If All Your CDs Were To Suddenly Vanish, What Would Be The Next CD You Bought?

I knew this question was coming. "Bitches Brew", no doubt. In the end the only record I couldn't live without (okay I could but it would suck).

the first cd i would have to buy again would be my life mary j blige that cd holds my emotions in it's lyrics.

To answer my own question. I'd buy something I hadn't heard before. And then I'd keep on buying something I hadn't heard before until the urge to own something I had owned became too great - which would probably be a fortnight or so!

If the music-destroying catastrophe were to happen this very minute I'd probably try and wait until Monday and buy the Daft Punk CD.

Assuming that records and tapes would also vanish, I'd probably be too depressed to buy anything. It would just seem hopelessly futile. But if I did, it would probably be something I didn't have before - I wouldn't want to be reminded of what I lost.

Which ever came to hand first out of "Marquee Moon", "Darlings of Wapping Wharf Launderette" - Small Faces. Or maybe that Ramones anthology would cheer me up.

Just slightly off-topic but I just read the review for the Daft Punk album on nme.com and am now officially getting really excited, esp. since rumour around the campfire is that it will be in the shops on friday (here in Amsterdam at least).

All Fred's talk about the new Daft Punk being a crossover record ala Basement Jaxx actually convinced me to download a few songs off it, and let me be the one to start the backlash. Jesus fuck, I can't even conceive of a possible reason I might not want to hurt myself rather than listen to it.

As to the actual question, first I'd look for my CDs, cuz in my experience they don't just up and vanish, then I'd probably figure I deserve to spoil myself after all my tough luck, and buy something really expensive that I've been wanting for a long time. Jaworzyn/ Wilkinson duo; Union Carbide Productions: In the Air Tonight; Taj Mahal Travellers; something along those lines. And the new Nick Cave.

I am looking forward to the Daft Punk Wars almost as much as I am looking forward to the Daft Punk album.

But they'll be conducted in a separate thread, if the next poster with something to say would care to start one....

I would actually recommend to everybody locking their collections in a vault or something for, say, a year: I've done the equivalent and it really really has a positive effect on your taste.

I was silly enough to buy Daft Punk's "Homework" when it came out. I'll not be silly enough to buy the new one. I downloaded some stuff, too. Like the whole thing. Gave it a fair shot. They repeat one musical phrase more than any other "group" I know. Perhaps they could be more interesting if they had more talent? I dunno, I don't consider mundane repition an interesting (or even hypnotic-ly cool). Yeah, you can dance to it. So what?

The next CD I'd buy would be Prince's "Emancipation" for $5.99 down at Coconuts. It's got 3 cds, 3 hours of music and it's on sale for $5.99. That tells you something!

Tom E's answer to his own question was the answer of an outgoing and imaginative music listener.

Unfortunately I am not such a listener. I would probably go and find The Queen Is Dead for £4.99, first off.

What a terrible thing to happen!!!! I think I'd probably go and buy Neutral Milk Hotel's "in the aeroplane over the sea", as I probably wouldn't be feeling that happy and it'd cheer me up, not that NHM are particularly associated with feelgood music! The next step would be to get down to CD Warehouse (a great shop! CD's by so many classic bands for £8.99 or less!) and replace my Beach Boys, Kraftwerk, Dinosaur Jr and Poison albums!

How do they vanish? I want answers to that before I answer. Did someone steal them? If so, who? How can I find this person and kick the crap out of them? Did aliens take them? I am intrigued.

Err, I can't honestly say necessarily what I'd buy because, assuming they vanished on Monday night, I'd go to the store on Tuesday, pick up some new releases (Daft Punk is out already??) and then of course pick up The Holy Bible and The Immaculate Collection.

And I guess Anti-Christ Superstar so we can have the cashier look at me funny if he notices the names of the albums.

If you're feeling sinister

Kiss It Goodbye - She Loves me, She Loves Me Not: only that album could equal the rage and hurt i would feel if my cds disappeared.... then i would buy a bunch of albums i've been putting off, since i would have no excuse not to.

Being unoriginal, I'd probably go out and buy one of my favourire albums, perhaps whichever I saw cheapest first. Something by The Go- Betweens or Belle and Sebastian, I expect. Or maybe just whatever I felt like listening to.

