Category Archives: Music

The real reason for this whole blog thing is an attempt to review music I like – because you need more than 140 characters to do it properly.

CD Collection #3

Moving right along.. here’s the next group of CDs I scanned with Red Laser.

Barcode Artist Album
724383523528 Blur The Great Escape
731452406125 Bomb the Bass Clear
9399746877429 Bomb the Bass Unknown Territory*
724352190102 David Bowie The Man Who Sold the World Remaster
724352189502 David Bowie Scary Monsters
743214307724 David Bowie Eart hl i ng
827590050020 Broken Social Scene Feel Good Lost*
827590010024 Broken Social Scene You Forgot It in People
077774616423 Kate Bush Hounds of Love
9399748106121 Jeff Buckley Grace*
5016025670178 Cabaret Voltaire Methodology ’74-’78 – The Attic Tapes*
Cabaret Voltaire Micro-Phonies
724384670122 Cassius 1999
The Chap Mega Breakfast

 

 

CD Collection #2

Cataloging more CDs in the Noodlecave..

Barcode Artist Album
823674100322 Beast Beast
682516010126 Bee Hatch Brood
724386376220 Bent Ariels*
623339902724 The Besnard Lakes The Besnard Lakes Are The Dark Horse*
623339905527 The Besnard Lakes The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night*
724349738522 The Beta Band The Three EPs
75992550420 The B52s Bouncing Off the Satellites
724359816425 The Beta Band Heroes to Zeros
9399700009828 Big Heavy Stuff Trouble and Desire*
9399700010824 Big Heavy Stuff Covered In Bruises
9399601960327 Big Pig Bonk*
731452773326 Bjork Post
35627457227 Black Box Dreamland
75021528420 The Blue Nile Hats
77778646921 The Blue Nile A Walk Across the Rooftops
9326165000015 Blur 13*
724385556227 Blur Blur

Items marked * weren’t recognised by Red Laser. I hope The Cloud (praise be) picks this up and is useful to someone somewhere.

The CD Project

I keep going to buy CDs I already own. Henceforth, a project to make a list of my physical music collection. This is section one on shelf one – there’s (does a quick count) 48 of them in total. We’ll see how long I can keep this up. Fortunately with the aid of the Red Laser app it shouldn’t be too hard.. should it?

CD Shelf #1
Barcode Artist Album
9399747413824 A Certain Ratio Looking For A Certain Ratio
5026328100609 A Certain Ratio Early – A Definitive Anthology Of ACR Recordings
A Certain Ratio Force
22925713124 Adamski Live and Direct
75992540025 Laurie Anderson Home Of The Brave
75992507721 Laurie Anderson Mister Heartbreak
Antarctica Starts Here Untitled, Hand Made Edition
94638872627 Arcade Fire Neon Bible
42283580725 Art of Noise In No Sense Nonsense
42283580626 Art of Noise In Visible Silence
Automaton Clarions and Banners
The Automaton Adventure Series Futura Transmitter
745099284923 Aztec Camera High Land, Hard Rain
42282810625 Bananarama Greatest Hits Collection
724384409722 Bassomatic Set The Controls For The Heart of the Sun

Not an auspicious start.. the very first barcode I scanned wasn’t recognised by the internet. Perhaps Sony Australia “Promo Copy Not For Sale” CDs died out before it was invented. I wondered for a minute why Force hasn’t got a barcode – but given it was made in the 80s before the technology was ubiquitous, maybe not so mysterious.

Not really a lot of A bands are there. Weird.

Antarctica Starts Here is a local band, I love the track on that CD that samples John Howard, and crows. Hand made CD package by the artist.

Automaton was an early internet find, I had a couple of (legal) mp3 download tracks of theirs for years and only recently managed to search out the full albums. They’re great, in an angular, math-rock-slash-sonic-youth way.

The rest – well. Let’s just say I’ve enjoyed lots of different styles for lots of different reasons over the years.. there’s more interesting and obscure stuff to come, promise.

 

Eargasm

Mixing my submission for the Clan Analog Heads Tribute Album revealed a limitation in my setup – I have no monitoring to speak of. It’s great having a studio-in-a-laptop but if you can’t hear what you’re doing what’s the point? Well, there’s hearing and there’s Really Hearing. So I got myself a pair of AKG K242 cans. Mixed the track. Sort of forgot about them for a while. Tonight I decided to sit down and have a good listen to a selection of stuff and.. Continue reading Eargasm