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    For most of the groups/artists listed, I'd really like to see just
    about their whole discography on CD, but I'm going to limit my list
    to one or two albums per. No particular order, just as they come
    to me. The Beatles are a given, so I won't even bother listing them.    
    
    Fairport Convention: LIEGE AND LIEF
    
    Steeleye Span: A PARCEL OF ROGUES; ROCKET COTTAGE
    
    Caswell Carnahan: both albums
    
    Carnahan & Petrie: their only album
    
    Ivan Rebroff: FOLK SONGS OF OLD RUSSIA, VOLUME 2
    
    Duke Robillard & the Pleasure Kings: both albums
    
    Jane Siberry: JANE SIBERRY
    
    Heart: DREAMBOAT ANNIE; MAGAZINE (either mix)
    
    Led Zepplin: LED ZEPPLIN; LED ZEPPLIN II
    
    Blue Oyster Cult: AGENTS OF FORTUNE; CULTOSAURUS ERECTUS
    
    Intergalactic Touring Band: INTERGALACTIC TOURING BAND
    
    Jefferson Starship/Paul Kantner: BLOWS AGAINST THE EMPIRE; THE
    		PLANET EARTH ROCK AND ROLL ORCHESTRA
    
    Jefferson mumble: FLIGHT LOG
    
    Buffalo Springfield: RETROSPECTIVE
    
    Kate Bush: THE DREAMING
    
    Rickie Lee Jones: GIRL AT HER VOLCANO
    
    Michael Nesmith: FROM A RADIO ENGINE TO A PHOTON WING
    
    The Monkees: PISCES, AQUARIUS, CAPRICORN & JONES, LTD.; THE BIRDS,
    		THE BEES, AND THE MONKEES
    
    Iron Butterfly: IN-A-GADDA-DA-VIDA; METAMORPHOSIS
    
    Renaissance: CAMERA, CAMERA; LIVE AT CARNEGIE HALL
    
    Al Kooper, et alia: KOOPER SESSION; SUPER SESSION
    
    JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR (original album)
    
    CAMELOT (movie soundtrack) [I know about the other two recordings]
    
    THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW (Roxy Theater cast)
    
    Emerson, Lake, & Palmer: BRAIN SALAD SURGERY; TARKUS
    
    Three Dog Night: HARMONY
    
    Rare Earth: ECOLOGY
    
    
    Many more, but I'll let it rest for the nonce.
    
    --- jerry

    Rather than fill up disk space, why not write letters instead?

    
                            *******************
                            *   The Beatles   *
                            *******************

    Joe Sample's Rainbow and Cameron (or something like that)
    
    

    Anything from the group Rennaisance (especially Prologue and
    Scheherezade).
    
    The LPs are of such low quality vinyl, I hope the CD version would
    be a great improvement.
    
    Roger

    In order of thinking of them:
    
    1)	Everything by the Beatles.
    
    2)	Old Manhattan Transfer, esp. the album with "Cuentame (Speak-up
    	Mambo)" on it.
    
    3)	Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody #2, the piano arrangement. (I can't
    	believe this isn't out yet.)
    
    4)	Everything by Xavier Cugat
    
    5)	Everything by Edmundo Ros (esp. "Rhythms of the South")
    
    6)	vintage Frank Sinatra
    
    7)	Everything by "The Roches"
    
    I'm sure I'll think of more later

I'd like to see:

Grateful Dead - Live Dead (it would be great to hear Dark Star->St. Steven-
	the Eleven->Turn on Your Love Light without flipping records!)
	American Beauty, Europe '72, Workingman's Dead

Dylan - BLONDE ON BLONDE (!!!), Bringing it All Back Home, John Wesley Harding
	The complete Royal Albert Hall '66 concert
	more outtakes/bootlegged songs every Dylan freak already has, 
	like "She's Your Lover Now"

The Band - Music From Big Pink, the second (brown) album

Stones - Sticky Fingers, Exile on Main Street

Allman Bros. - Live at the Fillmore

Bob Marley - Uprising (one of his greatest albums)

	Josh "stuck in the sixties" Belkin

    re: .1
    
    Blue Oyster Cult : Agents of Fortune is available on disk. I've
    recently seen it at Newbury Comics.
    
    /Russ

    I'd like to see:
    
    U.K. - "In the Dead of Night", "Danger Money", Night After Night"
    
    John Wetton - "caught in the Crossfire"
    
    Buggles - "Age of Plastic"
    
    Ultravox - "Systems of Romance"
    
    Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Works Volume 1 
    
    Return to Forever - "Romantic Warrior"
    
    Tom Scott and the L.A. Express - "Tom Cat"
    
    Family - "AnyWay" ( People might think I'm soft, but I liked 'em)
    
    Jeff
    

    Even though I consider this to be a fruitless waste of time, unless
    somebody mails copies to record companies, I'd like to see:
    
    John McLaughlin's albums on CD, especially the first two Shakti
    LPs which are unusually good sounding for CBS.  Other favorites
    are My Goals Beyond (on Douglas) which sounds good, and some of
    the lousy sounding, compressed, and processed Mahavishnu Orchestra
    recordings.
    
    Alas, it will never happen.  McLaughlin is now on Warner Bros. and
    was never a big seller.  The Shakti records are especially hopeless
    because they are even less "accessible" being Indian in flavor.
    
    RE:.-1  I think I've seen RTF Romantic Warrior, possibly at Newbury
    Comics in Harv. Sq.

    Oh, and I'd also like to get a CD of "TV's Greatest Hits," just
    so I could instantly find/play any track in this collection.

  RE: .11 -

   Mahavishnu Orchestra's Birds of Fire is now available. Despite the hiss
   (particularly obvious between the opening gongs in the title track), it
   makes my other copy sound like a 12 year old record! (Which it is, of
   course.)

