[DelfinoPie]

Kiss - Destroyer
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Bill Laswell - Divination: Ambient Dub Vol. 2
Ozric Tentacles - The Hidden Step
Ozric Tentacles - Strangeitude
Ozric Tentacles - Jurassic Shift
Ozric Tentacles - Waterfall Cities
Lynch Mob - Wicked Sensation
Pat Metheny - One Quiet Night
UB40 - The Best of: Vol. 1&2
David Gilmour - About Face
Fourplay - Heartfelt

[technomancer]

So the recent Randy Rhoads thread inspired me to pick a few things up

Quiet Riot - Quiet Riot
Quiet Riot - Quiot Riot II
Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz (pre-remaster/re-recording)
Ozzy Osbourne - Diary of a Madman (re-remaster/re-recording)

Also

Eric Clemenzi - Basement Tapes
Kangaralien - Kangaralien
Storms Approach - Storms Approach

[Jongpil Yun]

Picked up some more Franz Liszt.

Alfred Brendel Plays Liszt

• Piano Concerto No. 1 in Eb
• Piano Concerto No. 2 in A
• Totentanz
• Piano Sonata in B minor
• Dante Sonata
• Bagatelle Without Tonality
• Mephisto Waltz
• Some other miscellany

Liszt ... (Andre Watts, piano)

• Six Grand Etudes after Paganini
• Hungarian Rhapsody No. 13 in A minor
• En Reve - Nocturne
• Transcendental Etude No. 10 'Appasionata'
• Sonata in B minor again

Did I mention I fucking love Liszt? Because I fucking love Liszt.

Originally Posted by Jongpil Yun

Picked up some more Franz Liszt.

Alfred Brendel Plays Liszt:
*Piano Concerto No. 1 in Eb
*Piano Concerto No. 2 in A
*Totentanz
*Piano Sonata in B minor
*Dante Sonata
*Bagatelle Without Tonality
*Mephisto Waltz
*Some other miscellany

Also, I picked up a Liszt disc by Andre Watts.

*Six Grand Etudes after Paganini
*Hungarian Rhapsody No. 13 in A minor
*En Reve - Nocturne
*Transcendental Etude No. 10 'Appasionata'
*Sonata in B minor again

Did I mention I fucking love Liszt? Because I fucking love Liszt.

Nice!

[TaronKeim]

Metal
Meshuggah - Re:Nothing
Meshuggah - I
Genghis Tron - Cloak Of Love EP
Genghis Tron - Dead Mountain Mouth
Protest The Hero - Fortress
High On Fire - Death Is This Communion
Beneath The Massacre - Evidence Of Inequity
Animosity - Animal
Behemoth - Demi-God
Behemoth - The Apostosy
Despised Icon - The Ills of Modern Man
Pig Destroyer - Prowler In The Yard
Pig Destroyer - Terrifyer
The Human Abstract - Nocturne
Mnemic - Passenger

Jazz
Keith Jarrett - My Foolish Heart
The Bad Plus - Prog
The Bad Plus - Suspicious Activity?
Boxset - ECM :rarum - Selected Recordings I - VIII
Floratone (Bill Frisell/Matt Chamberlain/Tucker Martine/Lee Townsend) - Floratone
David Murray w/The Black Saint Quartet - Sacred Ground
Kurt Rosenwinkel - Heartcore

Film Scores
Clint Mansell/Kronos Quartet - Requiem For A Dream
Clint Mansell/Kronos Quartet/Mogwai - The Fountain

Rock/Prog/Alt
The Mars Volta - The Bedlam In Goliath
Drive-By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's Dark
Wilco - A Ghost Is Born
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Me'Shell Ndegéocello - The World Has Made Me The Man Of My Dreams
Dub Trio - Another Sound Is Dying
Black Mountain - In The Future

IDM/Glitch
Prefuse 73 - Preparations

This has all been in about the last 2 months at the most... I almost WISH I had a crank habit instead!

_TJK*

[DelfinoPie]

Kevin's Noodle House - Buckethead/Brain
Decoding the Tomb of Bansheebot - Buckethead
Defenders of the Faith - Judas Priest
Stained Class - Judas Priest
Bringing It All Back Home - Bob Dylan

[jacksonplayer]

Originally Posted by TaronKeim

David Murray w/The Black Saint Quartet - Sacred Ground

I saw David Murray play a lot of this music last year in the Jazz Tent at the Bonnaroo Festival. Absolutely stunning--I've been meaning to pick up a copy of this album, too.

