'nother list

These are v.good. I'm young and my collection is small bi ilm standards, so I can't give you advice.

Calla - Scavengers
The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace
Isis - Oceanic
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
Xinlisupreme - Tomorrow Never Comes

And avoid the Gary Wilson record like the plague. Boring boring boring.

wadded-up tinfoil.
single stick in "Plen-T-Pack" of Extra sugarfree gum, classic bubble gum flavor.
Battered Chuck Berry's Greatest Hits LP.
Nokia wireless phone.
Spontaneous Music Ensemble, Karyobin.
Martha Stewart Halloween mask.
Brass horseshoe.
Headphones.
Business cards.
Vermin.
6:25PM 1/07/03
What do I eat for dinner tonight?
Reflections of plants off glass.
Post-it notes.
Who put the rama in the rama lama ding dong?

The rest : maybe.

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A Certain Ratio - Early
Blue Orchids - A Darker Bloom
Cabaret Voltaire - The Original Sound of Sheffield: '78/'82
Contortions - Buy / James White - Off White re-realease
Alice Coltrane - Universal Consciousness
Comets on Fire - Field Recordings from the Sun
Company Flow - Funcrusher Plus
Dalek - From Filthy Tongue of Gods and Griots
Family Fodder - Savoir Faire
ISAN - Lucky Cat
Lali Puna - Scary World Theory
Lightning Bolt - Ride The Skies
My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
Tukiko Nuriko - Make Me Hard
The Notwist - Neon Golden
Oneida - Each One Teach One
Parson Sound - Subliminal/Ti'llindien
Slits - Cut
Talking Heads - Remain In Light
Tarwater - Silur
This Heat - Repeat, Health & Efficiency, Made Available, This Heat
Theoretical Girls - Theoretical Girls
V/A - If the Twenty-First Century Didn't Exist, It Would Be Necessary to Invent It (5RC Comp)

A Certain Ratio - Early (buy it)
Acid Mothers Temple - In C (possibly not an essential amt release. good though. get the terry riley original issue if you can)
Big Flame - Rigour 1983-1986 (bloody essential, been pondering the worth of buying this versus just tracking down the one 7" I don't have by them)
Blood Brothers - March on Electric Children (non essential. buy the first 2 antioch arrow 12"s instead, or the VSS lp)
Bowie - Low (great)
Contortions - Buy / James White - Off White re-realease (every home should have one)
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left, Bryter Layter (both good and readily available on cheap cd reissue)
Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (good)
Fad Gadget - The Best of Fad Gadget (classic)
John Fahey - The Yellow Princess (stick to early stuff like this. not a big fan of his later work)
The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace, The Frightening and Wonderful World of... (of course)
Joy Division - Heart & Soul boxset (managed to get a copy cheap. well worth it for anythign you don't already have)
Lali Puna - Scary World Theory (ok, don't listen to it much)
Ted Leo - The Tyranny of Distance (great pop record)
Matmos - A Change to Cure is A Chance to Cut (really like this)
My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything (not as good as loveless but still great)
Out Hud - S.T.R.E.E.T. D.A.D. (brilliant, one of the best of 2002)
Rocket from the Tombs - the day the earth met... (definitely)
Slits - Cut (go buy it now!)
Spacemen 3 - Playing With Fire (I've listened to this once in the past 2 years)
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska (the boss album yuo can get away with owning without getting too bad a slaggin from your cool friends)
Talking Heads - Remain In Light (this and fear of music are two of the greatest records ever)
This Heat - Repeat, Health & Efficiency, Made Available (all good. made available gets the most spins in my house)
Theoretical Girls - Theoretical Girls (I've been enjoying it)
Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats (yup)

Bardo Pond - Dilate, Lapsed (I don't like Amanita as much)
The Fall - The Wonderful And Frightening World...
Jandek - Blue Corpse
Ted Leo - The Tyranny of Distance
Lightning Bolt - Ride The Skies
Talking Heads - Remain In Light
V/A - No New York (if I can find it)
V/A - If the Twenty-First Century Didn't Exist, It Would Be Necessary to Invent It (5RC Comp)

Also solid: Nick Drake, Spacemen 3, The Fire Show, Don Cherry, The Feelies

Spacemen 3 - Playing With Fire, Perfect Prescription
Bowie - Low
Jesus & Mary Chain - Psychocandy
My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left, Bryter Layter
Feelies - Crazy Rhythms
Boredoms - Rebore Vol. 0
Tony Conrad with Faust - Outside the Dream Syndicate
V/A - No New York (if I can find it)
Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
Mum - Yesterday Was Dramatic, Today Was OK, Finally We Are No One
Matmos - A Change to Cure is A Chance to Cut

& these never got me off:
Bardo Pond - Dilate
Delgados - The Great Eastern, Hate
Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (Hasn’t aged too well.)
Kid606 - down with the scene, the action packed mentalist brings you fucking jams
Ted Leo - The Tyranny of Distance
Manitoba - Start Breaking My Heart
Montgolfier Brothers - The World Is Flat
Os Mutantes - Everything is Possible (Lousy comp - get the original albums!)

