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Every CD I own . . .
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CD#434 The Works - Beware Of The Dog
A quick search suggests I acquired this at one of Steve Lawson's Darbucka evenings, which I assume must have included Patrick Wood, the composer/arranger + guitars/keyboards of this 2005 jazz album.
CD#435 Gary Dunne - Twenty Twenty Fiction
Not completely sure where I got this, but his use of loops to create backing for his acoustic singer-songwriter material hints that it might have been another Darbucka evening.
CD#436 Michael Rattray Allstars - untitled
Seven acoustic songs from Michael (and Gavin).
CD#437 Guthrie Govan - Erotic Cakes
Not sure how I came to own this as instrumental rock guitar isn't really my kind of thing, but own it I do so I'm listening.
CD#438 Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Spanish Dance Troupe
Their sixth album, the last to feature founder member John Lawrence.
CD#439 Various Artists - Out Of Our Idiot
A multitude of songs from Elvis Costello in different guises and backed by different musicians, some rare some previously unreleased.
CD#440 Boo Hewerdine - A Live One
The title gives away the surprise, so you might have guessed that this is a live album. One with an interesting story though, in that it's a recording of (at the time) Boo's first solo acoustic gig for a number of years and a gig that re-energised him and provided a new enthusiasm for recording and touring.
CD#441 Tim Finn - Before and After
His 4th solo album, the first after joining and then leaving Crowded House.
CD#442 Cast - All Change
Their debut album, after John Power left The La's.
I have tried to spread the ones I have a lot of and out of the ones I have left (24!) only two are by the same artist (Jonatha Brooke) and three are by artists not already mentioned, including one I've just listened to (Cast).
CD#443 Bob Dylan and The Band - Before The Flood
Live recordings from various dates on a 1974 US Tour. While I don't usually don't have a problem with Bob Dylan's singing there are a couple of songs on here that are hard work and on the whole I prefer The Band's performances of their own material.
CD#444 R.E.M - Dead Letter Office
B-sides, rarities and a few covers, plus the five songs from their debut Chronic Town EP.
CD#445 Max Richter - 24 Postcards In Full Colour
Neo-classical/ambient snippets. The longest piece 2:49, most around a minute long.
CD#446 Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers - Rock 'n' Roll with the Modern Lovers
Second album from a new line up, though the drummer David Robinson had originally remained (he later co-formed The Cars and continues to play with them) he left before this was recorded. This is as lo-fi and naive as the first album.
CD#447 Steve Lawson - Behind Every Word
10 years old now, but still fresh and interesting to listen to even if it has been a while.
CD#448 Jonatha Brooke - Live
Her third solo album, and the first release on her own label, Bad Dog Records.
CD#449 Elvis Costello - Brutal Youth
This was the first album to feature all of The Attractions in eight years, they toured and released a second album before Bruce Thomas ended his association with EC completely.
CD#450 Hensley & Wright - Glass Bridges
A quick search reveals that more often then not it's Chris Newman & Stella Hensley these days, but they're occasionally joined by Johnny "Magic Boy" Wright with whom she recorded this.
CD#451 Pink Floyd - Obscured By Clouds
Music written and recorded for the soundtrack to a film La Vallée, just before it all took off with Dark Side Of The Moon.
CD#452 Small Faces - Best Of
A 14 track complilation, I've left a few Best Of CDs out because I subsequently bought most of what was on them, but there are quite a few really good Small Faces songs on here that I haven't already heard, and while I heard Afterglow on CD#41 back on Day 9 I'm more than happy to hear it again.
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Only 14 left now, so I'll be finished this week
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CD#453 The Flaming Lips - At War With The Mystics
Their eleventh album, the most recent of the three of theirs that I own - I should buy some more.
CD#454 Joni Mitchell - Ladies Of The Canyon
My favourite of the five I've listened to, it feels a little toned down in terms of her vocal style, but none the worse for that.
CD#455 Steely Dan - Gaucho
There are many bands where you can easily hear where in the timeline of album releases a particular album sits, and then there's Steely Dan. This is their seventh of nine albums but it could easily be the second, or a Donald Fagen solo album, or a Walter Becker solo album (IIRC, I have his second solo album, Circus Money as a download but haven't listened for a while).
CD#456 Meshell Ndegeocello - Dance Of The Infidel
Her sixth, a jazz album with a Meshell groove.
CD#457 The Smiths - Strangeways Here We Come
. . . and with that, they were gone.
CD#458 Fischer Z - Reveal
The first of John Watts' solo albums released under the Fisher Z name (original band member Steve Skolnik plays keyboards on one track).
CD#459 Bruce Springsteen - The River
You could probably make a case for cutting this down to a single album, but nevertheless there's some great music on here.
CD#460 Marillion - B'Sides Themselves
The last release before Fish left, it includes Grendel, Market Square Heroes (one of my favourites) and Freaks.
CD#461 The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
Not bad for a debut album . . . and this CD version has 6 extra tracks including one of my favourites, The Wind Cries Mary.
CD#462 Jonatha Brooke - Back In The Circus
Apart from The Works (which has all the lyrics written by Woody Guthrie) this is the only album (that I'm aware of) that includes a co-write and also covers - The Beach Boys, James Taylor and The Alan Parsons Project (Eye In The Sky - which is coincidentally is the only thing by The Alan Parsons Project that I own, on a flexi disc).
CD#463 Mott The Hoople - Greatest Hits
Ian Hunter started his career with a band based in Northampton and was an apprentice at British Timken, a mile or so from where I live. Eleven tracks is quite meagre for a Greatest Hits, but worth it for Roll Away The Stone on its own.
CD#464 Bob Marley and The Wailers - Mellow Moods
40 tracks on 2 CDs, bought from . . . where else ? Exmouth Indoor Market.
Not by any means a Greatest Hits and none the worse for that.
CD#465 Supertramp - Retrospectacle
Another compilation, 32 tracks on 2 CDs this time and very much a Greatest Hits collection, with lots of great songs.
CD#466 Barenaked Ladies - Disc One 1991-2001
A collection of most of their singles released in the first 10 years of the band.
. . . and until I buy some more CDs that's that.
I gave myself 32 weeks (4 CDs a day, 5 days a week) and finished in less than 16, which has surprised me, as I wasn't keeping note.
If I'd planned things better/at all, then I wouldn't have finished with four compilations, but such is life. It's been fun, mostly, and there are a number of albums that I'll look at with more fondness than I had before I started, some that will always be favourites and some that will almost certainly never be listened to again . . . at least I gave them one more try.
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Four downloaded albums listened to this morning:
Sharon Van Etten - Are We There
Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
Nerina Pallot - Fires
Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree
Four more purchases from Exmouth Market, I'll add details once I've listened to them properly, i.e. not in the car.
CD#467 Band Of Horses - Mirage Rock
Reviews of this could best be described as variable, to me it's fairly light-weight Americana and better heard on the stereo than in the car. Neither awful nor spectacular.
CD#468 Alabama Shakes - Boys & Girls
A mighty debut album, written, recorded and paid for by themselves before they signed to a label.
CD#469 The Jayhawks - Hollywood Town Hall
This is their third studio album, first major label release and often considered their best.
CD#470 Red House Painters - Red House Painters (Rollercoaster)
There are some good things about this, their second studio album, but it's a bit hit and miss as far as my tastes go.
Presumably Exmouth isn't really that bad?