How many cd's are in your "to listen to" area right now?

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Try as I might, I can't shrink the pile of cd's that I haven't found the time to listen to -- it's at 330+ and counting -- and I'm hoping that more than a few people out there will tell me I'm not nuts for having 30 count boxes full of cd's lying around my house. What's your strategy for keeping the number low?

And don't ask me about my dvd's, either...that's a whole 'nother rationalization schema in my brain.

― Erick H (Erick H), Monday, 12 May 2003 02:13 (twenty-two years ago)

at least a couple hundred. i've caught up significantly in the last 6 months though, when it was around six or seven hundred..

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 12 May 2003 02:24 (twenty-two years ago)

strategy = instead of listening to that other CD for the tenth time, listen to something from the 'listen to' pile instead

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 12 May 2003 02:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I find time to listen to most everything at least once... most everything. I have the Bonnie Prince Billy album right here, but everytime I think about popping it in, I listen to Lost Blues and Other Songs instead. Call me unadventurous. Or maybe I know exactly what I'm doing.

The "need to listen to this a second time" pile is ridiculous, though.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Monday, 12 May 2003 02:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Jesus, mine's tiny -- just the stuff I've bought in the last four days:

Lifter Puller/Soft Rock
Kelly Hogan/Because It Feel Good
New Pronographers/Electric Version
Pulp/This is Hardcore

Bought "The Cold Hard Truth" by George Jones, listened to "Choices" once, promptly filed it on the shelf.

― mte, Monday, 12 May 2003 02:27 (twenty-two years ago)

That's the best song on the album. I usually just listen to it twice, then file it away myself.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Monday, 12 May 2003 02:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, the rest of it's not bad, but that's clearly a standout. I know right where it is when I need it -- with me, filed doesn't mean hard ot get to. just easy to forget.

― mte, Monday, 12 May 2003 02:41 (twenty-two years ago)

This thread should be called "I Just Love to Buy Shit"

I haven't listened to all of the Emperor Best-Of I bought yesterday, but I pretty much listen to everything I can get my hands on (granted I'm not a busy person). Sometimes I buy cheap used vinyl just to look at it. I just love to buy shit.

― Adam A. (Keiko), Monday, 12 May 2003 02:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Welp, here's the pile, lots of stuff I suspect will be godly.
The reason I have a pile (despite going weeks without buying stuff) is that I tend to not move on to the new stuff till I feel I know the other recently bought stuff I have ok.
problem is that sometimes something stays in the notplayed pile for months!

Henry Cow - In praise of learning
Don Cherry - Complete communion
Can - Ege Bamyasi
Ruins - Tzomborgha
Coleman Hawkins - The hawk flies high
Glenn Gould - A state of wonder (ehh, two recordings of Goldberg Variations)
Kate Bush - The sensual world
Miles Davis - Live-evil
Gong - Camembert Electrique (at this tempo, the remaster will be out before I play it!)
Magma - Attahk
Charles Mingus - Tijuana Moods (complete)
Cephalic Carnage - Lucid interval
Stravinsky - The firebird (Gergiev/Kirov orchestra)
John Coltrane - Complete '61 village vanguard
Ornette Coleman - Complete Sci Fi sessions
Albert Ayler - Live in Greenwich village
Milse Davis - Filles De Kilimanjaro
Wilco - Yankee hotel foxtrot (I already regret buying this, despite not having play it yet!?)
Skitsystem - Allt e skit
XTC - Wasp Star (apple venus vol2)
Shostakovich - 24 Preludes and Fugues op.87 (erm.. performed by Keith Jarret, haha)
Schoenberg - Pierrot Lunaire (Boulez)
Eddie Henderson - Anthology 2 (basically the Inside Out and Realization on one CD)

Whew!

― Øystein Holm-Olsen (Øystein H-O), Monday, 12 May 2003 03:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Oops, that's a lie, that Cephalic Carnage is very much so listened to.
Müh.
Maybe not having money to buy any albums in a good while will be a good thing for me.

― Øystein Holm-Olsen (Øystein H-O), Monday, 12 May 2003 03:14 (twenty-two years ago)

You really really really do not want to know.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 12 May 2003 04:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, we rrrreally want to know. This page would burst at the seams if you list them, no? ;-)

― nathalie (nathalie), Monday, 12 May 2003 06:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I've always wanted to see a webpage burst at the seams, so post Neddy, post Neddy, post til you can't see no mooore.

― Øystein Holm-Olsen (Øystein H-O), Monday, 12 May 2003 06:43 (twenty-two years ago)

330+ and counting?!? Boy does that ME make feel better - why there can't be much more than a trifling 50 or so in my pile!

