Music Babble

I have the three-disc Gish reissue which I have listened to many many times (in fact, I honestly probably never need to listen to Gish ever again...but I will) and which has a 78 minute long disc of various stuff that didn't make it on to the album, though it doesn't have *everything*--"Blue" from a 1991 EP is there, but in a different acoustic version. "Slunk" and "Bye June" aren't there either, but those two songs basically suck so I don't care. I'm already well familiar with "Starla" and "Drown" and some others, but I guess I could cave in and check this out, though odds and ends collections usually aren't particularly good albums.

Beck - I haven't heard the two non-Mellow Gold albums he put out in 1994 and I also never heard Midnite Vultures or Morning Phase and those are all probably musts.

Sufjan - I adore Illinois and built a listening ritual around it that I do every year, and it was a slow build up, but that clearly is not going to happen again with Michigan, which has too many songs that were basically done better when they were given "sequels" on Illinois. As for the rest of his shit...uh, well, I really don't know anything about it. He's one of those guys where I really only bothered with one album that I adored, then heard a second that I was lukewarm on, and then forgot to do the rest of the 'scography because of it!

Beatles/Beach Boys - Well I know the hits, which will probably prove to be good enough for me. I'll never forget listening to 20/20 and thinking it was a really good album, but that I was also painfully overfamiliar with the five best songs because they were on hits comps!