album_i_dont_own_and_extremely_want warmthofrelease At this moment. Because sometimes a 128kbps stream just doesn't cut it, no matter how nice the speakers are. There's truly no substitute for tangibly physically and literally HAVING the record, and putting it on. 250312 ... warmthofrelease Currently, it's Mercury_Rev - The_Light_in_You I've loved Deserters_Songs for so long but I decided to branch out into their discog recently, and over the past 6 or 8 months or so I've fallen madly in love with both this album and also that Bobbie_Gentry reimagination thing that they did, but that one in a different way and for different reasons. I want that one too, but specifically right now my heart is aching for the dizzyingly uplifting and gorgeous wanderlust of this 2015 record. I do have a digital copy, which is almost satisfying. But for something this important to me, I really ought to have it in a format that isn't ultra-compressed and largely compromised of quality. There will always always be a wishlist, always priorities, always things that I'm keeping an eye out for. But in some moments the ache of my want is particularly bad. I blame this crazy moon phase, strictly out of convenience. 250312 ... warmthofrelease I've also been revisiting and re-enjoying Porcupine_Tree recently, who I've known of and listened to for forever but I only really knew 3 albums. But recently I've started listening to Deadwing via streaming, and I've felt a strong gravitational pull towards it which my local library system cannot accommodate. I haven't fallen entirely in love with the record yet, maybe I'll look back on it as a phase. But I do feel the strong urge to possess it in order to examine it more closely. I should qualify though, that when I say "strong urge" I definitely do NOT mean to the tune of 30 US dollars for a new vinyl. But if I get lucky enough to find a lightly used CD for 7 bucks? It's mine. 250312 ... raze there are some things i keep meaning to pick up and then forgetting about: "echo mine" and "villagers" by califone. "magazine" by rickie lee jones. "know_by_heart" by american analog set. "when i say to you black lightning" by common holly. "field of reeds" by these new puritans. ernest hood's "neighborhoods". and "songs" by adrianne_lenker. but at the top of the list is a stupidly expensive five-lp box set of the caroline-era idaho albums. as much as i can't really justify spending that amount of money, this music has been a huge part of the soundtrack of my life. and having "three_sheets_to_the_wind" on good-sounding vinyl would be a dream come true. 250312 ... warmthofrelease Speaking of that precious lovesick dove Adrianne, Big_Thief - Capacity is absolutely one of these. For as much as she's meant to me in the 8 years I've known her (especially 21 and 22) it's a cryin shame that I don't own a physical copy of any of it. Capacity is, to me, the most magical and heart piercing release. The beginning of the album is pretty good, but starting at Great White all the way through the end of the record is such a fucking beautiful emotional mess of a journey that leaves me in pieces every time. And that's always the goal, to find something which completely emotionally deconstructs me and leaves me to re examine myself in broken pieces. Thank you Adrianne. 250328 ... raze (to the surprise of no one, i bit the bullet and picked up that idaho box set after all.) 250609 ... warmthofrelease the_stone_roses continues to grow in my mind and my heart. I found a copy of second_coming and it's immense, maybe even larger than itself. but it's still good though. it's just...less accommodating I guess. I still really want that first one. Even if I can only listen to the songs in my rearranged order, I've completely playlisted the experience of the album. but it would still mean something to me to hold it. I waaaaant it I waaaaaant it, I gotta be adored. 250609 ... warmthofrelease I thought I had talked about this here already but regrets are a huge part of this. I gave away Archers_of_Loaf - Vee_Vee and P_J_Harvey - Dry to a...I'll call her a friend because we were never on bad terms but I found it difficult to connect with her despite what I felt like was an earnest attempt on both our parts. But I have a 100% fail rate so it's hard to feel bad. I gave those 2 to her after I heard her admiring that first Black_Sabbath album. I never saw them again. I replaced Vee_Vee but not Dry. It's crazy because I've heard such consistent acclaim about that album, even its bad qualities are interesting and its good qualities are fascinating, yet that thing has proved hard to find. There are also things I've sold. Willingly given away and want them back. It's a very small percentage of what I've decided to