I assume everyone here already knows Tower Records is going out of business forever and have marked down their stock. All CD's are 50% off. Problem is a lot of the good stuff is already gone. I heard about someone who got The Fall Peel Sessions box set for only $36 and I was so jealous. Anyway, the one down in Queen Anne is so picked over there's really nothing much left at all, but I fared better at the U-District location. Okay so I was only going to get ONE Style Council CD, and then I started thinking "I wonder what else they have here that I could get for 50% off". So I flipped through the entire alphabet and spent a total of $100. Which I'm really not down on myself too much about because it's been years since I did one of those good old fashioned $100-150 spending sprees on music.
Here's what I got:
The Longcut - "A Call & Response" (this is a new Manchester band that Anthony H. Wilson likes and folks have talked about on the Factory mailing list - it's actually pretty good, I'm listening to it right now)
Roedelius - Aquarello (god I wonder how old this guy is now - must be past sixty. This is his new album, and some folks on the other board were trying to convince me he didn't have a new album out when I knew for a fact I'd read about it)
Scritti Politti - Songs To Remember (I think Tommy said he thought this was their best album. I tried to buy it after I downloaded it but got dicked around by the company I tried to order it from and never got it)
Tears For Fears - Songs From the Big Chair (yeah I really should have this on CD rather than just cassette, it's got bonus tracks, too, and remastered)
ESG - A South Bronx Story (I was pretty happy to find this for so cheap...it's got a few Martin Hannett produced tracks, too, very funky)
Lou Reed - Rock and Roll Animal (a lot of people don't like this album, I've always wanted to give it a try...it's pretty much live solo versions of Velvet Underground songs)
Style Council - Confessions Of A Pop Group (I've got all the songs on my box set but I wanted it on a separate CD because this is really Paul Weller's career peak, I think except for the early Style Council stuff)
Billy Bragg - Life's A Riot With Spy vs. Spy (silly me I never knew there was a fucking bonus CD with lots of bonus tracks!!)
Faun Fables - The Transit Rider (this old hippie guy I work with played me these folks...had a female singer, reminded me a lot of Amon Duul, actually, though Faun Fables are new and Amon Duul are from the 60's/70's)
Negativland - Escape From Noise (so happy to find this so cheap! I can't believe I've never owned this one - it was their first album, from 1987 and includes the staple of college radio known as "Christianity Is Stupid")
Marky grabs the Tower Records bargains!
Marky grabs the Tower Records bargains!
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A few things I passed over were an old Ultravox album called Systems of Romance I think. From when John Foxx was the singer rather than Midge Ure. But I've tried old Ultravox before and just never liked it that much. Hell, I wish they'd had some Midge Ure Ultravox, now that would have been a lot of fun! I used to have a big double LP compilation of them...(*sniff sniff* getting nostalgic now)
Also I saw that little cute Nick Drake CD single of "Magic" backed with "Northern Sky". It has a cover that makes it look like a vinyl 45, it's really cute. But I knew I needed it like a hole in my head.
Also I saw a Suburbs album I don't have called "Love Is The Law" - it's the only Suburbs album I don't have except for a live album, but I just had no confidence it would be any good. They jumped the shark in about 1983, and that's what year this album was from.
Also I saw that little cute Nick Drake CD single of "Magic" backed with "Northern Sky". It has a cover that makes it look like a vinyl 45, it's really cute. But I knew I needed it like a hole in my head.
Also I saw a Suburbs album I don't have called "Love Is The Law" - it's the only Suburbs album I don't have except for a live album, but I just had no confidence it would be any good. They jumped the shark in about 1983, and that's what year this album was from.
And in the Tower Records store they were playing a lot of music I like (Happy Mondays/Roses/Charlatans/Killers) so that made it very bearable, flipping through all those CD's.
They had DVD's for 40% off too, including some good ones like two recent Fall live ones, and Happy Mondays, and they had a recent live New Order one that I've read bad reviews of, too. But I just didn't bite. I've already got so many music videos that just sit around. They had a Led Zeppelin documentary one, though. Maybe I should have gotten that one.
They had DVD's for 40% off too, including some good ones like two recent Fall live ones, and Happy Mondays, and they had a recent live New Order one that I've read bad reviews of, too. But I just didn't bite. I've already got so many music videos that just sit around. They had a Led Zeppelin documentary one, though. Maybe I should have gotten that one.
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Also just incase anyone is reading this who lives in Seattle will you please go to Tower in the U-District and snap up those Comsat Angels CD's? I don't need them, but I felt so fucking sorry for them. Someone should buy those, really. And there were WAY too many copies of John Cooper Clarke's "Disguise In Love". Don't let it pass you by!
I still didn't find the damn Simply Red first album, though. I'm just going to order it through the mail I guess.
Another CD I bought this weekend at another store was Brian Eno's Taking Tiger Mountain. I've never actually owned that one before, but I've heard it plenty of times. That is the album that has a song that A Certain Ratio took their name from, and also it has "Third Uncle" which Bauhaus covered.
I still didn't find the damn Simply Red first album, though. I'm just going to order it through the mail I guess.
Another CD I bought this weekend at another store was Brian Eno's Taking Tiger Mountain. I've never actually owned that one before, but I've heard it plenty of times. That is the album that has a song that A Certain Ratio took their name from, and also it has "Third Uncle" which Bauhaus covered.
AAAH! I WENT BACK TO TOWER FOR DVDS THIS TIME!
I started thinking about the Happy Mondays DVD they had "Live In Barcelona" and I couldn't help it I had to go back down and get it and I spent another $70 on music DVD's! Look at what I got!!!
Happy Mondays - Live In Barcelona
Lou Reed - Spanish Fly (live in Spain 2004, has "Blue Mask" on it which cinched the deal for me)
Velvet Underground - Under Review (I found this last and it was exactly what I fucking wanted!!!! There's supposed to be something in it about the guy who found that valuable LP for 75 cents)
Nile Rodgers & Chic - Live at Montreux 2004 (could suck but what if it doesn't???)
New Order - Finsbury Park (yes I know it has got bad reviews but hell I'm a junkie and it was only $9)
Nik Kershaw - "the Universal Masters DVD collection" - an IMPORT of course - just couldn't resist this. Barely know his career at all but really couldn't resist this. It was a whopping $7.79. This is the British guy who did the 80's hit "Wouldn't It Be Good".
Happy Mondays - Live In Barcelona
Lou Reed - Spanish Fly (live in Spain 2004, has "Blue Mask" on it which cinched the deal for me)
Velvet Underground - Under Review (I found this last and it was exactly what I fucking wanted!!!! There's supposed to be something in it about the guy who found that valuable LP for 75 cents)
Nile Rodgers & Chic - Live at Montreux 2004 (could suck but what if it doesn't???)
New Order - Finsbury Park (yes I know it has got bad reviews but hell I'm a junkie and it was only $9)
Nik Kershaw - "the Universal Masters DVD collection" - an IMPORT of course - just couldn't resist this. Barely know his career at all but really couldn't resist this. It was a whopping $7.79. This is the British guy who did the 80's hit "Wouldn't It Be Good".
