I’ve never bought an album myself, but the last one purchased for me was Tiffany…
I can’t quite remember which CD I bought last, since I got them around the same time: Jimmy Eat World “Bleed American”; Hoobastank “Hoobastank”; Nickleback “Silver side up”; and Jeremiah Freed "Jeremiah Freed ". However, I don’t have the same version of the Freed cd that’s on cdnow, I bought the indie version locally. I hope they make it big, because they’re fantastic.
I’ll have to hijack here…a friend of mine also makes this distinction. He insists that “album” means a vinyl disc. To me, that’s a “record”, and “album” means any collection of music, regardless of the medium. So you can have an album on CD, tape, of record (or 8-track, if you’re really old;) )
Maybe I should start a poll…
Off to IMHO, our forum for polling.
Last album I purchased: Music from the Ether: Original Works for Theremin / Lydia Kavina playing the theremin.
Sheik Yerbouti by Frank Zappa
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Live at the Fillmore East by Jimi Hendrix
Jesus. No wonder our Cafe Society jazz threads get hardly any views.
The last CD I bought was Alan Jackson’s Drive.
The last three CDs I purchased were:
Yeesh… bought? Not downloaded from audiogalaxy? Bought a cd of classical guitar music yesterday. Excellent stuff. Before that, my fiance bought me the LOTR soundtrack. Yes, I have heard of Blind Guardian. Before that, Hildegarde of Bingen, Vision
Um, I have a lot of VNV Nation, Covenant, and And One. Heavy goth and classical. I’m 23. Hey! I just gave away Guinastasia’s age!
Ben Folds’ Rockin’ The Suburbs. Sometimes I feel guilty for going to the mall on Sept. 11 to buy it. But it’s a very good CD.
42 years old.
Most recent CD purchase was probably Odd Times by Rabih Abou Khalil. Oud with harmonica, tuba, frame drums, bass guitar, etc.
I’m also in the process of ripping my vinyl onto the iMac. The Griffin iMic rules!
Favorite vinyl rips:
Fear No Evil by Bill Laswell
Horses and Trees by Ginger Baker.
Both albums feature most of the same personnel: Nicky Skopelitis, Bernie Worrell, Shankar, Aib Dyieng…
Plus they both fit onto one CD in standard audio format.
Bill Laswell was the producer/chief instigator of the Ginger Baker album and I believe plays bass guitar on it as well.
Bill Laswell is the evil monster god of strange twisted music. I recommend his stuff highly:
Material, Praxis, his solo stuff… he has more incarnations than Shirley MacLaine. :rolleyes:
Live Phish 7-12. Seventeen CDs, for the true geek only. 7-9 are OK; 10-12 are transcendent.
Sidebar: I pre-ordered these CDs in February, and my card was charged at that time. After I got them on Friday, I got an e-mail from Phish Dry Goods telling me that they had decided to reduce the price on all the Live Phish bundles by $10, and since they didn’t want to punish their loyal pre-ordering customers, I would have $10 refunded to my Visa. Best customer service ever!
I also got Stankonia, by Outkast. It didn’t live up to its hype, but I’ve only listened to it twice. I usually require more listens than that for a full opinion.
Dr. J
Who’s Next
I last bought:
Drowningman - Busy Signal at the Suicide Hotline
Slint - Tweez
Pixies - Surfer Rosa
Death Cab For Cutie - We Have The Facts and We’re Voting Yes
It’s been awhile because I don’t buy CD’s often, but my last was
Tool - Lateralus
“Handcream for a Generation” by Cornershop.
Top album for the summer.
CDs, all bought at the same time:
Prime Prine - John Prine. Replacing a lost favorite.
Songs From The Rain - Hothouse Flowers. Ugh, a big disappointment.
Tremolo - Blue Rodeo. Pleasant, but nothing special.
Transit - A.J. Croce. I liked it at first, but I’m beginning to hate it. I hope his other albums are better.
The Koln Concert - Keith Jarrett. I will be buying lots more of his stuff if it’s all this good.
The last vinyl album I bought, last year, was a used copy of Preservation Act 1 by the Kinks. Three bucks at a local junk store.
I never actually buy then now I download from MP3 pay sites much quicker 2.
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I’m 32. I believe the last album I bought was Queen - A Night at the Opera.
The last new album I bought was probably a-ha - Minor Earth Major Sky. But then, with a two-year-old, I don’t get to listen to the radio or get to the music store all that often :eek:
I’ve gone from being a twenty-five year old with literally thousands of LPs on vinyl to a thirty-eight year old with maybe 60 or 70 CDs (the vinyl was all pretty much wiped out in the aftermath of a fire in my apartment building in 1994). I’ve purchased plenty of CDs for the kids recently – the Wiggles, Raffi, Tom Chapin, et al., but I’m pretty sure the last things I bought for myself were:
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[li]Kirsty MacColl, The One and Only (a compilation of B-sides, alternate versions, and various other obscurities)[/li][li]Neko Case and Her Boyfriends, Furnace Room Lullabye[/li][/ul]
I bought both the same day – 9/13/01 – to have something to listen to while I was stuck in Chicago during the grounding of all domestic flights after 9/11. Actually, I bought one other item a couple of days later – I was driving to Kansas City from Chicago in a rental car that had a CD player, and when I stopped to eat in Des Moines I went into a mall music store and picked up the two-disc set The Story of the Clash, mainly to have something besides those other two CDs to listen to on the drive.