Seasons greetings

Folks,


Enjoy the holidays! I hope to be back with a new posting very shortly. Stay tooned...:-)

Regards,


djp

Reasons To Be Cheerful - The Best Of Ian Dury

Label:- Music Club Deluxe MCDLX016
Purchased:- Dunnes Stores, Nenagh

Track Listing:-

Disc 1

1. Wake Up And Make Love To Me
2. Sex And Drugs And Rock And Roll
3. Sweet Gene Vincent
4. My Old Man
5. Razzle In My Pocket
6. What A Waste
7. Rough Kids
8. The Roadette Song
9. Pam's Moods
10. Reasons To Be Cheerful, Part 3
    
11. Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick
12. There Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bastards
13. Inbetweenies
14. Don't Ask Me
15. I Want To Be Straight
16. Superman's Big Sister
17. Yes And No (Paula)
18. That's Not All
19. Fucking Ada
20. The Bus Driver's Prayer

Disc 2:-

1. Jack Shit George
2. Bed O'Roses No. 9
3. Dance Little Rude Boy
4. Mash It Up Harry
5. It Ain't Cool
6. Books And Water
7. Really Glad You Came
8. Peter The Painter
9. Profoundly In Love With Pandora
10. Poor Joey
11. Poo-Poo In The Prawn
12. Clever Trevor (live)
13. If I Was With A Woman (live)
14. Billericay Dickie (live)
15. Spasticus Autisticus (live)
16. Blockheads (live)

A pretty decent compilation, this. Mostly original recordings, with some live tracks. All the hits are here. However, a little Dury goes a long way, and the Kilburn & The High Roads tracks are not for everyone. Dury was at his best when he displayed his wicked sense of humour, but tended to get a bit sentimental from time to time. This would've made a really good single CD compilation, but as things stand, it was still worth buying some extraneous and unessential tracks to get the hits.

Regards,

djp

The Sun Records Collection

Label - Forever Gold FG456
Purchased - Tesco, Nenagh

Track Listing:-

1. Great Balls Of Fire _ Jerry Lee Lewis
2. I Walk The Line - Johnny Cash
3. Ooby Dooby - Roy Orbison & The Teen Queens
4. Lonely Weekends - Charlie Rich
5. Mystery Train - Junior Parker
6. Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins
7. Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On - Jerry Lee Lewis
8. Mean Little Mama - Roy Orbison
9. Ballad Of A Teenage Queen - Johnny Cash
10. Who Will The Next Fool Be - Charlie Rich
11. Raunchy - Bill Justis
12. Matchbox - Carl Perkins
13. Bear Cat - Rufus Thomas
14. Feelin' Good - Junior Parker
15. Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash

A mixture of the familiar and the unfamiliar (to me), but there isn't a bad track amongst them. I was particularly taken with the Charlie Rich tracks, which are slightly more pop than country. Not sure if all of the tracks are "proper to the period" (e.g. Folsom Prison Blues?) but these don't sound like alternative/inferior versions - they seem to be the real deal. Well worth a punt...

Regards,


djp

Hello, good evening and welcome...

I got a nutty idea on Friday when I was pushing a shopping trolley around Tescos - why not set up a blog devoted to the appreciation of those (sometimes crappy) compilation CDs that one finds on sale in supermarkets?

This ideas was inspired by gazing at a selection of such CDs and wondering, "would I buy one?". I've bought a number of them over the years and, in fairness, they've all had something meritorious about them. Maybe that's just me being selective and careful - I've no doubt that there's a load of old tut out there as well.

Anyway, I did buy a CD in Tescos on Friday - "The Sun Records Collection" - featuring tracks from Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison and Carl Perkins. No sign of Elvis. Haven't played it yet, so I've no idea if it's any good, but I'll give it a spin during the week and post a review thereafter.

And I will dig up the other CDs I've bought in supermarkets over the years and review them too.

And here's where you come in - if you want to review any such CDs that you own, let me know and I'll be happy (subject to the laws of libel and my own dodgy ideas of good taste) to publish your reviews on this site.

So what do you think? Am I mad or what?

Regards,


djp