July Downloads
I'm gathering this info from all of the sites I'm using just to be a pain in the ass. Join in the fun if you like:
Amazon.com:
David Bowie - Diamond Dogs (30th Anniversary Edition)
I love it when classic rock albums I never picked up before end up as deals over there.
The Bird And The Bee - Please Clap Your Hands
Only listened to it once. Not as good as the debut.
Angus & Julia Stone - A Book Like This
Sweet, sweet music. The kind that makes you stop and close your eyes... (also available over yonder)
AmieStreet.com
I'm only listing those I spent real money on or have already determined are worthwhile (too many unheard freebies)
Billy Harper Quintet - Love on the Sudan
Billy Harper - Black Capra
Billy Harper - Soarn Bushi, B.H.
- I become a bigger Billy Harper fan every time I find more of his music. I just love that sax. Since they went 12 credit over yonder, I finally added money to my Amie Street account.
L'ombre - letting go at the steering wheel
- A freebie, but so far the atmospheric qualities are brilliant.
eMusic
A lot more than usual this month since I didn't use many in June.
Paul Motian - The Story of Maryam
- The last of my saved BS/SN that didn't skyrocket to 12 nps. I'm not sure if I like it or not. Needs further listening.
Spoon - Got Nuffin (EP)
- I will never understand why I don't listen to Spoon more. I love pretty much everything they put out. Great rock. At least get the first track.
Beck - One Foot in the Grave (Deluxe Reissue)
- Already own this classic, but once album pricing kicked in there was no reason not to get the whole thing just for the bonus tracks. And it's really worth it.
Blockhead - Music by Cavelight
God Help The Girl - S/T
- This is more than simple another B&S album. It's great 70s pop music.
V/A - Panama! Latin, Calypso And Funk On The Isthmus 1965-75
V/A - Panama!2 Latin Sounds, Cumbia Tropical & Calypso Funk On the Isthmus 1967-77
- Debated about these, but album-pricing finally convinced me. They really are as worthwhile as the Nigerian comps.
A Broken Consort - Box of Birch
James Blackshaw - O True Believers
James Blackshaw - The Cloud of Unknowing
James Blackshaw - Sunshrine
James Blackshaw - Celeste
url=http://www.emusic.com/album/James-Blackshaw-Litany-of-Echoes-MP3-Download/11227782.html]James Blackshaw - Litany of Echoes[/url]
- I went wild with the long acoustic guitar numbers. James Blackshaw has been on my "to check out" list for some time, and fear of ridiculous credit increases made him artist of the month for me. So far I'm not disappointed.
Delorean - Transatlantic KK
- I think these guys are the definition of "guilty pleasure".
Bob Marley & The Wailers - The Complete Upsetter Singles (disk 2)
- Already got the first disc. Album-pricing made the second disc more worthwhile.
We Were Promised Jetpacks - S/T
- I rec'd this to many people before I even got it. Awesome!
Bill Laswell - Lo-def Pressure
Constance Demby - Novus Magnificat - Through the Stargate
Fernhill - Whilia
The Advisory Circle - Other Channels
Andrew Bird - Andrew Bird & The Mysterious Production of Eggs
Barry Louis Polisar - My Brother Thinks He's a Banana and Other Provocative Songs
V/A - The Philly Sound Get Down
John Coltrane - Coltrane [RVG Remaster]
The Sabres of Paradise - Sabresonic
Lala.com
The Dead Weather - Horehound
- I enjoy Jack White, as long as he's not playing with that crappy drummer chick.
LimeWire
Christian McBride - Live at Tonic
- Held off on this one because of a review I read. That was stupid. Awesome live set.
Explosions in the Sky - Those Who Tell The blahblahblah
Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone
- I really like their music, but never got around to getting more until now.
Konono No. 1 - Congotronics
- Cool afro-beat/world fusion/whatever you want to call it.
Matt & Kim - Grand + Free EP
- They're fun. That's all that I can really say.
Alright, I'm going to edit this more later and add in links and more review. Calls of shill or whore will be appreciated.
Amazon.com:
David Bowie - Diamond Dogs (30th Anniversary Edition)
I love it when classic rock albums I never picked up before end up as deals over there.