Exceptional:
Bowie - Low
Lee Scratch Perry - Super Ape
Swell Maps - Collision Time Revisited
Talking Heads - Remain In Light

Bloody Good:
Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace
Feelies - Crazy Rhythms
Go-Betweens - 1978 - 1990
MC5 - The Big Bang
Os Mutantes - Everything is Possible
This Heat - Repeat, Health & Efficiency, Made Available

Good, but not Great
Delgados - The Great Eastern
Jesus & Mary Chain - Psychocandy
Rocket from the Tombs - the day the earth met...

I'll let you know when they arrive / I've had a chance to listen to them (looks like you've been reading a lot of the same threads as I have!):
Blue Orchids - A Darker Bloom
Camberwell Now - All's Well
Family Fodder - Savoir Faire
Stockholm Monsters - Alma Mater
This Heat - This Heat

Is it out yet? I can't find:
Contortions - Buy / James White - Off White re-realease

Best of luck finding:
Stump - A Fierce Pancake
V/A - No New York

Cabaret Voltaire - The Original Sound of Sheffield: '78/'82

Is great, really lumpy and old and unusual sounding even by the usual unusual standards.

Kid606 - down with the scene, the action packed mentalist brings you fucking jams

Brilliant title, CD not so good. 'I'm mad I am!' No, you're not.

Mclusky - Mclusky Do Dallas

Brilliant title, brilliant album, brilliant brilliant. If you've ever liked any rock(or this particularly energy punk sub genre) music ever you'll love this.

Mum - Finally We Are No One

Very nice, sounds a lot like some of the background crushed velevet on Bjork's Vespertine. Prolly 'cause some of the same people did it.

Re: J Chance - there's a 4CD 52-track box set of the complete Chance/White/Contortions/Black works coming out next month. I will be reviewing it for Uncut.

Bowie - Low (buy)
Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady (buy)
Cabaret Voltaire - The Original Sound of Sheffield: '78/'82 (buy)

Casino Versus Japan - Whole Numbers Play The Basics (if you like the sound of this from Marcello's and S. Reynolds' descriptions, buy - me, I think label-mate marumari does this sort of thing better)

Cassetteboy - The Parker Tapes (buy)
Clarke - Snap, Crackle & Bop (if this is the Hannett-produced one with "Beezley Street" on it, worth considering)
Nick Drake - Bryter Layter (pretty good)
El-P - Fantastic Damage (dense stuff, if you're into "challenging, difficult" etc. this is for you)
Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (buy)

The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace, The Frightening and Wonderful World of... (get both, but preferably versions with as many bonus tracks as possible - particular important with the latter, as the LP itself is just okay, but the bonus tracks, "No Bulbs" etc., are all essential)

Kid606 - down with the scene (I like this, but understand the criticisms)

Mr. Lif - I Phantom (okay - strangled a bit by its "concept", and dips in quality towards the end, but some fantastic individual moments. Overall, I preferred his other 2002 release, the EP whose title I keep forgetting. The one with "Home Of The Brave" on it. 'Emergency Rations', that's it!)

My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything (buy)
The Notwist - Neon Golden (okay, nothing special)
The Roots - Phrenology (good, but not quite great)

Slowdive - Just for A Day, Souvlaki (both okay - I prefer the first 3 EPs to "Just For A Day", which at one time you could get highlights of on a CD called "Blue Day")

Stockhausen - Kontakte (buy - but NB: you can get in two formats, tape only and tape + piano and percussion. You need to hear both, but I personally prefer the version with instrumentalists)

Talking Heads - Remain In Light (buy)

And I also really like these:
Go-Betweens - 1978 - 1990 (if you can still get it)
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left, Bryter Layter
Augustus Pablo - King Tubby Meets The Rockers Uptown
Spacemen 3 - Perfect Prescription
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska

Can't argue with the Joy Division box set even though I've not heard it all.

I'd never be without:
A Certain Ratio - Early
Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady
The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace
Go-Betweens - (any)
Jesus & Mary Chain - Psychocandy
Joy Division - Heart & Soul boxset (never got around to buying it

Great news, thanks Marcello.... say, if you find you really don't like it when you've reviewed it, can I have it? ;~)

lay off it stewart. it's mine heh.

haven't got these but make sure you get the second double live alb (PSF 15/16).

I haven't the foggiest.

What I do know is who put the mais non in 'Mah-na mah-na'. Um. No, I forgot. Never mind.