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OK, I know you want to know what CD's I have in my CD case. So here goes.

Styx- Burned CD
Lynyrd Skynyrd- All Time Greatest Hits
Peter Frampton- Live in Raleigh, Disc 1
Peter Frampton- Live in Raleign, Disc 2
Kansas- The Best of Kansas
The Eagles- Hotel California
Aerosmith- Aerosmith's Greatest Hits
The Who- Who's Next
AC/DC- AC/DC Live (in Donington)
Boston- Greatest Hits
U2- The Best Of 1980-1990
U2- All That You Can't Leave Behind
Styx- Come Sail Away: The Styx Anthology Disc 1
Styx- Come Sail Away: The Styx Anthology Disc 2
The Beach Boys- Pet Sounds
The Beatles- 1
Queen- Live Killers Disc 1
Queen- Live Killers Disc 2
REM- Out Of Time
REM- Automatic for the People
Steve Miller Band- Young Hearts: Complete Greatest Hits
Fountains of Wayne- Welcome Interstate Managers
Creed- Human Clay
Creed- Weathered
Santana- Supernatural
Alien Ant Farm- ANThology
Linkin Park- Meteora
Linkin Park- Hybrid Theory
POD- Satellite
Nickleback- Silver Side Up
Matchbox Twenty- Mad Season
Barenaked Ladies- Maroon

someone else post there CD case!

I have a 20gb Hard Drive full of MP3's?
Does that count?
And
15 GameCube Games
and 4 XBOX games
and one darkness CD.

Only 1 CD? You sad person.

I'm not into CD's though I have maybe a hundred, I still have over 500 LP's and prefer their sound to CD sound. I guess you can call me old fashioned but I love vinyl much more. One good reason is just for the album art which is a lost art.

LP???????
Why use that.
When you can have a computer full of loseless sound music.
There are so many formats to pick from!
WMA
MP3
MP3 Pro
OGG
AAC
FLAC
FLAQ
AIFF
WAV
Apple Loseless
and a whole lot more.

LP???????
Why use that.
When you can have a computer full of loseless sound music.
There are so many formats to pick from!
WMA
MP3
MP3 Pro
OGG
AAC
FLAC
FLAQ
AIFF
WAV
Apple Loseless
and a whole lot more.

It does sound better for some odd reason, and the art that comes with it puts everything that we get now to shame.

LP???????
Why use that.
When you can have a computer full of loseless sound music.
There are so many formats to pick from!
WMA
MP3
MP3 Pro
OGG
AAC
FLAC
FLAQ
AIFF
WAV
Apple Loseless
and a whole lot more.

Yes but they are fake sounds, digitally enhanced. LP's are the true sounds of the recording sessions, complete with mistakes and all. Plus another good reason for LP's is the value of some of them. Try getting someone to pay $500 for a used CD.

I have too many music CDs (about 200), too many game cds to list... and way too many anime filled CDs you list! You might as well as ask me to list all the books in my collection... That's as bad as taking invetory.

my cd case? hmm

a two cd set of all my mp3s
Run-DMC - Greatest HIts
Deathrow - Greatest Hits
Linkin Park - Meteora
Weird Al - Running with Scissors
Nelly - Country Grammar
Nappy Roots - Watermelon, Chicken & Gritz
Jurassic 5 - Quality Control
Jurassic 5 - Power in Numbers
Gorillaz - Gorillaz vs. Space Monkeyz (remixes)
1998 Grammy Rap/R&B CD
New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra - Smashing..Live! (Nintendo Magazine exclusive game remixes)
The Pillows mixed CD
Yoko Kanno mixed CD (Cowboy Bebop music)
several other mixed CDs

Mine:

KoRn - Follow The Leader
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
KoRn - Korn
Rage Against the Machine - The Battle of Los Angeles
Slipknot - Iowa
KoRn - Untouchables
Andrew W.K - I Get Wet
Fear Factory - Digimortal
Slipknot - Slipknot
KoRn - Life is Peachy
Finger Eleven - Finger Eleven
ICP - Ringmaster
KoRn - Issues
ICP - The Amazing Jeckel Brothers
KoRn - Here to Stay (single)
Spineshank - The Height of Calousness
Rage Against the Machine - RAGE
Finger Eleven - Greyest of Blue Skies
HIM - Love Metal
Static X - Machine
Therapy - So Much For The Ten Year Plan
Adema - Unstable
Machine Head - Supercharger
System of a Down - System of a Down
Papa Roach - Infest
Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire
Disturbed - The Sickness
Spineshank - Strictly Diesel
Finger Eleven - Tip
Disturbed - Believe

Just looking through my rock albums, I found my Street Survivor Album. It's the last one Lynryd Skynyrd released before their plane crash. They actually changed the cover due to it's bizarre symbolism. It's a cool album though.