   - Tom

    re: .13
    
    Thanks!  I'll look for it.  Not one of my favorites though.  It
    exemplifies compressed, processed CBS sound.

	I'll agree with several of those mentioned, and add yet a couple
	more:
	
	A recording of Copland's Piano Variations.
	
	Old acoustic blues (Robert Johnson, Mississippi John Hurt,
	etc.).
	
	Jerry, I could be wrong but I think Dreamboat Annie is on CD.
	
	Mike

    The rest of Steely Dan.  Oh please bog!
    
    The rest of Cat Stevens.
    
    Any Steve Khan.
    
    Any Frank Zappa.  (Yes, I know that they're on their way, but I
    grow impatient.)
    
    And I too have to admit that I'm waiting for early Chicago.  (Digital
    Audio listed the "Chicago Transit Authority" as being availible
    but I sure as hell haven't seen it.  Anyone out there have/seen
    it?)
    
    Bring on "The Royal Scam",
    Gary

    As I noted earlier, the Steely Dan wish is answered.  I've seen
    them at Strawberries.
    
    Yes's early albums (Tales from Topographic Oceans, Relayer)
    Rush's early albums (only four out of 12+!)
    Time Out, by the original Dave Brubeck Quartet
    
    Bernstein and the Philharmonic doing The Planets
    A collection of Strauss waltzes I have on cassette
    
    Welcome Back my Friends, to the Show that Never Ends, and ELP in
    general
    
    Dave W.

    re:.9
    
    Hmmm... I was in Newbury Comics (Harvard Sq.) and they didn't have
    one.
    
    re:.16
    
    Nope. LITTLE QUEEN is on CD, but not DREAMBOAT ANNIE.
    
    
    I thought of a couple more I'd like to see:
    
    Procol Harum: LIVE WITH THE EDMONTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
    
    The Nails: MOOD SWING
    
    --- jerry

    I've yet to see anyone mention a desire for Traffic on CDs, so I
    will.  Especially "Low Spark of High Heeled Boys", "Shootout at
    the Fantasy Factory", and "When the Eagle Flies".
    
    - John -

    "Close to the Edge", Yes.   (Suprised noone has mentioned that one)
    
    "Eldorado", Electric Light Orchestra.
    
    - M

    A disc I just picked up yesterday (and haven't listened to yet)
    reminded me of another I'd like to see: Paul Horn in the Taj
    Mahal (the one I picked up was him playing in the Great Pyramids).
    
    --- jerry

    
    Just recently a company in Southern Cal released a 16 album set
    of Digitally remastered oldies - with titles like Rockin 50's/ Rockin
    60's/Lovin 60's/Dance 60's, etc. Would like to see these on disc.
    The albums are great...and so clean I didn't recognize Gladys Knight
    and the Pips "Every beat of my heart" as being the original. Within
    the 60's portion of the set (12 of the lp's) are at least 2 obscure
    cuts on each, i.e., "Little Green Bag", etc. For those of you that
    still buy an occasional LP, I recommend them highly in case they
    never show up on disc.
    
    Digital Audio is doing an article next month on oldie set available
    and how good/bad they sound. Understand the 3 disc set currently
    available is the pits - anyone heard them or anything about them
    ??
    
    
    			Stuck in the 50's too
    
    			   "The Cruiser"
    
    

	Red Rider's "As Far As Siam"
	
	Anything by Jim Croce

       Re: .15  The Pogues - Rum Sodomy & the Lash is now out.
    You can get it at Newbury Comics (Framingham, MA).  It's a
    French made Stiff import.

    OLD Pink Floyd (like Relics, Ummagumma, and Atom Heart Mother)
    	
    I'll second Warren Zevon, too.

    BEATLES !!!!!!!!!!!
    
    What's the scoop. Why no Beatles CD's.....

    No Beatles
    
    If you remember from last year, there was a bidding war for the
    rights to all of the Beatles music.  The war came down to two
    people, Paul McCartney (you know him) and Michael Jackson (you know
    him too).  Well Michael won.  He now has complete control of all
    Beatles music on records, tapes and CDs.  In fact no new pressings
    are being made of the current records.
    
    No one knows what his plan is, but expect him to go for the bucks.
    
    Notice, that you have not heard of any more Paul and Michael duets.
    To say the least they are not friends anymore.
    
                                     Rocky
    

    
    
             I never did like Michael Jackson.....
    
    That must stink for McCartney, to not even have control of his own
    
    songs...

    How did all this happen?  I thought McCartney had been buying up
    Beatles rights for years.  Did he sell them to MJ?

    I'm not sure, but I believe Michael Jackson owns the publishing
    rights to the Beatles' music, but does NOT own the recordings. It
    could be the other way around, but I'm fairly certain that the
    recordings do not belong to the same owner(s) as the music.
    
    Can anyone verify this?

    I thought Lord Lew Grade, British media mogul, bought up a lot of
    the rights to Lennon and McCartney's songs for some truly colossal
    sum of money ($30 million +) and then turned around and sold the
    rights to MJ....
    
    Dave W.

    Geez, does false rumor fly around like crazy!
    
    There was a bidding war many moons ago for the publishing rights
    to the Beatles catalog. McCartney was one of the bidders if I'm
    not mistaken; MJ was another. MJ won. It's that simple. What it
    means is that whenever someone records a Beatles tune or uses it
    in a commercial or whatever, MJ gets the royalties.
    
    Now, for the recording part. Capitol has stopped production on
    the entire catalog of Beatles albums. As soon as the current stock
    runs out, they will reissue them, but instead of the American run
    of albums that we've been used to for the past 25 years, the new
    issues will be the same as the British releases. The basic difference
    is that the American versions of some of the albums have less songs
    on them than the corresponding British versions, and there are extra
    American albums to pick up the orphaned songs. Many of the American
    versions were also re-mixed by Phil Spector. The new, British-equiv-
    alent issues will be the original George Martin mixes.
    
