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decided to make a thread separate from the Hiphop one
here was my post from this week
8 JJ Cale albums :
* 2CD set anthology
* box w/ 5 albums : Naturally - 8 - Troubadour - Shades - Grasshopper
* separate album : Really
a steal for less than $25 for 8 discs, good deal
for about $70 I've got these coming in for Xmas, for a total of 19 discs
Poison - Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Helloween - Traffic - Peter Frampton - Humble Pie - Nightwish (all comps, most are double disc sets)
Gary Moore : 5 album budget set
Thin Lizzy - 'Johnny The Fox'
ELO - 'Out Of The Blue'
JJ Cale - 'Five'
Steely Dan - 'The Very Best Of' (double disc) - shoutout to b-dolo
Electric Light Orchestra - 5 album budget box set
$20 for the lot
can't wait for my Xmas bonus to drop to do some more shopping lol. listening to the Humble Pie compilation right now that I received today. good ish!
Good pick with double disc of hits. They have way too many hits for one disc.
^^can't wait for the set to arrive to dive into the songs (singles) I'm not familiar with
ordered in inordinate amount of Fleetwood Mac today on the strengff or my Xmas bonus. after new years I'm gonna slow down on the buying, monthly buys still but at a lower total price, and stash some pesos away for when my lower wage kicks in come September/October 2021. I need me some Iron Maiden, Venom, Cold Chisel in January or February (all suggestions I got from here). my Amazon shopping list has 600 albums by now, which turns out to be the maximum (over here) you put on your list of items to buy later
I went for Fleetwood Mac after hearing 'The Chain' used in 'Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol.2' on tv yesterday. such a great band. those movies have good soundtrack too
I've also got a lot of Uriah Heep, Styx and UFO albums coming my way for free next year when I meet up with my buddy who initiated me in rock and who has recently bought remasters so he can gift me the original albums. due to COVID and both his and my health we are not currently meeting up but we're staying in touch online a lot
enjoying that Steely Dan comp now
there's a Wu connection too
only a EUROCUCK would attempt a Doctor Wu / Wu-Tang mash up. please don't make it happen lol
apparently there's even a Steely Dan tribute band out there called Doctor Wu
^^so this would be their signature song, I take it. they sound pretty good as far tribute bands go
I can't be the only one still buying albums occasionally lol?
maybe everyone is doing the streaming thing these days?
anyway, on Satan's recommendation I bought some Alice Cooper albums. I found 2 super cheap budget boxes with 10 albums, for less than $3 a disc it was a real steal
Satan, all your suggestions are included like Killer and Welcome to my nightmare
but there's also
Pretties for you
Easy action
Love you to death
School's out
Billion dollar babies
Muscle of love
Alice Cooper goes to Hell
The Alice Cooper show (a live album I guess)
I read worst to best ranked albums list for AC first and it seems like most of the good albums are included here? the two popular hair metal albums from the late eighties and the early nineties aren't in the package, nor are some of his latter day more heavy metal oriented efforts. I might still invest in Hey Stoopid later
I had not realized so many Steely Dan songs had been sampled in hip-hop tracks by the likes of Kanye, DOOM and KNS (the guy who produced 'Deja Vu [Uptown])Quote:
Originally Posted by Hal Incandenza
I know of the Kayne song and LT&PG song(uptown). Which doom song samples Steely Dan?
^^also 'Black Cow', the vocal snippet of 'You were very high' and I think also some instrumental portion later on in the song - so not the famous bass line ('Uptown')
btw today I bought comps of 10CC, Ram Jam (the guys who sang 'Black Betty') and Chris Rhea. I also copped that famous eighties 'A very special Christmas' comp w/ the red Keith Haring picture on the front. it has A LOT of really famous eighties artists on it, including Springsteen, Bon Jovi, Madonna etc. they're all heavy hitters. I copped it for one track though, Stevie Nicks' version of 'Silent Night' - I just love her voice. This is also the album that has 'Christmas in Hollis' by Run DMC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Very...istmas_(album)
I said 'famous' but tbh I myself had never heard of it. looks like this was put together for the Special Olympics?
I was gonna buy some Billy Joel too, but I'm trying to hold off on buying some releases till January comes round lol. got some Australian CDs waiting in line too
Hal, your buying some major amounts of music. Big ups to you, I only tend to buy about 1 to 2 CD's monthly. When do you tend to listen to your music? What activities in such, like: driving,working, getting blazed,etc.
