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.

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