part with, every time it was a conscious choice and almost always it was for the better that I was getting rid of it. But every once in a while I'll sell or donate something and then miss it. LCD_Soundsystem - This_Is_Happening 280g vinyl press did earn me a lot of store credit on the day I gave it away to be fair. It helped my broke ass pay for a copy of Herbie_Hancock - Head_Hunters which I bought as a present for my roommate (a partially selfish present, as I had access to the record too for as long as we lived together and it's another one that's hard-ish to find at a non-scalp price). He would end up gifting me his copy of In_the_Court_of_the_Crimson_King in the same gift exchange. Definitely a non_zero_sum outcome. But something I sold which DIDN'T yield me much cash or trade profit, and which I regret so sorely and miss so dearly, was my CD of Belle_and_Sebastian - Tigermilk. I have Sinister and Arab Strap sitting in their comfy homes. But I guess it was a kind of naivete, an overestimation of the rest of the human race, when I was younger and not so jaded. I never imagined something as amazing and beautiful as Tigermilk would be hard to find. Those songs were on the Juno soundtrack, that movie was insanely popular! Surely I'm not the only one who immediately took that moment to find this band and attach myself to them in a way in which I could never detach. But alas, the world let me down. I know it's all a matter of taste. But I just hate a world where Tigermilk isn't as universal as A_Night_at_the_Opera or Zoso or Rumours or insert classic here. Though I can understand. It's just hard not to feel disappointed. When I feel like I'm the only one. Even when I'm not. "got married in a rush to save a kid from being deported now she's in love oh, I was so touched I was moved to kick the crutches from my crippled friend she was not impressed cause I cured her on the Sabbath I went to confess when she saw the funny side we introduced my child bride to whiskey and gin" 250626 ... releaseofwarmth *that would of course be a ONE hundred eighty gram vinyl press of This_is_Happening, I believe 280 grams would be quite gratuitous for a record 250626 ... releaseofwarmth *also to follow up on my point about This_is_Happening this is an example of an album which I do like and I do miss, but I don't miss it because it's been hard to find I miss it because it's been hard to find at a reasonable price. Because the way the market moves the goalposts to accommodate certain artists, styles, genres, and subsequent "crowds" (IE "customers") has made certain things top out at unreasonable price ranges. It's perfectly fine to want a copy of Abbey Road on CD. It's not fine to pay 20 US dollars for it. If you don't know any better that makes it so much worse. Wait until 2 or 3 copies of that CD get marked down, moved into the bargain bin. I paid 5 dollars for mine, sealed. Just had to wait for it. But things like LCD? You can wait til the cows come home, the only way you'll pay a reasonable price for it in this lifetime is if you steal it. And lastly, a kind reminder to myself: nothing is really ever lost until you stop looking for it. 250626 ... warmthofrelease I have a reputation as a music collector among my friends and family, so I tend to get first dibs when someone's trying to get rid of their music, specifically CDs. This was how I got my hands on a copy of blood_on_the_tracks for free, but it was only the disc. No original case or artwork. Not only would it be nice to have some official packaging to go with it, but if there was only one Dylan that I would go out of my way to own on vinyl, it has to be Blood. Bob himself said he couldn't understand why people had so much affinity for something that was so full of pain. But Bob don't you see? 250710 ... warmthofrelease Incidentally I've been listening to darkness_on_the_edge_of_town more recently, which just made raze's the_record_on_my_turntable. I do think it's objectively Bruce's masterpiece even if I have more love in my heart for Nebraska. I'm happy to have the CD but I sure as hell wish I had the vinyl. There are several examples of albums where this is the case and I don't think it's unfair to include them here. Even though I do technically own the album, there are some things that are worthy of having on vinyl. Many things. Low - Things_We_Lost_in_the_Fire and Dexter_Gordon - Homecoming (Village Vanguard) and Beck - Morning_Phase are other CDs I'm happy to have found at a reasonable price. But I've been aching for them on vinyl for so much longer that it did somewhat feel like settling at the time of purchase in all 3 cases. Songs_Ohia - Ghost_Tropic is something which I do not own in any format though, and I refuse to spend money