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kfj

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syd straw - war and peace
freedy johnston - blue days, black nights
the byrds - tambourine man (expanded ed.)
robyn hitchcock - jewels for sophia (as k careens around empty office singing
"they've got the best coffee, computers and SMACK!!")
bob dylan - live 1966

-k

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mark

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fight club soundtrack
murmur

mark :-)
"..end of a century, it's nothing special..." (blur, 199something)
remove the obvious to reply

Joey Odorisio

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Christmas present special edition:
Beastie Boys - The Sounds of Science
Gomez - Liquid Skin
Wilco - Being There
Nirvana - MTV Unplugged (I got it as a gift and plan on listening to it
later on this afternoon)

oh, and some CD called
R.E.M. - Up

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A Little Acorn

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>syd straw - war and peace
>freedy johnston - blue days, black nights
>the byrds - tambourine man (expanded ed.)
>robyn hitchcock - jewels for sophia (as k careens around empty office singing
>"they've got the best coffee, computers and SMACK!!")
>bob dylan - live 1966

You have a "y" theme.

Mine, with no theme (alas!):

Better Than Ezra -- Friction, Baby
Wilco -- Summerteeth
Neil Young -- Decade
Son Volt -- Trace
Drivin-n-Cryin -- Fly Me Courageous
R.E.M. -- Murmur, Fables, and LRP on vinyl! Woohoo!

Lauryn

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Pittsburgh

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R.E.M.-"The Great Beyond" single, 'Up' and 'Green'
PiL-'9', 'Album' and 'This is What you Want, this is what you Get'
Patti Smith-'Peace and Noise' and Gone Again
Stevie Wonder-box set
George Michael-Songs from the Last Century
Pet Shop Boys-Nightlife
John Lydon-Psycho's Path

Steve

REMS...@webtv.net

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Matthew Sweet- Girlfriend
Belle and Sebastian- If You're Feeling Sinister
Lotus single
AMMB single
Suspicion single

Rhonda

"...help me when I fall to walk unafraid..."
Buck/Mills/Stipe, 1998


kfj

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jeff reichman <jrrei...@aol.com> wrote in message
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> freedy johnston - this perfect world (perfect autumn/winter music)

just a beautiful album period. i hope you have his others - except for trouble
tree, they're all as good and in some cases a wee bit better. :)
-k


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Michelle Martin

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Listening to:

Up - R.E.M.
The Bends - Radiohead
His n Hers - Pulp
Beaucoup Fish - Underworld
The Ego Has Landed - Robbie Williams (Entertainment Weekly's album of the
year, which, although I do think it's a great album, gets a "huh?" from
me).

Michelle
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Mithras -- the reason for the season

Rob White aka Religion Loser

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>syd straw - war and peace
>freedy johnston - blue days, black nights
>the byrds - tambourine man (expanded ed.)
>robyn hitchcock - jewels for sophia (as k careens around empty office singing
>"they've got the best coffee, computers and SMACK!!")
>bob dylan - live 1966

R.E.M.-Automatic For The People
Radiohead-OK computer
U2- Acthung Baby
Foo Fighters-The colour and the shape
R.E.M.-Murmur


Georgiana Cohen

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I've been picky lately... these are in constant rotation
Guster - Goldfly, Lost and Gone Forever
with a bit of
Vertical Horizon - Everything You Want
ho-hum - Massacre
Jump, Little Children - Magazine

np: or, most recently playing: Guster, L%GF, when I went for a 20 minute walk
in the 20 degree weather. Beautiful. Think I might do it again.
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jeff reichman

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tom waits - mule variations
fountains of wayne - s/t

freedy johnston - this perfect world (perfect autumn/winter music)
the bogmen - life begins at 40 million, closed captioned radio, live

jeff
* * *
In lieu of a quote, I ask you to please click on the links below, listen to the
music, and if so moved, buy a CD. Thanks for supporting independent music.

http://www.cdbaby.com/reichman
http://www.jeffreichman.com
http://www.remtribute.com

MLewis2707

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Just to note that there will have to be no more CD threads for a year, if this
is to be the last one of the century. The 21rst Century starts with the
beginning of 2001.

