QotD: Rediscovered Music
To follow on from Claire’s iPod Shuffle review (which happens to be the most popular post on this blog, harumph!) what music, if any, have you rediscovered thanks to an iPod and / or the iTunes Music Store?
For me, it would be a toss-up between The Cranberries’ first two albums and Blur’s earlier stuff. I originally had all these on cassette (on what?!) to listen to in the car but they got lost somewhere. I didn’t buy them again because they had Big Life Events attached to them, but years later that’s cool by me. Actually, I was always cool with Blur (apart from their “Country House” moment) so Blur wins that one.
I’m glad I got The Cranberries just to show me that life is so much sweeter than it was back then – and the music is pretty cool too. All’s well that ends well! 
April 11th, 2005 at 6:51 pm
Music is a funny thing and it definitely provides a soundtrack to certain eras in your life. I’ve got so many CDs that I bought, played to death and then never played again. Putting the albums on the iPod brought it all flooding back and I’ve rediscovered my Indie kid roots. Blur, Stone Roses, Frank and Walters, Pulp, Inspiral Carpets – it’s like welcoming old friends who you haven’t seen for years.
And then there are the albums that you think you haven’t played because they remind you too much of (to quote Steve) Big Life Events, finally brace yourself to play them and realise that they are in fact shit and that’s why you stopped listening to them. So if anyone wants a Craig David , Artful Dodger or Robbie Williams CD – you’re welcome to them!
April 11th, 2005 at 6:55 pm
The other thing about iPods is that you suddenly realise how bloody easy it is to thoroughly embarrass yourself by letting your friend ‘browse’ your entire collection, and thus discover you used to enjoy listening to Barry Manilow’s ‘Copacabana’.
April 11th, 2005 at 7:12 pm
My friend Dave said the local MVC will now pay you for your old CDs, so they can sell them second-hand. His son, Matthew, duly took down some of that punk-rock the kids of today listen to and an unwanted Robbie Williams album. They offered him £5 or £6 for the punk rock, but Robbie could only muster something like £1.45. I expect Craig David and Artful Dodger fall into the Robbie category too
As for Barry Manilow – you’re no friend of mine in public!!!
April 11th, 2005 at 10:45 pm
My rediscovered favorite is, ahem… Annie!
It is the original sound track for the film version (with Aileen Queen and Carol Burnett), not the original broadway version. How many times have I listened to it, I can’t even count. I can only say that the construction of all three of my custom-designed LEGO X-Wing Fighters, my first roadtrip around the Europe, my first drive-in-theater experience, and most relatedly, my first embarrassing moment with the in-car broadcasting of my iPod random playlist all were accompanied by this sound track.
To my astonishment, though, it was the very masterpiece track “Dumb Dog” that my 60-something professor started humming along after his endless silence at Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, and all other his days’ music.
April 30th, 2005 at 3:28 pm
Re Steve’s Note of April 11th.
Whilst it is true that my local MVC store were only prepared to offer £1:45 for old, unused Robbie CD’s, they were offering them for resale to the unsuspecting public for the princely sum of £6:50.
This was obviously too much for the music loving public to bear, as the store has now put up the shutters and closed for good.
The people have spoken.
My son, Matthew would like to point out that the Robbie CD wasn’t in fact his, but his mothers.