MY purchasing list for 2005

[Maximo]

Stating once again that I was never someone who purchased CD's. Until a few months ago.

Additions? Subtractions? Sorry for the bad formatting, its copied from an excel document. Also, dunno if this is allowed but if anyone has any of these in mint condition and would sell them let me know :)


AC/DC Back In Black
The Beach Boys Smiley Smile/Wild Honey
The Beach Boys Pet Sounds
The Beatles Abbey Road
The Beatles Help!
The Beatles Let It Be
The Beatles Rubber Soul
The Beatles Revolver
The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour
The Beatles Yellow Submarine
Bob Dylan The Times They Are A-Changin'
Bob Dylan Blonde On Blonde
Broken Social Scene You Forgot It In People
Cat Power You Are Free
The Clash London Calling
The Clash The Clash
The Clash Combat Rock
The Fall The Real New Fall
The Fall This Nation's Saving Grace
The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin
The Flaming Lips Zaireeka
Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand
Guided By Voices Bee Thousand
Guided By Voices Alien Lanes
Interpol Turn On The Bright Lights
Jet Get Born
The Killers Hot Fuss
The Mars Volta De-Loused In The Comatorium
The Mars Volta Tremulant [EP]
Miles Davis Kind Of Blue
Miles Davis Bitches Brew
Miles Davis Birth Of The Cool
Mission Of Burma Signals, Calls And Marches
Mission Of Burma OnoffOn
Modest Mouse Building Nothing Out Of Something
Modest Mouse Sad Sappy Sucker
Modest Mouse Everywhere And His Nasty Parlour Tricks [EP]
Modest Mouse The Fruit That Ate Itself [EP]
Modest Mouse Whenever You See Fit [EP]
Modest Mouse Interstate 8
Nirvana Nirvana
Nirvana Incesticide
Nirvana MTV Unplugged In New York
Nirvana Nevermind
Nirvana Bleach
Pavement Terror Twilight
Pavement Westing (By Musket And Sextant)
Pavement Watery, Domestic [EP]
The Pixies Surfer Rosa
The Pixies Dollittle
The Pixies Live, December 14th
Preston School Of Industry Monsoon
Preston School Of Industry All This Sounds Gas
Radiohead Kid A
Radiohead OK Computer
Radiohead Amnesiac
Radiohead Pablo Honey
Radiohead Hail To The Thief
Radiohead My Iron Lung [EP]
Radiohead Airbag/How Am I Driving [EP]
Radiohead Creep [EP]
The Ramones Hey Ho! Let's Go: The Anthology
The Rapture Echoes
The Rapture Out Of The Races & Onto The Tracks
R.E.M In Time: The Best Of REM 1988 - 2003
The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers
The Rolling Stones Let It Bleed
The Rolling Stones Exile On Main Street
The Rolling Stones Some Girls
The Rolling Stones Beggar's Banquet
The Shins Oh, Inverted World
Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream
Smashing Pumpkins Gish
Smashing Pumpkins Pisces Iscariot
Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
Stephen Malkmus Stephen Malkmus
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks Pig Lib
The Strokes Room On Fire
The Strokes Is This It
Silkworm Firewater
Silkworm Lifestyle
Silkworm It'll Be Cool
Sonic Youth Murray Street
Sonic Youth Daydream Nation
Sonic Youth Dirty
Sublime Sublime
Sublime 40 oz. To Freedom
Sublime Second Hand Smoke
Talking Heads Speaking In Tongues
Talking Heads Remain In Light
Talking Heads Fear Of Music
Ugly Casanova Sharpen Your Teeth
The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico
The Velvet Underground White Light/White Heat
The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground
The Vines Highly Evolved
The Walkmen Everyone Who Pretended To Be Like Me Is Gone
The White Stripes Elephant
The White Stripes White Blood Cells
Wilco Being There
Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

[johansen smith]

I'd certainly ditch the Beatles, Nirvana, Killers, Jet, Mars Volta, Radiohead, Rapture, Ramones, Vines, and Sublime albums. Also, Sad Sappy Sucker is kind of the shit end of the Modest Mouse stick.

[Salman]

If you like Miles Davis then get some John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, and Sun Ra.
Also, get some Olivia Tremor Control.
And I'd drop Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots and get Clouds Taste Metallic instead.

