# Who doesn't own these albums? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 17, 2000, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-doesnt-own-these-albums/14888 "2000-03-17T05:11:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-doesnt-own-these-albums/14888/1 "2000-03-17T05:11:00Z")
The thread about “bands that were better 20 years ago” reminded me of something. A few years ago, I was giving a ride to a co-worker, and I told him to look through my tapes and choose what he’d like to listen to. He picked up **Dark Side of the Moon** and said, “Does anyone _not_ own this?” Since then, I’ve done some informal polling, and discovered that, with very occasional exception, everyone who listens to rock at all own **DSOTM** , **Led Zep IV** , and **Sergeant Pepper**. A show of hands, please: Does anyone here **not** own all three? * * * “His eyes are as green as a fresh-pickled toad, His hair is as dark as a blackboard, I wish he was mine, he’s really divine, The hero who conquered the Dark Lord.” ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-doesnt-own-these-albums/14888/2 "2000-03-17T05:18:00Z")
(Riases hand) NOT ME!! NOT ME!!! I hasten to add, I don’t listen to much rock. Not much at all. But I do own a few Peter Gabriel and Sting CDs. If I were to collect rock more extensively, the _last_ thing I’d do is have anything by Led Zeppelin. ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-doesnt-own-these-albums/14888/3 "2000-03-17T05:25:00Z")
I don’t think there’s a copy of _Sgt. Pepper_ in my house. But my husband has a positively monstrous record collection (yes, **records.** Vinyl.), so I could be wrong. I know he’s got _DSOTM_ and _Zep IV,_ though. * * * This space blank, until Wally thinks up something cool to put here. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-doesnt-own-these-albums/14888/4 "2000-03-17T05:27:00Z")
I don’t have any of them. (My choices in music are routinely ridiculed) ---
**Author:** ![Ruffian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@Ruffian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruffian)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-doesnt-own-these-albums/14888/5 "2000-03-17T05:28:00Z")
None of the above. My earliest (and oldest) album purchase was _Thriller._ All of those others are before my time, although I have heard of them and heard some of the songs on them. * * * Teaching: The ultimate birth control method. [Laura’s Stuff and Things](http://members.aol.com/lrconaway) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-doesnt-own-these-albums/14888/6 "2000-03-17T05:45:00Z")
I’ve got two out of three. But while I’m certainly of the appropriate age and have an extensive music collection, I don’t have any Led Zeppelin. Don’t know why, but they just never struck a chord with me. What is perhaps surprising then is that I have pretty much every CD (including their early promo tapes) made by Dred Zeppelin. I also have the _Encomium_ tribute CD. ---
**Author:** ![TheNerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@TheNerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheNerd)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-doesnt-own-these-albums/14888/7 "2000-03-17T06:32:00Z")
nope, don’t have any of them. But I can appreciate DSOTM. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-doesnt-own-these-albums/14888/8 "2000-03-17T06:39:00Z")
I don’t own any of them. My parents have DSOTM, but my dad (who has something like 300 CDs - you can’t say he’s not into rock) hates Led Zeppelin and doesn’t really like the Beatles all that much, either. * * * ~Kyla “Don’t Do It.” ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-doesnt-own-these-albums/14888/9 "2000-03-17T06:41:00Z")
None of the three. But my tastes in music are so painfully wierd sometimes my teeth hurt ---
**Author:** ![crackwise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/22d042/32.png) [@crackwise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crackwise)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-doesnt-own-these-albums/14888/10 "2000-03-17T06:46:00Z")
I’m not sure if I own a copy of _LZIV_ anymore, but I know I have _DSOTM_ on tape. No Sgt. Pepper’s. I must say I don’t own either of these on CD. The tapes are left over from HS years. * * * ~handcrafted signatures since 1975~ ---
**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:** [March 17, 2000, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-doesnt-own-these-albums/14888/11 "2000-03-17T06:53:00Z")
I’ve got Sgt. Pepper on cassette, CD and on two records, one of the vinyl records was the picture done into the vinyl itself. It is kinda cool to watch it go round and round. My son, DJ, is the Led Zepplin fan, he forced me to listen to some, and they just yell too much. I don’t particularly like heavy metal, though I liked Metallica’s ‘No Leaf Clover’ and the hero song, but then it was the combination of the orchestra/band sound that I really enjoyed. * * * “Honestly now, Chaplain, you wouldn’t want your sister to marry an enlisted man, would you?” “My sister IS an enlisted man, sir” the chaplain replied. ---
