# What's in your CD player? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 18, 2000, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-cd-player/13130 "2000-01-18T22:08:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![MrKnowItAll](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrknowitall/32/87_2.png) [@MrKnowItAll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrKnowItAll)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-cd-player/13130/61 "2000-01-19T07:26:00Z")
I have a 111 disk changer. Here goes… Few & Far Between - 10,000 Maniacs MTV Unplugged - " Ponderous - 2nu Tidal - Fiona Apple Mellow Gold - Beck Chant - Benedictine Monks Letter to Evan - David Benoit Debut - Bjork Four - Blues Traveller Ropin’ the Wind - Garth Brooks The Sensual World - Kate Bush The Essential Canadian Brass - The Canadian Brass My World - Ray Charles Zoot Suit Riot - The Cherry Poppin’ Daddies Black Eyed Man - Cowboy Junkies Photographs & Memories - Jim Croce Birth of the Cool - Miles Davis It’s Not Unusual - Dread Zeppelin Hotel California - Eagles Shepherd Moons - Enya No Souvenirs - Melissa Etheridge Rumors - Fleetwood Mac We Can’t Dance - Genesis Lady Be Good - Dizzy Gillespie Shaming of the Sun - Indigo Girls Nomads-Indians-Saints - " Strange Fire - " San Francisco Days - Chris Isaak Surrealistic Pillow - Jefferson Airplane Greatest Hits (both disks) - Billy Joel Friends of Mr. Cairo - Jon and Vangelis The Beatles Connection - The King’s Singers Good Vibrations - " 6- and 12-String Guitar - Leo Kottke I’ve Got That Old Feeling - Allison Krauss Early Music - Kronos Quartet (runes) - Led Zeppelin Hard at Play - Huey Lewis and the News Tails - Lisa Loeb and Nine Stories The Best of The Manhattan Transfer The Offbeat of Avenues - " Tonin’ - " The Voice - Bobby McFerrin (the black album) - Metallica First Circle - Pat Metheny Group Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morissette Back to Basics - Olivia Newton-John Nevermind - Nirvana Try Anything Once - Alan Parsons Turn of a Friendly Card - Alan Parsons Project Full Moon Fever - Tom Petty Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd Innuendo - Queen Murmur - R.E.M. Out of Time - " Luck of the Draw - Bonnie Raitt Wes Bound - Lee Ritenour Different Stages (disk 2) - Rush Presto - " Test for Echo - " Love Deluxe - Sade Upfront - David Sanborn The Rhythm of the Saints - Paul Simon Acapella - The Singers Unlimited Sunny Spells and Scattered Showers - Solas Musical BBQ - Space Ghost, Zorak, and Brak Pocket Full of Kryptonite - Spin Doctors Unplugged and Seated - Rod Stewart Nothing Like the Sun - Sting Soul Cages - " Ten Summoner’s Tales - " The Grand Illusion - Styx Crime of the Century - Supertramp Doo Be Doo Wop Bop! - Take 6 Factory Showroom - They Might Be Giants Travelling Wilburys vol. 1 Achtung Baby - U2 Windham Hills Guitar Sampler vol. 2 “Wayne’s World” soundtrack Working Man (Rush tribute album) - various artists Linus & Lucy: The Music of Vince Guaraldi - George Winston Bad Hair Day - “Weird Al” Yankovic 90125 - Yes Classic Yes Harvest Moon - Neil Young Christmas - The Singers Unlimited In the Christmas Mood - The Glen Miller Orchestra Winter Solstice 3 - various artists Luckily, I have a few open slots in the machine right now. It could have been worse. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_Bowe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@Doug\_Bowe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_Bowe)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-cd-player/13130/62 "2000-01-19T07:41:00Z")
1. Stan Freberg “Tip of the Freberg” Vol.1 2. Smokey Joe’s Cafe CD 2 3. The Brian Setzer Orchestra 4. Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra 1921-1934 5. Flanders & Swann “At The Drop of a Hat” ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-cd-player/13130/63 "2000-01-19T07:45:00Z")
Sex Pistols – Never Mind The Bollocks. Currently playing, Pretty Vacant. I was very surprised to see the Misfits and Bill Hicks in this thread. * * * You’re only as old as you look. ---
**Author:** ![chief](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df788c/32.png) [@chief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chief)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-cd-player/13130/64 "2000-01-19T07:53:00Z")
## Guns N’ Roses - Live Album Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy Doors - Live in Concert Pink Floyd - The Wall, Dark Side of the Moon Black Crowes - Southern Harmony Izzy Stradlin - Ride On some other random live stuff Chief’s Domain - [http://www.seas.ucla.edu/~ravi](http://www.seas.ucla.edu/~ravi) ---
**Author:** ![Boris\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/fbc32d/32.png) [@Boris\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boris_B)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-cd-player/13130/65 "2000-01-19T08:06:00Z")
John Coltrane _A Love Supreme_ * * * Any similarity in the above text to an English word or phrase is purely coincidental. ---
**Author:** ![kawliga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ea666f/32.png) [@kawliga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kawliga)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-cd-player/13130/66 "2000-01-19T08:55:00Z")
Gary Burton - Tennessee Firebird Milton Brown and the Musical Brownies - discs 2 and 4 from the five cd box Lefty Frizzell - Sings the Songs of Jimmie Rodgers Don Walser - The Archive Series volume 1 ---
**Author:** ![mazirian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@mazirian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mazirian)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-cd-player/13130/67 "2000-01-19T09:00:00Z")
## _September Songs_ by various artists (Nick Cave, Lotte Lenya, William S. Burroughs, Lou Reed, etc.) _For once you must try to face the facts: Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts._ ---
**Author:** ![Squee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@Squee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squee)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-cd-player/13130/68 "2000-01-19T09:08:00Z")
I usually just listen to music on my computer nowadays, but I finally got my 5 disc to work! - Vandals - -AFI - -Jane’s Addiction - -Fishbone - -English Beat - * * * The most rewarding part was when I got my money! -Dr. Nick Riviera ---
