How many records do you own? And other interesting questions!!

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You guys always seem to know more than me about everything. So i thought i'd ask just how big your record collections are.

Q1. How many CD's do you own?

Q2. How many LP's do you own?

Q3. How old are you?

Q4. Whats the most number of albums you own for one band/artist?

Q5. Name two of your favourite records that sound nothing like each other.

Now we'll see just how muso we all are!

― dmun, Friday, 25 February 2005 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I have a strong feeling that this question may have been asked before....multiple times.

― the other kate (ffs!) (papa november), Friday, 25 February 2005 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

OK, i'll answer my own question, i'm sure most of you have loads more.

Q1. About 600 CD's

Q2. About 200 LP's

Q3. 21

Q4. Sadly i have 13 Iron Maiden albums. But dont listen to them (honest)

Q5. "Silver Apples" and Hawksley Workman - "Last Night we were the Delicious Wolves."

― dmun, Friday, 25 February 2005 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Q1: I don't know.
Q2: Again I don't know.
Q3: 31
Q4: I don't know, probably 20 dEUS related CDs.
Q5: No New York and Rumours

I am not a muso.

― nathalie doing a soft foot shuffle (stevie nixed), Friday, 25 February 2005 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Kate, I used the search thingy just like Ned told me and nothing came up! So heres a new thread!

― dmun, Friday, 25 February 2005 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

1 - no idea, but counting burns probably between 3000-4000
2 - not sure, but much fewer. Closer to 50 than 100
3 - 35
4 - Probably Ornette Coleman, in the 40 range
5 - Steve Reich "Tehillim" and Fishbone "Truth and Soul"

― Austin (Austin), Friday, 25 February 2005 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

No, dont count burns. Downloading is dirty.

― dmun, Friday, 25 February 2005 16:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Q6. How many mp3s do you have on your hard drive(s)?

1. maybe 650 cds
2. maybe 500 lps
3. 33
4. i inherited like 20 beatles albums from my uncle's collection
5. george winston "autumn" and big & rich "horse of a different color"
bonus #6 - 6,696 here and at least that many at home (many overlapping)

― john'n'chicago, Friday, 25 February 2005 16:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Kate, I used the search thingy just like Ned told me and nothing came up! So heres a new thread!

Wonders never do cease!

― the other kate (ffs!) (papa november), Friday, 25 February 2005 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I know there've been threads like this before, but anyway:

1) ~600
2) ~50
3) 32
4) probably Bob Dylan (about 13)
5) Mahler's 2nd Symphony and Howlin Wolf's rocking chair album

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 25 February 2005 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Most of them I burned from libraries and friends, not downloading. I guess that's still dirty, though.

― Austin (Austin), Friday, 25 February 2005 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

1) 850
2) 25
3) 25
4) Bob Dylan or the Beatles or something
5) Mark de gli Antoni - Horse Tricks/Erykah Badu - Mamas Gun

― the other kate (ffs!) (papa november), Friday, 25 February 2005 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Somewhere on Rockcritics.com there's an interview w/ Chuck Eddy where he says that he keeps something like 300 CDs in his place. He's heard a million albums but doesn't feel the need to keep them all. I don't know whether that's still true (if Chuck reads this perhaps he can clear it up) but that struck me as an appealing idea. It's the difference between a river and a reservoir.

― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 25 February 2005 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

1) About 330 CD albums, maybe 30 CD singles, and about 50 freebie CDs from magazines.

2) LPs I haven't counted but I would estimate at about 30 or 40, plus a similar number of 7"s and 10"s.

3) 22

4) About 13 or 14 for Dylan, but that's because he's released so many. If you add up all the Wu-affiliated albums I have it's probably a similar number.

5) NWA - Straight Outta Compton, and Girls Aloud - Sound Of The Underground

6) I think about 1500

― Nick H (Nick H), Friday, 25 February 2005 16:20 (twenty-one years ago)

My husband has opted for the following: import the CDs you listen to and *dump* the CDs in the attic, the rest can stay in the studyroom. We'll *have* to do this because there's not much room left for new records. :-(

― nathalie doing a soft foot shuffle (stevie nixed), Friday, 25 February 2005 16:22 (twenty-one years ago)

1. 600
2. 1000+
3. 30
4. Miles Davis, I think.
5. High on Fire Blessed Black Wings and Sam Rivers Fuschia Swing Song

― mcd (mcd), Friday, 25 February 2005 16:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah ~1700 mp3s.