    When the new issues are released on vinyl (should be sometime this
    year), Capitol will also start issuing the albums on CD.
    
    --- jerry

    Shoulda known the cam, rational voice of the Mad Armenian would
    be the one to settle the dust on this...
    
    Guess we'll just have to wait.
    
    DFW

    The American Beatles releases were NOT remixed by Phil Spector,
    but Capitol did add echo and dumb stuff to them. The albums in question
    usually say "Prepared for American release by ..(insert dumbo's
    name)".

    The problem with the British releases is that the Beatles often
    did not include their singles (and the respective B-sides).
    
    	- Rick
    

    Anybody know where I can find "In the Tyroll" it's a orchestrated
    piece on the "Help" album. I forget the composers name.
    I want to get a c.d. of an orchestra, I want that song on it.
    
    Thanks in advance.
    
    Mike

	Television's Marquee Moon.

	I found a couple of things I wanted to see on CD at BCD this
	weekend:
	
	re .16: Piano Variations is on "Aaron Copland: Music for Piano"
	on Pro Arte performed by James Tocco - not the greatest
	performance, but good sound.
	
	re .26: Jim Croce's "Photographs and Memories: His Greatest
	Hits" is available on 21 Records.
	
	Mike

    The Beatles - Of course...
    
    Genesis - "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway", "Foxtrot" ( I think its
    	avilable, but I haven't seen it).
    
    Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Everything but "Love Beach".
    
    Yes - Everything.
    
    Steve Miller Band - "Fly like an Eagle".
    
    Post ELP, Keith Emerson - "Honky" and "Inferno" Soundtrack (wonderful
    	Halloween Music)
    
    Renaissance - "Scheherazade and other stories" and "azure d'or".
    
    Cole Porter & George Shearing - I don't recall the title, but the
    	record number was: Mobile Fidelity MFSL 1-081.
    
    Rick Wakeman - "Journey to the Center of the Earth" and "Myths and
    	Ledgends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table".

    Moody Blues - Whatever isn't available now...
    
    Jethro Tull - A GOOD "Aqualung".
    
    Kansas - The Albums from which the "Best of..." were taken.
    
    The Alan Parsons Project - "Tales of Mystery and Imagination".
    
    Queen - A Night at the Opera.
    
    					Alan Rollow, CSC/CS
    
    p.s.  The Classical list will appear later...
    
    ELO - A New World Record

    By the way, I finally found one of *my* wants --- AGENTS OF FORTUNE
    showed up at BCD.
    
    --- jerry

    re :41
    
    I have FOXTROT By Genesis, also Nursery Crime, Trespass, Selling
    England by the Pound. Selling England, I always thought was the
    best Genesis has ever done, and the CD came out real nice. I am
    very pleased.
    
    Jeff
    
    BTW-- The lamb lies down would be nice!
    

    continued from .41
    
    Stowkowski's Bach transcriptions - RCA AGL1-3656
    Brahms, Hungarian Dances for 4 hands - Philips 6514.107
    Britten conducting his, "Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra",
    	London CS 6671
    Rachmaninoff - "Caprice Bohemien", Philips 6500.362
    Rachmaninoff - Corelli Variations - DG 3301.376
    Rachmaninoff - Symphonic Dance for two pianos, DG 410.894 (also
    	has the Nutcracker Suite for two pianos)
    William Russo - Street Music, Blues Concerto for Piano, Harmonica
    	and Orchestra - DG 2530.788
    Verdi - A digital recording of the Requiem (Robert Shaw and Atlanta
    	recorded by Telarc would have good potential.)
    
    Fantasia - The original Stowkowski would probably be a miracle...
    
    					Alan
    

    re: .41
    
    I found 'Leftoverture' by Kansas at Newbury Comics.

    Re:  .45
    
    Digital Verdi Requiem would certainly be nice.
    
    I'm pleased with the Solti on RCA, Price and Baker as female soloists
    (don't remember the males), very decent sound with (of course) some
    audible tape hiss.
    
    The impact of the oversized kettle drum near the beginning of the
    Dies Irae is an EXCELLENT way to show people why you like your CD
    player.
    
    I have to admit, my enjoyment of this performance may have something
    to do with the new people at Lechmere/Nashua inadvertently marking
    it with the single-disc price ;^) ...
    
    dq

    Vaughan William's Symphony Antartica. My sister had a vinyl copy, but
    it has so many quiet passages that it was hard to hear over the record
    noise. It would be a perfect candidate ,if done properly, because
    of the silence of the CD disk.

    Re .49:
        I've seen at least one Vaughan Williams CD in the stores, though
    I think it was actually one Williams work (Fantasia on something)
    plus a couple of other unrelated tracks.
    					Steve

        re .47 (Verdi's _Requiem_):
        
        I have a DDD Deutsche Grammophon disc of this, by Herbert
        Von Karajan and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.  I can't
        comment on its quality, as I've only played it once or
        twice and I'm not familiar with the music itself (my wife
        is; she sang it last winter).
        
        Lechmere (Nashua, new mall) had three of them on the floor
        as of Sunday afternoon, for less than $27 (they have a
        20% off all CDs this week).
        

    re :43
    
    I picked up `The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway' at Boston Compact Disc
    Saturday.  The guy there said it had been out for about 1 1/2 months,
    though I had never seen it before.  Steep price tag ($38+), but
    well worth it, considering the dynamic range of the album.  (I still
    keep having to turn it down a bit in places, before our neighbors
    call the police...)
    
    It seems that all that's missing now is `Wind & Wuthering' and `From
    Genesis to Revelation' (or pick your favorite differently named
    re-release).
    
    Something else I'd like to see on CD('s):  a lower price.
    