Rrebecca

Joseph Robert Drew

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The Connells - Boylan Heights
The Smithereens - Especially For You
The Beatles - 67-70 (blue)
R.E.M. - Camden, NJ 9-5-99 bootleg
Pete Townshend - Pete Townshend Live

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rec.tribute.rem, rec.music.rem's R.E.M. tribute:
http://masterofdarkness.net/rmrtribute.html

Hank

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On Mon, 27 Dec 1999 10:17:55 -0800, "kfj"
<kar...@spotmail.commachameleon> yelled 'Broadcast me a joyful
noise!' before typing:

>syd straw - war and peace
>freedy johnston - blue days, black nights
>the byrds - tambourine man (expanded ed.)
>robyn hitchcock - jewels for sophia (as k careens around empty office singing
>"they've got the best coffee, computers and SMACK!!")
>bob dylan - live 1966
>

>-k

I had to jump in as I just bought (yesterday) the Dylan and the Band
live 1966 CD. I've had it on bootleg tapes and vinyl forever - which
is why I haven't rushed out to buy it before now. Listening to this
version is like someone took the fluff of the stylus (a reference
which dates me horribly I realise!).

I looked at a couple of the expanded Byrds CDs (including Mr
Tambourine man) but I figured that I could tolerate my scratchy vinyl
for a while yet. I think that most of the extra songs on these
editions were on the Byrds box set from a few years ago.

I also picked up the new Richard Thompson CD Mock Tudor and notice
that Joey Waronker plays drums on one of the tracks. After months of
prevarication, I bought the Flaming Lips - Soft bulletin and,
although I haven't bought a huge amount of new CDs this year, it is
one of the most remarkable albums I've heard.

To top out my music buying frenzy, I also ordered a boxset of the late
great Howling Wolf.

What else has been playing Chez Hank...

Son Volt - Straightaways
ABBA - Gold
Beach Boys
Barry White - Greatest hits (No, really)
Madonna - Ray of light
REM - Up
XTC - Fossil fuel
Elvis - the Sun sessions from the essential 50s masters

Hank

***


"Michael Stipe is really a reindeer?"

Emma - December 1999

VWbus1975

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Beatles- Let It Be
George Harrison- Thirty Three & 1/3
Neil Young- Harvest
Neil Young- Guilty Train cd-r
REM- Daysleeper single
REM- AMMB single
Jeff Buckley- Dream Brother cd-r
Beach Boys- Carl and the Passions: So Tough
Of Montreal- The Bedside Drama

*plowboy*
"Let the music carry you away"-REM


NRAIV

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Dance Hall Crashers - Purr
Sleater-Kinney - The Hot Rock
Aphex Twin - Windowlicker
Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
Robyn Hitchcock - Jewels For Sophia

Nelson


Robin Petty

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a few of these were Christmas presents....

Nick Harper - 'Light at the End of the Kennel' and 'Smithereens' (both
jaw-droppingly great)
Sinead Lohan - No Mermaid
Hugo Largo - Mettle
James - Best of (the bonus 'Unhinged' cd)

--
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'She is precious, she is proud
She silverlines my cloud' - J.P.

Vedran Dracic

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kfj <kar...@spotmail.commachameleon> wrote in message
news:ejDujOJU$GA.220@cpmsnbbsa03...

