Various Artists-The Score (2002)


Artist: Various Artists (Johnny Pate & Adam Wade, The Kinks, Quincy Jones, DJ Shadow, Roy Budd, Elmer Bernstein & Orchestra, Jo Armstead, Booker T & The MG's, John Barry, Peter Cook & Dudley Moore, Henry Mancini, Mongo Santamaria, Vince Guaraldi, David Shire, Isaac Hayes, Wil Malone, Ennio Morricone, The Slickers, Moby, Nick Cave)

Title: The Score

Label: Mojo Magazine

Format: CD

Cat: June 2002

Year of Release: 2002

Country and Year of Edition: UK 2002 with June 2002 Magazine

Sell Price: $2.99 VG+/VG+ 6/3/24

Discogs Last Sold: 4/3/24 VG+/VG+ $3.00

Low: $0.32

Median: $2.12

Average: $2.45

High: $5.43

Current low price: $1.14

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 76

Have/Want: 1039/51

Where Sold: Germantown, MD

Time it took to sell:  10 years

Where and When Purchased: June 2002 or thereabouts when the magazine was on the newsstand, probably a month prior

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+

Sad To See It Go: No

Another month and another Mojo CD in a jewel case scattered in my living room.  This was my life in 2002 and probably almost every other year in the naughty aughties.  Some of the discs were actually played, since I had a 200-disc carousel CD player.  At the time, I liked to put whatever I bought in recent weeks on random shuffle.  This copy  had the tell-tale signs of having gone into the machine since the shrink wrap was taken off the disc.

As usual with a Mojo compilation they are excellent although does anyone really need "Linus and Lucy" by Vince Guaraldi compiled on anything?  I don't.  Maybe they don't get subjected to it  during Christmas as much in the UK, so perhaps in 2002 it was still a novelty.  Here in the US it had it's highest charting year in 2022 peaking at #37.  The album peaked at #6 in 2009 and has reeled off 115 charting weeks to date.

I made a Spotify compilation of 17 available tracks and linked the other three that weren't on YouTube.   The Kinks track "God's Children" made me realize how shockingly little I knew the Percy Soundtrack.  In fact, it might be one of the only Kinks albums I've never owned outright.  Disturbing.

The rest is atmospheric soundtrack music that you would expect on a compilation Mojo did of atmospheric soundtrack music whether Nick Cave's Beatle cover "Let It Be" or Henry Mancini.  Good for washing the dishes or having a chat.

Up to the usual standard whatever that is.


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