The Bird And The Bee - Please Clap Your Hands
Only listened to it once. Not as good as the debut.
Angus & Julia Stone - A Book Like This
Sweet, sweet music. The kind that makes you stop and close your eyes... (also available over yonder)
AmieStreet.com
I'm only listing those I spent real money on or have already determined are worthwhile (too many unheard freebies)
Billy Harper Quintet - Love on the Sudan
Billy Harper - Black Capra
Billy Harper - Soarn Bushi, B.H.
- I become a bigger Billy Harper fan every time I find more of his music. I just love that sax. Since they went 12 credit over yonder, I finally added money to my Amie Street account.
L'ombre - letting go at the steering wheel
- A freebie, but so far the atmospheric qualities are brilliant.
eMusic
A lot more than usual this month since I didn't use many in June.
Paul Motian - The Story of Maryam
- The last of my saved BS/SN that didn't skyrocket to 12 nps. I'm not sure if I like it or not. Needs further listening.
Spoon - Got Nuffin (EP)
- I will never understand why I don't listen to Spoon more. I love pretty much everything they put out. Great rock. At least get the first track.
Beck - One Foot in the Grave (Deluxe Reissue)
- Already own this classic, but once album pricing kicked in there was no reason not to get the whole thing just for the bonus tracks. And it's really worth it.
Blockhead - Music by Cavelight
God Help The Girl - S/T
- This is more than simple another B&S album. It's great 70s pop music.
V/A - Panama! Latin, Calypso And Funk On The Isthmus 1965-75
V/A - Panama!2 Latin Sounds, Cumbia Tropical & Calypso Funk On the Isthmus 1967-77
- Debated about these, but album-pricing finally convinced me. They really are as worthwhile as the Nigerian comps.
A Broken Consort - Box of Birch
James Blackshaw - O True Believers
James Blackshaw - The Cloud of Unknowing
James Blackshaw - Sunshrine
James Blackshaw - Celeste
url=http://www.emusic.com/album/James-Blackshaw-Litany-of-Echoes-MP3-Download/11227782.html]James Blackshaw - Litany of Echoes[/url]
- I went wild with the long acoustic guitar numbers. James Blackshaw has been on my "to check out" list for some time, and fear of ridiculous credit increases made him artist of the month for me. So far I'm not disappointed.
Delorean - Transatlantic KK
- I think these guys are the definition of "guilty pleasure".
Bob Marley & The Wailers - The Complete Upsetter Singles (disk 2)
- Already got the first disc. Album-pricing made the second disc more worthwhile.
We Were Promised Jetpacks - S/T
- I rec'd this to many people before I even got it. Awesome!
Bill Laswell - Lo-def Pressure
Constance Demby - Novus Magnificat - Through the Stargate
Fernhill - Whilia
The Advisory Circle - Other Channels
Andrew Bird - Andrew Bird & The Mysterious Production of Eggs
Barry Louis Polisar - My Brother Thinks He's a Banana and Other Provocative Songs
V/A - The Philly Sound Get Down
John Coltrane - Coltrane [RVG Remaster]
The Sabres of Paradise - Sabresonic
Lala.com
The Dead Weather - Horehound
- I enjoy Jack White, as long as he's not playing with that crappy drummer chick.
LimeWire
Christian McBride - Live at Tonic
- Held off on this one because of a review I read. That was stupid. Awesome live set.
Explosions in the Sky - Those Who Tell The blahblahblah
Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone
- I really like their music, but never got around to getting more until now.
Konono No. 1 - Congotronics
- Cool afro-beat/world fusion/whatever you want to call it.
Matt & Kim - Grand + Free EP
- They're fun. That's all that I can really say.
Alright, I'm going to edit this more later and add in links and more review. Calls of shill or whore will be appreciated.
Comments
That said, here is me:
eMusic
The Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime (Been on my list of needs forever, and with album pricing I jumped)
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois (See Double Nickels)
New Pornographers - Twin Cinema (I'd never really taken the time to listen to them until recently. Now I'm trying to catch up on their catalogue.)
Sonic Youth - The Eternal (Finally popped up on eMusic, so I finally got it.
