What Did You Get for Christmas? (2006) (Highlights in the Sandbox)

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From Santa:
Otis Redding - Dreams to Remember: The Otis Redding Anthology - Totally awesome. I'm working on mixing it down to one CD, sure to be mind-blowing and soul-crushing.
Pavement - Wowee Zowee: Sordid Sentinels Edition - The biannual tradition continues. Thanks Santa.

From Friends:
Carissa's Wierd - Songs About Leaving
Band of Horses - Everything All the Time
This was a complete surprise. The friend had no idea how hard I looked for Songs About Leaving in NC record stores and I had no idea they knew who Carissa's Wierd is.

Christmas Money/Gift Certificates Appropriations:
Mark Kozelek - Little Drummer Boy - Live - A boring release but I'm loving it.
Method Man - Tical - I lost my copy.

― Mitch Good Buddy How Are You (Mitch Good Buddy How Are You), Sunday, 31 December 2006 23:16 (seventeen years ago) link

From Santa (cos I asked for them):

The Adverts - Crossing The Red Sea: The Ultimate Edition
The Adverts - Cast of Thousands: The Ultimate Collection
Mogwai: Zidane; A 21st Century Portrait

(THE WONDERS DON'T CARE; WE DONT GIVE A DAMN}

― Boksen - The jury is out (Guilty Boksen), Sunday, 31 December 2006 23:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Fuck it !I remember 76/77/78 and the Adverts were the best band around, bar none ( and that includes the Pistols).

I spent at least 20 years of my life wishing I had written Safety in Numbers; and I still do.

T V Smith, you were my gOD (Sic)

― Boksen - The jury is out (Guilty Boksen), Sunday, 31 December 2006 23:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Does it dilute my message by saying that I also received (from Santa)the first series of the Monkees? No, of course it doesn't, you Rockist cnuts!!

― Boksen - The jury is out (Guilty Boksen), Sunday, 31 December 2006 23:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Among other things, the Tom Lehrer box set. Which makes me a happy man.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 1 January 2007 00:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Highlights include:

-Teac receiver for my budget component system
-Technics turntable w/Grado Black for same
-Sex Machine (eerily prophetic or waht)

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver (hoosteen), Monday, 1 January 2007 00:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Fats Waller - History Of Jazz vinyl
Loan of Doo Wop box and What It Is Rhino Comp.

― John Justen, surrounded by frail, wispy people. (John Justen), Monday, 1 January 2007 00:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Ned, dammit the Tom Lehrer box set would be high on my wants list, even if I do have at least two of the CDs already (Christ, I had two of the 10" vinyls!!)

― Boksen - The jury is out (Guilty Boksen), Monday, 1 January 2007 00:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Now that's dedication.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 1 January 2007 00:50 (seventeen years ago) link

But I don't have the live set (which is worth it for the group sharp intake of breath during the "..sliding down the razor blade of life.." sequence from Bright College Days)

― Boksen - The jury is out (Guilty Boksen), Monday, 1 January 2007 00:54 (seventeen years ago) link

no one bought me any cd's (thk god actually) but i'm askign for Zombie Heaven! still asking. but no takers yet. maybe this should be in the self-pity thread. I've listened to The Look of Love snippet off Amazon like 50 times.. while i be waitin..forever. ;_;

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Monday, 1 January 2007 02:26 (seventeen years ago) link

That new Yo La Tengo, this slide guitar compilation thingy, and most excitingly, the new Robyn Hitchcock, which is excellent, and includes a refrain of "Fuck me baby, I'm a trolleybus."

Also used Christmas money to buy Faust/So Far.

― clotpoll (clotpoll), Monday, 1 January 2007 03:09 (seventeen years ago) link

I got a couple of books about UK anarcho-punk: "The Day The Country Died" and "The Story Of Crass". No actual music though.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Monday, 1 January 2007 12:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Matmos - The Rose Has Teeth... LP
A Hawk & A Hacksaw - Darkness at Noon LP
A Hawk & A Hacksaw - The Way the Wind Blows LP
Comus - First Utterance LP (the reissue)
Delia Derbyshire KPM LP
Tom Waits - Real Gone CD
This Heat CD box set
Trapped in the Closet pts 1-12 DVD

― emil.y (emil.y), Monday, 1 January 2007 21:33 (seventeen years ago) link

From friends:
The Ex - Singles. Period. CD
Swans - Time Is Money (Bastard) 12" (this was my favorite present from all of Christmas)

From myself (Santa?):
Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - Electric Heavyland CD
C.C.C.C. - Love & Noise CD
Kevin Drumm - Land of Lurches CD
The Ex - Turn 2CD
Supersilent - 6 CD

― Ivan (Ivan), Monday, 1 January 2007 21:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Comus - First Utterance LP (the reissue)

I just heard this two days ago. Amazing.

― Ivan (Ivan), Monday, 1 January 2007 21:52 (seventeen years ago) link

,you Rockist cnuts!!

"cnuts" is the bestest word evva! it should be used lots in the new year.

