Entertainment For Lively Minds
Uncut, Mojo, Q, Classic Rock, Total Film and Empire. 70 Cover CDs On Shuffle.
Posted by LOUDspeaker on 7 March 2010 - 10:14am.
I’ve amassed about 70 cover CDs from about 2002 to the present day. Of those I’ve probably listened to ten of them from start to finish, and maybe another ten for a few tracks. I just don’t like cover CDs as they’re usually pretty terrible (Word Magazine CDs are a different matter and are not what I’m talking about).
So to save space I put the CDs inside the booklets and binned the cases and rear insert cards. That 12cm stack sat for about six months untouched so I decided to rip all them into iTunes. I’ve now got those 70 or so CDs on shuffle and there’s a lot of good stuff there.
If you have an unused stack of crap cover CDs you might want to try ripping them in bulk. I’m getting lots of nice surprises.
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I like covermounts
I've always been a fan of covermounts and mine are all ripped to the server. The only ones that actually make it as far as my ipod these days are the Paste ones because they seem to be the ones that I'm most likely to look at the screen to see what I'm listening to and investigate further (or, in the case of the appalling Athlete track this month, continue to avoid!). I've just had a quick count and I reckon I've got well in excess of 200 covermounts stretching back as far as about 1987 (I think the earliest is a Q one).
Me too, I've got a pile of the things,
and I've got boxes full of the cassette versions that preceded them. I rarely listen to them these days, so I think I'll do what LOUD's done and rip the lot one wet weekend before ditching them in the local Oxfam shop.
The earliest CD one I have is the one that came with Q issue 1, when the retail price of a CD was about the same as dinner and a bottle of red in my local bistro.
CD?
I didn't think issue 1 came with a CD. A quick google suggests that it came with a free book .... but I don't remember that either!
I seem to remember that it was a small square CD-format booklet
with capsule reviews of the best currently available CDs.
You may well be right,
after all, it was aeons ago. I have the first CD they did, whichever issue it was, and issues 1 through 250, along with all the subsequent goodies, though finding the earliest ones would require the services of The Time Team to retrieve them from the depths of the garage loft.
Hanging below the garage ceiling is my favourite giveaway; a blow up Gallagher head. One of these days I'm going to fill it with helium and take it to my gun club's Sunday clay shoot...
To avoid getting a pile of them, I rip 'em immediately
and bin the CD
Already done it
I ripped all my CDs last winter. Along with everything else. Regularly have to wander over the player to discover an unknown gem that the shuffler decides to play.
I'm a fan of the Word CD's and would recommend Lake Heartbeat from the February CD. Had to buy the full CD and thoroughly enjoyed.
Which one of those
seventy CDs do you like best?
My favourites were a MOJO disc that came in a plastic bag and which featured songs about drugs (I just said no, naturally, despite my enthusiasm), and one that was called "The Roots of Hip Hop" or something; that featured songs which were the roots of hip hop.
"Which one of those seventy CDs do you like best?"
The above picture was taken for selling on eBay (£5 starting price for 65 CDs, no one put a bid in). The following are not pictured because I intended to keep them:
Uncut 2001 Why Don’t We Do it in The Road? (Beatles covers)
Uncut 2003 Starman (Bowie covers)
Uncut 2005 Funk Soul Brothers (Funk songs)
Mojo 2008 Cohen Covered (LC covers)
There are SOME good songs on:
Uncut 2002 Hard Rain Vol 2 (Bob Dylan covers)
Mojo 2008 Motown Nuggets
The Uncut 2004 Americana disc (top right with a white cover in the picture) turns out to be a cracker of a disc with lots of good stuff on it. Also Mojo’s re-recording of the White Album has thrown up some interesting tracks. I’m now glad no one bought them as there seems to be a lot of good stuff on them if played on shuffle.
competition
I'm a massive fan of cover-mounted CD's and quite often buy a mag just for the free CD on the front. Some dance and metal mags have come into the house this way, often with disastrous results!
Anyhow, not wanting to plug the "competition" as such, but in the past two years UNCUT and MOJO have given away some frankly outstanding cover-mounts.
UNCUT's ongoing psychedelica renegates series, which started with the incredible "Comets Ghosts And Sunburned Hands" disc immediately springs to mind, there's been three absolute corkers to date. Some of the label samplers given away by both have also hit the spot - the Bella Union one being just one.
I'm not a big fan of the album covers cds that crop up from time to time, but some of the tracks on MOJO's recent 2cd reimagining of Floyd's dull-as-dishwater 'Wall' opus were fantastic.
I have hundreds of the fucking things hanging around the house, so a large-scale rip could well be on the cards.
Blimey.
"I’ve amassed about 70 cover CDs from about 2002 to the present day. Of those I’ve probably listened to ten of them from start to finish, and maybe another ten for a few tracks."
Why have you kept them? I listen to the Word cd, nod a bit, maybe mark a couple of artists for further investigation and then bin it.
Our house has a fairly rigid approach to hoarding of media. If it doesn't get read, listened to or watched, it goes. Keeping stuff for the sake of it annoys me. The same applies to digital media. All those things with a zero play count? Bin 'em.
They work a treat up me wife's allotment
keeping those pesky birds and Italian OAP's away