# How varied is your music collection?

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**Created:** [March 1, 2003, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-varied-is-your-music-collection/158462 "2003-03-01T22:26:38Z")\
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well, mine is varied as well…without listing or busting out with all sorts of classifications thats all i have to say…someone said they had no country or rap, try johnny cash or black eyed peas, your mind may change to allow at least those two…

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I’m listening to Black Sabbath today, and tomorrow night I’m going to see Common, Talib Kweli, and Gang Starr. I think that’s a pretty wide spectrum.

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I have such an eclectic music collection that I make other eclectic music collectors cry.

On my MP3 player (I own all of the CD’s but the mp3 player is portable thus better) I have the following (the list is not complete by any means):

\*\*Oldies{/b] Simon and Garfunkel (everything they did together), The Byrds (everything they did together), The Mamas and the Papas, The Turtles, Badfinger (cheesy 70’s rock), The Doors, Creedence Clearwater Revival, among many others.

**Classical Symphonic** Dvorak’s Slavonic Dances, Symphonies, by Shostokovich, Arensky, Scriabin, Mahler, Stravinsky (Petrushka, The Rites of Spring, Persephone, and one other), Samuel Barber, Arvo Part, Mozart, Ravel, Debussy and many others

**Opera** ’s by Purcell (4 operas), Pergolesi (2 operas), Gershwin, and a few others.

**Chamber music** many different classical guitar performers (Bream, Williams, Kannengeiser, Romero, to name a few) performing concertos and solos. Piano music (many different performers performing all sorts of solo work on the piano from many different composers), Choral music, (many different choral ensembles performing various choral works from pre-renaissance to modern day), Lute consort and lute songs (performed as period pieces on period instruments), Viola da gamba solos, Theorbo solos, various wind/brass instrument solos and many others too numerous to count.

**Folk** music from Different World (not the TV Show), to Janis Joplin, Arlo and Woodie Guthrie, Peter Paul and Mary, Trout Fishing in America, Miles and Karina, the Grateful Dead, and many others.

**Filk** music that includes Leslie Fish, Chaos, Mercedes Lackey, Tim Cavanaugh, and several others.

\*\* Bluegrass\*\* Doc Watson, The Be Good Tanyas (if you like bluegrass they rock), and a few others.

**World music** J-pop (music from Pony Canyon: the yatta song people); Flamenco (Tomatito on up), Kodo (Japanese drum group), various Celtic bands(more folk than new age), some zydeco and gypsy accordian music, and many others.

**Rock music** General 80’s rock bands, mostly new wave. (A-ha, Tears for Fears, Devo, etc)

**Heavy metal** Crossing many genres all into one. From Grindcore (Old Lady Drivers, Blood, and Feces…an old local band i played with for fun to name one) and death metal (Coronor and Liar of Golgotha…to name a few… ) general heavy metal (Celtic Frost, Metallica, Anthrax, etc), to some individual hair band songs (I tended not to like them as much other than a few songs).

**Punk/hardcore** Descendants, Misfits, Dead Kennedy’s, Agnostic Front, Black Flag, Minor Threat, and a few others.

**Techno** Some random techno songs that I happened to pick up the Cd’s to. Nothing that quite sticks in my head but they are fun to listen to some time.

**New Age** Cusco, Enya, Shadowfax, and a few others.

**Blues** Stephen Grossman, BB King, and Steve Vai.

Those are just a few samplings of anything that I can be found listening to at any given time on my handy dandy mp3 player. Every time I buy a CD I rip it down onto it that way I can transport it around that much easier.

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I have such an eclectic music collection that I make other eclectic music collectors cry.

On my MP3 player (I own all of the CD’s but the mp3 player is portable thus better) I have the following (the list is not complete by any means):

\*\*Oldies{/b] Simon and Garfunkel (everything they did together), The Byrds (everything they did together), The Mamas and the Papas, The Turtles, Badfinger (cheesy 70’s rock), The Doors, Creedence Clearwater Revival, among many others.

