Scott and I went to Tower Record on Friday to browse the CD collection. Now normally I would finish that statement with a glib remark or a jab at archaic business models but I found out something that I didn’t know about. Dual Discs. Scott pointed them out to when he picked up the new Bens Fold CD, Songs for Silverman, which features the CD on one side (which may not play on all CD/CDROMs) and a DVD on the other side, which featured the enitre album in 5.1 sound along with a video! Now I like to think of myself as current in the scene but this caught me off guard. How did I miss something this startling in the CD store business? I mean, it’s not like I read the trade journals or keep up with whatever the most recent vomit band out of LA is but I should have seen, no known that they were going to do this. It’s quite a neat concept and a great way to keep me going back to the place that I thought was headed for the crapper, a retail store… that is, until amazon carries these.
Also, I picked up a copy of Verve Remixes 3 which I really dug while listening to it at a listening station. We couldn’t find the volumes 2 and 1 at the store, so of course I checked on line. Amazon carries both. We’ll one less of each now 
. Basically, the album is a series of old Verve label recordings by what would be considered “classical” (read 50’s/60’s/70’s) artists which have been remixed by modern DJ’s to be phat. While not fresh, per se they are still funky.