VARIOUS ODDITIES

(or things I can't get rid of)

Over the years I have collected many things I've really enjoyed, and some things that turned out to be duds (my Mariah Carey collection, the Rembrandts "LP"). This is a list of uncategorizable material, CD's I have that I can't get rid of, or CD's out of people's yards or dump boxes.

THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS

Now here's a band for which there's no category. They've made the weirdest bunch of music you can imagine, with titles like "Man It's So Loud in Here", "Chess Piece Face", and "The Statue Got Me High". They also have included in their repetoire a children's album called "NO!" which actually isn't so bad.

Recommended tracks: "Mr. X-citement", "Wicked Little Critta", "Fingertips", "Spider"

WALLY PLEASANT

Here's another jokester who you could not listen to with a straight face if you paid attention to any of the lyrics, and it's hard not to. With a guitar and a funny voice, and the right mood, it can be highly entertaining.

Recommended tracks: "The Day Ted Nugent Killed All the Animals", "I Want to Have a Stalker", "Amusement Park Death Song", "Let's Play Life"

The Soundtrack to EDTV

This was an exile from my days at the CD CafÈ. It has some good songs on it but I never saw the movie (and don't intend to) being that some of the songs included could portray what cheesiness the movie could have.

DAVE HALL

This guy was very good live with his background singers. I saw him at the ABC CafÈ and liked him enough to buy his CD. When I listened to it later I found it very thin and badly produced, so right now he is a live performer.

CHRIS BLACK

This is another ABC CafÈ guy I thought was good and the album I bought also suffered the same bad production. The CD title is great, though: "A Mind is a Terrible Thing".

LOST SONGS: Songs the Beatles wrote but never recorded

This is another CD CafÈ exile and it sat collecting dust for three years before I actually bothered to check it out. I have to admit the singers they gathered were very good at sounding like Lennon and McCartney, but the songs are such that it is easy to figure out why they never made it onto a Beatles album or they were given to other people to record.

SOLAS

I received the next three albums from one of the residents of the house where I work moving out and purging some things. Solas is a very good folk-irish band, but holy cow, do I ever need to be in the mood to listen to them.

CLUB MIXES BIGGEST JAMS VOL. 1

Who could go wrong with a dance CD that throws into the mix "Things That Make You Go Hmmm" and "Everybody Everybody"?

JOCK JAMS

'Nuff said.

ACE OF BASE

A holdover from my cheesy pop radio days, it does not have the cover so I can't get rid of it.

CELINE DION

Same as Ace of Base

R.E.M. - "Imitation of Life" single

The B-sides aren't all that great.

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