**Classical Symphonic** Dvorak’s Slavonic Dances, Symphonies, by Shostokovich, Arensky, Scriabin, Mahler, Stravinsky (Petrushka, The Rites of Spring, Persephone, and one other), Samuel Barber, Arvo Part, Mozart, Ravel, Debussy and many others

**Opera** ’s by Purcell (4 operas), Pergolesi (2 operas), Gershwin, and a few others.

**Chamber music** many different classical guitar performers (Bream, Williams, Kannengeiser, Romero, to name a few) performing concertos and solos. Piano music (many different performers performing all sorts of solo work on the piano from many different composers), Choral music, (many different choral ensembles performing various choral works from pre-renaissance to modern day), Lute consort and lute songs (performed as period pieces on period instruments), Viola da gamba solos, Theorbo solos, various wind/brass instrument solos and many others too numerous to count.

**Folk** music from Different World (not the TV Show), to Janis Joplin, Arlo and Woodie Guthrie, Peter Paul and Mary, Trout Fishing in America, Miles and Karina, the Grateful Dead, and many others.

**Filk** music that includes Leslie Fish, Chaos, Mercedes Lackey, Tim Cavanaugh, and several others.

\*\* Bluegrass\*\* Doc Watson, The Be Good Tanyas (if you like bluegrass they rock), and a few others.

**World music** J-pop (music from Pony Canyon: the yatta song people); Flamenco (Tomatito on up), Kodo (Japanese drum group), various Celtic bands(more folk than new age), some zydeco and gypsy accordian music, and many others.

**Rock music** General 80’s rock bands, mostly new wave. (A-ha, Tears for Fears, Devo, etc)

**Heavy metal** Crossing many genres all into one. From Grindcore (Old Lady Drivers, Blood, and Feces…an old local band i played with for fun to name one) and death metal (Coronor and Liar of Golgotha…to name a few… ) general heavy metal (Celtic Frost, Metallica, Anthrax, etc), to some individual hair band songs (I tended not to like them as much other than a few songs).

**Punk/hardcore** Descendants, Misfits, Dead Kennedy’s, Agnostic Front, Black Flag, Minor Threat, and a few others.

**Techno** Some random techno songs that I happened to pick up the Cd’s to. Nothing that quite sticks in my head but they are fun to listen to some time.

**New Age** Cusco, Enya, Shadowfax, and a few others.

**Blues** Stephen Grossman, BB King, and Steve Vai.

Those are just a few samplings of anything that I can be found listening to at any given time on my handy dandy mp3 player. Every time I buy a CD I rip it down onto it that way I can transport it around that much easier.

I think I caught it in time… I left out **Jazz** I have some Coltrane, Ellington, old jazzy showtunes, and a 6 disc best of jazz hits across all the jazz genres on it as well.

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Quite varied. Something from every letter of the alphabet except ‘X’.

