People who don't buy CDs - what 12 CDs would THEY have?

If they're 18 year old guys they'll be too ashamed to buy pop music (imagine!), so..............Coldplay, Stereophonics, Limp Bizkit, Ryan Adams yes I better say that before someone else does.

Beatles 1 would probably fit into lots of those collections of 12 CDs.

I'd say the same for Bob Marley's Legend too,come to think of it.

Now 46, a couple of Q magazine cover CDs, Abba Gold, a Chill-out Compilation, Metal Machine Music

that bloody morcheeba album, at least one massive attack record, parachutes by coldplay.

A venn diagram of the cd collections of my ex girlfriends of the last couple of years, none of whom considered themselves to be big music buyers, would show the above cd's at its intersection.

Going deeper, every single girl I have ever done the horizontal salsa with on a regular basis has owned a copy of "Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars" by Edie Brickell and the New BOhemians. I find this terrifying.

We might have to split it up into age groups and sex, mind, because a mid 20s 12 CDs woman would probably have different CDs to mid 50s 12 CDs man.
Grrrrrr. I am on a mission to prove you wrong then.

Probably Titanic and Bridget Jones Diary soundtrack. And of course some Madonna (American Pie single? har har). And hey after seeing the Strokes on SNL maybe This Is It.

then there are the "Government Issue" albums. Automatic for the People, Harvest. "What's that? You say you didn't get your copy yet, sir? it's in the post right now, thank you."

Just to chip in in an annoying way to tell Rob that the whole what would an insufferable music snob's 12 CDs be? thing was a joke that came out of Kate St Claire's throwaway comment here about 'people who only own a dozen CDs', by which she meant exactly the kind of stereotype you're talking about, Rob. She then had everyone gang up on her for being a big fat snob on the People who work in offices: Classic or Dud? thread.

My Shorran, right, she only got 8 CDs, yeh, but there good uns cos she lisens to reel music not poofy stereo stripe shit, and im the daddy ere and if she dont play wot I like she gets a SLAAAAAAAP.

An she got thrilla mikel jacksen. parachute colplays. 8764701 by usha too many lucozades already if you ask me. atomikittin rite now well that was one i ad but I give to her I bot it for the cover omigod need kilrock descaler QUICK. an then there is toploder mochas big coffee DANCININAMOON LOIGHT! great song that PROPAH SONG WITH WORDS not yer poofy black lether motorcicle queers eh? an i'm no angel by Dildo no i wanna shag the devil tonight gel!

dont need more CDs cos collectin is for sad bastirds pedofiles choof choof trainspoting chuff chuff sounds like POOF POOF cos thats wot they are dirty perverts shove em all off the Allience Lester bilding in Bromley I would.

Im gonna be on Tommy Boyd Human Zoo Talk Sport next Sunday right, gonna ring im up, so make sure you is all listenin to hear wot a REAL MAN NOT A POOFY PONCE sounds like right? Put that Pompey ponce in is place I will.

no angel by Dildo
That's the *first* time I heard that joke. Same goes for Ryan/Bryan Adams.

Moby

The Buena Vista Social Club.

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Classic Chillout U2 - 1980-90 Bjork CD Travis CD Some Enya shite Some Dance Hits collection Songs from Dawson's Creek Tom Jones greatest hits Songs from Ally McBeal Destiny's Child album Madonna - The Immaculate Collection Big Black - Songs About F**king

Props to Alan Trewartha. Govt. issue albums indeed. I remember some statistic back in the eighties that one in three households had a copy of "Brothers In Arms" by ver Straits. Why are you all keeping quiet about this? C'mon, fess up.

We made do w/ 2 copies of 'Rumours' instead.

And we mustn't forget "Carry On Up The Charts" by the Beautiful South - present in one of seven households!

Also Gabrielle Greatest Hits and Craig David.

3 random Celine Dions,
3 random Mariah Carey's,
Michael Jacksons Thriller,
An album by Michael Bolton, probably his all-covers album,
That K-Tel comp of the Greatest Hits of Chicago,
Greatest Hits of John Cougar Mellencamp,
Greatest Hits of John Denver,
And just to show that they are "Down" To the Extreme by Vanilla Ice*,
And just to show that they are "Edgy" they'll insist that theres something "k-rad kewl" about Pearl Jam's Vitology

*Note: The really hip ones will replace that Vanilla Ice album with MC Hammers Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em, the Superhip with To Legit to Quit and the Ultrahip will have a PM Dawn album instead.

Of course, this is the American version of this list. I wonder what the Aussie or Irish version would be.

Oh God Nick I'm sorry! But nobody's slagged me off yet - give it time, I suppose. I missed out on the threads you mention which started it all off, so whoops... sorry folks. But hell, looks like everyone's chipping in anyway.

God, I wasn't meaning that! I just thought you might be interested.

