Have made a couple of trtips to HMV recently. While I try and shop in Fopp as a rule, the sale prices and now the regular new CD prices in HMV are too good to ignore. CDs are chepaer now than 10 years ago, and the campaigns for reduced CD prices have been happily forced into silence. I got 4 newly released CDs for under £40, and 3 for £15 or less of older ones. Nice way to spend my World Cup predictions winnings + some birthday cash from parents!
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Following MG's example. I suspect some things will annoy me about it, and others will thrill me.
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Haven't heard a note, nor do I know his collaboration with Ry, though I want to, but the reviews have had me salivating. A magnificent epitaph, and all that. I guess it's the first African music CD I've bought.
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Again, not heard a thing, but reviews make me want to check it out. Sometimes it's nice just to go on recommendations, and the ones here have been strong.
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At last! Hard decision: standard edition for £8 and get an extra CD in the shape of the HMV playlist with some interesting stuff on such as Regina Spektor and TV on the Radio (Bowie-favoured band, as per Arcade Fire), or special digipak edition for £10 with hidden bonus-track. I went for the former, not really a hard decision.
So those were the new ones. Old ones were:
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That's Cat's Cover's CD. Interesting song selectiob, but all a little low-key to my mind.
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Loving this. Playing it lots. God I love his voice and the purity and memorable qualitites of his songs. Some real classics on here, inc title track. Great artist.
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All of £3. my bro had this, and every single detail of the sleeve artwork is familiar to me (each song is illustrated). Worth getting just for that experience. Some cracking songs on it, in addition to the hits: Harmony and Sweet Painted Lady are gorgeous. I'm not sure I'd get into this without the nostalgia factor, but it's nice to hear it again.
I've also been raiding the library for CDs, namely Strokes LPs 1 and 2, given my wholehearted embracing of the latest; Can - Future Days (a band I've spent my life reading about and never really heard); The Chameleons - Why Call It Anything? (know an earlier song of theirs and love it, this was from 2001); Iggy - Lust For Life (can't believe I've never got this given my love of Bowie and for Iggy himself).
Lots to listen to...