# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![SaxFace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@SaxFace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaxFace)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-cd-player/13130/81 "2000-01-19T19:33:00Z")
In my portable CD walkman: Pilfers (a great NYC rock/ska band) On my turntable at home: Tenor Conclave (Hank Mobley, Zoot Sims, Al Cohn, John Coltrane) - I’ve almost got Hank Mobley’s solo memorized. CD Player at home: Stooges “Fun House” (trying to figure out Steve McKay’s sax part) * * * Formerly unknown as “Melanie” ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-cd-player/13130/82 "2000-01-19T21:32:00Z")
**SmickD:** > [@](#): > > R.A.T.M.-bulls on parade Is this a single or import or something? I know its a song on Evil Empire, is that what you meant? ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-cd-player/13130/83 "2000-01-19T22:02:00Z")
Don’t own one of those new-fangled CD players, but I have a 78 of “Cohen on the Telephone” on the Victrola . . . ---
**Author:** ![Kilgore\_Trout\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6de8d8/32.png) [@Kilgore\_Trout\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilgore_Trout_1)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-cd-player/13130/84 "2000-01-19T22:08:00Z")
i am listening to to the teeth by ani difranco. soo-poyb. * * * _what is essential is invisible to the eye -the fox_ ---
**Author:** ![Bluepony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Bluepony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bluepony)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-cd-player/13130/85 "2000-01-19T22:19:00Z")
_Long Stretch of Lonesome_ by Patty Loveless, and what looks to be a piece of chewed Wrigley’s Spearmint on the program button, courtesy of my 2-yr old son. * * * “…send lawyers, guns, and money…” ``` Warren Zevon ``` ---
**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, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-cd-player/13130/86 "2000-01-19T22:32:00Z")
I just got some CDs from BMG. I’m not sure which I want to listen to first. I got: The Dawson’s Creek soundtrack The original Braodway cast recording of Hair Barenaked Ladies- Stunt Sarah Brightman- Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection Meatloaf- Bat Out Of Hell Santana- Supernatural Smashmouth- Astro Lounge ---
**Author:** ![Anti\_Pro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Anti\_Pro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anti_Pro)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-cd-player/13130/87 "2000-01-20T05:36:00Z")
1. Matchbox 20 2. Yellow Submarine- Beatles 3. Greatest Hits- Queen 4. Supertramp 5. Eric Clapton Matchbox 20 is great to use at the gym, if I keep it loud enough, I can’t hear the groans…mine, or anyone else’s! ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-cd-player/13130/88 "2000-01-20T06:18:00Z")
I like Rodd Hill 'cause he mentioned Orange Juice. Hooray for Rodd Hill. In my CD player now: Boo Radleys: _Everything’s Alright Forever_ Vaselines: _Way of the Vaselines_ Ash: _1977_ Felt: _Bubblegum Perfume_ Go-Betweens: _Before Hollywood_ and, of course, the Beatles: _Rubber Soul_ ---
**Author:** ![Doobieous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Doobieous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doobieous)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-cd-player/13130/89 "2000-01-20T07:11:00Z")
In My 5 disc CD Player I have: - Remedy - Basement Jaxx - Exposure - Exposé - Bass Bomb 3 - THUMP Records - Sample Slaya,Enter the Meat Market - Armand Van Helden * * * It’s worth the risk of burning, to have a second chance… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-cd-player/13130/90 "2000-01-20T07:31:00Z")
In the Hawaiian Mood - Keali’i Reichel Lei Hali’a before that was Brood War ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-cd-player/13130/91 "2000-01-20T13:00:00Z")
Burn, thanx for the tips. I rely on word-of-mouth for a lot of my CD purchases, since radio is so useless these days. As the Nervebreakers sang, “I wanna hijack the radio, make them play something worth listening to.” Ok, back to the OP: ## L7 – Hungry For Stink. Currently playing, Questioning My Sanity (nominee for Riff of the Decade) You’re only as old as you look. ---
