Trapped

Nobody enjoys the ego dent of being picked on by someone far smaller than themselves. Or of others finding out.

This ant probably thought getting beaten up by a mite would go unnoticed, until the incident was locked in amber for 45 million years, discovered by scientists and paraded on the internet.

A remarkable moment, locked in.

The musical equivalent of the prehistoric-insect-incident-entombed-in-amber is the unsuccessful compilation CD.

Pockets of genius remain unripped, unstreamed, unSpotified and unYouTubed after years living only in a few pieces of silver plastic.

Here’s one recently cracked open from the 1998 French compilation Source Rocks.