I would like to start a CD collection. Which record should I buy first?

Love Scenes by Diana Krall, The John Peel Sessions by Cinerama, any CD by Sleater Kinney, Meredith Brooks, or They Might Be Giants.

First you should buy "Jagged Little Pill" by Alanis Morissette. She's da bomb!

Second you should buy "No need to argue" by the Cranberries. They rock!

And third you should buy "The Joshua Tree" by U2. They're amazing

Hourglass by James Taylor!

Assuming you have NONE what-so-ever, I would recommend the Beatles One album as a good starting point. Once you have a good compilation of "Greatest Hits" albums, then I would move on to individual albums.

K, I will help you with what you need from the classical music. But everything labeled 'Phillips', and you won't make mistake in the performance.

To have your collection complete, you have to have works by Mozart, J.S.Bach, Beethoven, Handel, Vivaldi, Schubert, Schumman, Chopin, Monteverdi, Wagner, etc.

I use to like that album of Alanis so much; but I'm not anymore into that kind of music.

I don't like her newest album. I think it's too weird.

I don't know. What kind of music do you like? I need a little more to go on.

White Ladder by David Gray

Dark Side of the Moon!

What do you mean too weird?

What kind of stuff are you into now?

Anything by Mozart, Beethoven or J.S.Bach.

George Michael: Ladies and Gentlemen
Natalie Imbruglia: Left of the middle
Michael Jackson: Bad and Thriller
Ice Cube: Death Certificate
Elton John: The Greatest Hits

Sonic Youth - Washing Machine

Well, first off, if you want to start a CD collection, you shouldn't buy a record. They don't fit in the CD player very well, and the laser doesn't work on them.
Then you should buy Sarah McLachlan's "Fumbling Towards Ecstasy."

Anything by Led Zeppelin, Jimmi Hendix, Beatles, AC/DC or The Doors.

I was thinking of saying Pink Floyd when this was in Qual. but I forgot

I'm enjoying the heck out of Tool's Lateralus right now.

Tom Waites: "Small Change"

I don't know much about music.

Dark Side of the Moon was the very first CD I bought...

Dark Side of the Moon.

Tori Amos "Little Earthquakes"
Paula Cole "This Fire"
Hole "Live Through This"
Alice in Chains Unplugged
Godsmack (self titled)
Kristen Hersh "Hips and Makers"
Belly "King"
Veruca Salt "American Thighs"
Stone Temple Pilots "Core"
Ani Difranco "Dilate"
Korn (self titled)

I have all those- they rock!

Thats cool you have good taste. I won't embarass myself by saying what the first music I bought was.

Any Led Zeppelin.

jynx

That was the second one I bought. The first was Led Zeppelin Song Remains The Same.

I knew you would say that.

hey your not allowed to talk I jynxed you!!!

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Are you trying to talk? ok dave cut it out

Marilyn Manson
Antichrist Superstar

I have hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of CD's.

I asked myself..." Self, If someone came and stole all your CD's which one would you replace first?"....

The song X.Y.U. by the Smashing Pumpins. Try to get the live version. It kicks ass!!

All that you touch
All that you see
All that you taste
All you feel.
All that you love
All that you hate
All you distrust
All you save.
All that you give
All that you deal
All that you buy,
beg, borrow or steal.
All you create
All you destroy
All that you do
All that you say.
All that you eat
And everyone you meet
All that you slight
And everyone you fight.
All that is now
All that is gone
All that's to come
and everything under the sun is in tune
but the sun is eclipsed by the moon.

Kid A by Radiohead.

I already have it!

I would rather find out about your taste. This is what this survey is about.

Ahem, to all in general...this is a purely hypothetical question, just so everybody can talk about the music they like. I'm not this goon who has to do a survey before he can decide what he wants to buy, as some of you seem to think

By weird, I mean she just added too much 'Eastern' style in her music. There is one song on her new album that I just can't listen to because it makes me REALLY upset, and I have to start crying.

Rigth now, I'm into rap, hip hop, R&B, some rock, techno and industrial, and some classical music.

I by the Beatles. That's a great start.
Then you should think about Lauryn Hill a little bit.

I listened to that this morning after I answered this survey

I was listening to it as I typed that comment

Anything by Sarah McLAhlan or Tori Amos would be good. Smart by Sleeper, although that may be too sexually strong for you. World Entertainment War if you can find it. Rage Against The Machine. Killing in the Name is a powerful anti-racism song, and Bulls on Parade is a great dig at the NRA.

That's SO kelw!

What else do you have?

Which song is that?

Is it by any chance "That I would be good" ?

What's your favorite song on "Left of the middle" ?

That's a wicked album. What's your favorite song?

Do you like it?

I really can't remember the name, but I'm sure it's not 'That I Would be Good'. I think it's like sixth or seventh song on the CD. She is saying something that he is just alike her father, and I remember one line, and it goes 'with my fifty odd years'.

That's all I can remember of.

Umm....i can't think of the name right now...

I like that song.

Bob Marley - Legend

But do you know what song I'm referring to?

Whitney Houston's greatest hits.

I don't really have a favorite; I think the whole album is so good.

Obviously!!!

1- Leave me alone

2- Torn

3- Wishing I was there

You?

Yeah...i know which one...but that's not the one that almost makes me cry.

1- smoke
2- Leave me alone
3- Impressed

But the rest are also really good. I wonder why she never came out with anything again

Which one makes you cry?

"That I would be good.....
...even if I gained 10 lbs...That i would be great...even if i went bankrupt....That i would be loved....if i was no honoree... ......that i would be loved!...even when numb myself!....That i would be good....even when i am overwhelmed!....That i would be good...whether with or without you...."

