I Should Be Homeward Bound
So I'm here late at Coptix. I should be heading home. I've been here for the last 2 1/2 hour working on Joel's (April's little brother, he's 12 I believe) Christmas present.
What started as a mild collection of maybe 2 or 3 mix CD's has blossomed into a 12 disk set. I have one whole disk dedicated to Bob Dylan, another for The Beatles, and a third for U2. Keeping it at that took restraint. I mean, from one standpoint, the project is doomed from the start. I mean, how do you expect to introduce someone to glorious music without nailing the concept of the "album" or heck, the "concept album" for that matter!
Regardless, I think I've compiled, well, a staggering collection of music, if only because the ommissions are staggering. Do you realize I don't have a single Nirvana song on there? No Sabaath? No Cream? No The Who? No White Stripes? I forced myself to make a Techno & Ambient album just so I'd have a place for Sigur Ros, Daft Punk, Moby, and Radiohead's "Everything In Its Right Place". Heck, I had to sneak the Radiohead song in there 'cause I didn't have room on the Progressive/Mod/Indie rock whetever album. Heck, isnt it too electronic for that anyways?
Well alright, I need to get to bed, so here are the titles of the CD's:
1. "80's More or Less" (sans punk & cock rock, with the exception of Sweet Child o' Mine)
2. Americana Alt-Country
3. Bob Dylan
4. Classics (like Zeppelin, Mamas & The Papas, Yes, Marley, Cat Stevens, and REM's "Loosing my Religion" 'cause I couldn't get it in anywhere else)
5. Folk n' Bluegrass
6. Indie Rock
7. Modern Funk Rap (thinks Outkast, Black Eye Peas, Bran Van 3000)
8. Not Sure (this is everything from 90's alternative to Ben Harper & Ben Folds)
9. Punk Old & New (The Clash, Ramones, Sex Pistols, Greenday, Offspring, etc.)
10. Techno & Ambient
11. The Beatles
12. U2
Josiah Q. Roe | By Josiah Roe | 10:10 PM
Comments
What a collection! He should consider himself very lucky to get such a great set of cds. If you ever feel like expanding this entry to include tracklistings, I'd be interested to see what your choices were (especially on the indie rock, americana, beatles, and u2 discs).
Posted by: John at December 10, 2003 10:42 PM
Hey, make me and Paige one too. Our CD collection sucks. We need some good music, but haven't bought a new album in years. Help us!
Posted by: scott cunningham at December 11, 2003 10:42 AM
U2 is the worst. im not a Bono fan at all. or REM...something about music people telling me how to vote or how to feel about environmental issues. plus "shiny happy people" sucked huge emu balls.
Posted by: pnut at December 11, 2003 01:09 PM
Good collection Josiah... if you like that Outkast stuff, you ought to get one of the campus hipsters to turn you onto to some more good rap. I did, and it changed my life.
Posted by: rob at December 11, 2003 07:09 PM
hipsters & rap????
Posted by: kposey at December 12, 2003 09:18 AM
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