So I've started packing for my move to a new home, and I decided to pull a small bunch of CDs to keep me going. There will be cassettes too, and I do have MP3s as well, but these will be the diskman supplies for the coming weeks. I tried to keep the selection small. There are three groups:
1) those I forgot I had in my bag:
Wu-Tang Clan - The W
The Who - Live At Leeds (double CD version)
2) recent things that need some more listens:
Outkast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
Bubba Sparxxx - Deliverance
Richard X Presents His X-Factor
Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash (this is very X-heavy)
RZA - Birth Of A Prince
Dizzee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner
3) and some old things I fancied
Underworld - Dark & long
Temptations - Psychedelic Shack/All Directions
DJ Teebee - Through The Eyes Of A Scorpion
DJ Shadow - Pre-Emptive Strike
Rezillos - Can't Stand The Rezillos
Pulp - Different Class
Louis Prima - Buona Sera
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Kinks - The Ultimate Collection
Kelis - Kaleidoscope
Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On
Dyke & the Blazers - Funky Broadway
Delfonics - The Definitive Collection
James Carr - The Complete Goldwax Singles
Buzzcocks - I Don't Mind The Buzzcocks
So hip hop is what I like best this year, while the old stuff is mostly rock and soul. That sounds about what I knew I liked best anyway. If I can be bothered, I'll revisit this to mention what cassettes I select, probably over the weekend. Since I like to listen to music to lull me to sleep, and that is always on tape, that will be very skewed towards gentler tones.
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 30 October 2003 20:47 (twenty-two years ago)
Teebee is a Norwegian drum & bass DJ, and that is my favourite album in the genre. Same territory as Krust's* best work, more or less. (Who mixed a CD called Through The Eyes! It's all linked!)
And Nichole, I hardly need to be a Dan Perry to see "rummaging in your bag" as a possible euphemism!
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 30 October 2003 22:22 (twenty-two years ago)
Incidentally, not long ago one of my closest friends bought Let's Get It On for his MUM. He'd read about it in Q and actually went looking for What's Going On but it wasn't in stock, and therefore bought the supposed second-best album without thinking about the connotations. Awesome.
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 30 October 2003 22:54 (twenty-two years ago)
Okay, now the tapes. I kept out a batch of mixtapes I made for a party a couple of years ago, which I did list on ILM a while back (
my party tape). Besides them, the bias was towards gentler nighttime listening, with another bias towards C90s with two terrific albums, but there are also some that I just couldn't do without:
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
Jerry Lee Lewis - Live At The Star Club
Monkees - Monkees (comp)
a homemade George Jones comp, backed with
a homemade Willie Nelson comp
Dr Dre - The Chronic
Daphne & Celeste - We Didn't Say That
Al Green - Al
The Very Best Of Marvin Gaye
Aretha Franklin - 20 Greatest Hits
Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks
O.V. Wright - That's How Strong My Love Is
Underworld - Everything, Everything
Joe Tex - I Gotcha (His Greatest Hits)
The Best Of Rod Stewart
Shangri-Las - Remember
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Mahlathini - Thokazile
Voodoo Jive: The Best Of Screamin' Jay Hawkins
The Best Of Booker T & the MGs
Four Tops - The Singles Collection
Crossing The Red Sea With The Adverts
Blondie - Blondie
Pulp - His 'n' Hers
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
It's hard to imagine going some weeks with just these CDs and cassettes, but I guess plenty of people manage with no more than this permanently. And in any case it doesn't rank that high on any scale of human suffering, I suppose. I'll survive.
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 1 November 2003 21:25 (twenty-two years ago)
Let's see....discs I couldn't do without? Well, they'd have to include:
Night Time by Killing Joke
Killing Joke by Killing Joke
White Noise by Cop Shoot Cop
Peggy Suicide by Julian Cope
Nothing's Shocking by Jane's Addiction
Black Sea by XTC
Q:Are We Not Men? by Devo
Rattus Norvigicus by the Stranglers
Destroyer by Kiss
Funhouse by the Stooges
Paul's Boutique by the Beastie Boys
Get Off the Cross by Firewater
....oh hell, and a bunch more.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 1 November 2003 22:22 (twenty-two years ago)