Update!

The Moody Blues albums are off the table, they got bought on eBay. I'll likely put some other collections up there tomorrow.

I've also found Bob Mould's Black Sheets of Rain and the soundtrack to When Harry Met Sally if either of those are of interest to anyone.

One more item

I also have a three tape set of Ray Charles: The Birth of Soul, The Complete Atlantic Rhythm & Blues Recordings, 1952-1959. The set is in its original case with the very informative booklet.

What's off the table as of now

I've had claimants for all the tapes for the following:

Yes
Neil Young
The Who (except for Hooligans)
Van Morrison (which actually got a bid on eBay)
Husker Du (but not the Bob Mould or Sugar tapes)

For individual tapes, I've also had claims made on The Otis Redding Story and the Crash Test Dummies album. I think everything else is still up for grabs.

Is this all?

Even with what I've listed here, I think I'm missing a bunch of tapes. I can remember a few titles that I know I owned. My guess is that between the moves from Mountfort Street to here (and the sale of my parents' house) that they went over the wall (or into the Dumpster). Such is life. If I should find them, you'll be among the first to know.

Compliations, Comedy and Random

These are either comilations where it's the only album I have by that artist or a true thematic compilation. There's also some random albums I couldn't quite stick anywhere else.

Compilations by one act
The Original Musiquarium I, Stevie Wonder
History, America
Chicago IX
The Best of the Doors

Interestingly, I have two of the last one, and they aren't the same. The more comprehensive one has a computer-made insert.

Compilations by the many
Mellow Sixties, including songs like "Brown Eyed Girl," "Turn, Turn, Turn," and "California Dreamin'"
British Sixties, including songs like "Catch the Wind," "Do Wah Diddy Diddy," and "You Really Got Me"
Common Threads, Eagles songs done by country artists

Comedy

Monty Python... Sings, Monty Python's Flying Circus
Class Clown, Occupation: Foole, Indecent Exposure, George Carlin

The last Carlin album is also a compilation.

Allez Randomness!
Tones, Ah Via Musicom, Eric Johnson
Hand on the TorchUs3
Keep On Movin', Soul II Soul
The Segovia Collection (Vol. 3), Andres Segovia

North Americans

The Smithereens
Blow Up
Green Thoughts
Especially For You
11

Neil Young (solo and with bands)
Harvest
Unplugged
Harvest Moon
Weld

Husker Du and Bob Mould and Sugar

Zen Arcade
New Day Rising
Flip Your Wig
Workbook
File Under: Easy Listening

Living Colour

Biscuits
Time's Up
Vivid

Wilburys, group and by members
Vol. 1
Vol. 3
Armchair Theater, Jeff Lynne
Full Moon Fever/Into the Great Wide Open, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

The last tape is a copy, one album per side.

Others
Throwing Copper, Mental Jewelry, Live
A Night on the Town Bruce Hornsby & The Range
Collected Works, Simon and Garfunkel

Bands of the Commonwealth

Crowded House
Woodface
Crowded House
Together Alone
Temple of Low Men

U2
October
War
The Joshua Tree
Achtung Baby
Rattle and Hum

Jethro Tull
Thick as a Brick
Aqualung
War Child
Catfish Rising

ELP
Welcome Back, My Friends, to the Show That Never Ends, Ladies and Gentlemen
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Works vols 1 and 2

The Chieftains
An Irish Evening
Another Country
The Celtic Harp

Blues/R&B

Robert Cray
Too Many Cooks
Shame + A Sin
Strong Persuader
Midnight Stroll
I Was Warned

Strong Persuader has a computer insert.

Warm Your Heart, Aaron Neville
See the Light, Hell to Pay, The Jeff Healy Band
The Otis Redding Story
My World, Ray Charles
Damn Right I've Got the Blues, Feels Like Rain, Buddy Guy
Resurrection, The Eric Gales Band

Men Who Sing

There's probably a better way to arrange these, but I can't think of it right now.

Joe Jackson
Live 1980/86
Jumpin' Jive
Look Sharp!

Robert Palmer
"Addictions" Volume 1
Don't Explain

Chris Isaak
San Francisco Days
Heart Shaped World

Paul Simon
Rhythm of the Saints
Graceland

Joe Cocker
Classics Volume 4

Robbie Robertson
Storyville
Robbie Robertson

The Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos
Chant

Random Brits

Level 42

They started the '80s as jazz-funk, and ended the decade as pop-R&B influenced. You may remember their lone Top 10 hit, "Something About You."

