Part 4 of the CD Collection Series continues with a look at 80s bands that start with the letter C.

I find it strange that Red Laser recognised Close Lobsters but not Gary Clail – apparently obscurity is no measure of whether you make it to the great database in the skycloudthingy.

Also, why do I have two home made Anne Clark albums? I’m not sure. The handwriting isn’t mine and if I ever have listened to them, it was once enough and never again. I’ve a feeling they’ll be first against the wall when the revol.. cleaners come.

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

Cataloging more CDs in the Noodlecave..

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

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?

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.