    Richard
    

    Mike Oldfield. Incantations.  On ONE cd
    
    nick
    

    Re .53
    
    Yesss, yesss, yesss!   I, and a good friend of mine, would pay large
    sums of money for "Incantations".  On any number of CD's.
    
    Still trying to find a copy of "Hergest Ridge",
    Gary

    Anyone seen any of these guys' albums on CD yet?
    
    Richard

    And anything by Utopia.
    
    And Rundgren's `Something/Anything' and `...tortured artist...'
    (boy, I *must* be tired...I can't remember the title...).
    
    Richard
    
    (p.s. If someone has `Trivia', could they please post a review.
    Thanks!)

    
    Rod Stewards  Footloose & Fancy Free (Two cuts on the album 
    make the album a classic .. "You keep me hanging on" and "If loving
    you is wrong".)
    
    Bob Segar's (ya I can't spell) Night Moves
   
    ZZ TOP ( the one with "Fool for your stockings" & "Im bad Im nationwide")

        

    
    

    The ZZ Top disc in question is DeGuello. And  its been out since
    Christmas. Keep your eyes peeled!
    

    re:.55
    
    There is at least one Marillion CD --- FUGAZI.
    
    --- jerry

    re. 57
    	Bob Seger's NIGHT MOVES is out. I have had it for a month and
    a half. Alot of his stuff is showing up now. keep your i's open.
    JC

RE: .53, .54

I have a copy of Hergest Ridge on order, and have also seen one at Newbury
Comics in Framingham. I got a copy of Exposed there as well, which has a
live version of Incantations as well as Tubular Bells and Guilty. All
played with a 50 piece orchestra. In fact, all of Incantations is on
one disc. Exposed is a two disc set. Newbury comics has a lot of Mike
Oldfield stuff, I got a copy of The Complete Mike Oldfield there which
is a compilation from all his albums. Its excellant!

	I have "Virtuoso" (Japanese import on Pablo), does anyone know
	if #3 is available? I just ordered the sheet music to it, it'd
	be nice to hear the right way to play it:-).
	
	Mike

    Anything by the Pousette Dart Band.
    
    Glenn

    re .59
    
    Haven't seen Fugazi, but Misplaced Childhood was at BCD.  It's DDD,
    too.
    
    Richard

    Badfingers   STRAIGHT UP

	PDQ Bach!  :-)

	The Roches.  (I'm not holding my breath...)

	Steeleye Span.

	"Jesus Christ Superstar" (the movie soundtrack)

	"Godspell" (the Broadway soundtrack)
	
	"Man of La Mancha" (ditto)

	More Gilbert and Sullivan! (have seen "The Pirates of Penzance,"
	D'Oyly Carte version; would also like to see the Joseph Papp version)

	Up until last week, I'd been meaning to say Paul Winter's
	"Common Ground," but I found it at Lechmere, to my joy.

							-- Nina

        Didn't someone say Jeff Wayne's _War of the Worlds_ in
        this note?  I saw it at Lechmere, I believe it was...

    
    
    Steely Dan's Greatist Hits,or The Best Of SD,not sure what it's
    called,but it's a double album.
    
    Doobie Brothers  Living On The Fault Line.

    
    
    nearly forgot
    
    
    Yes    Tormato
    Ashra  all of them

    Re/ .66:
    
    	The London cast recording of "Jesus Christ Superstar" is available
    	on CD.  I've seen it at BCD and the Harvard COOP.  Personally,
    	I'd like to see the original recording with Ian Gillam, Murray
    	Head, Yvonne Elliman, etc.
    
    	I second your vote for any and all Roches.  They are on Philip
    	Glass' "Songs of Liquid Days", but that doesn't count.
    
    	The D'Oyly Carte recording of "The Mikado" is available on DECCA,
    	and you should be able to find it someplace where there's a
    	good classical selection.  Electric Gramophone had some copies
    	a couple of weeks ago.  Also, "The Gondoliers" is listed in
    	the Gramophone CD Catalog, but I don't know if it's available
    	yet.  Gramophone magazine also reviews a recent re-release of
    	"The Grand Duke" on a double LP, but no CD version is mentioned.
    
    

	re .67: War of the Worlds does exist on CD, just last week I
	borrowed it from another DECie (got to keep your eyes open in
	CDSWAP:-). Very good sound, too...
	
	Mike

    Re: .68
    
    I believe Steely Dan has a greatest hits cd out, however it is not
    the 2 record set that came out a few years back.
    
    _stew-
           

RE .70 -- Thanks for the G&S info.  I just received  a new 
Compact Disc Centre catalogue, but it lists only "Pirates."
Guess CDC should be informed about the others...

As for "Superstar," well, this may be heretical :-), but I
prefer the movie soundtrack over the stage versions...

						-- Nina

    re:.73
    
    "Heretical" ain't the word for it. :-)
    
    --- jerry

    Re: .68 and .72
    
    Note 147 (or was it 174?) has some info on Steely Dan.
    
    Gary

    I'd love to see Jim Steinman's "Bad for Good" on CD.  I wish he'd
    do another album - I'm getting tired of hearing his songs mangled
    by others.
    				Steve

    Re/ .73:
    
    	The original version of JCSS wasn't a stage version ... it was
    	a studio version.  Most of Rice and Webber's work, including 
    	"Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat", "Jesus Christ 
    	Superstar", and "Evita" started out as recordings, and were 
    	produced for stage and screen later.  I much prefer the studio 
    	version of JCSS to any cast/soundtrack recording I've heard.

    let's not forget that "Chess" (Tim Rice) also ran recording first,
    then stage production.
    	
    I want to see the soundtrack to _Cat People_ on CD.

    re .77:  Right, Peter, that brown-covered two-record set is THE
    JCSS for me.  I never did quite sync up with the Phantom's screaming
    down on JC and his band in the desert.

    Burns

    re:.78
    
    Has CHESS appeared on stage yet?
    