**A** c-Dc,&nbsp; Aerosmith,&nbsp; Alice Cooper,&nbsp; An Triskell, Pol et Hervé Quefféléant,&nbsp; Andrew Lloyd Webber,&nbsp; Andy Griffith,&nbsp; Animals,&nbsp;  
**B** ad Brains,&nbsp; Baha Men,&nbsp; Barry & The Bookbinders,&nbsp; Beatles,&nbsp; Benny Goodman,&nbsp; Big Bad Voodoo Daddy,&nbsp; Billy Crystal,&nbsp; Billy Joel,&nbsp; Black Sabbath,&nbsp; Black Sabbath & Rob Halford,&nbsp; Blondie,&nbsp; Blues Traveler,&nbsp; Bob Rivers and Twisted Radio,&nbsp; Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band,&nbsp; Bobby Boris Picket,&nbsp; Bobby McFerrin,&nbsp; Bonzo Dog Band,&nbsp; Boston,&nbsp; Brian Bromberg,&nbsp; Brian Setzer Orchestra,&nbsp;  
**C**. W. McCall,&nbsp; Captain Tractor,&nbsp; Carl Orff,&nbsp; Cheap Trick,&nbsp; Cheech & Chong,&nbsp; Cherry Poppin’ Daddies,&nbsp; Chieftains,&nbsp; Cirque du Soleil,&nbsp; Crash Test Dummies,&nbsp; Creedence Clearwater Revival,&nbsp; Crosby Stills Nash and Young,&nbsp;  
**D** erek And Clive,&nbsp; Descendents,&nbsp; Dire Straits,&nbsp; Doobie Brothers,&nbsp; Dr. Demento,&nbsp; Dropkick Murphys,&nbsp;  
**E** ddie Murphy,&nbsp; Edgar Winters Group,&nbsp; Elton John,&nbsp; Enya,&nbsp; Eric Clapton,&nbsp; Evans and Doherty,&nbsp; Everclear,&nbsp;  
**F** ear,&nbsp; Firesign Theatre,&nbsp; Foreigner,&nbsp; Frank Zappa,&nbsp; Frantics,&nbsp; From Dusk till Dawn,&nbsp;  
**G** eorge Carlin,&nbsp; George Thorogood And The Destroyers,&nbsp; Glenn Miller Orchestra,&nbsp; Great Big Sea,&nbsp; Guns N’ Roses,&nbsp;  
**H** alford,&nbsp; Hayseed Dixie,&nbsp; Heavy Metal - Music From The Motion Picture,&nbsp; Henry Mancini,&nbsp; Hitch-hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,&nbsp;  
**I** rish Descendants,&nbsp; Irish Drinking Songs,&nbsp; Irish Rovers,&nbsp; Iron Butterfly,&nbsp; Iron Maiden,&nbsp; Ivor Biggun,&nbsp;  
**J**.J. Cale,&nbsp; James Galway,&nbsp; Janis Joplin,&nbsp; Jethro Tull,&nbsp; Jimi Hendrix,&nbsp; Jimmy Buffett,&nbsp; Jimmy Page and Robert Plant,&nbsp; Joe Walsh,&nbsp; Joemy Wilson,&nbsp; John Lennon,&nbsp; John Prine,&nbsp; John Williams,&nbsp; Journey,&nbsp; Judas Priest,&nbsp;  
**K** inks,&nbsp; KISS,&nbsp; Kitaro,&nbsp;  
**L** ed Zeppelin,&nbsp; London Philharmonic Orchestra,&nbsp; London Symphony Orchestra,&nbsp; Lord Of The Rings,&nbsp; Lou Reed,&nbsp; Lynyrd Skynyrd,&nbsp;  
**M** ahavishnu Orchestra,&nbsp; Marius Radwanski,&nbsp; Mark Knopfler,&nbsp; Meatloaf,&nbsp; Metallica,&nbsp; Meteors,&nbsp; Monty Python,&nbsp; Muppets,&nbsp; Motley Crue,&nbsp;  
**N** ew Riders of the Purple Sage,&nbsp; Nirvana,&nbsp;  
**O** ingo Boingo,&nbsp; Ozzy Osbourne,&nbsp;  
**P** earl Jam,&nbsp; Pink Floyd,&nbsp; Pogues,&nbsp; Police,&nbsp; Procol Harum,&nbsp; Prokofiev,&nbsp; Pulp Fiction,&nbsp;  
**Q** ueensryche,&nbsp;  
**R** andy Travis,&nbsp; Ravel,&nbsp; Ray Stevens,&nbsp; Red Hot Chili Peppers,&nbsp; Reel Big Fish,&nbsp; Robert Plant,&nbsp; Rolf Harris,&nbsp; Rolling Stones,&nbsp; Rossini,&nbsp; RUSH,&nbsp; Rüstèd Rôõt,&nbsp;  
**S** ammy Hagar,&nbsp; Santana,&nbsp; Scott Joplin,&nbsp; Seven Nations,&nbsp; Shel Silverstein,&nbsp; Simpsons,&nbsp; Smash Mouth,&nbsp; Spike Jones & His City Slickers,&nbsp; Spin Doctors,&nbsp; Spinal Tap,&nbsp; Squirrel Nut Zippers,&nbsp; Star Wars,&nbsp; Steely Dan,&nbsp; Stevan Pasero,&nbsp; Steve Martin,&nbsp; Steve Miller Band,&nbsp; Stevie Nicks,&nbsp; Sting & The Police,&nbsp; Stuart Hamm,&nbsp; Sublime,&nbsp; Supertramp,&nbsp;  
**T** alking Heads,&nbsp; Ted Nugent,&nbsp; Ten Years After,&nbsp; Terry Hanck,&nbsp; They Might Be Giants,&nbsp; Thin Lizzy,&nbsp; Tim Wilson,&nbsp; Tom ‘T-Bone’ Stankus,&nbsp; Tom Lehrer,&nbsp; Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers,&nbsp; Tommy And Jimmy Dorsey,&nbsp; Tommy Dorsey,&nbsp; Toy Matinée,&nbsp; Toyes,&nbsp; Traffic,&nbsp; Twisted Sister,&nbsp;  
**U** 2,&nbsp; Ugly Kid Joe,&nbsp;  
**V** an Halen,&nbsp; Ventures,&nbsp; Victor Wooten,&nbsp;  
**W** AR,&nbsp; Warrant,&nbsp; Who,&nbsp; Wierd Al Yankovic,&nbsp; Yello,&nbsp;  
**Z** iggy Marley,&nbsp; ZZ Top,

