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What music have you bought lately?

Steve Roby

Steve Roby

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Kind of odd that TrekBBS doesn't have a dedicated music area the way that Gallifrey Base does, but here we are.

Am I hopelessly out of touch for thinking there are still people buying rather than streaming music? We'll see. Maybe people will list a new purchase or two, maybe people will start conversations inspired by a particular band or album being mentioned, so I'll start with a bunch. Or maybe this will be another zero replies topic.

I got a bit carried away over the last few weeks, partly to make up for having Covid again.

EXTC: Live USA Vol.1. XTC stopped touring decades ago, so, with his bandmates' agreement, the band's drummer started EXTC with a couple of other musicians to play classic XTC songs live. Saw them a few weeks ago and it was a fun show, so I bought a CD.

Julee Cruise: Fall - Float - Love. Double CD reissue of the two albums the original Twin Peaks chanteuse did with David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti, with a few bonus tracks (mostly remixes).

Lene Lovich: Toy Box box set. Four albums and lots of bonus tracks from the new wave era.

The Dream Syndicate: The Days of Wine and Roses 40th Anniversary Edition box set. The original 1983 album plus lots of EP and singles tracks, demos, and live recordings by one of the leaders of the LA psychedelic postpunk Paisley Underground scene (see also: the Bangles, the Rain Parade, the Three O'Clock, etc).

The Primitives: Bloom box set. Three albums and lots of bonus tracks on five CDs from the first of the essential late '80s bands to get called "blonde pop," mixing the influences of Blondie, the Jesus and Mary Chain, and '60s pop and psychedelia.

The Darling Buds: Killing for Love. Three albums and lots of bonus tracks on five CDs from another of the essential late '80s bands to get called "blonde pop," mixing the influences of Blondie, the Jesus and Mary Chain, and '60s pop and psychedelia.

All the above are on CD. Also purchased recently on iTunes or Bandcamp: albums or EPs by Howard Shore, Nanci Griffith, Brian Eno, Beatie Wolfe and Brian Eno, Bryan Ferry, Bryan Ferry and Amelia Barratt, Miranda Ceara and the Odd Fellows Orchestra, and Fuck You, Tammy!

Next?
 
Most recently, I turned in my Hollywood Bowl tickets for the Mozart Requiem and a Thursday evening all-Rachmaninoff concert that was half-redundant with the Tuesday evening concert that week (different piano concerto but the same symphony), and picked up "Bugs Bunny at the Symphony," the Tchaikovsky Spectacular, John Williams Night, and Yo-Yo Ma's one Bowl appearance this year.
 
Closest thing I've come to a live classical music performance in the last few decades was Howard Shore's performance version of the Crash soundtrack, with harps, electric guitars, and prepared piano at the National Arts Centre here in Ottawa. He reworked it to flow as a piece of music and not just as soundtrack cues. Pretty darn good. I was at the NAC recently while they had a Sibelius/Stravinsky concert, which sounded tempting, but I was in one of the other concert halls watching Rosanne Cash.

I bought the original Bugs Bunny at the Symphony CD when it came out but wasn't aware of the big anniversary to-do about it. Sounds like fun.
 
I think the last physical album I bought was Taylor Swift's The Tortured Poets Department: Anthology Edition.

I did recently buy two albums digitally, which was a first for me. One was the soundtrack to the 1984 version of A Christmas Carol starring George C. Scott; the composer Nick Bicat (who lives in the UK) sells it directly through his own website. The other was the soundtrack to the 1983 miniseries The Winds of War. Varese did put out a CD at some point in the past, but it's out of print and typically goes for anywhere between $25 and $50 on eBay, which is more than I felt like spending. I have the soundtrack to the sequel miniseries, 1988's War and Remembrance, which came as a bonus disc in the DVD collector's set.
 
My wife has been buying 60s and 70s compilation CDs for the last couple of years. She says it's like when we listened to the radio in our teens, while she's working. She passes them on to me, and if there are any tunes I don't already have I rip them for my PC and car listening. Once in a while I'll be reminded of a tune from my youth and I'll buy the MP3 from Amazon. The most recent purchase was 10CC's The Things We Do for Love.
 
I buy a lot of Waylon Jennings reissues, including some of the pre-outlaw era material from the 60s. My most recent:
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A few years ago iTunes had a collection of about ten full Waylon albums from the 1970s and '80s for a grand total of $8.99. That's all I've got of his so far, but it seemed like a pretty good start.
 
I haven't purchased it yet, but I will be in a few weeks. The re-release of the Backstreet Boys' album "Millennium" contains some new songs, including the original version of their massive hit "I Want IT That Way". The lyrics make so much more sense, and all the motions is still there in spades. Check it out below...

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All my music is on iTunes.

I think the last full album I bought was Closure/Continuation by Porcupine Tree.

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Bought a bit more Bryan Ferry on iTunes. I've got basically everything by Roxy Music already, but my solo Ferry collection is patchy. So I bought In Your Mind (from 1977) and The Bride Stripped Bare (1978).

Inspired by Simon Reynolds's book Futuromania, mainly about how electronic music has often been seen or presented as something futuristic, I bought Omni Trio's The Deepest Cut Vol. 1.

And I finally remembered that I meant to buy the soundtrack to the David Bowie Moonage Daydream movie, so I bought it on CD, long after buying the blu ray of the movie.
 
I bought the latest Naniwa Danshi album; Bon Bon Voyage. I'm more likely than not not their target audience, but listening to their positivity always puts a smile on my face.
 
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