Every CD I own . . .

Sporky

EricTheWeary said:

Odd that you mention Portishead - kind of thing I really didn't get at the time but I might now, so they should be on the list for next time I'm streaming stuff.

I found I still like the ones I liked when they were released, and still don't like the ones I didn't.

Paul_C

Time for at least one more before the football starts so I thought I'd pick out an old favourite seeing as it's the last major milestone until I've bought and listened to another 35:

CD#400 Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon

Some people don't like this, which is fine. I like it a lot.

EricTheWeary

Sporky;1110116" said:

EricTheWeary said:



Odd that you mention Portishead - kind of thing I really didn't get at the time but I might now, so they should be on the list for next time I'm streaming stuff.





I found I still like the ones I liked when they were released, and still don't like the ones I didn't.

In my head they had spy guitar and dub things going on which are not what I would have been listening to in the nineties but fit very neatly with what I listen to now. We will see.

RocknRollDave

Paul_C said:

Day 81


CD#352 The Smiths - Meat Is Murder

Probably the weakest of their albums but even so there are still some good songs. 

Wha.....?!

Their most underrated album. Even without the (added onto CD releases) How Soon Is Now?, Meat Is Murder is a corker, end to end.

Paul_C

RocknRollDave said:

Paul_C said:

Day 81


CD#352 The Smiths - Meat Is Murder

Probably the weakest of their albums but even so there are still some good songs. 

Wha.....?!

Their most underrated album. Even without the (added onto CD releases) How Soon Is Now?, Meat Is Murder is a corker, end to end.

*shrug* not my favourite, I'm afraid.

CD#401 Steve Ellis - Best Of Days

A solo album from the ex Love Affair singer.

Paul_C

Day 93

CD#402 Gail Ann Dorsey - Rude Blue

This her second solo album, I like it but a little more of her lovely bass playing in the mix would have been nice.

CD#403 The Elected - Untitled

A 3 song bonus disc that came with Sun, Sun, Sun.

CD#404 Sam Brown - Ukulele and Voice

A five song EP with Sam singing and playing the ukulele (the clues were there if you were paying attention).

CD#405 Various Artists - Tom Hall 1944 - 2003

A fantastic tribute to local legend Tom Hall, it features a selection of his songs performed by various Northampton based artists alternating with a story (Moses For Christmas) written by Tom, read by Alan Moore.

CD#406 Counting Crows - Across A Wire: Live In New York City

A live double album, the first CD is from a recording for VH1 Storytellers, the second for MTV's Live from the 10 Spot.

Paul_C

last of the running totals until I finish . . . only 64 to go:

Day 93
CD#402 Gail Ann Dorsey - Rude Blue
CD#403 The Elected - Untitled bonus disc
CD#404 Sam Brown - Ukulele and Voice
CD#405 Various Artists - Tom Hall 1944 - 2003
CD#406 Counting Crows - Across A Wire: Live In New York City

Day 94
CD#407 Queen - News Of The World
CD#408 Days Of Worth - The Western Mechanism
CD#409 Roger Davies - Littletown
CD#410 The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
CD#411 Rush - Signals

Day 95
CD#412 Soft Machine - Out-Bloody-Rageous - An Anthology 1967 - 1973
CD#413 Muse - Showbiz
CD#414 Burns Blue - What If . . .

Day 96
CD#415 XTC - Apple Venus Vol. 1
CD#416 The Wild Roses - The Wild Roses
CD#417 Small Faces - Small Faces
CD#418 Ocean Colour Scene - Ocean Colour Scene
CD#419 R.E.M. - Reckoning

Day 97
CD#420 The Cranberries - No Need To Argue
CD#421 Various Artists - Shine Best Of '97

Day 98
CD#422 Deacon Blue - Homesick
CD#423 Robert Plant - Now And Zen
CD#424 Robert Johnson - The Complete Recordings
CD#425 Curtis E Johnson - Caledonian Postcards
CD#426 Tim Finn - Big Canoe
CD#427 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium

Day 99
CD#428 Frank Zappa - You Are What You Is
CD#429 Feeder - Polythene
CD#430 Chyco Simeon - Roots-Mwen
CD#431 Devo - Duty Now For The Future / New Traditionalists

Day 100
CD#432 Juliet Turner - Let's Hear It For Pizza
CD#433 Various Artists - Mastercuts: 70s Reggae

Day 101
CD#434 The Works - Beware Of The Dog
CD#435 Gary Dunne - Twenty Twenty Fiction
CD#436 Michael Rattray Allstars - untitled
CD#437 Guthrie Govan - Erotic Cakes
CD#438 Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Spanish Dance Troupe

Day 102
CD#439 Various Artists - Out Of Our Idiot
CD#440 Boo Hewerdine - A Live One
CD#441 Tim Finn - Before and After
CD#442 Cast - All Change