I'm not into CD's though I have maybe a hundred, I still have over 500 LP's and prefer their sound to CD sound. I guess you can call me old fashioned but I love vinyl much more. One good reason is just for the album art which is a lost art.
Oh god, you are so right. My father has 4 full boxes of records, and a turntable to play them. Id estimate his collection at about 150 LP's. I agree with you, the sound on vinyl is so better, so different, so much warmer. There is just a warmer quality of the sound, like it is fuller or something, I cant explain. You probably know what I am talking about. My dad has some great ones, like all this Woodstock stuff and Hendrix and odd bands like Blackfoot. My favorite record (of his) would have to be Dreamboat Annie by Heart. Listening to Crazy on You and Magic Man on vinyl for the first time was probably one of my best music experiences.

Just looking through my rock albums, I found my Street Survivor Album. It's the last one Lynryd Skynyrd released before their plane crash. They actually changed the cover due to it's bizarre symbolism. It's a cool album though.Yea, that album was incredible, and on the first cover shoot, they were surrounded by flames, which is kinda creepy.

We've got a record player and vinyl here, and they sound, well, bloody awful. Why would you want a piece of music full of hisses, pops, and, as Hannibal Smith put it, "mistakes and all"?

We've got a record player and vinyl here, and they sound, well, bloody awful. Why would you want a piece of music full of hisses, pops, and, as Hannibal Smith put it, "mistakes and all"?

Well your system isn't very good, needle needs replacing, or your albums are in bad shape.

Hah. My CD case was stolen last weekend along with my computer. I made a list for insurance purposes, but this is what was in it. *sigh*

1. Tori Amos - Boys for Pele
2. Republica - Republica
3. MC Lyte - Bad as I Wanna Be
4. Queen Latifa - Black Reign
5. Happy Mondays - Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches
6. Jane's Addiction - Jane's Addiction
7. Laika - Good Looking Blues
8. Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
9. Porno For Pyros - Porno For Pyros
10. Soul Hooligan - Music Like Dirt
11. Asian Dub Foundation - Rafi's Revenge
12. Ned's Atomic Dustbin - Brainbloodvolume
13. The Breeders - Last Splash
14. Sia - Healing is Difficult
15. Stereo MC's - Deep Down and Dirty
16. Sessions of The Damned
17. T. Rex - The Very Best Of
18. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
19. Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
20. S.F.W. Soundtrack
21. Tori Amos - From the Choirgirl Hotel
22. Lee "Scratch" Perry - Jamaican E.T.
23. Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire
24. The Specials - The Singles Collection
25. Memphis Slim - Blues at Midnight
26. The KLF - The White Room
27. Madness - The Heavy Heavy Hits
28. Nude and Rude, the Best of Iggy Pop
29. New York Dolls - From Paris with Love (L.U.V.)
30. Stone Temple Pilots - Core
31. Space - Greatest Hits
32. Prodigy - Fat of the Land
33. Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
34. Garbage - Beautiful Garbage
35. Muddy Waters - Got My Mojo Workin'
36. Sex Pistols - There Is No Future
37. KRS One - A Retrospective
38. Moloko - Do You Like My Tight Sweater
39. Portishead - Dummy
40. The Dandy Warhols - Come Down
41. The Clash - The Singles
42. Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
43. Kula Shaker - K
44. Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
45. Yeah Yeah Yeah's - Master
46. Catatonia - International Velvet
47. Beck - Mellowgold
48. Pulp - Different Class
49. Green Day - Dookie
50. Blondie - The Best of Blondie
51. Memphis Slim - Memphis Slim
52. Blur - Greatest Hits
53. Asian Dub Foundation - Community Music
54. Placebo - Black Market Music
55. The Ramones - Mondo Bizarro
56. The Sex Pistols - The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle
57. Siouxie & the Banshees - Through the Looking Glass
58. The Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole
59. Badly Drawn Boy - Have You Fed the Fish?
60. PJ Harvey - Is This Desire?
61. Groove Armada - Love Box
62. Radiohead - Rounding the Bends
63. Ramones - Mania
64. Veruca Salt - American Thighs
65. King Missile - Happy Hour
66. Supergrass - Supergrass
67. The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
68. Goldfrapp - Black Cherry

My CD case would take days to post. Last count, I had about 450 CDs.


Yes, I realize how much money that is.

Well your system isn't very good, needle needs replacing, or your albums are in bad shape.
Yet another advantage of CD players.
If you take care of CD's they will last alot longer than a record will.
Lasers are better than needles. As lasers don't touch the surface.
I perfer my music with no mistakes.

I don't think you really want me to post my collection ... it's huge ...

Oh, and as for the album vs. CD nonsense ... There was a time when musicians went into a studio and made recordings with the knowledge that the songs would be recorded onto vinyl. Digitizing them onto CD ruins the experience.

