The Music Will Never Stop 34

“Various Artists #3” is done.

That’s all the music I had on cassette. All of it. Wow.

What I find interesting is that these three tapes, Various Artists #1, 2, and 3, were all compiled by the same guy in the last few months of 1992, yet they’re very different.

For one thing, on #3 I did not recognize the name of a single band. Some of them are sufficiently obscure they don’t even have stubs on Wikipedia. I thought I recognized some song titles (e.g., “All Together Now”), but in every case it was a different song with the same title.

Twenty-four songs by twenty-four artists and I never heard any of the songs, never heard of any of the performers. They’re from the U.S., England, Scotland, Australia, New Zealand; some had a brief existence, maybe a year or two, while others lasted thirty years or more. Some were commercial disasters; one, according to Wikipedia, sold over 15 million albums back in the ’80s (though they were never big in the States). The only thing they have in common is that I never heard of them. Blue Train, Material Issue, the Stabilizers…

I should maybe mention that the guy who sent them used to work in a record shop.

Most of this music is pretty good, but none of it really grabs me. Of the three collections, I liked #2 the best, by a fairly wide margin.

Anyway, it’s done, and now I have the twelve spoken-word tapes left to do.

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