It introduced me to alot of cool stuff...and it came free with the magazine

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Tell us about a comp tape|cd that altered|improved|broadened your tastes.

...ah, one rule though: It has to be one of those that comes glued to the front of a magazine...

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Thursday, 17 April 2003 14:26 (twenty-three years ago)

None of them ever meant shit to me. Radio and personal communication (including home-made mixes) have always been more of the thing.

― Rockist Scientist, Thursday, 17 April 2003 14:30 (twenty-three years ago)

I'll let you know when it happens.

Those free magazine CDs are generally fit only for coasters. Which is why I am so suspicious of them!

― kate, Thursday, 17 April 2003 14:30 (twenty-three years ago)

once got a comp from EAR magazine full of ambient stuff i never would have purchased then and like it quite well..

― thomas de'aguirre (biteylove), Thursday, 17 April 2003 14:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Each year since 1998, I have bought and album or two as a result of Q's "The Best Tracks From The Best Albums Of...." CDs appearing with their December number.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 17 April 2003 14:45 (twenty-three years ago)

The Uncut compilations are pretty reliable, as magazine comps go.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Thursday, 17 April 2003 14:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Geir: So have I. And they've been crushingly dissappointing.
Kenan: Hmmm. Never bought a single issue of Uncut, evah. (If I wanted to hear a bunch of No Depression weenies, I'd buy a copy of Paste.)

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Thursday, 17 April 2003 14:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Bananafish OWNZ THIS THREAD!!!!

― hstencil, Thursday, 17 April 2003 14:49 (twenty-three years ago)

5 years back there was a compilation free with Muzik magazine to commemorate their Amateur DJ of the Year.
Half of the CD was the rather dreadful Tall Paul, the other half was this winner, Pure Science.... his selection was amazing, and I still play it to this day - he not only mixed the songs - he recorded every track he played himself, too - awesome.

And I've never heard of him since....?

― russ t, Thursday, 17 April 2003 14:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Never bought a single issue of Uncut, evah.

I don't think I've ever read one. I just buy it for the CD. It's eight bucks a pop in the US, but there's always at least a couple songs that are keepers.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Thursday, 17 April 2003 14:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, actually, the Q CD was what made me discover Travis. What I had heard from their first album sounded like a bunch of bad Oasis-wanna-be's, and then I heard the wonderful "Driftwood", which eventually led to my picking up the "The Man Who" album, and finally found the perfect Radiohead replacement. :-)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 17 April 2003 14:53 (twenty-three years ago)

M'Lord, I'mma not a-gonna talk for too long and I'mma not a-gonna pick one single cover CD either. For I could pick nearly half a dozen, I think, from among the many that've popped into my letter box together with various copies of The Wire over the years.
The Wire Tapper series itself is very good. And varied. But so've been quite a few of the label compilations.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 17 April 2003 14:54 (twenty-three years ago)

a sampler from canuck metal mag Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles made my pazz and jop top ten last year. I picked it for the breadth of its metal vision. It easily proved that metal is one of the most exciting and exploratory genres of music you could listen to.I love samplers. Any and all, even if i only listen to them once. I even listened to the recent mojo punk one more than once and i ended up loving that yeah yeah yeahs song. The one that goes"It's our time to be hated!" Love that song. Plus, samplers enable me to hear bands that i would never ever hear or buy on my own and make a snap judgement about them that i will take with me to the grave based entirely on that one song that i heard.

― scott seward, Thursday, 17 April 2003 15:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Recent UK Garage comp that came with SLEAZENATION. It sold me (more or less).

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Thursday, 17 April 2003 16:13 (twenty-three years ago)

I have a great sampler of Japanese stuff from Raygun, circa 1996 or so. At the time, I was into Cibo Matto -- but this was the first I'd ever heard of Boredoms, Buffalo Daughter, DJ Krush, Cornelius, etc.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 17 April 2003 16:38 (twenty-three years ago)

i didn't buy the magazine myself,but one of the mixes that got me into techno was soundage by darren price,which was a mix of novamute tracks,including stuff like pannik by speedy j,stomp by luke slater,and ak-47 by the space djz
it came with mixmag or one of those a few years ago...

― robin (robin), Thursday, 17 April 2003 20:27 (twenty-three years ago)

The July '96 Select had a cover mounted Jon Carter mix cassette that included the Monkey Mafia remix of "Tiny Meat". So I bought the original Ruby "Salt Peter" and it remains one of my favourite albums.

― chris j (chris j), Thursday, 17 April 2003 20:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Nearly every CD and 7" vinyl thing given away with Ptolemaic Terrascope 'zine has been chock full of wonderous things. Most recently I was turned on to Kinski, Landing, and Circle.

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Thursday, 17 April 2003 20:40 (twenty-three years ago)

My wife used to work at bookstore so when I got a new MP3 player recently I went through the stack of 30 or so CMJ CDs we had lying around to transfer onto the player. I only got about 10 good songs out of it.

― David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Thursday, 17 April 2003 22:36 (twenty-three years ago)

c81. nme. you had to write away for it though. it took ages to come. but it was a goldmine.

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 18 April 2003 00:43 (twenty-three years ago)

hstencil says: Bananafish OWNZ THIS THREAD!!!!

