[music] PHIL COLLINS - Serious Hits... Live! (Atlantic)

My moving-day trash scores: this, the Beasties' Ill Communication, a (the?) Woodstock '94 compilation, all three of the Griffin & Sabine books, and a paperback boxlet of the Dark Is Rising series.

Were this a studio compilation I might even have kept it (I, uh, kind of like the songs), but the open-air live sound is so convincing that I keep thinking of being outside on a summer night, and if I have a beautiful summer night to enjoy, I would actually prefer to do it without Phil Collins.

[music] v/a - Woodstock '94

As a whole this is too fucked to talk about how, or speculate on why. What gets me down is how its worst aspects seem dated only insofar as they're distinctive... parts of culture are still bad, and bad in this same way, today. This only feels ten years old when Salt'N'Pepa come on or whatever.

The funniest way, though, that this resembles boxfuls of shitty mixtapes exchanged by people around me in college is that not only does Bob Dylan make an irrelevant, cred-lending appearance, but the box cover gets the name of his song wrong. Dude, you know, it's like, that "Highway 61" song.

Wait no but the most horrible part is a Woodstock functionary getting onstage to tell the crowd that they should behave more responsibly, in order to "prove those assholes wrong who said you didn't deserve your own Woodstock".