What's in Your Music Collection? (LONG)

[Shawn D.]

OK, Patrick's post spurred me to post this, so consider this a semi-rip-off of his idea! %) Yeah, I know we've discussed this before on Roachfly years ago, but the passage of time does change folks' answers for this subject, so... I won't be checking the archives!

This list is just my CDs -- none of my vinyl is listed (i.e. a bunch of Molly Hatchet, Mother's Finest, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest and so on), and many of the pre-'88 titles here are duplicated in vinyl. As to be expected, my list is in a spreadsheet, so names like "The Clash" are listed as "Clash, The" in order to sort properly.

The List:

6X -- Kung-Pow!
6X -- Thunder Bomb
99X Freeloader CD Sampler -- Various
99X Locals Only -- Various
Allison, Dot -- Afterglow
Alternative Roots -- Various
American Analog Set, The -- From Our Living Room to Yours
American Analog Set, The -- The Golden Band
Bad Brains -- Attitude The Roir Sessions
Bad Brains -- God of Love
Bad Brains -- I Against I
Bad Brains -- Quickness
Bad Brains -- Rock for Light
Belle & Sebastian -- 3 6 9 Seconds Of Light (Lazy Line Painter Jane Box Set)
Belle & Sebastian -- Dog on Wheels (Lazy Line Painter Jane Box Set)
Belle & Sebastian -- Lazy Line Painter Jane (Lazy Line Painter Jane Box Set)
Belle & Sebastian -- The Boy with the Arab Strap
Belle & Sebastian -- This Is Just A Modern Rock Song
Biafra & Nixon -- Prairie Home Invasion
Big Audio -- Higher Power
Big Audio Dynamite -- F-Punk
Big Audio Dynamite -- Megatop Phoenix
Big Audio Dynamite -- No. 10, Upping Street
Big Audio Dynamite -- This is Big Audio Dynamite
Big Audio Dynamite -- Tighten up Volume '88
Big Audio Dynamite II -- The Globe
Black Flag -- Damaged
Black Flag -- The First Four Years
Black Flag -- Wasted Again
Bowie, David -- Changesbowie
Bragg, Billy -- Reaching to the Converted
Bush, Kate -- Whole Story, The
Cat Power -- You Are Free
Catfight -- Frustrated
Circle Jerks -- Group Sex / Wild in the Streets
Circle Jerks -- Oddities, Abnormalities, and Curiosities
Circle Jerks -- VI
Clash, The -- 1977 Revisited
Clash, The -- Combat Rock
Clash, The -- Cut the Crap
Clash, The -- Give 'Em Enough Rope
Clash, The -- London Calling
Clash, The -- Return to Brixton
Clash, The -- Sandinista! (2CD)
Clash, The -- Super Black Market Clash
Clash, The -- The Clash
Clash, The -- Various Artists Burning London
Classic MTV -- Class of 1983 (2CD)
Cracker -- Cracker
Cracker -- Forever
Cracker -- Garage D'or
Cracker -- Gentleman's Blues
Cracker -- Kerosene Hat
Cracker -- The Golden Age
Dr. John -- Anthology Mos' Scocious (2CD)
Faint, The -- Danse Macabre
Fear -- More Beer
G.B.H. -- Definite G.B.H. Collection
G.B.H. -- From Here to Reality
G.B.H. -- The Clay Punk Singles Collection
G.B.H. -- The Clay Recordings '81-'84 (2CD)
Hefner -- Boxing Hefner
Hefner -- Breaking God's Heart
Hefner -- The Fidelity Wars
Helmet -- Betty
Iron Maiden -- Ed Hunter
Iron Maiden -- Number of The Beast
Iron Maiden -- Piece of Mind
Iron Maiden -- Powerslave
Jane's Addiction -- Ritual de lo Habitual
Jarre, Jean Michel -- Oxygene (Mfsl Gold Disc)
Jarre, Jean-Michel -- Equinoxe
Jesus and Mary Chain, The -- Stoned & Dethroned
