We finally just got round to changing the CDs in our 100-disc CD changer. It’s really great to have the machine (it’s nearly four years old now, but has never given us any trouble), but it really does take a while to change the discs over. This time I left it so long that I was really tired of some of the things in it. Below is a list of what I just took out:
1. Hildegard Knef – Box set Disc 1
2. Quarteto em Cy – Quarteto em Cy (1972)
3. Radiohead – Ok Computer
4. Ramsey Lewis – Maiden Voyage
5. Ray Barretto – Hard Hands/Acid
6. Raymond Scott – Reckless Nights and Turkish Twilights
7. Saint Etienne – So Tough
8. Santo & Johnny – Best of
9. Scott Walker – Scott 1
10. Scott Walker – Climate of Hunter
11. Serge Gainsbourg – Vol 5 1970-71
12. Simian – Chemistry is what we are
13. Simon Warner – Waiting Rooms
14. Slowdive – Souvlaki
15. Smiths – Best II
16. Spell – Seasons in the Sun
17. Spiritualized – Pure Phase
18. Getz-Gilberto
19. Stereolab – Transient Random Noise Bursts With Announcements
20. The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses
21. Sylvia Syms with Kenny Burrell – Sylvia is!
22. Terry Callier – Essential, the very best of
23. Mamas and Papas – People Like Us
24. Mazzy Star – She hangs brightly
25. Mercury Rev – Deserter’s Songs
26. Mick Harvey – Intoxicated Man
27. Mina – Incontro con Mina
28. Les Baxter/Harry Revel – Perfume set to music/Music on the moon
29. Morrissey – Vauxhall and I
30. My Bloody Valentine – Loveless
31. Neu! – Neu 2
32. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Live Seeds
33. Nick Drake – Time of No Reply
34. Nico and the faction – CameraObscura
35. Nina Simone – Compact Jazz
36. Orpheus – The very best of
37. Pale Saints – In Ribbons
38. Percy Faith – Chinatown/Summer Place ‘76
39. Percy Faith – Angel of the Morning/Black Magic Woman
40. Peddlers – Comin’ home baby
41. Pixies – Surfer Rosa + come on pilgrim
42. PJ Harvey – To bring you my love
43. Pulp – This is Hardcore
44. Satie – Piano works, Pascal Roge
45. Esquivel – Exploring new sounds/Strings aflame
46. Eumir Deodato – Tremendao
47. Faure – cello works – Isserlis/devoyon
48. Finzi – clarinet works
49. Faure Requiem/Durufle Requieme – Michel Legrand/Philharmonia orchestra
50. Francis Albert Sinatra and Antonio Carlos Jobim
51. Brian Eno – Ambient 1/Music for Airports
52. Gabor Szabo – 1969
53. Janko Nilovic – Rythmes Contemporains
54. James Brown – The Payback
55. Various – Samba Jazz Vol II
56. Various – The Joe Meek collection – Intergalactic Instros
57. John Cale – Paris 1919
58. Johnny Cash – At Folsom Prison and San Quentin
59. Jorge Ben – Brazilian Collection (from A to Z)
60. Joy Division – Closer
61. Julie London – Julie is her name/Julie is her name volume 2
62. Gilberto Gil – 1969
63. Hefner – We love the city
64. Henry Mancini – More Music from Peter Gunn
65. Lalo Schifrin – New Fantasy
66. Antonio Carlos Jobim – Urubu
67. Air – Italian thing
68. David Bowie – Low
69. Cocteau Twins – Milk and Kisses
70. Cinnamon – The Courier
71. Carpenters – Ticket to Ride
72. Burt Bacharach – Burt Bacharac (1971)
73. Broadcast – The noise made by people
74. Hayden – Paukenmess/Mozart – Vespers, K339/Choir of St. Johns College, Cambridge/George Guest
75. Various – Magpie – 20 Junkshop Pop Ads and Themes
76. Tindersticks – Waiting for the Moon
77. Kid Koala – Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
78. Elis Regina – En Pleno Verao
79. Elis Regina/Toots Thielemans – Aqualera do Brasil
80. The Beatles – The White Album (disc 1)
81. The Beatles – The White Album (disc 2)
82. Roxy Music – Siren
83. Dorothy Ashby – Jonny compilation
84. Eternity’s Children – Collection
85. Jackie Gleason – Romantic Moods (disc 1)
86. Jackie Gleason – Romantic Moods (disc 2)
87. Lee Hazlewood – complete MGM recordings (disc 1)
88. Lee Hazlewood – complete MGM recordings (disc 2)
89. Marcos Valle – Previsao do tempo
90. Serge Gainsbourg – Le cinema de (disc 2)
91. Colin Blundstone – One year
92. Claude Nougaro – Claude Nougaro/Frances Faye – In Frenzy
93. Paul Desmond – From the Hot Afternoon
94. Les Baxter – The Exotic Moods of (disc 2)
95. Walter Wanderley – The boss of bossa nova (disc 1)
96. Michel Colombier – Capot Pointu
97. Ride – OX4 (the best of)
98. Chris Connor – Warm Cool (the Atlantic Years)
99. Jimmy Scott – The Source
100. Luiz Bonfa – the composer of Black Orpheus plays and sings Bossa Nova
Off the top of my head, I hate Radiohead and Tindersticks, and I hit shuffle pretty much as soon as either of those came on. Other antihits were as follows:
· Scott Walker’s Climate of Hunter (very hard to deal with when you’re not in the mood)
· Simian’s Chemistry is what we are (the title track is amazing, but not exactly pleasant to listen to. Some of the others are just annoying)
· Spell’s Seasons in the Sun (Boyd Rice and Rose MacDowell’s take on off-beat 60s pop. I might start liking this album again in a few years, but right now I’m sick to death of it)
· Spiritualized’s Pure Phase (I could put together a good Spiritualized album. It would have maybe 9 or 10 tracks on it. I don’t think any of them would be taken from this album)
· Stone Roses – Stone Roses (I’m now at ease with the fact that I’m no longer 16)
· Terry Callier – Essential (Only one or two Terry Callier tracks are actually essential for me. This is a UK release aimed at a UK market that enjoys a different breed of soul music from the kind I like)
· Mamas and Papas – People Like Us (I used to think this was a cool album. Very offbeat sounding at first, but it became annoying very quickly)
· Neu! – Neu 2 (I have to say, I never really got this one)
· Nico – Camera Obscura (I’ve made a mental note to listen to this sparingly in future)
· Nina Simone – Compact Jazz (RIP Nina, but again, there’s only so much I can take in one sitting)
· PJ Harvey – To bring you my love (my interest in post-Dry PJ Harvey seems to have disappeared completely)
· Brian Eno – Music for Airports (I enjoyed this for a couple of months before it started to grate)
· Gilberto Gil – 1969 (simultaneously great and annoying)
· Kid Koala – Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (one of the few albums in this list that was probably actually meant to be annoying)
· Beatles – White Album (my big joke when this first came on was to say ‘what the fuck is this!’ I meant it though!)
It really feels wonderful to have new discs in there. I’ll report back on how they went down in a few months when I get around to changing them over again.