― Austin (Austin), Friday, 25 February 2005 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

1) not quite sure but well over 1000
2) probably only about 50, but I have quite a lot of 7"s. I generalyl prefer CDs for albums, more convenient for skipping duff tracks
3) 28
4) maybe Sonic Youth? I have most of their albums. Actually probably Billy Childish if I'm allowed to count all of his various bands
5) Softies - It's Love, Napalm Death - Scum

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Friday, 25 February 2005 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

"You never count your records while yr standin at the turntable
There'll be time enough fer countin, when the DJ's done..."

or summat.

― Mark.G, Friday, 25 February 2005 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Q1. 529 CDs

Q2. 319 LPs (+157 7"s and about a half dozen 10"s)

Q3. I am 20 years old.

Q4. Probably Sonic Youth or the stones, but I am too lazy to count right now.

Q5. Biggie Ready To Die and Pearls Before Swine Balaklava.

― Ian John50n (orion), Friday, 25 February 2005 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

q1. 1200 cds (approx.)
q2. 200 lps (not sure)

(q2.5. about 250 cassettes, no 8-tracks, around 150 45's)

q3. 34 y.o.
q4. miles davis - at least 30
q5. everyone digs bill evans / wonderful rainbow

q6. gah, 1000's of mp3s

q7. length of to-get list: about 200 cds right now (but growing since I discovered this board back in November).

― theophilus jones (theophilus), Friday, 25 February 2005 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

1. 800 CDs
2. 2000 LPs
3. 35
4. John Coltrane
5. Dead C Trapdoor Fucking Exit and the Congos Heart of the Congos

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 25 February 2005 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Q1. about 600
Q2. ZERO
Q3. 22
Q4. 9 (Aphex Twin)
Q5. Orbital - 2 and Metallica - Master of Puppets
Q6. On my 40 gb mp3 player i have about 9,000 songs (with roughly 2 gigs left)

― latebloomer: The Heavy Metal Velveeta Faction (latebloomer), Friday, 25 February 2005 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Q1. 1600+

Q2. 60-75 or so pieces of vinyl, mostly 7"s and 12"s.

Q3. Getting near three decades.

Q4. 10 maybe. (The Fall or maybe Sonic Youth)

Q5. Liege & Lief and Champion Jungle Sound

Q6. Um about 8 or 9 GBs, I think.

Q7. Around 200 or so. I need to update the list I have actually.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 25 February 2005 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Q1. 500? Something like that. I could get rid of a lot of them easily. Probably 200 that I could never part with.

Q2. 5000? Something like that. I could get rid of a lot of them easily. Probably 1000 that I could never part with.

Q3. 36

Q4. Felt?(If you count singles too) Thin Lizzy? (Nah, I probably own, maybe, 10 Thin Lizzy Albums. Same with Swans & Durutti Column.)If you count singles, I probably own 18 or 19 Felt records on vinyl.(and two denim albums and two denim singles and a go-kart mozart album. i don't own a copy of novelty rock or summer smash and i didn't buy the go-kart mozart single and i don't own the deebank solo album.)

Q5. Chubby Checker - New Revelation & Necros - Conquest For Death

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 25 February 2005 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah, Dylan. I forgot about him. I've probably got, like, 20 Dylan albums.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 25 February 2005 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Somewhere between one and two thousand. I need to start counting again one day

2. 200+ ... about the same number of 12"s and maybe 100 7"s

3. 24

4. Fugazi

5. Husker Du - Zen Arcade / Jeff Mills - Waveform Transmissions Vol. 3

― DJ Mencap0))), Friday, 25 February 2005 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Q1. 4,000-ish
Q2. 500-ish
Q3. 41
Q4. Beefheart, Tom Waits, Zappa all 40-50ish
Q5. Trout Mask Replica, Endtroducing

What about singles?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 25 February 2005 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Q1. How many CD's do you own? ~1200

Q2. How many LP's do you own? ~50

Q2a. How many cassettes do you own? ~350

Q3. How old are you? 32

Q4. Whats the most number of albums you own for one band/artist? ~25 for Jefferson Airplane/Starship/other incarnations

Q5. Name two of your favourite records that sound nothing like each other. Dusty in Memphis and Bran Van 3000's Discosis.