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A bit of everything, but over-represented by Classical, Motown, early punk/new wave, and Olympia/Seattle girl punk bands (Sleater-Kinney, Bikini Kill, Bratmobile, Heavens to Betsy, Le Tigre, Excuse 17, etc…)

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> \*Originally posted by Bindrah \*  
> \*\*well, mine is varied as well…without listing or busting out with all sorts of classifications thats all i have to say…someone said they had no country or rap, try johnny cash or black eyed peas, your mind may change to allow at least those two… \*\*

That was probably me. I didn’t say I never listen to them; I just don’t own any. (Although, come to think of it, I’ve got a Shania Twain single somewhere…)

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This represents the artists present in my MP3 collection (all legally obtained {wink - wink}). Not altogether varied, but at least I have a lot of what I like.

I do not wish to discuss my vinyl collection, which I sold to partly finance a cross country move, and I do not wish to discuss my cd’s, most of which were either broken or lost in a a subsequent cross country move.  
Thanks for bringing _that_ up. Bastard!

311  
AC/DC  
Aerosmith  
Afghan Whigs  
Alice In Chains  
Alice in Chains  
The Animals  
Adam Ant  
April Wine  
Argent  
The Ataris  
B-52’s  
Bachman-Turner Overdrive  
Badfinger  
The Badlees  
The Band  
Bare Naked Ladies  
The Beatles  
Beck  
Jeff Beck  
Belle & Sebastian  
Belly  
Ben Folds Five  
George Benson  
Chuck Berry  
The Beta Band  
Bikini Kill  
The Black Crowes  
Black Sabbath  
Jack Black  
Blind Melon  
Blondie  
Bloodhound Gang  
Blue Oyster Cult  
Bow Wow Wow  
The Breeders  
Jackson Browne  
Jeff Buckley  
The Buggles  
The Buzzcocks  
Cake  
Canned Heat  
Cannibal! The Musical  
Nick Cave  
Kasey Chambers  
Cheap Trick  
Cheech & Chong  
Richard Cheese  
Chicago  
Clancy and Makem  
Eric Clapton  
The Clarks  
The Clash  
Les Claypool  
Climax Blues Band  
Bruce Cockburn  
Collective Soul  
Combustible Edison  
The Commodores  
Cornershop  
Counting Crows  
Country Joe And The Fish  
The Crash Test Dummies  
Creed  
Dash Riprock  
The Dave Matthews Band  
De La Soul  
The Dead Kennedys  
Deee-Lite  
Dexy’s Midnight Runners  
Digital Underground  
Divinyls  
Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods  
The Doobie Brothers  
The Doors  
Dr. Hook  
Dynamite Hack  
Steve Earl  
The Eurythmics  
Eve 6  
Jay Ferguson  
Five Man Electrical Band  
The Fixx  
A Flock Of Seagulls  
Flogging Molly  
Foghat  
Foo Fighters  
Foreigner  
Peter Frampton  
Frankie Goes To Hollywood  
Ace Frehley  
Fuel  
G. Love and Special Sauce  
Gorillaz  
The Gourds  
Grand Funk Railroad  
Al Green  
Hall & Oates  
George Harrison  
Harvey Danger  
Hayseed Dixie  
Head East  
Heart  
Hedwig Soundtrack  
Don Henley  
Robyn Hitchcock  
The Hives  
Hoku  
House of Pain  
The Human League  
Humble Pie  
Ian Hunter  
INXS  
Iron Butterfly  
Chris Issak  
The J. Geils Band  
Joe Jackson  
Jamiroquai  
Jets to Brazil  
Jimmy Eat World  
Billy Joel  
Johnny and Santo  
Journey  
Kansas  
Katrina and the Waves  
Kid Rock  
The Kinks  
Kiss  
The Knack  
James Kochalka Superstar  
Denis Leary  
Led Zeppelin  
John Lennon  
Less Than Jake  
Letters to Cleo  
Gordon Lightfoot  
Little Feat  
The Little River Band  
Live  
Lisa Loeb  
Lucas  
Lynyrd Skynyrd  
Madness  
Marcy Playground  
Marilyn Manson  
Bob Marley  
Paul McCartney  
Me First And The Gimme Gimmes  
Meat Puppets  
Men At Work  
Moldy Peaches  
Morphine  
Van Morrison  
Moving Pictures  
The New Radicals  
New York Dolls  
Nirvana  
NOFX  
North Mississippi Allstars  
Bradley Nowell  
Ted Nugent  
Operation Ivy  
Our Lady Peace  
Tom Petty  
Phish  
Pink Floyd  
The Pixies  
Placebo  
The Pogues  
The Police  
Iggy Pop  
The Pretenders  
Primus  
Prince  
Propellerheads  
Pure Prairie League  
The Pursuit of Happiness  
Queen  
Queens Of The Stone Age  
Ram Jam  
Red Hot Chili Peppers  
The Rentals  
Reunion  
The Rolling Stones  
The Romantics  
Run DMC  
Rush  
Leon Russell  
Scatterbrain  
Sebadoh  
Shaggy  
Silverchair  
Sir Mix-A-Lot  
Smashing Pumpkins  
Huey Piano Smith  
Will Smith  
Todd Snider  
The Soft Boys  
Soul Coughing  
Soundgarden  
Space  
Bruce Springsteen  
Squeeze  
Ringo Starr  
Starz  
Steel Dragon  
Stealers Wheel  
Steely Dan  
Stiff Little Fingers  
Stillwater  
The Stooges  
The Stories  
The Strokes  
Styx  
Sublime  
Supertramp  
Matthew Sweet  
Talking Heads  
James Taylor  
Tenacious D  
They Might Be Giants  
Thin Lizzy  
The Thirteenth Floor Elevators  
The Tokens  
Tommy Tutone  
Tone Loc  
Tony Toni Tone  
Train  
Tripping Daisy  
The Tubes  
Van Halen  
The Vandals  
Stevie Ray Vaughn  
The Violent Femmes  
Rufus Wainwright  
Wall Of Voodo  
Fats Waller  
Joe Walsh  
Ween  
Weezer  
Whale  
The White Stripes  
The Who  
Wilco  
Wild Cherry  
Kim Wilde  
Wings  
Stevie Wonder  
Yes  
Pete Yorn  
Young MC  
Frank Zappa

