# Critical music you just don't have **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 22, 2002, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/critical-music-you-just-dont-have/120147 "2002-07-22T00:57:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Elvis_Rojo)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/critical-music-you-just-dont-have/120147/1 "2002-07-22T00:57:29Z")
I was looking through my CD collection the other day, and although I’ve got some rather interesting stuff in it that most people have never really heard of, I realized, it’s incredibly lacking in some music that pretty much everyone (at least of my generation) have. Such as, I have no: U2 Live Doors Led Zeppelin Black Sabbath There’s more, I just can never think of it when I need to. At least I’ve got all of Nirvana’s shit. Anyway, what music are you missing from your collection? ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/critical-music-you-just-dont-have/120147/2 "2002-07-22T01:15:04Z")
No Live and Doors: check. Hmm. I don’t have Nirvana’s stuff. No Alice in Chains. No Soundgarden. No Fate no More. Actually: I have no **grunge**! I do have two Foo Fighter albums, though. Does that count as “melodic post-grunge” or something? No Rolling Stones CD’s. No Beatles. No CSNY. ---
**Author:** ![Squish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Squish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squish)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/critical-music-you-just-dont-have/120147/3 "2002-07-22T01:18:51Z")
I used to collect records (real records, you know, vinyl) during the late 70s and early 80s. Then they stopped making them and my turntable bit the dust and no one was selling turntables. As such, I no longer have a large array of seminal new wave and goth records. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Dragon\_Phoenix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Dragon\_Phoenix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragon_Phoenix)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/critical-music-you-just-dont-have/120147/4 "2002-07-22T02:05:55Z")
Not famous, but it bugs me no end that I cam’t get it on CD: [1] Klaatu - any CD with their masterpiece, _Routine day_. [2] Martha and the Muffins - _This is the ice-age_. One of the best albums of all time. And the record company has decided not to release it on CD. Bastards. ---
**Author:** ![MisterThyristor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecccb3/32.png) [@MisterThyristor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MisterThyristor)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/critical-music-you-just-dont-have/120147/5 "2002-07-22T05:54:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dragon Phoenix \* > \*\*Not famous, but it bugs me no end that I cam’t get it on CD: > > [1] Klaatu - any CD with their masterpiece, _Routine day_. > [2] Martha and the Muffins - _This is the ice-age_. One of the best albums of all time. And the record company has decided not to release it on CD. Bastards. \*\* You may have some hope there yet. According to [this page](http://www.audioera.com/pre_order/index.cfm), Martha and the Muffins - _This is the Ice-age_ is being re-issued on CD in a special release and they are taking orders. (However, you may wish to contact the company for more info, since the page is copyright 2001 and there is always the question of whether it was or still will be released.) And [this place](http://www.alternativemusic.com/rare6.html) has the Klaatu _Peaks_ CD which has _Routine Day_ as part of the track listing. Again, the same disclaimer applies as to how up-to-date the web page is. But it would seem that the CD is available from time to time, even if it is no longer available from this source. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/critical-music-you-just-dont-have/120147/6 "2002-07-22T06:53:58Z")
I don’t have a studio Hendrix albums. ---
**Author:** ![Mephisto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@Mephisto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mephisto)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/critical-music-you-just-dont-have/120147/7 "2002-07-22T08:19:59Z")
I have many if not most of the must-have CDs for my favorite sub-genre, metal, but my “general rock” collection has some serious gaps in it: no Beatles, no Stones, no . . . well, almost none of the super-popular or super-influential rock of the Sixties and Seventies. I do have a pretty good record collection but, alas, no record player. Damn. And I’m going back to school and all my extra money that could be well spent on my album collection is going to the stupid university. :mad: ☹ This thread has made me legitimately sad. Damn. Poor _and_ musically deprived. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/critical-music-you-just-dont-have/120147/8 "2002-07-22T13:45:38Z")
Hmmm…Critical works that I’m missing (since I’m influenced by them, and constantly borrow them) include: 1. The Jam 2. The Velvet Underground 3. The Beatles (wait, I do have “Hard Day’s Night,” now that I think about it, but everything else.) 4. Black Sabbath 5. The Damned 6. The Buzzcocks ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/critical-music-you-just-dont-have/120147/9 "2002-07-22T15:42:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Squish \* > \*\*I used to collect records (real records, you know, vinyl) during the late 70s and early 80s. Then they stopped making them and my turntable bit the dust and no one was selling turntables. As such, I no longer have a large array of seminal new wave and goth records. ☹ \*\* FYI Radio Shack still sells turntables; IIRC they have an RCA model for $100.