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Welcome to June's CD update. A total of 31 CDs this month making this the second month of 2019 to go over 30 CDs total. Most of these were gems I found over at the local record store in the town nearest to me on two separate occasions. Eight of these titles were picked up on the first week of June (the iconic Beatles disc "Abbey Road" is a noteworthy pick up along with Karnivool's "Sound Awake" disc and a six-pack of budget price discs like No Doubt's smash album from 1994 and Sting's "Brand New Day", a mainstay at every record store that I'm actually OK with), and a whopping 14 of them were among the birthday pickups. The titles picked up during my birthday at this record store are listed with an asterisk next to them so you can discern the difference. Among the noteworthy pickups are a surprise find of the Underoath album "They're Only Chasing Safety" which I had been trying to find for years, Van Halen's third album which I'd also beem trying to get, and titles from Pearl Jam, REM, Rush, and even Phil Collins for good measure. Also noteworthy is that Filter single for "Take A Picture" you're currently looking at as well as that "Mortal Kombat" compilation.

Fun fact- there is a song from Sevendust featured on the Mortal Kombat disc before they settled on the name Sevendust and were still going by the name Crawlspace. If you don't know, that is one of several names they went by before becoming who they are today. After the release of this compilation by TVT in 1996, a similarly titled band sued them for $2,500 in order to get the rights to the name. Before the whole Crawlspace ordeal, Sevendust were going by "Rumblefish" which was changed for similar reasons, and that name would later be used for the title of a track on their sophomore release, 1999's "Home". Before that they were going by "Snake Nation" during their formation in 1994. So, there's a lot of history behind Sevendust's band name and this soundtrack is very interesting for that reason. I mean, the band was signed to TVT when they were going by Crawlspace and were so confident in their band name at the time that they decided to make a soundtrack appearance with that name! That's something.

Aside from those record shop pickups, nine albums were picked up elsewhere. Noteworthy additions include two hits compilations from Van Halen and The Eagles, respectively, and a surprise Wal-Mart exclusive hits package from Seether. I didn't even know Seether came out with another hits collection making this the second time they have done that this decade, the other released by Wind-Up in 2013 and this one released by a different label. Only ten tracks made the cut while the previous one had many more plus a rarity-filled bonus disc. Priced at $9.97 for now, I can see this one becoming a $5.00 budget title in the future so of you're new to Seether, definitely pick it up. Other than that, I picked up an Avenged Sevenfold disc I didn't have at Best Buy. If you don't know, there is still the treasure bin of CDs which have various $5.99 priced albums, and this album "Waking The Fallen" was one of them. Other than that, there are two Barnes And Noble pickups in the form of Duran Duran's "Notorious" and Rush's "Vapor Trails", a 2002 release.

All titles listed below.

THE BEATLES Abbey Road
FIVE FOR FIGHTING America Town*
VAN HALEN Best Of Volume 1
BILLY TALENT Billy Talent II
STING Brand New Day
EAGLE EYE CHERRY Desireless*
KENNY G Duotones*
JOURNEY Eclipse
RUSH Grace Under Pressure*
STING Mercury Falling*
PHIL COLLINS No Jacket Required*
DURAN DURAN Notorious
ONESIDEZERO Onesidezero
COLDPLAY Parachutes
PEARL JAM Pearl Jam*
THIS BEAUTIFUL REPUBLIC Perceptions*
SPIN DOCTORS Pocket Full Of Kryptonite
REM Reckoning*
REPUBLICA Republica*
KARNIVOOL Sound Awake
LIVING COLOR Stain
SUGAR RAY Sugar Ray
FILTER Take A Picture Single*
THE EAGLES Their Greatest Hits
UNDEROATH They're Only Chasing Safety*
NO DOUBT Tragic Kingdom
RUSH Vapor Trails
SEETHER The Very Best Of Seether
AVENGED SEVENFOLD Waking The Fallen
VAN HALEN Women And Children First*
MORTAL KOMBAT: MORE KOMBAT*

