Of our 800-or-so albums and cds, 67 are on that list. We still have all of them, too, even the ones we don’t particularly like, because Mr. Legend and I are constitutionally incapable of getting rid of any books or music.
Out of the thousands of CDs and thousands more LPs in my collection, I have only 19 of these, mostly Beatles. A few others I had in the past but don’t currently own (the first three Zeps, CSNY’s Déjà Vu and Sly & the Family Stone’s Greatest Hits…although I do have the Sly Anthology CD, which probably includes everything that’s on the Hits LP plus much more).
By the way, the list includes both Led Zeppelin and Led Zeppelin I. Aren’t those the same album?
53, mostly Beatles and Led Zeppelin and U2, although quite a few are owned by my wife who has an insatiable pop fetish. I bet I have more, I inherited a stack of 80s vinyl upstairs and I know for a fact that all of the 80s Genesis and Phil Collins stuff is in there, as well as Boston and Foreigner and Journey.
Like many of you, I have around 1300 CDs. I have probably fewer than 10 greatest hits CDs (off the top of my head, a B.B. King one, an Albert Collins Rhino 2 disc set, Isaac Hayes, Jackson 5, War, James Brown, Elvis Presley, Howlin’ Wolf). That dooms any serious music fan from owning more than a fair share of those albums. I know I have gradually sold most of my greatest hits albums bought when younger and more naieve as I have acquired the full albums…
You think? I’m pretty sure it’s because everyone is eclectic and slightly edgy with their taste in music, unpredictable and liking real music that isn’t the mainstream stuff the man feeds us from his big Madison Avenue thought machine. Yeah!
They’re already here. I used to hate things that were popular just because they were popular. Then I grew up. I used to crap in people’s threads (a loooooonnnggggg time ago) when the subject was not to my taste. Then I grew up some more. Let the kiddies play. If this is all it takes to make them happy, well, it’s no skin off my nose. I’m intelligent enough to know a poll thread from an opinion thread and mature enough not to post an opinion where one wasn’t asked.
I wasn’t referring to that one. The list includes the first four Zeppelin albums, all with Roman numerals, and includes a fifth album just listed as Led Zeppelin. To me Led Zeppelin should refer to the first album, but I’m guessing that here it’s supposed to be the first LZ box set (which I thought was called “Box Set,” but that may be just an informal title, like “Runes,” “Zoso” or “IV” for the fourth).