CDs

[ewx]

LNR took quite a lot of (her!) CDs with her when she left. I've finally got round to making a list of the gaps I'd like to fill. Since I'm not really planning to buy over 60 CDs in one go, would anyone care to put them into an order?

• Annie Lennox/Diva
• 2 Many DJ's/As Heard On Radio Soulwax
• Auf der Maur/Auf der Maur
• Black Rebel Motorcycle Club/BRMC
• Black Rebel Motorcycle Club/Howl
• Blondie/Atomic
• Blur/The Great Escape
• Blur/Blur
• Blur/Think Tank
• Blur/Park Life
• Blur/Modern Life Is Rubbish
• Blur/13
• CocoRosie/Noah's Ark
• Detroit Cobras/Mink, Rat, Or Rabbit
• Elastica/Elastica
• Faithless/Sunday 8PM
• Franz Ferdinand/Franz Ferdinand
• Gorillaz/Gorillaz
• Hard-Fi/Stars Of CCTV
• Jools Holland/Small World Big Band
• Kaiser Chiefs/Employment
• LCD Soundsystem/LCD Soundsystem
• Ladytron/Witching Hour
• Lou Reed/The Best of Lou Reed & The Velvet Underground
• Louis XIV/The Best Little Secrets Are Kept
• Manic Street Preachers/This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
• Muse/Absolution
• Natalie Imbruglia/Left Of The Middle
• Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds/Abattoir Blues
• Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds/The Lyre Of Orpheus
• Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds/The Boatman's Call
• Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds/Live at the Royal Albert Hall
• OK Go/OK Go
• OK Go/Oh No
• Oysterband (and others)/The Big Session - Volume 1
• Pixies/Doolittle
• Pixies/Surfer Rosa & Come On Pilgrim
• PJ Harvey/Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
• Portishead/Portishead
• Preacher Boy/Gutters and Pews
• Preacher Boy/The Devil's Buttermilk
• Pulp/His 'n' Hers
• Pulp/Different Class
• Pulp/We Love Life
• Radiohead/Pablo Honey
• Radiohead/OK Computer
• Rammstein/Reise, Reise
• Rammstein/Rosenrot
• Red Hot Chili Peppers/By The Way
• Scissor Sisters/Scissor Sisters
• Show of Hands/Country Life
• Smash Mouth/Astro Lounge
• Sultans Of Ping/Casual Sex In The Cineplex
• Terrorvision/Shaving peaches
• Terrorvision/How To Make Friends And Influence People
• Terrorvision/Good To Go
• The Boo Radleys/Wake Up!
• The Clash/London Calling
• The Cure/Staring at the Sea (The singles)
• The Cure/Disintegration
• The Darkness/Permission to Land
• The Divine Comedy/Absent Friends
• The Divine Comedy/Regeneration
• The Killers/Hot Fuss
• The Killers/Sam's Town
• The Presidents Of The USA/The Presidents Of The United States Of America
• The Stone Roses/The Stone Roses
• The Von Bondies/Pawn Shoppe Heart
• The White Stripes/Elephant
• Tom Jones/Reload
• Travis/The Man Who

(Some updates made in light of discussion below; crossed out ones have been ordered.)

Comments

[j4.livejournal.com]

Easy: "Disintegration is the best album ever!" (http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/chainofFlowers/spark.htm)

[baljemmett.livejournal.com]

# Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds/Abattoir Blues
# Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds/The Lyre Of Orpheus

ISTR these are the two halves of a two-disc album, which might make life (very slightly) easier. Unless, like me, your shelves are just a little too closely spaced for the fancy packaging to fit.

As for the rest, I don't know enough (either of the albums or your tastes) to suggest a ranking -- or did you mean "order" as in "consignment"? *grin*

[baljemmett.livejournal.com]

Go go gadget HTML! *stares blankly at the empty coffee mug and dozes off at his desk*

[ms-saffie.livejournal.com]

OK Computer - no question. A classic and just brilliant.

[beingjdc.livejournal.com]

Pulp, clearly!

[uisgebeatha.livejournal.com]

Muse, The Cure, The Divine Comedy and The Killers spring to mind as things I'd recommend. But I'm not sure how eclectic your taste is ;)

[ewx.livejournal.com]

These are all things I want (and only a subset of the CDs LNR left with) - the question is which to buy first...

