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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4703 Registered: 05-2005 |
There are three sampler albums I have loved, and still love. Oddly though, they didn't lead to me buying a whole lot of records by the bands included. I enjoyed them for what they were, cheap samplers in the first two cases and a full-priced snapshot of a scene compilation in the third. Deafening Divinities With Aural Affinities - The Beggars Banquet Collection. Love And Rockets, Main, Sun Dial, Mercury Rev etc. There was a US compilation of the same name but with a very different track listing and six extra songs. Head Your Mind...A Dreamtime Sampler. It was an industrial/dance compilation featuring the likes of Ship Of Fools, Drug Free America and Tekton Motor Corp. I don't think I've ever even come across a single band on it outside of this release. Hot Wired Monstertrux. A collection of far more popular industrial bands such as Nine Inch Nails, Ministry, Meat Beat Manifesto etc. I got all of these on cassette around 1993. I've been fortunate to find all of them on CD in recent years, most recently getting Head Your Mind... for 1 penny (plus about four pounds in postage!). What compilations have helped define your listening to some degree? I'm asking in part for ideas about other genres. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1896 Registered: 10-2008 |
Back in the day the Virgin reggae sampler. http://www.reggaeid.co.uk/artists.php?al bum=000205&artist=compilations&PHPSESSID =5761ce040 Pillows and Prayers http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?releas e=180880 | ||
| C Gull Member Username: C_gull Post Number: 193 Registered: 05-2005 |
Ahh - Pillows and Prayers - now that brings back some memories - that Joe Crow song was great - who was he? did he do anything else? | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 2461 Registered: 10-2004 |
Pillows and Prayers is the sampler album of sampler albums! What an amazing compilation that is! That album single-handedly got me into Monochrome Set, Five or Six, Thomas Leer, and the pre-EBTG solo work of Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt. I also quite like El - the Ruling Class. El comps are a dime a dozen, but this one really sums up well what the label was all about, and definitely led to some cool discoveries, like Anthony Adverse and the Would-Be-Goods. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 488 Registered: 05-2005 |
And Felt + the Kevin Coyne song is great too | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2400 Registered: 01-2005 |
Does Rainy Day count? | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 403 Registered: 03-2007 |
Padraig, Dreamtime and Deaf were sister companies of Peaceville Records which was set up in the U.K. in the late 1980s. Peaceville tended to handle the heavy/doom metal bands while Deaf dealt with the thrash and Dreamtime the electronica, psychedelia, trance, techno and dub side of things. The following is a link to Dreamtime releases. As you will see, the label was not around for long which perhaps explains why you have never come across any of the bands. http://www.discogs.com/label/Dreamtime There is no mention of the Hybryds releasing anything on the label so I am not quite sure why they appear on the sampler. Perhaps the list is not complete. I have albums by a few of the artists ( Ship Of Fools; Hybryds; Tekton Motor Corp.; Drug Free America; Minister Of Noise; Sonic Violence ) and I would say that the tracks on the sampler are fairly representative of the music they recorded albeit the more accessible/commercial songs. Not sure if it is a sampler as such but Labrador 100: A Complete History Of Popular Music ( Four Disc Set ) is a wonderful collection for anyone interested in investigating Swedish music of the last 20 years. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4728 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks Hugh. Other samplers I've loved have been various cassettes which came with Melody Maker and NME. The Dust Brothers Megamix which came with NME just before Christmas 1993 is a phenomenal tape. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 730 Registered: 04-2005 |
I'll vote for the incredibly influential NME/Rough Trade C81 cassette. A wonderful mix (Orange Juice to James Blood Ulmer via Cabaret Voltaire, not forgetting the Massed Carnaby St. John Cooper Clarkes) and I still have my copy somewhere, and the cut-out booklet that went with it. Almost forgot to mention the original and best version of 'The "Sweetest Girl"' by Scritti Politti. Note correct usage of double and single inverted commas in that title. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2987 Registered: 03-2005 |
Waiting for Padraig's response to that . . . . | ||
| peter ward Member Username: Peter_ward Post Number: 176 Registered: 06-2005 |
A later sampler collection to those mentioned above but much loved and played still and bought a lot of future releases by the featured artists: Headz 2 from 1996 http://www.discogs.com/Various-Headz-2A/ release/27256 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4731 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'm very pleased with Andrew's use of commas Randy. He's made terrific progress since the butcher's apostrophe debacle of '08. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 731 Registered: 04-2005 |
I wish you hadn't brought that up Pádraig. I recently achieved closure with my therapist over that issue. It should now remain in the 'topics-never-to-be-again-mentioned', such as the abusive member in the early days of the board and the war of 'Oceans Apart' over-compression. Just remember my Sounds/Stiff freebie album "Can't Start Dancin'" ! You had to collect 6 vouchers from the weekly music paper and you got a real vinyl record featuring the crčme-de-la-crčme of the Stiff roster; Ian Dury, Rachel Sweet, The Rumour, Jona Lewie, Lena Lovich, Mickey Jupp and Wreckless Eric. |