the "steal this disc"/"here it is, the music" comps that ryko put out from 1988-91

i can still picture ryko's old website in my head. probably because it didn't change for about five years. didn't ryko/hannibal lose almost all their cash-cow licenses? or maybe they still have the zappa catalog? ryko is odd. jerry boys!

oh also at the dollar sale i found exuma's rude boy album from 1987. i only know his early '70s stuff and i'm slightly worried this will blow.

i have no idea what's up with ryko these days. after those bowie reissues they went very quiet.

i somehow knew we'd be the only two posters on this thread.

Oddly enough, I own every track on that list with the predictable exception of track 2.

even the screaming tribesmen?

Yep, got it on the Bones and Flowers album which, strictly speaking, Laura bought a very long time ago, but it's still in the colelction.

or even the "collection."

silly me for not being aware that another day on earth (which i'll get around to listening to eventually) is on hannibal! that's going to be a cash cow.

do you know the history behind hannibal and ryko? like when they merged or whatever? hannibal is joe boyd's label right. i have some pre-ryko hannibal vinyl i think.

joe boyd started hannibal in 1980 but it got absorbed into ryko in the '90s.

http://www.rykodisc.com/RykoInternal/AboutRyko/About_FAQs_01.asp

when i graduated from high school my dad bought me a cd boombox and my brother let me steal lots of CDs from the record store he worked at in the mall. got talk talk, monochrome set, some garage comp called Highs Of The 60's, shriekback, and a bunch of other stuff (I had never really heard CDs before) including the two ryko steal this disc comps. this is the one i played a lot:

Josh White Jr with Robin Batteau: You Won't Let Me Go
2. Johnny Adams: I Feel Like Breaking Up Somebody's Home
3. Frank Zappa: G-Spot Tornado
4. Sugar Minott: Good Thing Going
5. Mahavishnu John McLaughlin: Something Spiritual
6. Old & in the Way: Wild Horses
7. Phil Woods & Chris Swansen: Moose the Mooche
8. George Thorogood & the Destroyers: Madison Blues
9. The Residents: Serenade for Missy
10. The Residents: Hello Skinny
11. Schoolly-D: B-Boy Rhyme & Riddle
12. The Red Clay Ramblers: Home Is Where the Heart Is
13. Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin: Henry & James
14. Guy van Duser & Billy Novick: Jubilee Stomp
15. Devo: Jerkin' Back & Forth
16. Bill Frisell & Vernon Reid: Size 10 1/2 Sneaks
17. Nanci Griffith: Once in a Very Blue Moon
18. Mark O'Connor: Flight Home
19. Richie Havens: If Not for You
20. Doc & Merle Watson: Hesitation Blues
21. The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Fire

i had some rykodisc comp that had mica by mission of burma and a birdsongs of the mesozoic on it.