"Name Your Own" Sampler

This is a Warner Bros. Records in-store sampler from 1995. Unlike the Trademark Of Quality promos and some of their other unique releases, this one doesn't have anything unreleased on it, though it is rather unique nonetheless. The cover image is actually a sticker and contains the rather amazing phrase, "Fuck 'em in the ear", as an option to name the CD. I suppose whomever approved the cover figured wherever this was getting played, the store wouldn't put the case up front for customers to see, though that seems rather naive. On top of that, the CD features the Deftones' 7 Words, a song which certainly sounds like someone is screaming "fuck" repeatedly in the chorus, as well as Backstrokin' from Mr. Bungle's Disco Volante, one of the most uncommercial albums Warner Bros. has ever released and also features some mumbled obscenities at the end. Overall though, the CD is actually a really great representation of WB's alternative themed releases from the mid-nineties. You've got appearances from Cibo Matto, Soul Coughing, Cornershop and many more. The Mouse On Mars and Long Fin Killie tracks are particularly good.

If I heard this disc in a store today I'd probably be asking about several of the releases, although I'm glad I already know the majority of them. That said, while I know Soul Coughing's The Brooklynites rather well, John Lurie's Let's Get Ready To Rhumba is rather excellent and I'm probably going to have to hunt down the Blue In The Face and Smoke soundtracks. Never seen either movie before, though I always wanted to. Guess I've got some research to do. Enjoy!


"Name Your Own" Sampler

01 Deftones - 7 Words
02 Mr. Bungle - Backstrokin'
03 Mouse On Mars - Bib
04 Long Fin Killie - Homo Erectus
05 Lisa Gerrard - Sunvean
06 The Flaming Lips - Psychiatric Explorations Of The Fetus With Needles
07 Son Volt - Drown
08 The Jesus and Mary Chain - I Hate Rock 'n' Roll
09 Cibo Matto - Know Your Chicken
10 Built To Spill & Cuastic Resin - Still Flat
11 Pedro Ramos - Luis di Kandinha (Luis, Kandinha's Son)
12 You Am I - Jewels and Bullets
13 Cornershop - Call All Destroyer
14 Soul Coughing - The Brooklynites
15 John Lurie - Let's Get Ready To Rhumba