Every CD I own . . .

Paul_C

 Day 1
CD#1 Kris Delmhorst - Songs For A Hurricane
CD#2 The Unthanks - Here's The Tender Coming. 
CD#3 Lo-fi Lung - Heading for Those Trees/ Sit Down For A Day
CD#4 Smashing Pumpkins - Gish 
CD#5 Jonatha Brooke - The Works

Day 2
CD#6 Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
CD#7 Graham Parker - Howlin' Wind
CD#8 Meshell Ndegéocello - Bitter
CD#9 Boo Hewerdine - Harmonograph

Day 3
CD#10 Robyn Hitchcock - Olé! Tarantula
CD#11 The Flaming Lips - Transmissions From The Satellite Heart
CD#12 Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
CD#13 Jane Taylor - Montpelier

Day 4
CD#14 World Party - Private Revolution
CD#15 XTC - Mummer
CD#16 Elvis Costello - When I was Cruel
CD#17 Silver Sun - Silver Sun

Day 5
CD#18 Stars - Set Yourself On Fire
CD#19 Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III
CD#20 Hensley & Wright - Strong
CD#21 Toyah - Sheep Farming In Barnet

Day 6
CD#22 The La's - The La's
CD#23 Shack - H.M.S. Fable
CD#24 David Crosby - If I Could Only Remember My Name . . .
CD#25 Gene - Drawn To The Deep End
CD#26 Tubeway Army - Tubeway Army

Day 7
CD#27 Eels - Souljacker
CD#28 Catatonia - International Velvet
CD#29 Steely Dan - Can't Buy A Thrill
CD#30 Robert Wyatt - Comicopera
CD#31 Nic Jones - Penguin Eggs

Day 8
CD#32 Jenny Lewis - Rabbit Fur Coat
CD#33 Stereophonics - Just Enough Education To Perform
CD#34 Sixpence None The Richer - Sixpence None The Richer
CD#35 R.E.M. - Murmur
CD#36 Nirvana - In Utero
CD#37 Fairport Convention - Liege and Lief

Day 9
CD#38 The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
CD#39 Eric Roche - With These Hands
CD#40 Rilo Kiley - Take Offs and Landings
CD#41 Small Faces - Ogden's Nut Gone Flake

Day 10
CD#42 Emily Slade - Fretless
CD#43 Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
CD#44 Oasis - Definitely Maybe
CD#45 Ash - Nu-clear Sounds

Day 11
CD#46 The Himalayans - She Likes The Weather
CD#47 Ruth Theodore - White Holes of Mole Hills
CD#48 Fastball - All The Pain Money Can Buy
CD#49 The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love

Day 12
CD#50 Lee 'Scratch' Perry and The Upsetters
CD#51 Good Cop Bad Cop - Liberal Hearts Bleeding
CD#52 The Good The Bad & The Queen - The Good The Bad & The Queen
CD#53 Annette Bjergfeldt - The Kissing Post
CD#54 The Jam - All Mod Cons

Day 13
CD#55 The Bluetones - Expecting To Fly
CD#56 Dixie Chicks - Taking The Long Way
CD#57 Sheryl Crow - Tuesday Night Music Club
CD#58 Blue Öyster Cult - Secret Treaties

Day 14
CD#59 Michael Manring - Soliloquy
CD#60 Michael Rattray Allstars - Smile At Who You Need To
CD#61 Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - How I Long To Feel That Summer In My Heart
CD#62 Blues Traveler - four
CD#63 Elvis Costello - Imperial Bedroom

Day 15
CD#64 XTC - English Settlement
CD#65 Eurogliders - This Island
CD#66 R.E.M. - Lifes Rich Pageant
CD#67 The Cure - Galore
CD#68 Max Richter - Songs From Before

Day 16
CD#69 Fischer Z - Red Skies Over Paradise
CD#70 Elvis Costello - Get Happy !!
CD#71 XTC - Drums and Wires
CD#72 Suede - Coming Up

Day 17
Bought more CDs

Day 18
CD#73 R.E.M. - Out Of Time
CD#74 Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
CD#75 Kate Rusby - Awkward Annie
CD#76 The Decemberists - What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World

Day 19
CD#77 Husky Rescue - Ghost Is Not Real
CD#78 Iggy Pop - The Idiot
CD#79 Pink Floyd - Endless River
CD#80 Blondie - Plastic Letters
CD#81 Sam Phillips - Fan Dance
CD#82 Crowded House - Crowded House
CD#83 of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping

Day 20
CD#84 Feist - Metals
CD#85 Grandaddy - The Broken Down Comforter Collection
CD#86 Big Star - # 1 Record
CD#87 Homespun - Homespun

Day 21
CD#88 Joni Mitchell - The Hissing of Summer Lawns
CD#89 The Strokes - Is This It
CD#90 McAlmont & Butler - The Sound of . . .
CD#91 Voice of the Beehive - Honey Lingers
CD#92 Julie Fowlis - Cuilidh
CD#93 Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
CD#94 Mercury Rev - The Secret Migration

