Crispycat Recordings: Munching, viewing, reviewing and compiling...

Friday, October 21, 2005

Munching, viewing, reviewing and compiling...

The usual Indian takeaway tonight (veggie madras for me, steak lovers).

And two episodes of Gene Simmons' "Rock School" - last week's on video and tonight's live.

Earlier on, much entertainment from "Coronation St" which seems to get more comic by the episode...

Took an hour and a half to write up the OOTB review from last night then mailed it to the Committee for issue to the "fan-base".

Then I set about compiling a history of music from 1955 to 2005 for a 4 CD Set to give to John from Imposible Songs tomorrow night - it's his 50th Birthday, which is, of course, a bit special, and he and Ali are having a combined house warming/birthday party as they've just moved too....

I dug out my old back up discs from when the computer got frazzled earlier this year and found my chronological CD listing - which is now a wee bit out of date re recent acquisitions but did the job nonetheless, as I went through my collection year by year, selecting one album to represent each...

I didn't seem to have any from 1955 but found out that three tracks which appeared on Miles Davis' "Round About Midnight" album in 1956 were actually recorded on 26 October 1955 - so that's close enough for Jazz as they say...

Here's a collage of the 51 albums I chose...every 14th cover is the cover of one of the four CDs John will be getting...

Off to bed at 2am...

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