The Richard Harris post made me think, and in my case it would be a CD of master session drummer Hal Blaine telling jokes and anecdotes, with a bit of drumming thrown in to lure us musically inclined. It's the only comedy album I've got, and I bought it for Hal Blaine, because he drummed for Phil Spector and the Beach Boys and countless others. In fact, he is on more gold records than any other musician. I played it once, but I'm going to keep it, the jokes are good, and the drumming is by - Hal Blaine.

Also, I've got a poetry CD with music composed by Brian Wilson, again, only played once, I think. But a keeper.

The poetry CD is by Stephen Kalinich, BTW.

Alex Harvey - The Loch Ness Monster - an interview disc - AH interviews folks who claim to have encountered Nessie.

I have a Pete Townshend CD from about 1994 that apparently utilizes a forgotten technology known as CD-i. If I remember correctly, it was sold with a magazine that was attempting to push the format--sort of a precurser to DVD as it was the size of a CD and featured video content. The CD content (playable on any CD player) included the audio of seven songs from Pete's 1993 pay-per-view special (which has since been issued on both DVD and CD) and if one owned a CD-i unit, the video could be accessed as well.

I also have three or four titles from the "Celebrities At Their Worst" series. Although most of this type of embarassing celebrity stuff has become quite common on the internet, a dozen year ago, the material was quite sensational.

I have one of those "shaped" CD's, a three-track soundtrack sampler that came with a VHS copy of "Animal House". I probably sold the video at a garage sale, but I still have the disc.

I have some old comedy CD's of material from Orlando radio stations that will probably make no sense whatsoever to future generations. Along the same lines, I also have an odd disc or two, usually purchased from a bar, that I purchased directly from the artist on the disc.

Oh, and there's always "All American Songs", which I got for free at a Winn-Dixie a few years back. If nothing else, it contains Lee Greenwood's "Pround To Be An American".

There's probably one or two others I'm forgetting...

I have a CD of interviews Lawrence Ritter did with old baseball players for his book "The Glory Of Their Times". Pretty cool to hear, especially when the older guys rip the modern-day player for greed, laziness, lesser skills and knowledge - and you realize they're talking about players in the 50s and 60s.

Alan

I guess I'd have to go with the Celebrities At Their Worst discs. I have 3 of them. Just hearing Ernie Anderson's VO outtakes (with the engineer saying as he left the studio "That is one sad, angry man."), or The Shat mispronouncing "sabotage" makes me warm inside.

probably the album by timothy leary.

I have Volumes 1, 2, & 4 of the Golden Throats series, William Shatner's Transformed Man, and a CD of Beatles songs barked by dogs.

I have one of these:

BABBLE Virtual Audio Words & Music (Rare 1994 US promotional-only psycho-acoustic CD album, including musical excerpts from 'The Stone' album, plus a black satin eye mask to enhance the acoustics & imagination! digipak picture sleeve.

I can't imagine just what the "promotion" was.

Renny,

I think he recorded two albums, "LSD" and "Turn on, Tune in, Drop Out", which one have you got`?

Possibly the oddest — because I've never seen it's existence mentioned anywhere — is a 12-track promo disc of instrumentals by the band Rooney from emi musicResources.

CD-i was a sort-of videogame system marketed as an interactive CD player for the home, and priced to match. It's best known for the "big gold Buddha" commercial that was all over MTV in the '90s, and several horrifying Zelda games. This was during the "full-motion video" phase when videogames were really, really bad.

Original LP cover:



CD reissue cover:

Or maybe this one:

the second one, it has stephen stills and jimi hendrix playing on it.

You think he was on a few pharmaceuticals when he recorded it?

I bought the CD reissue of Mrs. Miller, but I think I sold it again, she was too much for me.

Mrs. Miller looks like Ronald Reagen on the reissue cover.

That would probably be my copy of "Hand-polished Amish Love Songs" by The Fake Fireplace Boys.

Petra Haden's acappela, mouth sounds, version of the Who Sell Out.

Did her "tenacious" hubby have anything to do with that?

I was going out with a ballet dancer way back in 1990. She gave me a CD that contains an hour of a country stream, includes running water and frogs croaking occasionally. We are no longer together............he he.