Day 103
CD#443 Bob Dylan and The Band - Before The Flood
CD#444 R.E.M - Dead Letter Office
CD#445 Max Richter - 24 Postcards In Full Colour
CD#446 Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers -  Rock 'n' Roll with the Modern Lovers

Day 104
CD#447 Steve Lawson - Behind Every Word
CD#448 Jonatha Brooke - Live

Day 105
CD#449 Elvis Costello - Brutal Youth
CD#450 Hensley & Wright - Glass Bridges
CD#451 Pink Floyd - Obscured By Clouds
CD#452 Small Faces - Best Of
CD#453 The Flaming Lips - At War With The Mystics

Day 106
CD#454 Joni Mitchell - Ladies Of The Canyon
CD#455 Steely Dan - Gaucho
CD#456 Meshell Ndegeocello - Dance Of The Infidel
CD#457 The Smiths - Strangeways Here We Come
CD#458 Fischer Z - Reveal

Day 107
CD#459 Bruce Springsteen - The River
CD#460 Marillion - B'Sides Themselves
CD#461 The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
CD#462 Jonatha Brooke - Back In The Circus

Day 108
CD#463 Mott The Hoople - Greatest Hits
CD#464 Bob Marley and The Wailers - Mellow Moods
CD#465 Supertramp - Retrospectacle
CD#466 Barenaked Ladies - Disc One 1991-2001

Paul_C

Day 94

CD#407 Queen - News Of The World

A few years ago I was given an old ukulele that came out of an elderly relative's loft, in the case there was the centre spread from a News Of The World printed in 1911, on which was the music for a song called The Spaniard Who Blighted My Life, plus ukulele chords.

CD#408 Days Of Worth - The Western Mechanism

Back when I was making guitars I made a pair for the two guitarists in this band, one of which appeared in a piece they did in Metal Hammer magazine and the video they did for one of the songs on this album. I was delighted to see a recent YouTube video of a reunion gig where one of them was still being played.

CD#409 Roger Davies - Littletown

Very pleasant acoustic singer-songwriter stuff. I got this as a consequence of a (charity?) gig I did a few years ago that Roger was part of.

CD#410 The White Stripes - White Blood Cells

I started listening to this, having not heard it for ages, thinking that while I like Hotel Yorba and Fell In Love With A Girl, a whole album of that was going to be a challenge, but there's more variety to it than I remembered.

CD#411 Rush - Signals

I'm not a massive Rush fan, so I'm guessing I bought this as one of a 3 for £10 on Exmouth Indoor Market. Despite that I'm enjoying it, so my money didn't go to waste.

EricTheWeary

Easily my favourite Queen album, NOTW, although I disliked much of their latter stuff. It's a good balance between their variety/quirkiness and being an actual rock band.

ICBM

EricTheWeary said:

Easily my favourite Queen album, NOTW, although I disliked much of their latter stuff. It's a good balance between their variety/quirkiness and being an actual rock band.

My favourite too. It may just be because it was the first I heard in full at the time of release so it had a bigger impact on me… but it's also one of the best musically as well.

Also one of the best album covers ever, even though it's an adaptation of an existing artwork.

EricTheWeary

ICBM said:

EricTheWeary said:

Easily my favourite Queen album, NOTW, although I disliked much of their latter stuff. It's a good balance between their variety/quirkiness and being an actual rock band.

My favourite too. It may just be because it was the first I heard in full at the time of release so it had a bigger impact on me… but it's also one of the best musically as well.

Also one of the best album covers ever, even though it's an adaptation of an existing artwork.

For me it's also a good example of what could be good about the best 1970s  rock albums along with, for example, early Van Halen or Aerosmith's Toys in the Attic or Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and others that won't come to mind...you know it's rock and it has the appropriate energy and some musicianship but quite happy to throw in a few curveballs. I guess you get an 'album experience.' At some point rock bands seemed to have decided that an album should be ten songs that sound more or less the same. 

Paul_C

Day 95

CD#412 Soft Machine - Out-Bloody-Rageous - An Anthology 1967 - 1973

A selection of music from their first seven albums. Weird and wonderful.

CD#413 Muse - Showbiz

I haven't listened to this for ages and I'm currently pleasantly surprised.

CD#414 Burns Blue - What If . . .

Sam Blue and Vinnie Burns were both in Ultravox during the recording of the 10th album Ingenuity. This sounds nothing like Ultravox.

Paul_C

Day 96

CD#415 XTC - Apple Venus Vol. 1

The finished studio recordings whose demos I listened to a few days ago, and the last XTC album to feature Dave Gregory.

CD#416 The Wild Roses - The Wild Roses

Another raffle prize, this one came with a t-shirt.

CD#417 Small Faces - Small Faces

This is not their first studio album, which was also called Small Faces (Decca), but their second. 

