Wednesday, July 24

[Grace]

The CD store in North Adelaide has done it to me again. So many titles, so cheap, so hard to choose. So I succumbed and bought Jeff Buckley's album Grace for just $10. A complete bargain for this classic album!

posted by pete at 13:40

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Monday, July 22

[Travel tunes]

My most recent musical selections have been governed by one thing – the size of the portable CD holder that I borrowed from Deb. Yes, over the last few weeks I've had just 13 disks to choose from. They were:

-Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour of Bewilderbeast
-The Paradise Motel - Flight Paths
-PJ Harvey - Stories from the city, stories from the sea
-The Best of Burt Bacharach
-U2 - The Joshua Tree
-Coldplay - Parachutes
-Noonday Underground - Self Assembly
-The Quiet Hours
-Cat Power - The Covers Record
-The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
-Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark
-Groovy 4
-Groovy 6

I also bought two CDs in NZ, namely the self-titled Bentley Rhythm Ace album and also a compilation called Chill Out in Ibiza. I'd promised myself that I'd never buy an Ibiza compilation – so much for that. It is about 70% lame unfortunately.

posted by pete at 20:54

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Wednesday, July 3

[Blissed out]

How's this for a perfect homemade compilation? Oh it gets me through my work day!!

Groovy 4

1. Nick Drake - Bryter layter
2. Kinobe - Slip into something more comfortable
3. LTJ Bukem - Journey inwards
4. Mono - Hello Cleveland!
5. U2 - The unforgettable fire
6. Adam F - The tree knows everything
7. Nina Simone - I put a spell on you
8. Henry Mancini - Breakfast at Tiffany's
9. Morcheeba - The sea
10. Turin Brakes - Mind over money
11. DJ Shadow - Building steam with a grain of salt
12. The Egg - Getting away with it
13. UNKLE - Rabbit in your headlights
14. Air - Playground love
15. Air - Empty house
16. Nick Drake - Sunday

posted by pete at 20:17

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Tuesday, July 2

[Clothes of sand]

Nick Drake made some of the most beautiful music I've ever heard. River Man is definitely in my top 5 of all time. (U2's The Unforgettable Fire is number 1 by the way.)

What I find amazing about Nick Drake is that out of depression and melancholy arose such mesmerising and inspiring music. The story of his life and premature death is so tragic.

posted by pete at 22:11

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