You need an operation; to pay for the procedure you must sell all but 20 of your albums...

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...which do you keep?

Me:

01 Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
02 Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
03 Nick Drake - Pink Moon
04 Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band - Live 1975/85
05 The Cure - Disintegration
06 Sigur Ros - ()
07 Verve - A Storm in Heaven
08 Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
09 Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
10 Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
11 Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
12 Dick Dale - The Best of Dick Dale and His Del-Tones
13 R.E.M. - Murmur
14 Big Star - #1 Record/Radio City
15 My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
16 Gram Parsons - Sacred Hearts & Fallen Angels: The Gram Parsons Anthology
17 The Clash - London Calling
18 Uncle Tupelo - Anodyne
19 Primal Scream - XTRMNTR
20 Buddy Holly - The Buddy Holly Collection

― PB, Friday, 27 May 2005 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll sell everything but Sleater-Kinney's THE WOODS.

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Friday, 27 May 2005 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)

These days it's just easier to rip 'em all, isn't it?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 27 May 2005 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)

But that's less tragic....

― PB, Friday, 27 May 2005 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I would absolutely never own a lot of those albums, so the question is moot.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 27 May 2005 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh I'm a big dork. I thought those were supposed to be the albums left we'd choose from. Someone please hand me a dunce cap.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 27 May 2005 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Neutral Milk Hotel - In the aeroplane over the sea
Microphones - The Glow pt 2
Electrelane - The power put
Bear Quartet - Everybody else
Bear Quartet - Gay Icon
Bear Quartet - My war
Songs: Ohia - Magnolia Electric Co
The Shins - Chutes too narrow
The Shins - Oh, inverted world
Make Up - In mass mind
Karate - The bed is in the ocean
Karate - Some boots
Elliott Smith - Figure 8
Red House Painters - Rollercoaster
Modest Mouse - This is a long drive...
Modest Mouse - Lonesome crowded west
Libertines - Up the bracket
Belle and Sebastian - Tigermilk
Belle and Sebastian - If you're feeling sinister
Belle and Sebastian - Boy with the arab strap

― Marc-, Friday, 27 May 2005 20:23 (twenty-one years ago)

thank god i live in canada

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 27 May 2005 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Isle of White

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Friday, 27 May 2005 20:26 (twenty-one years ago)

But, if pressed, I'd keep.....

1. It'll End in Tears by This Moral Coil
2. Singles Going Steady by the Buzzcocks
3. No Sleep `til Hammersmith by Motorhead
4. Funhouse by the Stooges
5. Q: Are We Not Men?... by Devo
6. Night Time by Killing Joke
7. No More Heroes by the Stranglers
8. Fair Warning by Van Halen
9. Group Sex by the Circle Jerks
10. It's Alive by the Ramones
11. Spirit of Eden by Talk Talk
12. The Pink Opaque by the Cocteau Twins
13. Peggy Suicide by Julian Cope
14. Drums & Wires by XTC
15. Power, Corruption and Lies by New Order
16. Get Off the Cross We Need the Wood for the Fire by Firewater
17. Fantastic Spikes through Balloon by Skeleton Key
18. First and Last and Always by the Sisters of Mercy
19. Dressed to Kill by Kiss
20. Blue Lines by Massive Attack

...and I'm sure I'd feel deep regret about selling the other stuff.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 27 May 2005 20:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Sting - Ten Summoner's Tales
David Sylvian and Robert Fripp - The First Day
Philip Aaberg - Upright
Jonatha Brooke and the Story - Plumb
Sting - Mercury Falling
David Sylvian and Robert Fripp - Damage
Massive Attack - Protection
Joni Mitchell - Wild Things Run Fast
Sting - Brand New Day
Rain Tree Crow
Andy Summers - Earth + Sky
Tracy Chapman - Matters of the Heart
Sting - Sacred Love
David Sylvian - Gone to Earth
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage
Sting - Nothing Like The Sun
Tool - Undertow
Warren Cuccurullo - Thanks to Frank
Sting - The Dream of the Blue Turtles

― bahtology runs amok, Saturday, 28 May 2005 01:27 (twenty-one years ago)

My 20:

1. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
2. R.E.M. - Lifes Rich Pageant
3. Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
4. Saint Etienne - Too Young to Die
5. Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
6. Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
7. Gorecki - Symphony No. 3
8. New Order - Low Life
9. Marvin Gaye - Call Me
10. Brian Eno - Discreet Music
11. Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
12. Dntel - Life Is Full of Possibilities
13. Keith Fullerton Whitman - Playthroughs
14. Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No. 2
15. The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs (clever huh?)
16. Radiohead - OK Computer
17. Television - Marquee Moon
18. Talking Heads - Remain in Light
19. R.E.M. - Reckoning
20. Pavement - Brighten the Corners

― mrjosh (mrjosh), Saturday, 28 May 2005 01:36 (twenty-one years ago)

1. The Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady
2. The Descendents - Two Things At Once(Milo Goes To College+Fat+that other little EP)
3. Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the 36 Chambers
4. Ghostface - The Pretty Toney Album
5. NWA - Straight Outta Compton
6. Liz Phair - Exile In Guyville
7. Uncle Tupelo - No Depression
8. Old 97's - Wreck Your Life
9. Minor Threat - Complete Discography
10. Social Distortion - Mommy's Little Monster
11. X - Wild Gift
12. Boss Hog - Boss Hog
13. Mazzy Star - So Tonight That I Might See
14. Mazzy Star - She Hangs Brightly
15. Kristin Hersh - Sunny Border Blue
16. JAMC - 21 Singles (tempting to take Psychocandy, but this gets me more more more)
17. Opal - Early Recordings
18. Velocity Girl - Copacetic
19. Cowboy Junkies - Trinity Sessions
20. Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me (remastered version, so I get "Just Like Heaven")

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Saturday, 28 May 2005 01:48 (twenty-one years ago)

15. The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs (clever huh?)

That should really be the official subtitle.

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Saturday, 28 May 2005 02:13 (twenty-one years ago)

01 sofia gubaidulina - the canticle of the sun; music for strings, percussion & celesta (lso, lv, rostropovich, pahud, conds. numajiri, rostropovich)
02 van morrison - astral weeks
03 gustav mahler - symphony no. 9; kindertotenlieder (lso, anderson, cond. horenstein)
04 the rolling stones - exile on main st.
05 alfred schnittke - the complete string quartets (kronos quartet)
06 astor piazzolla - tango: zero hour
07 béla bartók - the 6 string quartets (takács quartet)
08 fennesz - endless summer
09 wolfgang rihm - string quartets nos. 3, 8 & 5 (arditti quartet)
10 autechre - confield
11 dmitri shostakovich - complete string quartets; piano quintet (borodin quartet, richter)
12 dave holland quartet - conference of the birds
13 johann sebastian bach - art of the fugue (evgeni koroliov)
14 talk talk - laughing stock
15 luigi nono - la lontananza nostalgica utopica futura; "hay que caminar," soñando (kremer, gubaidulina, grindenko)
16 radiohead - ok computer
17 ludwig van beethoven - missa solemnis; choral fantasy (npo&c,
söderström, höffgen, kmentt, talvela, barenboim, cond. klemperer)
18 miles davis - on the corner
19 franz schubert - piano sonata no. 21; 12 german dances; allegretto in c minor (stephen kovacevich)
20 johann sebastian bach - cello suites (heinrich schiff)

i think

― you will be shot (you will be shot), Saturday, 28 May 2005 02:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I love that Talk Talk get so much love here.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 28 May 2005 02:52 (twenty-one years ago)

James Brown, Live at the Apollo, Vol. 2
Gilberto Gil, Gilberto Gil (1969)
Ella Fitzgerald, Mack the Knife: Ella in Berlin
Talking Heads, The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads
Pizzicato Five, Happy End of the World
Funkadelic, Funkadelic
Parliament, Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo System
Bersuit Vergabarat, La Argentinidad Al Palo
J. Geils Band, Blow Your Face Out
The Congos, Heart of the Congos
L.L. Cool J, Walking With a Panther
Prince, 1999:
Whale, We Care
Miles Davis, Get Up With It
West Side Story movie soundtrack
Bill Cosby, To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With
X, More Fun in the New World
Charles Mingus, Mingus Ah Um
Stevie Wonder, Music of My Mind
Lotte Lenya Sings the Seven Deadly Sins

