I’m still ripping my CDs and occasionally finding inadequate cover art for them. After the comments to the last lot of album covers I posted I’ve been going back through all the CDs I’ve already done and re-doing them at 320kbps. Just, you know, because that’s so much fun.
Deconstructed: An Acoustic Album
You know how, after the whole family goes to the Warehouse, crap just seems to appear in the car. This is one of those.
Vic Reeves & The Wonder Stuff: Dizzy
Sadly, it took the addition of Vic Reeves to the line-up for the Wonder Stuff to get their first UK Number 1. This is actually a pretty cool song all the same, a cover of some ancient ditty.
We Know Where You Live: Draped
Detect a theme here? We Know Where You Live was a post-breakup splinter of the Wonder Stuff, back in the mid ’90s. Before the Super Furry Animals, it was The Wonder Stuff that was the target of my obsessive completism…
3Ds: Fishtales / Swarthy Songs For Swabs
Perhaps unsurprisingly there seem to be few decent quality pix of these 3Ds covers.
3Ds: Hellzapoppin
Outer Space!
3Ds: The Venus Trail
Spooky!
The Phoenix Foundation: Horse Power
And the covers that are available for this, the first album from these guys, are all of the American reissue… and nowhere near as cool as the original New Zealand version.
Voice Of The Beehive: Monsters And Angels
This band used to be one of my little guilty secrets. Maybe not so much the album this single came from (I’ve since sold it) – I think it got the SAW treatment – but their earlier one I still listen to.
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra: National Bank Series
This from 2004, a CD picked up while I was working at the National Bank; on it Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty and Piano Concerto No. 1. (They were a lot classier in those days.)
New York Philharmonic/Zubin Mehta; Montserrat Caballé & Peter Wimberger: Excerpts from Der Ring des Nibelungen
Bombastic. But sometimes, oh so good. I first heard this music in Boorman’s Excalibur, and it’s stayed with me ever since.
Therapy: Nowhere (Sabres Of Paradise Remixes)
Punk Metal, as remixed by Weatherall et. al. Another (attempted) completist purchase.
Passion Fish: Soundtrack
Years and years ago we saw this at the Film Festival. Can’t remember much of the film, but the music made an impression. A compilation of Zydeco / Cajun tracks.
Peaches: So This Is Love
Another of those “Warehouse” purchases – it’s a whole lot of covers performed by NZ female artists flogged as a Valentines Day album a few years ago. I don’t think I’ve ever listened to it. Though maybe I should.
Suede: So Young
Back when Suede were supposed to be the next Smiths (how old am I to still wish for “the next Smiths”?) I started in collecting all their EPs as they came out.
Suede: Stay Together
And here’s another; but also one of those rare things in modern times: a non-album single. Just like the Smiths, in fact.
Ruia & Ranea: Waiata Of Bob Marley
Thanks to my high school buddy Jeff, I’m left with Bob tunes etched in my head. These are versions in Te Reo, and the only Bob in my collection, currently (this is an unfortunate omission).
William Orbit: Water From A Vine Leaf
An early appearance of Beth Orton; and a very lovely track it is too.
Punks Not Dad: We Are The Dads
The debut album from my other favourite Welsh band.
That might be the last of these though - I’m nearly done with the ripping. Phewf!
