Compact Discs that Live at Your Office

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What CDs do you keep at your office -- if any? Not iTunes or Mp3's, mind you, but actual CDs.

I have....

This Year's Model by Elvis Costello & the Attractions
IV by the Stranglers (A&M sampler)
Avalon by Roxy Music
All the Stuff (And More) Vol.1 by the Ramones
Uncorrected Personality Traits: The Robyn Hitchcock Collection by Robyn Hitchcock
The Stone Roses by the Stone Roses
Chill Out by the KLF
George Best by the Wedding Present
Natural History: The Very Best of Talk Talk by Talk Talk
Killing Joke (1980) by Killing Joke
Sound + Vision III by David Bowie (from the box set)
The Eight Legged Groove Machine by the Wonder Stuff
The Best of the Fixx by the Fixx
Modern Life is Rubbish by Blur
First And Last And Always by the Sisters of Mercy
The Very Best of Elvis Costello by Elvis Costello
Shout at the Devil by Motley Crue
Regatta de Blanc by the Police
Alive II by Kiss
Version 2.0 by Garbage
A Night at the Opera by Queen
Never Mind the Bollocks by the Sex Pistols

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 19 March 2005 06:04 (twenty-one years ago)

can ya tell how bored I am? Can ya? huh?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 19 March 2005 06:10 (twenty-one years ago)

If I left anything worth having at my office, I'd never see it again.

― Austin (Austin), Saturday, 19 March 2005 06:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Everything here at the office is a double. And we usually lock up after we check out.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 19 March 2005 06:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Though, my copy of Regatta De Blanc by the Police did go missing for a while, only to mysteriously return three weeks later.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 19 March 2005 06:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Out of curiosity, are you the sort of person who can listen to music you like and work at the same time or is it more a case of music kills the downtime?

Also, which Stranglers album do you like better: The Raven or Feline?

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Saturday, 19 March 2005 06:34 (twenty-one years ago)

16,000 discs at my office! plus 22,000 bits of vinyl. unfortunately my coworkers are a serious (and thus intactable) indie kid and a young girl with limited hiphop taste.

plus i find anything intesting distracts me very badly. laugh if you will but i go for classic rock disco novelty

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Saturday, 19 March 2005 06:41 (twenty-one years ago)

i see the next bored alex thread - what stationary have you got in your drawer.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Saturday, 19 March 2005 06:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry I know you'll say Raven. Never mind. Care to comment on Feline anyway?

As for me I instinctively try to keep my music separate from my work. But it would probably different if I had a different job or worked with different people.

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Saturday, 19 March 2005 06:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I kept CDs at work for the longest time, but eventually saw the light & started ripping them instead. But before I did, I had:

Jay Munly - "Munly & The Lee Lewis Harlots"
Slim Cessna's Auto Club - "Bloudy Tenent Truth & Peace"
Jello Biafra + The Melvins -"Never Breathe What You Can't See"
[one of my customers is Alternative Tentacles, who were nice enough to send me promo copies of the above. YAY free stuff!]
Probot S/T
Tubes - "Completion Backwards Principle"
Queens Of The Stone Age - "Songs For The Deaf"
Ramones - "Rocket To Russia"
Bruce Springsteen + E Street Band - Live At The Agora, 1978 (bootleg)
Cyndi Lauper - "At Last"

I have music going at my desk a lot, because half the time I'm just getting zen with Excel or something mindless...I just turn it down when I'm on the phone with customers & stuff. Also, half the company are downstairs at morning meetings, which leaves me to my own devices & that's when I CRANK it. Music helps the work itself feel less boring.

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 19 March 2005 07:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Out of curiosity, are you the sort of person who can listen to music you like and work at the same time or is it more a case of music kills the downtime?

It's a downtime thing. Being that I have two late night/overnight shifts, there's plenty of downtime wherein to play music.

Also, which Stranglers album do you like better: The Raven or Feline?

As you rightly predicted, I'd go with The Raven absolutely every damn time. Feline has a couple of nice tracks, but it lacks the bite and venom of classic Stranglers.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 19 March 2005 07:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Well I haven't heard the whole of either of them yet, so we'll see.

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Saturday, 19 March 2005 07:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to do two "graveyard" shifts a week, too. It was particularly difficult in the summertime when it was hot and I couldn't sleep so well in the daytime.

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Saturday, 19 March 2005 07:23 (twenty-one years ago)

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