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Saturday, 28 May 2005 02:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Stooges- Fun House
Charles Mingus- The Black Saint & the Sinner Lady
Talking Heads- Remain in Light
John Coltrane- A Love Supreme
Rolling Stones- Exile on Main Street
Miles Davis- Kind of Blue
Jimi Hendrix- Are You Experienced
Eric Dolphy- Out to Lunch
Van Morrison- Astral Weeks
John Coltrane- My Favorite Things
Beatles- Revolver
Charles Mingus- Mingus Ah Um
Velvet Undergruond- Velvet Underground & Nico
Oliver Nelson- The Blues & the Abstract Truth
Bob Dylan- Blood on the Tracks
John Coltrane- Ole Coltrane
Bob Dylan- Blonde on Blonde
Sonny Rollins- Saxophone Colossus
Patti Smith- Horses
Charles Mingus- Pithecanthropus Erectus

― Anthony Lombardi (CCPO), Saturday, 28 May 2005 05:01 (twenty-one years ago)

In no particular order, and subject to change depending on the date of the operation:

•Disturbers - Negusa Negast
•John Hartford - Aereo-Plain
•Pilot Rase - Threatening Myself
•Young Joseph (S.F.S.M.) - Noise Pollution
•Pixies - Surfer Rosa
•Disturbers - Kefu Qan (Evil Days)
•Elliott Smith S/T
•Kill The Vultures S/T
•Oddjobs - Conflict And Compromise
•Jolie Holland - Escondida
•The Droplift Project
•Béla Bartók - Concerto For Orchestra / Zoltán Kodály - "The Peacock" Variations
(Boston Symphony Orchestra, cond. Erich Leinsdorf)
•John Hartford String Band - live bootleg 2/9/77 @ MSU, East Lansing, MI
•F.T.A. - Four Track Anthems
•Sacred Hoop - Runny Poop
•Deerhoof - Reveille
•The Nonce - World Ultimate
•Boards Of Canada - In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country
•Shapeshifters - Planet of the Shapes
•Best of the Blues (John Lee Hooker, Lightnin' Hopkins, Jimmy Reed)
(I still can't figure out what session these Lightnin' Hopkins songs are from..)

― Robin Samples, Sunday, 29 May 2005 09:47 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Antony & the Johnsons - I am a Bird Now
2. Jeff Buckley - Grace
3. Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
4. The Mars Volta - Deloused in the Comatorium
5. King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
6. Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjeun
7. Godspeed You Black Emperor! - F#A#
8. Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape
9. Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R
10. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced
11. Tool - Lateralus
12. Stars of the Lid - The Tired Sounds of...
13. The Czars - The Ugly People vs the Beautiful People
14. Radiohead - The Bends
15. Radiohead - Kid A
16. Neu! - Neu! 75
17. Explosions in the Sky - The Earth is not a cold dead place
18. Brian Eno - Music for Airports
19. Boards of Canada - Music has the right to children
20. Verve - Storm in Heaven

― dmun drive-in (dmun), Sunday, 29 May 2005 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

A little homogeneous and far from definitive...

1. Arthur Russell - World of Echo
2. Beach Boys - Disc 3 of Good Vibrations Box
3. Belle & Sebastian - Push Barman to Open Old Wounds
4. Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun
5. The Cure - Faith (reissue!)
6. The Fall - 50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong
7. Joy Division - Substance
8. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
9. Joy Division - Closer
10. Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
11. Modern Lovers - S/T
12. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
13. Neil Young - Zuma
14. New Order - Substance
15. Pet Shop Boys - Discography
16. Prince - 12" CDr
17. Public Image Ltd - Metal Box
18. Saint Etienne - Tiger Bay (German Release)
19. The Slits - Cut
20. Young Marble Giants - Collosal Youth

― stephen morris (stephen morris), Sunday, 29 May 2005 18:16 (twenty-one years ago)

1. can 'tago mago'
2. stooges 'funhouse'
3. black sabbath 'vol. 4'
4. isaac hayes 'hot buttered soul'
5. blue cheer 'vincebus eruptum'
6. pearls before swine 'one nation underground'
7. the dead c 'operation of the sonne'
8. the fall 'hex enduction hour'
9. thirteenth floor elevators 'easter everywhere'
10. charalambides 'union'
11. curtis mayfield 'curtis'
12. notorious big 'ready to die'
13. faust 'so far'
14. incredible string band '5000 spirits'
15. neu! s/t
16. boredoms 'vision creation newsun'
17. les rallizes denudes 'live 77'
18. nirvana 'bleach'
19. hawkwind 'in search of space'
20. beatles 'rubber soul'

― Ian John50n (orion), Sunday, 29 May 2005 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

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