Amie Street (I'll use the same standards as you)
Discovery - LP (I like the first half, but the second half is not good, not good at all.)
Golden Slivers - True Romance (LOVING this album. I highly recommend that everyone check it out.)
Cass McCombs - Catacombs (Worth a lot more than the $1.54 I paid.)
The Minus 5 - Killingsworth (Lucky enough to snag it for free, Peter Buck and most of The Decemberists perform on the album.)
Young Fresh Fellows - I Think This Is (Again, lucky enough to snag it for free, my wife really likes this one.)
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Shocked this showed up on Amie, it was a no brainer for $4.11.)
Trampled By Turtles - Duluth (Alt-Bluegrass from a Minnesota band, very enjoyable.)
lala.com
The Dead Weather - Horehound (I'm actually a bit disappointed with this one. It's good, but not as good as some are claiming.)
Purchased CD
Buke and Gass - +/- (Fantastic, highly recommended.)
No Amazon this month.
I've also added a bunch of jazz, classical, and '80s stuff I was missing from Amie or the library.
Craig
I'll definitely check out the Cass McCombs and the Trampled by Turtles sounds interesting.
Cass McCombs is just good chill music. I seem to remember it getting mentioned on 17dots for an n/a post recently and one of the writers there worships him.
I grabbed the last Bird and the Bee album (Ray Guns...) a few months ago. It also is disappointing compared to their first.
What are your thoughts on Delorean? That album is getting raves, but I'm not sure it's really my thing as I tend to lean more towards the guitar end of rock/pop rather than the synth end.
Craig
all you meanee-soda's have anything to say about duluth?
You do realize that I'd have had no idea that the mix was stuff you downloaded this month if you hadn't told me, right? I'm not psychic. We'll, I'm not *that* psychic. Be careful on your drive home, by the by.
Duluth. It's a great town. Beautiful view of Lake Superior, the park on the lake is really nice, good hockey players up there, driving up 35 from it is gorgeous and takes you by Split Rock Lighthouse and Grand Marais where you can stop for a pie at Sven & Ole's Pizza, lots of big boats to watch in the water. Good times, but I don't think I could live there. Too small for me.
Craig
Aboa Sleeping by Burning Hearts
Begone Dull Care by Junior Boys
Summer In Abaddon by Pinback
And of bunch of singles. I still can't bring myself to DL something that has more nps than tracks.
@Katrina - Same here, that's why I hit up LimeWire for some of those albums. They have more tracks marked "Album-Only", but that doesn't change the number of nps.
Sonny Terry, Complete Vol 2 (1944-1949)
New York Philharmonic, Mahler Sym 10
London Symphony Orchestra, MacMillan, World's Ransom
Battlefield Band, Best of ...
Herb Robertson NY Downtown Allstars, Elaboration
Jon Fahey, Death Chants, Breakdowns and Military Waltzes
Johann Johannson, IBM 1401 User's Manual
Sonny Boy Williamson, Complete Vol 1
Daniel Taylor, Couperin, Lecons de tenebres
Ivo Perelman, Nowhere to hide
From Amazon
High Atmosphere (Virginia and Carolina Banjo Ballads)
At Amie Street (purchases, not free)
Paul Cram, Beyond Benghazi
Experimental Audio Research, Phenomena 256
Robert Erickson, Auroras
David Marriott, Septology
Merbow, Rainbow Electronics
Phil Manzanera (tracks from Firebird)
Billy Harper, Love on the Sudan
Bergraven, Till Makabert Vasen
Chris Stamey, VOTE
Emusic
Acid Mothers Temple - Absolutely Freak Out (Zap Your Mind!)
- got tracks 2 & 3 from CD1 and track 3 from CD2
Aka Moon - Aka Moon (thought it would be more interesting, but fairly pedestrian prog fusion)
Bembeya Jazz National - Regard sur le Pass
If you're familiar with Otomo Yoshihide and also his group Ground Zero, you know that he can pretty intense and experimental. Try Plays Standards for example. On ONJQ, he actually plays it fairly straight and reins in the experimental tendencies (not completely though).
