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That's really bizarre - I just picked up this set recently. I don't think there's a bad moment on it.

I haven't done a list like this in ages, and for some reason this thread was formatted all screwy in my browser, so I couldn't really read all the responses. But here's a short list of early 90's and beyond rock that is really an essential part of my collection (this is very alphabetical, cause i was copying names from my mp3 folder): Afghan Whigs - Especially "Gentlemen" and "1965"... the latter is absolutely essential listening. Beck - Haven't kept up with his latest, but he rarely has an album that completely misses for me. Coldplay - Yeah, it's embarrassing, I guess, but when you're in the mood for big arena rock you and your girlfriend could have sang along to together when you were 16, it doesn't get too much better than "Parachutes." Dinosaur Jr./Sebadoh Bjork - Pretty sure I won't be alone on this, but she is rarely short of genius. Jane's Addiction - If we're keeping this to the XXX album, Nothing's Shocking and Ritual... most every Farrell related later project I can't dig. Deconstruction (despite the annoying name) was a fairly impressive spin off from Dave Navarro and Eric Avery. Soul Coughing/Mike Doughty - In particular the first, "Ruby Vroom"... in my rock phase, one of the most refreshing breaths of air I can remember... totally unlike anything else I had in my collection. Modest Mouse - Ignore the fact that you heard that one song everywhere last year... that album was highly original and really challenged the boundaries of pop song structure. Radiohead - Fantastic. Really. Do believe the hype. Stereolab - If "Dots and Loops" had been released on vinyl, I'm sure I would have worn out the grooves to this one. Yo La Tengo - Ditto for "And then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out." The Sea and Cake/Tortoise/Sam Prekop/etc. - All these Chicago groups are pretty awesome, though I've never been as crazy about them as I feel I should be, based on their jazz credentials. Prekop has put out two solo masterpieces though, kind of like modern bossa nova if it had been created by Chicago hipsters. Fugazi/Minor Threat - One of the first rock bands I ever really got into (Fugazi)... could go on and on about them. Guided By Voices - Some of the 45 second songs here are some of the purest, most succinct expressions of pop sensibility that I've ever heard. Pixies - Of course. Sonic Youth - Maybe a little too old, and they went through a blah period in the late 90's, but they seem to be back on track with "Murray Street" and "Sonic Nurse." I'm sure there's more, but that seems pretty good for now.

The used CDs that you buy there new are indeed one's that have been opened for in-store play or to let a customer listen to them. All the stuff that comes in "used" - as in sold back by customers - goes in the used section (unwrapped). I'm not saying that's 100% right, but when I worked at Tower we did the same thing with the listening station CDs. However, I could write an entire book about the illegal activity that goes on within Norman's. I have no desire to put somebody out of business by ratting on them, but I would suggest avoiding that store, and the selection and prices really isn't that great anyway. Suffice it to say that if you have a desire to support good business practices with your dollars, Norman's is not the place for you. I did get the 2-disc "State of the Tenor" for 5 bucks when I was working there, though.

Thanks to Rooster and Tom I just got mine yesterday. Some good sounding stuff on here, some of which is familiar and driving me crazy. Listened to part of the Shaw concert too and it sounded great. Thanks guys!

I caught Bobby Few in a trio show at Tonic one summer afternoon a few years back. I believe there is a record of it floating around somewhere out there. Definitely recommended - I love the guy.

Probably belongs in a different part of the forum, but I'm with Nate - I find the Iyer incredible, and my favorite of all the stuff of his I've heard so far. So many levels on that album, it keeps getting better every time I listen to it.

Okay, I promise not to post in here every single time, but I am pleased to announce that Sudden Thoughts radio is now up and running according to the schedule. Join us today, Sunday May 1st, anytime from 1pm to 4am (EST) for a show full of avant/free goodies. Tuesday's are today's best jazz, and Thursday's are all the classics. Follow this link to catch it as it happens. Also, I am very happy to announce that we now haveplaylists posted to the site, so you can see what it is you're hearing. And if you like it, are thinking about buying it, we of course would appreciate your click throughs. Thanks so much, and hope to see you over there!

When I was living in Brooklyn, I saw this happen a couple of times, though they weren't filming it. Around the time school got out (3-4 in the afternoon), both times waiting for a train. The doors would open and a group of kids would rush out, smacking somebody on the platform in the face on their way by. Obviously, it was for the shock value more than actually causing serious physical harm - but the thing that really disturbed me about it was that the second time it was a female. Where I'm from, you don't ever touch a woman like that, ever. Just shows how intelligent these kids are - coward ass punks going after people like the elderly, from one of the things I read about it. Another thing about my world - if you want to fight, you let me know first. What a bunch of idiots.

I've started playing around with this, but a) I haven't found a setup that's really convenient to use (being the computer dunce that I am) and b) I realized there's a reason I'm not a professional disc jockey.... I sound like an idiot on the "radio". If anybody has good links to easy ways to set these up, though, I'm interested.