[Maximo]

Originally posted by johansen smith
I'd certainly ditch the Beatles, Nirvana, Killers, Jet, Mars Volta, Radiohead, Rapture, Ramones, Vines, and Sublime albums. Also, Sad Sappy Sucker is kind of the shit end of the Modest Mouse stick.


what? why? I can understand Jet, Sublime, Killers, and Vines but Beatles, Nirvana, and Radiohead?!

[johansen smith]

Originally posted by Salman

And I'd drop Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots and get Clouds Taste Metallic instead.
absolutely seconded.

instead of the Beatles, get the Kinks' "Village Green Preservation Society" and any other Kinks album from that era. also, maybe "Everybody Knows This is Nowhere" by Neil Young and Crazy Horse.

[johansen smith]

also, no respecting music fan should ever buy a Best Of album. Get a good sampling of REM... maybe "Reckoning" and "New adventures in Hi-Fi" for a bit of Old and New School REM.

[earl grey]

Originally posted by johansen smith
also, no respecting music fan should ever buy a Best Of album. Get a good sampling of REM... maybe "Reckoning" and "New adventures in Hi-Fi" for a bit of Old and New School REM.

i agree on best-of's, though i think R.E.M.'s 'eponymous' does a far better job than most. it did a v good job of getting me into their old material. 'reckoning' and 'automatic for the people' would be my picks for proper albums though.

maximo - in general, i would recommend breadth over depth. things like 'incesticide' and 'pisces escariot' have their moments but i'd add new bands to the mix instead.

[Maximo]

I agree completely with that statement except with REM. I'm not a big enough fan to branch out and get everything. The best of is a good compilation that sums up what I enjoy-- for me there's no need for anything else. Its honestly the only best of/compilation in my soon to be collection.


As for the kinks-- have em all on record :D

[vesper]

Originally posted by Maximo
The Beach Boys Smiley Smile/Wild Honey
The Beatles Let It Be
The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour
The Beatles Yellow Submarine
Cat Power You Are Free
The Fall The Real New Fall
The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin
The Flaming Lips Zaireeka
Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand
Guided By Voices Bee Thousand
Guided By Voices Alien Lanes
Jet Get Born
The Killers Hot Fuss
The Mars Volta De-Loused In The Comatorium
The Mars Volta Tremulant [EP]
Modest Mouse Sad Sappy Sucker
Modest Mouse Everywhere And His Nasty Parlour Tricks [EP]
Modest Mouse Whenever You See Fit [EP]
Modest Mouse Interstate 8
Nirvana Nirvana
Nirvana Incesticide
Nirvana MTV Unplugged In New York
Pavement Terror Twilight
The Pixies Live, December 14th
Preston School Of Industry Monsoon
Preston School Of Industry All This Sounds Gas
Radiohead Amnesiac
Radiohead Pablo Honey
Radiohead Hail To The Thief
Radiohead My Iron Lung [EP]
Radiohead Airbag/How Am I Driving [EP]
Radiohead Creep [EP]
The Ramones Hey Ho! Let's Go: The Anthology
R.E.M In Time: The Best Of REM 1988 - 2003
Stephen Malkmus Stephen Malkmus
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks Pig Lib
Sonic Youth Murray Street
Sublime Sublime
Sublime 40 oz. To Freedom
Sublime Second Hand Smoke
Ugly Casanova Sharpen Your Teeth
The Vines Highly Evolved
Wilco Being There

cut all of these. and you should make sure to get the talking heads' more songs about buildings and food.

i don't agree at all on 'best-ofs' or 'collections.' are any of you seriously going to tell me that new order's substance or the fall's 50,000 fall fans can't be wrong are worthless? and abba's gold, c'mon.

[Maximo]

Clearly some of your tastes differ in mine haha. What i'm looking for mainly is if you dig BD and i'm missing something-- toss that in, or if you dig BD and hate blood on the tracks, tell me to get rid of it :)

[Wallerton]

The Smiths' Louder Than Bombs was really my gateway to so much of what I listen to now. I discovered it as a sophomore in high school, and I wore that fucker out. And, yeah, it's a compilation album, but it's non-album singles and b-sides. It replicates a lot of what's on Hatful of Hollow and The World Won't Listen, two British compilations, so I suppose you could start with either or both of those as well.