    --- jerry

    Re/ .79:
    
    	I don't know of any CD of the original studio version of JCSS.
    	I'd certainly be interested in knowing about it.
    
    Re/ .80:
    
    	My impression was that "Chess" is a work-in-progress, in both
    	music and production, and that the current recording is essentially
    	a snap-shot of the state it was in at the time.  In other words,
    	the recording did NOT precede the production, but the whole
    	show is evolving together.  This is not unusual.  I believe
    	the recent multi-Tony award winning "The Big River" started
    	as a project at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge.

    re:-2
    
    Yes CHESS is running on the stage in London, with most of the same
    singers/actors as on the record. It is also on CD for those who
    did not know. I have it and I like it.
    
    Svein
    

    
    A complete "Sweeney Todd"...
    
    All I've seen to date is a single CD with the "Highlights".
    

    re:.81
    
    That's what I had thought, and why I was asking. But then, we have
    .82 to consider...
    
    re:.82
    
    Your note wasn't perfectly clear.  Did you mean to say that the
    London stage production was on CD *aside from* the original studio
    recording?  How do the two differ?
    
    --- jerry

    A second for a complete SWEENEY TODD !  How could the producers
    have decided that this could turn into a SWEENEY'S GREATEST HITS?
    
    I'd also like to see a complete NUTCRACKER.  It would be so nice
    to just slap on the CD on Christmas morn.
    
    
    Re: .38
    George Martin not only produced and did the orchestral arrangements
    for the Beatles, he also composed and conducted the music (non-songs)
    for their soundtracks.

    Sorry that I was not clear. What I meant to say was that CHESS is
    running on stage in London, but the CD and other recordings are
    the studio version. The stage version uses a smaller orchestra and
    will if it makes it to record sound quite different ( I have read)
    I have not seen or heard it myself. CHESS was also performed on
    stage as a concert, which was later sendt on TV in at least Europe.
    
    Svein.
    

    re:chess:
    	
    	According to an ex-apartmentmate (who played my CD's repeatedly
    and then FLEW to London for opening night of Chess):
    	
    	They added a couple of songs and changed some of the lyrics
    in the stage version.  She bought the stage libretto; I compared
    it with the CD libretto and it seems like 
    		1) Added a CIA man - the counterpart to the KGB man
    			(Molokov?).  This balanced the staging without
    			altering the plot or theme significantly;
    		2) The Arbiter's role expanded considerably;     
    		3) Four or fice songs changed lyrics, there were two
    		 	new songs- (or rather, songlets.  These songs
    			had expanded significantly, often with a new
    			character coming in to sing something.
    	
    	It looks like the stage version is a "next draft"
    	
    		3

Try the Slatkin Nutcracker Complete -- 2CDs on RCA.

/john

Jean-Michel Jarre gave recently a live show in Houston called "Rendez-vous
Houston". The show was televised last sunday by the BBC and at the end it said 
that the sound track would be available on record. Has anyone heard or seen it 
on CD ?

    The soundtracks to Abel Gance's Napoleon, LadyHawke, and Aliens
    
    Dave W.

    re: .90
    
    I have seen it, but I don't remember where.
    
    					-Dave

    Rendez vous is out on CD, this is a studio version and I dont know
    if it is the same as the sound track for the show in Houston.
    The whole album is dedicated to the crew of Challenger, and as
    the cover says Ron McNair was supposed to have recorded one of
    the track on saxophone in space. It is released on Polydor.
    I have it and like it.
    
    Svein.
    

    re:.94
    
    Well, I have the movie soundtrack of ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW,
    but I'd also like the Roxy Theater (Los Angeles) stage show
    version.
    
    An Ivan Rebroff CD? Ah, bliss! It's not the one I'd *prefer*,
    but beggars can't be choosers. Unfortunately, he's not popular
    (or even known) enough here that anyone would be likely to import
    his CD. Was he really born in Berlin? I thought he was an
    ex-patriate Russian living in Germany.
    
    Many of the other things you list are available here, some had
    become available after the "wish lists" were made. Thanks for
    the information, though.
    
    --- jerry

    
    Re: .95
    
    I've seen an interview with Ivan Rebroff on German TV some years
    ago. He's really born in Berlin. Only some of his ancestors (his
    mother ?? ) came from Russia, so he learnd Russian when he was a
    child. 
    When he later detected that he could sing (and I must admit he really
    can, even if I don't like his music) he started to sing Russian
    folk songs. Perhaps he thought, he'd sell them better with a Russian
    image?
    
    Okay, if you would like to get some more of him on CD we should
    find a way how you could get it. I never did any trades with foreign
    countries. And - remember the prices in Germany for you are high
    at the moment.
    
    	Regards, Stefan

    Re: 52 (Genesis)
    
    Wind & Wuthering is a bit elusive. I've seen one copy, and didn't
    buy it.  "From Genesis to Revelation" is somewhat available as
    (not sure) "From Sweet to the Sour" - available at Newberry Comics
    (along with Foxtrot, Seconds Out, and Selling England by the Pound).
    
    I'm still searching for a TLLDOB copy - which will pretty much round
    off my collection.
    
    - dave

    THE LAMB.... IS AVAILABLE AT ROCKIT RECORDS IN NASHUA FOR $29.99
    

    I would like very much to see Blondies AUTOAMERICAN on disc,
    it's one of my favourite driving records, along with Eagles.
    
    I'm also looking for the NENA CD with '99 Luft Ballons' on it,
    along with beatles stuff, especially 'Love Songs'.
    
    Tony...
    

    I've seen the NENA CD at rockit records in Nashua.
    
    

Why thanks, Jeff.  I'm sure Tony can pop right on over from Brussels.

BTW, I've seen the NENA CD in Germany -- and it was always the one made for
the American market w/ half German and half English songs on it.  99 Red
Balloons / 99 Luftballons is the only duplicated song on the disc.

