100 years of song - the ultimate pop album (actually cd-r box set)

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So i ran across this:

http://www.polyholiday.com/artists/LMP/records/cos.html

This band la musique populaire are doing a cd-r box set of 1 song from every year of the last century. the track listing looks terrible and the idea is ridiculous, so naturally i put my name on the waiting list to get one. anybody know personally about this project? any other amazing/ridiculous music projects that i will only find thanks to the internet? keep in mind i already have the raunchy young lepers cd-r box set.

― ddd, Friday, 9 May 2003 16:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Where's the tracklisting? I want one, even if (especially if) the tracklisting totally sucks.

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 9 May 2003 16:21 (twenty-two years ago)

keep in mind i already have the raunchy young lepers cd-r box set.

Well, jeez, why get anything else?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 9 May 2003 16:23 (twenty-two years ago)

the song list:
http://www.polyholiday.com/century/centurybox.html

not exactly obvious or meaningful choices, but maybe i just have no perspective

― ddd, Friday, 9 May 2003 16:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Way cool Dave. I too am now on the waiting list. At work, so I can't DL the mp3 sample. Whatsit like? Is this going to be terrible-wonderful or terrible-terrible?

― Sean@tangmonkey (Sean M), Friday, 9 May 2003 16:30 (twenty-two years ago)

"Plus the LMP originals
A Century of Song (2000) and
Does Anyone Remember A Century of Song? (2001) "

..rdrr.

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 9 May 2003 16:31 (twenty-two years ago)

"Gonna Fly Now"?!
"Theme From Deep Throat"?!
"Love U More"?!
"Lucas With the Lid Off"?!?!
"Do the Freddie"?!?!?!
"We Built This City"?!?!?!?

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 9 May 2003 16:33 (twenty-two years ago)

The ultimate pop album, sir. On that level I don't see this collection as being much different than if Peter Bagge put it together, say.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 9 May 2003 16:39 (twenty-two years ago)

matos: it was actually 'lucas with the lid off' that made decide to buy this thing!!! that song is ridiculous.

sean: i only have the net at work (what with living on a boat and all) and i'm on a 'science' computer (i.e. no sound card.). but i'm thinking a terrible-wonderful difficult listen.

― ddd, Friday, 9 May 2003 16:43 (twenty-two years ago)

much of the pre-'60s stuff is tempting me toward buying it too, actually

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 9 May 2003 16:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Of all the songs on Night at the Opera that don't really paint an accurate picture of 1975, how did he arrive at "'39"?

― dleone (dleone), Friday, 9 May 2003 16:53 (twenty-two years ago)

only happy when it rains?

― robin (robin), Saturday, 10 May 2003 01:20 (twenty-two years ago)

One of my favourite passages on music is the following, by Richard Williams, from his Independent on Sunday article on 'The tracks of my tears':

In the days when making a pop single was about structural ingenuity, about matters such as getting the hook-phrase in early and not bringing it back so often as to wear it out - in other words, in the days before James Brown and Andy Warhol conspired to establish the primacy of repetition and monotony - the intro was where, in a matter of seconds, a pop record could establish its claim to originality. Think of electric twelve-string guitar arpeggios that began the Byrds' 'Mr Tambourine Man', the neck-snapping horn figures prefacing Otis Redding's 'Mr Pitiful', the sleazy fuzz-guitar riff of the Stones' 'Satisfaction', the haughty Hammond organ that paved the way for Dylan's 'Positively 4th Street', the dramatic a cappella opening of the Righteous Brothers' 'You've lost that lovin' feelin''.

And the choice for 1965: 'Do the Freddie'. Not even Chubby Checker's opportunistic 'Let's do the Freddie', but Freddie & the Dreamers' own rush-released and swiftly-recorded cash-in that followed that. Brilliant. I've literally wiped a tear from my eye.

― Alan Connor, Jr., Saturday, 10 May 2003 13:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Did anyone ever buy that set of MP3 CDs the dude was flogging on the newsgroups with every British #1? Was he straight-up?

― Alan Connor, Jr., Saturday, 10 May 2003 13:29 (twenty-two years ago)

That's odd. I'm sure that Stephin Merritt chose a track for every year of the last century, and that the list was up on the web, but I'm damned it I can find it now. The only one I can remember for sure was White Town's 'Your Woman'.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 10 May 2003 13:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Was it in the Village Voice?

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 10 May 2003 13:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Nope, it was in Time Out NY.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 10 May 2003 14:11 (twenty-two years ago)

OK - I didn't dream it then. Thanks Michael.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 10 May 2003 14:13 (twenty-two years ago)

And here is that article.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 10 May 2003 14:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah, OK - it was records, not songs. Thanks again.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 10 May 2003 14:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, it seems to be a bit of both.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 10 May 2003 14:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah - I meant 'records' to cover everything. But I suppose it doesn't, when you've got sheet music on the list too.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 10 May 2003 14:34 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

This is being mailed out in november!!!!!! i thought the label had flaked out but it's really happening!

― ddd (ddd), Thursday, 11 November 2004 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Well there's always good ol' 20 CENTURIES OF HITS (on Rhino, natch). A little too much monastery in the middle, but overall a good trip. I reviewed it in Voice ca. 1999 A.D.

― don, Thursday, 11 November 2004 21:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Hiya ... Yes indeed, we're finally releasing the bastard. 6 discs (well, 5 actually, plus one disc of nearly unlistenable outtakes) covering one song from every year, 1900-2001. The song selections were more or less arbitrary; it's more about the renditions themselves. Mostly it was an excuse to let ourselves loose on as many styles as possible. Nearly killed us both. Enjoy.

Eric of LMP
eric@polyholiday.com

PS. Our "Lucas With the Lid Off" absolutely sucks ass. But most of the other tracks are good.

― eric, Saturday, 13 November 2004 04:56 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

I love this box so much, the pleasures it reveals keep getting deeper.

I would love it if they were to go through 'Revolution in the head' and record versions of everything the Beatles recorded.

― Billy Dods, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 16:59 (eighteen years ago)

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