Behold! The ever-growing list of my documented discs! And cassettes and other media, but that doesn't alliterate as well. Tumblr doesn't want me having more than 100 links on one post, so happy hyperlink hunting!
Sorted alphabetically (not including "The"s) by artists first name... eh, I'm sure you'll figure it out or use the Ctrl+F. It's a beefy list and only getting bigger, so clicky to expand 👇🏻
#1-9: The 411
A is for... Alex Clare / Alicia Keys / Amy Winehouse / Annie Lennox / Anohni and the Johnsons / As December Falls
B is for... The Beautiful South / Big Brovaz / The Black & White Minstrels / Black Grape / Blur / Bomfunk MC's
C is for... Caro Emerald / Cher / Chicago / Christina Aguilera / Culture Club
D is for... D12 / David Bowie / Deacon Blue / Del Amitri / Destiny's Child / DJ Danny Tenaglia
E is for... Enya / Eve
F is for... Florence + The Machine
G is for... Go Home Productions / Golden Avatar / Gwen Stefani
H is for... Hawkwind / Helen Reddy / The Hoops
I is for... Isobel Campbell
J is for... Jick the Rapper
K is for... Kelly Osbourne
L is for... Leigh Mary Stokes / Level 42 / Lorna & Laister / Luciano Pavarotti / Lutricia McNeal
M is for... Marc Almond / Mark Lanegan / Master Shortie / The Melinda Lightfoot Quartet / Melody Gardot / Mis-Teeq / mix CDs / Muse
N is for... Natalie Imbruglia / Nicki French / Nicki Minaj / Nina Simone / Noel Edmonds
O is for... Orson / OutKast / Ozzy Osbourne
P is for... The Panpipers / Peggy Lee / P!nk
Q is for... nothing (yet!)
R is for... Republica / REZ
S is for... Scissor Sisters / Skin / Skindred / Skunk Anansie / Soft Cell / Spice Girls / Spiritualized / Stereophonics / Steve Jones / Sting / Sugababes / Sweet Female Attitude
T is for... Teletubbies / Tori Amos / Tracy + The Plastics
U is for... unknown artists
V is for... The Vaccines / various artists
W is for... Woman Wants Tall Man
X is for... nothing (yet!)
Y is for... Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Z is for... The Zutons
Bonus Other Stuff
Hardware:
Blank cassettes
Blank minidisc DVDs
Boombox
Camera
HMV CD lens cleaner
MP3 player
Non-Music Stuff I Found:
Books
Movies & TV
Videogames
If you made it all the way down here hoping for an "everyone else seems to be doing one of these introduction to me posts so I guess I'll do it ^.^" essay, I am sorry for your crushing disappointment.
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Various Artists - Fresh! 16 of Today's Juiciest Hits! (Warner Music International / EMI Music, 1998)
Found In: St. David's Hospice Care (Newport, Wales)
Price: 25p
Listen, I don't care how many CDs I buy, if a compilation has Tubthumping by Chumbawamba on it, I'm buying it. End of story.
The fact that the rest of the tracklist for this compilation had me yelling "YASSS" after each one right there in the store? Well that's just a happy bonus.
Natalie Imbruglia - Left of the Middle (BMG Entertainment International, 1997)
Found In: Sue Ryder (Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire)
Price: £1
I make it a point to raid charity shops wherever I travel, which yielded a metric shitton of discs from Newport* - in St. David's Hospice Care alone I bought enough CDs and cassettes to make the poor volunteer lose count twice.**
Moreton-in-Marsh has no wi-fi, mobile phone service, and slim pickings when it comes to charity shop CDs (Acorns Children's Hospice had a single shelf of classical music, and Helen & Douglas House didn't have ANY) but what it lacked in quanity it more than made up for in quality.
Case in point: 90s Aussie songstress Natalie Imbruglia, who did a cover of Torn so iconic that Ednaswap gave up on music entirely a year later, which still pales in comparison to the criminally underrated Big Mistake.
Also this isn't really relevant to anything at all, but the CD case was pristine until I dropped my phone on itand cracked the thing damn near in half. Womp womp.
Tracklist:-
Torn
One More Addiction
Big Mistake
Leave Me Alone
Intuition
Smoke
Pigeons and Crumbs
Don't You Think?