Including my first ventures into Amie Street.
eMusic:
Quantic And His Combo Barbaro - Tradition In Transition (fabulous Latin album from one of those versatile buggers like Shawn Lee who seem capable of switching styles at will)
Dusty Kid - America (nice subtle electronics)
Various Morr Music - Not Given Lightly - A Tribute To the Giant Golden Book Of New Zealand`s Alternative Music Scene (I wasn't going to bother with this but once I'd started playing the samples the old Morr cravings kicked in and I HAD to get it :-) - wonderful!)
God Help The Girl (disappointing so far)
Spiro - Lightbox (excellent - saw it described somewhere as 'a folkier Penquin Cafe Orchestra' which ticks all the boxes for me)
DJ Kompact - Return of July (terrific bit of breakbeat/downtempo instrumental stuff, plus it's got a topical title :-)
Isis - Wavering Radiant (love the music, loathe the vocals, but I'm starting to notice them less)
Amie Street:
Wheat - White Ink, Black Ink (new Wheat album! I'd forgotten this was coming out so it's a nice surprise and sounds pretty good so far!)
Pelican - March Into The Sea EP
Pelican - The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw (instrumental metal/post rock - a few years old now but a great sound)
Filipsson & Lindblad - A Splendor In The Grass (Disco!)
Desire - II (Italo Disco!)
.tape. - Repainted (stupidly named band make good electronic album and then get loads of TOP people to remix it for them! Can't lose!)
Two Syllable/True Panther CMJ Sampler - TWOTRUE Sampler (free and excellent - not a bad track on it)
Seasick Steve - Dog House Music
Seasick Steve - Cheap (picked these two up for free as well! Good solid blues from a bloke who's become a bit of a star here in the UK)
Boomkat:
Various Leaf - Don't Run Over The Birds Please (cheap sampler with some excellent new tracks. Notably for me - Efterklang, Murcof and Vlad Delay)
Lindstrom - Leftovers EP (2 tracks of disco-y fabness from Mr Lindstrom's archives)
The North Sea - Exquisite Idols (great instrumental music from a band I keep re-discovering every few months. Also on eMusic, but I was out of downloads and it was reduced at boomkat.)
Bleep:
Martyn - Great Lengths (finally got around to this as it was going cheap, wish I'd bought it sooner!)
But to help you cope there's also some very nice guest tracks from Jan Garbarek and Massive Attack! As well as some additional sonic brushwork from Graeme Revell, who is rumored to have done a soundtrack or two. It's also nicely capped at 12 blps - or whatever we're calling them these days - for 16 tracks. Plus the hella great cover art! I know what my next desktop wallpaper's gonna be now...
Double Nickels On The Dime, which I really don't know if I'll like, but I had heard it mentioned before and decided it would at least be in the spirit of the old eMu, getting unknown recs on a whim because they were affordable. And sticking it to eMu now that quite a few of my SFLs are now more nps than tracks and this one is the opposite of that. So yes, it swings both ways - I'd never gotten this before because it was too many nps.
Also
More Oar: A Tribute To The Skip Spence Album, which was a bit disappointing. I only liked about 3 tracks.
From the local library,
Magic Slim & The Teardrops -Midnight Blues
Diana Krall -The Look of Love (that gal has some great gams on her, as well as talent; lovely photo of her on the cover)
The Imus Ranch Record
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Legend (why was my library missing Marley? This is a great album!)
Lykke Li - Youth Novels (OK, probably wont 'listent to it much but I rated track #3 so it will come up in some itunes playlists)
Pearl Jam - Vitalogy (2 songs were rated, OK, I guess)
Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
From another place,
Mazzy Star - Among My Swan (listening now, love it... her 'So Tonight That I Might See' is in my top-rated 90s CDs)
Mazzy Star - She Hangs Brightly
The Lemonheads - Varshons
Morcheeba - The Antidote
Morcheeba - Big Calm
Nouvelle Vague - Nouvelle Vague
edit:
Actually my first post was solely emU, I didn't read your message clearly enough.