Q6. How many MP3s? 2000?

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 25 February 2005 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

1. about 700

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Friday, 25 February 2005 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

cds-2k
lps/12s - 4k
age - 30s
most - The Fall, 60 or so cds/vinyls
the big dif: Xenakis Everly Bros

― The Argunaut (sexyDancer), Friday, 25 February 2005 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

1. about 700
2. about 20
a. about 100
3. 30
4. the cure all of their cd's. followed by redhouse painters/mark kozelek/sun kil moon
5. Pet Sounds and Master of Reality
6. 2500?

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Friday, 25 February 2005 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

1. About 60 feet. I can't be arsed counting them.
2. About 20 feet
3. Nearly 40
4. Beatles or Bowie.
5. George Winston - Blues and ballads, Motorhead - No sleep til' Hammersmith
6. About 15gb (though a lot are rips from my cd's)

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 25 February 2005 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)

1) ~1350 CDs
2) ~175 LPs
3) 29
4) Miles Davis ~25
5) Louis Armstrong's HotFives sound nothing like the Bee Gees. Or do they?
6) MP3's that are not from my collection: < 5 GB

― Keith C (kcraw916), Friday, 25 February 2005 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

1-about 200(but i use them for toilet paper so it really doesn't matter how many i have)
2-25,000-People ask me where is my record collection since i have a store and I tell them unless somebody buys something they are my record collection
3-41
4-I have the collected works of Rolling Stones,Cars,Buck Fizz,Cher
5-Miles Davis/Pangaea and Schnappsie/The only dog in the world with a magic button

― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Friday, 25 February 2005 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)

1. ~ 1100 (I haven't counted in ages. I'm afraid)
2. ~ 250 pieces of vinyl
3. ~ 30
4. I'll steal Joseph's logic and say Spacemen 3 + their descendents
5. Vainqueur -- Elevations, and Magnetic Fields -- 69 Love Songs
6. Right now? ~ 1000, but I've got thousands more burned away elsewhere.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 25 February 2005 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

1. About 7000.
2. About 2500. You don't want to know how many 7" singles I have. A lot.
3. 35.
4. A bit over 100 James Brown albums.
5. Alvin Lucier's "I am sitting in a room" and Eric B. & Rakim's "The Millennium Collection."

― Douglas (Douglas), Friday, 25 February 2005 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)

1 - about 400?
2 - maybe 1500 slices of vinyl
3 - 33
4 - maybe 20+ autechre/gescom
5 - Morton Feldman's "All Piano" and v/a "Jungle Renegades"

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 25 February 2005 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Q1. judging by weight, about 700 legitimately purchased CDs

Q2. 100 or so, at least twice as many 12s and twice as many again
7s, including 2 see-through glitter vinyl, neither of which were bought for the musical content

Q3. sieben zwanzig

Q4. i have probabaly about 20 records with a Lou Barlow credit on them, thanks to a phase i went through at Uni.

Q5. Raise Your Skinny Fists by Godspeed, Midnight Marauders by ATCQuest. not too much in common, although i understand that Godspeed used to cover 'Sucka Nigga' live as their set closer.

― Lee (fsharp), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:14 (twenty-one years ago)

1. 150 CD's
2. 15 LP's
3. 18
4. 6 x Nirvana Albums, but I don't like them anymore
5. Raymond Scott - Manhattan Research Inc and Everything else i own.

― Panda Man, Friday, 25 February 2005 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Q1: i have about 8228 cds

Q2: vinyls i have 6783 vinyls the rareist ever

Q3: i am 19 but i have been collecting since in was 10

Q4: the beatles i have all of them except 3

Q5: mars volta frances the mute and beach boys pet sounds

― leeman, Friday, 25 February 2005 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

1. CDs - around 1200?
2. Records - around 1200?
3. Age - 28
4. Most records by artist - probably Robert Wyatt (and soft machine and matching mole) - around 12? Alice Coletrane - around 10? Pharoah Sanders - 10? Don Cherry - 10?
5. Faves that Sound Different - Miles Davis - On The Corner & Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue

― LaToya JaXoN (JasonD), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

oh, and my wang is bigger than yours

― LaToya JaXoN (JasonD), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Answering this question will make me feel inadequate as a critic, so I'm not going to.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

YOU HAVE A SMALL WANG!!