> syd straw - war and peace
> freedy johnston - blue days, black nights
> the byrds - tambourine man (expanded ed.)
> robyn hitchcock - jewels for sophia (as k careens around empty office
singing
> "they've got the best coffee, computers and SMACK!!")
> bob dylan - live 1966

Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
R.E.M. - Up
Blondie - The Best Of
Garbage - Garbage
The Pixies - Bossanova
And it really is the last CD player thread - but only of this year. Right
Hank? :-)


Hank

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On Tue, 28 Dec 1999 12:06:23 +0100, "Vedran Dracic" <vdr...@foi.hr>

yelled 'Broadcast me a joyful noise!' before typing:

>

Damn right Vedran. Check this out>>>

According to the U.S. Naval Observatory,
the end of the second millennium and the beginning
of the third will be reached on January 1, 2001.
This date is based on a calendar created in 526 A.D.
by Dennis the Diminutive, the head of a Roman monastery
who forged a common calendar from the divergent dating
systems of his day.


To read more about this please go to:
http://196.3.78.187/millennium

Georgiana Cohen

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On Tue, 28 Dec 1999 12:51:52 -0000, Robin Petty <robi...@hotmail.com> brought a guitar into rec.music.rem and sang this song:
: a few of these were Christmas presents....

: Sinead Lohan - No Mermaid

Hey, how is this album? I've heard 2 songs off of it, and they rock.

Rob

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The Jam - Sound Affects, The Gift and All Mod Cons
Sigur Ros - Svefn-G-Englar
Buffalo Tom - [Big Red Letter Day]
Wedding Present - Saturnalia
Nirvana - In Utero
Primal Scream - Exterminator (I have a promo of this *gloat*!!!)
Dead Can Dance - A Passage In Time

Rob Baker
- - -
* "Life is just a bowl of All Bran/You wake up every morning and it's there"
*
- Steve Marriott

Parakeets & Sidewinders - a testament to the work of R.E.M.
http://www.wishcity.freeserve.co.uk/rem/

Rotary 10 - the R.E.M. trading post
http://www.wishcity.freeserve.co.uk/rotary10/

Memento Mori - a tribute to Patti Smith
http://www.wishcity.freeserve.co.uk/patti/

Lexington 125 - a venture into the Velvet Underground
http://www.wishcity.freeserve.co.uk/velvet/


Robin Petty

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Georgiana Cohen wrote in message...

> On Tue, 28 Dec 1999 12:51:52 -0000, Robin Petty <robi...@hotmail.com>
brought a guitar into rec.music.rem and sang this song:
> : a few of these were Christmas presents....
>
> : Sinead Lohan - No Mermaid
>
> Hey, how is this album? I've heard 2 songs off of it, and they rock.

I've only had chance to play this through once since I received it and I
liked it a lot. It's kind of a celtic version of Beth Orton's 'Trailer Park'
album - a blend of musical materials, traditional and modern. Particularly
good production, good songwriting - I think this could spend a great deal of
time near my cd player in year 2000. There's sound samples, biography etc.
at www.sineadlohan.com.

TACman

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Dr. Dre- 2001
R.E.M.- Up
R.E.M.- Reckoning
Man On The Moon soundtrack
Stevie Ray Vaughan- Texas Flood
Stevie Ray Vaughan- Live at Carnegie Hall
The Beatles- Yellow Submarine soundtrack


TACman
cron...@msn.com

Chris Brown

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Special Christmas present/ January sales [1] enhanced edition!

Jeff Buckley - Grace
"Clinton" - Disco and the Halfway to Discontent
Grand Drive - Road Music
Marine Research - Sounds from the Gulf Stream
R.E.M. - Out of Time
XTC - Skylarking [2]
XTC - Apple Venus vol. 1

That's very nearly everything actually. Typical Christmas. ;-)

Chris

[1] I know it isn't January yet. But that's the state of the British retail
trade for you.
[2] How sad is this? I recreated the US running order, by inserting Dear
God.

isra

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Well if it's the last one, i guess I should chime in.

Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
Barenaked ladies - Stunt
They Might Be Giants - Factory Showroom
Presidents of the United States of America - s/t
Sarah McLachlan - Fumbling Towards Ecstacy
Skankin' Pickle - Sing Along w/ Skankin' Pickle
Romy and Michele's High School Reunion - sndtrk
REM - NAIHF, Oot, Murmur
MotM Soundtrack
Cry Cry Cry - s/t
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Belly - King

Can't wait to post in the first CD thread of the new year...

isra

isra

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now, now. no one likes a partypooper.