Impressed
Wishing I Was There
City
Left of the Middle
*The one in Wales, not the one in Gloucestershire or the Isle of Wight. Which is ironic, because I was in Gloucestershire last weekend and the Isle of Wight is just a short ferry ride from home.
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Enya leads the week in adds. Only Time enters at number 1 in new adds at Hot AC and Modern AC and reaches 44 million listeners. It debuts at 39 on the Airplay Monitor Adult Top 40 and at 40 on the Top 40. Women 18 to 24 push it to number 2 in Callout America. WSTR Atlanta puts it on air this week. A Day Without Rain arrives after 5 years without new music and Reprise reports 2.5 million copies sold. Does it carry you away like Orinoco Flow, number 24 on the Hot 100 in 1989?
Various Artists - Select: Revolutions 02 (Select Magazine, 2000)
Found In: Age UK (Fareham)
Price: 49p
The month was November 2000, and Select magazine had a lot of rare shiny tracks they were very excited about - all but the unpretentious Kathryn Williams, Trail of Dead and Slipknot are either "rare" or "exclusive". I will however allow Select this bit of utter wankery, because the whole tracklist slays.
It's like if you've ever had the misfortune to know a DJ well enough to have them play music for you in a bedroom setting, and you've desperately wanted to respond like "meh, not really my thing" only to find out that damn it all, the boy has taste.
Tracklist:-
Ashamed - Muse [rare b-side]
Valley - Doves [rare b-side]
Supersonic Waves (Coke & Smoke) [Syntax Vox Mix] - Regular Fries feat. Kool Keith [exclusive mix of forthcoming single]
Get Enuff [Radio Edit] - Wookie [exclusive preview of forthcoming single]
Open the Airwaves - Lowgold [exclusive preview from Just Backward of Square album, out this month]
Delinquency - V-Twin [exclusive preview of new single, out this month]
Poke 'Er 'Ole - Add N to (X) [exclusive preview from Add Insult to Injury album, out this month]
Song 1 - David Holmes [world exclusive out-take from Bow Down to the Exit Sign album]
We Dug a Hole - Kathryn Williams [from Little Black Numbers album]
Oxygen [Original Demo Version] - JJ72 [from ultra-rare debut single on Lakota]
Mark David Chapman - ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead [from Madonna album]
Ubik (The Breakz) [Original Mix] - Timo Maas [rare mix of current single]
Club News - Chis Morris' Blue Jam [exclusive preview from Blue Jam album, out this month]
Da Virus [Latin 2-Step Mix] - Stanton Warriors [rare remix of recent single]
I get that it's a style choice, but the fact remains that according to the rotary dial on the album cover, this is made by tellybox star Leon Edmonds.
I didn't buy it, but the idea of purchasing a record player just so I can listen to Mr. Blobby's mate make prank calls is actually hilarious. If you're curious about the content, someone called Coecludd uploaded it to YouTube.
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Del Amitri - The Best of Del Amitri: Hatful of Rain (A&M Records, 1998)
Found In: Farplace Animal Rescue (Woolston, Southampton)
Price: 33⅓p (3 for £1)
Embarrassingly, the only thing that clued me in that maybe, just maybe, there was a disc mismatch was that there were only 15 tracks on the CD and 17 listed in the liner notes...
Chicago - The Heart of Chicago (WEA International, 1989)
Son of a mother. OK, let this be a further lesson to me: when checking the cases for discs before I buy, check that the disc ACTUALLY MATCHES the case, instead of just going "disc? present" and running to the till. Godsdammit.
Various Artists - The Best Party in the World... Ever! (Virgin Music Group, 1997)
Found In: St. David's Hospice Care (Newport, Wales)
Price: £2
Listen, if you ever find yourself in a situation where you need to wrangle a load of white people (to get them back into their enclosure or similar), I can confirm as a certified Mayonnaise Mama that this cassette mix will absolutely do the trick.
The most overused phrase in the music compilation industry has to be "The Best [generic playlist title] in the World... Ever!" to the point where I'm genuinely stunned that nobody has copyrighted "... Ever!". Having listened to a lot of similarly-titled compilations, I am happy to accept that this is the one that deserves its title. The one and only.
Anything that closes off a party with funeral banger Always Look on the Bright Side of Life deserves every superlative in its title.