Yah guys - thanks so much for checking in! No worries, there was nothing playing by the time you posted (I'm now on European time, so I probably stopped it a little early for those on the other side of the pond ). I was mainly just testing out a new program, and want to thank the folks that did get to hear it - got some good feedback. Once I've got all the little issues sorted out, I'll make sure to post here again and let you know when it's up. Rostasi - One of the main issues I'm still trying to work out is the playlist issue. With this program, some people (mostly using Winamp, and other PC based programs) were able to see the currently playing track, but unfortunately iTunes doesn't seem to support them. If I can't get that worked out, I will create a space on the site to post them. I was running it directly from my Powerbook, with a nifty little app called Nicecast. Recommended if you have a Mac and just want to start casting a simple stream. There's a couple other things I'm looking into - first would be the phenomenon of Podcasting, but I don't really like the sound of my voice compared to this good music , and I'm a little confused on the copyright issues with that one. Secondly, my brother is involved with the development of Netjuke, which recently merged with a cool looking media handler called Jinzora, so I am watching that carefully (I have an "inside contact", as it were ).... I'm thinking that'll probably be the ultimate route I'll go, but it's not quite ready for the kind of use I'm talking about, I guess. I'll keep you posted.

Okay, I don't have the time to make a big post right now, but I'm happy to say that after months of inactivity, my site - Sudden Thoughts - is finally back in action. New reviews, articles, live coverage, etc.... But the main reason I'm posting this is that I'm testing out different, more stable programs for webcasting radio. Was wondering, if anybody here had the time and inclination, if they might check out our humble stream and let me know how it's working from your end. It is currently broadcasting all kinds of good jazz (at 4:53pm EST on Thursday, April 21st) - I'm gonna leave on a loop for quite a few hours and see how things play out. Thanks for listening, and let me know how it goes.

Congrats!!! I recently moved to France from the US, so I am in the middle of a lot of this stuff - though I brought no furniture, and do not have any family with me (though my girlfriend will be moving here in September). In any case, if there's any general questions about international move, feel free to e-mail me through the address in my profile.

Just discovering him a few years ago, I've only had the time to get to three of his novels: The Dangling Man, Adventures of Augie March, and Herzog. But I love all three, and especially love how different they are, despite the underlying themes. One of those defining voices of the 20th Century in America. What a loss.

FWIW, Che has already been banned from Jazzcorner. There's always Blue Note Europe, I guess. Looks like that may become the home for all the Bobby Fischers of the jazz BBS world.

My girlfriend gave me a 100 dollar gift certificate for Christmas. I was amazed I was able to hold out this long (actually came more from indecisiveness- I never just have free shopping there!!!)... but I finally gave in the other day. Instead of splurging on one big set, I decided to nab a few of the Selects. Included in the order: Dizzy Reece Art Pepper Curtis Amy Hope I won't be kicking myself about the Hank Mobley any time soon.... seems like that one's gotta be getting near the endangered species list.

I don't know if I'm in the minority on this one, but I have quite a few of the EMI/Blue Note copy protected CDs (hey! most of them were free!!!), and I have yet to have a problem ripping them to my computer with iTunes (or therefore transferring them to my iPod). FWIW, I have a Macintosh Powerbook G4, the latest model, and have listened to them all after being ripped and detect no problems. Other people have really had problems with this?

One time I caught Django Reinhardt on the speakers in a J. Crew, and ended up having to buy my girlfriend a sweater because of it. I said "if you can tell me who this is playing right now, I'll buy you anything in this store." Whoops.

Since he insisted it wasn't too late, I took the bait and jumped on in. Checked my schedule, and it looks like I should have enough time to get to it in the appropriate time frame. Cool! PM sent.

Hello everyone - This is embarrassing, for sure, but I've really enjoyed coming here in the past, and thought you all deserved an apology from me. As some of you know, I was supposed to do a Blindfold Test months ago... I actually had the selections picked out, was getting ready, and then all of a sudden life got really busy. I won't go into all the details here on a public forum (but I would be more than happy to explain further in a PM for anybody who's interested), but suffice it to say I really dropped the ball. I want to extend a particular apology to Mike Weil, who went out of his way to contact me on two different boards and by e-mail, and who never got a response. Not as an excuse, but just as an explanation, I actually stopped posting altogether (on any board) for a span of two or three months, and there was a stretch where very few e-mails to me were getting any kind of response. I am since in a better place, and just realized recently that I had never come over here to explain myself. So there you are. I am sorry for the inconvenience and the rudeness. Glad to see that the tradition has kept going strong, and maybe in the future I can get back into it as a listener. I still love the idea, just don't want to request CD's if I know I'm kind of busy. Best wishes.