Here's some of what I've gotten recently:

Sam Rivers - "Crystals" and "Fuchsia Swing Song"

Sam is one of the great avant-garde jazz saxophonists. "Fuchsia Swing Song" is one of his earlier mid-'60s releases and sounds a bit more normal (but still great), but "Crystals" from 1974 is just crazy--like a huge swing band gone all atonal and weird, if you can imagine that.

Flora Purim - "500 Miles High: Live at Montreux"

Flora was the one jazz vocalist who really embraced fusion jazz in the '70s, and the results on this live album are stunning. Imagine a mix of Brazilian rhythms and songwriting, scat singing, acid guitar soloing, and occasional Pink Floyd-style atmospherics. Flora also went way the hell beyond anything Ella Fitzgerald could have imagined and does the most amazing things with her voice. I can't even describe it.

Matthias IA Eklundh/Jonas Hellborg - "Art Metal"

If you want to hear Eklundh in the best possible context, this might be it. He's really pushed hard by Hellborg and the Johansen brothers on drums/keys, as well as Selvaganesh on kanjira. This is one of the few "jazz metal" albums I've heard that seems to be a real combination of both, rather than just really complicated, overly composed metal with 7th chords. Very inspiring.

Weather Report - "Live in Tokyo"

Japanese-only double album from the band's 1972 tour of Japan. Part of this was used for side 2 of "I Sing The Body Electric" in the USA. This is the early, ethereal and searching Weather Report that featured Miroslav Vitous on bass, not the later version with Jaco that made all that stuff that sounded like happy-happy TV theme songs. Live, the early Weather Report was much more cutting than on the albums, and this features some wicked playing by all involved. These guys could shift directions on a dime and just take the music to weird and wonderful places. Highly recommended.

Larry Coryell: "Improvisations: Best of the Vanguard Years"

I'm just starting to investigation Larry's work, and this seems like a great place to start. His playing is a bit rougher than either McLaughlin or Al DiMeola, but he has a very unique and interesting voice. Also very eclectic, with everything from sophisticated acoustic duets to Hendrix-like fuzz guitar workouts. According to the liner notes, massive quantities of drugs were often involved in these various sessions, but the results are still amazing to my ears.

[MerlinTKD]

Also over the last 3-4 months...

More fun from the used bins:
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Slipknot - Iowa
Fear Factory - Obsolete
Mickey Hart - Supralingua
Anthrax - Sounds of White Noise (you know, didn't care for John Bush with Armored Saint, find I still don't with Anthrax... )
Disturbed - Ten Thousand Fists
Iron Maiden - A Matter of Life and Death
Queensryche - The EP (about damn time... )
Megadeth - Rust in Peace, Cryptic Writings, Risk, United Abominations, Capitol Punishment

Purchased new:
Sevendust - Retrospective 2
(Hope & Sorrow: Chapter VII due 04/01, woot! )

via iTunes:
Cynic - Focus
Stone Sour - Come What(ever) May

and as a gift:
various artists - Namaste (a yoga/meditation compilation)

[TaronKeim]

Originally Posted by jacksonplayer

I saw David Murray play a lot of this music last year in the Jazz Tent at the Bonnaroo Festival. Absolutely stunning--I've been meaning to pick up a copy of this album, too.

Murray is a fantastic voice, Sacred Ground is incredibly beautiful, very straight ahead in some parts but leans towards the avant-garde during some solo spots.

Originally Posted by jacksonplayer

Larry Coryell: "Improvisations: Best of the Vanguard Years"

I'm just starting to investigation Larry's work, and this seems like a great place to start. His playing is a bit rougher than either McLaughlin or Al DiMeola, but he has a very unique and interesting voice. Also very eclectic, with everything from sophisticated acoustic duets to Hendrix-like fuzz guitar workouts. According to the liner notes, massive quantities of drugs were often involved in these various sessions, but the results are still amazing to my ears.

Have you heard any of his 11th House material? It ranks at the top of my fusion/funk list, especially the live material if you can track it down.

He also did an album with Badi Assad and John Abercrombie called "3 Guitars" and it is a stunningly beautiful acoustic date with some gorgeous "out" moments.

_TJK*

[Michael]

Man, you guys get some massive hauls.

The last CD I bought was Magnitude Nine - Decoding The Soul (Japanese version with extra backing track)