― LaToya JaXoN (JasonD), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Something like that.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I would also like to know what color your main means of transportation is (car, bus pass, whatever), how any pairs of shoes you have, whether your BO is worse in the left pit or the right one, and most importantly, how do you like your eggs?

― Austin (Austin), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:48 (twenty-one years ago)

silver, about 5 or 6, about the same in each, scrambled or fried

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

purple, three, right, hard boiled (take 'em with ya!)

― Austin (Austin), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:54 (twenty-one years ago)

red, 10, left, over easy, L42-R38-L32, 125 hardcover, about 300 paperbacks, 12 VHS, 7 DVD, 16 boxers, 22 pair of sox (4 pp white).

― theophilus jones (theophilus), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)

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Q1. 500+ CDs.

Q2. 0 LPs (I don't own a turntable -- I know, anathema). Also 100 or so cassettes, which I would digitize if I knew how.

Q3. Turning 39 very soon.

Q4. Hmmmmm -- probably Ella (see below). With Elvis a close second.

Q5. Ella Fitzgerald, Songbooks. Spacemen 3, Forged Prescriptions. Both are bliss in their own inimitable ways.

― ffirehorse, Friday, 25 February 2005 23:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Q1. 3000

02. 300

Q3. 26

Q4. Frank Zappa discography. But I think I may have as much Nirvana bootlegs.

Q5. Jesus, that is hard

Three options:
A-HA - SCOUNDREL DAYS / STRAVINSKY - LE SACRE DU PRINTEMPS
KRAFTWERK - AUTOBANH / SAMBAS DE ENREDO DAS ESCOLAS DE SAMBA 2005
Miles Davis - Porgy and Bess / Napalm Death - Scum

― Elvis is Dead, Saturday, 26 February 2005 12:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Q1. How many CD's do you own? 1100+

Q2. How many LP's do you own? 20+

Q3. How old are you? 31

Q4. Whats the most number of albums you own for one band/artist? 43 cd's by The Fall

Q5. Name two of your favourite records that sound nothing like each other. The Stooges - Fun House / Talk Talk - Laughing Stock

― Marcel Verhoeven (Marcel Verhoeven), Sunday, 27 February 2005 00:47 (twenty-one years ago)

1. About 100?
2. About 60?
3. 36?
4. Probably The Fall, about 10.
5. Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2, Liars They Were Wrong So We Drowned.

― Ferlin Husky (noodle vague), Sunday, 27 February 2005 00:57 (twenty-one years ago)

1. 1700 or so
2. 200 or so
3. 35
4. Miles Davis (52)
5. Black Flag "Damaged", Plastikman "Consumed"

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Sunday, 27 February 2005 01:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Q1. Must be around 1000-ish.
Q2. 250-ish [Q2a. 100-ish cassettes.]
Q3. 30-ish.
Q4. The Fall too I'd assume.
Q5. Debussy - La Mer & Big Black - Atomiser perhaps.
Q6. Far more mp3s than I feel comfortable reporting.

Transportation: silvery train / white sedan.
Shoes: 6 or 7 in active rotation.
BO: symmetrical.
Eggs: not at all ideally.

― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Sunday, 27 February 2005 01:29 (twenty-one years ago)

cassettes? forgot aboot those things... another hundred probably
(not replaced with anything better yet or unavailable on CD).

― itchy bits (itchy bits), Sunday, 27 February 2005 01:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Q1. 400 ish
Q2. 100 ish
Q3. 19
Q4. Depeche Mode
Q5. Girls Aloud and Enslaved

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Sunday, 27 February 2005 01:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Q1. About 300 CDs

Q2. 1 haha, my girlfriend bought me a copy of Joy Division - House of Dolls... and i'll inherit, like, 400 when my dad goes senile. (how much are original american beatles LPs worth these days, anyway?)

Q3. I'm 20.

Q4. I own nine Miles Davis CDs.

Q5. Pere Ubu - Dub Housing and Johnny Cash - Live at Folsom Prison

Q6. 5831 mp3s, but I deleted, like, 2000 a couple months ago.

Transportation: nyc transit
Shoes: eight pairs (including sandals)
BO: probably equal
Eggs: in omelette form with goat cheese and cremini mushrooms.