on anything less than a vinyl. One day. The_Gathering - How_to_Measure_a_Planet and Opeth - Heritage are two that would be nearly impossible to find at a reasonable price on vinyl unless they're (miraculously) re-issued. I might have to settle for the CD on those, but I haven't even been able to find that. And it's much to my chagrin that the first Big_Thief album I end up owning physically is Double_Infinity which I picked up on Monday. Because it's new and support artists and local music vendors and whatnot. But I do kind of suspect that it'll grow to be one of my least favorite BTs over time. I really like some songs. But Incomprehensible is such a letdown, compared to the energy and passion Adrianne was putting into that song on tour in Europe last summer when these songs were still being workshopped. The arrangement and mixing on the version of the song that made it onto the album is disgraceful. Overengineered nonsense on top of a fragile, chained, entirely too quiet vocal performance. And probably in a vocal register that's entirely too low. It leaves her voice so muted and folded within the accompaniment that doesn't serve to accompany but to compete. It's like she's hiding herself within the song, or just simply being overpowered. Either way it's such a waste of potential because the songwriting is excellent. But there are some real highlights to be taken from the album too. It's just nonsense that I should have this to be able to hold in my hands but I don't have Capacity or Dragon. and WHY in THE FUCK do I not own 36_Chambers? I've been inspired by that album for more than half my life what the FUCK 250914 ... raze speaking of bruce — that expanded version of "nebraska", expensive as it's bound to be, has me weak in the knees over here. i never in a million years thought we'd get to hear the full band versions of those songs. not that i would want to change a thing about the album. it's perfect just the way it is, and no true studio recording could duplicate its atmosphere. but i've always been fascinated by the idea of what things might have sounded like with the rest of the e street gang in tow. and now i guess i get to find out. 250915 ... warmthofrelease I'm very curious about that. Ryan Adams covered Nebraska in its entirety a few years ago and I had a similar reaction. The original is sacred to me just the way it is, it was a little hard to separate myself from my love of it and obviously it was impossible not to compare. But he was the right man for the job, whether or not the job was necessary. If it even turned on one single person to that music who wouldn't have otherwise known about it, then the excursion was automatically well worth it. I was also thinking recently how sad it is that I don't physically own any Baroness. I ought to have Red and Blue at the very least. And although I do have Welcome_to_Sky_Valley I regrettably do not have any Queens_of_the_Stone_Age. Rated_R means enough to me that part of me feels I ought to buy it just on principle. Though I know it wouldn't be a particularly wise investment because I can only listen to that album anymore with the tracks rearranged to my own sequence. Which is obviously not conducive to vinyl format or even cd format, even if I had a track programmable cd player (which I've owned in the past but not in the present) it's still just not a practical listening experience. This is the reason why I didn't feel too bad about giving away my copies of The_Lonesome_Crowded_West and (!) Tallahassee. I can only listen to them as playlists now. In one sense enhancing it for me and in another sense ruining it. 250916 ... warmthofrelease In the canon of pacific northwestern grunge_and_grunge_adjacent, Candlebox often gets overshadowed by their contemporaries. But I was thinking about that eponymous album and how good it was. And why I don't have it. But then again I still somehow don't have Superunknown either so. I don't even have Nevermind but I'm sure Kurt would be perfectly fine with that. He would probably criticize me for not physically having any Melvins though and the criticism would be completely justified. 250919 ... warmthofrelease Tom_Waits - Nighthawks_at_the_Diner When Neil_Young inducted Tom into the rock n roll hall of fame he said he had been giving the task of describing the indescribable. That's not a task I'm up to, especially not when it comes to this album. But I'll just say that man is a character of many characters and of high character. And the world is better for having his weird ass be part of it. 250919 ... wor/row_has_fucked_up Previous entry supposed to have been logged under record_on_display not here. Wrong blathe! But I'm not fixing it! It fits that Tom ends up on the blooper_reel. Ah well the record's been set straight enough that it'll play. 250919 ... warmthofrelease Thelonious_Monk - Underground is a life changing album for me. Forever changing the way I think about tonality and the beauty of breaking the rules. Unbridled unhinged genius. Despite it being a solo piano record and therefore not carrying a ton of auditory nuance, it still feels wrong to have to settle for listening to a digital representation of this absolute monument. I need this as it was intended. 