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No offence to the fans, but I've just found a copy of This is My Hollywood by 3 Colours Red in my collection. I have absolutely no idea who put it there.

Go check yours! What shouldn't you have?

― I am not he, Sunday, 22 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've had friends accuse me of this problem. The funniest being when two who helped me move in 1992 swore blind up and down for years that I had a Chaka Khan CD in my hoard. Uh, no.

I certainly don't know why I have a Gene album and two CD singles around. Presumably I got them for free and I keep them around to laugh at.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 22 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

*delurk*

I've got a Roxette CD single. "Fading Like A Flower", I think.

― Robin Carmody, Sunday, 22 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I shouldn't have the Pippin soundtrack. It doesn't fit in with everything else. I never listen to it, but the tracks are etched into my brain so deeply that sometimes I burst into song. "I'm extraordinary, I gotta do extraordinary things!"

― Acia, Sunday, 22 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Gene rocks, man! Erm, anyway, I have 08999812 or something by the Beautiful South. I like the artwork. I'd sell it, but what shop would buy for more than $4? Less hassle to just let it decompose on my racks, then. I guess.

This always reminds me of infamous french wicked cartoon man Philippe Vuillemin (responsible for the horrid "Sales blagues de l'Écho" - anyway) who was interviewed amongst his records, and had to talk about them, while suddenly the journalist sees something odd and goes: "Hey, isn't this an Etienne Daho record, over there?" and Vuillemin, red with shame yet hysterically laughing, just shouts: "Er, no, well, yeah.. JUST HIDE IT!"

― Simon, Sunday, 22 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You are petty little people, consumed by your terrible fear that someone will find out you like things you're not supposed to. I've already got that 3 Colours Red single, but Robin, I'll happily take the Roxette one off your hands.

― glenn mcdonald, Sunday, 22 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm sure you would, Glenn. It's times like this when I wish I had some Runrig and Marillion :).

― Robin Carmody, Sunday, 22 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A trade could always be arranged.

― glenn mcdonald, Sunday, 22 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

But Glenn, you've hid your love for the Boredoms all this time, I'm sure.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 22 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Blues Traveller.

― Sterling Clover, Sunday, 22 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Housemartins. And a CD compilation of Chinese fiddle music.

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Sunday, 22 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Shania Twain and Choclair

― anthony, Sunday, 22 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My problem seems to be that cds disappear from my collection, rather than have any unexpectedly pop up. I would really love to know what happened to my Julian Cope cds...I would like to think they were lost due to my own absentmindedness and neglect rather than thievery.

Apologies to anyone this has bored...

― Nicole, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Come to think of it, I used to have some Teardrop Explodes CDs in my collection which aren't there any more ... and since I like them, I can only blame the CD-stealing gnomes (and not an undergrad poverty- stricken Tadeusz schlepping off ten years ago to a used-CD store to get cigarette- and Ramen-noodle money).

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'Tromeo and Juliet Soundtrack', although I do know how it got there and I do love the Wesley Willis track, I know my bandmate is hankering to have this back...

― Jason, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Color Me Badd record. I should have gone for the New Jack City soundtrack.

― nathalie, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yeah, what Nicole said: Where the hell is it? (Someone thieved my Metal Machine Music? Don't THINK so...)

But I am at war againt the twin fascist inseXoR of alphabetisation and tidiness, so perhaps it is here somewhere after all.

― mark s, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes, but the New Jack City CD has this annoying remix of "I Wanna Sex You Up" that's nowhere near as good as the original. For that, you need the original C.M.B.--plus, you get "All 4 Love," which features another great single featuring the catchiest piano part ever.

― M. Matos, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I probably shouldn't have any David Crosby.

― Otis Wheeler, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That Gillian Anderson single from a few years back.

How, who, why? I just don't know.

― D*A*V*I*D*M, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I trump everyone. THREE copies of David Lee Roth's 'Skyscraper' on cassette. Worst record, most copies, worst format. I don't even have a cassette player.

― dave q, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sandra Kim "J'aime la vie" It could have been worse: I could have Celine Dion's contribution to the Eurovision Song contest. At least buying the Kim single can be explained as a chauvinistic deed.

― nathalie, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

David, I not only have that Gillian Anderson single, but I've got THE VIDEO, too. How did THAT happen?