/john

    Thanks john (.-1) I'm actually 'popping' into Germany tomorrow to
    get some CD's. The NENA disc I want, I actually have on tape, and
    you're right, 99 Red Balloons is the only duplicate song. I like
    the German sons anyhow (I can fortunatly speak some German having
    had an Austrian girlfriend for 3 years).
    
    I'll keep an eye out for some of the other 'looking for's in this
    topic.
    
    Tony... (BRSADG::ROBSON)
    

    Re. .101, .102
    
    I have the Nena CD that you are refering to.  I also own the LP
    version of this.  They are almost identical.  The only difference
    is that the first song is 99 Red Balloons in English, the LP has
    the one that was commonly played on the radio, the CD version has
    been remixed to add a lot of echoing and I think it sounds awful.
    
    KC
    
    PS How do you like the Land of the Elephant song?  I had a college
    freind that when wild over it.

Thanks for the info, I got the one that I wanted...

It's CDCBS 25264.

All German songs - 99 Luftballons, Kino, Einmal ist Keinmal, Leuchtturm etc...

Great disc.

Tony (BRSADG::ROBSON)

I'd love a complete set of the Beethoven String Quartets, played by the
Julliard Quartet.  A salesman at Barnes & Noble in Boston told me it was to
be released on Angel, but I haven't seen it yet.

					-- Roger

    I could have sworn that the complete Beethoven Quartets, played
    by the Julliard, is in fact available from CBS.  Came out a couple
    of years ago.  No, I don't know the numbers.

    still waiting for the Beatles...
    
    but what about the missing McCartney albums?  There are only 6 or
    7 released here.  I would particularly like "Back To The Egg", "London
    Town", Wings' Greatest,...  heck, all of 'em!
    

Yep. I've got Wings greatest. It's all the classics except waterfall.

i.e. Let 'em in, Live and let die, silly love songs, With a little luck etc...

Tony...

    RE: 109
      Waterfalls is on McCartney II, released after Wings' Greatest.
     But where did you get a disc of "Greatest"?  I have only seen the
    columbia releases-
    Band On The Run
    Venus & Mars
    Wings Over America
    Tug Of War
    Pipes Of Peace
    Give My Regards To Broad Street
    Press To Play   <-- This one is Capitol, as McCartney has re-signed
    with them.
    
    Any info on the rest on CD?
    -Steve
    

Er, I don't know where you are, but I got mine in Germany two weeks ago.

I'll try to remember to get the manufacturer and number for you.

I wouldn't mind getting McCartney II. Didn't know it existed.
Tony...

RE .110:

I've seen "Wings Greatest" at Rockin' Mania, Rt. 9, Framingham.  It's been
available there for at least nine months.  It's expensive, about $18 (may be
an import).  They had 2 copies last week.

Matt

Modern Lovers - Live in Glouster, I think it is called.  The one that is
out of print in vinyl.

    
    Realizing this is of limited interest, I'm glad to say Varese
    Sarabande, the soundtrack people, have released Jerry Goldsmith's score
    to Supergirl on CD.  I had to go to upstate New York to find it in a
    record store.  It's VCD 47218, if it matters to anyone else.
    
    Dave W.

    re: .41
    
    Since I wrote that, some of my wishlist has become available.
    
    	Yes: Fragile
    	Emerson, Lake and Palmer: Brain Salad Surgery
    	ELO: A New World Record
    
    	I think all of the old Genesis is available but some it is
    	very hard to find (at least here in Colorado Springs).
    
    re: .45
    
    On the classical side I've found:
    
    	Brahms Hungarian Dances - Philips 6514.107 (416.459-2 on CD)
    	Fantasia - Buena Vista CD-001 (the more recent digital recording)
    
    					* * *
    
    For purists, the catalog number of DG 3301.376 should have been
    DG 2531.276.

I'd like to see anything by Leon Redbone.  Also an album called "Biggs Plays 
Bach", by E. Power Biggs, played on the four organs of some famous European 
cathedral.

						     
							- JP

    Yeah.  Leon Redbone.  That would sound good.  I haven't listened
    to my Leon Redbone LP's in several years.  (Largely because I haven't
    listened to very many *LP's* in the last 2 years.)
    
    Rhumpa-te-bum...
    
    Gary

    Another of my wishes has been granted. British imports (on EMI)
    of the early Queen albums have arrived at BCD. I picked up the
    last copy of A NIGHT AT THE OPERA (they'll be getting more in
    soon) and they had already sold out (for the nonce) of JAZZ.
    The quality could be better, but it noticibly improves from
    earlier album to later album, so it's likely a function of the
    original recording.
    
    --- jerry

    The 1955 stereo recording of Brahms' Piano Concerto No 1 recorded
    by Autur Rubinstein and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted
    by Fritz Reiner.  This was released on RCA ARL1-2044.

        Any Deep Purple (I know the most recent is on CD)
        Any Chicago <= 10
        
Jim Stratton
        

    I was reading last night at the radio station I work at part time
    that Deep Purple's "MACHINE HEAD" will be out in time for Christmas.
    
    JEff
    

    we want zevon !!!
    we want zevon !!!
    we want zevon !!!
    we want zevon !!!
    we want zevon !!!
    we want zevon !!!
    we want zevon !!!
    we want zevon !!!
    we want zevon !!!
    we want zevon !!!

    re .5
    
    Joe sample's albums are on CD. I have Carmel and opted for something
    else instead of Rainbow. Try leachmeres

    Anybody seen any Dave Clark 5 CD's specifically with the song
    BECAUSE ?
    
    Mike

    	Heard a rumour that the Eagles 'Desparado' was out on CD. Can
    anyone confirm? (Haven't seen it here in the UK).
    
    	Keith Edmunds
    

    
    For all you Rush fans, Hemispheres, Permanent Waves, and 2112 are
    out on CD.  And do they sound good!  No hiss, no distortions, no
    kidding.
    