― tiit (t**t), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link

O yeh, that other thing. Xmas. And presents. Which weren't many and none of them were CD's. But I got a decent jarful of real good honey. And a pocket knife - haven't had one since I was, huh dunno even, twelve or something.

― tiit (t**t), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:09 (seventeen years ago) link

£s that will be used for my flight to Sónar this year.

― jim (jim), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:15 (seventeen years ago) link

I got the new Bleach (aka Bleach03, i.e. not the Christian band) album that hasn't come out in the US yet. Has a long Japanese title from the Fiona Apple School of Concise Album Titles and the cover art features little puppet versions of Kanna, Miya and Sayuri.

It's possibly the best album of last year that won't appear on a single US/UK "top-whatever" list; most overlooked album of the year; etc, etc. Also comes with a 3 Song DVD that actually played in my cheap US Region DVD player. Kanna = cutest death-spazz-hardcore lead singer/guitarist evah. Thank you Santa.

― dlp9001 (dlp2007), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 03:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I got money and bought for myself the following:

Blue Collar [Explicit Lyrics] [Audio CD] Rhymefest

The Body-Hat Syndrome [Audio CD] Digital Underground

The Blue Mask [Original recording remastered] [Audio CD] Reed, Lou

Phrenology (Limited Edition w/ Bonus DVD) [Explicit Lyrics] [Audio CD] The Roots

Blood on the Tracks [Original recording remastered] [Audio CD] Dylan, Bob

The Velvet Underground & Nico [Original recording reissued] [Original recording

SMiLE [Audio CD] Wilson, Brian

All Samples Cleared! [Audio CD] Biz Markie

Sentimental Hygiene [Original recording reissued] [Original recording...Warren Zevon

The Velvet Underground [Original recording reissued] [Original recording...

Mama's Gun [Audio CD] Badu, Erykah; Erykah Badu

Double Fantasy [Audio CD] Lennon, John

Paul's Boutique [Audio CD] Beastie Boys

And believe it or not more...

I love used CDs off Amazon!

― Colin Cassidy (Colin C.), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 04:43 (seventeen years ago) link

I really liked the one Bleach record I heard, glad they're still around.

I didn't get any music but I did get the American Hair Metal book, which is a followup of sorts to American Hardcore. It's readable but very lightweight compared to AH and relies far more on "lol hair is hueg" type yuks than it cares to admit.

― Feargal Hixxy (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 13:23 (seventeen years ago) link

from family:

Joni Mitchell - Blue
Sigur Ros - Two Hot Dogs (aka untitled) my brother tried so hard! ;_; ]\

from Myself (x-mas money):

Foghat - Foghat (LP)
Love - Da Capo (LP)
Todd Rundgren - Something/anything? (LP)
Brian Eno - Ambient 2 (LP)
The Kinks - Village Green Preservation Society (CD)
Ex Models - Zoo Psychology (CD)

― Cap'n Guthrie (retardo1), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 13:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I got the What It Is funk box on Rhino. Truly outstanding!

― Dr.C (Dr.C), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 15:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, that looks like a keeper and a half. One of those things to look for...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Happy new year, Ned. Just buy it....it's perfection.

― Dr.C (Dr.C), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 15:55 (seventeen years ago) link

PJ Harvey-Peel Sessions
Roxy Music-Stranded
Roxy Music-Siren
Roxy Music-Avalon
Blondie-Blondie
Everly Bros.-Two Yanks In England
Todd Snider-The Devil You Know
Bob Dylan-Desire
Bob Dylan-Highway 61 Revisted
What It Is (which came late in the mail)

― Outcast Lemon Mode (sandglocks), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:12 (seventeen years ago) link

60G ipod
Pharoah Sanders - Karma
The Police - Regatta de Blanc
Supremes Gold
Eric Dolphy - Out To Lunch
Velvet Underground - 3rd album

― a.b. (abanana), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:30 (seventeen years ago) link

From gift certificates:
Mustafa Ozkent, Genclik Ile Elele
Caetano Veloso's 1967 album
Serge Gainsbourg, Initials BB
Alice Coltrane, Journey in Satchidananda (finally)
Elaste vol. 1: Slow Motion Disco
Folk Is Not a Four Letter Word vol. 2

and only marginally music-related (Radiophonic Workshop/Ron Grainer), but the Prisoner box set on DVD, which has consumed my life for the last week.

― telephonething (telephonething), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Charles Mingus Music Written for Monterey, 1965 Not Heard... Played in its Entirety, at UCLA

― M.V. (M.V.), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Untouchable Sound by MAKE UP, Beatles Anthologies 2 & 3, Skinny Grin by Acoustic Ladyland, that Jim O'Rourke album that's four extended instrumentals.

― Sick Mouthy (sickmouthy), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 22:26 (seventeen years ago) link

O-ho, a postally belated Xmas gift-O brought me a CD shaped present eventually: Arto Lindsay's Prize. Ho-hoo.

― tiit (t**t), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 18:55 (seventeen years ago) link

no CDs for xmas, but I did get a pair of studio monitor speakers which will fill my apartment w/music for many xmases to come

― Dominique (dleone), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 18:58 (seventeen years ago) link

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