One of the many perks of working at a record store in the late 80’s/early 90’s was grabbing the promotional CD’s that got sent to the store. After a few weeks of playing them in the store they were up for grabs. I’ve never been picky, and actually like a broad range of music, so these were great additions to my collection, and did expose me to some bands that I would continue to enjoy.
The Theodore collection was from Epic/Columbia, and I still have the Stanley edition in my (diminishing) possession.
Theodore Track List:
Kate Bush – Be Kind To My Mistakes
Poi Dog Pondering – Bury Me Deep
* The Rave-Ups – She Says (Come Around)
* Social Distortion – Let It Be Me
* Living Colour – Talkin’ ‘Bout a Revolution
* Toad the Wet Sprocket- Come Back Down
* O-Positive – Overflow
The Psychedelic Furs – House
* Public Enemy – Welcome to the Terrordome
Big Audio Dynamite – If I Were John Carpenter
* Nuclear Valdez – Run Through the Fields
* Indigo Girls – Kid Fears
* Shawn Colvin – Shotgun Down the Avalanche
Big Dipper – Another Life
* 3rd Bass – Triple Stage Darkness
Stanley: Son of Theodore: Yet Another Alternative Music Sampler Track List:
Senseless Things – Everybody’s Gone
* Big Audio Dynamite II – Kool-Aid (British Version)
The Shamen – Make it Mine (remix)
* Manic Street Preachers – Love’s Sweet Exile
Sun-60 – Out Of My Head
Cypress Hill – Hand on the Pump
* Pearl Jam – Alive (live)
Fishbone – Fight the Youth (remix)
Shabba Ranks – Woodtop (non-album cut)
* Public Enemy – Nighttrain (remix)
* Eye & I – Venus in Furs
Bruce Cockburn – Kit Carson
* Indigo Girls – Pushing the Needle Too Far (live)
* Poi Dog Pondering – Get Me On
Gregg Alexander – The Truth
* Alison Moyet – It Won’t Be Long (Acoustic)
One thing I particularly liked was the rare versions of some songs they’d put on there. The variety of genres is just fantastic. Indy rock, folk, punk, reggae, rap, funk. Just something that you can put in the car and listen to an hour’s worth of diverse unique music without commercials – before there were streaming services. I don’t think there’s any algorithm that would offer these songs on a playlist of multiple hours.
These are not available on Spotify, but I’ve linked to the individual songs that I could find (many of which aren’t the exact versions, but I’m not going to upload the CD anywhere at this time). Asterisks indicate the specific tracks that stood out to me at the time.