    DFW

    
    That Jeff Beck album with 'Beck's Bolero' on it.  Don't rememeber
    the name.  How embarrasking.                                    
    
    DFW

    I've been looking all over for 'Romantic Warrior'. Someone mentioned
    seeing it way back near the beginning of this note, but I couldn't find
    it listed in the Schwann's green book (much less in any stores). If
    anybody runs across a copy, please let me know. I've GOTTA have it! 
    
    I'd love to see anything by Passport - 'Sky Blue', 'Ocean Liner',
    'Iguacu', 'Infinity Machine', 'Cross-Collateral', 'Garden of Eden'.
    
    Herbie Hancock - 'Sextant', 'Headhunters', 'Man-Child', 'Thrust'.
    
    Miles Davis - 'In A Silent Way'. I understand 'Bitches Brew' is
    out but I haven't been able to find this either.
    
    I'll keep dreamin'..

    
       RE.127  "TRUTH"
    
    

	re .1: I read on Usenet this morning that Dreamboat Annie is
	coming.
	
	mIke

    
    RE: .-1
    
    	See note 641.0.
    
    
    

    well, one of the cds i've been looking for for the past year has
    finally arrived -
    
    Mike Oldfield - Incantations.  and it's on ONE cd :-)
    Virgin CDVDT 101
    
    made my day :-)
    
    nick
    

    
    I've heard a rumor that all of Rush's studio work is now out on
    CD, but that the only place you can get the ones not at Strawberries
    (Rush, Fly by Night, Caress of Steel, and A Farewell to Kings) is
    Boston Compact Disc, at $25.00 a pop.
    
    Can anyone confirm/disprove this?
    
    DFW

    Rockit Records in Nashua is usually first with everything [they
    had an Abby Road CD long ago].  They haven't heard word one about
    all the old studio stuff.
    
    I guess it's just more in the rumor mill for us hungry Rush fans.

    Finally, you can have your Zevon!!!
    Picked up Zevon's greatest hits this evening.
    I'd prefer to have the individual releases, but this
    will do until then.
    
    wte
    

    
    The rest of Rush's studio work hit Strawberries this week.  M-m
    good!
    
    Now all I have to do is find a copy of Moving Pictures somewhere.
    As soon as I was ready to buy it, the damn thing disappeared.
    
    If Mercury coughed up Rush's first Album, maybe we can get Atlantic
    to release Yes's Relayer.
    
    DFW

    For the record:
    
    	RUSH - All The World's A Stage, Exit Stage Left, Rush Roullette
    							 ^ A bootleg
    	YES - Yes, Time & A Word, Tales..., Relayer, Tormato, Drama
    	RICK WAKEMAN - Make "Rhapsodies" a domestic!  $50 is too much!
    	STYX - The album with "Lorelei"
    	ELP - Welcome Back My Friends To The Show That Never Ends, Ladies
    		And Gentlemen, Emerson, Lake And Palmer

        re .120, .121 (Deep Purple) - I finally saw _Machine Head_,
        at Lechmere.  Now to add all their other earlier stuff
        to this wishlist...
        
Jim Stratton
        

    Bob James "Hot" or was that "H" either way anyone seen it? I cannot
    even find it on LP to replace the one that never came back after
    loaning it out....
    -j
    

    I'd like to see music of all types on CD
    
    Be Bop Deluxe - Sunburst Finish
    Alice Cooper  - Killer
    Blondie       - Autoamerica
    The Who       - Tommy
    Vangellis     - Heaven and Hell
    Wendy (Walter) Carlos - Music from A Clockwork Orange
    Focus         - Hamburger Concerto
    
    P.S.  I know that some of these things may already be out.  I don't
          go to the record stores much to avoid the can't-afford blues.
    
    ASP

    RE: -.1
    
    You could avoid the "Can't afford Blues" by buying older titles
    on LP's (remember them?).  Why spend $16.99 for a CD version of
    "Blondie", when the LP is sitting in the "Cut-out" rack for $2.99?
    
    
    							-Paul
    

    Since .141 mentioned Focus, does anyone know if "Hocus Pocus" is
    available on any CD? I bought a used copy of the album "Moving Waves"
    recently, but would like a CD copy if it's available domestically
    or as an import.
    
    -Jeff

    "Tommy" by The Who and the "Soundtrack from A Clockwork Orange"
    are in my collection!  I don't know if the seperate "Music from
    A Clockwork Orange" (W. Carlos only) is out on CD.

    re: .142
    
    I already have LP versions of all the wish list CDs, but they have
    a few clicks and pops spread throughout them.  I'd like some quiet
    (virtually no clicks or pops), convienient versions of the music.
    
    I also thought of a few more that I'd like to see.
    
    Roxy Music               Siren
    Ten CC                   Art for Art's Sake (I know thats the wrong title)
    Ambrosia                 Somewhere I've Never Travelled
    Ambrosia                 Ambrosia
    The Tubes                The Tubes
    The Tubes                Remote Control
    Todd Rundgren + Utopia   Adventures in Utopia

    Re .145:
    
    Yes, some vintage 10cc CD's would be nice.  I'd like to see all
    four of the "real" 10cc albums (before the original quartet split
    up), as well as Godley and Creme's L and Freeze Frame albums.
    
    On import CD, I've seen the greatest hits album and a couple of
    their later albums: 10 out of 10, Bloody Tourists, and maybe
    another one like Look Hear.  Godley & Creme also have a CD version
    of The History Mix, Vol. 1 which I plan to get soon - it leaves
    out the single version of Cry but adds a remix of a bunch of
    Lol & Kev tunes.
    
    Michael

    Just for your future reference, "A Clockwork Orange, Music From The
    Soundtrack" is Warner Bros. 2573-2 (Europe 246 127).  "Singin' In The
    Rain" by Gene Kelly is the only cut with objectionable hiss. I picked
    it up about 2 years ago. 
    
