21st Century Victrola

An old-school music fan in the new-media frontier

15
Feb 2008
Posted in Mechanics, Sexy 70s by Sherri W. at 9:01 pm | No Comments »

When all was said and done, it took me 410 days to cycle through the CD collection.
Never one to rest on my laurels, I jumped right into the start of the next cycle today. So call February 15th New Year’s Day — at least until the 2009 cycle starts on April 1st or something […]

24
Apr 2007
Posted in Singers, Male, Songwriters by Sherri W. at 6:31 am | No Comments »

Alas, life’s a touch busy for telling stories about music. Instead, here’s the basic list of CDs recently heard.
From the weekend:

#422: Claude Debussy; Les Trois Sonates
#423: Gavin DeGraw; Chariot
#424: Delerium; The Best of…
#425: Des’ree; I Ain’t Movin’
#426: Des’ree; Supernatural
#427: Destiny’s Child; The Writing’s on the Wall
#428: Destiny’s Child; Survivor
#429: Destiny’s Child; Destiny Fulfilled

And from […]

19
Apr 2007
Posted in Singers, Male, Songwriters by Sherri W. at 8:16 pm | No Comments »

First, a little more catching up.
Tuesday, April 17:

#405: Alana Davis; Blame it On Me
#406: Southern Culture on the Skids; Dirt Track Date
#407: soundtrack; Zero Patience
#408: soundtrack; Xena: The Bitter Suite
#409: soundtrack; Working Girl
#410: soundtrack; The Wizard of Oz
#411: Miles Davis; Kind of Blue

Wednesday, April 18th:

#412: Death Cab for Cutie; Transatlanticism
#413: Chris de Burgh; Far Beyond […]

17
Apr 2007
Posted in The Story Behind the Songs by Sherri W. at 10:42 pm | No Comments »

I’ve been working a few too many weekend days and weekday nights in a row, so I’m gonna have to catch up in dribs and drabs. First, a few days’ listening tally.
Saturday, April 14th:

#396: VH-1 compilation; Crossroads
#397: Sheryl Crow; Tuesday Night Music Club
#398: Sheryl Crow; [eponymous]
#399: Jaimie Cullum; Twentysomething

Sunday, April 15th:

#400: Jaimie Cullum; Catching […]

14
Apr 2007

First, the music lists.
For Thursday, April 12th:

#386: K-Tel Compilation; Today’s Number One Country (1994)
#387: The Cranberries; Everybody Else is Doing It, So Why Don’t We?
#388: The Cranberries; No Need to Argue
#389: The Cranberries; To the Faithful Departed
#390: The Cranberries; Bury the Hatchet
#391: Regina Spektor; Begin to Hope

And Friday, April 13th:

#392: Britney Spears; In the Zone
#393: […]

11
Apr 2007
Posted in Singers, Male, Singers, Female by Sherri W. at 11:01 pm | No Comments »

No, not “the King”: the Elvis whose last name begins with a C.

#382: Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach; Painted from Memory
#383: Elvis Costello & Anne Sofie von Otter; For the Stars
#384: Elvis Costello; When I was Cruel
#385: K-Tel Compilation; Today’s Hit Country (1993)

I came to Costello late in the game and in a backwards fashion, […]

10
Apr 2007
Posted in Mechanics by Sherri W. at 6:16 am | 1 Comment »

Okay, last year’s attempt to complete the CD Crawl wasn’t successful. And when I started up again on January 1st, I decided to start at Z and move backwards through the alphabet.
And then I rethunk that approach. It solved an immediate problem: the 93 CDs I didn’t hear in 2006 would be given prompt […]

6
Apr 2007

I’m an old-fashioned kind of girl. I still enjoy the album format, I still listen to music on CDs, I still purchase CDs. And the ridiculous size of my CD collection bears the brunt of that—1452 discs as of last count (administered December 31st, 2006).
With that stupid-huge a collection, you might bet that […]