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Ramona_A_Stone · 13-03-02, 10:26 PM

I was never able to find but a couple of songs from the Jimmy Spheeris album Isle of View, and those were very poor recordings from vinyl, which seemed a bit odd to me after I walked into a used record shop and found it on CD about 6 months ago.

Let's see... I could never find the whole Cabaret Voltaire album Arm of The Lord either.

Oh yeah, and there were literally about 20 albums, most notably the Self-Portrait series, by German pioneer synthesist Hans Joachim Roedelius that I never saw hide nor hair of. Also the album Material by Connie Plank and Moebius.

Ohhh, and In a Land of Clear Colours by Eno and Robert Sheckley, which I know for a fact was a very limited edition LP--(I used to have a pirate tape copy)--nary a trace. There were also ten albums in the "Obscure Records" series, produced by Brian Eno--I was able to find four of them: Gavin Bryars, The sinking of The Titanic, Harold Budd, The Pavilion of Dreams, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Music from The Penguin Cafe, and of course Eno's own Discreet Music. I've since actually purchased all of the above on CD, but of the other 6--no trace. There was also a track from Byrne and Eno's My Life in the Bush of Ghosts called Qu'ran, which was omitted from the CD release, that I never found.

Yellow Magic Orchestra, the album BGM. WHERE IS IT? TELL ME!!!

Curiously I never found Snakefinger - Greener Postures in its entirety either, even though I recently purchased it from Amazon.com.

Also curiously, I never found so much as a cell of Bill Nelson's On a Blue Wing--anywhere, including Amazon. I assume it was never printed to CD.

Also, I hate Robert Fripp for remixing Exposure. The original only existed on vinyl, and in my opinion was far superior--if only because it matched my memory and the remix seemed alien. I downloaded a track from everyone I ever encountered who had it, but alas, the original was not to be found.

I also found all of the tracks from what I knew as David Bowie's Images 66-67 (yes, those are years) but many of them were disappointingly not the same versions I knew back when I hunted Brontosauruses on the veldt.

I searched high and low for the album Music and Rhythm which was a double album compilation that featured some great stuff, including the original version of Peter Gabriel's Across the River, which I did find, but all the other tracks were lost in the void.

Also a delightful little album called Miniatures which was comprised of about 60 different tracks ranging from 30 seconds to about a minute and a half by all kinds of crazy celebrities, many non-musicians, which was alternately absolutely hysterical and fascinating. There is a "Volume Two" of Miniatures available at Amazon, but no trace of the original was ever found.

There were others too... I used to have a big o' list. Sigh... Now you can see why I was a card-carrying obsessive/compulsive Napster addict. I searched for all this shit nearly every day... until I had the famous nervous breakdown. But, I must say that I haven't looked for any of this stuff in a long time--but post-Napster, finding it just seemed to get less and less likely, which is why I still don't even have a file sharing app installed.

I'm depressed now, I better ring for the nurse.

13-03-02, 10:26 PM	#2
Ramona_A_Stone Formal Ball Proof Join Date: May 2000 Posts: 2,948	I was never able to find but a couple of songs from the Jimmy Spheeris album Isle of View, and those were very poor recordings from vinyl, which seemed a bit odd to me after I walked into a used record shop and found it on CD about 6 months ago. Let's see... I could never find the whole Cabaret Voltaire album Arm of The Lord either. Oh yeah, and there were literally about 20 albums, most notably the Self-Portrait series, by German pioneer synthesist Hans Joachim Roedelius that I never saw hide nor hair of. Also the album Material by Connie Plank and Moebius. Ohhh, and In a Land of Clear Colours by Eno and Robert Sheckley, which I know for a fact was a very limited edition LP--(I used to have a pirate tape copy)--nary a trace. There were also ten albums in the "Obscure Records" series, produced by Brian Eno--I was able to find four of them: Gavin Bryars, The sinking of The Titanic, Harold Budd, The Pavilion of Dreams, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Music from The Penguin Cafe, and of course Eno's own Discreet Music. I've since actually purchased all of the above on CD, but of the other 6--no trace. There was also a track from Byrne and Eno's My Life in the Bush of Ghosts called Qu'ran, which was omitted from the CD release, that I never found. Yellow Magic Orchestra, the album BGM. WHERE IS IT? TELL ME!!! Curiously I never found Snakefinger - Greener Postures in its entirety either, even though I recently purchased it from Amazon.com. Also curiously, I never found so much as a cell of Bill Nelson's On a Blue Wing--anywhere, including Amazon. I assume it was never printed to CD. Also, I hate Robert Fripp for remixing Exposure. The original only existed on vinyl, and in my opinion was far superior--if only because it matched my memory and the remix seemed alien. I downloaded a track from everyone I ever encountered who had it, but alas, the original was not to be found. I also found all of the tracks from what I knew as David Bowie's Images 66-67 (yes, those are years) but many of them were disappointingly not the same versions I knew back when I hunted Brontosauruses on the veldt. I searched high and low for the album Music and Rhythm which was a double album compilation that featured some great stuff, including the original version of Peter Gabriel's Across the River, which I did find, but all the other tracks were lost in the void. Also a delightful little album called Miniatures which was comprised of about 60 different tracks ranging from 30 seconds to about a minute and a half by all kinds of crazy celebrities, many non-musicians, which was alternately absolutely hysterical and fascinating. There is a "Volume Two" of Miniatures available at Amazon, but no trace of the original was ever found. There were others too... I used to have a big o' list. Sigh... Now you can see why I was a card-carrying obsessive/compulsive Napster addict. I searched for all this shit nearly every day... until I had the famous nervous breakdown. But, I must say that I haven't looked for any of this stuff in a long time--but post-Napster, finding it just seemed to get less and less likely, which is why I still don't even have a file sharing app installed. I'm depressed now, I better ring for the nurse.