Lost In Seattle: New Tunes

New Tunes

February 23, 2006 in Music | 2 Comments

Shortly after I posted my heavily geeky “iTunes Data Mining” entry, I received a birthday iTunes gift card from Amy’s aunt and uncle (thanks again, guys!). For the last week or so, I’ve been trawling the iTunes Music Store and finally pushed the “Buy Now” button today. Here’s my shopping list.

Name	Artist	Album	Year
The Rockafeller Skank	Fatboy Slim	The Rockafeller Skank - EP	2000
Bucky Done Gun	M.I.A.	Arular	2005
Millennium	Robbie Williams	The Ego Has Landed	2002
Maps	Yeah Yeah Yeahs	Fever to Tell	2003
My Doorbell	The White Stripes	Get Behind Me Satan	2005
Gangsta’s Paradise	Coolio feat. L.V.	Gangsta’s Paradise	2005
Head Like a Hole	Nine Inch Nails	Pretty Hate Machine	2005
Gigantic	Pixies	Surfer Rosa	2003
Rhapsody in Blue	George Gershwin	The Essential George Gershwin	2003
In Between Days	The Cure	The Cure: Greatest Hits	2001
If There Is Something	Roxy Music	Roxy Music (Remastered)	2000
The Sanity Assassin	Bauhaus	Crackle	1998
Kiss Them for Me	Siouxsie and The Banshees	Superstition	1991
Unfinished Sympathy	Massive Attack	Blue Lines	1992
Fade Into You	Mazzy Star	So Tonight That I Might See	1993
I Wanna Be Adored	The Stone Roses	The Stone Roses	1989
She Sells Sanctuary	The Cult	Love (Remastered)	1997
Sex (I’m A…)	Berlin	Pleasure Victim	1983
There’s No Other Way	Blur	Leisure	1998
Letter from an Occupant	The New Pornographers	Mass Romantic (Remastered)	2003
Staring At the Sun	TV On the Radio	Young Liars - EP	2004
B.O.B.	OutKast	Stankonia	2000
Seattle	Public Image Limited	The Greatest Hits So Far	1998
Rise	Public Image Ltd.	Compact Disc	1987
The Metro	Berlin	Pleasure Victim	1983
It’s Oh So Quiet	Björk	Post	1995
Suedehead	Morrissey	Bona Drag	1990
Laid	James	The Best of James	1998
Assimilate	Skinny Puppy	Twelve Inch Anthology	1990
It’s My Life	Talk Talk	It’s My Life	1984
Muscoviet Mosquito	Klan Of Xymox	Lonely Is an Eyesore	1999
Ambulance	TV On the Radio	Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes	2004
Clint Eastwood (Edited Original Mix)	Gorillaz	Gorillaz	2001

The songs fall roughly into four categories:

Nostalgia (e.g. the Berlin stuff, Morrissey)
Good songs from bands/albums I don’t otherwise care for (OutKast, Gorillaz, M.I.A)
Both 1 & 2 (The Cult, Skinny Puppy)
Unfamiliar stuff I’m trying out (TV On the Radio, Yeah Yeah Yeahs)

After stripping the pesky DRM (thanks, JHymn!), I have been enjoying my new play list all morning. Upon first listen, I have to say that the biggest surprise is that “Seattle” by PIL is an F’in’ Great Song. All my PIL is on cassette and is gathering dust and mold in my basement. I sort of forgot about them. I’ve always felt they were uneven in quality so they never got the CD upgrade and sort of dropped off my radar. But “Seattle” is rocking my world right now.

Posted by majorsteel on February 23, 2006

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