Jim McVey

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Today's selections:


The Kinks - Misfits
Beck - Mutations
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Chronicle
Billy Bragg - Back to Basics
Lou Reed - Transformer
Grateful Dead - Bear's Choice

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Ron Henry

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"Chris Brown" <CBr...@the-piss.kenaud.dircon.co.uk> peeled some white birch bark into which to etch:

>Special Christmas present/ January sales [1] enhanced edition!
>
>Jeff Buckley - Grace

I have this and hardly ever play it. I guess I should put it in the player in
my car for a while to blow the cobwebs off.

>R.E.M. - Out of Time
>XTC - Skylarking [2]
>XTC - Apple Venus vol. 1

Hey -- I finally got this last one, as a Xmas present from my girlfriend. On
my way to work this morning I listened to the first three songs. I *really*
like it so far. (I mean, I figured I would.) The first song, River of Orchids,
I think, with its intertwining rhythm and vocal lines, was especially
impressive.

>[1] I know it isn't January yet. But that's the state of the British retail
>trade for you.

No sadder than the US retail scene. I was actually in a mall briefly on the
day after Xmas. Shudder.

>[2] How sad is this? I recreated the US running order, by inserting Dear
>God.

But not removing Mermaid Smiled, I hope? I am still annoyed that it had to be
one or the other on the releases. I really liked Mermaid Smiled. Sigh.

I still like to insert Fretless and the cover of First We Take Manhattan into
OOT to make it into the album I would have preferred.

Ron

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Jeff Raymond

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Alanis Morissette - Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie
Filter - Title of Record
Jimi Hendrix - Best of
Duran Duran - Greatest
R.E.M. - "Great Beyond" single (Canadian Import, $5!)

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quote : "We just like the dots" - Michael Stipe on R.E.M.'s name.

Hank

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On Wed, 29 Dec 1999 16:31:34 -0500, Jeff Raymond
<evi...@ix.netcom.com> yelled 'Broadcast me a joyful noise!' before
typing:

>Alanis Morissette - Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie


>Filter - Title of Record
>Jimi Hendrix - Best of
>Duran Duran - Greatest
>R.E.M. - "Great Beyond" single (Canadian Import, $5!)

Flaming Lips - Soft bulletin
Jimi Hendrix - Electric ladyland
Richard Thompson - Mock tudor
Dylan - Live 1966
Al Bowlly - Best of
Travis - The man who

Rob

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Hank wrote in message ...

>Flaming Lips - Soft bulletin


I heard this playing in Our Price yesterday and I have to say it didn't
sound at all how I expected it. And haven't NME named it as their best album
of the year? Looks like I'm going to have to check this 'un out.

kfj

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jsut got five in the mail:
aimee mann et al - magnolia soundtrack
XTC - oranges & lemons
sparklehorse - good morning spider
vic chesnutt - the salesman & bernadette
richard thompson - mock tudor
-k


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Robin Petty

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Hank wrote in message

> Flaming Lips - Soft bulletin
> Jimi Hendrix - Electric ladyland
> Richard Thompson - Mock tudor
> Dylan - Live 1966
> Al Bowlly - Best of

Al Bowlly? that kind of stuck out like a sore thumb Hank! My Grandma likes
Al Bowlly (and she's not the sort of Grandmother to also have Electric
Ladyland in the same cd changer!). Are you spearheading an Al Bowlly
revival?

Joey Odorisio

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> >Flaming Lips - Soft bulletin
>
> I heard this playing in Our Price yesterday and I have to say it didn't
> sound at all how I expected it. And haven't NME named it as their best
album
> of the year? Looks like I'm going to have to check this 'un out.

