well, it only took almost three years, but finally one of the bands i listen to reached 1,000 songs listened to. the band in question of course being pizzicato five.

they were my favourite band through much of the 90s and after them i've yet to find a band i'd call my favourite.

i know for some people they reach 1,000 in what seems like no time. either this means they have a lot more free time to just listen to music or that they just listen to a smaller number of bands(or songs that aren't very long).

well, i've really slacked off on writing up bits on the cds i've gotten recently. but let's see if i can get back into the swing of things. some new purchases:

three imaginary boys
i've been slowly buying up these double disc re-issues by the cure when i find them cheap enough. they were one of my favourites back in the 80s. i don't follow what they do very closely anymore, but i'm enjoying going back and listening to these old songs again.

the millpond years
more 80s rebuys. i always felt like and also the trees were way underrated…

strangeways, here we come - the smiths
slowly i'm getting caught up on rebuying the smiths stuff i had on vinyl. this was never a favourite smiths album of mine, but i do like it. funny, that my favourite smiths album(hatful of hollow) i still haven't gotten around to rebuying on cd.

electric lucifer book 2 - bruce haack
bruce haack seems to be one of those artist that is way overlooked. i don't understand why, but even with the press he's gotten and the documentary made about him, he still seems relatively unknown. this release seems to…

one a recent trip to a second hand cd shop, found two releases i'd been looking for for quite some time:

blood - this mortal coil
the final album from the 4AD house band. for some reason this is the one release that has been rather difficult to track down here in taiwan. the first two albums show up pretty regularly, but the third one has been hard to hunt down either new or used, but finally i was able to find it. of course i had it on vinyl back when it was originally released, but being seperated from…

survival research laboratories - mark pauline + gx jupitter-larsen
i picked this up on a whim since it was in the discount bin. i was never the biggest fan of the survival research laboratories events - something about the animal skins that i wasn't so keen on. but getting this cd and reading about the events again makes me sort of wish i had gone to one of them. i was surprised to find out they were still doing performances. the music is basically processed found sounds/noise. not something i'm going to listen to everyday, but when i'm in the…

i've gotten a bit behind on my plan to write little blurbs on cds as i pick them up. one of these days i'll get caught up.

tales from the turnpike house - saint etienne
i tend to have mixed feelings about saint etienne sometimes i really love them(lose that girl may be one of the greatest pop songs ever written), but other times they don't do much for me. but this album is a real winner. really lush sounding with a certain thrift store theme running through much of it. what's not to love?

strange charm - gary…

more goodies i picked up at the fnac sale awhile back.

an ennio morricone/dario argento trilogy - ennio morricone
it's hard to go wrong with a morricone disc. and morricone with dario argento is just a huge plus.

charade - henry mancini
high time - henry mancini
two soundtracks by mancini. like morricone it's hard to go wrong with a soundtrack by mancini. if i find one cheap i'm more than likely to pick it up.

the dangermen sessions vol. I - madness
an excellent new disc by madness. sounding more ska than they have in years. all covers…

a colleague of mine lent me that recent documentary on bob dylan. after seeing that doc. i was in a big dylan mood and in the course of one weekend i picked up the freewheelin' bob dylan, bringing it all back home, and highway 61 revisited. i know i had one of these on vinyl, but now can't recall which. any reccomendations for what dylan to get next?

some more things i picked up at that fnac sale…

premium gold collection - thomas dolby
i was never the greatest thomas dolby fan back in the 80s. i liked the singles well enough but never bothered to buy anything. so when i saw this i figured it'd give me a good taste. it does have a lot of the songs i remember and ones i don't. the ones i don't are the one's initially i'm not really that impressed with. but one listen isn't really enough to make up my mind about something.

mister heartbreak - laurie anderson…

i've become a little slack in my plans to write about cd purchases. well, let's see if i can get this thing back on track. some stuff i picked up at recent sale at fnac:

setting sons - the jam
surprisingly this is the first jam cd i've gotten. i had some on vinyl, but never got around to getting any of it on cd. this is the paper jacket japanese issue. so it comes in a paper sleeve imitating a record jacket. it's the kind of packaging i really like(much better than those stupid jewel boxes which i throw…