So if that's true, how about the CDs, tapes and vinyl that -- no matter which way you organise the collection -- just end up regularly lying around the stereo, stuff that gets played so often it just never gets re-filed? If our autobiographical filing shows us the experience of a lifetime lived, wouldn't our regular playlist tell us more about our current selves? Or does it just tell us we should dust more often.
Anyway, judge for yourself. Here's some of what's hanging regularly around my stereo at the moment, most of which never gets back onto the shelves; the detritus of too much listening. Those of you with iPods can talk amongst yourselves for a while.
- Primitive Guitars - Phil Manzanera
- Eine Frau fur die Liebe - La Pat
- Benny Goodman Small Combos 1935-1941
- Trinity Sessions - Cowboy Junkies
- Lost in the Stars - Music of Kurt Weill
- Modern Times - Bob Dylan
- Wagner Choruses from Bayreuth - Wilhelm Pitz & the Bayreuth Festival Chorus & Orchestra
- I'm Your Fan - Songs of Leonard Cohen by ...
- The Time Has Come - Christy Mooore
- Struck By Lightning - Graham Parker
- Dream of Life - Patti Smith
- No Friend Around - John Lee Hooker
- Giants of Jazz: Gerry Mulligan Quartet with Chet Baker
- Atomic Swing - Count Basie
- Louis Armstrong (home-made CD compilation)
- Sounds of the 20th Century: Django Reinhardt
- Je T'Aime... Moi Non Plus (Vol. 5) - Serge Gainsbourg
- I Am the Blues - Willy Dixon
- Piano Sonatas 8, 14, 17, 21, 23 & 26 - Beethoven
- Death & the Maiden - Schubert
- And His Mother Called Him Bill - Duke Ellington
- Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington
- Asylum Years - Tom Waits
- Henry's Dream - Nick Cave
- Wagner Piano Transcriptions - Cyprien Katsaris
- Cole Porter Songbook (Vol. 1) - Ella Fitzgerald
- Loaded - Velvet Underground
- American Caesar - Iggy
- Coleman Hawkins - Ken Burns 'Jazz' compilation
- Fragments of a Rainy Season - John Cale
- 16 Classic Tracks - Hoagy Carmichael
- Della by Starlight - Della Reese
- Songs of the Auvergne (Canteloube)/Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 (Villa-Lobos)/Vocalise (Rachmaninoff) - Anna Moffo & Leopold Stokowski
- Callas & Di Stefano at La Scala
- Tom Verlaine - Tom Verlaine
- Dizzy Gillespie's Big 4 - Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Brown, Joe Pass, Mickey Roker
- Rolling Stone - Muddy Waters
- Pink Elephants - Mick Harvey
Anyway, what does your stereo detritus say about you?
2 comments:
At home, the PC is cabled up to the stereo and me and my girlfriend have about four hundred and fifty albums between us stored on the hard drive.
While I miss the charm of opening up a CD case, and discovering another CD in there, and then opening up the case for that CD< and finding another CD, and then coming to the realisation that I should probably just listen to something else before every CD is out of every case, the convenience of having endless amounts of music at one's fingertips is worth it.
Vinyl is another question. From memory we've got the Shaft soundtrack, an album by Wagonchrist called 'Throbbing Pouch' and a 12" by an outfit called Small Fish With Spine lying about. And my AC/DC collectors edition of Who Made Who which was playing last night for entertainment purposes.
DenMT
Cabretta by Mink Deville (includes the song Spanish Stroll), All Strung Out In A Bunch - Ritchie Pickett, Zalvation by The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Your never alone with a schizophrenic, and All American Alien Boy and a live album (dont know what its called) by Ian Hunter, No more Shall We part - Nick Cave, Rain Dogs by Tom Waits. Radio Ethiopia by Patti Smith. These albums just never seem to get put away, and Cabretta is a cassette I purchased in 1977! and Radio Ethiopia not much after that, (and theyre still going!)
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