I listen to music in the morning, over and after breakfast and then again during the other meals. I also listen while I'm on the computer. sometimes late in the evening I'll listen to a new purchase twice in a row, just sitting in the sofa.
what also happens a lot is I play music while I'm going through and working on my collection : labelling and categorizing CDs, moving them to other boxes, shelves etc. Two days ago I spent a good twent minutes looking for six CDs I had mislaid, music blaring through the speakers I went from room to room. I have albums in every room except the kitchen and the bathroom lol
I'm curious to find out how well I'll be able to cut back on buying some music in 2021. I've set myself a monthly limit now. since this was the plan for the new year ever since October I bought extra amounts over the last three months to get in as much as I could in 2020
Cream, UB40 and The Ramones comps (all are double albums)
INXS comp
Accept - 'Restless and wild' (German hard rock band)
Roxy Music - 5 album budget box
that Ram Jam 'best of' (just both their seventies albums slapped together on one CD) is really good. great rock. I'd definitely recommend
KISS and Aerosmith 'Gold' compilations, remastered double album comps
Bob Marley : https://www.discogs.com/Bob-Marley-S...lease/12887341 : 3 discs of pre-Island Marley at only $4 total. Got some more reggae coming in later this month
Missed a docu on ZZ Top on tv the other day. my buddy the rock afficionado said it was so good I ordered a 5 cd budget box with all their big albums like Rio Grande Mud, Eliminator and the ones with the Spanish names. Good that missing the docu finally had me invest in some more southern rock. It had been a while. The Texan boys should arrive here on Saturday
been missing getting into new albums. it's been 3 months now. decided to fine tune my budget for the coming months (fingers crossed) so I can get €20 of albums (= no shipping costs w/ Amazon) a month and try to get the most bang for my buck
so ...
ordered today :
* triple CD of T-Rex
* double CD of The Who
* CD of Slade
all comps. These are all bands I'm not familiar with (not even The Who apart from maybe two hits)
looking forward to discussing some of the songs with all two of you lel
originally I was looking for a good AC/DC comp but there isn't one out there, except maybe the Ironman II OST which is a comp in disguise. but it's import and thus expensive
people still buy cds?????
i just download for free
I've heard the drummer for The Who, Keith moon is considered one of the all time greats.
I DL too, but I like buying comps for the liner notes and also for the joy of building my collection. I'm still really into physical media like books & cdsQuote:
Originally Posted by mr rusev
personally I tend to play cds more often than something I DLed too. don't really know why. it's not like my sound system is superior or anything
as an example, the liner notes to this cheap Slade comp are exemplary. full page bio, two paragraph liner notes per song on how the track came about, chart positions too. it appeals to the music nerd in me. I'm especially into how the song writing duo came up with their song ideas
btw that Slade comp is just amazing. I half figured it'd be a few good singles and a lot of cheesy material but I'm gladly proven wrong. 21 singles that all reached the UK top 30 (some US top 30 too). they had to leave off two more such singles because of the playing time of the cd.
the guitar work and the singing are exemplary. some good heavy tracks, next to a few good ballads and a few more pop oriented tracks. but mostly good rocking singles.
really an unexpected hit with me. playing this comp for the third time straight right now
so I've heard as well. tbh I only know of him because of his reputation as 'Moon The Loon', the party animal. it'll be interesting to play The Who double cd later tonight. it's a lot of material, no less than 42 tracksQuote:
Originally Posted by b-dolo
because the Slade comp is such a hit with me, I figured I'd treat myself for my upcoming b'day and order two more albums today. I had kind of forgotten yesterday that with Prime you get shipping for free at any price so today I realised I didn't have to go for €20 minimum. so with all of that, I managed to track down the last copy in store (or so they say at Amazon lol) of the best of Taste, Rory Gallagher's band. I heard Gallagher was one of the great blues/blues rock guitarists ever so I figured I'd check some of his work out. he died very young
the other compilation is by a band called Free, who like Slade are categorized as glam rock
^^second track reminds me of Hendrix
when Free disbanded their singer Paul Rodgers (great voice!) formed a super group with some other musicians called Bad Company. I really loved their songs so I'm hoping Free will do the trick too
Digging T. Rex. Good use of electric guitar and inventive lyrics. Catchy singles too. Nice band to discover at this ripe age of mine. Too bad singer Marc Bolan died so early (car crash).
