can you judge how emotionally sound someone is from their CD collection?

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in a not-very-serious-at-all manner, my friend and i were talking about whether you can judge how emotionally sound someone is from their CD collection. our only conclusions were a) do not go out with anyone who is a pink floyd fan and b) blokes who like at all that sensitive stuff probably have issues. sure, it's pretty facetious, but just out of curiosity, what cd purchases would people consider warning signs, for men and women? personally i would run away from anyone owning hootie & the blowfish. and slint, maybe.

― mint condition, Friday, 19 August 2005 12:54 (twenty years ago)

Avoid Abrry Manilow fans.

That's it.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 19 August 2005 12:55 (twenty years ago)

AYND RAND RULZ

― Outsider Enter Port City (sexyDancer), Friday, 19 August 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

I'd have trouble romancing a Skrewdriver fan.

― electric derby, Friday, 19 August 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

It's hard to tell really. Mainstream music lyrics rant about being insecure and confused all the time.

emo is a good example (being a bad exemple is the only valuable contribution of emo in general) but then again it is being targeted at teenagers - those aren't even supposed to be emotionally sound.

― blunt (blunt), Friday, 19 August 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)

judge not, lest you be dildoes

― Outsider Enter Port City (sexyDancer), Friday, 19 August 2005 13:49 (twenty years ago)

oops I just wrote example in French up there.

― blunt (blunt), Friday, 19 August 2005 13:49 (twenty years ago)

Great question, the answer is YES. Nurse with Wound + Swans + Joy Division + Smiths = emotional see-saw.

― 57 7th (calstars), Friday, 19 August 2005 13:51 (twenty years ago)

do not go out with anyone who is a pink floyd fan

wow doesn't this rule out an awful lot of men?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 19 August 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

rule only applies against girls...

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 19 August 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

any Ani Difranco CD's and you're automatically a psycho bitch with hairy armpits and body odor who's been humiliated/rejected/abused by men and now on the verge of being a lesbian. or not. i think this makes me a dildo! i could be her best friend.

― biz, Friday, 19 August 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)

Nothing says Turn Around and Leave like Dream Theatre.

― Jamey Lewis (Jameys Burning), Saturday, 20 August 2005 03:18 (twenty years ago)

what is "all that sensitive stuff"?

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 20 August 2005 03:29 (twenty years ago)

i wouldn't date someone who was heavily into the beatles. which rules out lots. there is just something (to me) insanely robotic about people who really really like the beatles. i feel the same way about too much talking heads.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Saturday, 20 August 2005 03:40 (twenty years ago)

I've noticed that the more bland and MOR pop a girl's record collection is the more I'll like her.

A girl with Dido and some faceless country singer will have more in common with me than a girl with music tastes similar to my own. It's odd.

― Cunga (Cunga), Saturday, 20 August 2005 03:41 (twenty years ago)

dead can dance obsessives = FREAKY-DEAKY

― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 20 August 2005 03:43 (twenty years ago)

I'd have trouble romancing a Skrewdriver fan.

-- electric derby (songofsa...), August 19th, 2005 10:23 AM.

but i hear they're demons in the sack

― amon (eman), Saturday, 20 August 2005 03:47 (twenty years ago)

I have this goth neighbour who says he's under medication for psychological troubles (it sounded vague). He's over 30 yet listens to nothing but classic new wave tunes, clearly a big Cure fan but then he's pathetically singing/crying over Sisters of Mercy's "Marianne", "Bela Lugosi" by Bauhaus etc etc etc.

Sometimes he listens to a melodically-challenged, super cheesy Enigma-meets-Rammstein kind of fake Tibetan monk trance I had no idea existed. 'Orrible stuff.

The guy is pretty lonely and unhappy, he should get rid of his grotesque clothing, time-frozen record collection and pharmaceuticals. None of it is really helping.

― blunt (blunt), Saturday, 20 August 2005 04:02 (twenty years ago)

L7 + Ministry + Joe Pop-O-Pie + The Damned + The Ramones = female trouble! Of the best kind.

― moley, Saturday, 20 August 2005 04:09 (twenty years ago)

L7 + Ministry + Joe Pop-O-Pie + The Damned + The Ramones = female trouble! Of the best kind.

Marry that girl.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 20 August 2005 04:22 (twenty years ago)

Sometimes he listens to a melodically-challenged, super cheesy Enigma-meets-Rammstein kind of fake Tibetan monk trance I had no idea existed. 'Orrible stuff.

*shudder*

― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 20 August 2005 04:22 (twenty years ago)

Marry that girl.

ramones fans are cheesy though. especially if they like L7 too.

― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 20 August 2005 04:23 (twenty years ago)

This is sort've a dubious concept. I mean, I love my wife more than I've ever loved any individual that's ever set foot on this cursed, blackened earth, but she owns some of the most indefensibly vile cds to ever contaminate the insides of a disc player.

That said, no one who owns a Creed album is worth talking to.

Oh, and L7 were never very good.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 20 August 2005 04:27 (twenty years ago)

Alex, Bricks are Heavy had a couple of great songs! I just watched Natural Born Killers and was reliving 8th grade via the soundtrack.

Also, did you see the CBGB'S lineup over the next few weeks? FLIPPER STILL RULES OK...?

― I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Saturday, 20 August 2005 04:45 (twenty years ago)

that's what I'VE been saying!

― scout (scout), Saturday, 20 August 2005 05:12 (twenty years ago)

A/S/L?

― I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Saturday, 20 August 2005 05:23 (twenty years ago)

i just hate when some one has all the wrong albums by all the right people.

― big fucking trees (big fucking trees), Saturday, 20 August 2005 05:55 (twenty years ago)

Never date anyone who hates Prince.

― Disco Nihilist (mjt), Saturday, 20 August 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

If she has Savage Garden and UB40, it means she only buys a cd every couple years. an Eminem CD redeems her

― pinder (pinder), Saturday, 20 August 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

Never date anyone who hates Prince.

haha Matos saying OTM SHOCKAH!

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Saturday, 20 August 2005 20:42 (twenty years ago)

Avoid anyone with a DMB collection AT ALL COSTS!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 20 August 2005 22:13 (twenty years ago)

i once almost dated someone who hated prince AND james brown! thank god i found out in time.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 20 August 2005 22:14 (twenty years ago)

not that this is music-related, but a friend of mine went out on a date with a guy who made it a point to express his dislike for ALL SCI FI!!
i mean, what kind of a fucking tedious bore do you have to be to not like sci fi?
also, he was a lawyer.

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Saturday, 20 August 2005 22:16 (twenty years ago)

Bonnaroo

― Jacobs (LolVStein), Saturday, 20 August 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

I really tried to keep an open mind, but she kept travelling to these jam band concerts.

― Jacobs (LolVStein), Saturday, 20 August 2005 22:22 (twenty years ago)

blokes who like at all that sensitive stuff probably have issues.

I used only to like sensitive stuff, and I probably wasn't mature enough for a serious relationship then, but I've always (haven't we all, though?) considered myself one of the most stable, emotionally sound ppl I know. For the nada that's worth.

― marc h. (marc h.), Saturday, 20 August 2005 23:46 (twenty years ago)

Be wary of anyone who says that Paul Banks writes like they do. I almost made that mistake once.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Sunday, 21 August 2005 00:27 (twenty years ago)

A girl with Dido and some faceless country singer will have more in common with me than a girl with music tastes similar to my own. It's odd.

Hmm. Maybe it's because they're tamer to deal with? Sorry, I'm trying to figure out how this works.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Sunday, 21 August 2005 00:28 (twenty years ago)

omg Pinder on to something, only in my wife's case it was Savage Garden, Bryan Adams but she came back strong with DMX and some hip hop mixtapes, as well as some Bachata and Merengue I've since fallen in love with. The Savage Garden really is a deep dark hole to climb out of. She put it on one long car trip and I was begging for Air Supply as a compromise!

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Sunday, 21 August 2005 01:16 (twenty years ago)

Crazy Australian pop groups.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Sunday, 21 August 2005 01:24 (twenty years ago)

I've never heard a Beatles song Susan email me.

― Leeeeeeee (Leee), Sunday, 21 August 2005 01:53 (twenty years ago)

Guys who want to play Enigma MCMXII for you should probably be avoided.

― kg (kaygee), Sunday, 21 August 2005 02:12 (twenty years ago)

Never date anyone who hates Prince.

-- Disco Nihilist (current31...), August 20th, 2005.

otm!

― latebloomer's rectal mocha latte (latebloomer), Sunday, 21 August 2005 02:29 (twenty years ago)

Alex, Bricks are Heavy had a couple of great songs! I just watched Natural Born Killers and was reliving 8th grade via the soundtrack.

Also, did you see the CBGB'S lineup over the next few weeks? FLIPPER STILL RULES OK...?

-- I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (6-grams-of-fa...), August 20th, 2005. (tracklink)

Jonred W Brogle's OTM!

― latebloomer's rectal mocha latte (latebloomer), Sunday, 21 August 2005 02:31 (twenty years ago)

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