# 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:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Badandi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/73ab20/32.png) [@Badandi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badandi)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2003, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-cd-purchases/198762/21 "2003-08-31T21:06:09Z")
Nick Drake - Bryter Layter Carbon Leaf - Meander Guster - Lost and Gone Forever Dispatch - Bang Bang ---
**Author:** ![Marlow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Marlow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlow)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2003, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-cd-purchases/198762/22 "2003-08-31T23:04:39Z")
Cake - Fashion Nugget David Bowie - Heroes Chet - The Lion Is Outside The Window The Weakerthans - Deconstruction Site Johnny Cash - Unchained ---
**Author:** ![Rabid\_Squirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Rabid\_Squirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rabid_Squirrel)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2003, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-cd-purchases/198762/23 "2003-09-01T01:16:55Z")
Salmonella Dub - One Drop East The Superjesus - Sumo Rob Dougan - Furious Angels ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2003, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-cd-purchases/198762/24 "2003-09-01T02:55:14Z")
For you guys getting into Alt-Country - These are the albums I bought this year, and they are all fantastic. I’ll put a letter grade beside each one representing my opinion: A - **The Jayhawks** - _Rainy Day Music_ A - **The Jayhawks** - _Hollywood Town Hall_ A - **The Jayhawks** - _Smile_ B+ - **The Jayhawks** - _Tomorrow the Green Grass_ B+ - **Ryan Adams** - _Heartbreaker_ A - **Wilco** - _Yankee Hotel Foxtrot_ A - **Wilco and Billy Bragg** - _Mermaid Avenue I and II_ B - **Uncle Tupelo** - _Anodyne_ B - **Son Volt** - _Trace_ You just can’t get enough of the Jayhawks. I highly recommend all their CDs. Other CDs I bought this year: **The White Stripes** - _Elephant_ **Warren Zevon** - _The Wind_ (GREAT CD! Buy it) **Beck** - _Sea Change_ (GREAT CD) **Fountains of Wayne** - _Welcome Interstate Managers_ (GREAT CD) **Jack Johnson** - _Brushfire Fairytales_ (very good) ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2003, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-cd-purchases/198762/25 "2003-09-01T03:16:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by interface2x \* > \*\*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. \*\* Yep, and at some point in the future I’m going to pick up the best of Tears for Fears and Cattle Decapitation’s _To Serve Man_. Probably in the same order too. ---
**Author:** ![Splanky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b2d939/32.png) [@Splanky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Splanky)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2003, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-cd-purchases/198762/26 "2003-09-01T03:59:28Z")
Art Blakey- Ken Burns Jazz John Scofield- Up All Night Bela Fleck and the Flecktones- Live Art I had to re-buy Live Art because I wrecked both disks a few months ago. It is my favorite live CD ever. ---
**Author:** ![Ersatz\_Shmoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@Ersatz\_Shmoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ersatz_Shmoe)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2003, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-cd-purchases/198762/27 "2003-09-01T04:05:51Z")
I personally am loving the aforementioned new Fountains of Wayne album, which I picked up after rediscovering their first album in my CD collection. Shortly thereafter I picked up their _Utopia Parkway_ as well. I also just bought Wilco and Billy Bragg’s _Mermaid Avenue, Vol.1_, but I haven’t listened to all of it yet. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2003, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-cd-purchases/198762/28 "2003-09-01T05:21:15Z")
Finally got the Stones “Satanic Majesty” on CD. On the same trip to the used CD store I got Rick Wakeman’s “Return to the Center of the Earth,” narrated by Patrick Stewart. It was far better than I expected. Today I discovered Tubular Bells 2003, a remake, with John Cleese as Master of Ceremonies. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2003, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-cd-purchases/198762/29 "2003-09-01T05:52:16Z")
In the last month or two: Dire Straits - _Making Movies_ Isaac Hayes - _Hot Buttered Soul_ Derek Trucks Band - _Soul Serenade_ Bill Evans - _From Left to Right_ ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2003, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-cd-purchases/198762/30 "2003-09-01T12:47:52Z")