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Sunday, 27 February 2005 01:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Q1. How many CD's do you own?
around 600

Q2. How many LP's do you own?
around 50

Q3. How old are you?
24

Q4. Whats the most number of albums you own for one band/artist?
20 by Stephin Merritt (Magnetic Fields, FBH, 6ths, Gothic Archies)

Q5. Name two of your favourite records that sound nothing like each other.
ABBA Gold
Cosmic Tones For Mental Therapy

― Anyone Who Can Pick Up A Frying Pan Pwns Death (AaronHz), Sunday, 27 February 2005 02:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Q6. How many mp3s do you have on your hard drive(s)?
5000

― Anyone Who Can Pick Up A Frying Pan Pwns Death (AaronHz), Sunday, 27 February 2005 02:02 (twenty-one years ago)

1a. Currently about 750 legit CDs
1b. About 1100 if you count the discs I burned copies of before I sold the legit bought copies of the CDs
2. About 50 (sold 7 shelf-feet of LPs in 2001)
3. 41
4. Frank Zappa and John Zorn, about 55 of each
5. ABBA "Gold" and Naked City "Leng T'che"
6. About 4800 MP3s (30GB)

Blue, 4, left, over easy, Northern (NOT Charmin), Hellmann's, Sierra Nevada Pale Ale.

Creepy, ABBA comes up twice simultaneously.

― Curious George Rides a Republican (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 27 February 2005 02:13 (twenty-one years ago)

300 lps
200 tapes
100 cds including 20 x elton and 20 x prince
the best is beatles box set

― paul wilson, Sunday, 27 February 2005 02:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Creepy, ABBA comes up twice simultaneously.

ABBA + Avant Jazz of any sort makes a good answer to that question.
I am impressed by the Zappa, I only have 9. Just got "Shiek Yerbouti" today.

― Anyone Who Can Pick Up A Frying Pan Pwns Death (AaronHz), Sunday, 27 February 2005 02:23 (twenty-one years ago)

SHEIK

― Anyone Who Can Pick Up A Frying Pan Pwns Death (AaronHz), Sunday, 27 February 2005 02:26 (twenty-one years ago)

1) Just sold/traded about 600 vinyl LPs, which leaves around 800

2) About 900 CDs, not counting burns, around 300 cassettes that never get played

3) I am 46 years old, dammit

4) Hate to be unoriginal, but it's got to go to my 45 or so Zappas

5) Elvis Costello's King of America and Super Furry Animals' Rings Around the World

6) Around 8000 MP3's, about 95% of which are just from my CD collection

7) Wish list is obscenely long due to moments of obsessive-compulsive leanings; it's got around 2500 things on it

― Dave Vinson (Gaughin), Sunday, 27 February 2005 02:54 (twenty-one years ago)

When I was working at Ole M*ss, I pitched the idea of a Zappa radio show to the campus station mgt. and wrote a nice letter to the Barfko-Swill address at the same time. A few weeks later a massive box arrived from Ryko with all the FZs on Ryko and Barking Pumpkin. (This was late 94 or early 95.) It was like the best Christmas morning ever.

― Curious George Rides a Republican (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 27 February 2005 03:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Q1. 300+

Q2. 100+ (50+ cassettes)

Q3. 22+

Q4. 5 by 5 or 6 groups

Q5. scritti politti cupid et psche 85 and bad brains

― artdamages (artdamages), Sunday, 27 February 2005 05:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Q1. somewhere between 3000 - 4000
Q2. around 1000 - 1500
Q3. 34
Q4. Charles Ives (35+)
Q5. from today's listening: Free Design & Cosmos

― (Jon L), Sunday, 27 February 2005 05:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Q1. 93 CDs (very pathetic)
Q2. Nonexistant vinyl collection (maybe after I buy a record player...)
Q3. age: 19
Q4. 9 Beatles discs
Q5. Odd Nosdam: No More Wig for Ohio, The Shins: Oh, Inverted World
Q6. About 3,800 mp3s (this is where my "real" music collection lies)

― Jill, Wednesday, 2 March 2005 06:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Q1. 350 or so
Q2. Maybe 20, not including my mom's substantial vinyl collection.
Q3. 18
Q4. Bob Marley or the Boredoms or Prince, probably. I don't really obsess over completing artist's discographies much.
Q5. uhh... Philip Glass - Music in 12 Parts, Miles Davis - Get Up With It
Q6. ~9,000 MP3's

― stephen morris (stephen morris), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 06:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Q1. 1,500 CDs.
Q2. Maybe 8,000 LPs, but I ain't counting.
Q3. Forty-two.
Q4. Over 100 Bowie albums & boots.
Q5. Heldon - Un Reve Sans Consequence Speciale; Guy Clark - Old No. 1.
Q6. 2,000 on the old hard drive, many thousands more burned to disc.

