Collection: The Frames

The List: #163

ALBUM: Burn the Maps

FORMAT: CD

My 98th post! (Now with rollover text!)

And, guess what, it's a collection update!

I nabbed a couple of Pearl Jams yesterday, including (and limited to) Riot Act and Backspacer.  After listening to most of Riot Act, I realized something: much like I've stopped hoping that Weezer will put out another Pinkerton, I've got to stop going in to every Pearl Jam CD expecting more songs like "Once" and "Even Flow". It's almost like they became a different band after Ten; I'd have to listen to their other albums more closely to name specific differences.

Also, my physical copy of I Can Make a Mess Like Nobody's Business's Gold Rush came in the mail on Thursday.  It felt great having it and the photo book I bought with it, knowing that I'd directly helped them fund the recording.

Another update

To celebrate my $150 savings (by downloading a free trial of Office instead of buying the thing from Wal-Mart), I bought a $9 copy of Coldplay's X&Y. I haven't gotten all the way through it yet, but the first half's pretty great.

Collection Update 5/6

It's going to be 5/7 by the time I actually get this posted, but I doubt anybody cares.

Picked up a few goodies tonight, including and limited to: The Frames' Burn the Maps, the reissue of Chiodos's All's Well that Ends Well, and Green Day's Dookie.

I already have (had) a copy of Dookie, but it, among about 20 other CDs, was stolen from my car, and I haven't gotten around to replacing most of them yet, including Dookie. At my favorite local record store, I found a copy of it that has two rare features: a brown CD tray, and back art that still has the Ernie hand puppet.

That's right, Dookie was originally released with a hand puppet of Sesame Street's Ernie front and center:

Either to avoid legal action or outcry from parents who might've mistaken Dookie for a childrens' album, Ernie was airbrushed out of later printings.  How much later, I can't say, but I think it's safe to assume that it was around a year or less...   I don't think that  any of the copies were recalled, so all the ones that had been released are still out there...  Released in February '94, certified platinum in August of the same.... it's probably less than a million, but there's no way to know for sure.  And if there is, I'd sure like to know about it.  In any case, it's nothing short of hard-to-find.

Collection: Foo Fighters

The List: #297

ALBUM: Foo Fighters

FORMAT: CD

The List: #175

ALBUM: The Colour and the Shape (Re-issue)

FORMAT: CD

The List: #262

ALBUM: There Is Nothing Left to Lose

FORMAT: CD

The List: #82

ALBUM: Generator (Single)

FORMAT: CD

RATING: 87.5%

The List: #133

ALBUM: One By One

FORMAT: CD

The List: #6

ALBUM: Times Like These (Single)

FORMAT: CD

RATING: 80%

The List: #37

ALBUM: Low (Single)

FORMAT: CD

RATING: 87%

The List: #13

ALBUM: In Your Honor

FORMAT: CD

The List: #189

ALBUM: Five Songs and a Cover EP

FORMAT: CD

The List: #338

ALBUM: Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace

FORMAT: CD

The List: #199

ALBUM: Wasting Light

FORMAT: CD

Collection: Pearl Jam

The List: #209

ALBUM: Ten

FORMAT: CD

The List: #164

ALBUM: vs.

FORMAT: CD

The List: #8

ALBUM: Vitalogy

FORMAT: CD

The List: #21

ALBUM: Not For You (Single)

FORMAT: CD

RATING: 87.5%

The List: #281

ALBUM: Merkin Ball

FORMAT: CD

The List: #266

ALBUM: No Code

FORMAT: CD

The List: #278

ALBUM: Yield

FORMAT: CD

The List: #246

ALBUM: Live on Two Legs

FORMAT: CD

The List: #525

ALBUM: Last Kiss (Single)

FORMAT: CD

The List: #28

ALBUM: Binaural

FORMAT: CD

The List: #303

ALBUM: Light Years Single

FORMAT: CD

RATING: 90%

The List: #31

ALBUM: Riot Act

FORMAT: CD

The List: #197

ALBUM: Lost Dogs

FORMAT: CD

The List:#272

ALBUM: Pearl Jam

FORMAT: CD

ALBUM: Live at the Gorge 05/06

FORMAT: CD

The List: #3

ALBUM: Ten Redux

FORMAT: CD

RATING: Main album, 82%; Album w/ bonus tracks, 79%

The List: #178

ALBUM: Backspacer

FORMAT: CD

The List: #110

ALBUM: Live at the Orpheum

FORMAT: CD

The List: #255

ALBUM: Toronto 9.11.11

FORMAT: Digital

The List: #649

ALBUM: Lightning Bolt

FORMAT: CD

Collection update 4/5:

I bought the new Panic! and Yellowcard CDs when they came out back on 3/22, but I forgot to post about 'em.

In other news (really the same news), I also picked up my first Pearl Jam albums on Friday and Sunday: on 4/1, I was at Best Buy waiting for my movie to start, and I nabbed the Vs./Vitalogy/Live at the Orpheum set; and yesterday I picked up Ten: Legacy Edition at Wal-Mart.  I've listened to all three studio albums, and they're all fantastic.  I was expecting them to be pretty similar to Nirvana, but they're almost like a prog-grunge...

EDIT: I forgot about the Linkin Park EP I bought at Best Buy the same day as the Pearl Jam three-pack.  Nothing major, just an 8-track collection of songs from almost a decade of Linkin Park Underground CDs.  Though, it was pretty cool that it was only $.99, marked down from $9.99.