POX: Ten Albums in your Collection that would Probably Surprise your fellow ILM'r

"Soca Gold 2003", V/A
"How Bizarre", OMC
"Slipknot", S/T
"What Doesn't Kill You...", Candiria
"Whigfield", S/T
"Cobra & Phases Group Play Voltage In The Milky Night", Stereolab
"Permission To Land", The Darkness
"Gotta Get Thru This", Daniel Bedingfield
"For Monkeys", Millencolin
"Empires", VNV Nation

I dunno--is that ten? The rest of my stuff is exactly what one would expect, plenty of soul music, wimpy power-pop, bossa nova and tropicalismo stuff, all the Rolling Stones albums thru "Exile," all the Chic albums...Faron Young on Mercury...Moe Bandy and Joe Stampley...

I think I still have every TMBG album pre-2000, Pink Floyd's "Division Bell" and live "Pulse" albums.

I think I might have the X-Files movie soundtrack and C&C Music Factory on cassette somewhere.

I was bold enough to put down Eternal and Ace of Base, for cryin' out loud. WHERE'S MY MEDAL?

I think I just harbor the secret hope that someone is going to admit to having a complete collection of Wings albums or lots of recent Phil Collins material.

Arthur Russell Tower of Meaning
Paul Simon
Ella Fitzgerald sings the Rodgers-Hart Songbook
Perez Prado Voodoo Suite
Tompall Glaser and his Outlaw Band
Boney M NightFlight to Venus
Steve Jordan El Bro
Ilitch 10 Suicides
Jimmy Giuffree The Four Brothers
Chemical Brothers Exit Planet Dust

Iron Butterfly - In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida
KISS - Music From the Elder (original and remastered)
Quincy Jones - From Q With Love
Warren G - Regulate, G-Funk Era
Nelly - Nellyville
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II
Dokken - Greatest Hits (I'm SO SO SO sorry)
Woman to Man - Daniel Lavoie
Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac
Metallica - (Their Entire Collection)

I have a few Wings albums, actually.

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(i have it, too!)

Geir owning Doggystyle did surprise me.

I'm pretty sure there's nothing I could say that would surprise anyone.

Would never happen. "Metallica" (the black album) is the heaviest record I own, and it will remain so.

amateurist why in the hell were you listening to dr. demento in the first place?
obv, i take ams opinions on rock/pop about as seriously as julios, and as seriously as he takes mine on olde timey bicycles, etc.

-- jess (dubplatestyl...), June 2nd, 2003.

i know that you also like the gza's liquid swords and lots of rounder-type blues records, and that you dislike george thorogood!

1. Rolling Stones - Flashpoint
2. Bruce Springsteen - The Ghost of Tom Joad
3. Jackson Browne - I'm Alive
4. Natalie Cole- Unforgettable With Love
5. Styx - Paradise Theatre
6. Cher - Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves
7. Billy Idol - Cyberpunk
8. Hammer - Too Legit To Quit
9. Steve Miller Band - The Joker
10. George Harrison - Live in Japan

This is something novel for ANYONE to confess to. Salut!

This was actually a great comeback album, his best in years.

Cradle of Love is on Sir Billy's Charmed Life and I'm a total loser for knowing that.

I actually used to like Then Jericho for awhile. God how embarassing.

It's cool that people have Ofra Haza's Shaday. I got rid of mine, but wouldn't mind having it back.

I have Christine McVie's first solo album, and a few doubtful George Harrison albums. A few jazz CD's, one of which is Reuben Wilson's "Organ Donor". Olivia Newton John's Don't Stop Believin', and plenty of 70's era Carly Simon.

A long time ago I bought the Neneh Cherry Buffalo Stance cassette single. I even bought a Lisa Stansfield one once, although the last time I heard her was in a grocery store recently and I felt the urge to VOMIT. But we're talking about albums here so I guess none of this counts anyway.

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Roger Powell, Cosmic Furnace
Loretta Lynn, Entertainer of the Year
Ray Charles & Betty Carter
Exuma
Peter Gabriel (promo)
Letta Mbulu Sings
Nilsson, Pussy Cats
UK Subs, Another Kind of Blues
Joe Jackson, Look Sharp (double 10")
Pussy Galore, Live: In the Red

Possibly the most shocking thing about my collection is how much cheap generic music I have on budget compilations - and how often I listen to it.

