Your Favorite CDs...

[Archie]

I got The Very Best Of Glenn Miller 2 CDs, 48tunes for only a fiver on E Bay

Here is a modern version of In The Mood -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWvSQmg8FSQ

[Dirty Old Yank]

X-Ray Spex "Germ Free Adolescents, Expanded" (2005). So many
excellent songs and outstanding musicianship, a CD well worth looking
for, time not wasted. An extraordinary band, here's their famous 1978 OGWT
performance, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ_slDXkclM (11min 14 sec).
Singer/songwriter Poly Styrene is sorely missed, a fearless and brilliant young woman, genius really.
Edit: It seems there’s a forthcoming documentary about Poly, narrated by her daughter Celeste...
“Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliche". Scheduled release fall 2018, definitely something to look for .

Here's the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXVEEwBEDcY .

[Dirty Old Yank]

Some more choice selections, all great fun ...
"Strategies Against Architecture" (Einstürzende Neubauten, 1984)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkuLUUd-gsY.
"Songs for Swinging Larvae" (Renaldo and the Loaf, 1981).
"Studies For Player Piano Vol I & II" (Conlon Nancarrow).*
"Stand Strong Stand Proud" (Vice Squad, EMI, 1982).
"When I Was A Young Girl" (Barbara Dane, 1962).
"Quintessence" (La Bamboche, Hexagon, 1978)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ywetAIQ9X4.
“Greener Postures” (Snakefinger, Ralph, 1980).
"The End of the Universe" (Lewis Black, 2002).
"Lumpy Gravy" (Frank Zappa, Verve, 1968).
"Damaged" (Black Flag, 1981)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf7_uU5HU9A.
"American Wino” (The Lewd, 1982).
"Bahia" (Arthur Lyman, HIFI, 1959)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpveNizpvNE.
"Torment” (Zoogz Rift, 1989).
* In the 1980's I was very fortunate to attend a live performance of Nancarrow's
astonishingly complex and startlingly beautiful compositions. His specially modified
player pianos were carefully shipped to the US from Mexico. And for afters, there was an
audience Q & A with composer Conlon! A thoroughly nice chap too, having fought against
Franco's fascists in the Spanish Civil War, he chose to live in Mexico as an expatriate, rather
than be persecuted here for his service as a Veteran with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.
Here's an excellent documentary, "The Life and Work of Conlon Nancarrow" (30 min):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwamzM7fPHw.