Lost Albums Uncovered in The Dark Recesses of Your Collection

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I was kind of stumbling into the boxes of unordered CD pap, per normal tonight, a bottle of wine or so in, and I found

Swell's 'Too Many Days without Thinking'.

Given that I'd not played it for years , the buzz was nice.

Anybody else 'lose' stuff?

― Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountain Dog (Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountai), Friday, 18 February 2005 00:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Huh?! Well, I'm yet to get my CDs' from-M-to-Z in anything resembling an "order", so... there might be a surprise or to awaiting, surely.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 18 February 2005 00:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I've had about 1000 CDs in my loft for over three years now. Do I miss any? Nah! Will I find somthing I've been dying to hear? Of course!!!

― sonicred (sonicred), Friday, 18 February 2005 02:03 (twenty-one years ago)

a friend came down to the Smoke a copuple of weekends ago weilding a Minnie Ripperton CD i apparently lent him, like, 9 years ago. he was really apologetic, like i'd been hating his guts all this time for losing my record. i had no idea. i barely remembered owning it. great voice, though.

― fsharp (fsharp), Friday, 18 February 2005 08:39 (twenty-one years ago)

gah, why isn't there a spellcheck on these things.

― fsharp (fsharp), Friday, 18 February 2005 08:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Just pulled out the Justin Robertson Jouneys By DJ album this morning, the first hlaf on the second CD is blowing my mind (loads of Green Velvet remixes among other things)

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 18 February 2005 11:37 (twenty-one years ago)

thats kinda freaky i saw that Justin R mix in the bins yesterday and contemplated grabbing it .. i didn't in the end ..
whats the style ? i always assumed he was smooth happy house kinda bloke - put me right ..

― mark e (mark e), Friday, 18 February 2005 12:04 (twenty-one years ago)

i have that swell album somewhere. it was good, wasn't it? i'm gonna have to find it now.

i had the same kind of experience last year when i heard "music for the masses" again for the first time in a decade (see threads passim). rediscovering a long-lost loved album is in some ways even more joyous than discovering something new: there's the anticipation and expectation mixed with a glorious warm sense of nostalgia and contentment as it all comes flooding back. ah, happy days.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 18 February 2005 12:08 (twenty-one years ago)

The Justin Robertson is 'eclectic' moving from 'trip hop' to big beat, to jazzy Nuphonic stuff, to breakbeat, to jungle, to minimal techno to garage, to house. It is a big much to be honest, but mixed with a good flow so it doesn;t jar too much - however, by far the best section is the first half on the second CD where he just keeps it on a minimal house/techno feel.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 18 February 2005 12:36 (twenty-one years ago)

i get lazy , buy a cd , listen to the songs i now, don't play the rest.
i rediscovered all the songs off abba "arrival",Every song is good-gr8.

― La Camilla Henemark, Friday, 18 February 2005 13:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I am trying to rediscover "formica blues" by Mono. Sadly, it is missing somewhere.

This morning, I picked up the Brassy album, whatever it was called. I remember liking it once upon a time, but haven't played it since I bought it, really.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Friday, 18 February 2005 13:18 (twenty-one years ago)

A few weeks ago I re-discovered my Essential Fripp & Eno CD. I can't believe I picked this up nearly at random in some discount CD shop when I was like 13! I probably only owned 5 other CDs at the time. Anyway this is great; if I recall correctly it includes the incredible No Pussyfooting and Evening Star, plus some other stuff.

― sleep (sleep), Friday, 18 February 2005 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Following the piece in Marcello's 1974 series: Cockney Rebel's The Human Menagerie, unplayed for nearly 30 years and sounding great.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Friday, 18 February 2005 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I found a New Seekers LP on which they cover Roy Wood and Richard Thompson. A copy of "Hotcakes" by Carly Simon. "L" by Godley and Creme. "Son of Schmillson." "Yessongs" (!)

The first Ian Hunter LP. "Physical Graffiti" on LP.

"Nancy and Lee" on Reprise, all scratched up. (Sinatra and Hazelwood, that is.)

An ancient copy of "Who Sings My Generation" on really heavy old vinyl, I inherited from my older cousin years ago, still in fine shape for its age.

Fucking "Fish out of Water" by Chris Squire! "Six Wives of Henry VIII" by Dick Wakeman! "Flavours" by the Guess Who, even! All in a box at my parents' house. The Nilsson album still plays good. Also, "Hissing of Summer Lawns" by Mitchell--pretty much all the charm of that one is gone for me at this point.

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Friday, 18 February 2005 20:29 (twenty-one years ago)

i am still choosing my 40 fave albums from 1963-2002. in the last poll for 1995 i almost accidentally put mick harvey's gainsbourgh tribute intoxicated man instead of vic chesnutt's is the actor happy?. what a gem of a songwriter album. i listened to it in the car on the way to and from work and was totally taken by vic's voice and phantastic enveloping guitar tunes. mick harvey on the other hand was much better in memory.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Friday, 18 February 2005 21:10 (twenty-one years ago)

The Cure's Pornography...I hadn't listened to it in nearly two years (save for the occasional spin of "Siamese Twins") until last Tuesday.

― Ian Riese-Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Friday, 18 February 2005 21:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Rick James's dying prompted me to dig up Street Songs for the first time in a decade. Or ATTEMPT to, till I remembered leaving it with my sister years ago. So I bought the remastered CD, a steal at $9.99, with the extended versions of the hits. Which triggered some '80s-popfunk nostalgia mechanism in my brain, and prompted me to buy a record I knew by heart but never actually owned my own copy of: Thriller! Great stuff altho I still think Off The Wall's more consistent.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 18 February 2005 21:34 (twenty-one years ago)

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