# What was the last album that you bought? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 11, 2002, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-album-that-you-bought/103025 "2002-04-11T13:23:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RobGraham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8e8cbc/32.png) [@RobGraham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobGraham)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-album-that-you-bought/103025/1 "2002-04-11T13:23:30Z")
Ok, I have an admission. I’m turning 40 this year and it seems that I’ve reached the age where all new music annoys me. Although I don’t believe I’ve actually said it, I have thought the words ‘How can you listen to that noise!?’ when being confronted with something that, to my ears, lacked aspects of music that I appreciate such as tone, rhythm, melody, etc. While I’m willing to accept that my tastes have ‘matured’, I’m not ready for old fartdom or to suddenly discover a liking for the Living Strings Orchestra. I’m feeling out of the loop of what’s going on musically and would appreciate input on what is grabbing this particular group’s interests these days. For the record (no pun intended), the last album I bought (last week) was the movie soundtrack to ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’; an odd little movie but there are some great songs that stick in your head. ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-album-that-you-bought/103025/2 "2002-04-11T14:10:35Z")
IIRC, MC5’s _Kick Out the Jams_. ---
**Author:** ![katiekilldare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/838e76/32.png) [@katiekilldare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/katiekilldare)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-album-that-you-bought/103025/3 "2002-04-11T14:16:06Z")
_The Invisible Band_ by Travis. Fabulous. ---
**Author:** ![nimitz\_42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb8c5e/32.png) [@nimitz\_42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nimitz_42)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-album-that-you-bought/103025/4 "2002-04-11T14:18:00Z")
**Iron Maiden** “Rock In Rio” ---
**Author:** ![Pucette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/278dde/32.png) [@Pucette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pucette)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-album-that-you-bought/103025/5 "2002-04-11T14:22:10Z")
This Desert Life - Counting Crows ---
**Author:** ![El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Elvis_Rojo)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-album-that-you-bought/103025/6 "2002-04-11T14:29:24Z")
“Bedroom Boogie” by the **Red Elvises**. Pretty slow, but still rockin’! ---
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-album-that-you-bought/103025/7 "2002-04-11T14:34:40Z")
I’m sure I’ve bought SOMETHING since, but the last one I can recall is ‘Comfort Eagle’ by Cake. It’s very good. There’s not much out there that interests me now, unfortunately. ---
**Author:** ![LindyHopper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@LindyHopper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LindyHopper)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-album-that-you-bought/103025/8 "2002-04-11T14:48:08Z")
_Car Wheels on a Gravel Road_, by Lucinda Williams. Bought it at her concert, but I haven’t listened to it yet. She played a lot of the songs live, though, and they were really good. ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-album-that-you-bought/103025/9 "2002-04-11T14:53:50Z")
The last **CD** I bought was Abby Lincoln’s “Wholly Earth.” I haven’t purchased a vinyl album in a long time…I’m guessing a used copy of “Good Creek Symphony” for .10 at Plan 9 Records. ---
**Author:** ![Hodge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Hodge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hodge)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-album-that-you-bought/103025/10 "2002-04-11T14:56:06Z")
I bought 2 about a month ago: _Ágætis Byrjun_ by Sigur Rós _Millions Now Living Will Never Die_ by Tortoise Both are excellent recent releases. Not all new music sucks, just everything on the radio (some college stations excepted). ---
**Author:** ![Blind\_Guardian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/df705f/32.png) [@Blind\_Guardian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blind_Guardian)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-album-that-you-bought/103025/11 "2002-04-11T14:58:53Z")
_A Night at the Opera_ by Blind Guardian. \ Incidentally, all you Tolkien fans out there ought to check out their previous album, _Nightfall in Middle Earth_. It’s a concept album based on _The Silmarillion_, and I cannot possibly say enough good things about it. It has phenomenal vocals, a superb blend of metal bombast and acoustic melody, and interludes of sound effects or spoken narration between the tracks for atmosphere. This is without a doubt my favorite album at the moment. If you can find the album, buy it. All right, that’s enough gushing for one day, off to lunch now. \ ---
**Author:** ![EVO95](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/df705f/32.png) [@EVO95](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EVO95)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-album-that-you-bought/103025/12 "2002-04-11T15:00:49Z")
The last album I bought was AC/DC’s **Highway to Hell**. The last CD I bought would be a live Blink 182, which I actually bought for my kid for Christmas, but after listening to an excerpt from “It’d be nice to get a blowjob from your Mom” I decided it wasn’t a wise selection for an 8 year old, so I kept it. ---
**Author:** ![Jervoise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d2c977/32.png) [@Jervoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jervoise)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-album-that-you-bought/103025/13 "2002-04-11T15:11:08Z")
U2 **War** [Regurgitator] I like your old stuff Better than your new stuff [/Regurgitator] Points for the Aussie music reference. ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-album-that-you-bought/103025/14 "2002-04-11T15:11:35Z")
Lets see, it’s not just one, it’s around 10. I can’t even remember all of the names so lets see how many I can get: Iron Maiden: Rock in Rio Blind Guardian: Night at the Opera Witchfynde: The Witching Hour Nightwish: Over the Hills and Far Away Tygers of Pan Tang: Spellbound Blitzkrieg: don’t remember the name Spiral Arcitect: don’t remember Blaze Bayley: 10th Dimention Rob Rock: don’t know Diamond Head: don’t know, has Am I evil on it There might even be a few more that I don’t remember though, I was at a metal show over the weekend and went nuts what can I say. I’ve also got to go out an dget the new Motorhead Album. ---
**Author:** ![yanceylebeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yanceylebeef/32/12290_2.png) [@yanceylebeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yanceylebeef)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-album-that-you-bought/103025/15 "2002-04-11T15:29:50Z")
Last Cd I bought…The Hives Vini Vidi Vicious Last album The Ventures in Space Lord how I love the thrift stores. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-album-that-you-bought/103025/16 "2002-04-11T15:36:55Z")
Two anthologies from National Public Radio…one of Medieval chants and hymns, one of Renaissance music. Justified them as “gifts for the wife,” as she enjoys the stuff as much as I do, which doesn’t apply to most of the music I favor. She outfoxed me by carrying them off to her office to listen to on the computer, without even spinning them here once. Damn her eyes. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-album-that-you-bought/103025/17 "2002-04-11T15:37:13Z")
I can’t remember which was the last CD I bought - it was either Incubus’ _Morning View_, BT’s _R&R (Rare and Remixed)_, or the compilation _50,000,000 DJs Can’t Be Wrong, Vol. 1_. ---
**Author:** ![Fionn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fionn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fionn)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-album-that-you-bought/103025/18 "2002-04-11T15:38:52Z")
_Something in Japanese_ by the Flametrick Subs. ---
**Author:** ![Amidar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@Amidar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amidar)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-album-that-you-bought/103025/19 "2002-04-11T15:40:52Z")
The 3 albums I bought most recently (this past weekend): Chargers Street Gang: “Hop the Bop Apocalypse” (CD) Antibalas: “Liberation Afro Beat Vol. 1” (vinyl) Hawkwind: “Space Ritual” (CD) ---
**Author:** ![super\_head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d6d6ee/32.png) [@super\_head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/super_head)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-album-that-you-bought/103025/20 "2002-04-11T16:14:46Z")
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