This Fortnight in Pod

This week (okay, two) I've been concerning myself with covermount CDs - the free CDs that come with magazines and newspapers and whatnot.

I am a sucker for the things.

Right now I am about a third of the way through the CD binder of CMJ covermounts that I have accumulated. It's a monthly magazine and I've had a subscription since 1997. That should tell you about how many of the damn things that I'm loading in. I stopped paying for a subscription in 2002, but am still getting a copy every month. That should tell you something about how organized they are.

It is sort of astonishing to go through a forced march of these CDs - to remember how many artists I discovered when I listened to the latest issue (and how many songs I liked and completely lost track of.) All of the CDs I have by The Nields and The Coral and Gomez and The Streets can have their blame placed directly on CMJ magazine.

Anyway - on to the regular stuff:

Most Played Song

Al Stewart - "Katherine of Oregon"

The first line of the song is "When I am even more old than I am now" and goes on from there. It psychs me up as I walk to work.

I pick ten tracks at random

The Boomtown Rats - "Sleep (Finger's Lullaby)"
Minibar - "It is What it is"
Lambchop - "Something's Going On (and On) [alternative version]
Britten - "Serenade for Tenor Horn & Strings, Op 31"
Wall of Voodoo - "Living in the Red"
Playmates - "Days After Tomorrow"
Alanis Morissette - "Utopia"
Oasis - "(Untitled)" - [one of those forty second tracks from What's the Story (Morning Glory)]
Vasen - "Tomten Kammer"
Coldplay - "Yellow (Live at Glastonbury)"

For hard drive space (and my own sanity) I do have to delete the occasional album. This week I deleted:

Cartoon Sound Effects - Volume One

I had completely forgotten that I owned this CD:

Black Tape for A Black Girl - Remnants of a Deeper Purity

The last thing that I ripped:

CMJ Covermount CD - Issue #097 (October 2001)