Judas Priest -- Screaming for Vengeance
Kraftwerk -- Computer World
Lanterna -- Lanterna
Lynyrd Skynyrd -- Skynyrd's Innyrds / Their Greatest Hits
Marley, Bob -- Soul Rebel
Molly Hatchet -- Greatest Hits
Morrissey -- Bona Drag
Morrissey -- Kill Uncle
Morrissey -- Maladjusted
Morrissey -- My Early Burglary Years
Morrissey -- Southpaw Grammar
Morrissey -- Vauxhall and I
Morrissey -- Viva Hate
Morrissey -- World of Morrissey
Morrissey -- Your Arsenal
My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult -- Confessions of a Knife
Myssouri -- Furnace Songs
Myssouri -- Malamerica
Myssouri -- War/Love Blues
Ness, Mike -- Cheating at Solitaire
Never Mind the Mainstream -- Volume 1
Never Mind the Mainstream -- Volume 2
New Order -- Low-Life
New Order -- Power, Corruption & Lies
New Order -- Republic
New Order -- Round & Round
New Order -- Substance (2CD)
New Order -- Technique
Nixon, Mojo -- Gadzooks! Home Made Bootleg
Nixon, Mojo -- Whereabouts Unknown
Nixon, Mojo & Skid Roper -- Bo-Day-Shus
Nixon, Mojo & Skid Roper -- Frenzy
Nixon, Mojo & Skid Roper -- Root Hog or Die
Nixon, Mojo & The Toadliquors -- Horny Holidays
Nixon, Mojo & The Toadliquors -- Sock-Ray-Blue
No Alternative -- Various
O'Connor, Sinad -- am I not your girl?
O'Connor, Sinad -- Gospel Oak EP
O'Connor, Sinad -- I do not want what I haven't got
O'Connor, Sinad -- The Lion and the Cobra
O'Connor, Sinad -- Universal Mother
Old School Punk -- Various
Pegboy -- Various
Pet Shop Boys -- Discography
Phair, Liz -- Exile in Guyville
Phair, Liz -- Juvenilia
Phair, Liz -- Whip-Smart
Phair, Liz -- Whitechocolatespaceegg
Pop, Iggy -- American Caesar
Pop, Iggy -- Beat 'Em Up
Pop, Iggy -- Blah, Blah, Blah
Pop, Iggy -- Brick by Brick
Pop, Iggy -- Heritage Collection
Pop, Iggy -- Instinct
Pop, Iggy -- Lust for Life
Pop, Iggy -- Naughty Little Doggie
Pop, Iggy -- Skull Ring
Pop, Iggy -- Zombie Birdhouse
Pop, Iggy & The Stooges -- Fun House
Pop, Iggy & The Stooges -- Raw Power
Pop, Iggy & The Stooges -- Stooges, The
Prankster, Mary -- Blue Skies over Dundalk
Prankster, Mary -- Roulette Girl
Prankster, Mary -- Tell Your Friends
Pretty in Pink -- Soundtrack
Primus -- Animals
Primus -- Sailing the Seas of Cheese
Primus -- Tales from the Punchbowl
Prodigy -- The Fat of the Land
Punk You -- Vol. 1 (Music for the Discerning Slacker Punk)
Punk-O-Rama -- Various
R.E.M. -- Eponymous
R.E.M. -- Monster
Ramone, Marky and the Intruders -- Marky Ramone and the Intruders
Ramones, The -- All the Stuff (And More) Volume 1
Ramones, The -- All the Stuff (And More) Volume 2
Ramones, The -- Mania
Rancid -- ... and Out Come the Wolves
Rancid -- Let's Go
Rancid -- Rancid
Red Hot + Blue -- Various
Red Hot + Bothered -- Various
Red Hot Chili Peppers -- BloodSugarSexMagic
Reivers, The -- End of the Day
Reivers, The -- Pop Beloved
Reivers, The -- Saturday (vinyl)
Reivers, The -- Translate Slowly
Repo Man -- Soundtrack
Rollins Band -- Weight
RuPaul -- Supermodel of the World
Salvation -- Soundtrack
Screaming Blue Messiahs, The -- Bikini Red
Screaming Blue Messiahs, The -- Gun Shy
Screaming Blue Messiahs, The -- Totally Religious
Sex Pistols, The -- Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols
Sex Pistols, The -- The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle
Siouxie and the Banshees -- Hyna
Siouxie and the Banshees -- Peepshow
Siouxie and the Banshees -- Superstition
Siouxie and the Banshees -- The Rapture
Siouxie and the Banshees -- Through the Looking Glass
Smiths, The -- Louder Than Bombs
Smiths, The -- Meat is Murder
Smiths, The -- Rank
Smiths, The -- Strangeways, Here We Come
Smiths, The -- The Queen is Dead
Smiths, The -- The Smiths
Smiths, The -- This Charming Man
Social Distortion -- Mainliner (wreckage from the past)
Social Distortion -- Mommy's Little Monster
Social Distortion -- Prison Bound
Social Distortion -- Social Distortion
Social Distortion -- Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell
Social Distortion -- Story of My Life... and other stories
Social Distortion -- White Light White Heat White Trash
Some Kind of Wonderful -- Soundtrack
Southern Culture on the Skids -- Dirt Track Date
Southern Culture on the Skids -- Ditch Diggin'
Southern Culture on the Skids -- Girlfight
Southern Culture on the Skids -- Plastic Seat Sweat
Southern Culture on the Skids -- Santo Swings
Spinal Tap -- Break Like the Wind
Squeeze -- A Round and A Bout
Squeeze -- Greatest Hits
Star Ghost Dog -- Great Indoors
Star Ghost Dog -- Happylove
Stormtroopers of Death (S.O.D.) -- Speak English or Die
Suicidal Tendencies -- Free Your Soul and Save My Mind
Suicidal Tendencies -- How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Cant Even Smile Today
Suicidal Tendencies -- Join the Army
Suicidal Tendencies -- Lights... Camera... Revolution
Suicidal Tendencies -- Suicidal for Life
Suicidal Tendencies -- Suicidal Tendencies
Suicidal Tendencies -- The Art of Rebellion
Sun 60 -- Headjoy
Sun 60 -- Only
Sun 60 -- Sun 60
Supersuckers -- Evil Powers of Rock N Roll
That Dog -- Retreat From the Sun
That Dog -- Totally Crushed Out!
The The -- 45 RPM: The Singles
The The -- Burning Blue Soul
The The -- Dusk
The The -- Hanky Panky
The The -- Infected
The The -- Mind Bomb
The The -- Nakedself
The The -- Solitude
The The -- Soul Mining
They Might Be Giants -- Severe Tire Damage Greatest Hits
Tian -- Dancing Waves
Timms, Sally -- To The Land of Milk and Honey
Timony, Mary -- Golden Dove
Twin Peaks -- Soundtrack
U.S. Bombs -- Never Mind... The Definitive Edititon
Uncle Green -- What an Experiment His Head Was
Uncle Tupelo -- No Depression
Vega, Suzanne -- 99.9 F
Vega, Suzanne -- days of open hand
Vega, Suzanne -- nine objects of desire
Vega, Suzanne -- Solitude Standing
Vega, Suzanne -- Songs in Red and Gray
Vega, Suzanne -- Suzanne Vega
Violent Femmes -- Debacle: The First Decade
Voice of the Beehive -- Honey Lingers
Voice of the Beehive -- Let it Bee
Voice of the Beehive -- sex & misery
Voodoo Glow Skulls -- Baile de los Locos
Waco Brothers -- Do You Think About Me?
Waitresses, The -- Best of The Waitresses
Westerberg, Paul -- 14 Songs
White Stripes -- Elephant
Wipers, The -- Box Set
X -- Aint Love Grand
X -- Hey Zeus
X -- Los Angeles / Wild Gift
X -- Unclogged
X -- Under the Big Black Sun
Yaz -- Upstairs at Erics
Yello -- You Gotta Say Yes to Another Excess
Young Fresh Fellows -- Men Who Loved Music

