Box Set Go

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

This is a question for those of you who buy (or yes ACQUIRE) large amounts of music at once - maybe in the form of a box set, or some kind of big "torrent", or something. I'm especially thinking of things like 4CD sets of country songs, or 8CD Disky box sets - anything with a huge number of not-known-to-you tracks.

My question is - how do you deal with them? Do you have a method for working out what the good stuff is? Do you just listen to them as you would single-artist albums? Do you find that the first five tracks get listened to more than the last five? etc etc.

¿Y la bailar, y la cantar?

[mippy.livejournal.com]

Found this while trying to find out whether vegetable oil is indeed a primary ingredient in Sunny Delight (don't ask...):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_hit#1990s

"Summer hits are quite cheerful and upbeat and their main success is due to the catchy rhyme and not the lyrics, which are sometimes repetitive, playful and generally hollow. The music is often criticised for being "forced" on the audience while lacking actual artistic value, talent or deeper meaning."

O RLY? The article, such as it is, refers to 'one-hit wonders' but a lot of these 'artists', well, aren't.

"A track can also be a summer hit solely in one country. In Ireland, the summer of 2000 had the track "Maniac 2000" by Mark McCabe played almost constantly. This led to the track being requested in clubs in Spain by Irish tourists. This might have started the cycle by which it would become a hit across all of Europe, but licensing problems meant that the song was only available commercially in Ireland, and hence the returning clubbers could not purchase it or get it played on the radio."

That'll be why I was the only one in my class to be aware of The Fuckle Song, then.