I'm gonna go cry now...

Oh, I like that song. It is kind of sad.

Oh, I thought that might be the case. My tastes are extremely eclectic. I just started up a new "radio station" on MP3.com. Check it out.

http://stations.mp3s.com/stations/179/absolute_eclecticism.html

Whichever one you want the most.

I would say the Beatles 1 CD, everyone loves the beatles, well ok, not everyone, but I do... hmmm

Beatles The White Album

ABBA's Greatest Hits

"The Velvet Underground with Nico" (banana album), "the Beatles" (white album), Bowie "ChangesOne", X "Los Angeles", Natalie Merchant "Carnival", B-52's "Wild Planet", Siouxsie and the Banshees "Twice upon a time", Planxty "Cold blow and the rainy night", Dead Can Dance "Spirit Chaser", the Music of Eric Satie "the Velvet Gentleman" (or any with 'Les Trois Gymnopidaes'), Robert Fripp "Exposure"
Soundtracks: Lost Highway, Repo Man, Twin Peaks, Peter Gunn, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, Porgy & Bess, Phantom of the Paradise
A good collection of swing, international (like javanese), van morrison, doors, eagles, simon & garfunkle, "Surf City Underground", "the Ventures knock me out", "inxs", heart,

How about Loreena McKennit? She's very good.I really don't know how to describe it. You'd have to hear her to decide if you like it, I guess.

tool -aenima

oh no! wait! billy torpe - children of the sun!

no! wait wait! i mean pink floyd - the wall

ah what the hell, buy all three!

Sheryl Crow

"$484.00" by The Fine Print, "The Decline" by NOFX or "Shush" by Righteous Corn Farmers. For the first and last ones, look on MP3.com for more information on them. They are little known, but AWESOME bands. JERRY FOREVER!!

Ayia Napa Return to Fantasy Island.

Everything I listed, then a lot more. I forgot to mention Concrete Blonde though!

oh..neva heard of them.

He was on the Tonight Show wiht Jay Leno just a couple of day ago.

All right! Phantom of the Paradise.

Anything by Annie Lennox with or without the Eurythmics, anything by k.d.Lang, Elton John, the Beatles, the Beach Boys, Jan & Dean, the Righteous Brothers (especially Unchained Melody), Classic (old) Kiss.

I missed it, I also missed when he was on David Letterman too...

I was expecting you to chime in again on that one.

Eden's Crush "Popstars" CD....

I think you know me too well!

I'm sure he'll pop up again on another show.

everything Beatles,Hendrix,Zepplin,Doors,Stones,War,Santana,Doobies,CSNY,Alice Cooper,Chicago,Elton,Iron Butterfly,Carol King,Aretha,Blind Faith,Van Halen,Temps,Pink Floyd,Traffic,Pendergrass,Barry,Who,Cher & Queen

Fleetwood Mac's Boxed Set. You will thank yourself for the rest of your life. Also if you're young, it may help you to realize our music really was better until the mid-90s, compared to this crap that's being released now. Oh jeez, I sound like an old person, but it's really true!

I resorted to highlights of my oldies collection just to have them represented here amongst fresher energy, even though I never listen to that stuff anymore. I don't have quite the passion to find out who my favorite musicians are these days, especially since I don't buy music anymore (well, actually I'm building quite a vinyl collection of oldies from thrift store highlights). I turn on the radio and let new stuff of diverse genres come to me. Is it similar for you, or are you still still 'main stay'ing on stuff from your formative period?

Ac/Dc rocks, buy them...any cd is good. I would get Back in Black personally.

Oh yes! I'm a die hard 60s music loving,recycled flower power,head banging Hippie.One might say I'm stuck in a time warp.I feel some of the BEST music ever,came out of the mid 60's.Funny tho because alot of it has come back in a fresher innovative way.

My collection was once similar to yours. It was less metal / hot rock, and more experimental.. Fripp & Eno, Floyds Umma Gumma, All the early punk/new wave/industrial, and all sorts of 60's like BeBopaLula, Hang on Sloopy, Leader of the pack sort of stuff.
We had every album of Beatles, P.Floyd, Doors, T.Heads & many others. I remember picking on my son because his esteemed 'Nine inch nails' had basically one song spread over several CD's, quite unlike the bands of our age like the Beatles. I heartily recommend 'Dead can Dance' to see how our roots have evolved. It's mistral and drumming without head banging. The direction Siouxsie & the Banshees was heading a decade ago.

when time allows I will need to track down "siouxsie & the Banshees.But yeah,I like all the stuff you mentioned here.As a matter of fact I'm still trying to track down a "Vanilla Fudge" CD.Have you tapped the Beatle site it's so cool.Check it out.

I like your taste in music!

Thanks.

I actually got disgusted with myself for living in a time warp. I decided that listening to my old music would only synergize my entropy. I'm about to make a compilation for my son of classic guitarist tracks though (that I hadn't even been able to hear in my collection until I picked up a guitar) from my vinyl collection. 'Siouxsie' makes me 'feel' like I'm in a mist of dancing spectral energies. 'Dead can Dance' makes me feel like all ages past live with me now. They are atmospheric, not narrative, like we grew up with.

Anything with Elvis on it.

I looovvvve classic guitar!My brother plays classic guitar.How old is your son?

Almost 17. I got to hear him play last night on the guitar (a black acoustic electric) I got him for christmas. He sounds like a black forest stream, dark and organic. I wish he weren't dark, but my daughter is light, and I was somewhat dark at his age too. I visited a guitar shop today full of cello's, dobro's, etc. A very woody place. Classic, like Liona Boyd? (who does a cross between flamenco and hiawatha forests)