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Hey.
Recently (a couple months back), I bought two CDs from Madacy's "Rock On" series and I decided to look at the others in the series to see if I wanted any of them. Well, it turned out that Madacy actually had two series of "Rock On". The ones I had were from the earlier of the two sets. So I had not only to figure out which version was which, but to find sites that listed all the tracks on the CDs.
What I learned about my taste in pop music:
1) Not to bother with 1974 or earlier. Yes, those songs were practically my nursery rhymes--but they're all painful to listen to now.
2) Pop stopped being "about me" around 1992 or 1993. Sure, there were good songs after then, but not enough of them--or they didn't become big enough hits to make it to compilation sets.
3) I already had several tracks from "Rock On" via other CDs.
4) I'm a bigger Paul Carrack fan than I realized. Put a CD together of the best stuff from his Ace, Mike & The Mechanics (minus "The Living Years") and solo career and I'll buy it!
I examined 44 CDs covering two and a half decades of music...and of these 44 there are seven or eight I'd think I'd want to have. And so, I made notes to myself to keep them all straight for when I go shopping.
FP
Recently (a couple months back), I bought two CDs from Madacy's "Rock On" series and I decided to look at the others in the series to see if I wanted any of them. Well, it turned out that Madacy actually had two series of "Rock On". The ones I had were from the earlier of the two sets. So I had not only to figure out which version was which, but to find sites that listed all the tracks on the CDs.
What I learned about my taste in pop music:
1) Not to bother with 1974 or earlier. Yes, those songs were practically my nursery rhymes--but they're all painful to listen to now.
2) Pop stopped being "about me" around 1992 or 1993. Sure, there were good songs after then, but not enough of them--or they didn't become big enough hits to make it to compilation sets.
3) I already had several tracks from "Rock On" via other CDs.
4) I'm a bigger Paul Carrack fan than I realized. Put a CD together of the best stuff from his Ace, Mike & The Mechanics (minus "The Living Years") and solo career and I'll buy it!
I examined 44 CDs covering two and a half decades of music...and of these 44 there are seven or eight I'd think I'd want to have. And so, I made notes to myself to keep them all straight for when I go shopping.
FP