― brianiac (briania), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 07:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Q1 + Q2 dunno, but they're 95% vinyl, occupy about 30 Pickfords boxes and cost almost a grand to ship from UK to singapore
Q3 28 but answering this question has added 2 years to my age
Q4 20 or so by Cajmere/Green Velvet including remixes (Kerri Chandler or Lil Louis probably running a close second)
Q5 Force and Styles "Heart of Gold" and Chopin's Nocturnes

― Jacob (Jacob), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 09:43 (twenty-one years ago)

do you guys count it or is it just a rough estimate?

― nathalie barefoot in the head (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 09:47 (twenty-one years ago)

rough estimate.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 10:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Q1. around 250
Q2. 0
Q3. 23
Q4. 5 (Prince)
Q5. Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom and Circle Jerks - Group Sex
Q6. 957 plus around 8000 on cdrs, mostly from emusic

― a banana (alanbanana), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 10:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Q1. bout 300
Q2. 0
Q3. 23
Q4. 8 by hendrix
Q5. Hot snakes - Audit in progress and Kate Bush - Hounds of love
Q6. about 60gb

― Mr Monket (apn99), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 10:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Q1-2: The embarrassing thing is I do know exactly how many of each I've got (I need to know for insurance purposes) but I'm not going to give out numbers here because it would sound posey.

Q3: Far, far(t)oo old.

Q4: Derek Bailey - 228 CDs as leader, co-leader, improvisor, co-improvisor, sideman, organiser etc.

Q5: All my records connect in one way or another so it would be disingenuous for me to claim that Xenakis sounded different from the Wombles.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 11:13 (twenty-one years ago)

The reason I don't know: they are scattered around. There were times I could count'em all because they were all in the same place. Now they are in different places - I even have a box somewhere in the uh bike storage room. I rrrrrreally hate this as I'm very anal about (especially) my records but I have learned to ignore this (read: Thom's influence).

― nathalie barefoot in the head (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 11:17 (twenty-one years ago)

correction: that should be 228 Derek Bailey records in total 'cos quite a lot of them are on vinyl...

Some of my collection is in my study, some of it at my mum's in Glasgow and yet others still in storage in Oxford (????!!!??).

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 11:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Q1. I have no idea

Q2. haha none, I am too young! (actually this is a lie, a PR company once sent me an LP instead of the CD by mistake once, but I don't know what it sounds like as I have no record player)

Q3. 22

Q4. Don't know the exact number, it'd be Tori Amos though (assorted singles pushing the total up).

Q5. Britney Spears, Britney; Diamanda Galás, The Plague Mass

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 11:30 (twenty-one years ago)

1 Around 1200
2 Maybe 30
3 31
4 Probably Neil Young (Either that or REM if you count bootlegs)
5 Low, Secret Name. QotSA, Songs For the Deaf.
6 About 8000 on my iPod, more in storage.

― Greig (treefell), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 12:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Q1. How many CD's do you own? Around 6500

Q2. How many LP's do you own? 200 or so, in a box in the basement.

Q3. How old are you? 30

Q4. Whats the most number of albums you own for one band/artist? Dozens of John Zorn related projects.

Q5. Name two of your favourite records that sound nothing like each other. Hmm, nothing like each other? Drive-By Truckers "Southern Rock Opera" and Justin TImberlake's "Justified"

Q6: MP3s? I've had a few. Constantly in flux, but including bootlegs and (undecoded) SHNs, maybe 200 GB.

Q6: How many DVDs? About 1500 or so right now. Maybe more? I hope not, but definitely growing.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 13:49 (twenty-one years ago)

228 Derek Bailey records

This is insane.

