Amph What was the last album you purchased/heard?

I got "Live" by Lacrimosa

(I´ve heard bad comments about Anne Nurmi´s voice but the album is good nonetheless)

 

Mine was Bleach by Nirvana. I've had it on tape for years, so I finally got round to buying it on CD.

 

I got Cradle of Filth's "The Principle of Evil Made Flesh".

 

"The Very Best of Badfinger"

 

"twentysomething"-Jamie Cullum

 

Just picked up the Ken Burns' Jazz compilation.

 

Soulbender - self-titled.

 

Good News For People Who Love Bad News by Modest Mouse ... although, admittedly, it was a birthday present, but i had strongly encouraged its being given to me...

i have Love by The Cult on order, does that count? (i'm trying to recreate my 80's collection)

 

"Beautiful Letdown" by Switchfoot. If you're ever in a really deep bad mood, listen to that CD. It has the uncanny ability to lift your spirits.

 

Weezer Blue Album Deluxe Edition <-competely awesome

 

"Contraband" by Velvet Revolver, it is an awesome album. VR may in fact be better than GNR.

 

Ohio - Over the Rhine

I generally don't listen to spiritual, Christ-haunted albums (unless they are compilations of Freedom Songs). Granted, Over the Rhine are my favourite band and, that said, this double album is textured and gorgeous. The spirituality Linford and Karin have flirted with previously is more blatant in a number of tracks, but tasteful and honest; in other words, the message is not cloying in the least.

The album is a tipsy, giddy, lost, genuine heartache.

Extracted from Linford's liner notes:

The songs on OHIO connect us to the piece of earth we call home. We grew up in small coal mining towns in the Ohio Valley, listening to music that could have only been unearthed in America: Southern Gospel, Country Western and Rock 'n' Roll. This music fertilized the soil of our early lives. We sit down at the upright piano these days with dirt under our fingernails...

We grew up with the musical mingling common to many of us who were raised in "the church." There were the old hymns that seeped into our souls via our mothers' milk, and then there was the allure of the music we were finding on our radio dials and on our friends' records. In small town America, many of us do grow up in a surreal musical world where Elvis is King, Jesus is Lord.

The records we ended up making document in part our attempts to unravel the tangle of religion we inherited. It's unsettling when someone named Jesus keeps turning up in unexpected places on a double album, but we're by no means the first songwriters to be Christ-haunted.

Lyric excerpts:

The last time I saw Jesus
I was drinking bloody mary's in the South
In a barroom in New Orleans
Rinsin' out the bad taste in my mouth
________________

Broken down
We're all so broken down
Bandages on our wings
I know I don't have to tell you
Only broken hearts can sing
I'm hoping for a sign
Pray that I'm anything but fine
________________

The moon blind-sided the sky again
As we grabbed loose ends of the tide and then
The slippery slide
You know I can't say when
I ever took a ride that could slap me this silly
With roiling joy
Lazy as sin
Lyin' up in heaven with my special friend
And the space he's in
It can make a girl grin
In the beginning of a lifelong fling
________________

Arms spread across the dark river
The night air causing him to shiver
Like the fluorescent lights in the Seven Eleven
Meet me in the backstreets of heaven
________________

Can't bear the news in the evening
We're going to bed and we're going to war
All of this for
Anyone's guess
If we forget anything
Heaven forbid someone would remind us

Sinners and saints, priests and kings
Are we just using God for our own gain
What's in a name
Open your eyes
If we forget everything
There will be no one left to remind us
________________

Don't be bothered by the fears
I'll try to bottle them
Like my mother's perfume
She wore it only on Sunday
Kept it safe in her room
In a chest with a key
We found it anyway

...Your fire burns me like a favorite song
A song I should have know all along
I feel you move like smoke in my eyes
And that is why
________________

Changes [Jesus] come
Turn the world around
Lay my burden down
Turn this world around
Bring the whole thing down
Bring it down



And the music, oh!, the music.

Um, highly recommended?

 

Last album I bought was yesterday and that was Return of the Jedi the Special Edition two discs. Yeah finally was able to find it somewhere.

 

A couple days ago I picked up Good News For People Who Love Bad News, by Modest Mouse. Definitely a higher quality album than I expected.

 

The soundtrack to Planet of the Apes the Original and its on a record.

 

Nonpoint - "Recoil"
Eighteen Visions - "Vanity"


Both albums kick serious ass.

 

Je Dis Aime by -M-, but I suspect you guys don't know him... he's french! Great album though

 

"A Ghost is Born" - Wilco

 

Last album I purchased was Lynyrd Skynyrd - 20th Century Masters


and the next one I'm buying is Alter Bridge - One Day Remains.

 

The latest Roots album.

E_S

 

Different Stars by Trespassers William

 

Like a couple of others here ?Good News for People Who Love Bad News? by Modest Mouse, great album and a pleasant surprise.

 

Led Zeppelin, How The West Was Won.

 

Bjork- Homogenic Live

 

I ordered LP5, Envane and Cichli Suite by Autechre yesterday. Hopefully they'll arrive soon.