Well OK, maybe 100 maximum.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 12 May 2003 08:38 (twenty-two years ago)

About 40 at the moment, but these are all for work (i.e. Uncut) purposes, including the two Ze reissues (Mutant Disco and No Wave), 15 Universal Music funk reissues and four Kevin Ayers reissues. New OutKast I should get sometime this week. This is discounting the unsolicited crap CDs which I keep getting sent and which are going straight in the bin (I can't be bothered dragging them en masse to MVE for a tenner).

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 12 May 2003 08:46 (twenty-two years ago)

".... four Kevin Ayers reissues"

I don't Joy Of A Toy is amongst those is it Marcello? I can't wait to add that one to the pile of CD's I haven't got 'round to listening to!

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 12 May 2003 08:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Yep, it's the first four Whole World elpees - Joy Of A Toy, Shooting At The Moon, Bananamour and Whatevershebringswesing. Am also interviewing the great man on Thursday!

(managed to get some nice quotes abt the records from Lol Coxhill as well at Freedom of the City last Monday)

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 12 May 2003 08:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Hurrah! That's one title I can shortly take off of the list of Albums that shouldn't be out of print...

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 12 May 2003 09:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I did listen to lots of stuff at the weekend so now its down to about 20.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 12 May 2003 09:30 (twenty-two years ago)

just a few...
Madonna -American Life
Yoko Ono - Walking on thin ice remixes
Sparks - Best Of
Martin Gore - Counterfeit 2 (which is unbelievably horrible)

― russ t, Monday, 12 May 2003 09:43 (twenty-two years ago)

mainly old stuff i've bought very cheap. maybe 30-40 titles. have decided not to count promos i'd guess are, ahem, not my cup of tea.

― gaz (gaz), Monday, 12 May 2003 10:22 (twenty-two years ago)

just a few...
Madonna -American Life
Keep that in the pile.

― nathalie (nathalie), Monday, 12 May 2003 10:24 (twenty-two years ago)

about 150 or so...

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Monday, 12 May 2003 10:34 (twenty-two years ago)

misread the question - I thought it meant what you had that you were actually listening to at the mo.....

Nathalie.... American Life is a fantastic album - one of her best. What tracks do you hate so much.... and why?

― russ t, Monday, 12 May 2003 11:08 (twenty-two years ago)

ha, haven't got more than 'bout a dozen of not-yet-listened-to's, i believe, at the moment

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Monday, 12 May 2003 11:16 (twenty-two years ago)

500-ish right now. It's bad. Blazing through the pile this morning, though.

― Douglas (Douglas), Monday, 12 May 2003 12:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Probably between 50-100 at a guess, all stuff I've got in the last three months or so; though really, as always, I want to re-listen to everything just to see if I was wrong about anything! So that puts the figure at about 750-odd.

I want to know just how many records Ned and Martin S own; I remember Martin saying a while ago that he had discs by 8,000 different artists; even if he's only got on average 2 0r 3 by each, that's still fucking terrfying.

How many is too many?

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 12 May 2003 12:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Is it horrible to say there's no such thing as "too many" cd's?

I share Nick's view of wanting to make sure I'm not wrong about a cd/artist before I get rid of the cd; I've only sold a few that I've regretted, but I never want that feeling again.

I just moved into my first house, and moving the music was by far the most time-consuming back-breaking task...I only have about 4000 cd's, so I can only imagine moving a collection double or triple that size.

And not to broadly stereotype, but are there any women out there with prodigious cd/vinyl/tape collections like the fellas?

― Erick H (Erick H), Monday, 12 May 2003 13:29 (twenty-two years ago)

what, only 8000? amateur ;-)

American Life definitely qualifies for my "thank God I didn't have to pay Real Money for that!!" pile.

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 12 May 2003 13:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I have abt 1000 but would prob have a damn few more but I keep selling a lot of the stuff I buy. even good recs bcz they don't cut it really, or i can't get much more out of them etc.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 12 May 2003 14:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I want to know just how many records Ned and Martin S own;

Currently somewhere over 5000 CDs -- I honestly don't know if it's maybe approaching 6000 now. It might. Then there are all the albums I just have on mp3...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 12 May 2003 14:53 (twenty-two years ago)

On my desk waiting patiently for an opinion from me now: New CDs by Lifesavas, Burnt Sugar (all-Stravinsky), Bishop Allen, NOFX, the Bug, Isley Brothers, Youngbloodz, Disco D, Mensen, McEnroe, Gogo Airheart, Molotov; older stuff by Men at Work, Al Green Tizzy, Cheech & Chong (all of which have been there for a while); *The Gearhead Records Smashup Derby,* a harpsichord-rock compilation burned by Scott Woods.

― chuck, Monday, 12 May 2003 15:18 (twenty-two years ago)

None, even though I'm well into the thousands of cds/tapes etc owned now. I just have to listen to everything as soon as I get it.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 12 May 2003 15:24 (twenty-two years ago)

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