Prog Purge
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HIM: Complete works
Another supposed Goth outfit who have no idea of how to be chilling. Yawn.
Josephine Foster: Hazel Eyes, I Will Lead You
Something else I read about in The Wire. Didn’t work out. :-(
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The Cure : Complete Works
Now, this is how to do it. ‘Sfunny how when I got it the player was littered with titles like "Gothic Club Classics", and didn’t have anything by the Cure, not even their Goth tour de force, Pornography. Thanks μtorrent.
David Torn : What Means Solid, Traveller
Got stuck during the rip process when I had to input a Genre. How to describe succinctly this wonderfully off-kilter guitar-centric collection of near-instrumentals? ‘Experimental’ doesn’t quite do it, but neither is it ‘Indie Rock’, as the database suggested. Settled eventually for ‘Pronk’, though I’m open to suggestions.
David Bowie: Bowie at the Beeb
A bit of duplication with stuff I already have on there, but this double CD set my girl bought me a couple of years ago covers the essential period and has some cool alternate versions of ‘Cygnet Committee’ and ‘Widthof a Circle’.
Dead Can Dance: Into The Labyrinth
Thier masterpiece. Can’t believe I never ripped this before.
In Limbo
Jane Siberry : Child
How do I feel about selective deletion of tracks? Some people think it’s just Wrong, and I’m inclinded to agree in general. How do you know the ones you hate today aren’t going to be tonorrow’s favourites? That switcheroo has happened to me dozens of times. But I was listening in random mode when up popped "Chestnuts roasting on an open fire/ Jack Frost nipping at your nose" Not good. Parts of this album I love, but I’m afraid the rest will probably have to die.
Pink Floyd : BBC Broadcasts
I used to have all of this in one form or another, from hastily-recorded cassette to unbelievably shitty MP3s; and there are some real gems in there, like a charged version of ‘Green Is The Colour’ and ‘Interstellar Overdrive’ as skiffle. But now I have a reasonable copy of it here on my computer (not al their sessions, though - where is ‘Echoes’?) I’m wondering if I already have enough PF to be gong on with. Similarly…
Yes: Symphonic Live
How many versions of ‘Starship Trooper’ does one person actually need?
Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Ultimate Collection Cols. I & II
More prog excess, I’m afraid. Never used to like them much, even back in the 70s, but I wondered a years or so ago whether they had anything going for them. The answer: sometimes. ‘Fanfare for the Common Man’ is clearly wonderful, and this comp has ‘Nutrocker’ and ‘I Believe in Father Christmas’ (not strictly EPL, that one) and the recently-discovered ‘Take a Pebble’. However, I already killed Brain Salad Surgery, supposedly their best album, and large chunks of this may go the same way.
Metallica
Another group whos entire output came free with the asking price. I’m very glad to have Pastor of Muppets and Just Ice for All, but not sure about the rest. The "black album" was the last thing I bought by them, and they seem to have desended further into mawkishness inconsequentiality since then. Prepare to be purged.