Hmm... I just realized that I've left out a bunch I got over the holidays. I'm gettin' slack on updatin' my spreadsheet...

[Edit by Shawn D. on [TIME]1108998851[/TIME]]

Dammit -- it looks as if I inadvertently deleted a number of CDs from my spreadsheet when compiling my triple-top-10 list for Patrick's post; I know I have more than one Jesus and Mary Chain CD. That's OK -- I have the original spreadsheet at home.

[Edit by Shawn D. on [TIME]1109006704[/TIME]]

[Tammer in Philly]

Dude, I don't think I'm actually going to type in all 250+ albums. Maybe I can get an electronic list to forward from iTunes, which represents about 1/3 of the total. I'll, um ... I'll get back to you on that.

tammer <--maybe next week after my midterms/presentations/home inspections/appraisal/mortgage commitment stuff ... sheesh why am i even on the board right now?!

[Matt]

If you use Windows Media Player's Library at all, its very easy to write a program to suck out the album titles and artists One thing Microsoft does well is that almost all of their apps can be driven easily, without UI, via COM. And with .NET, you get COM->managed shims generated for you automagically.

Matt
- been working on an in-car music player application that uses your normal WMP library meta information.

[fastpat]

I really didn't know how many album's my wife and I had until I ripped them all into iTunes, around 270 or so.:p Took many days to do it, and I'd not like to do it again. After I'd done about 2 gigs worth, my wife was messing around with iTunes and hit a key that erased all of them ~0 , and then as soon as she plugged in her iPod, they were erased from that as well!@#$. Had to do those over again, learned about the controls and to set the changes to manual instead of automatic.

I just down loaded the library list from iTunes, unfortunately it includes all the other information about the music; and takes up 366 pages in a MS Word document, so I won't be printing it up here.

[C.R. Krieger]

No Who? No Zep? No Queen? No Mott? ~0 And you're able to use your computer to compile your lists?

Obviously, you guys are all under 35. I'm just now thinking about bridging the gaping abyss between all my non-cd-reproduced vinyl (~300 lps), a handful of surviving odd cassettes (Has anyone else ever heard, or heard of, a recording of the Jackson Browne/Linda Ronstadt "In Concert" TV show?), and the 150-odd (and some truly are odd) cds I've got now. Gettin' old is hell ...

[Damon in STL]

About 150 GB of mp3's. Cost me (in trade) one Briggs race kart, and I get free updates . I use a TurtleBeach Audiotron with a fiber connection to my receiver and an ethernet connection to my server.
http://www.turtlebeach.com/site/product ... cthome.asp

The total was around 2000 CD's and 600 tapes.

Damon in STL

[Edit by Damon in STL on [TIME]1109005503[/TIME]]

[fastpat]

[QUOTE="C.R. Krieger"]No Who? No Zep? No Queen? No Mott? ~0 And you're able to use your computer to compile your lists?

Obviously, you guys are all under 35. I'm just now thinking about bridging the gaping abyss between all my non-cd-reproduced vinyl (~300 lps), a handful of surviving odd cassettes (Has anyone else ever heard, or heard of, a recording of the Jackson Browne/Linda Ronstadt "In Concert" TV show?), and the 150-odd (and some truly are odd) cds I've got now. Gettin' old is hell ... [/QUOTE]

Good albums, all, Queen is particularly good.

I'd suggest you rip your monster vinyl collection into iTunes and figure out a way to safely store them for posterity. Of course I donated ALL my vinyl years ago to a public library and took a huge tax deduction for them. Hated vinyl's self destructive ways, only thing worse was 8-track tape cartridges.

Once I heard cd's, I never went back to vinyl, and that was over 20 years ago. My brother bought one of those new fangled cd players in '82 or '83, played only one cd at a time, but it sure sounded good, Yamaha it was and around $700.00.

But, iTunes and some sort of MP3 player is the deal nowadays, start ripping.