Day 22
CD#95 Gang Of Four - Entertainment!
CD#96 Del Amitri - Waking Hours
CD#97 Green Day - American Idiot
CD#98 Red House Painters - Red House Painters (Bridge)

Day 23
CD#99 Paul Simon - Surprise
CD#100 OP8 - Slush
CD#101 Fun Lovin' Criminals - Come Find Yourself
CD#102 The Fratellis - Costello Music
CD#103 The Cranberries - Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?
CD#104 Barenaked Ladies - Gordon

Day 24
CD#105 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus
CD#106 The Levellers - Levelling The Land
CD#107 Clive Murray - Earthman
CD#108 Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
CD#109 Split Enz - Second Thoughts
CD#110 Mull Historical Society - Us

Day 25
CD#111 Ry Cooder - My Name Is Buddy
CD#112 Various - Northampton Under Glass
CD#113 The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
CD#114 Counting Crows - August And Everything After
CD#115 Tubeway Army - Replicas

Day 26
CD#116 Mo Foster - Time To Think
CD#117  Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited

Day 27 - Day off.

Day 28
CD#118 Steve Lawson - Grace and Gratitude
CD#119 XTC - White Noise 

Day 29
CD#120 Rilo Kiley - Under The Blacklight
CD#121 Elvis Costello - Spike
CD#122 Moses - Django
CD#123 Primus - Sailing The Seas Of Cheese

Day 30
CD#124 Curtis E Johnson - The Compleat Unknown
CD#125 Paul Simpson - Noise With A Purpose
CD#126 Sharon Van Etten - Are We There
CD#127 My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
CD#128 Grandaddy - Below The Radio
CD#129 Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions - Through The Devil Softly

Day 31
CD#130 Sam Brown - Stop!
CD#131 Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous
CD#132 Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle
CD#133 The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
CD#134 Hanne Hukkelberg - Blood From A Stone

Day 32
CD#135 Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
CD#136 Cocteau Twins - Milk And Kisses
CD#137 Public Image Ltd. - Public Image: First Issue

Day 33
CD#138 Etienne Mbappé - Misaya
CD#139 Queen - A Day At The Races
CD#140 Counting Crows - Somewhere Under Wonderland

Day 34
CD#141 Talking Heads - Fear Of Music
CD#142 Juliet Turner - Live

Day 35
CD#143 Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Blood and Chocolate
CD#144 Richard Thompson - Front Parlour Ballads
CD#145 Jeff Beck - Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop
CD#146 Radiohead - Pablo Honey
CD#147 Counting Crows - Underwater Sunshine (or What We Did on Our Summer Vacation)

Winny_Pooh

How many you have? I've become a bit obsessed lately, buying up loads I could't afford when younger. Up to 550 now I think. Wife thinks it's futile of course...

Paul_C

I reckon I've got somewhere around 600-650 (plus another 250 or so LPs) and 15 of them are R.E.M. - there are a few other artists that I might have more of (Elvis Costello for one) but it was the R.E.M. collection that first caught my eye.

Paul_C

First up:

CD#1 Kris Delmhorst - Songs For A Hurricane

I found this artist via a friend's Myspace page, back when that was the No 1 place for me to find new music. Not listened to this one for years, which is a shame as she's got a great voice and I liked it a lot.

CD# 2 The Unthanks - Here's The Tender Coming. 

I really like the way their vocals intertwine, tonally and stylistically they're very distinct but complimentary. While I have other albums of theirs I think this is the only CD (the others will have to wait for Playing All My Downloaded Albums) - overall another enjoyable album.

CD #3 Lo-fi Lung - Heading for Those Trees/ Sit Down For A Day

Two four song EPs from a duo/band that were part of a gig I played (IIRC in Birmingham somewhere) great fun live, plus I got a packet of seeds which I still have somewhere. 

CD# 4 Smashing Pumpkins - Gish 

There was a recent thread on a forum that asked for bands people would like if one thing was changed, and number of them included bands where they'd prefer a different singer, SP being one. For me the vocal is one of the stand out things about Smashing Pumpkins and they'd be less interesting without it.
Sadly I'm not in a position to listen to it at the optimum volume, some music is SO much better when it's rattling the windows :O)

ICBM

I've got somewhere between 1500 and 2000 I think - haven't counted for ages. I have to keep them organised alphabetically on a bookcase so I can find anything, and carry a complete list on my phone so I don't accidentally buy things I've already got when I'm looking through second-hand and charity shops. It took ages to do but was worth it in the long run - although it still seems a bit OCD.

My wife doesn't approve either - she keeps asking why I need them all when I put them straight onto the computer. And what I'm going to do when I run out of space on my CD bookcase. (Buy another one! )

Neil

I've got a fair few.

I can't resist having a troll though CD's at boot sales/charity shops at 50p- £1 each.

Paul_C

Neil said:

I've got a fair few.

I can't resist having a troll though CD's at boot sales/charity shops at 50p- £1 each.