**Author:** ![ryan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@ryan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ryan)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-cd-player/13130/92 "2000-01-20T13:08:00Z")
## I mostly use the CD dirve of my PC, right now:Release the Hounds by Hair of the Dog, a great local Irish Band out of Albany NY. On my CD player:Santana’s Supernatural “The universe doesn’t give first warnings or second chances” ---
**Author:** ![Gail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Gail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gail)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-cd-player/13130/93 "2000-01-20T13:36:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Bricker: > \*\* 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 > > \*\* At this point my daughter does not use profanity at all…For a long time we lived with her alcoholic father who had a bad temper and she heard every word in the book. (Now we’re out of that situation and he is not drinking anymore.) She tells me she doesn’t like using bad words. And luckily, I’ve never heard any complaints from other people. * * * –Gail “Predictable, really I suppose. It was an act of purest optimism to have posed the question in the first place.” --John Cleese ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-cd-player/13130/94 "2000-01-20T16:11:00Z")
today’s selections: Fishbone - Truth and Soul Sublime - Sublime Jane’s Addiction - Nothing’s Shocking Shriekback - Oil and Gold Nitzer Ebb - That Total Age * * * If you feel that you must suffer, then plan your suffering carefully–as you choose your dreams, as you conceive your ancestors. ---
**Author:** ![Squee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@Squee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squee)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-cd-player/13130/95 "2000-01-20T19:46:00Z")
**BurnMeUp** , I see we have similar tastes! * * * The most rewarding part was when I got my money! -Dr. Nick Riviera ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-cd-player/13130/96 "2000-01-20T20:57:00Z")
indeed * * * If you feel that you must suffer, then plan your suffering carefully–as you choose your dreams, as you conceive your ancestors. ---
**Author:** ![J\_String](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ce73a5/32.png) [@J\_String](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/J_String)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-cd-player/13130/97 "2000-01-20T23:09:00Z")
Iced Earth: Something Wicked This Way Comes * * * It’s a long way to heaven, but only three short steps to hell. ---
**Author:** ![WIU\_Wozman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WIU\_Wozman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WIU_Wozman)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-cd-player/13130/98 "2000-01-21T00:20:00Z")
Ok, don’t hit me for this, but right now I’ve got KidRock in the place that’s usually reserved for Dave Matthews Band, Reel Big Fish, and Jimmy Buffett * * * View every exit as an entrance someplace else ---
**Author:** ![Rousseau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Rousseau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rousseau)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-cd-player/13130/99 "2000-01-21T02:40:00Z")
I have a 10-disc changer in my car: 1. Beck- Midnite Vultures 2. Ben Folds Five- Unauthorized Biography… 3. Ben Harper- Burn to Shine 4. Jimi Hendrix- Experience Hendrix 5. The Meters- The Very Best of the Meters 6. Radiohead- The Bends 7. Red Hot Chili Peppers- BloodSugarSexMagik 8. Phish- Hampton Comes Alive (CD #1) 9. Phish- Hampton Comes Alive (CD #5) 10. Phish- Hampton Comes Alive (CD #3) And I have a three-disc changer in my room, in which the selections are currently changing. At the moment, it’s 1. Jude- No One is Really Beautiful 2. Ben Harper- Welcome to the Cruel World 3. Phish- Hampton Comes Alive (CD #6) Make of that what you will. * * * The IQ of a group is equal to the IQ of the dumbest member divided by the number of people in the group. ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-cd-player/13130/100 "2000-01-21T15:05:00Z")
Rousseau is a man after my own heart. In the car–Phish, “Hampton Comes Alive” (all six discs) In the house: Beck, “Odelay” Widespread Panic, “Bombs and Butterflies” 10,000 Maniacs, “MTV Unplugged” Phish 12/3/99 Cincinnati show on CD-R (I was there!) On the computer, and currently playing: some Medeski, Martin, and Wood MP3’s. Dr. J [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-cd-player/13130.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-cd-player/13130.md?page=6)