Just like the pinefox in the snow, I would most certainly go for "The Smiths" or "TQID", which ever I find first. However, since I am broke but possess $25 worth of vouchers at a small electro store that does not sell Smiths records, I'd go for Boards of Canada's latest EP - it helps me sleep at night.

you know i'm kinda curious as to how they disappered too.... hmm well if the aliens did it i'd have yell at them and tell them to leave my dad alone,... and i'd probably buy my fav CD Our Lady Peace:Clumsy just because i have such an emotional attachment to it, second CD, Mr.Bungle,...the furst one, i can't remember the title,....

also,.. i feel stupid asking this,.... what the hell is a fortnight? i've been reading that word since i was in like 3rd grade in book written by english writers and no one i know, know what it means

go to musicality on hotline and throw all albums on the server onto minidisc's (100's)..half of the bands i've never heard of so it would be fun. losing the collection would suck like a fortnight

All the back volumes of NOW! That's What I Call Music! (US edition). Then the sound of the pirates UK Garage comp.

Like Tom I'd probably just start buying new stuff. I've lost about fifteen cds in the last couple of years (really lost, had it permanently borrowed or irrecovably damaged) and I've only replaced one of them, despite all of them being excellent albums. There's always so much *new* stuff to hear!

But otherwise it is, of course, The Avalanches.

A fortnight is 2 weeks. Was that a serious question? I cannot contemplate losing my record collection. It makes me feel ill. I expect, should it happen (and right now I have my fingers crossed, am knocking on wood and saying 'how do you do' to a magpie) I would be so traumatised I would buy very familiar things. Such as Belle and Sebastian and the Smiths. If it was burglary, I could claim on the insurance, then replace all the things I dislike, but own, such as some Marion singles with better stuff. A.

This actually happened to me once: I came home from a weekend away to find my flat broken into and my CD collection and stereo removed (along with a suitcase used, I imagine, to cart the CDs away). I am happy to report they left my vinyl alone, with the exception of the 12" on the record deck when they took the record deck. This was, amusingly enough, "Get Lifted" by Keith Murray.

The insurance I received barely covered the stereo.

What I actually did, in real life, (after replacing the stereo) was carry on record shopping and just treating records I once owned like records I didn't have. When I saw things I wanted to listen to at the appropriate price, I bought them. I went out of my way to re-acquire a couple of things, such as the first Nas LP and the Melodians compilation, but I took my time about it.

There are only a tiny number of things which I still actively miss, and most of the time I could replace them but I don't want to pay full whack: Prince Jazzbo's "Ital Corner", "Forever Version" by Dennis Alcapone (and a bunch of other Studio 1 reissues). The Dexy's Radio Sessions album, which I'd only just bought. Probably some others which don't spring to mind.

If I come across a CD which I used to own and like but which I haven't missed in the six years or so since the burglary, it has to be very cheap for me to re-invest.

I have never replaced the suitcase.

That's a touching tale, Tim. I still can't get over that 'fortnight' business. Is it a word not used outside of the UK? And if it was troubling you that much, I don't understand why you didn't just look in a dictionary. Has the world gone mad?

Like Alix, the thought of losing my record collection makes me feel sick and I don't even want to think about the process of starting it again, although this probably just goes to show what a good thing it would be for it to happen.

Who has all the CDs? Oh wouldn't you like to know! (ignore evilly arched eyebrow and maniacal laughter) Incidentally my new and unique refractive silver floor tiling is almost finished...

real answer : would declare cds to be archaic, and simultaneously renouncing the thief as a backward neandertool, then would proceed to set jaw firmly in place and defiantly listen to a few mp3s by new up and indies!

prologue: an hour later would secretly stow myself away under the bed pillows, for a good cry over my hopelessly sad (but lovely) collection of impulse buys and old favourites... not to mention the gradually acquired 15 volume Rhino new wave collection.... wah!

The Wipers - Is this Real? is not nearly my favorite album, is something I haven't listened to in over a year probably, but I feel somehow I would be betraying some personal existential truth by not owning it.

I might find some kind of solace in "Helium" by Pram.

well i WOULD have looked in a dictionary,... but well you'll hvae to excuse me for being extremly lazy and/or having adhd so bad when i pick up a dictionary by the time i get to the correctpage i've forgotten what the word is i was looking for.

and no i've never heard anyone but people from the UK say fortnight, also THAKY YOU FORITH ANSWERERING ZEE QEEZZTON!

Oh, I wish I'd thought of those. What about "Chestnut Mare" and "The Bells of Rhymney", as well?

Erm, this was supposed to be under the guitar solo thread. But the next CD I'd buy would be "Mr. Tambourine Man" cos I only had the box set before and it actually vanished.