Name: Rykodisc 20th Anniversary
Brand: Rykodisc
SKU: 52170
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Rykodisc 20th Anniversary

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Album: Rykodisc 20th Anniversary
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Changes - David Bowie
2)	Changes - Sugar
3)	This Magic Moment - Misfits
4)	Honey White - Morphine
5)	Looking Forward to Seeing You - Golden Smog
6)	Happiness Is Drumming - Diga Rhythm Band
7)	Satisfaction - Devo
8)	Put Your Hand Inside the Puppet Head - They Might Be Giants
9)	Take Me Down - Kelly Willis
10)	I Will Dare - The Replacements
11)	Wicked World - Osaka Popstar
12)	Tied to the Tracks - Soul Asylum
13)	Valentine - Nils Lofgren
14)	Pink Moon - Nick Drake
15)	Al Du - Ali Farka Tour?/Ry Cooder
16)	Not So Far to Go - Kelly Joe Phelps
17)	24-7 Man - Robert Cray
18)	Day After Day - Badfinger
19)	Thank You Friends - Big Star
20)	Even the Clouds Get High - James Kochalka Superstar
1)	Chain - The Fire Theft
2)	Joe's Garage - Frank Zappa
3)	Tear Stained Letter - Richard Thompson
4)	Comeback (Light Therapy) - Josh Rouse
5)	Walking on Thin Ice - Yoko Ono
6)	Bubblehouse - Chris Wood/Medeski, Martin & Wood/Billy Martin
7)	Ain't No End - The Jayhawks
8)	Academy Fight Song - Mission of Burma
9)	Fire - Jimi Hendrix
10)	Crooked Frame - Alejandro Escovedo
11)	Awkward Age - Joe Jackson Band
12)	Descarga de Hoy - ?Cubanismo!
13)	Pacing the Cage - Bruce Cockburn
14)	Paris 1919 - John Cale (live)
15)	Cougar Run - Mickey Hart
16)	Confession Time (Cops) - Bill Hicks

Album: Rykodisc 20th Anniversary
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Changes - David Bowie
2)	Changes - Sugar
3)	This Magic Moment - Misfits
4)	Honey White - Morphine
5)	Looking Forward to Seeing You - Golden Smog
6)	Happiness Is Drumming - Diga Rhythm Band
7)	Satisfaction - Devo
8)	Put Your Hand Inside the Puppet Head - They Might Be Giants
9)	Take Me Down - Kelly Willis
10)	I Will Dare - The Replacements
11)	Wicked World - Osaka Popstar
12)	Tied to the Tracks - Soul Asylum
13)	Valentine - Nils Lofgren
14)	Pink Moon - Nick Drake
15)	Al Du - Ali Farka Tour?/Ry Cooder
16)	Not So Far to Go - Kelly Joe Phelps
17)	24-7 Man - Robert Cray
18)	Day After Day - Badfinger
19)	Thank You Friends - Big Star
20)	Even the Clouds Get High - James Kochalka Superstar
1)	Chain - The Fire Theft
2)	Joe's Garage - Frank Zappa
3)	Tear Stained Letter - Richard Thompson
4)	Comeback (Light Therapy) - Josh Rouse
5)	Walking on Thin Ice - Yoko Ono
6)	Bubblehouse - Chris Wood/Medeski, Martin & Wood/Billy Martin
7)	Ain't No End - The Jayhawks
8)	Academy Fight Song - Mission of Burma
9)	Fire - Jimi Hendrix
10)	Crooked Frame - Alejandro Escovedo
11)	Awkward Age - Joe Jackson Band
12)	Descarga de Hoy - ?Cubanismo!
13)	Pacing the Cage - Bruce Cockburn
14)	Paris 1919 - John Cale (live)
15)	Cougar Run - Mickey Hart
16)	Confession Time (Cops) - Bill Hicks

Performer Notes

Liner Note Authors: Arthur Mann; Jeff Rougvie; Robert Simonds; Don Rose.
This is where a thirty-something music geek scratches his balding (not bald) head and says, "Geez, has it really been 20 years since that first Jim Pepper album came out?" He pauses momentarily to consider his mortality, then puts this two-disc sampler in the machine and immediately hears David Bowie's "Changes" and Sugar's "Changes" back to back -- two songs that could hardly be more dissimilar, and that together illustrate as well as any could the amazing history of the company that made its name in the early '80s as the world's first CD-only record label. That history is, necessarily, represented a bit spottily on this compilation: Bowie's here, but not Bootsy; Cockburn and Cooder and Cray are here, but not Costello. A few of the inclusions are questionable: Medeski, Martin & Wood's rather lackluster "Bubblehouse" is far from the group's best work for Rykodisc; the same is true of the Jayhawks' laconic "Ain't No End." But there's certainly no arguing with Kelly Willis' grittily brilliant "Take Me Down," Richard Thompson's brutal "Tear Stained Letter," Josh Rouse's "Come Back (Light Therapy)," or Mission of Burma's epochal "Academy Fight Song." And if you've never heard of Osaka Popstar or Alejandro Escovedo, their tracks here may well send you back to the catalog. Yes, it's basically disposable -- the whole idea is to interest you in these recordings enough that you'll acquire all of them and render the compilation unnecessary -- but even so, this 20th anniversary collection is a wise investment and a surprisingly solid listening experience. ~ Rick Anderson