I'm gathering this info from all of the sites I'm using just to be a pain in the ass. Join in the fun if you like:
Dr. Mutex is onto something, old habits die hard...I left out the outher sources in my first post.
winky
Blackshaw has been on my eMu SFL, but since the changeover, the one album I picked (The Glass Bead Game ) had more nps than tracks....it turned me off. Maybe my final DLs will go that way. What is your fave Blackshaw track?
three volumes of the Podger/Cooper recordings of Mozart's Sonatas for piano & violin (excellent)***
Treasures of Tudor England , by The Sixteen - more excellence***
The Threepenny Opera by the Orchestra of Vienna Folk Opera**
Handel's Solomon - Beecham with the Royal Philharmonic**
finished downloading Piazzolla's Maria de Buenos Aires**
Giacinto Scelsi : Suite No 10 by Markus Hinterhauser (unable to dl track 5; eMu tells me there's nothing wrong at their end)
Hinterhauser - triadic memories for solo piano (Morton Feldman)**
James Blackshaw, The Glass Bead Game (not sure about this one, but I've only listened to it once)
Caerwen Martin, The Traveller** (1 track, 12')
Pade's Water Colours of Sea by Gert Sorensen (1 track, 29')** I've been listening to Pade quite a lot recently, after she was recommended on the eMu board (by whom? Nerrefid?)
The Low Anthem - Charlie Darwin*
Tracy Grammer - Flower of Avalon**
Mose Fanfan, Hello hello**
Garlic Bread - O'Carolan's Dream*
Fernhill - Whilia**
Ashley Davis - Down by the Sea (I'm rather disappointed by this)
Abdul L'Africain - Gnawa**
Bill Laswell - Dub Chamber 3*
Chi Bu-Lag - a couple of tracks from Wolf Belong to the Mongolian Pasture*
Dinosaur Jr. - Farm (sorry folks, but so far this is doing nothing for me at all. I'll give it another try)
Fairuz - The Baalback Folk Festival*** - this woman can sing.
Cherry/Penderecki - Actions (only one rather distracted listen so far)
Mamou Sidib
Swoon. I didn't bottle my son, but I know what you mean. Will check it out, bondo bottle man.
My son & I, we had classical music and the tit. I can't believe I wrote that. He is a very healthy boy.
...but little, she had to cut off at 14 months. srsly.
Various Artists The Roots of the Cramps
Lee Dorsey Freedom for the Funk
Charlie Parker In Sweden 1950
Cypress Hill Cypress Hill
Various 60 Garage Rock Nuggets
Various Panama!
Various Panama!2
Little Richard Get Down With It!: The OKeh Sessions
Anthony Braxton Duets
Max Roach M'boom
The Great Jazz Trio Autumn Leaves
Sonic Youth The Eternal
Lonnie Liston Smith Explorations: The Columbia Recordings
Stan Getz Captain Marvel
Derrik Morgan Do the Beng Beng
Bad Brains Rise
J Dilla Jay Stay Paid
Bennie Goodman Together Again!
Dizzy Gillespie Four Classic Albums
DJ Quik The Best of
Sonny Rollins Sonny Meets Hawk!
Ahmad Jamal The Legendary Okeh & Epic Recordings
Boz Scaggs Hits!
Barry Miles White Heat
Bud Powell A Portrait of Thelonious
Lonnie Liston Smith Visioins of a New World
Lonnie Liston Smith Expansions
Lonnie Liston Smith Cosmic Funk
Ultimate Breaks & Beats Instrumentals V.2
Yellow Shunshine S/T
Tito Puente Dance Maina
Elvin Jones Main Force
James & Bobby Purify Shake a Tail Feather
Amie:
Billy Harper Capria Black
Billy Harper Soran Bushi
Billy Harper Love on the Sudan
Dizzy Gillespie/Mittchel Ruff Duo S/t
Afrique Soul Makosa
Blue Mitchell Graffiti Blues
Slaid Cleaves -- Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away
Chuck Mead -- Journeyman's Wager
Deer Tick -- War Elephant and Born on Flag Day
Various -- Rural Blues Vol. 2
Bessie Smith -- Greatest Hits
Various -- Creole Kings of New Orleans
Jesse Dayton -- Tall Texas Tales
Little Esther Phillips -- Mistrustin & Decievin' 1949-1952
Esquivel -- Esquivel Remixed
In refresh tomorrow I am going to the Basic plan of 24 dl's, at least them I can try and get 2 longer albums for 12 each. Will be a big comedown after years of gorging ...