I'll second the recommendations for More Songs about Buildings and Food (I also really, really like Talking Heads 77) and the Kinks.

You might also want to check out Beatles for Sale. They'd been touring the world non-stop for two years and they were really, really tired when they recorded it. So there's some obvious filler on there, including several covers (like the god-awful "Mr. Moonlight"). But some of the originals are really dark--"No Reply," "I'm a Loser," "Baby's in Black," "I Don't Want to Spoil the Party." Good stuff. Unfortunately, it's only available in mono on CD.

I guess if you have to buy the Beatles on CD [shudder], you'll also want to pick up the Past Masters (Volumes one and two) compilations. They collect all of the non-album singles and b-sides.

[hug_and_pint]

ditch murray street and go for sonic nurse or experimental jet-set, trash and no star ... or hell get both


and you can't forget the covers record by cat power

[Futureman]

I'm all about New Order's Substance. That album is just fabulous, and you should get it. Right now. Ditto on The Fall recommendation if you need to get oriented.

[vesper]

how closely do you plan to adhere to this list? or how closely do you think that you'll adhere to this list? that number of cds doesn't allow for many new releases, which is especially sad in what looks to be a really fucking great year.

maybe some other albums that you should consider buying (all rock since that seems to be yr preference) --

the stooges, [i]funhouse
blue cheer, vincebus eruptum
todd rundgren, something/anything
leonard cohen, songs about love and hate
xtc, drums and wires & black sea & english settlement
roxy music, for your pleasure & country life

[Maximo]

Well i'll buy the new releases as they come out so I can stay on top of things-- but this is for the downtime while i'm catching up.

[Thor]

Originally posted by johansen smith
also, no respecting music fan should ever buy a Best Of album.

I think that's true about 97% of the time. But sometimes it's a neccessary evil... artists like Chuck Berry, etc, or perhaps 60's groups that were all about the singles, The Hollies for example (as wonderful as their albums are).

[Wallerton]

I completely overlooked your Rolling Stones choices. You need more Brian Jones-era albums (Let It Bleed barely counts). A lot of people cite Aftermath as the high point of this period, and, as good as it is, I prefer Between the Buttons. My favorite Stones album by far.

I'll second the recommendation for the XTC records, especially English Settlement. Cohen's Songs About Love and Hate is a good place to start, though I tend to prefer Songs from a Room.

And... and... and... so many things to recommend. What are the building blocks of a good record collection?!?

By the way, I don't see any Cure albums on that list. Or Echo & the Bunnymen. Or the Jesus and Mary Chain. Or... Or... most of the other bands that first got me interested in "alternative" music back in the late eighties.

[the Pawnbroker]

Originally posted by Maximo
Clearly some of your tastes differ in mine haha. What i'm looking for mainly is if you dig BD and i'm missing something-- toss that in, or if you dig BD and hate blood on the tracks, tell me to get rid of it :)

You are missing almost everything Dylan recorded from 1961-1983 & 1989-present.

Stop wasting time on this message board and go buy VU --- Peel Slowly & See box set.

Add another vote for mid-60's Stones.

As others have said, scrap Nirvana and its progeny.

Finally, if you are really intent on throwing money away, I will email you my address and you can send me a check instead of buying Sublime.

[Wallerton]

I can't believe I forgot to mention Elvis Costello!!!

Armed Forces and This Year's Model are good places to start. And Imperial Bedroom rewards repeat listening.

[Wallerton]

Originally posted by the Pawnbroker
Finally, if you are really intent on throwing money away, I will email you my address and you can send me a check instead of buying Sublime.

Yeah. If you like ska, you should get The Specials' eponymously-titled debut album from 1980.

[johansen smith]

Originally posted by Wallerton
I prefer Between the Buttons. My favorite Stones album by far.

completley concur. I also think Her Satanic Majesty's Request is an overlooked gem too.

[johansen smith]

Originally posted by Thor
I think that's true about 97% of the time. But sometimes it's a neccessary evil... artists like Chuck Berry, etc, or perhaps 60's groups that were all about the singles, The Hollies for example (as wonderful as their albums are).
absolutely, the exceptions that prove the rule.

[Maximo]

You've convinced me, Nirvana and Sublime have been removed from my list and all downloaded.