Tracklist:-
Cassette 1, Side 1:
Do Ya Think I'm Sexy - N-Trance feat. Rod Stewart
Tubthumping - Chumbawamba
Spice Up Your Life [Morales Radio Edit] - Spice Girls
Ecuador - Sash! feat. Rodriguez
Samba de Janeiro - Bellini
Freed from Desire - Gala
You Sexy Thing - Hot Chocolate
Stayin' Alive - N-Trance
Y.M.C.A. - Village People
Abba Medley - Starsound
Don't You Want Me - The Human League
Cassette 1, Side 2:
The Jean Genie - David Bowie
The Best - Tina Turner
Walk This Way - Run DMC feat. Aerosmith
Get Down Tonight - KC & The Sunshine Band
Celebration - Kool & The Gang
Everybody Dance - Chic
D.I.S.C.O. - Ottawan
Lambada - Kaoma
Macarena - Los Del Mar
Miami Hit Mix - Gloria Estefan
Cassette 2, Side 1:
Wannabe - Spice Girls
I Wanna Be the Only One [Boskat Main Mix] - Eternal feat. Bebe Williams
Everybody (Backstreet's Back) - Backstreet Boys
Party People... Friday Night - 911
Fastlove [Forthright Edit] - George Michael
Baby Come Back - Pato Benton feat. Robin & Ali Campbell
Baggy Trousers - Madness
Boombastic - Shaggy
Hey Now (Girls Just Want to Have Fun) - Cyndi Lauper
Beatles Medley - Starsound
I Get Around - The Beach Boys
Cassette 2, Side 2:
Reet Petite - Jackie Wilson
The Locomotion - Little Eva
Daydream Believer - The Monkees
Hi Ho Silver Lining - Jeff Beck
Oh Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison
Respect - Aretha Franklin
Come on Over to My Place - The Drifters
I Only Want to Be With You - Dusty Springfield
The TIme Warp - Damian
Ooh Aah... Just a Little Bit - Gina G
5, 6, 7, 8 - Steps
Cotton Eyed Joe - Rednex
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life - Monty Python
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Various Artists - strEEt mix '96 (Cold Front / K-tel International, 1996)
Found In: St. David's Hospice Care (Newport, Wales)
Price: 25p
What is this cover design. It's like a baby's first Photoshop firey apocalypse nightmare and I can't decide if I love it or not.
Wait, never mind, the back cover slaps. I get the vision now.
Cool tracklist too, love R. Kelly putting out the job description for his perfect woman right before his child bride Aaliyah sings her Kelly-written statement about how the age of consent doesn't matter. RIP Aaliyah, you would have popped off on Surviving R. Kelly.
Tracklist:-
Homie, Lover, Friend [Lookin' for My Homie Mix] - R. Kelly
DJ Danny Tenaglia - Mix This Pussy (TRIBAL United Kingdom / IRS Records, 1994)
Found In: Farplace Animal Rescue (Woolston, Southampton)
Price: 33⅓p (3 for £1)
MR. SECONDHAND-SOUNDS: What are you doing?
ME: Taking a picture for Tumblr... because it's called Mix This Pussy... get it?
MR. S-S: No further questions. As you were.
"Danny Tenaglia, renowned producer / remixer and quite possibly the world's most educated DJ... took these indivisual elemets and fused them into one continuous program with the personal touch only he could add. Every mix from song to song is Danny spinning live to tape."
And it's pretty damned good you know. Aside from the gaps between tracks which seems like it might have just been a mid-90s peril. Or possibly my CD player?
Tracklist:-
Is This Real? - Visions [not on tracklist]
Ragga [Jungle Dub] - Jeek!
Eye 2 Eye - Kiwi Dreams feat. Darrell Martin
It All Begins Here - Ofunwa
In the Presence of Angels - The Spiritual Experience
(I Want To) Take You Home Tonite - Sextravaganza
Come Drums - Sextravaganza
Some Lovin' [Danny's New Hook Mix] - Liberty City
U Dig [U Dub Mix] - Eastmen
Feeling Free [Masters and Servants Mix] - Liquid City
Mind Power [Take a Blunt Mix] - Roy Davis Jr.
Atom Bomb [It's the Bomb / Doomsday Mix] - DJ Pierre presents Doomsday
X - Junior Vasquez
Give Myself to You [Grand Ballroom / Buzzard / Dub Mix] - The Daou