Post by sakimcgee on Aug 17, 2022 6:14:30 GMT
I'm not sure if anyone else will be interested in this, but these pieces of media have been something of a mystery to me for most of my life and I really just want to talk about them. I know the CD isn't lost media, because there's multiple listings for sale online if you look, and I own one myself. The documentary going along with it, however, I'm less sure about. The most I've ever really found is a trailer, but then I haven't particularly looked that hard.
So back in 2001, this concert documentary called 'All Access' was being promoted by including its soundtrack on CD in boxes of cereal. I was only six at the time, so I have no memory of what cereal brand specifically was carrying it, but I know it wasn't an uncommon marketing tactic back then. I still remember getting Kid's Choice Awards CDs the same way. Regardless, baby me absolutely fell in love with the All Access CD without ever knowing anything about it or the documentary attached to it. I know it had double functionality as a CD-ROM that would play a promo for the movie, but I never cared about that. All I ever truly cared about, and what lead me to making this post to see if any other human being knows about this thing anymore, is the version of Moby's Porcelain that, to my knowledge, only seems to exist on this soundtrack and absolutely nowhere else.
The tracklist of the CD was as follows:
1 Sting, Cheb Mami– Desert Rose
2 George Clinton, P-Funk All Stars, Mary J. Blige– Give Up The Funk/Flashlight/One Nation (Under A Groove)/Atomic Dog (Medley)
3 Sheryl Crow– If It Makes You Happy (Acoustic)
4 B.B. King, Trey Anastasio, The Roots– Rock Me Baby
5 Macy Gray– I Can't Wait To Meetchu
6 Moby– Porcelain
7 Moby– Inside
So like I said, 1st grade me was absolutely enamored with this mix of Porcelain, and I didn't even find out what it was called until I did more research in like, high school. This mix is really only subtly different from the main release, but the key feature that I always liked about it more than the main mix was the lack of drum beat through the first verse, leaving only the vocals and piano, and overall I like the more ethereal quality it has. But I digress - as I said before, I've literally never found this exact mix anywhere else other than on this forgotten CD. It's not lost media because, again, copies of the CD seem pretty easy to order and I still have mine (that's been resurfaced like three times in the 21 years since I pulled it out of my Cheerios or whatever). It's just...an odd, specific mix of a song that feels kind of mysterious to me because the documentary that spawned it seems to have been forgotten by the world.
I will say, it's highly likely that the other tracks on the CD are exclusive to it as well, but I don't know those as intimately so it's hard to tell. I at least know from a cursory look that I've never heard the exact acoustic version of If It Makes You Happy that's featured on this soundtrack anywhere else, either. And the Desert Rose track was recorded live from (I assume) the concert featured in the documentary, so it's probably exclusive as well.
So, does anyone else remember this promo CD, or possibly remember the documentary itself? Should something be done to preserve either of them? Are they worth it? I really don't know - I mostly just wanted to ramble about my intrigue surrounding a highly specific version of a Moby song of all things lmao.
So back in 2001, this concert documentary called 'All Access' was being promoted by including its soundtrack on CD in boxes of cereal. I was only six at the time, so I have no memory of what cereal brand specifically was carrying it, but I know it wasn't an uncommon marketing tactic back then. I still remember getting Kid's Choice Awards CDs the same way. Regardless, baby me absolutely fell in love with the All Access CD without ever knowing anything about it or the documentary attached to it. I know it had double functionality as a CD-ROM that would play a promo for the movie, but I never cared about that. All I ever truly cared about, and what lead me to making this post to see if any other human being knows about this thing anymore, is the version of Moby's Porcelain that, to my knowledge, only seems to exist on this soundtrack and absolutely nowhere else.
The tracklist of the CD was as follows:
1 Sting, Cheb Mami– Desert Rose
2 George Clinton, P-Funk All Stars, Mary J. Blige– Give Up The Funk/Flashlight/One Nation (Under A Groove)/Atomic Dog (Medley)
3 Sheryl Crow– If It Makes You Happy (Acoustic)
4 B.B. King, Trey Anastasio, The Roots– Rock Me Baby
5 Macy Gray– I Can't Wait To Meetchu
6 Moby– Porcelain
7 Moby– Inside
So like I said, 1st grade me was absolutely enamored with this mix of Porcelain, and I didn't even find out what it was called until I did more research in like, high school. This mix is really only subtly different from the main release, but the key feature that I always liked about it more than the main mix was the lack of drum beat through the first verse, leaving only the vocals and piano, and overall I like the more ethereal quality it has. But I digress - as I said before, I've literally never found this exact mix anywhere else other than on this forgotten CD. It's not lost media because, again, copies of the CD seem pretty easy to order and I still have mine (that's been resurfaced like three times in the 21 years since I pulled it out of my Cheerios or whatever). It's just...an odd, specific mix of a song that feels kind of mysterious to me because the documentary that spawned it seems to have been forgotten by the world.
I will say, it's highly likely that the other tracks on the CD are exclusive to it as well, but I don't know those as intimately so it's hard to tell. I at least know from a cursory look that I've never heard the exact acoustic version of If It Makes You Happy that's featured on this soundtrack anywhere else, either. And the Desert Rose track was recorded live from (I assume) the concert featured in the documentary, so it's probably exclusive as well.
So, does anyone else remember this promo CD, or possibly remember the documentary itself? Should something be done to preserve either of them? Are they worth it? I really don't know - I mostly just wanted to ramble about my intrigue surrounding a highly specific version of a Moby song of all things lmao.