If you want the best example I can think of, throw in the Dark Side of the Moon CD and listen ... really listen ... then throw the same album on a well-kept turntable and prepare to be astounded.

Bullshit.
Listen to Frank Sintra(SP?) on a record.
Then on a computer.
No pops and hisses and satic in the backround.
And my moms turn table is NEW! And the record doesn't have any major cuts of scartchs on it.

As I have over 2000 CDs it would be incredibly difficult for me to list them all. And, _Susa_, what's up with all the '70s music?

Bullshit.
Listen to Frank Sintra(SP?) on a record.
Then on a computer.
No pops and hisses and satic in the backround.
And my moms turn table is NEW! And the record doesn't have any major cuts of scartchs on it.

It may be new, but that doesn't mean it's good quality. If there are hisses, pops, and static, then there is something wrong with either the turntable or the record.

It was 130 dollars.
I dont call that cheap.
Besides.
CD's sound "fuller"
And you can pump in as much bass as you want and they still sound great!

It was 130 dollars.
I dont call that cheap.
Besides.
CD's sound "fuller"
And you can pump in as much bass as you want and they still sound great!

130 bucks is cheap.

As for bass, that's a product of amplification ... you can do that with albums as well.

CDs only sound "fuller" to the untrained ear.

I have around 4500 CDs, I couldn't possibly list them all

As I have over 2000 CDs it would be incredibly difficult for me to list them all. And, _Susa_, what's up with all the '70s music?

Wow, you dwarf me.

I have around 4500 CDs, I couldn't possibly list them all

Wow, you really dwarf me. I'm beginning to think I don't have as enormous a CD collection as I once thought. Jeez. 10 times as many CDs as me, man.

Heh, here goes (this will take a while).

Nirvana- Bleach
Nirvana- Nevermind
Nirvana- In Utero
Nirvana- Unplugged in NY
Nirvana- From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah
Rage Against the Machine- Selftitled
Rage Against the Machine- Evil Empire
Rage Against the Machine- Battle of L.A.
Rage Against the Machine- Live (the new one)
Dead Kennedys- Plastic Surgery Disasters + In God We Trust
Dead Kennedys- Frankenchrist
Dead Kennedys- Give me Convenience or Give me Death
Placebo- Selftitled
Placebo- Without You I'm Nothing
Placebo- Black Market Music
Placebo- Sleeping with Ghosts SE
Metallica- And Justice For All
Metallica- Ride the Lightning
Metallica- The Black Album
Metallica- Load
Metallica- Reload
Metallica- St. Anger (Look, it was a present, honest! lol)
The Doors- Greatest Hits
Smashing Pumpkins- Greatest Hits
Smashing Pumpkins- Machina
Smashing Pumpkins- Gish
Smashing Pumpkins- Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Pink Floyd- Dark Side of the Moon
Pink Floyd- The Wall
Korn- Life Is Peachy
Slipknot- Selftitled
Slipknot- Iowa
Sepultura- Morbid Visions + Bestial Devastation
Sepultura- Chaos A.D.
Sepultura- Roots
Soulfly- Primitive
Soulfly- 3
Butthole Surfers- Electriclarryland
Stone Temple Pilots- Live Bootleg
Mudhoney- Superfuzz Bigmuff + Singles
Spiderbait- Ivy and the Big Apples
Spiderbait- Grandslam
Spiderbait- Tonight Alright
Led Zeppelin- I
Led Zeppelin- II
Led Zeppelin- III
Led Zeppelin- IV
Sonic Youth- Goo
Sonic Youth- Dirty
Alice in Chains- Facelift
Audioslave- Selftitled (I know, I know...)
System of a Down- Selftitled
System of a Down- Toxicity
System of a Down- Steal this Album
White Stripes- White Blood Cells
White Stripes- Elephant
Franz Ferdinand- Selftitled
Kittie- Oracle
Queens of the Stone Age- Selftitled
Queens of the Stone Age- Rated R
Queens of the Stone Age- Songs for the Deaf
Kyuss- Sky Valley
Soundgarden- Badmotorfinger
Soundgarden- Superunknown
Tool- Opiate
Tool- Aenima
Tool- Lateralus
The Vines- Highly Evolved
Radiohead- The Bends
Radiohead- Amnesiac
Radiohead- OK Computer
Corporate Avenger- Freedom is a State of Mind
The Clash- The Essential Clash (Greatest Hits)
Offspring- Smash
Rammstein- Mutter
Foo Fighters- Self Titled
A Perfect Circle- Mer de Noms

...I know i'm missing a couple but that'll do. Not bad considering i'm 18 and never had a proper job :) I aim to at least double this in the next year...

130 bucks is cheap.