Buddy of mine brought up Rare Earth at a concert we attended on Saturday. Said DJs played their 'Get Ready' (20 minute jam version of the Temptations song) at the end of their set, in full, to announce the end of the party and 'to discourage people from dancing'. We're talking 1970 here (he's in his late sixties)
Had never heard of the band, purchased a comp, listening now. They were on Motown as the first white rock act (on off shoot label Rare Earth Records). It's pretty soulful rock, as early on in their career, they recorded a lot of rock covers of soul songs. Sold over 30 million records and drew a crowd live
Here's the single version of 'Get Ready'
Didn't realize Ghostface's song was based on a Rare Earth track
Celebrate screwed and chopped.
Do you have the band in heavy rotation atm?Quote:
Originally Posted by Satan
Got some more comps : Steppenwolf double CD, Jeff Beck / Jeff Beck Group
Got Taste (Rory Gallagher's first group), another Free comp (3 disc set) and the Yardbirds (line up w/ Eric Clapton) coming in soon too
I seriously need to invest in David Bowie. I'm starting super low key with this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Co...d_Bowie_album)
it's early album tracks, no singles
$6 new, can't go wrong with that. probably gonna buy a singles comp later this year
by now my to buy list is well over 800 items long lol
Got this coming in too
I always lolled at Rodney's hair and schmaltzy eighties singles but truth be told someone put me onto his first few solo albums and they are so good it's not even funny haha. I went for the cheap route here with a $6 new Unplugged CD that supposedly channels the energy and feel of some of those records
the Faces song above leads me to believe that might just be the case
Coming in : more Bruce Springsteen live, Frank Zappa (comps + planning on getting instrumental jazz next month), Cat Stevens, Lou Reed and Velvet Underground
I also recently bought a Camouflage comp. they're like Depeche Mode, but the lyrics aren't as memorable
Genesis - 'R-Kive', budget release 3 disc set compilation that was the accompanying album to a documentary
https://www.discogs.com/release/6139492-Genesis-R-Kive
apparently fans hate this release but it looks pretty good to me. I don't have the pesos to purchase individual studio albums
however, this awesome signature track IS missing from the comp
you may want to skip past the horrible introduction in French lol
^^4 hours of great music for $11 with interesting liner notes to boot. very happy with my purchase. 70s Genesis was unchartered territory for me.
A SHITLOAD of classical music, second hand from a friend at extremely low prices. Days worth of music.
Some Edith Piaff tapes too. Had to dig out the boombox!
More classical music.
It's hard to find low mezzo soprano singing since in opera these are often just the bit parts. I found an album by Ewa Podles who sings all songs on the project within that range. Will make for a nice change after the regukar mezzos and the sopranos.
Got a Kiri Te Kanawa comp coming in too. She was popular in the eighties as a lyrical soprano in the opera but then turned to concerts and recitals mostly.
Then there's an album with music by G.P. Telemann, who was a contemporary of Bach. He was much more popular at the time and is, as far as we know, the artist who composed the most pieces in history
Now I'm listening to Valery Vishnevsky, a pianist who plays some Tchaikovsky ('Seasons. 12 characteristic pictures')) and Mussorgsky ('Pictures at an exhibition') on this budget album. Very relaxing. I'd like to compare the Myssorgsky piano version with the orchestrated version (orchestration by Ravel) later.
So I copped 53 albums for $58. Yeah that just happened.
Buy a 20 year old rap album pay $40.
Buy a 30 year old classical music album pay about $1. NEW album, still wrapped.
Ka-ching!
Recent purchases:
Robin Trower - Twice Removed From Yesterday (1973)
Randy Holden - Population II
Cactus - Cactus (1970)
I highly recommend all 3, Randy Holden fuckin shreds
I bought 1 for $330 lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Hal Incandenza
Bruce Springsteen, John Mellencamp, Nick Cave, Neil Young, Tom Petty, Bob Seger, Steve Miller Band
UFO - 1974 to 1986 studio albums box
Bad Company - all 6 studio albums box
(early birthday gifts)