Standing in the Light
Staring at the Sun
World Machine
The Pursuit of Accidents
A Physical Presence, vol. I and II

Asia

Once a heralded supergroup of the 1908s, they didn't quite live up to expectations.

Asia
Alpha
Astra
Then & Now

Elvis Costello

Mighty Like a Rose
Brutal Youth
The Juliet Letters
Girls Girls Girls
Kojak Variety

XTC

Oranges & Lemons
Skylarking
Rag & Bone Buffett

The Police and Sting

The Police
Ghost in the Machine
Synchronicity
Zenyatta Mondatta
Regatta De Blanc

Sting
The Dream of the Blue Turtle
Ten Summoner's Tales
Nothing Like the Sun
The Soul Cages

Hendrix and Clapton

Jimi Hendrix
The Essential Jimi Hendrix
Radio One
Live at Winterland
Axis: Bold as Love
Electric Ladyland

The last two are digitally-remastered 1993 re-releases.

Eric Clapton
Unplugged
Journeyman
From the Cradle
August
Behind the Sun
24 Nights (taped from CD)

I also have the Cream albums Wheels of Fire and Disraeli Gears

Georgia bands

REM
Document
Green
Automatic for the People
Eponymous
Fables of the Reconstruction
Reckoning
Life's Rich Pageant

B52s
Wild Planet
The B-52's

Jazz and related

For a while I had an interest in jazz that I never quite stayed with. It's all pretty modern, which may have been part of the problem.

Stanley Jordan

Stolen Moments
Flying Home
Magic Touch
Cornucopia
Bolero
Standards Volume I


Marcus Roberts

Deep in the Shed
Alone with Three Giants
As Serenity Approaches
Prayer for Peace
The Truth is Spoken Here

The Rest

Patrice, The Marksman, Mark Whitfield, Mark Whitfield
Upfront, Another Hand, David Sanborn
Time Remembered, John McLaughlin plays Bill Evans
The Road to YouPat Metheney Group
The Beautiful Ones are Not Yet Born, Branford Marsalis Trio
Wish, Joshua Redman
Changing of the Guard, T.S. Monk
Simple Pleasures, Bobby McFerrin

(I know some will carp at McFerrin being here. I don't care.)

Beatles and related

Sarah's CDs made these superfluous a long time ago.

The Beatles

Revolver
Abbey Road
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Live at the BBC
White Album
Magical Mystery Tour/Let it Be
Rock 'n Roll Music
The Beatles 1962-1966

Both White Album and MMT/Let it Be are copies. Live at the BBC is 2 tapes, and is missing the box it came in and the booklet that came with it, which is too bad. The booklet is pretty interesting.

Paul McCartney (with and without Wings)

Flowers in the Dirt
Venus and Mars
Back in the USSR
Tripping the Live Fantastic
Wings Over America
Wild Life
Tug of War
McCartney II
Wings at the Speed of Sound
Off the Ground

Back in the USSR is a copy. Wings Over America and Tripping the Live Fantastic are 2 tapes.

George Harrison

All Things Must Pass
Cloud Nine
Somewhere In England
Best of Dark Horse 1976-1989

I also have Come Together, a rock and jazz guitar tribute album. Artists include Adrian Belew, Mark Whitfield, and Toots Thielemans.

Back to the '80s

And into the '90s with one or two of these folks. Asterisked titles have the computer-made inserts.

Welcome to the Real World, Go On, Mr. Mister
Scarecrow, Uh-Huh, Dance Naked, john Cougar Mellencamp (in various combinations)
The Raw & the Cooked, Fine Young Cannibals
1984*, Van Halen
Broadcast, Cutting Crew
Cargo*, Men at Work
Tuff Enuff*, The Fabulous Thunderbirds
Eye in the Sky*, The Alan Parsons Project
Sports, Small World, Huey Lewis and the News
The Firm, Mean Business, The Firm
Greetings from Timbuck3, Timbuck3
Play Deep, The Outfield
Kick, INXS
Freeze Frame, The J. Geils Band
GTR, GTR
Songs From the Big Chair, Tears for Fears

Seemed like a good idea at the time

Some of these were tape club surprises, others I inherited, and still others I actually bought on my own. Which tape falls into which category I leave as an exercise for the reader. Especially as I can't remember. There's actually a couple of these that I'd like to upgrade to CD.