Craig: Until recently, Twin Cinema was my favorite album of the decade. I've now played it so often that I'm burnt-out on the disc, but everything they've recorded is worthwhile-to-outstanding. I especially love the layered, cascading harmonies of The Bleeding Heart Show and the close-harmonies in the chorus of Sing Me Spanish Techno.
I'm still on vacation, so it's hard for me to post a list of what I downloaded in July. But maybe I shouldn't, anyway -- it's mostly Sony stuff, and perhaps wouldn't be well-received. Still, I picked up lots of great titles (Jack Johnson; Time Out; Mingus Dynasty; Into The Gap; Miseducation of Lauryn Hill; among others).
As for Sony stuff, we ALL have Sony stuff in our collection somewhere. Post it up when you are back in town.
Craig
And please post your list. Nothing more than a light ribbing from us, honest! Just to be fair, I'll mention the 3 Sony tracks I actually have d/l'd but forgot to list:
The Fifth Dimension - "Wedding Bell Blues" from The Age of Aquarius (why the hell do I love this song so much?)
Modest Mouse - "You're The Good Things" from Everywhere and His Nasty Parlour Tricks (one of the first MM tracks I ever really got into)
Chantal Kreviazuk - "Leaving on a Jet Plane" from The Armageddon Soundtrack (love her cover)
@ Katrina - I'll start an August thread once I actually get some nps to spend!
Hard question. As of right now, I'd say either Burial's Untrue (which is strange for me to say now, because summer is precisely the wrong season for dubstep) or The Knife's Silent Shout. But there are at least 20 discs that, on any given day, could be my No. 1:
Richard Hawley Cole's Corner
Books The Lemon of Pink
Calexico Feast of Wire
Clientele Suburban Light
Clinic Internal Wrangler
Ellen Alien & Apparat Orchestra Of Bubbles
Tinariwen Aman Iman: Water Is Life
Gavin Bryars/Philip Jeck/Alter Ego The Sinking Of The Titanic
GhostFace FishScale
The Hold Steady Boys & Girls In America
Iron & Wine The Creek Drank The Cradle
Lewis Taylor The Lost Album
Low The Great Destroyer
M.I.A. KALA
Wilco Kicking Television
Radiohead In Rainbows
The Raveonettes Lust Lust Lust
Studio West Coast
Sun Kil Moon Ghosts Of The Great Highway
The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops, Vol. I
It's been a good decade for pop discs. It's been a good decade for pop singles, too, but that's a different topic -- involving more mainstream pop fare -- for a different day (or at least a different post).
Just got home. I'll work on this later today.
Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
Elvis Presley - Sunrise
Benny Goodman - 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert Plus 1944-47 Small Group and Big Band Masterpieces
Robyn Hitchcock - I Often Dream of Trains
Nick Lowe - Jesus of Cool (Reissue)
Thom Yorke - Harrowdown Hill (single)
Spoon - Got Nuffin
Cheap Trick - Cheap Trick
Delorean - Ayrton Senna
From Amie Street:
Fats Domino - Legends of Rock Series
Gene Autry - The Best of Gene Autry
Madness - The Liberty of Norton Folgate
Carmen McRae - The Ultimate Carmen McRae
Perez Prado - Mambo No. 5
Robert Pete Williams - Graveyard Blues
Altair Nouveau - Space Fortress
Golden Silvers - True Romance
Black Meteoric Star - Black Meteoric Star
Lindstrøm - Plauge the Kid
Champion Jack Dupree - Drunk Again
Animal Collective - Summertime Clothes
Django Reinhardt - The Jazz Age Volume 6
Bix Beiderbecke - The Jazz Age Volume 5
Jimmie Lunceford - The Swinging Sounds of Jimme Lunceford and His Big Band
Django Reinhardt - Jazz Guitar Virtuoso
Blind Lemon Jefferson - Black Snake Moan
Dizzy Gillespie - All the Things You Are
From Amazon:
The Dodos - Time to Die
Explosions in the Sky - How Strange, Innocence
Duke Ellington - Best of Duke Ellington
The Scorpions - Love at First Sting