It`s interesting. It`s showing up on every best-of list I read. I like
it, I got a cassette copy of it for free. There are some cool songs in it,
but listening to it on headphones in the computer lab on Walkman, it just
floats around into background music. Too much of it is too airy and
background-y for me, but there are some great moments. Waiting For A
Superman is a great song, I had it stuck in my head earlier.

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Hank

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On Thu, 30 Dec 1999 20:35:48 -0000, "Robin Petty"
<robi...@hotmail.com> yelled 'I'm in limbo now!' before typing:

>Hank wrote in message


>> Flaming Lips - Soft bulletin

>> Jimi Hendrix - Electric ladyland
>> Richard Thompson - Mock tudor
>> Dylan - Live 1966
>> Al Bowlly - Best of
>
>Al Bowlly? that kind of stuck out like a sore thumb Hank! My Grandma likes
>Al Bowlly (and she's not the sort of Grandmother to also have Electric
>Ladyland in the same cd changer!). Are you spearheading an Al Bowlly
>revival?
>
>-

LOL! Well it's like this y'see, I was doing some post-Xmas shopping
in Barnstorm Records in Dumfries and I picked up a bunch of stuff -
including the Dylan, Flaming Lips and Richard Thompson above. I had
£50 worth of vouchers and those three came to £47. I said that I'd go
to have a rummage in the bargain bin at the back of the shop to see if
I could find something to make it up to £50. As you might know,
Richard Thompson wrote a song called 'Al Bowlly's in heaven' and, when
I saw the Al Bowlly CD for £2.99 I thought Why not?!

It's kind of cool in a cheesy retro kind of way but I don't think that
it's one that I'll play that much (or ever again!) but that's how I
came to buy it.

Chris Brown

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Ron Henry <ronh...@clarityconnect.com> wrote in message
news:84d9uj$9g_...@rgh.cbord.com...

> "Chris Brown" <CBr...@the-piss.kenaud.dircon.co.uk> peeled some white
birch bark into which to etch:
> >Special Christmas present/ January sales [1] enhanced edition!
> >
> >Jeff Buckley - Grace
>
> I have this and hardly ever play it. I guess I should put it in the player
in
> my car for a while to blow the cobwebs off.

I still haven't got round to giving it a second listen. Not that I didn't
like it the first time, or that I wouldn't if I hadn't. Maybe I'm too
cheerful these days.

> >R.E.M. - Out of Time
> >XTC - Skylarking [2]
> >XTC - Apple Venus vol. 1
>
> Hey -- I finally got this last one, as a Xmas present from my girlfriend.
On
> my way to work this morning I listened to the first three songs. I
*really*
> like it so far. (I mean, I figured I would.) The first song, River of
Orchids,
> I think, with its intertwining rhythm and vocal lines, was especially
> impressive.

Those three are definite standouts; which I suppose is why two of them were
singles. The overall quality is very good throughout, mind you, although
it's not exactly a tour de force for Colin.
Anyone curious, BTW, can scope out some downloads (for a limited period,
etc.) at the TVT website.

> >[1] I know it isn't January yet. But that's the state of the British
retail
> >trade for you.
>
> No sadder than the US retail scene. I was actually in a mall briefly on
the
> day after Xmas. Shudder.

I was eating salmon (not all day, obviously). But my local record store of
choice had the beginnings of its sale going when I popped in on the 23rd.

> >[2] How sad is this? I recreated the US running order, by inserting Dear
> >God.
>
> But not removing Mermaid Smiled, I hope? I am still annoyed that it had to
be

I did, but purely for historical interest.

> one or the other on the releases. I really liked Mermaid Smiled. Sigh.

I know. But they could have chosen even worse. Isn't there a Canadian or
Danish or something version with them both on?

> I still like to insert Fretless and the cover of First We Take Manhattan
into
> OOT to make it into the album I would have preferred.

I don't have good enough copies of either to do that effectively. Not that
I'm sure I would have.

Update:
Ocean Colour Scene - OCS
Teenage Fanclub - Songs from Northern Britain
XTC - Drums & Wires (right now, in fact)

Chris


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