**Author:** ![Cowboy\_Greg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Cowboy\_Greg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cowboy_Greg)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-doesnt-own-these-albums/14888/12 "2000-03-17T07:21:00Z")
> [@](#): > > My son, DJ, is the Led Zepplin fan, he forced me to listen to some, and they just yell too much LOL! Am I the only one who thinks that at times Led Zep hails from the “Ow! I’m being poked with a sharp stick!” school of vocal performances? 😉 Anyway, of the three, the only one I have is DSOTM. The other two aren’t bad, I’ve just never been moved to actually buy 'em. * * * A cubicle is just a padded cell without a door. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Dave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/46a35a/32.png) [@Great\_Dave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Dave)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-doesnt-own-these-albums/14888/13 "2000-03-17T07:25:00Z")
I’ve got Zep IV, and have always intended to buy the others. ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-doesnt-own-these-albums/14888/14 "2000-03-17T07:47:00Z")
I’m guilty of all three, of course I own the entire works of ELO, with the exception of the first album, _No Answer_. Ahem, my birthday IS coming up, though…used vinyl is fine! 😉 * * * Love stinks! (Yeah, yeah!) ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-doesnt-own-these-albums/14888/15 "2000-03-17T08:30:00Z")
I have Dark Side of the Moon (I went through a period of listening to that album twice a day for 3 months, scary times) Sgt. Pepper, but I dont have LZIV. I think Jimi Page is enormously talented, but Robert Plant sounds like he’s trying to shit in the middle of a bad hangover. I also think that they never realised how to end any of their songs… but theyre OK other than that * * * well, at least one person wants to meet me… [http://fathom.org/polldata/pollcheck.adp?poll=dope-page5&question=62](http://fathom.org/polldata/pollcheck.adp?poll=dope-page5&question=62) Cheers!! ---
**Author:** ![Rectangle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c4cdca/32.png) [@Rectangle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rectangle)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-doesnt-own-these-albums/14888/16 "2000-03-17T08:54:00Z")
I don’t own them. The wife has DSOTM. Can’t stand Led Z. No Beetles either. * * * I pity the fool that brings a knife to a gun fight. ---
**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:** [March 17, 2000, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-doesnt-own-these-albums/14888/17 "2000-03-17T09:07:00Z")
I think music that is powerful and wont let me fall asleep while listening to it. Therefore, I would never buy albums slow rocking bands like Pink Floyd or AiC. I want to rock to music, not snore to it. The majority of their music is just too slow for me. The Pepper album is pretty groovy but I wouldnt buy it. Those lyrics, “Sergeant Pepper and the Lonely Hearts Club Band”, make me snicker. Then again, just mentioning the bands I like make most ppl snicker. Art is cool like that. ---
**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:** [March 17, 2000, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-doesnt-own-these-albums/14888/18 "2000-03-17T09:23:00Z")
ooops I mean like instead of think. By the way, whether singers are orgasmic screamers (Janis Joplin, Mariah Carey, Led Zeppelin), southern drawlers (Garth, Johnny Cash) , ballad crooners (90% of pop music today), loud yellers (Pantera), silver tongued talkers (Puff Daddy, Jay Z), gravel garglers (Joe Cocker, Sammy Hagar), or wooden stick poked angry wailers (Judas Priest, Ozzy), their still singers and, in each category, there is great talent. ---
**Author:** ![chief](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df788c/32.png) [@chief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chief)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-doesnt-own-these-albums/14888/19 "2000-03-17T10:38:00Z")
I have the 4th LZ album and Dark Side i dont have Sgt. Peppers, havent got around to getting that one somehow. im a huge fan of zeppelin, most of all from these 3 bands. * * * Check out my site: [Chief’s Domain](http://www.seas.ucla.edu/~ravi) ---
**Author:** ![Poto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ab992/32.png) [@Poto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poto)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-doesnt-own-these-albums/14888/20 "2000-03-17T12:06:00Z")
I dropped out of Pink Floyd stuff just before Dark side, and Money and Stairway are two of my most hated FM standards. I do have a Pink Floyd collection that I got used that has it. I only have Zeppelin’s best of CD and fortunately Stairway is last on it. Sgt Pepper was my first stereo LP–those plastic black things you play with a needle. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-doesnt-own-these-albums/14888.md?page=2)