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my MP3 collection, don’t want to categorize them by genre, alphabetical order (sorry its by first names and not last names)seems more logical and the number of tracks from the band/person in parentheses.

Adema (12)  
Aha (1)  
Alice DJ (1)  
Alphaville (1)  
Aqua (1)  
ATC (1)  
Atomic Kitten (1)  
Avril Lavigne (1)  
Az Yet (1)  
Bach (2)  
Bangles (1)  
Beethoven (3)  
Blackstreet (1)  
Blink 182 (1)  
Bocelli & Brightman (1)  
Bone Thugs & Harmony (2)  
Boomtang Boys (1)  
Boxcar Racer (1)  
Burt Bacharach with others (9)  
Busta Rhymes (11)  
Cardigans (1)  
Carpenters (1)  
Cathy Dennis (1)  
Cats Musical track (1)  
Cheryl Crow (1)  
Chicago (4)  
Chopin (2)  
Colin Hay (2)  
Coors (2)  
Crowded House (1)  
Daft Punk (2)  
Debbie Gibson (1)  
Dexy’s Midnight Runners (1)  
Diana Krall (1)  
Dido (1)  
Dirty Vegas (1)  
Don Henley (2)  
Dr. Dre (4)  
Dusty Springfield (1)  
Earth, Wind & Fire (5)  
Eiffel 65 (1)  
Elvis Costello (4)  
Enya (4)  
Erasure (1)  
Eric Clapton (1)  
Eurythmics (2)  
Expose (1)  
Firehouse (3)  
Grandmaster Flash (1)  
GooDie MoB (2)  
Guns N’ Roses (3)  
Ice Cube (1)  
Jackson Five (1)  
John Waite (2)  
KC & the Sunshine Band (3)  
Lauren Christie (1)  
Linkin Park (18)  
Lisa Loeb (1)  
Ludicris (1)  
Lynard Skynard (1)  
Me First & the Gimme Gimmes (3)  
Metallica (2)  
Michael Jackson (1)  
Morrissey & the Smiths (13)  
Mozart (5)  
Naked Eyes (2)  
Nelly (1)  
Nena (1)  
New Found Glory (5)  
New Order (1)  
Nickelback (1)  
Nirvana (2)  
No Doubt (7)  
Ol’ Dirty Bastard (1)  
O Town (1)  
Our Lady Peace (8)  
Redman (1)  
Papa Roach (1)  
Paul Young (1)  
Pearl Jam (1)  
Peter Cetera (4)  
Phantom of the Opera tracks (7)  
Pink (3)  
P.O.D. (6)  
Powerpuff Girl Songs (3)  
Queen (1)  
Radiohead (1)  
Red Hot Chili Peppers (2)  
Reel Big Fish (2)  
Remy Shand (7)  
Sade (9)  
Saigon Kick (2)  
Sarah Slean (1)  
Schumann (1)  
Scorpions (1)  
Seventh Heaven Theme Song (1)  
Shania Twain (3)  
Smashing Pumpkins (1)  
Spandau Ballet (1)  
Spongebob Squarepants Theme Song (1)  
Staind (7)  
Stylistics (2)  
Sugar Hill Gang (1)  
Sugar Ray (2)  
Supertramp (4)  
System of a Down (7)  
Talking Heads (1)  
Temptations (1)  
Thomson Twins (1)  
Three Doors Down (1)  
Toad the Wet Sprocket (1)  
Treble Charger (1)  
Tupac (2)  
U2 (1)  
Vanessa Carlton (3)  
Vivaldi (1)  
Wednesday (1)  
Weezer (1)  
Wet Wet Wet (1)  
Wham! (1)  
Wheatus (3)  
Whitetown (1)  
Wu Tang Clan (1)

