DrRingDing

i was frightened by the number of new releases i bought today. anybody else?

i bought:
RHCP - Stadium Arcadium
Grandaddy - Just Like the Fambly Cat
Neil Young - Living with War
Paul Simon - Surprise
Snow Patrol - Eyes Open

admittedly, that's not a lot for me as a cumulative purchase, but is a lot for "day of release" purchases.

i'm only just digging into Stadium Arcadium, as i only just got home allowing me to download from iTunes - of course, "just got home" is different for me (a la time zones, since i'm in Europe) and it's almost 10:30p.m. here.
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DVD Josh

You'll really like the Snow Patrol album, it's fantastic. Even better than Final Straw, which is tough to do. I really like the maturation of the singer's timbre.

GuessWho

the gf bought RHCP - Stadium Arcadium deluxe edition

i think she's nuts.

cungar

It was a damn good day for new releases. At least 3 or 4 really great albums.

auto

Damn, I forgot to pick up the new Neil Young.

I bought:

RHCP
Snow Patrol
Matthew Sweet & Susannah Hoffs: Under The Covers, Volume 1
Gnarls Barkley

auto

Agreed. $50 for a CD?!?

DrRingDing

actually, it's a double album...






(i'm [ pretty ] sure you knew that already, i'm just teasing)
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dadaluholla

Yow. I don't think I've bought that many cds in the past year!

Wick

I bought:

koRn: Live and Rare
The Salads: The Big Picture
Neil Young: Living with War
Bachman and Cummings: The Songbook

Giles

just the Snow Patrol and Gnarls Barkley albums from Best Buy. Forgot about the Grandaddy release, gonna trade in some CD's for some instore credit at CD Game Exchange and special order it from them.

auto

Two CDs? Well, that seems reasonable.

DJLinus

Just bought the Snow Patrol disc (w/ the exclusive Target bonus DVD). I'm a big fan of Final Straw; hope the new album is just as great.

I'll be getting the Matthew Sweet/Susannah Hoffs disc at some point, I'm sure.

Cosmic Bus

I haven't heard the entire Matthew Sweet covers album, but their renditions of "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" and "Who Knows Where the Time Goes?" are fab -- although for my money, Nina Simone's version of the latter simply cannot be topped.

The Snow Patrol disc is pretty awful, IMO, and not unexpectedly so. Gary Lightbody's been headed, quite intentionally it seems, towards that heavily produced, mainstream pap for some time; I enjoyed the occasional quirkiness of the Reindeer Section, but he mostly lost me once he shifted to Snow Patrol.

JAA

Make sure you do - excellent!

Geofferson

This week I picked up the new RHCP and Buckcherry albums.

DrRingDing

Oops, I neglected to mention that I also picked up The Black Heart Procession's The Spell, which I'm quite enjoying!