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Boyd Rice Presents: Music For Pussycats
Rice, Boyd
Boyd Rice Presents: Music For Pussycats
Genre: Dance & Electronic
 
  •  Track Listings (12) - Disc #1

What we know of any culture or civilization ultimately comes down to what survives. Objects made of stronger materials, or objects in wider general usage are what usually seem to be left behind. And it's a shame. For ev...  more »

     

CD Details

All Artists: Rice, Boyd
Title: Boyd Rice Presents: Music For Pussycats
Members Wishing: 2
Total Copies: 0
Label: Caciocavallo
Release Date: 9/19/2008
Genre: Dance & Electronic
Style: Ambient
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 753907331325

Synopsis

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What we know of any culture or civilization ultimately comes down to what survives. Objects made of stronger materials, or objects in wider general usage are what usually seem to be left behind. And it's a shame. For every epoch whose crown jewels are preserved, we no doubt have thousands of chamber pots. In other words, we don't know those things which may have been most interesting about past eras, yet we're well acquainted with those things which may have been the most base or common. And so it is with pop music. For every song in endless rotation on oldies stations, there are thousands of others (some hits, some not) that we'll never hear again. These are a few of those songs. And my intention in compiling this CD is that I felt these songs deserve to survive, to be preserved. These songs literally constitute the soundtrack of my life, going back to age 16 or perhaps earlier. It never ceases to amaze me that when I encounter aficionados of girl pop, none of them have ever heard of singers like Robbie Winston, Susan Rafey, Diane Ray, or most of the others on this comp-all women who I feel have contributed works equal (if not superior) to the best the genre has to offer. These singers, and the songs they've recorded, have long occupied a special place in my heart. And the knowledge that I was listening to songs that virtually no one else seemed to know of, afforded me a peculiar kind of thrill. A mentor of mine once told me that the power of forgotten music, is that when you're perhaps the only person in the world listening to it, it's as though it's yours alone. Consequently, the experience of something magical becomes ever more magical.
 

CD Reviews

Forgotten Music Remembered!!
R. Koenig | Levittown , NY United States | 03/04/2007
(4 out of 5 stars)

"Boyd Rice, known for his noise music, here is displaying some music he enjoys from his youth..various obscure female singers and girl-groups that time has forgotten. Ever wonder what happened to so-an-so and that song you loved as a kid you never hear again?

Yes, if you're as SICK as I am on radio playing the same songs year after year...PLEASE..buy this cd! even if you don't remember or know singers like Priscilla Paris ( who is wonderful, by the way) should hear this CD.

Here is a listen to perhaps a possible alternate world..imagine these songs are actually hits..and some here should have been.

I've been known to say that as many popular artists we have today, there are many unknowns who are even more talented and by far better than them, only we'll never hear them. Well, here's your chance for challenging that. Thanks, Boyd Rice for this great comp!!"