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Yes, CDs. I still buy them and love them. I like the process of looking through the music and deciding what to pop on.
While baking yesterday I put on a CD I had not listened to in yonks; Armand Van Helden- New York, A mix odyssey. Properly bopping around the kitchen.
What CDs have you recently rediscovered?
With Andrew Weatherall's passing I went on a loft digging exercise, mainly to find Stockwell Steppas. I couldn't find that for love nor money, I know it's up there somewhere... however I stumbled across the Two Lone Swordsmen Tiny Remiders album which I had forgot i owned. Looks like a Vinyl Exchange purchase as it's a promo copy with track titles not matching the final release.
It's been on heavy rotation for the last few weeks.
Relented and bought a download of Stockwell Steppas.
Similar experience with Andrew Weatherall Fabric live that I got from Vinyl Exchange. Can't leave it alone at the moment!
Just dug out my cd collection, along with getting my home office sorted (nice speakers / cd player)
I'd forgotten how good David Holmes - Let's Get Killed album is.
Not a CD but I've had a song going round my head for weeks and I finally worked out who it was.
Incubus, Wish you were here.
DJ Yoda's How to Cut n' Paste, the '80s Edition. Still awesome and hilarious.
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Bit of a 90s cliche but I found it quite interesting to re-listen to this with older more refined ears.
Massive Attack – Mezzanine
Oooosssshhhh!! What an album.
Massive Attack – Mezzanine
It was it's 20th anniversary in 2018, so was re-issued with a Mad Professor dub version (like No Protection type thing), which is good.
https://www.discogs.com/Massive-Attack-V-Mad-Professor-Massive-Attack-V-Mad-Professor-Part-II-Mezzanine-Remix-Tapes-98/release/14153302
Definitely not "long lost" 😉
Found this not so long ago...
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Been playing the Stanton DJ's Urban Underground mix CDs in the van since it was mentioned on a thread on here actually. Still incredibly good.
Massive Attack – Mezzanine
Massively overrated imho.
I'm a huge fan of the CD. Still intrigued by its form and function some 33 years after buying my first CD player from House of Fraser in Manchester. A Philips CD160. Great player.
I'm really enjoying Morten Shantz's Godspeed at the moment.
If anybody wants a once played copy of Bowie's dreadful Blackstar, PM me your address and I'll send it to you FOC.
Yes Shuggie Otis's Inspiration Information was a game changer for me.
Re- listened to The Bends by Radiohead recently, what an album that was.
Recently dug out the first cd I bought, Corrosion of Conformity's Blind, and listened in full to honour the passing of Reed Mullin. Astonishing record, brilliant drummer. Might give it another spin tonight.
Sting - Mercury falling
Blind Melon - No Rain great album.
Stone Temple Pilots - Core great front to back.
went to see And you will know us by the trail of the dead last week and loved the Canadian support band Alex Henry Foster and the Long Shadows, bought their cd at merchandise desk and after chatting to them found out they were in another band who supported Trail of the Dead in London 5 years ago called Your Favorite Enemies - got home and discovered I had bought Your Favorite Enemies “Between illness and migration” album back then and it is brilliant as is the Alex Henry Foster and the Long Shadows album
After a failure of my Mac Mini’s hard drive and the backup drive, I lost over half of my iTunes library, so I’ve been going through the stacks of CD’s I have around the place and shovelling them into the disk reader, and I’ve found several albums that I’d forgotten I owned, thinking I’d borrowed them. One was Lone Justice ‘Shelter’, another David Sylvian and Holger Czukay’s ‘Plight & Premonition’, and Teenage Fanclub’s ‘Shadows’, which I didn’t even remember buying or owning!
Glad I discovered the first two, I was going to buy new copies... 😜
Oh, another one I bought years ago and and only ever ripped one track was Tool’s ‘Lateralus’, I bought it after seeing a video on a heavy rock video channel of the track ‘Schism’, ripped that track and put the album away.
Rebuilding my library I thought it was worth ripping the whole thing and giving it a listen. I should have done that years ago! Bloody brilliant, I feel an overwhelming need to go through their back catalogue now.
Not recently, but I'd totally forgotten about the Dust Junkys for a long time, then totally randomly someone posted a video on bikeradar, of a car that'd been cut in half and was driving around a field with just the front end, soundtracked with one of their songs. Found the album, fell back in love, still one of my favourite albums of all time. Went to Manchester twice to see their reform shows too, all off the back of that stupid video
Gomez - Bring It On.
UNKLE - Psyence Fiction
Huge respect for the late Andy weatherall. This was my introduction to him, from the fairly obscure 'global sweatbox' remix album...
I recently found a box of long lost CD singles in my loft
Highlights included Sunscream (Perfect Motion), Galiano (Jus'reach), a whole bunch of Corduroy singles and Leonard Nimoy by Freaky Realistic.
Do they still make K cider? A few bottles of that, some speed and a glitter ball and I could have me the 90s all over again. Sure beats what's going on now.
One was Lone Justice ‘Shelter’
@CountZero - have you heard Maria McKee's new stuff? It's bizarre! Sounds like Andrew Lloyd Webber musical stuff. No doubt she can sing, but it's quite hilarious.
^^ RIP Genesis P Orridge
Been trying to claw back some of my old lost cds. Just got copies of Logical Progression level 2 and level 3 (Blame and Intense). Can't wait for them to arrive.
Yes. CDs are my go-to format for the same reasons as the OP.
I've just been listening to Dragnet by The Fall.
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Sorry, it won't let me roate it 90°
The Crystal Method- Legion Of Boom.
@DezB - I haven’t heard her new album yet, but the last ones she recorded are pretty operatic, she’s recently come out and the change in her writing style may well be connected. She was getting more involved with movie-making along with her husband as well, so she's been away from songwriting for thirteen years. I saw her in London doing a solo show not long ago, it was ok, but I’d like to hear her new material with a band.
Certainly the new album’s been getting pretty good reviews, several have said it’s better than the last two, but I’ll reserve judgment.
I think she hit her peak with ‘Life Is Sweet’, though I wish I’d got to see Lone Justice at their best.
I compacted my CD collection by chucking the cases unless they valuable CDs and putting them into CD filling bags. Still buy CDs now mainly from the charity shops.love them
Local Pound shop has quite a big CD sale rack, I was surprised to see some decent stuff in there.
Can't remember how much they were though 😉
Recently given Forever Changes by love a run, and last night I rediscovered Loss by Mull Historical Society....love them both!
Diamond Dogs by David Bowie, not a cd but the album played on another deck I just picked up Rotel RP- 830
As a result of reading this thread, I had a look through the cupboard and chose Marquee Moon by Television 👍
Still love a CD. Van doesnt have MP3 shiz anyway...Rediscovered Fugees, The Score recently still love it 20 years later
Well my first delivery arrived:mint copy still with insert books. 4 quid delivered from UK to Aus!
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Got rid of hundreds of cds after ripping them to mp3. Still found a couple when I was prepared to move back to Weymouth full time.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Dan Reed Network.
I still like CDs for some reason, heard Dirge off this album somewhere the otherday which made me go and dig it out.