[george]

i got a new ipod and i'm only going to listen to 2005 music this year. so far the only thing on it is that fiery furnaces ep, just cause it's the only thing i could find at the store with a 2005 (c). i don't really like them normally, but it's pretty good actually.

[Maximo]

Originally posted by george
i got a new ipod and i'm only going to listen to 2005 music this year. so far the only thing on it is that fiery furnaces ep, just cause it's the only thing i could find at the store with a 2005 (c). i don't really like them normally, but it's pretty good actually.

why?

[george]

Originally posted by Maximo
but why?

because i'm from a little place called the united states of america, and these colors don't run.

[TheSadDebaser]

Originally posted by Maximo

The Beach Boys Pet Sounds
The Beatles Abbey Road
The Beatles Help!
The Beatles Rubber Soul
The Beatles Revolver
The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour
Bob Dylan The Times They Are A-Changin'
Bob Dylan Blonde On Blonde
The Clash London Calling
The Clash The Clash
The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin
Guided By Voices Bee Thousand
Guided By Voices Alien Lanes
Miles Davis Bitches Brew
Mission Of Burma Signals, Calls And Marches
Modest Mouse Whenever You See Fit [EP]
Nirvana Incesticide
Pavement Westing (By Musket And Sextant)
The Pixies Surfer Rosa
The Pixies Dollittle
The Rapture Out Of The Races & Onto The Tracks
The Shins Oh, Inverted World
Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream
Sonic Youth Murray Street
Sonic Youth Daydream Nation
Sonic Youth Dirty
Talking Heads Remain In Light
Talking Heads Fear Of Music
Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

These are all things I would recommend highly enthusiastically.

I would add:

Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings and Food
Stooges - Funhouse
Any Sonic Youth from the eighties
Mission of Burma - Vs.
Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
John Coltrane - My Favorite Things
Any Albert Ayler
Sun Ra - Outer Spaceways Incorporated, probably any Sun Ra really
Miles Davis - In a Silent Way
Miles Davis - On the Corner
Miles Davis - Big Fun
Miles Davis - Live Evil


Something like that. I believe the Interstate 8 EP is way out of print, but I could be wrong. The "Whenever You See Fit" 12" is really great.

[Maximo]

Originally posted by TheSadDebaser

I believe the Interstate 8 EP is way out of print, but I could be wrong. The "Whenever You See Fit" 12" is really great.


It is but it's well worth the $40 or 50 on ebay to me, huge MM fan.

[johansen smith]

Interstate 8 only has one song not released elsewheres, is it really worth that much? I'll sell you my copy for $40.

[Wallerton]

Originally posted by george
because i'm from a little place called the united states of america, and these colors don't run.

'the fuck?

[Funk]

Originally posted by johansen smith
also, no respecting music fan should ever buy a Best Of album.

I'd be curious how these "music fans" would listen to "Positively 4th Street" and "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)" without the original 45s.

[johansen smith]

would they even listen to them to begin with?

[Thor]

Originally posted by johansen smith
completley concur. I also think Her Satanic Majesty's Request is an overlooked gem too.

I agree totally here. This is a fine, fine album.. the cd version that was floating around for a while was rather thin, but the recently reisussed SACD version of it (and all the stones albums, for that matter) is wonderful. I hear that the mono LP version is a completely different, stronger listen.

[Maximo]

Just remember i'm only 17 :p I feel my knowledge is still better than most kiddies my age. I'm learning a lot though :D

[johansen smith]

you might be the youngest poster here, unless Futureman's newborn is a lurker.

[Maximo]

I hope it doesnt make me look terrible asking, but what is the quote in your sig from, johansen?

[johansen smith]

Originally posted by Maximo
I hope it doesnt make me look terrible asking, but what is the quote in your sig from, johansen?
it's from the late, great NBC series Ed, which coincidently began it's first day of syndication on TBS this morning.

[abevigoda]

I certainly wouldn't ditch the Beatles. And there's nothing wrong with a little Nirvana as long as you don't think that Kurt Cobain is some sort of genius.


I might also suggest:

Television: Marquee Moon
Wire: Pink Flag
some Jam
some Buzzcocks

And a little country, motown and soul never killed anybody. (To my knowledge)

[Maximo]

Yeah, I was waiting to add some Soulive albums until I spoke with a friend who's a hardcore fan.