I'm working out the kinks in an interface with a Blaupunkt Bremen MP74 and an iPod Gen III player. All that music, 270+ cd's in the glovebox, yowsuh!

[Matt]

Shawn,
what advantage do you feel itunes has over WMP for people running windows ?

Matt
[Microsoft Employee]

[Tim in N FL]

I have close to 500 or more CDs, another 200 or so "back-up copies", countless MP3s, hundreds of LPs on vinyl, and 500-600 cassette tapes (home recordings of LPs and CDs, radio broadcasts, etc.). I have NEVER attempted to devote the time to catalog my holdings and prolly never will unless I can eventually get my son (now almost 3 y/o) to do it in a few years At any rate, my musical preferences run the gamut...I even like some country music.
Cheers,
Tim

[graphite]

I have ~700 cds, ~200 lps.. most of my lps are jazz and probably 1/3 of my cds.. the rest is everything but country.. i'll refrain from pasting my cd list since it is pretty long.. i'll definately refrain from posting the list of the albums i have in mp3.. alot of jazz, and bootlegs are in there.. we'll just say its more than you can listen to in a year 24/7 =)

[Shawn D.]

[QUOTE="C.R. Krieger"]No Who? No Zep? No Queen? No Mott? ~0 And you're able to use your computer to compile your lists?

Obviously, you guys are all under 35. [/QUOTE]
I've got The Who, Led Zeppelin, and Queen on vinyl and/or tape (and a Queen 8-track as well). I just didn't list them. There's no need to duplicate them with CDs, 'cause all you have to do is turn on a classic rock station and you'll hear one of them within 10 minutes! FWIW, I'm 38.

[QUOTE="Damon in STL"]I use a TurtleBeach Audiotron with a fiber connection to my receiver and an ethernet connection to my server.
http://www.turtlebeach.com/site/product ... cthome.asp[/QUOTE]
Darn -- the site says "Not Currently Available."

[QUOTE="Matt"]Shawn,
what advantage do you feel itunes has over WMP for people running windows ?

Matt
[Microsoft Employee][/QUOTE]
Dunno -- I don't use either. I use Music Match Jukebox. My son has an iPod, but my Win98 w/ USB1 can't use iTunes, so he transfers the files at a friend's house who has a Mac.

[C.R. Krieger]

Obviously, you guys are all under 35. I'm just now thinking about bridging the gaping abyss between all my non-cd-reproduced vinyl (~300 lps), a handful of surviving odd cassettes and the 150-odd (and some truly are odd) cds I've got now. Gettin' old is hell ...

Good albums, all, Queen is particularly good.

Thanks. I'm so old and decrepit, I remember hearing some of their first American FM airplay ("Liar" on WMMS out of Cleveland, of course) just before their first tour opening for Mott. I remember being jealous as hell of a girl sitting beside me in a history class who got tix for the show in Cleveland (Akron?). Of course, the boys were a tad unreliable in those days. Queen cancelled their appearance, so she 'only' saw Mott. Having seen 3 or 4 Queen shows before 1980, I'm still jealous - that I missed Mott! :@

I'd suggest you rip your monster vinyl collection into iTunes and figure out a way to safely store them for posterity. Of course I donated ALL my vinyl years ago to a public library and took a huge tax deduction for them. Hated vinyl's self destructive ways, only thing worse was 8-track tape cartridges.

Tell me about it! I had 8-tracks. Fortunately, very few good ones - one a 'borrowed' Faces concert boot that I remember playing to death. 20 years later, I finally managed to rerecord it - on a cassette. It never occurred to me I could deduct those things. Hmmm. 'Bye-bye, "Piggy Go-Getter"! I knew you'd be worth something someday!

Once I heard cd's, I never went back to vinyl, and that was over 20 years ago. My brother bought one of those new fangled cd players in '82 or '83, played only one cd at a time, but it sure sounded good, Yamaha it was and around $700.00.

