Why DID I buy that CD?

[Quarky]

I have bought a great many CDs over the past few years, and I don't regret buying any of them - even if were just a single listen and then discarding them.

Save one - a CD by musicologist Deryck Cooke "explaining" leitmotifs in Wagner's operas. Totally dull, boring and completely unhelpful.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Yesterday, a £4 compilation of Courtney Pines early stuff...from sub Trane to sub Kenny G....

I could of bought another pint of organic Welsh cider for that with more er, head!

BN.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

...and he [Pine] was on Later last Friday; two tracks live and you can get to like it ... probably the same with organic Welsh cider

George Shearing & Nancy Wilson The Swinging is Mutual is my current regret

[Serial_Apologist]

An Abdullah Ibrahim Trio CD, pedestrian, believe it or not, whose title I noted not down before submitted it to the offering for sale at my local gig to help pay for the joanna hire.

[Ian Thumwood]

I would nominate quite a few "dodgy" CDs:-

1. Courtney Pine ~ "Journey to the urge within" . I saw Courtney with George Russell in September 1985 in a gig in Southampton and was hugely impressed. At the time, he started to review a lot of media attention and I snapped up his debut LP. I was hugely disappointed by it.

2. Lionel Hampton big band @ Carnegie Hall ~ I half expected a repetition of Benny Goodman's success at this venue when I bought this as a teenager. Instead, it was poorly recorded and featured a ragged ensemble whose charm diminished with successive listens.

3. Norah Jones ~ "Come with me,." Although I would have to say that "Wish I knew" is a great tune , the rest of the record is pretty mediocre with the likes of Bill Frisell and Brian Blade relegated to session musicians. Not my usual taste in music. Bland even if the singer is very easy on the eye!

4. Helen Merrill with Gil Evans and Clifford Brown - Ripped on at £3! 1950's pop music to fall asleep to.