― Dan Perry, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Some fucking JOKER keeps buying Lolly singles in cutout bins and slipping them into my CD collections when they think I'm not looking. I'm pretty sure I know who it is, though, and he *WILL* be stopped.

― Kate the Saint, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

How about this:

I’ve got five (signed) copies of a recent Wishbone Ash CD at home.

They were the prizes in a radio competition for a festival that I promoted last year. Not a single person entered and I didn’t have the heart to hand them back.

Anyone want one?

― A, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I used to have that Gillian Anderson single. I can't for the life of me remember what it sounds like. I didn't remember it existed until just now.

Copies of Alanis Morrisette's Jagged Little Pill kept showing up in my house for some reason a few years back.

― Ally, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ew, what a horrible thought. I would have asked for an exorcism at that point.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

C'mon now -- I can certainly see the point in having the Gillian Anderson video.

The thing I'm currently pretending not to have sought out and purchased is: Fretblanket. Surely I never thought I wanted that. Surely it fell out of an airplane and blew through the window onto my shelf. Surely.

― Nitsuh, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jeez, a Fretblanket album? Nitsuh, you astonish me. Wouldn't buying a Buffalo Tom album just saved you the trouble? ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I actually listened to it last night, Ned, and I'm ashamed to admit that I sort of enjoyed the single. You know, "Take off my clothes, and drag me to the sea . . ."

For reference: were they considered "grebo?" I've been considering a grebo S&D thread, just to clarify my understanding of how Brits use (but mostly "used") the term.

― Nitsuh, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yesterday, discovered Kenickie, 'I Would Fix You'.

― the pinefox, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I thought grebo was more like Gaye Bikers on Acid, pre-sampling Pop Will Eat Itself, stuff like that...

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well, I recall Ned's Atomic Dustbin being placed in that genre as well, and Fretblanket typically being tossed in with Ned's Atomic Dustbin, so. . . Not saying that latter comparison is justifiable, just that that always seemed to be the categorization.

I first caught the term in Rachel Felder's Manic Pop Thrill, an okay book on "alternative" from back when it was actually called "alternative" that would probably irritate the living hell out of a lot of people on this board. Regardless, her chapter on grebo focused on Ned's Atomic Dustbin, Carter USM, Pop Will Eat Itself, the Levellers, and Jesus Jones.

I'll post a grebo S&D tomorrow and we'll see what happens.

― Nitsuh, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Its upper limit defn = The Wonder Stuff
And GBoA were usually held to be in there. Jesus Jones maybe a marginal call. And that's all that *I* remember.

― mark s, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The question is a bit off for my collection...for me, it's usually one of two things:
1) Where the hell did it go? I had a few things like this...notably Captain Beefheart's Spotlight Kid/Clear Spot CD. I had to re-buy it, but I don't remember getting rid of it.
2) Hey, I thought I got rid of this ages ago! I tend to purge my collection fairly regularly of things I don't listen to much anymore, but my eyes only do a cursory scan sometimes because I'm a bit of a packrat where CDs are concerned. Recent pleasant surprise: I still have Bruce Cockburn's Waiting for a Miracle compilation. Yay! But I thought I had gotten rid of it in one of my many misguided purges. Weird.

― Sean Carruthers, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Rachel tried in that book, bless her soul, but these days it reads as a slightly-smudged travelogue of the times, little more.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There's a copy of the Faster Pussycat album in my collection... but I think I remember how it got there .

― Andy, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Most of the 12 albums shortlisted for the Mercury Music Prize 2001.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 27 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one month passes...

I have an LP copy of "God Bless Tiny Tim" by Tiny Tim... and I still haven't forgiven my sister cause she could have gotten me a USEFUL birthday present!

― Ben Fury, Tuesday, 28 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

As for what's missing... Here Come the Warm Jets by Brian Eno. I know Bobby lifted it cause he just couldn't live without having that Robert Fripp solo on Baby's On Fire.

― Ben Fury, Tuesday, 28 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've got a copy of 'Dread in a Bablyon' by U Roy which I was sure belonged to my friend Steve, but he swears it isn't his so I'm keeping it 'cos it's terrific.

― Andrew L, Tuesday, 28 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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