YES! Happy Boy Margarine!!! Now that's a seven inch. Wingtip Sloat, Masonna, Dame Darcy, Raymond Scott, and several more bands. Completely bonkers, from start to finish.

Remember The Bob in the late 80s/early 90s and its lovely flexis? Good stuff. Great magazine, too.

― Ernest P. (ernestp), Friday, 18 April 2003 02:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Half of the CD was the rather dreadful Tall Paul, the other half was this winner, Pure Science.... his selection was amazing, and I still play it to this day - he not only mixed the songs - he recorded every track he played himself, too - awesome.

Russ, Pure Science did one of the Fabric mix CDs (Fabric 05 to be exact). It came out last year. Same deal, it's all his own tracks. Should be pretty easy to get hold of.

― Angus Gordon (angusg), Friday, 18 April 2003 07:10 (twenty-three years ago)

what? that sleazenation cd is dreadful! its, like 1998 never happeneed. future garage? i fucking hope not. anyway, my influential free mag. choice would be the 'beat up the nme' tape mixed by fatboy slim, from 1996 or so. may sound corny, but for a 16 yr old, it sounding heavy! i'd love to hear it even now, but sadly have lost it.

― ambrose (ambrose), Friday, 18 April 2003 09:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Ptolemaic Terrascope CDs are wonderous things. I've quite liked the last couple of CDs included with Mojo - the soundtrack complilation CD is fantastic.

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Friday, 18 April 2003 09:58 (twenty-three years ago)

re sleaze cd: it's not dreadful at all, there's some really good stuff on it.... just strikes me as amazing that sleaze nation has picked up on all this stuff so damned late, it's been going on under their noses for years, but only now do they bother with it... guess that the whole dubstep thing rather suits the style press, though (see the intelligent music and class thread from a few days ago...) anyway, there's nothing wrong with that cd apart from the publication it happened to be attached to!

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Friday, 18 April 2003 10:04 (twenty-three years ago)

when spaceman 3's Playing with fire was reissued a couple of years back there was an article and 'Revolution' on the free CD. Once i heard it I went to the shops and bought it there and then.

The version of Beefheart's 'Electricity' on another uncut CD is better than the original on 'Safe as Milk' (but i lost that CD damn it!).

i haven't bought these mags in ages. CDs just aren't much of an incentive anymore.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 18 April 2003 10:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Dating myself here: the 7"s that came attached to the cover of NME a couple of times in the mid-'80s, esp. the one with Steinski and Mass Media's "The Motorcade Sped On" and the one with that stomping live version of the Smiths' "What She Said." My first exposure to both bands.

― Douglas (Douglas), Friday, 18 April 2003 10:43 (twenty-three years ago)

The ESP records comp that came with an issue of the Wire last summer was pretty great.

Going back a bit further, the first issue of Yeti came with a CD that first clued me in to the awesomeness of Trad Gras och Stenar. Which in turn got me into Parson Sound and all the other Trad Gras avatars.

And there's also the reverse effect: buying that issue of Speed Kills in '93 for the Rocket From the Crypt 7" got me reading that great 'zine.

― die9o (dhadis), Friday, 18 April 2003 13:19 (twenty-three years ago)

i had an nme one ages ago that i listened to quite a lot. it had some fantastic stuff on it.

royal trux - stevie
quasi - i never wanna see you again
jurassic 5 - concrete schoolyard
boards of canada - roygbiv
afghan whigs - somethin' hot
GYBE! - dead flag blues

among others. i may still have it.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 18 April 2003 14:28 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah killian thats the cd i got into godspeed through as well,now that you mention it
i think there might have been a third eye foundation track on it as well....

― robin (robin), Friday, 18 April 2003 14:31 (twenty-three years ago)

There was a (mostly) ace NME a couple of years ago called "Sounds Of The Summer" or something along those lines. It had Destiny's, Squarepusher, Felix Da Housecat, Sticky Fingaz and Nelly, although it did have The Music as well.

― Nick H, Friday, 18 April 2003 18:48 (twenty-three years ago)

I think I have that one, somewhere in my mess. Either that or I hocked it the moment that track by The Music came on. Can't recall off hand.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 18 April 2003 19:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Not quite the same thing because you had to send off for them, but the NME did some great compilation tapes in the 80s. There was a garage band one that introduced me to the world of Nuggets/Pebbles etc. Then there was a new country one I think - Dwight Yoakham, Randy Travis etc that got me into quite a few singers.

― James Ball (James Ball), Sunday, 20 April 2003 14:32 (twenty-three years ago)

eleven months pass...

Fuerza - a compilation published by Virgin France

― sibsi (sibsi), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 23:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Did the C86 tape come with an issue of the NME? Or was it sold in stores and "NME" was put on the cover to show that the editors of aforementioned magazine chose the tracklist?

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 23:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I got an issue of muzik with a mix by dfa that was pretty cool. Also Wire had an issue with a Raster Norton CD that was neat and their wire tappers are generally half filled with good stuff.

― hector (hector), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 00:14 (twenty-two years ago)

i thought C86 was a mailorder jobbie?

― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 00:14 (twenty-two years ago)

c81 was. you wrote to nme and they sent it. actually i don't think it was free.

― mullygrubber (gaz), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 00:16 (twenty-two years ago)

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