― Jacob (Jacob), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

1. 550 I think?
2. no idea- let's say 200- I love dollar bins
3. I am 22
4. I have all the Beatles CDs, plus some American LPs, so like 15-20 total
5. It's all pretty diverse, but for today let's go with Roberta Flack - First Take and Sparks - No. 1 in Heaven
6. 4,000 mp3s currently, but that fluctuates more than anything else in my collection

― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

1. 600-650
2. 750-850
3. 26 (only been collecting vinyl around 2 years, and my cd count 5 years ago would have been under 50)
4. well i own everthing the clean has ever put out in multiple fashions, but that only totals around 10-12, where as my bowie and neil young collections total about 15-16 each without even coming close to their entire discog
5. wreck small speakers on expensive stereos - river falling love vs. black sabbath - paranoid

― chris andrews (fraew), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

oh and almost my entire mp3 collection is my own archive of new zealand songs ripped from vinyl, tape or out of print cds, totalling around 5000 songs

― chris andrews (fraew), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Q1. How many CD's do you own? about 1000 ish, I dunno the exact number - a lot of them are crap.

Q2. How many LP's do you own? about 4

Q3. How old are you? 28

Q4. Whats the most number of albums you own for one band/artist? - Man or Astroman? (12); Neil Young (12); Alice Cooper (12); Beach Boys (11)

Q5. Name two of your favourite records that sound nothing like each other.

Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys Part 2
Alison Krauss and Union Station - Live

I don't have many MP3's about 20-30?

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

Q1. How many CD's do you own?
About 1000 (used to be closer to 1400).

Q2. How many LP's do you own?
Only about 250 (used to be closer to 500).

Q3. How old are you?
28

Q4. Whats the most number of albums you own for one band/artist?
I have about 25 Frank Sinatra records, oddly enough.

Q5. Name two of your favourite records that sound nothing like each other.
Er, "More Hottest Hits from Treasure Isle" and Schwarzkopf singing Schubert lieder? (Though in my mind there are actually affinitites.)

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 13 July 2006 22:56 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I seem to have just under 7,000 MP3s.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 13 July 2006 23:03 (nineteen years ago)

You guys always seem to know more than me about everything. So i thought i'd ask just how big your record collections are.

Q1. 900

Q2. 250

Q3. 29

Q4. 15

Q5. Marvin Gaye "What's Going On?" and Entombed "Clandestine"

― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Thursday, 13 July 2006 23:38 (nineteen years ago)

I also have a bunch of mp3s.

― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Thursday, 13 July 2006 23:41 (nineteen years ago)

900 and 250 are round-ups, and I see people are being more specific.

I have about 893 CDs and 200 plus records (I don't feel like counting them heh)

― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Thursday, 13 July 2006 23:42 (nineteen years ago)

"Q2. 319 LPs (+157 7"s and about a half dozen 10"s)"

something tells me ian's answer is different now.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 13 July 2006 23:49 (nineteen years ago)

Probably between 800-1000 CDs

Maybe 20 LPs

Bob Dylan--Probably 30 CDs

Glen Campbell & Jimmy Webb Reuinion and Fugazi In On The Killtaker

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Thursday, 13 July 2006 23:53 (nineteen years ago)

what are the 20 LPs? you must know.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 13 July 2006 23:55 (nineteen years ago)

1. about 1700
2. less than 20 (and no turntable)
3. 24
4. sonic youth? the fall? guided by voices? (i have WAY too much gbv stuff and i don't even have everything)
5. eh, i'll pass on this one

― spastic heritage (spastic heritage), Friday, 14 July 2006 00:12 (nineteen years ago)

what are the less than 20? you must know.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 14 July 2006 00:15 (nineteen years ago)

1. 500-
2. 10'000+
3. 34
4. residents/miles davis tie
5. groovy man

― blunt (blunt), Friday, 14 July 2006 00:23 (nineteen years ago)

haha yes, i do know. three bailter space albums, kustomized, helium, 18th dye, come (2 lps), wolf eyes/black dice, avey tare/david grubbs split, sonic youth s/t ep (sst reissue), some buffalo daughter ep (don't even think i've listened to this one before), archers of loaf 10" ep, lcd soundsystem "losing my edge" 12", black dice "cone toaster" 12", moonshake ep. handful of 7"s: galaxie 500, sonic youth/erase errata, unwound/versus, les savy fav. mostly piss poor selection, i know.

all matador lps acquired in the great music boulevard scam of 1998. ($10 coupon = everything under $10 (including shipping) is FREE!)

(xpost, obviously)

― spastic heritage (spastic heritage), Friday, 14 July 2006 00:26 (nineteen years ago)

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