Same here, only, as a Cheap Bastard, I managed to wait 'til they were down to about $110. My wife bought it for me along with "Who's Next". Gotta love a woman like that! I'm still sorta' attached to CDs, though. For one thing, I've got a 'legacy' 6-disk Alpine to go into Da Red Dog that matches the ones I have in both the Jeep and the wife's Jag. Swapping changer caddies is lots easier then messing around with anything else right now. All those morons who thought vinyl was "warmer" apparently never wore anything out!"]

But, iTunes and some sort of MP3 player is the deal nowadays, start ripping.

Since my 'professional' software pretty much requires a PC, I lean that way for 'fun stuff', as well. I've been reasonably impressed with 'Nero Burning ROM' that came with my last two CPUs. I just have to come up with the 30- to 40-ft. connections between my PC and my turntable.

[booker]

Shawn, you thread jacker!!! :@ !@#$

Nice list!

I have at least 250+ CDs, and probably 150+ records. If I had a list readily available, I would post it, but it would take me at least a few hours to compile one...

I love listening to vinyl. I feel it really has a better sound quality than digital music. But, my POS Sony hand-me-down reciever crapped the bed the other night. I'm looking into a Denon or a Yamaha reciever. Preferably one with a built in tuner, so I can listen to WTUL, WWOZ, and NPR in my house.

[Matt]

I've never understood people that insist vinyl sounds better than CD.

Are you people familiar with Nyquist ? Do you have super human ears ? Does the music you enjoy capitalize on frequencies that are bove 22khz (that you can also hear with your super-human ears?)

I'm glad i am not any kind of an audiophile with super human ears

[fastpat]

I've never understood people that insist vinyl sounds better than CD.

Me neither, one thing you can say and prove, vinyl sounds different each time it's played 'cause a little of it is scraped away with each playing, and 'dat's a fact, jack .

Are you people familiar with Nyquist ? Do you have super human ears ? Does the music you enjoy capitalize on frequencies that are bove 22khz (that you can also hear with your super-human ears?)

I'm glad i am not any kind of an audiophile with super human ears

No one is that's over 30 years of age, human ears self destruct throughout one's life. It's just the way it is. ~_~

[fastpat]

Obviously, you guys are all under 35. I'm just now thinking about bridging the gaping abyss between all my non-cd-reproduced vinyl (~300 lps), a handful of surviving odd cassettes and the 150-odd (and some truly are odd) cds I've got now. Gettin' old is hell ...

Good albums, all, Queen is particularly good.

Thanks. I'm so old and decrepit, I remember hearing some of their first American FM airplay ("Liar" on WMMS out of Cleveland, of course) just before their first tour opening for Mott. I remember being jealous as hell of a girl sitting beside me in a history class who got tix for the show in Cleveland (Akron?). Of course, the boys were a tad unreliable in those days. Queen cancelled their appearance, so she 'only' saw Mott. Having seen 3 or 4 Queen shows before 1980, I'm still jealous - that I missed Mott! :@

I'd suggest you rip your monster vinyl collection into iTunes and figure out a way to safely store them for posterity. Of course I donated ALL my vinyl years ago to a public library and took a huge tax deduction for them. Hated vinyl's self destructive ways, only thing worse was 8-track tape cartridges.

Tell me about it! I had 8-tracks. Fortunately, very few good ones - one a 'borrowed' Faces concert boot that I remember playing to death. 20 years later, I finally managed to rerecord it - on a cassette. It never occurred to me I could deduct those things. Hmmm. 'Bye-bye, "Piggy Go-Getter"! I knew you'd be worth something someday!

Once I heard cd's, I never went back to vinyl, and that was over 20 years ago. My brother bought one of those new fangled cd players in '82 or '83, played only one cd at a time, but it sure sounded good, Yamaha it was and around $700.00.

Same here, only, as a Cheap Bastard, I managed to wait 'til they were down to about $110. My wife bought it for me along with "Who's Next". Gotta love a woman like that! I'm still sorta' attached to CDs, though. For one thing, I've got a 'legacy' 6-disk Alpine to go into Da Red Dog that matches the ones I have in both the Jeep and the wife's Jag. Swapping changer caddies is lots easier then messing around with anything else right now. All those morons who thought vinyl was "warmer" apparently never wore anything out!"]