Description
Welcome to June's CD update. A total of 31 CDs this month making this the second month of 2019 to go over 30 CDs total. Most of these were gems I found over at the local record store in the town nearest to me on two separate occasions. Eight of these titles were picked up on the first week of June (the iconic Beatles disc "Abbey Road" is a noteworthy pick up along with Karnivool's "Sound Awake" disc and a six-pack of budget price discs like No Doubt's smash album from 1994 and Sting's "Brand New Day", a mainstay at every record store that I'm actually OK with), and a whopping 14 of them were among the birthday pickups. The titles picked up during my birthday at this record store are listed with an asterisk next to them so you can discern the difference. Among the noteworthy pickups are a surprise find of the Underoath album "They're Only Chasing Safety" which I had been trying to find for years, Van Halen's third album which I'd also beem trying to get, and titles from Pearl Jam, REM, Rush, and even Phil Collins for good measure. Also noteworthy is that Filter single for "Take A Picture" you're currently looking at as well as that "Mortal Kombat" compilation.

Fun fact- there is a song from Sevendust featured on the Mortal Kombat disc before they settled on the name Sevendust and were still going by the name Crawlspace. If you don't know, that is one of several names they went by before becoming who they are today. After the release of this compilation by TVT in 1996, a similarly titled band sued them for $2,500 in order to get the rights to the name. Before the whole Crawlspace ordeal, Sevendust were going by "Rumblefish" which was changed for similar reasons, and that name would later be used for the title of a track on their sophomore release, 1999's "Home". Before that they were going by "Snake Nation" during their formation in 1994. So, there's a lot of history behind Sevendust's band name and this soundtrack is very interesting for that reason. I mean, the band was signed to TVT when they were going by Crawlspace and were so confident in their band name at the time that they decided to make a soundtrack appearance with that name! That's something.

Aside from those record shop pickups, nine albums were picked up elsewhere. Noteworthy additions include two hits compilations from Van Halen and The Eagles, respectively, and a surprise Wal-Mart exclusive hits package from Seether. I didn't even know Seether came out with another hits collection making this the second time they have done that this decade, the other released by Wind-Up in 2013 and this one released by a different label. Only ten tracks made the cut while the previous one had many more plus a rarity-filled bonus disc. Priced at $9.97 for now, I can see this one becoming a $5.00 budget title in the future so of you're new to Seether, definitely pick it up. Other than that, I picked up an Avenged Sevenfold disc I didn't have at Best Buy. If you don't know, there is still the treasure bin of CDs which have various $5.99 priced albums, and this album "Waking The Fallen" was one of them. Other than that, there are two Barnes And Noble pickups in the form of Duran Duran's "Notorious" and Rush's "Vapor Trails", a 2002 release.

All titles listed below.

THE BEATLES Abbey Road
FIVE FOR FIGHTING America Town*
VAN HALEN Best Of Volume 1
BILLY TALENT Billy Talent II
STING Brand New Day
EAGLE EYE CHERRY Desireless*
KENNY G Duotones*
JOURNEY Eclipse
RUSH Grace Under Pressure*
STING Mercury Falling*
PHIL COLLINS No Jacket Required*
DURAN DURAN Notorious
ONESIDEZERO Onesidezero
COLDPLAY Parachutes
PEARL JAM Pearl Jam*
THIS BEAUTIFUL REPUBLIC Perceptions*
SPIN DOCTORS Pocket Full Of Kryptonite
REM Reckoning*
REPUBLICA Republica*
KARNIVOOL Sound Awake
LIVING COLOR Stain
SUGAR RAY Sugar Ray
FILTER Take A Picture Single*
THE EAGLES Their Greatest Hits
UNDEROATH They're Only Chasing Safety*
NO DOUBT Tragic Kingdom
RUSH Vapor Trails
SEETHER The Very Best Of Seether
AVENGED SEVENFOLD Waking The Fallen
VAN HALEN Women And Children First*
MORTAL KOMBAT: MORE KOMBAT*