This lady (while good looking) is either a true off-the-fucking-wall wacko, or has a really hard time acting even somewhat natural in front of the camera. I find her show highly entertaining, because I keep waiting for the moment when she is finally going to fully crack. Reading through the lines, she strikes me as a high-level neat/control freak who tries to mask her impending doom with a sporadic stream of forced/extremely uncomfortable "humor." EX: On a show cooking goulash - "I just loooove 'passport meals.' What a great way to jazz up a humdrum work week. Who'd have thought you could take a trip to Russia in 30 minutes or less?"

I had a 9:30 class at NYU that morning. I always took the C train from my apt in Fort Greene, Brooklyn to the W. 4th stop in Greenwich Village - for you non-New Yorkers, that train went directly underneath the WTC. I was running a little late that morning, didn't have time to turn on the TV. By the time my bus got to the train station, the trains had stopped running. None of the transit workers knew why yet. Walked to the next station on the line. Same thing. Tried a third in Downtown Brooklyn, on a different line - still nobody knew exactly what was up. Got out of the station and thought about walking over the Brooklyn Bridge into Manhattan. Heard somebody say something about a plane flying into one of the twin towers. Somebody else looked at the guy and said "What the fuck are you talking about? People don't just fly planes into the World Trade Center." I have to admit, I felt about the same at the moment - just one of those crazy rumors that gets started. Was about a four or five minute walk from the Brooklyn Promenade - which has probably the best view of the Manhattan skyline in all of New York. On the walk, there was this weird white stuff (looked like little bits of dust or paper or something) floating all over the air. Arrived at the Promenade a couple of minutes later. By this time, both towers had been hit. Said to my girlfriend of the time - "What's the date today? The 11th? I bet this date will become well known. Holy shit - we're here to see what happened on September 11th" (before that date meant anything). Lots of rumors flying around, very little hard information. Both towers collapsed. Just an incredibly numb feeling. All the anxiety would come later. I remember wondering about the air - wondering if there was some kind of chemical in it. Thought that I could well be dead within hours. At that point it wasn't even a question of if another attack might happen, it was where is the next plane coming. If I remember right, that was the beginning of the anxiety. * * * On the walk back to my apartment, a young man (probably early 20s) collapsed into the arms of my girlfriend, bawling and repeating one word: "Why?" Walked alongside a black woman in her 40s who was covered in white debris - forgive the allusion, but she looked like a ghost... completely white. When I got home, tried to call anybody from my family I could think of. Couldn't get a line out. Finally, about an hour later, got my grandmother (who died only a year later)... she said "this is worse than Pearl Harbor". Seemed appropriate to me. Walked around, stunned, all day... just to get out of the house, and turn off the TV. Military and police everywhere... nobody talking. Spent the evening and early night on the roof of my brownstone, watching the column of smoke slowly trail off across Brooklyn and Queens. Took some pictures on a disposible camera. Sometime that night (probably around 1 or 2 in the morning, my girlfriend broke down and started crying hysterically. Mine came the next afternoon. * * * Since then, I've developed serious anxiety problems and a healthy alcohol problem to go with it. I'm not proud, but that is the truth. After the death of my grandmother, I drank excessively for three or four months, ended up with a new girlfriend and in Atlanta. I also can not talk about it in real life - I guess that is why I feel the need to tell the story here, in relative anonymity. Three years later, and this is the first time I've described my experience in this much detail. I'm glad I had the opportunity, hopefully it will help with some of the buried pain. I also fully identify with those who regularly expect to turn on CNN or any news station, and expect to hear the news of the latest catastrophe. There is always a weird, relieved let down when all the local stations are still on regular programming. Shrdlu.... I am a Christian myself, and I find your comments offensive and completely inappropriate.

Thank you Francois!!!!! I hope you already had that typed out and didnt sit down and do it for me. I really appreciate it, in any case.

I have a quick question I was hoping someone could help me out with. Does anyone have a typed out version of the track listing for the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Solid State Mosaic box that they could quickly post here. Can't seem to find it on the "new and improved (?!?!)" AMG, and I'm curious as to what order everything on the box is in. Thanks in advance.

Mike is correct that Universal currently distributes ECM, so if you don't have a problem with that deal, this story shouldn't mean too much for Concord. I still have yet to understand what the Concord-Fantasy deal means for the OJC back catalogue, though. Obviously, Concord is better than Universal in terms of who's in charge of all that material, but it hasn't really been long enough to see how they're going to handle things.

Grrr... I know what you mean. The night of the 4th, when I got into my car after getting off work, all ready to go out and imbibe, the car battery died. Had to get a jump start, and drive it directly home before it crapped out. A day and 100 dollars later, and it was up and running again, supposedly with a battery that'll last 72 months. FWIW, it's a 2002 Mazda 626, and I haven't had any other problems with it yet. I have to say, though, after living in NYC for six years, I really dislike needing to own a car to get around. It's like this big, annoying, expensive child without any of the good parts of having a kid. Boo. And it's really not that convenient - the other day I decided to drive to the shopping center across the street to get a smoothie... because of traffic on the road between my house and there, the whole trip ended up taking 20 minutes. Hooray for convenience!