I was going to wax nostalgic about the days when Starbucks used to sell cds at their stores and even had their own record label Hear Music (not sure exactly how that worked, but I digress), but it's not like I regularly bought cds there. Plus, the ways they marketed the cds placed an inordinate emphasis on lifestyle, imho. However, I will forever defend their Sweetheart compilations - at least the two I have that are now out of print. Download Sweetheart
| My Funny Valentine | Rufus Wainwright |
| Let My Love Open The Door | M. Ward |
| Buckets Of Rain | Neko Case |
| Love Will Tear Us Apart | Calexico |
| She's Got Everything | Old 97's |
| How Can I Tell You | Gary Jules |
| Give Your Moma One Smile | Madeleine Peyroux |
| The More I See You | Sondre Lerche |
| I Only Have Eyes For You | Martina Topley-Bird |
| There Is A Light That Never Goes Out | Joseph Arthur |
| Your Sweet Voice | Milton Mapes |
| Use Me | Jim White |
| Forever | Britta Phillips & Dean Wareham |
| Inutil Paisagem | Vinicius Cantuaria |
| A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square | Mindy Smith |
| Download Sweetheart: Love Songs | |
| It's All In The Game | Nick Lowe |
| What The World Needs Now | Aimee Mann |
| Until You Came Into My Life | Joe Henry |
| A Face In The Crowd | Kathleen Edwards |
| I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire | Clem Snide |
| Au Fond Du Reve Dore | Nada Surf |
| Love | Rosie Thomas |
| Moonlight Becomes You | Ron Sexsmith |
| Tonight You Belong To Me | Josh Ritter With Blake Hazard |
| Home Soon (The Cherry Song) | Sarah Harmer |
| Ab's Song | Iron & Wine |
| Crazy For You | Miho Hatori |
| Your Tender Loving Care | Jon Hyde |
5 comments:
Thank you.
Aaah, Hear Music... good times. Don't remember where I used to get their CDs, it wasn't Starbucks, but they were unfailingly excellent.
Thank you, these look good.
@charles,
Quite welcome!
@anonymous,
As I mentioned above, I think the Hear Music cds got a lot of flak for their purported "lifestyle" emphasis. And there were surely some that fit into that category, but a lot of others were clearly curated by people who knew the particular genre(s) they were compiling while trying to keep them as accessible as possible. The sweetheart cds both have a few cuts I'm not crazy about, but the batting average on both is still high and there are some really great covers on each (the Neko Case and Ron Sexsmith cuts immediately come to mind)
Ish
Could it be that the link is not working anymore?
Thanks!
Guillermo,
Just re-upped them. Enjoy!
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