Rarebird's Rock and Roll Nest

Live at Cabaret Metro 10-5-88 is a rare live CD by The Smashing Pumpkins, which was given away free to people who attended the Pumpkins' concert at the Metro in Chicago on December 2, 2000, which was supposed to be the band's final concert. (The Pumpkins would later reunite in 2006). This CD documents the band's very first performance at the same venue 12 years earlier, on October 5, 1988. That '88 show was the Pumpkins' fourth concert overall, but was the first to be performed by all four members of the classic lineup. The CD was limited to approximately 1,200 copies, and included a note which said: Please enjoy this special gift from the Smashing Pumpkins and Metro. This is a recording of the Smashing Pumpkins' first show at Metro on October 5th, 1988. The artwork is by James Iha. We hope you enjoyed the show, and we thank you for your many years of support. -The Smashing Pumpkins and Metro The very first Pumpkins performance took place three months b...

As someone who began collecting out-of-print records in the early 1990's, I can easily remember a time when many Beach Boys albums were not commercially available, and seemed to be rarely discussed. Which albums were those? Well, nearly every proper album that the band recorded after 1969 was unavailable and largely forgotten during the '90's. That began to change in the year 2000, when Capitol Records issued a 2-on-1 CD containing the 1970 Sunflower album and the 1971 Surf's Up album on one disc. Similar 2-on-1 reissues followed during that same year, until all of the band's studio albums up to the self-titled Beach Boys from 1985 were available again. Since then, those albums have remained commercially available -- physically, digitally, or both -- and some of them (particularly the ones released during the early-'70's) have become more appreciated over time. However, there are two Beach Boys albums that have been un available since the 1990's, an...