There would probably be a beautiful south cd in that collection, and maybe some god-awful basement jaxx or progidy album.

A dear friend of mine, years ago, had four or five Prince CDs, _Red Hot + Blue_, the first Right Said Fred album, and nothing else. She was very happy with all of them, and played all of them a lot.

Another friend has three or four Beatles albums, the best half-dozen Stevie Wonder albums, _everything_ by Elliott Smith and Heatmiser, and that's it. Also listens to them plenty, and doesn't feel the need to own anything else.

Enigma (left from 1991 sleepover)
Cranberries (missing front of jewel case)
Shelby Lynne
Macy Gray
David Gray
Oh Brother Where Art Thou Soundtrack
Selections from Ken Burns' Jazz
Some Third World thing with flutes discovered at a Barnes and Noble listening station

I know these people all too well.

I'm at least impressed with the Heatmiser.

Naw I disagree....

Shelby Lynne
Naw...too hip. Garth Brooks all the way.
Oh Brother Where Art Thou Soundtrack
Um, no. Titanic is much much much more probable.
Selections from Ken Burns' Jazz
Yeah this would be there...with the shrinkwrap still on it.
Some Third World thing with flutes discovered at a Barnes and Noble listening station
Why should they have this? They got "Zamfir, Master of the Pan Flutes" through the mail. They won't even bother with this!

I know these people all too well.
Yer givin' them waaaaay too much credit.

Why should they have this? They got "Zamfir, Master of the Pan Flutes" through the mail. They won't even bother with this!

Impulse purchase triggered by aroma wafting over from B&N coffee bar.

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Uh, check the track list on the record. It's Helen. Not Lydia Lunch.

Asked a person this question actually. Today. She replied: "I have good music." I retorted:"As opposed to bad music ey?" She gave me a list: Queen, Mariah Carey and Celine Dion.

OK Computer, Stankonia, The Joshua Tree.

Yes, well this thread is most amusing ho ho but what are we actually trying to prove here? At least on the music snob thread we were laughing at ourselves mainly.

A more interesting discussion might follow if we all go find someone who we think meets the stereotype and actually ask them what CDs they own and then report back on what they said.

Even more interesting: if you were forced to give up every CD in your collection save 12, which 12 would you keep? I feel a new thread coming on...

aha - I see Helen's preempted me

Yes - these people always have ten predictable cds, chosen from the list above and then something really random. Nobody is that predictable.

My old flatmate used to listen to Abba Gold constantly, but occasionally stick on her Orishas album.

My boss from a couple of years back used to listen exclusively to Dire Straits, Beautiful South and Mogwai (maybe cos he was Glaswegian).

Beatles' "Anthology", something from Enya, The Three Sopranos, a "Greatest Hits" of Phil Collins, Buena Vista Social Club, maybe something from U2 if he was young in the eighties.

I think the most obvious answer is that most people who don't buy CDs wouldn't have any CDs at all.

An old roommate of mine owned 3 CDs. The two volumes of Classic Queen and one of the Nirvana albums.

I have a friend who owns maybe 15. Among them are Dark Side of the Moon, Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys, Metallica's self-titled, Fleetwood Mac's Greatest Hits, an Elton John Greatest Hits, something by the band Live, something by Blues Traveler, and.... eh, I can't remember the rest. No Beatles or Celine Dion or anything like that, though.

Jeff W has some interesting points actually, but I didn't ask this to take the mickey out of people. I was wondering if there was a consensus of typical records owned by people who don't typically get as excited by music as us ILM-ers. Of course, we are all guessing at what horrors await our inspection - it would be better to ask people themselves, and more interesting to ask them why those particular records.

As to 12 records I couldn't live without... I'll let you know when you start the thread.

Already started - but cunningly disguised like Tom E's questions used to be.

I have many of these albums. I'm going to take that as a good thing though; we're all supposed to have a healthy liking for pop here, right? RIGHT?!??

How about splitting it up by nationality?

12 CDs a Canuck (between 25-34--Sorry, I can only speak for my own demographpic) who buys hardly any music yet will casually turn on rock radio (the obvious default for Canadians of this age group) would probably own:

Tragically Hip: Road Apples

I Mother Earth: Scenery and Fish

Barenaked Ladies: Maybe You Should Drive (because you wouldn't want Gordon, that was way too overplayed, you know?)

Neil Young: Harvest

Dave Matthews Band: Under the Table and Dreaming (they sound Canadian, eh?)

Moist: Silver (None of David Usher's solo stuff, surely)

Sarah Mclachlan: Fumbling Towards Ecstasy

Stompin' Tom: any random album (as long as you can sing along with "Bud the Spud, "The Hockey Song" or "Barett's Privateers": "I'm a broken man on a Halifax Pier...")