    GAS

        
        re .145
        
        The entire Roxy Music catalogue (save perhaps "Viva") is available
        on imported CD's.  Currently "Avalon" is the only domestic.
        
        R

    ATTENTION FELLOW CD NOTERS...   (or K-Mart shoppers, or whatever)
    
    I *must* have Matt Bianco's "Whose Side Are You On?" on CD.  According
    to Schwann it is not currently available on CD (only LP, and Cassette
    tape), but if *anyone* sees it *PLEASE* contact me ASAP!
    
    Thanks,
    David.
    
    P.S. -- sorry if I got a little carried away, but this is an excellent
            album, and I need a CD copy before I wear the grooves off
            the LP!     8^}

    I have had "Whose Side Are You On" on CD for about six months, so
    it is available on CD but maybe only in europe sofar0.
    If interrested I can look up the number at home.
    
    Svein.

    
    According to sources, Rush's two live sets, *All The World's A Stage*
    and *Exit Stage Left* have been released, but with "A Passage To
    Bangkok" excised from Exit Stage Left to make it fit.
    
    If it's true, I'm willing to do without A Passage To Bangkok on
    ESL to get the live version of Xanadu.  Doubtless the release of
    ATWAS is the one with the *other* version of Working Man, the one
    Alex played without a broken guitar string.
    
    Can anyone confirm or deny the existence of these?
    DFW

    If they have been released, I'll know about it this afternoon.

    Yes.  They are here!
    
    Exit Stage Left [minus Passage to Bangkok]
    All The World's A Stage [minus What You're Doing]
    
    Yes, I have these in my greedy little hands.  This brings the total
    number of Rush CDs to 13, like it oughta be.  13 albums; 13 CDs
    [discounting Rush: Archives]

    re: .150
    
    Huuummmm.
    
    Must be that this *is* only available in Europe.  Please post the
    number, label, and any other pertinent data here (or send me mail).
    Matt Bianco releases under Atlantic records here in the US, so it
    will be interesting to see if another company is doing the CDs.
    
    Thanks!
    David_who's_wild_with_anticipation.

    Here is the info on Matt Bianco.
    
       Matt Bianco    Whose Side Are You On?
    
       Label: WEA # 240 472-2.
    
       Tracks: 1.Whose Side Are You On?
               2.More Than I Can Bear
               3.No No Never
               4.Half A Minute
               5.Matts Mood
               6.Get Out Of Your Lazy Bed
               7.It's Getting Late
               8.Sneaking Out The Back Door
               9.Riding With The Wind
              10.Matts Mood II
    
    Does not say anywhere if it is AAD, ADD or DDD.
    
    If you want help to get it send a mail.
    
    Svein.
    

    I never would've believed it, but I found one of my "wants"
    yesterday at a Strawberries: Iron Butterfly's IN-A-GADDA-DA-
    VIDA. I never thought I'd see these guys on CD. Considering
    the original recording was nothing to write home about, the
    dynamics on the CD are quite nice. There is *very* noticible
    hiss, though.
    
    --- jerry

    re: .119
    
    Well, I finally got it and I made a small mistake in .119.  The
    Brahms was recoded in April 1954 (in stereo and mono).
    
    My quick review (the longer will be later) is:
    
    Performance: B+ or A-	Sound: A (+)
    
    If you make allowances for the age, it is really a VERY good sounding
    recording.  If you compare it to modern recordings and don't allow
    for age it is merely very good.

    Any Firefall availible on cd? I have been watching but havent seen
    any. Does anyone know if there are any out or planned for release?
    
    -jerry
    

    I heard some Buddy Holly over the weekend, and it started me wondering
    whether there were any *good* Buddy Holly CD's around.  I would
    love to hear one if it was placed into laser technology with care
    instead of being plunked down from poor-sounding sources.
    
    Can anyone recommend a good Buddy Holly CD collection?

    I have one called From the Original Master Tapes. It has been
    digitally remastered from the original master tapes. Most of the
    selections are in mono. The sound is incredibly good considering
    this stuff was recorded in the mid to late 50's. The music is of
    course excellent.
    
    George

    I just came across Procol Harum's LIVE WITH THE EDMONDTON
    SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA at BCD. According to the price sticker,
    it'd been in since 21 May, but I hadn't run across it until
    now. The bad news is that it's an import with a hefty price
    tag: $24.99. Well, I waffled back and forth on this. I didn't
    want to pay that much, but I really wanted this disc. Ah,
    what the hell, it's only money, so I bought it. As I left the
    store, I pulled it out to look at the booklet and noticed
    that the price sticker on the back of the jewel box said $16.99.
    So, I went back in, showed this to the clerk, who went back
    to check the other copies --- which all said $24.99. She
    couldn't explain what happened, but she did give me an $8.00
    credit slip (of course, part of this might be that she knows
    I'm a regular and spend lots of money there, so giving me a
    break on this is not going to hurt them in the long run).
    
    So, anyways, if any of you want this disc, try shopping around
    first to see if everyone's charging excessively (I don't really
    blame BCD for such an outrageous price, since they're just
    reflecting their cost from the distributor --- their prices
    are usually pretty average).
    
    --- jerry

			How about the Fug's First Album?

    Well, I finally saw one of my most wanted this week.
    
    Electric Light Orchestra - Out of the Blue.
    
    And it has all of the music from the LPs (I've checked timing) on
    one disk.  I was willing to part with the money for a double disc
    but got it for $14.  So..  I bought Jethro Tull's Repeat. :^)
    
    Dale
    

    
    The recording industry keeps embarrassing me.  Things I never in
    a million years thought would get to CD are making it, including:
    
    The Warriors: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
    which I discovered in Good Vibrations in the Greendale Mall.
    
    DFW