That come to mind from the past month or two: Tomahawk – Mit Gas The Long Winters – When I Pretend to Fall END – A tribute to Joy Division Year of the Rabbit – s/t Failure – Magnified (I had a copy of the tape from way back when, just needed it on CD) Calexico – Even my Sure Things Fall Through Black Heart Procession – 2 Dan the Automator – A Much Better Tomorrow ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2003, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-cd-purchases/198762/31 "2003-09-01T12:53:01Z")
Patty Duke’s Greatest Hits You hadda ask. ---
**Author:** ![Israfel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/87869e/32.png) [@Israfel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Israfel)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2003, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-cd-purchases/198762/32 "2003-09-01T13:00:04Z")
Alrighty, here were my purchases for August King Crimson- Lark’s Tongue in Aspic Jethro Tull- Benefit David Arkenstone- Another Star in the Sky Music of the Crusades Dimmu Borgir- Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia Dances of the Renaissance Cincinnati Wind Symphony- Postcards Cleveland Orchestra- Ives: Three Places in England/ Ruggles: Sun-treader Also, I paid the $35 to join the Britney Spears fanclub- I have high hopes that I’m the only person to buy a Carl Ruggles album and join the BS fanclub in the same month. But some other lunatic may have beaten me to it. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2003, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-cd-purchases/198762/33 "2003-09-01T16:53:45Z")
Some of this music is like,…esoteric, or something. ---
**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:** [September 1, 2003, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-cd-purchases/198762/34 "2003-09-01T17:01:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Marley23 \* > \*\*In the last month or two: > > Dire Straits - _Making Movies_ > \*\* Somewhere I think I still have this one on vinyl.:eek: I should pick it up on CD… Mark Knopler’s voice is just perfect for late night driving on long, lonely stretches of road when eveybody else in the truck is asleep. ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2003, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-cd-purchases/198762/35 "2003-09-02T01:51:08Z")
I’ve got kind of a mixed bag, but I haven’t found any bluegrass or country lately that appealed to me or that would be in here too. Maybe I’ll have to look up Neko Case and some of that “y’allternative” stuff. The Rolling Stones - Music that matters to them (Some of the band’s favourites) The Four Tops - Early Classics Coleman Hawkins - Battle of the Saxes (Tracks recorded 1944) O Brother Where Art Thou Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra - Georgia on my Mind Ella Fitzgerald - Holiday in Harlem (Tracks recorded in 1936 and 1937) ---
**Author:** ![Corixidae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@Corixidae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corixidae)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2003, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-cd-purchases/198762/36 "2003-09-02T03:58:30Z")
Two albums by [Grey Eye Glances](http://www.greyeyeglances.com): **Painted Pictures** and **Eventide**. Also a single by [Athenaeum](http://www.athenaeum.net/), **What I Didn’t Know**. Hadn’t heard of this group until I listened to a radioio stream of acoustic tunes and this song was playing at the moment the stream started. Otherwise, my music purchasing’s been pretty light for the last year or so. I’ve spent most of my music money on Seattle Symphony and other live performances. ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Macphisto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Ms\_Macphisto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Macphisto)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2003, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-cd-purchases/198762/37 "2003-09-02T04:52:53Z")
Hmm… I’ve been too broke to buy many CDs lately. I think my most recent purchases have been **The Music** and **Radiohead** - Hail to the Thief. ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2003, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-cd-purchases/198762/38 "2003-09-02T06:20:20Z")
Jimmy Buffet - Meet Me At Margaritaville Trace Adkins - Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 The Jimmy Buffet makes a really great set to listen to while on a road trip. ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2003, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-cd-purchases/198762/39 "2003-09-02T11:12:21Z")
Two little new musicals that I loved and that closed like umbrellas: Amour A Man of No Importance And Sondheim’s Assassins, which was in the half-price bin. Wow. I can’t believe I never got around to listening to it. “In the USA, you can work your way To the head of the liiiiiine!” BLAMMO! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-cd-purchases/198762.md?page=1)