Recently I've mostly picked up s/h ones from a little stall in Exmouth Indoor Market (190 miles from my house, but I visit my Dad every six weeks or so) 3 for £10, and occasionally from Amazon - it's because I've accumulated so many recently that I thought I ought to put them in a bit more order, and catch up with listening to them.

I could do with getting a dedicated CD player - I currently play them using the CD drive in my PC but after a few plays it starts making a ticking noise which is annoying.

Sporky

I'm currently going through all of mine; if they're on Spotify then they go into a "to sell" box. 'Course, then I have to sell the buggers...

Paul_C

If I manage to listen to 4 CDs a day and spend at least 5 days a week listening I should manage them all in 32 weeks - though I might skip a few (while I like a lot of SRV I can only just about manage one CD before I get bored so they'll either get skipped or have to be well spread out).

KKJale

Paul_C said:

CD #2 The Unthanks - Here's The Tender Coming

I love the way their voices intertwine and this a pretty good album overall.

I've found it impossible to take the Unthanks seriously ever since a friend supported them and discovered their vegetarian-specific rider demanded that – and I quote – "cheese should not be the central pillar of the arrangements."

Philly_Q

I must have way over 2,000 CDs, but I couldn't guess the actual number.

At least 10 years ago I built some floor-to-ceiling shelves along my hallway which fitted all the CDs and DVDs I had at the time, so they're still in A-Z order (the CDs that is, the DVDs were never in order).  Everything I've bought since is just scattered around the place in piles, anywhere there's a flat surface.  I'll never have time to sort them out unless I win the lottery and give up work.

But anyway, @Paul_C, are you going to review them all one by one?  This will turn into an epic thread.

Paul_C

Philly_Q said:

I must have way over 2,000 CDs, but I couldn't guess the actual number.

At least 10 years ago I built some floor-to-ceiling shelves along my hallway which fitted all the CDs and DVDs I had at the time, so they're still in A-Z order (the CDs that is, the DVDs were never in order).  Everything I've bought since is just scattered around the place in piles, anywhere there's a flat surface.  I'll never have time to sort them out unless I win the lottery and give up work.

But anyway, @Paul_C, are you going to review them all one by one?  This will turn into an epic thread.

I'm ahead of you

I already decided that updating this every day might get annoying so I've just started a blog to document the progress (or lack of) and keep out of the way of everyone who might have got sick and tired of this pretty quickly.

http://playingallmycds.blogspot.co.uk/

ICBM

Philly_Q said:

At least 10 years ago I built some floor-to-ceiling shelves along my hallway which fitted all the CDs and DVDs I had at the time, so they're still in A-Z order (the CDs that is, the DVDs were never in order).  Everything I've bought since is just scattered around the place in piles, anywhere there's a flat surface.  I'll never have time to sort them out unless I win the lottery and give up work.

I've had to discipline myself to sort the new arrivals into order every few weeks when the 'new' pile builds up enough, or I'll never do it.

It's not actually that much work, you just need to set aside about half an hour and start at one end, moving them along as necessary.

Reverend

I don't think this site could handle it if I posted about all of mine. I have about 2500 cds on shelves and another 500 in crates under the bed

TTony

Paul_C said:

I already decided that updating this every day might get annoying 

Actually, I was quite looking forward to the updates!

Paul_C

TTony said:

Paul_C said:

I already decided that updating this every day might get annoying 

Actually, I was quite looking forward to the updates!

I can always copy and paste

viz

Nice blog! Good luck!

TTony

Paul_C said:

TTony said:

Paul_C said:

I already decided that updating this every day might get annoying 

Actually, I was quite looking forward to the updates!

I can always copy and paste

Done - you've got a ready-made audience here ...

Paul_C

Time for one more before bed:

CD#5 Jonatha Brooke - The Works 

Another artist found via Steve Lawson (and not the last) this is a collection of songs with lyrics chosen from the huge archive of Woody Guthrie lyrics. For her part Jonatha does a great job and is accompanied by some great musicians including Joe Sample and Steve Gadd.

EricTheWeary

KKJale said:

Paul_C said:

CD #2 The Unthanks - Here's The Tender Coming

I love the way their voices intertwine and this a pretty good album overall.

I've found it impossible to take the Unthanks seriously ever since a friend supported them and discovered their vegetarian-specific rider demanded that – and I quote – "cheese should not be the central pillar of the arrangements."

I'm with them in that  I saw them at a folk festival and enjoyed them and I like that thing with the brass band about the pigeons but they're a bit hard work after a song or two. 

Octahedron

Good luck.

Anyone who knows me will know that I'm a bit anal about "pure" alphabetical order, A-Z, and also by artist's last name if they use their name. 

I really find it annoying that iTunes and Discogs both order by first name instead. So I decided to just get over myself finally and put all of my CD collection into alphabetical order by first name. 

It looks really different now, when you look at the CD cases' spines... The "J" section of my collection expanded very suddenly. Now having all of the Joes together (Joe Satriani, Joe Bonamassa, Joe Perry) and the Johns (Mayer, Butler etc) all in one place.

Maybe it'll inspire me to pick up some CDs that I haven't touched in a while.