Albums Criminally Availabe on Compact Disc

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How about Eagles Greatest Hits, Gram Parsons GP, Dave Brubeck Take Five...

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 17 April 2003 14:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Dave Brubeck Take Five

?!?!

That's a great album! Or are you saying it's better on vinyl?

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Thursday, 17 April 2003 14:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know what my point is. And I'm sure as hell not going to be bullied into figuring it out.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 17 April 2003 14:09 (twenty-two years ago)

New Age BolloXoR

― t''t, Thursday, 17 April 2003 14:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Now come on. Time Out is not new age music. It's not Brubeck's fault that "Take Five" ended up in every car commercial made after 1990. It's a stone groove. (HA! Did I just say "stone groove"?) And side two makes me dizzy. Great, great stuff.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Thursday, 17 April 2003 14:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I even own Time Out, fer chrissakes. Say what you will about it, but it's still outstanding (despite its seeming unbiquotoueness in the realm of advertising).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 17 April 2003 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Okay, my point is CDs that are invariably (or in keeping with the title of the thread, invariaby) on sale. Or not. Maybe just albums that have, in general, reduced the sum total contribution of humanity to the cosmic culture stew.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 17 April 2003 14:31 (twenty-two years ago)

The sales figures kind of hint at the majority not quite agreeing with you when it comes to The Eagles' "Greatest Hits".

Btw. "The Eagles" and "Desperado" are both great albums.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 17 April 2003 14:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh my god. I am out of step with the majority? Shit. I might as well move to the woods and start working on my science projects.
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― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 17 April 2003 14:52 (twenty-two years ago)

New Age BolloXoR -- t''t
Now come on. Time Out is not new age music.It's not Brubeck's fault that "Take Five"... -- Kenan Hebert

o gawd. you got me completely wrong. "New Age BolloXoR"="All Sorta New Age BolloXoR Is Criminally Available on Compact Disc"

I didn't imply that Brubeck's NuAgeBoXoR. I like "Take Five" at least as much as the next guy. And i wuv "Unsquare Dance" even more, to be honest. And "Three To Get Ready" 's probably my third fave from the 2000 The Very Best comp on sony Jazz that i have. And no way am i gonna sell that album, guv.

― t''t, Thursday, 17 April 2003 15:12 (twenty-two years ago)

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"Always sold back, filling sales racks – When will I be loved?"

― Fivvy (Fivvy), Thursday, 17 April 2003 18:25 (twenty-two years ago)

There's nothing wrong with Time Out, but if you think it's a "stone groove," then you've obv. never heard funk, soul, funky jazz, soul jazz, etc., etc.

― hstencil, Thursday, 17 April 2003 18:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Any solo release by Mike Love. Actually, anything by the Beach Boys after Love You. What a waste of digital technology

― William R Henderson (Cabin Essence), Saturday, 19 April 2003 13:37 (twenty-two years ago)

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― Evan (Evan), Saturday, 19 April 2003 18:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Paul Desmond is a pretty great 'cool' alto sax player (but he's better w/ Jim Hall, generally, or Chet, even); Joe Morello's drum break on 'Take Five' IS the pop-jazz equiv of the 'Funky Drummer' break; 'Blue Rondo A La Turk' has a v. clever/pretty melody with curious echoes of minimalism/'systems' music; the cover looks extraordinarly like the cov for 'Ah Um' by Mingus, and it's great fun putting 'em side-by-side.

BUT: Brubeck's much-ballyhooed time signature 'experiments' are mostly trite and irritating, and as an improvising pianist he's no Bill Evans; w/out getting into the whole 'can blue men play the whites?/cool jazz argt, a lot of 'Time Out' is pretty unswinging and cautiously out(time) when compared to similar vintage recs by Getz, Konitz, Sonny Rollins, Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor etc. etc. So the fact that this is one of the v. most popular instrumental jazz albs of all time - along with, prob., 'Kind of Blue' and 'Headhunters' - bums my trip.

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Saturday, 19 April 2003 19:09 (twenty-two years ago)

dbl nickels on the dime, trout mask, long 70 min recs that are much nicer on dbl LP.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 19 April 2003 21:41 (twenty-two years ago)

There's nothing wrong with Time Out, but if you think it's a "stone groove," then you've obv. never heard funk, soul, funky jazz, soul jazz, etc., etc.

That was, like, a joke and stuff.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 19 April 2003 21:49 (twenty-two years ago)

As for that Madonna compilation, I sincerely hope that when the new huge compilation/box arrives in the autumn, the original 7" edit versions of "Holiday", "Borderline", "True Blue", "Live To Tell" and "Express Yourself" will finally be available on CD, and those pointless Shep Pettibone remixes from 1990 will all be history.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 19 April 2003 22:04 (twenty-two years ago)

THERE"S A HUGE COMPILATION/BOX COMING OUT IN AUTUMN?!???!