250925 ... raze david sylvian: secrets of the beehive rain tree crow: s/t i think it was warren zevon who told a story once about hearing "like a rolling stone" on the radio for the first time when he was a kid waiting in the car while his mother bought groceries, and being afraid she wouldn't recognize him when she came back. that was how deeply he felt he'd been altered by what he heard. this, along with scott walker's "tilt", was the music that did that to me. i bought both albums on the same day when i was fourteen, acting on the advice of "rock: the rough guide" — a thick tome that became my teenage bible. that indispensable beast of a book introduced me to the likes of kate_bush, tim and jeff buckley, my bloody valentine, jane_siberry, slowdive, nick_drake, john martyn, television, suicide, robyn hitchcock, talk talk, the the, bark psychosis, mary_margaret o'hara, richard thompson, john_cale, big star, the blue nile, morphine, and a whole host of other artists who became a profound part of the soundtrack of my life. i already owned an album or two by japan. i didn't know anything about david sylvian's solo work until my big red book clued me in. i listened to "rain tree crow" and "beehive" back-to-back in bed on a sunday afternoon and felt the music rearrange my molecules. someday i aim to own these albums on vinyl, if only so i can make my dream to slow dance to "pocket full of change" a reality. (scott is another story for another time — though i'm pretty sure i already told that tale at the end of 335_songs_part_four.) 250926 ... warmthofrelease Keith_Jarrett - Koln Concert wouldn't exist in a logical world. I don't think it could be replicated or even transcribed. What he did with that instrument on that night will never ever happen again. It's pleasant enough of an experience to stream the record, which I do in its entirety several times a year including earlier today, but if there was ever a night that deserved to be re-experienced on vinyl this is it. 251122 ... releaseofwarmth (well I_stand_corrected, as a transcription of the concert does exist and has existed for almost 35 years. but my point still stands that it would be preposterous to try to recreate the performance even if possible) 251122 ... warmthofrelease I don't really like punk rock much, overall. But when I go to it I go to the king: Iggy_Pop. I have Fun House, because I can't not, and I have The Idiot, because it was a good price. But both of them on CD. With Idiot it's fine, I think it's solid but overrated. But I really do need Stooges eponymous, Lust for Life, and especially Iggy's 2023 mix and master of Raw Power to grace my shelf before I die. 251218 ... warmthofrelease Especially at first, very much of my musical taste was informed by my father. These days not so much. I can say without too much pretense that my tastes have evolved well beyond the music he grew up with. I can probably tell him more about his own generation of music than he could tell me. And I think my horizons are broader, though that could just be a matter of taste. I find some of the things he enjoys to be absolutely pedantic. And he's been bored or unimpressed with some of the things I like. My instinct is to blame it on his attention span, unable to appreciate anything that doesn't make a striking first impression on him. But again, have to concede the benefit of the doubt that it is a_matter_of_taste. These days he simply uses Spotify. If he still owns any physical music then I don't know what it is or where he keeps it. I think for reasons intersecting convenience, lack of sentimentality, and willingness to compromise morality, he sees no purpose in owning music anymore. Not that I'm entirely looking down on him for that. I've been paying Spotify every damn month since 2011. I know they severely lack integrity, both in the monetary sense and in the abstract sense. But I've invested so much time into it, I simply can't change my ways. At the same time, I do believe in ownership of music and I strongly believe in supporting both musicians and local record stores. And believe me, streaming a track on Spotify or Apple or Amazon or pretty much any service except maybe Tidal, is NOT feasibly supporting artists. What they get paid is the