As for bass, that's a product of amplification ... you can do that with albums as well.

CDs only sound "fuller" to the untrained ear.
actually it depends.
On a album if you incearse the bass to much.
The sound qaulity will go from like semi heaven to like the 9th level of hell ;)
On a CD you can incerase it as much as you want and it sounds great.

130 bucks is to much.
Then agian it was cheaper than the dimound plated needle that my mom needed for her Sony Record Player.
CD's are better. They sound fuller,clearer and they won't wear out.

actually it depends.
On a album if you incearse the bass to much.
The sound qaulity will go from like semi heaven to like the 9th level of hell ;)
On a CD you can incerase it as much as you want and it sounds great.

130 bucks is to much.
Then agian it was cheaper than the dimound plated needle that my mom needed for her Sony Record Player.
CD's are better. They sound fuller,clearer and they won't wear out.

CD's are still not an accurate representation of a bands true sound. CD's are fake sound, ever hear a band recording? Do they sound like a cd while making their album. No they sound like a LP. Just looked it up my Street Survivor album in near mint is priced at $200. It is nice to know that many people are still into vinyl.

CD's do wear out eventually. LP's do to, but if you don't listen to them excessively they won't either.

Id estimate his collection at about 150 LP's.

My collection - somewhere around 900 vinyl LPs. Gloat. Gloat. Gloat.

I agree with you, the sound on vinyl is so better, so different, so much warmer. There is just a warmer quality of the sound, like it is fuller or something, I cant explain.

It is definitely true that vinyl gives a less accurate sound, but it generally makes up for that in warmness - it is like the difference between a valve amp and a transistor amp: it might not sound as close to the original sounds, but it sounds fuller and warmer.

Of course, one of the problems with vinyl LPs was that a lot of them were made of recycled vinyl and were moulded about as thin as the record companies could get away with before reaching a point of excessive fragility. If you want a warm vinyl sound pay the extra money for re-releases on heavy thick vinyl, or get lucky hunting down good quality thick well-cared for LPs in thrift stores and second hand shops.

The sheer physicality of vinyl LPs is also something to think about: in themselves they are beautiful items, and the mechanical process by which they store sounds is quite remarkable when you stop and think about it. I won't bore you with the joy of the ritual of selecting an LP< sliding it out from between others, slipping out the innersleeve, and then taking the record out (holding it by fingertips against the edge)...

For those complaining about static and hiss on vinyl: it is their very fragility and lack of imperfection that is one of their charms to me. I appreciate CDs for their portability and ease of home-production, but really they aren't the same.

Someone mentioned Sinatra in the thread and complained about the hisses and pops: to me that is all part of the vinyl-listening experience: when I play the Witchcraft 7" EP or "...Sings Music For Pleasure", the slight crackle of static between tracks is part of the joy.

I won't even start to complain about the difficulty of finding a modern-record player that can play 78s these days...

On a album if you incearse the bass to much.
The sound qaulity will go from like semi heaven to like the 9th level of hell ;)
On a CD you can incerase it as much as you want and it sounds great.


The amount of low-end on a vinyl record is directly proportionate to the length of music that you store on it: thus the invention of 12" singles in the 70s, and the tendency for bass-heavy rock bands to release their LPs as 2x12"ers with only about 10 minutes of music on each side.

CD's are fake sound, ever hear a band recording? Do they sound like a cd while making their album. No they sound like a LP.

Speaking as someone that has actually recorded bands, I would say that they don't sound like an LP at all - they sound most like a band practicing (when recording all instruments simultaneously) or like a lot of musicians just learning their parts (when recording instruments individually).

IN my car I keep.
Rage against the Machine
Album one
Evil Empire
Battle of Los Angelos
Korn
Album one
Life is Peachy
A Bach anthology
Mozart collection
Pig Face
Double album(cd)
Esthero
The World I know
Metallica
Ride..
Garage Days REvisted(yes just revisted, not re-revisited)
The Misfits
Entire catalogue.
Samhain
Box Set
Al Green
Greatest Hits
Sade
Best of...
OutKast
Southernplayalistic
Atliens
Aquemini
Kid Rock
Devil Without A Cause
Hot Grit sandwhich for breakfast

Currently in my car, that isnt my collection it is just what is in my car.

Oh, and as for the album vs. CD nonsense ... There was a time when musicians went into a studio and made recordings with the knowledge that the songs would be recorded onto vinyl. Digitizing them onto CD ruins the experience.


This just creates problems when we come to the late 70s and early 80s when bands were recording onto digital equipment in the knowledge that it was destined for an analogue medium. Similarly for today: most music produced will pass through several digital stages before it may make it to an analogue medium (there do however still exist a couple of entirely analogue studios).

SO CD's somehow ruin music?
Cough bullshit cough