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Well, my collection includes:

AC/DC  
Aerosmith (old stuff only- no 90s wimpy “power ballads”)  
America  
Beach Boys  
Beatles  
Bee Gees  
Clint Black  
Black Sabbath  
Blue Oyster Cult  
The Byrds  
Chicago  
Chopin  
Clancy Brothers  
Cream  
Creedence Clearwater Revival  
Jim Croce  
Debussy  
Deep Purple  
John Denver  
Dire Straits  
The Dubliners  
Dvorak  
Bob Dylan  
Dave Edmunds  
Electric Light Orchestra  
Enya  
Everly Brothers  
Fiddler on the Roof Soundtrack (with Zero Mostel)  
Gilbert & Sullivan  
Buddy Holly  
House of Pain  
Jackson 5  
Tommy James & the Shondells  
Billy Joel  
“Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat”  
Judas Priest  
KC & the Sunshine Band  
King Crimson  
The Kinks  
Led Zeppelin  
Metallica  
Moody Blues  
The Move  
Mussourgsky  
Oasis  
Roy Orbison  
Elvis Presley  
Pursuit of Happiness  
REM  
Salty Dog  
Small Faces  
Smashing Pumpkins  
James Taylor  
Van Halen  
Was (Not Was)  
Yes

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so varied… right now in my cd player alone i have three very different things:

budapest - too blind to hear  
faust - compilation from the opera (i’m seeing it next week 🙂  
paul van dyk - global

so yea… pretty all over the place!

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**Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-varied-is-your-music-collection/158462/52 "2003-03-06T01:49:10Z")

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So varied … that I have no idea who any of those people are.

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**Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-varied-is-your-music-collection/158462/53 "2003-03-12T21:41:27Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Jack Batty \*  
> \*\*So varied … that I have no idea who any of those people are. \*\*

Ummm well Faust is an opera, and I’m listening to exerpts from it. Probably not everyone’s taste, but if you like French opera, I highly recommend it. 🙂

Budapest is a pretty new band from the UK. Kindof in the same vein as Coldplay, pretty moody and melodic stuff. Nice album.

Paul van Dyk is a big trance DJ who also creates his own tracks. He just put out a big retrospective which is making me nostalgic for the 90’s rave scene.

And then one I left out is the Soundtrack of Our Lives - Behind the Music. They are a swedish band and this album is fantastic. Think Oasis, Kula Shaker, the Verve… they are on tour right now and I’m told the live show is amazing.

Now you’ve heard of them! 🙂

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70% Metal  
15% Hard Rock  
15% ‘other’

NP: **(Various)** - _Peaceville Classic Cuts (sampler)_

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