But, iTunes and some sort of MP3 player is the deal nowadays, start ripping.

Since my 'professional' software pretty much requires a PC, I lean that way for 'fun stuff', as well. I've been reasonably impressed with 'Nero Burning ROM' that came with my last two CPUs. I just have to come up with the 30- to 40-ft. connections between my PC and my turntable.

Thanks. I'm so old and decrepit, I remember hearing some of their first American FM airplay ("Liar" on WMMS out of Cleveland, of course) just before their first tour opening for Mott. I remember being jealous as hell of a girl sitting beside me in a history class who got tix for the show in Cleveland (Akron?). Of course, the boys were a tad unreliable in those days. Queen cancelled their appearance, so she 'only' saw Mott. Having seen 3 or 4 Queen shows before 1980, I'm still jealous - that I missed Mott! :@

Tell me about it! I had 8-tracks. Fortunately, very few good ones - one a 'borrowed' Faces concert boot that I remember playing to death. 20 years later, I finally managed to rerecord it - on a cassette. It never occurred to me I could deduct those things. Hmmm. 'Bye-bye, "Piggy Go-Getter"! I knew you'd be worth something someday!

Same here, only, as a Cheap Bastard, I managed to wait 'til they were down to about $110. My wife bought it for me along with "Who's Next". Gotta love a woman like that! I'm still sorta' attached to CDs, though. For one thing, I've got a 'legacy' 6-disk Alpine to go into Da Red Dog that matches the ones I have in both the Jeep and the wife's Jag. Swapping changer caddies is lots easier then messing around with anything else right now. All those morons who thought vinyl was "warmer" apparently never wore anything out!"]Since my 'professional' software pretty much requires a PC, I lean that way for 'fun stuff', as well. I've been reasonably impressed with 'Nero Burning ROM' that came with my last two CPUs. I just have to come up with the 30- to 40-ft. connections between my PC and my turntable.

I don't really think you're older than me chronologically Anyway , philosophically I don't know . iTunes runs on a PC and iPods are completely compatible with PC's and iTunes. ITunes is one of the more elegant MP3 handling software packages, and it's still free. Burning MP3's to a a cd is doable, but you'd have to get a new in dash head to play them. My Blau MP74 can do that, one of the reasons to buy it, or one of the units immediately previous to it like a Toronto MP73 or Los Angeles MP72. There's two other MP74's, the Seattle and the Los Angeles. I'd agree with you one the compatibility of the cd changer magazines, but they're obsolete now, no longer any need to risk heat damaging the cd's in the car. The iPod Mini will hold 4 gigs of music in MP3 format, and that's a bunch more than 10 changer magazines can handle, all in a tiny package. If your Alpine head unit is just a few years old, it may be ICE>Link compatible. Check it out.

[Brian in TN]

What!? No METALLICA?

What about the LAMB OF GOD cd we listened to coming back from the fest meeting?

[Matt]

Brian - check out my post in the Top 10 albums thread.

the E28 metal torchbearers are up to the challenge

[Shawn D.]

[QUOTE="Brian Da Parts Pimp"]What!? No METALLICA?

What about the LAMB OF GOD cd we listened to coming back from the fest meeting?[/QUOTE]

The Metallica I have is on vinyl! Kill 'Em All and something else...

Yes, I enjoyed your musical selections!

[RetiredDoc]

My teenage years were spent before an FM radio station aired in my town. So, I grew up on AM radio and playing monaural 45'sand LP's. Cars had only a single speaker in the center of the dash. It was 1966 when I bought my first stereo album. It was 1975 before I had a turntable and amplifier to actually hear the stereo. A new 1974 Volvo 242 GL was my first car with FM.

On the positive listening side, during my senior year of high school I attended live concerts by the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Monkees, the Beach Boys, Simon and Garfunkel, Wilson Pickett, the Temptations, Otis Redding, the Dave Clark Five, and Peter, Paul and Mary..