So let's see what I can do in the embarrassment stakes with :

* "Calypso Favourites" released by (you guessed it) Hallmark's record label, (and unsurprisingly, *not* featuring Mighty Sparrow)

* "The Very Best TV Themes" by the London Starlight Orchestra.

* "Shanties and Songs of the Sea" sung by Johnny Collins,

* "Magic Piano, volume 3",

* "The Future Sound of Drum'n'Bass" by Mike Bennet,

* "Maori Songs of New Zealand" (the worst record in the world),

* "Native American Legends" (produced, arranged and performed on synthesizer) by Thomas Wasskonig,

* "It's Trad, Dad" (the best of british traditional jazz with Chris Barber, Kenny Ball, George Melly, Acker Bilk, Terry Lightfoot and more ...")

* "Be infatuated with coffee", easy listening orchestral covers for coffee bars, picked up in Beijing.

* er ... and Erasure, "pop 20, the first 20 hits". But that's classic.

The crucial point is I *like* all these CDs. I pull them out and listen regularly. I take tracks off them and add them to compilations I make. And none of them cost me more than about 4 quid 99 in Woolworths (or similar) :-)

Dave Dudley, "If I Had One" b/w "Big Ole House"
'Til Tuesday, "Voices Carry" b/w "Are You Serious?"
Les Paul, "The World is Waiting For the Sunrise" b/w "Whispering"
The Boomtown Rats, "Lookin' After No. 1" b/w "Born to Burn"/"Barefootin'"
Patsy Cline, "Crazy Dream" b/w "There He Goes"
Les Crane, "Desiderata" b/w "A Different Drummer"
Dion and the Belmonts, "A Teenager in Love" b/w "I've Cried Before"
U2, "Discotheque" b/w "Holy Joe"
Gary Wright, "Love Is Alive" b/w "Much Higher"
Ella Fitzgerald, "How High the Moon - Part 1" b/w "How High the Moon - Part 2"

Hmm..
2CD set of Renaissance choral music by the Tallis Scholars
Accentus transcriptions choral music
50 Cent Get Rich or Die Tryin
Foetus Inc. Sink
Tortoise s/t
Rolling Stones Some Girls
Beta Band The Three EPs
A cassette of old American country music taped off a Paris radio station
Three Bad Religion albums (Generator, Against the Grain, Suffer)
Atau Biorhythms
Three or four REM albums (Murmur, Reckoning, Green, Out of Time are all still around somewhere..)
Marilyn Manson Antichrist Superstar (this was an accident, someone had left it at the college radio station but I'd only meant to borrow it as a joke.. oh well)
A tape of 100% pure death metal & black metal taped off college radio. (The actual tape used to be the New Kids on the Block Christmas album.)

YAY! One of my fave records!!!

Jill Sobule - Pink Pearl (autographed, too)
International Harvester - Sov-Gott Rose Marie
King Pleasure Sings/Annie Ross Sings
Polyvinyl 2005 Sampler (acquired it last week for a dollar)
Orbitronik - Orbitronik (received as a free promo)
Non - Receive the Flame (received as a free promo as well, it's horrible but would make interesting sample fodder)
Joydrop - Metasexual (AND I have the single for "Spiders")
Praga Khan - Twenty-first Century Skin
Ben Harper - The Will to Live
Derek Bailey/Jamaladeen Tacuma/Calvin Weston - Mirakle

(Honourable mentions: The Farm - Spartacus, Propellerheads - Decksanddrumsandrockandroll, Save Ferris - It Means Everything even though my cousin gave it to me, Freestylers - We Rock Hard and the singles for "Here We Go" and "B-Boy Stance" possibly, The Lightning Seeds - Cloudcuckooland maybe)

is that what you'd find surprising from miccio - or whats in yr own Jordan?

Haha, that's what is in my collection (or rather, my sub-collection that stays at my dad's house). I'm talking Angra, Dream Theater, A Tad Morose, King Crimson live albums, the works.

Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
Slayer Reign in Blood
The Transplants S/T
Bettie Serveertte Log 22 (I think that's the title)

What I have will surprise my friends a whole lot more than any of you because you pretty much already know what I like.

If there's anything you think I wouldn't have at all tell me because I might have it, but I doubt it.

I'm kidding. Stay calm.