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[jfb]

Sprinting toward the finish line:

Belle & Sebastian, The Boy with the Arab Strap. Scottish folk-pop. (dreamallday)
Big Country, The Crossing. Scottish 80s pop, with e-bow. Includes "In a Big Country". (dougo)
Boards of Canada, Geogaddi. Scottish electronica. (bushmiller)
Battlefield Band, Rain, Hail or Shine. Scottish folk-rock. (B)

The Buckinghams, Mercy, Mercy, Mercy. Compilation by 60s faux-British-invasion band. "Kind of a Drag", but no "Don't You Care". (dougo)
The Beach Boys, Smiley Smile + Wild Honey. Two albums after Smile fell apart. Includes "Good Vibrations" and "Heroes and Villains", alternate takes, and a lot of filler. (artname)
The Beach Boys, Friends + 20/20. The downward slide continues. Includes a cover of "Walk On By". (juliansinger)

Various Artists, Great Jewish Music: Burt Bacharach. Tribute album for John Zorn's Tzadik label; unconventional approaches by Horvitz, Ribot, Douglas, Frisell, etc. (bushmiller)
Brave Combo, Mood Swing Music. Oddlot compilation from the eclectic polka/world music band. "Always Vienna (The Last Words of Sigmund Freud)" is particularly nice. (B)
Joshua Bell and Edgar Meyer, Short Trip Home. Classical/Americana hybrid. With Sam Bush and Mike Marshall. (artname)
Bang on a Can, Live Vol. 3. New Music, with one track by Nick Didkovsky (Doctor Nerve). (bushmiller)

Bis, Intendo. Demos and B-sides from cute indie rock band. (dougo)
Built to Spill, Keep It Like a Secret. Indie rock (on Warner Brothers).
Blinker the Star, August Everywhere. Major label pop debut.
Dan Baird, Love Songs for the Hearing Impaired. How did I end up with a CD by the singer from the Georgia Satellites?
Tracy Bonham, The Burdens of Being Upright. Major label debut by violin rocker. Features "Mother Mother". (juliansinger)
Jeff Buckley, Grace. "Last Goodbye" is a fantastic song, and the cover of "Hallelujah" is well-loved. (dreamallday)
Jay Bennett & Edward Burch, The Palace at 4am (Part I). Pop-rock from Wilco's other mad genius and some guy. Includes two Woody Guthrie songs a la Mermaid Avenue.
Belleville, My Friends Are My Estate. Pretty good alt-country.

Brandy, Never Say Never. R&B, with "Top of the World".
Kofy Brown, Hungry. Independent hip-hop. (juliansinger)

Sharon Bousquet, "Vancouver Winter". Christmas single by a singer-songwriter who used to live around here (and around Vancouver, I guess). (B)
Allette Brooks, Swim with Me. Silicon Valley singer-songwriter. "Rolling Blackout" was topical and catchy.
Bob and Wendy, Vagabond for Beauty. Central Coast singer-songwriter and her multi-instrumentalist husband.
Jonatha Brooke, "Ten Cent Wings". Singer-songwriter's first officially solo record after The Story.

Kenny Barron and Regina Carter, Freefall. Piano/violin jazz duets. No cover. (artname)
Kenny Barron and Mino Cinelu, Swamp Sally. Piano/percussion. (artname)
Kenny Barron-John Hicks Quartet, Rhythm-a-ning. Live album by two-piano quartet. (artname)
Jaki Byard, At Maybeck. Solo piano.
Andre Bush, Invisible City. Instrumental album by Jenna Mammina's longtime guitarist.
Don Byron, Nu Blaxploitation. Clarinetist takes on 70s funk. Features rap by Biz Markie, spoken-word by Sadiq, and songs by Mandrill and Jimi Hendrix. (juliansinger)
Don Byron, A Fine Line: Arias and Lieder. Songs by Bernstein, Wonder, Puccini, Mancini, etc. Cassandra Wilson sings Sondheim's "The Ladies Who Lunch". (B)
Don Byron, Romance with the Unseen. No gimmick, just a jazz record. With Bill Frisell, Drew Gress, Jack DeJohnette.


Some of these are still left: D E F H I.

Comments

[dreamallday.livejournal.com]

Can I have the belle and sebastian and the jeff buckley?

[jfb.livejournal.com]

Sure. Send me (mailto:eostrom@drowning.org) your mailing address.

[bushmiller.livejournal.com]

Boards of Canada
Great Jewish Music
Bang on a Can

Erik, you're the tops.

[jfb.livejournal.com]

I'm the Mona Lisa.

[dougo.livejournal.com]

I would like the Big Country, the Buckinghams, and Bis. Danke.

[morganology.livejournal.com]

The only one I would want is Boards of Canada. I have everything else! I can't believe you're getting rid of "Grace"! It's such a gorgeous album!

[morganology.livejournal.com]

Nevermind, I was beaten to it. Ah well!

[jfb.livejournal.com]

Done. And now I need a box again.

[greyaenigma.livejournal.com]

I need to spend more time hitting referesh on your page.

[artname.livejournal.com]

Beach Boys -- all of it
Joshua Bell
Awww missed the Jeff Buckley
Pick a Kenny Barron for me, or more than one if you insist.

Finally!

[(Anonymous)]

Oh yay, I finally see one of these early enough to get stuff I want!

Battlefield Band
Brave Combo
Sharon Bousquet
Don Byron's Fine Line

Is the Jonatha Brooke one the one with the red and yellow cover? I didn't like that much, but I loved the harmonies of The Story. If there are cool harmonies, mark me down for that one.

Dang, missed Jeff Buckley. Curses, dreamallday!

-B

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

Ooops, no Beach Boys for me. Or Brave Combo.

Did someone nab the Fine Line? I can't remember.

*checks* Oh. Yeah.

Well, I'll take the Nu Blaxploitation instead. Also, Kofy Brown (since I've never heard of him in my life and I figure, why not?), and Tracy Bonham.

Re: Finally!

[jfb.livejournal.com]

I haven't listened to it for quite a while, but my recollection is that the cool harmonies stopped when Jennifer Kimball left the band. She supposedly has a new solo record in the works, finally. I might toss this one in anyway if no one else wants it.

The rest are yours, except for Jeff Buckley, but dreamallday lives in the Twin Cities, maybe you could just break into her apartment and take it.

[jfb.livejournal.com]

I would give it to you anyway, to even things out with bushmiller, but he called me the tops. You can't compete with that.

[jfb.livejournal.com]

Giving you the first Beach Boys, and juliansinger the other. You get all the Barrons unless someone else wants any.

Re: Finally!

[jfb.livejournal.com]

Also, it's not strictly first-come first-served, so if you do see a post after something you want's been requested, you might as well ask.

[jfb.livejournal.com]

Evidence of how much you haven't heard of Kofy Brown: Her CD is now yours. I'm also giving you the second Beach Boys CD (Friends + 20/20), unless you don't want it.

Re: Finally!

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks for the tip...

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

Aheh. Whups. But it means I get to learn about/listen to new stuff! This is good.

And, hey, yes, I'd love the second Beach Boys CD. Thanks.