[C.R. Krieger]

My teenage years were spent before an FM radio station aired in my town. So, I grew up on AM radio and playing monaural 45'sand LP's. Cars had only a single speaker in the center of the dash. It was 1966 when I bought my first stereo album. It was 1975 before I had a turntable and amplifier to actually hear the stereo. A new 1974 Volvo 242 GL was my first car with FM.

If you're saying your ear isn't all that discriminating, I know what you mean. FM 'underground' stations started playing all the 'good stuff' about when I was a junior in high school. I started picking up stereo albums at the same time as you did (Remember 'ping-pong' stereo?) and played them on a mono turntable anyway because that's what we had at the time. I first stuck a (boneyard OEM!) stereo into a '65 Catalina I owned in ~'73.

On the positive listening side, during my senior year of high school I attended live concerts by the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Monkees, the Beach Boys, Simon and Garfunkel, Wilson Pickett, the Temptations, Otis Redding, the Dave Clark Five, and Peter, Paul and Mary..

Oh, man! I forgot all about the good part of bein' an Old Fart! The Beatles had quit playing live by the time I saw my first live concerts and I was too 'out of the loop' to catch Woodstock (about 8 hours away) just before my senior year in h.s. The first actual "Rock Concert" I ever attended was Jefferson Airplane (Gracie Slick was pregnant) with ShaNaNa the year after they both played there. The next one was The Who (12 August 1971 in Cleveland) - obviously well before Keith Moon's death.

Along the way, there have been more than I can usually remember at a sitting, including the spectacular (Led Zeppelin, Faces, Queen, Blue yster Cult, Boston, Warren Zevon, The Cars, Meat Loaf, The Beach Boys, The Eurythmics, Moody Blues), the obscure (Badfinger, Brooklyn Bridge, Fanny, Lita Ford, Artful Dodger, Ian Hunter, and Cleveland favorite Michael Stanley), and the just plain weird (the original touring cast of "Jesus Christ Superstar", Dr. John, Alice Cooper, Aldo Nova, Leon Redbone, Uriah Heep, Donovan Leitch). The last time I intentionally went to a show was The Who in Cleveland in '89. They sucked so bad, I swore off it. Having heard the stuff they're still playing (post-Entwistle), that was a mistake. The last time I heard any 'artist of note' was almost purely unintentional: Edgar Winter was in a park playing his interminable version of "Frankenstein" in a park a couple of miles away while I drove by. !@#$

Ahhh ... so what was the question again?

[C.R. Krieger]

[QUOTE="Brian Da Parts Pimp"]What!? No METALLICA? [/QUOTE]

Does AC/DC count?

[XtannerXm535iX]

i am into the emo, screamo, hardcore scene

the academy is...
alkaline trio
anberlin
armor for sleep
atryeu
brand new
the cure
depeche mode
dresden dolls
fall out boy
finch
from first to last
hawthorne heights
hellogoodbye
home grown
the killers
the matches
my chemical romance
the postal service
senses fail
silverstein
relient k
rufio
taking back sunday
a thorn for every heart
thursday
underoath
the used

if you can stand screaming listen... purevolume.com

[Evan#2 Seattle]

XtannerX,

haha, sXe bimmerheads. Kills me. If you like hardcore, check out Comeback Kid. AMAZING straight-edge band out of Ottowa. They're touring with Bane and With Honor in the next couple of months... all really good bands. A great place to find music (if you have bit torrent, that is,) is punktorrents.com. their hardcore section is amazing.

a list though? I have over 760 albums on my computer, and another 200 CDs that I haven't imported. I usually get about 4-5 albums a week, mostly from tiny tiny bands with no distribution. ( I do a LOT of downloading!)

I DO, however, support bands by going to shows and buying merch. It gets more money to the bands a lot faster, and also helps them get larger contracts and larger distibution.

[Velocewest]

You'll get my vinyl when you pry it from my cold, dead hands...