**Author:** ![el\_eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e99b99/32.png) [@el\_eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/el_eureka)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-cd-player/13130/69 "2000-01-19T10:50:00Z")
The last 5 cds played in my truck: Judas Priest: Hell Bent For Leather Phil Hendrie: Best of Phil Hendrie 1999: Communism is Neat AC/DC: High Voltage Iron Maiden: (self-titled debut) Judas Priest: Sin After Sin Been in a metal mood for the past 16 years. Rock Forever at Volume 11 ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-cd-player/13130/70 "2000-01-19T11:11:00Z")
Currently in rotation in work 1. RATM =-battle of Los Angeles 2. Pink Floyd -DSOTM 3. Flaming Lips- the Soft Bulletin 4. John Byrne 1,2,3,4,5 * * * John Larrigan “82.35% of all statistics are made up on the spot”–Vic Reeves ---
**Author:** ![Gail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Gail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gail)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-cd-player/13130/71 "2000-01-19T13:51:00Z")
Either the original cast recording of the musical “Rent” or “Brand New Day” by Sting I’m old, I guess…Although I like “Rent”, it’m my 6 year old daughter who absolutely loves it so I play it for her. * * * –Gail “Predictable, really I suppose. It was an act of purest optimism to have posed the question in the first place.” --John Cleese ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-cd-player/13130/72 "2000-01-19T14:21:00Z")
Man, I hate multi-disc players. I have a 5-disker in my main system now, but only because I couldn’t get a one-disc machine when I was shoppin’. Only use it for extended pieces…like a Mahler or Bruckner symphony on two discs. My feeling is: How do I know what I’m going to want to listen to 60-75 minutes from now? * * * Uke ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-cd-player/13130/73 "2000-01-19T14:32:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Gail: > **I’m old, I guess…Although I like “Rent”, it’m my 6 year old daughter who absolutely loves it so I play it for her.** No worries about the _Rent_ lyrics being… um… a little raw for a six-year-old? I don’t worry about the themes of the show; I would just concerned that she’d sing stuff for her friends and get other parents possibly upset… - Rick ---
**Author:** ![special](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/special)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-cd-player/13130/74 "2000-01-19T14:49:00Z")
janis joplin today. yesterday it was celtic harp music. ---
**Author:** ![Yankee\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/7ea924/32.png) [@Yankee\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yankee_Blue)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-cd-player/13130/75 "2000-01-19T14:55:00Z")
Home - Rockapella Work - The World Turned Upside Down (18th century music) * * * Good Friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience - this is the ideal life. –Mark Twain ---
**Author:** ![MrSCOTT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MrSCOTT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrSCOTT)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-cd-player/13130/76 "2000-01-19T15:18:00Z")
Arrested Development’s _3 Years, 5 Months and 2 Days in the Life of…_ Whoever thinks rap isn’t music… needs to listen to THIS album! ---
**Author:** ![Tymp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Tymp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tymp)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-cd-player/13130/77 "2000-01-19T15:32:00Z")
Home: Love Spirals Downwards - Idylls Car: Portishead - self-title (I’ll bet $5 that **Anastacia** owns this one) Computer: Product images and other people’s logos. How exciting. ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-cd-player/13130/78 "2000-01-19T16:56:00Z")
Here at work I don’t use CD’s I have like 2600 MP3’s that i put on random play. I will spare you the list. **John R** - I love the misfits, and most other punk, in fact I have a lot of good old school stuff here on MP3 like MDC, GBH, Dr Know, Broken Bones, etc. **Neuro** - I don’t know anyone besides myself who’s even HEARD of Current 93. You rule! **Squee** - The Vandals and Fishbone… you my fine sir, have excellent taste! i have a lot of both of their stuff and have seen them both live numerous times. * * * If you feel that you must suffer, then plan your suffering carefully–as you choose your dreams, as you conceive your ancestors. ---
**Author:** ![Catrandom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@Catrandom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catrandom)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-cd-player/13130/79 "2000-01-19T17:09:00Z")
In the stack right now: Tannahill Weavers _Dancing Feet_ Steeleye Span _Commoner’s Crown_ Steeleye Span _Please to See the King_ Montgomery Gentry _Tattoos and Scars_ Steeleye Span _Parcel of Rogues_ Catrandom ---
**Author:** ![Lucky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Lucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-cd-player/13130/80 "2000-01-19T19:29:00Z")
Ali Farka Toure–Talking Timbuktu Shiela Chandra–Moonsung Macy Grey–(I forgot the title) Desmond Dekker–Isrialites Meryl Bainbridge–The Garden * * * “I should not take bribes and Minister Bal Bahadur KC should not do so either. But if clerks take a bribe of Rs 50-60 after a hard day’s work, it is not an issue.” ----Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, Current Prime Minister of Nepal [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-cd-player/13130.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-cd-player/13130.md?page=5)