Collection A to Z - what does it say about you

My music collection starts with Ryan Adams and ends with Warren Zevon, two artists who are/were generally considered jackasses/hard to deal with etc - so what does that say about me? - shoe fits yadda yadda -- (PS i realize Zevon supposedly softened quite a bit later in life, heralded as a genius and wonderful guy and all that, but I never bought into it)

Mine starts with A Certain Ratio & ends with ZZ Top - I have no idea what it says about me but it does kinda encapsulate what I like

I'm Acid Mothers to ZZ Top.

Basically if it doesn't end with ZZ Top you are doing something wrong imo.

"Aaliah" to a bunch of stuff that isn't tagged with an artist name

what does this say about me?

you need to tag your Frank Zappa

Aa to Zs

hipster city usa

AC/DC to "Unknown Artist" on my Ipod.

Last known artist on my ipod is the 5 Jones Boys

Oops! last artist in the a-z alaphabet on the ipod is Young Marble Giants

Aaly Trio ----> Zorn, John

Mine says to me that I need to download some John Zorn!

Aaliyah to Young Marble Giants -- modern R&B to post-punk/new wave -- two of my favorite genres in the world.

I don't have my CD and record collection in front of me, which would span more of the alphabet, but my iPod goes from A.C. Newman to The xx.

Muhal Richard Abrams to ZZ Top ... great bookends.

Acid Eater to Zwan

A.C. Newman to, uh, Young Heart Attack (which I got for free forever ago and have never listened to)

Oh I have the Zwan CD too but I just never ripped it.

Has anyone got anything beyond ZZ Top?

Aaron Lacrate to Zu

the state that hipster city USA is in

(!!! to Zeni Geva for the LPs)

aaron dilloway to zz top

Oh I have the Zwan CD too but I just never ripped it.

Was wondering who would be first to confess to owning this atrocity.

I've got ZZZZ (which I believe I acquired via n/a).

I start with either Aaliyah or a-ha, depending on how you deal with that hyphen.

A² to ZZino vs. Filterheadz, both from techno mixes.

Aardvarck to zZz.
What it says about me: they're both dutch, like me

Abyssians = roots reggae
Zuco 103 = dutch/brazilian electro-funk

To be fair, I never would have listened to Slint if I hadn't read abou David Pajo being in Zwan in like 9th grade.

fucking love the Abyssinians

A Guy Called Gerald - !!!

I like to dance.

I start with either Aaliyah or a-ha, depending on how you deal with that hyphen.

Likewise. I said Aaliyah, even though iTunes puts a-ha first for some reason. I guess punctuation takes precedence.

punctuation does take preference; the ASCII number is lower than the ASCII numbers for letters

A.R. Kane to ZZ Top, ignoring iTunes' strange organization of artists with numbers at the bottom, in which case the end would be 2Pac.

punctuation does take preference; the ASCII number is lower than the ASCII numbers for letters

The hidden influence of lazy coders strikes again.

Aavikko (quirky Finns with cheap Casio) to zZz (quirky Dutchmen with distorted Farfisa) = listener is pro-Europe indie fuck with synth fetish

A Certain Ratio -> Zounds says I'm a fan of post-punk.

a boy called doris (who??) -> zukanican (er, who?)

clearly i need to spend more time with the extremities of my collection

punctuation does take preference; the ASCII number is lower than the ASCII numbers for letters

See this is just stupid IMO.

agitation free -> zz top. i think. there might be someone before agitation free, i will check when i get home.

If we're talking vinyl, Curtiss A to Zappa: Minneapolis punk to 70s weirdness. (My albums are chronological within artists, and Zappa stops at Sleep Dirt. I own no 80s/90s FZ.)

CDs: ABBA to Zomby -- pop and a twist
Digital: Aaliyah to ZZ Top -- too many mp3s

(CDs) 12 Rods to Yo La Tengo. How about that.

evan - recommend 12 rods? - always thought they might be too noisey for me but i keep seeing them pop up as something i should dig - thanks --

Abandoned -> Zounds

This says my alphabetising system is a bit faulty because I ignore spaces and punctuation, so A Certain Ratio and A Frames are under AC and AF.

Aaron Copelnd =>The Zombies

I didn't even know I owned Time of the Season! Yay drunk downloading.

50 Foot Wave is actually the last artist in my iTunes though.

Both of the selections seem like they would be used to soundtrack rather generic documentaries about specific times in American history, which speaks to my somewhat nostalgic - but serious - love for this great nation.

Thinking over... I have an abba single somewhere, do I have any ZZTop? no.

ASpace? It would seem to be A Certain, but A.?

The Copeland is Rodeo/Billy the Kid, btw.

Not counting numbers or punctuation marks: ABC - Zun Zun Egui = ?

My CDs go from A.C. Acoustics to Yellow Magic Orchestra.

If anyone has got a record by "A Band called "O"", they win.

