I just bought 2

[Cloud9]

dEUS – Nothing Really Ends CDs
A Silver Mount Zion – He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts Of Light Sometimes Grace The Corner Of Our Bedrooms
The Cure – Greatest Hist on DVD

[Halfman]

Walked into a local grocery/gen. merchandise store here (Meijers). Found Los Angeles, Wild Gift, and Under The Big Black Sun from X for about 12 bucks apiece.

I heard Sun before and Fouth of July but this set is incredible. Billy Zoom could do it all, fast,slow, rockabilly, sax, just an awesome musician.

Some don’t like Exene too much, but the songs she and John Doe wrote on these releases are poems set to music, punk style. Sorry, but I like them better than Patti Smith for the poetry effect. Talked to a guy at the J. show who just saw John Doe play in Chicago recently. I guess he is playing guitar now.

These discs are Rhino reissues. Between the three, there are 18 bonus tracks, mostly cuts found on the three albums in outtakes, and live. Liner notes document the band’s lives during the times each of the albums were being made.

At the same store found It’s a Shame about Ray
from the Lemonheads. Never had the full disc, glad I have it now.

Also picked up Mercury Rev "All is Dream" This is a lot different from Boces. The main difference is they sound more like an orchestra on this disc. Like on Boces they do a good job and hitting what the strive for, I think, if that makes sense.

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[SG]

Tom-congrats on getting the X reissues,they still have`nt reached here yet.Yes,some people don`t like Exene`s voice but some people don`t like female singers in general.There `s a thread here on female singers,I`ll pull it up later,I have some to add to it.

[AGAP]

I would love to have a cd copy of some of the X stuff I have. Yeah Exenes voice drives me nuts after awhile but agree about the punk poet deal…definitely better than Patti Smith. Exene kinda reminds me of Niagra from Ron Ashetons group Destroy All Monsters, ok for awhile than just grates on you…worth the effort to listen to though for the wicked songs/lyrics.

Lemonheads are always fun [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]

Allison [img]images/smiles/icon_cool.gif[/img]

[Bucky Ramone]

Speaking of X:
I recently bought ‘Poor little knitter on the road, a tribute to the Knitters’. Bands like Whiskeytown, the Sadies with Catherine Irwin (Freakwater), Robbie Fulks and the Handsome Family play the songs of the Knitters, the country side-project of X, they made just one album, ‘Poor Little Critter on the Road’ with some covers from old country songs and acoustic versions of X songs.

[bob]

just bought 2 albums today
mercury rev – all is dream
fugazi – the argument

I’m not sure if I even like either of these bands but I was willing to take a chance because I think they will be rewarding. won’t have a chance to listen to them for a while though

[AGAP]

Finally picked up Mercury Rev…All is Dream, love it…thanking some god out there for record stores that are open to midnite [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]

Allison

[Hansione]

Tried to get tickets for "the Strokes" and they were sold out. To take away the disapointment [img]images/smiles/icon_mad.gif[/img] I just bought:
Grandaddy: the sophtware Slump
Townes van Zandr: In concert
Robert Johnson: his recorded legacy

All interesting stuff but…I’m not going to the paradiso-gig [img]images/smiles/icon_sad.gif[/img] [img]images/smiles/icon_sad.gif[/img] [img]images/smiles/icon_sad.gif[/img]

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