’s** - _Wild Planet_ and _Mesopotamia_. Bought via the Apple Music Store. **Fishbone** - _Truth and Soul_. How could I possibly have traded this CD in? It’s a classic. ---
**Author:** ![Delly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Delly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Delly)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2003, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-cd-purchases/198762/18 "2003-08-31T19:07:13Z")
Evanescence - Fallen My Private Nation - Train Dont think I bought anything else recently ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2003, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-cd-purchases/198762/19 "2003-08-31T20:37:29Z")
Lewis Black- The End of the Universe Undercover S. K. A.- We’ve Come For Your Daughters (my friend’s band) ---
**Author:** ![percypercy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8baadc/32.png) [@percypercy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/percypercy)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2003, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-cd-purchases/198762/20 "2003-08-31T20:53:14Z")
Loaded- Velvet Underground and man do I like it. -Lil [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-cd-purchases/198762.md?page=2)