bare minimum to ensure that these operations continue to be legal. So if I find something through Spotify or any other source that means a lot to me, I make a point of trying to purchase and own the music. My dad sure did used to have a lot though. I've been told that his collection of cassette tapes specifically was very robust and impressive at one point. Apparently he sold the lion's share of these to make ends meet. It does make me wonder what I missed out on, as I was far too young to appreciate what he chose to let go of to pay for a few more meals. But in the days before digital music was so readily accessible he would still buy CDs. And treat them quite badly overall. Keeping them in cheap sleeves that would wrap around the visor of his car or in other haphazard manners. By the time he got rid of them, most of them were probably in too poor condition to even try to resell at a thrift store. But these were largely the soundtracks to my youth. Ways to occupy the 50 or 60 odd miles between my mother's house and my father's house. Ways to learn connect and educate, despite not realizing it at the time. I just always loved music. I didn't always love what my dad played, but I sure did learn a lot. The_Cars complete greatest hits was one of these things. The 20 track version. Not bad as compilations go, but not a complete look at their brilliance either. But at the time, this one meant a lot to me. And it means a lot to me today. I've been listening to the cars a lot this month. Reveling in their underappreciated genius. As far as intentionally retro music goes, as far as cheesy synth driven accessible radio friendly 80s music goes, the cars had so much legitimacy and depth. From the songwriting to the arrangements to the technical execution on their instruments, they deserve to be much much more than just a guilty pleasure, a soft spot, well respected. They deserve to be regarded as one of the absolute best bands of the world of commercialized music in the 80s. Yet despite what they've always meant to me, and what they've come to mean to me today as their music has aged so well in my mind and in my heart, I do not own a single physical copy of any Cars release. I am feeling more and more in my spirit just how wrong that really is, and I will resolve with a fervent intention to fix that one day. Just as soon as I get the opportunity. At the very least I need self-titled and Candy-O. Wouldn't turn my nose up at shake or heartbeat either. But whatever it ends up being, it's really become clear to me that this is one of the smaller yet more obvious holes in me. It's a wrong that needs righting. But it's also just a matter of time. 251227 ... warmthofrelease I added Gasoline Alley to my digital library about 5 years ago, according to my timestamps. I only started listening to it more frequently recently, thanks to the raze praise effect. It really does twangingly, croakingly, seducingly rock my soul. And I want it. Also Orange_Rhyming_Dictionary is one that I paid for the files of many moons ago. But it means far too much to me for me to not be able to hold it. 260111 ... warmthofrelease There is a perturbing lack of soul music in my physical collection. I feel like I once owned songs in the key of life but I don't know where it is. I have no Marvin Gaye, no Al Green, I don't even have any Prince records. I have this flavor in my spirit. I just need it represented on my shelves. 260117 ... warmthofrelease I have as big of a man_crush on Mikael Akerfeldt as I do anyone. I think he has a great sense of humor, great taste, and if versatility is your main criteria I might have to call him the greatest vocalist who's ever lived. Not a bad musician either and an underappreciated lyricist as far as pretentious european prog metal goes, he's certainly one of the least cheesy. He's deepened my appreciation for Deep Purple and Black Sabbath, turned me on to 70s Judas Priest which I appreciate more than 80s Priest, and made me aware of some wonderfully off the beaten path music that's ultra obscure and unknown to most everyone on the west side of the Atlantic. From Renaissance, one of the least celebrated and most fascinating of all the Yardbirds offshoots, to Wishbone Ash, as legit and inspiring as any early 70s prog rock outfit. He also turned me on to a similar early 70s prog gem from Germany, Lucifer's Friend. Like some other albums I mentioned above, I don't expect I'll ever be lucky enough to stumble upon a physical copy of "...Where the Groupies Killed the Blues" and maybe one day I'll have to cheat and cough up the money to purchase it online in order to have it. But one thing's for sure: I will permanently be keeping an eye out for it. 260120 what's it to you? who go blather from