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

Top 5 to get (IMO): Annie Lennox, Muse, Portishead, Radiohead (OK computer) and Terrorvision (HTMFAIP)

[sphyg.livejournal.com]

Seconded, plus Clash/Cure.

[lnr]

*grin* I actually made such a list before I moved out, turned it into a separate Amazon wishlist, and then merged that into my main wishlist after I moved.

Mind you I've trimmed the wishlist quite a bit since then and decided I didn't want some of them all that much. So far the only one I've actually gone out and bought is Pulp's This Is Hardcore and Oysterband's Trawler.

I'm interested to see that some of the more obscure ones made your list though.

[lnr]

Oh, and you've completely confused my brain by putting the The bands under T.

[arnhem.livejournal.com]

The The !

[damerell.livejournal.com]

Blondie, bigods!

[aardvark179.livejournal.com]

Radiohead, The Stone Roses, Ladytron, LCD Soundsystem.

Oh, why isn't 13 by Blur on that list? Do you own it or is it missing due to some terrible oversight?

Is this an automatically generated list? I think Nick Cave Live at the Royal Albert Hall is a bonus disc with the Best Of album, might be worth checking.

[lnr]

Nick cave> It is, yes.

13> I'm pretty sure that was one of mine too.

I'm also wondering why there isn't any more Pulp in that list. I'm pretty sure We Love Life and Different Class both moved out when I did, and I'd pick either of those above His n Hers.

And I'm surprised you want one Show of Hands album and not the other.

And you didn't want *any* of the Pixies?

The full list of my stuff is online, although a few of them were bought after I moved out, if anyone else wants to berate him for missing some:

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~eleanorb/cds.txt

This could get _even more_ expensive

[ewx.livejournal.com]

I've made some updates. There might be more to come...

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I was going on UIDs on the .ogg files, but it looks like those aren't as close to CD ownership as I'd thought. Expect some updates when I've done another pass l-)

[lnr]

That's never going to work, given there was a large batch when they were first oggified when we were just working through with both of us ripping as fast as we could just to get them all done.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Yes, but there was also a lengthy phase where you bought impressive numbers of CDs and ripped them all yourself l-)

[ewx.livejournal.com]

The list corresponds to directory structure, so might not be fully aligned with the product. I've got digital copies of all of the above, just not the physical CDs...

[1ngi.livejournal.com]

First five should be: Blondie, Annie Lennox, Teh Cure - Disintegration, Lou Reed/Velvet Underground (makes personal mental note to buy that one) and Gorillaz.

[gerald_duck]

Of those, the only one I actually do own is Annie Lennox — Diva. Though I keep meaning to buy a few of the others, it would be hypocritical of me to recommend you do when I haven't. (-8

[nja.livejournal.com]

If I was picking five: LCD Soundsystem, Pulp, The Cure singles (I like the albums, but I think they were a much better singles band), Stone Roses, White Stripes. Possibly Radiohead, but I much prefer the Kid A / Amnesiac era.

[ex-lark-asc.livejournal.com]

I think we may have a duplicate of Pulp/Different Class, which would therefore be going cheap. I'll check.

[armb.livejournal.com]

> would anyone care to put them into an order?

Alphabetical by artist looks the least work. Move "2 Many DJ's" to either the beginning or end, and you're done ;-)

[sparrowsion]

Gorillaz, Portishead, OK Computer, Atomic, Absent Friends. Of which the first is the only one on the entire list I own.

[covertmusic.livejournal.com]

Pixies, Radiohead, Blur, Pulp, Ladytron. (Then the Velvet Underground, PJ Harvey, LCD Soundsystem, Franz Ferdinand, Stone Roses...)

[covertmusic.livejournal.com]

... and skip Pablo Honey and go straight to The Bends (and Kid A) if you ask me.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Already got The Bends.

[covertmusic.livejournal.com]

I'd go for OK Computer and bump Pablo Honey below basically everything else in my list, then. (I rate the 'My Iron Lung' EP higher, too.)

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Doolittle must be the first thing you buy. Then the Annie Lennox and the PJ Harvey.

[burkesworks.livejournal.com]

No collection is complete without London Calling. The Nick Cave albums are all worth getting, as are the Pixies ones, and I'd buy some Lou Reed and the Cure, though not those albums (you need Transformer and especially Berlin from Uncle Lou, and Faith and Pornography by Fat Robert and his cheerful chums). Do not let rock chicks with dubious taste like lnr play you Terrorvision :)