Sloan: One Chord to Another (if you're a really cutting edge north north American)

Spirit of the West: Save this house (JUST for "Home for a rest," THE ONLY CANADIAN DRINKING SONG THAT MATTERS, EH?: "These so called vacations will soon be my death/I'm so sick from the drink/I need home for a rest"--the rest of the album SUCKS ass dude.)

For the last two, any of: Grapes of Wrath, Our Lady Peace, Alanis Morissette, Maestro Fresh Wes, Philosopher Kings, Leslie Spit Tree-O, etc.

(If we are talking Quebec, the list changes to include Jean Leloup, Eric Lapointe, Kevin Parent, Garou, Guns n' Roses...I could go on...)

whoops, forgot to mention "white, middle class" when describing the demographic....

Reasonably accurate list, cybele, but for two things:
1) I think the Sloan album would be Twice Removed. It's the BEST ALBUM EVAH, if you ask the kids.
2) Stan Rogers did "Barrett's Privateers", not stompin' Tom. So one of those albums should be Stan's Fogarty's Cove, probably.

thanks...you're right. I kicked myself a number of times. You can always count on a manitoban now can't you!

Judging by this thread, people who don't buy CDs like an awful lot of rekkids I like too.

Ex-Manitoban anyhow. If I was still there, I'd probably be tempted to say Crash Test Dummies, for the home team, but then I'd come to my senses.

I don't think the idea was to say that these are rubbish CDs. Though there is some sort of snobbery at work here... I didn't buy Harvest for ages cos everyone has it, same goes for Automatic For the People. I still don't have that Abba box-set, despite consistently listing Dancing Queen as one of my all time fave singles.

Got to go with all soundtracks. Because if you only own 12 CD that's likely all you'll buy.

Big Chill, Forrest Gump, all that Baby Boomer Stuff.

OK here's some cd's that I think you'll find alot of people that dont buy cds will have. Theres more than 12 here and off the top of my head, but subtract a couple here or add a couple depending on the type of music the person most likes. Keep in mind this is for the average dont get much person mid 20's to mid thirties probably female.

1. Titanic /Celine Deiones Greatest Hits 2. Chicago Greatest Hits 3. Aerosmith GH 4. HOOOTIE and the Blowfish Cracked Rearview 5. Spice Girls 6. BSB / NSYNC to feel "hip" and they kinda like that one song. 7. Mariah Carey 8. Britney / Christina for same reason as on #6 9. Matchbox Twenty 10. Destinys Child or Lauryn Hill (kinda like the chistina/britney 1) 11. A Christmas compilation of some kind. classics or manheim type 12. Eingma or a celtic type cd (moods) 13. Beatles or Stones GH (they grew up on it) 14. Motown classics compilation Or Jazz Collection (same as #13) 15. A decade of pop songs / dance songs cd 16. No Doubt

I'm not sure my girlfriend, in all the years I've known her, has even bought 12 CDs and tapes. Now she is maybe a special case cos obviously she's had access to my collection but to be honest she very rarely borrows anything. I make tapes for her occasionally and we listen to the radio and thats about it. So she fits the bill. And here's what she owns and has owned:

Abba Gold
Blur - Parklife (threw away, now hates)
The Bluetones - whatever that first Bluetones album is called (threw away very quickly)
Saint Etienne - Too Young To Die
Capercaillie - don't know title
Various Artists - Top Of The Pops Summer 2000
Various Artists - Re-Rewind (Artful Dodger 2CD Mix)
David Bowie - The Ultimate Singles Collection
The Lanterns - Luminate Yer Heid
Pulp - We Love Life (taped copy off me)
Various Artists - The Ultimate Christmas Collection (co-owned with me)
Burt Bacharach - The Look Of Love

I can't remember any others. She almost bought the Outkast best of last week but it doesn't have her favourite track on it ("We Love These Hoes") so she passed on it. Oh and she has my Destiny's Child - Survivor. And she has a half-dozen singles.

Basically I think she has good, and pretty consistent taste, especially when she got rid of the Blur and Bluetones albums. I wish she'd never bought Capercaillie or the bloody Lanterns, though. The way she buys music - and I think this is typical of the "12-CD" person - is pretty much exactly the same as the way I buy music. She hears a track, she likes it a lot, she wants to buy the album. The difference is that with me this whim strikes at least weekly, and often more - with her it hits maybe once a year. But though she has a healthy preference for best-ofs, she doesn't just go for whatever's in the charts or is selling high - hence Capercaillie and the Lanterns and Pulp.

I work in a law office & right now I'm preparing an exhibit for a divorce hearing. This couple has to list all their possessions & their value, so they can divide everything equitably (it's very sad work.) One of the items is:

"Assortment of CDs - $35"

What's that, probably 10 or so? I thought of this thread & wondered what they were...

People who don't buy CDs - what 12 CDs would THEY have?
Whatever ones they shoplifted (See...they didn't *buy* them.
PS - how CAN people not like music?
Uhhh...dunno. You'll have to ask Tanya about that.