I don't.

A.C. Marias, of course (haven't got one)

Abba - ZZ Top, unless you put numbers first when you get
3rd Bass - ZZ Top

Just checking my ascii table,

Space = 32
Comma = 44
Dot = 46
digits = 48 to 57
Capital A = 65
Little a = 97

So, 3 Mustaphas 3 win. Still don't got.

If I put numbers first I guess it's 13th Floor Elevators. Or would it be the 6ths because 6th is less than 13th? Intriguing.

not counting numbers, AC/DC to Zu. which just means I don't like abba or ZZ top.

2 Bad Mice wins Mark G's calculation! Or A Minor Forest if you want to play it the encyclopedia editors' way.

I'm glad someone else has an AC Acoustics CD that they'll admit to on the internet. "I Messiah Am Jailer" and "Stunt Girl" were fine tunes iirc.

(I have two copies of the album - had it on CD, much later bought a plunderphonic-ish thing in bootlegged doctored charity-shop-LP sleeves - got the one with doctored AC Acoustics artwork cz I recognised it, and they'd thrown the original owner of the sleeve in too. So I should've bought something I didn't recognise and got TWO new LPs!)

There must be a "OneSpace" surely.

OpenRoundBracket = 40

Oh, hang on, I've got a winner I own!

I have mp3 of a single by a band called "1. Futurologischer Congress"

http://www.wiels.com/blog/images/And_the_Native_Hipsters_-_front_sm.jpg

YAY!!! All hail me.

Full stop = 46, so unless there is a band/artist that starts with a "("

(Impatient) Youth
(Real) Tuesday Weld

A Hawk and a Hacksaw - Young Marble Giants. This says that 1. I like some stuff, 2. I'm wondering where my A Certain Ratio went, 3. I need ZZ Top in my life.

i have three ac acoustics albums ;___; xposts

If you really like yr ASCII table then I guess !!! win everything, seeing as apart from space it's the first non-control character (21H, 33 decimal)

xpost, I had no idea they'd done any others! Despite still quite liking Victory Parts I don't think I'll be tracking them down, either.

OK, I now need to find my 'end'

Lowercase characters count? If so, my old 'neil' album would beat "ZZ Top" if I had any.

Gonna name my new band NULLCHAR

And where would you put http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/24730321/Freur++symbol.jpg ?

Me and the mister have two copies of the ...And the Native Hipsters album, so we can file one under A and one under N... now we need to get another one to file under '...'

Also, nothing wrong with AC Acoustics, dudes.

Album? Is that the "tenderly hurt me" e.p. thing, or is there another?

!!! to Zappa, I think. Aaliyah is the first bona fide A.

Frank Zappa is in my "F" Directory.

Not including things like !!!, mine goes from A Certain Ratio to Zongamin. All three of these are postpunk to a certain degree.

Without "A Something" bands, it's ABBA.

A&P to Zywiolak

Vinyl: Abba to ZZ Top
CDs: Paula Abdul to ZZ Top

Used to have the band Aa in both formats; guess those went into the sell pile.

Frank Zappa is in my "F" Directory.

Not including things like !!!, mine goes from A Certain Ratio to Zongamin. All three of these are postpunk to a certain degree.

Zappa in F says you're rubbish at organising things tbf.

aaliyah to zz top

I file numbers first.

So CDs, it's:

http://www.stuckinthe80s.com/image.php?productid=16850

to

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VFtvqrZ6e8I/SaGD9qb-FxI/AAAAAAAACuM/lxPHLMTGlns/s400/BigGundown.jpg

What that says is ILM talked a lot about DJ Sammy's "Heaven" a lot one year and The Big Gundown got a great write-up in the SPIN guide.

If I base it on how winamp sorts, then its !!! to Zeigeist.

(Otherwise A Flock of Seagulls are first lol)

Zappa in F says you're rubbish at organising things tbf.

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Not really. That's how iTunes sorts everything automatically. It could just mean you don't feel like going through every artist who has a first and last name and reversing them.

If my collection were reversed like that however, it would change to

Academy of St. Martin in the Field Chamber something => John Zorn

which I can't extrapolate enough from to say anything meaningful about me.

It could just mean you don't feel like going through every artist who has a first and last name and reversing them.

I held out for a while but eventually caved and I think this proved worthwhile. I like having a true alphabetical collection. Gets tricky with hip-hop sometimes -- Mos Def, Lupe Fiasco and similar "stage names" -- where do they go?

Hey jimmy_chop - I don't know would be too noisy for you, but I wouldn't consider 12 Rods a noisy band. Try "Split Personality" and "Make-Out Music" as a few songs to give you an idea.

My iPod goes from A Broken Consort to Zelienople. Both artists on the Type label I think?

my a to z is: Aa - Zan-zan-zawa-veia ... but my a to # goes: Aa - 65 days of static this says that my life is filled with hipster bullshit and i'm ok with it