Fat City, Shawn Colvin
Pocket Full of Kryptonite, Spin Doctors
Live, Never Die Young, James Taylor
3 Years, 5 Months & 2 Days in the Life of..., Arrested Development
Marc Cohn, The Rainy Season, Marc Cohn
God Shuffled His Feet, Crash Test Dummies
Dulcinea, Toad the Wet Sprocket
BanbaClanaad
Here Comes Trouble, Scatterbrain
Cracked Rear View, Hootie and the Blowfish
August and Everything After, Counting Crows

Rush

Insert your own Ayn Rand comment here.

Hemispheres
Exit Stage Left
Grace Under Pressure
Roll the Bones
Presto
Caress of Steel
All the World's a Stage
Moving Pictures
Permanent Waves
Fly By Night
Hold Your Fire
Counterparts
Signals
Power Windows
A Farewell to Kings

I also have volume II of Rush Archives.

Genesis and related

First, the band itself:

Abacab
Seconds Out
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Genesis
Duke
And Then There Were Three...
Trespass
Invisible Touch
We Can't Dance
Foxtrot
Nursery Cryme
A Trick of the Tail
Selling England by the Pound
Wind & Wuthering
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

Abacab is missing its original liner, it has one I made on my old Atari 800XL.

Phil Collins:

Face Value
Hello, I Must be Going!
No Jacket Required
... But Seriously

Peter Gabriel

Us
Peter Gabriel
Plays Live
Security
So

So is also missing its original jacket, and has one of the computer-generated ones. The Peter Gabriel is the one with "Biko."

Mike + The Mechanics

Word of Mouth
Living Years

Yes and related

I can already hear Greg mocking prog-rock.

Yes
Yessongs
Classic Yes
Yesterdays
Fragile
9021Live - The Solos
Big Generator
Union
Drama
Close to the Edge
90125
Relayer
Tales from Topographic Oceans

I also have Trevor Rabin's Close to the Edge and the short-lived breakup album by the law firm of Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe. I also have Symphonic Music of Yes by the London Philharmonic.

The Who and related

I thought I had more by them. Anyway:

Who's Greatest Hits
The Kids Are Alright
Who's Missing
Live at Leeds
Quadrophenia
Face Dances
Hooligans
Tommy
The Iron Man

A couple of notes:

* Quadrophenia is a copy, so you'd be getting a tape with just my handwritten list of tracks on each.
* The Iron Man is just Townshend, I know. It's the original cast recording, if that makes any sense (given that I think it was a studio cast, not performance).

Soundtracks!

I think this is all of them, but I may find another cache later.

Up in Smoke
Wayne's World
The Commitments (volumes one and two)
Woodstock (2 tapes)
Rush
Good Morning, Vietnam
Passion: Music for The Last Temptation of Christ
Philadelphia
The Big Chill
Animal House

Next up: Van Morrison

What can I say, he's a drunk Irish poet.

I've got 12 of his albums:

Hymns to the Silence
Live at the Grand Opera House Belfast
Astral Weeks
Tupelo Honey
The Best of Van Morrison
Veedon Fleece
Enlightenment
A Sense of Wonder
A Period of Transition
His Band and the Street Choir
Too Long in Exile
Common One

There are also up for bid on eBay, and similarly priced to move.

First artist: The Moody Blues

Before they became PBS pledge month faves and sought to punish Homer and Ned for their bigamy, I was pretty interested in the Moody Blues, part of an interest in the '60s. This doesn't explain why I bought so many of their newer albums; for that you have to blame a personal drive for completeness and In Your Ear, a used music store around the corner from BU's West Campus (you'll see that deadly combination more than once).

Anyway, I wound up with 15 of their albums. They are (in no particular order):

Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
On the Threshold of a Dream
Early Blues: The Compleat Collection
Long Distance Voyager
The Present
A Question of Balance
Keys of the Kingdom
Sur la Mer
This is the Moody Blues
The Other Side of Life
A Night at Red Rocks
Seventh Sojourn
Octave
Caught Live + 5
Days of Future Passed

The entire set is up for auction on eBay and priced to sell.

Want a tape?

Want several? I'm getting rid of my tape collection, and you can be the beneficiary!

If you see a title that you want, email me. I'll send it along.

I am trying to sell some stuff on eBay, and will post links to auctions as they come up.