Tell me more!!!!!

I sincerely hope... the original 7" edit versions of "Holiday", "Borderline", "True Blue", "Live To Tell" and "Express Yourself" will finally be available on CD.

I have been saying this very sentence for... oh I don't know... TWELVE BILLION MILLION YEARS!!!

What about the original versions of "Vogue" and "Lucky Star" and "Into the gRoove"??? Gotta give props to those, right!??! "Into the groove is the fuckin' greatest, but the version on the Immaculate Piece of Shit is abysmal!!! Whos' bright idea wsa it to have a piano solo in Into the Muthafuckin;' Groove!!?? Eh??? Tossers.

― Evan (Evan), Saturday, 19 April 2003 23:02 (twenty-two years ago)

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One for every used bin in the world...

― original bgm, Saturday, 19 April 2003 23:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha, that post makes me think of those ASPCA ads..."Wu-Tang isn't just a Christmas commitment, they are a forever commitment. Please adopt the Wu-Tang responsibly."

― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 20 April 2003 01:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I have that Madonna compilation on disc. Is it out of print? I'm just a stone's throw from using it as a coaster these days.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 21 April 2003 00:16 (twenty-two years ago)

What about the original versions of "Vogue" and "Lucky Star" and "Into the gRoove"???

The original version of "Vogue" is on the "I'm Breathless" album. The original version of "Into The Groove" was included as a bonus track on the European edition of "Like a Virgin", and I think it is now part of the remaster.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 21 April 2003 13:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Btw, I think the piano solo in "Into The Groove" is taken from the version on the "You Can Dance" album.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 21 April 2003 13:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Geir, we know that, I think they were more wondering as to why the original versions were not included on that bastardly compilation.

What's funny about The Immaculate Collection is that I forget that "Justify My Love" was a track made for the album, these years gone by now--it seems like it's fitting in there perfectly, it's part of the legend, etc. How could she make one "filler" track so storming and the other one so monumentally unlistenable? "Rescue Me" makes me want to kill her.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 21 April 2003 13:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I still think "Justify My Love" is the worst worthless piece of crap Madonna has ever made. It was the start of a lengthy down period that didn't really end until the "Secret" single (although there were one-off ballads from movies that were nice and melodic also throughout the 90s)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 21 April 2003 13:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Anyway, the point about "True Blue" in particular was the the 7 inch version was actually radically different from the album version, and that 7 inch version (which topped the UK charts among other things) is still unavailable on CD.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 21 April 2003 13:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Geir, do you hate sex?

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 21 April 2003 13:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Music is not about sex. Music is about melody.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 21 April 2003 13:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Even "Skin Trade"?

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 21 April 2003 13:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Music is not about sex. Music is about melody.

Some music is about melody. Some music is about sex. Some music is about abject loathing. Music is not something easily defined by absolutes, Geir.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 21 April 2003 13:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Music is about music. Sex is about sex. And music means melody, which means all music should be first and foremost about melody.

Madonna has made a lot of great melodies (with the "Like a Prayer" album being an obvious melodic milestone), but "Justify My Love" is not one. In fact, it doesn't even have a melody. Strange to come from Lenny Kravitz, who has actually come up with a lot of great music during his own career.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 21 April 2003 13:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Geir, you don't actually exist do you? No-one can be that wrong, that consistently. There must be some fiendish computer somewhere programmed to endlessly issue absolutist piffle till the end of time.

― Dadaismus, Monday, 21 April 2003 13:40 (twenty-two years ago)

And music means melody, which means all music should be first and foremost about melody.

You're a fascist.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 21 April 2003 13:51 (twenty-two years ago)

... a word I have been trying strenuously to avoid using!

― Dadaismus, Monday, 21 April 2003 13:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Please keep in mind Ally's words on another thread. He's been like this, he's always like this, this is him, there he is. The less you boggle, the more relaxed you'll be.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 21 April 2003 14:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Geir Mussolini. Is sex about melody?

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 21 April 2003 14:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Sex is about melody, birth control is about rhythm.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 21 April 2003 14:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Is getting pregnant the middle eight?

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 21 April 2003 14:25 (twenty-two years ago)

"Honey, I think my period's late. Call Irving Berlin."

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 21 April 2003 14:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Take it to the bridge (and drop it in the water).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 21 April 2003 14:34 (twenty-two years ago)

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― t''t, Monday, 21 April 2003 21:22 (twenty-two years ago)

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