Category: Media – Video / Music

Compact DiscList™
The Compact DiscList™ [now owned by Connert Media, LLC; aka Infomedia, Inc.] was originally published during the early 1980s when music CDs became very popular. It was one of the first companies to index new releases and provide catalogues to various music stores and distributors. Once the Internet became the source of this data, the company ceased publication of the Compact DiscList™.

The first sample was created “in-house” by a great staff who collated and GBC punched thousands of these directories. Once these directories because so popular, they were split into three separate catalogs (Popular, Classical, and Imports) and professionally printed by Edwards Brothers in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Here is some samples.

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References:

The following links were provided by Mike Brown, who is helping to make sure the archived data is available to various music enthusiasts.
- Compact Disc Group Catalog (June 1983)
- What’s on CD? A complete list of titles (through August 1984)
July 26, 2023
Disparaged by the Republican Party?

There Is Hope

For those that may seem disparaged by the “Christian” White Nationalists and the Republican Party, please find a little solace in the song by Elton John and Rina Sawayama.

Lyrics:
Where do I belong?
Tell me your story and I’ll tell you mine
I’m all ears, take your time, we got all night
Show me the rivers crossed, the mountains scaled
Show me who made you walk all the way here

Settle down, put your bags down
(Ooh) You’re alright now

We don’t need to be related to relate
We don’t need to share genes or a surname
You are
You are
My chosen
Chosen family
So what if we don’t look the same?
We been going through the same thing
You are
You are
My chosen
Chosen family

Hand me a pen and I’ll rewrite the pain
When you’re ready, we’ll turn the page together
Open a bottle, it’s time we celebrate
Who you were, who you are
We’re one and the same, yeah, yeah

We don’t need to be related to relate
We don’t need to share genes or a surname
You are
You are
My chosen
Chosen family
So what if we don’t look the same?
We been going through the same thing
You are
You are
My chosen
Chosen family

I, I chose you
You chose me
I chose
(Chosen family)
I chose you
You chose me
We’re alright now

We don’t need to be related to relate
We don’t need to share genes or a surname
You are
You are
My chosen
Chosen family
So what if we don’t look the same?
We been going through the same thing
You are
You are
My chosen
Chosen family

We don’t need to be related to relate
We don’t need to share genes or a surname
You are
You are
My chosen
Chosen family
So what if we don’t look the same?
We been going through the same thing
You are
You are
My chosen
Chosen family

February 16, 2023
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August 17, 2022
I Forgot My Spoon

Campfire songs sometimes get out of hand. When a few teenagers sitting around a campfire come up with certain ditties, it makes my skin crawl.

Great green gobs of greasy, grimy golfer guts;
Mutilated monkey meat;
Concentrated birdies feet.
All dumped in the middle of a muddy street …
And I forgot my spoon!

October 7, 2021
The Night Willie Died

Sitting around a campfire one hot night while camping in one of Michigan’s campgrounds, we hear a group singing this ditty. Where it came from? Nobody knows.

Oh, I remember the night that Willie died.
He died early in the morning, late at night … late at night.
Oh, the cows were singing sweetly and the birds were eating hay,
And the sun and moon and stars were shinning bright . … shinning bright.

Twas the fortieth day of May, that Willie past away,
He died harder than her ever died before … died before.
He was sitting in a chair, but he didn’t like it there,
So he got up and died upon the floor … on the floor.

You can tell that he was dying by the color of his breath.
You can hear the blossom nipping in the bud … in the bud.
But the doctor said the only way to save our darling boy
Was to stop the circulation of his blood … of his blood.

So we gently laid his head in a melting pot of lead,
And we laid our darling Willie down to rest … down to rest.
But it was a dirty shame, for that night some burglars came
And they stole that mustard plaster off his chest … off his chest.

So we filled him up with glue and we tried to bring him to,
But we only brought him eight or nine or ten … nine or ten.
So we laid him on his side and he sneezed and coughed and died
And he up and coughed and sneezed and died again … died again.

October 7, 2021