CD#418 Ocean Colour Scene - Ocean Colour Scene

Remixed under record company instruction against the wishes of the band, no-one much seems to like this album. I've heard a lot worse.

CD#419 R.E.M. - Reckoning

On the other hand, everyone loves this album, and so they should.

Paul_C

Day 97

CD#420 The Cranberries - No Need To Argue

The sofa on the sleeve is the same one as on the first album, and also features in the video for Alright by Supergrass. 

CD#421 Various Artists - Shine Best Of '97

The second of my two Shine compilations, a great selection of songs and a reminder that I ought to check out one or of the artists who I've only heard on this CD.

Paul_C

Day 98

CD#422 Deacon Blue - Homesick

Nice enough, but lacking anything like the stand out tunes from earlier in their career.

CD#423 Robert Plant - Now And Zen

No-one who has heard any music recorded in the 80s would be surprised to hear this was released in 1988.

CD#424 Robert Johnson - The Complete Recordings

41 tracks, 29 songs, this claims to be everything ever recorded by Robert Johnson, though I have another CD somewhere that claims they're the wrong speed (an interesting theory and the slowed down versions do make the idea at least plausible).

CD#425 Curtis E Johnson - Caledonian Postcards

A four song EP from Northampton's favourite Scotsman.

CD#426 Tim Finn - Big Canoe

More 80s studio shenanigans. It's not awful but I'd rather listen to Split Enz. 

CD#427 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium

The last album with John Frusciante.

ICBM

Paul_C said:

CD#426 Tim Finn - Big Canoe

More 80s studio shenanigans. It's not awful but I'd rather listen to Split Enz.

I've never liked Tim's songwriting as much as Neil's, and I suspect the fact that I am very far from alone may be a factor in their apparent brotherly love/hate relationship… maybe hate is too strong a word, but they don't seem to be able to get along in a band for very long! I've seen them together live a couple of times, once as part of Crowded House and once as The Finn Brothers, and there was a surprising amount of subtle needling going on onstage, especially from Tim.

EricTheWeary

Paul_C said:

Day 98

CD#422 Deacon Blue - Homesick

Nice enough, but lacking anything like the stand out tunes from earlier in their career.

CD#423 Robert Plant - Now And Zen

No-one who has heard any music recorded in the 80s would be surprised to hear this was released in 1988.

CD#424 Robert Johnson - The Complete Recordings

41 tracks, 29 songs, this claims to be everything ever recorded by Robert Johnson, though I have another CD somewhere that claims they're the wrong speed (an interesting theory and the slowed down versions do make the idea at least plausible).

CD#425 Curtis E Johnson - Caledonian Postcards

A four song EP from Northampton's favourite Scotsman.

CD#426 Tim Finn - Big Canoe

More 80s studio shenanigans. It's not awful but I'd rather listen to Split Enz. 

I have the complete recordings. Fairly sure I've never played it all the way through; even when I bought it I did so thinking it was basically for some reference library that I might somehow have some day. 

I haven't got Now and Zen. I have his solo albums leading up to it so I don't know why not but in retrospect they do sound like samplers for 1980s recording techniques. 

Paul_C

Day 99

CD#428 Frank Zappa - You Are What You Is

Released alongside my favourite Zappa album (Tinseltown Rebellion) which I have on vinyl - I should pick it up on CD or download and listen to it more. This bears a resemblance, but I like the feel of his live albums more than the fully studio ones for some reason.

CD#429 Feeder - Polythene

Their debut album, this may be only the second time I've listened to it. Described as the UK's answer to Smashing Pumpkins there is a suggestion of that, though I can also hear a few of the UK bands of the time in here too.

CD#430 Chyco Simeon - Roots-Mwen

Bass-led funk/jazz with a hint of Marcus Miller.

CD#431 Devo - Duty Now For The Future / New Traditionalists

Devo's 2nd and 4th albums on one CD, for some reason.

TTony

Paul_C said:

CD#423 Robert Plant - Now And Zen

No-one who has heard any music recorded in the 80s would be surprised to hear this was released in 1988.

I'm never sure whether the range of stuff that he's released - much of it being "of its time" - reflects the range of his creativity and musical ability, or whether it's just desperately following musical fashion.

My conclusion is usually that whilst each album is definitely "of its time", it's also good when compared against other albums of the same era, and if he didn't morph with the times, he'd be called Status Quo.

I'd rather listen to some of his later albums than the 80s stuff now but there are still stand out tracks (Big Log for one) on the 80s stuff.

Paul_C

Day 100

CD#432 Juliet Turner - Let's Hear It For Pizza

Her debut album, it's all here if a little raw and unpolished. 

CD#433 Mastercuts - 70s Reggae

A wide array of artists across 3 CDs playing a lot of familiar songs, many of them original versions that are more familiar as later covers.