Eclectic Much?

Loading the new CD case scared me

I live with mood disorders among my family members. Mood swings like you wouldn't believe. Child is coloring nicely--wait... DUCK! He just chucked a shoe at my head. You put the clutch in, shift, and keep going.

What does this have to do with my CD's? Maybe it's because I am, in fact, a teacher and perpetual student of music; maybe I'm overdue for a meds check my own self. Even I find my choices odd. The favorites that I carry with me from car to car are a little, well, bipolar.

Here's the list:
Swingle Singers--Jazz Sebastian Bach
Celtic Woman
Raffi--Singable Songs for the Very Young
Mozart--Mass in C minor
Ladies of Song (cheap Wal-Mart compilation)
Cecilia Bartoli--The Salieri Album
Jazz for When You're Alone (cheap Wal-Mart compilation)
Lionel Richie--Greatest Hits
Kiss Me, Kate Soundtrack
Barbara Bonney--Sallie Chisum Remembers Billy the Kid
Ute Lemper Sings Kurt Weill
Seussical the musical
Gladys Knight--One Voice
Il Divo
East Village Opera Company
Chris Botti--When I Fall in Love
Chris Botti--A Thousand Kisses Deep
Essential Billy Joel
Billy Joel--Fantasies and Delusions
Emmylou Harris--Heartaches and Highways
Classical Music For People Who Hate Classical Music
Judy Collins--Classic Folk
The Mamas and the Papas--California Dreamin'
Indigo Girls--Retrospective
U2--War
Natalie Merchant--The House Carpenter's Daughter
Frank Sinatra--Gold
The Real Group
Radio Disney Jams 8
And the Complete works of Gaelic Storm

You can tell me straight. Is this a cry for help? BTW What's in your CD wallet?
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Reply #1 Top

That's quite a list.  Where do you keep all that?

I don't get to listen to much music while in the vehicle.  The DVD player is usually on.  When alone I like to drive in silence, or blasting whatever radio station flavors my day.

 

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Where do you keep all that?


I just bought a CD case that holds 48 discs. I commute an hour and a half so I either listen to my CDs or books on tape.
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Here is a brief selection of the cds in my office cd rack:

West Side Story -Soundtrack
New York Tendaberry - Laura Nyro
Best of the Ronettes
Strictly Commercial - Frank Zappa
Kylie - Kylie Minogue
Los Angeles/Wild Gift - X
The Rising - Bruce Springsteen
Switched On Bach - Wendy Carlos
The Berkeley Concert - Lenny Bruce
Mr. Jones - Tom Jones
Girl - Tiny Tim and Brave Combo
Gett Off (cd single) - Prince and the NPG
The Sounds of Science - The Beastie Boys
I Don't Get No Respect - Rodney Dangerfield
Music from Disneyland's "Haunted Mansion"
The Four Seasons - Anne-Sophie Mutter and the Trondheim Soloists
Judy Garland Speaks! (rare outtakes of Judy's drunken notes for her autobiography)
Great Jewish Music (Tribute to Burt Bacharach) - Various Artists
Charles Brown - Wouldn't it be Grand
The Essential Willie Nelson

so, I think your collection is just right. Then again, I'm a recovering alcoholic with OCD tendencies.
Reply #4 Top
I'd say that you have nicely irratic tastes... no wonder we get along so well..... (not enough guitar music there though ;~D).


Mine:

The Ramones: End of the Century
Led Zeppelin: IV
Willie Nelson: Greatest Hits (and some that will be)
Rod Steward: MTV Unplugged
Fats Waller: Best of...
Beethoven: Piano Concerto #5 (Emporer opus)
Ozzy Osbourne: Randy Rhoads Tribute
SuperTramp: Breakfast in America
Ray Charles: In Concert
Earl Scruggs & LeRoy Leavit: Live at Carnegie Hall
The Oakridge Boys: Have Arrived
Iron Maiden: Piece of Mind
Elton John: Don't Shoot Me, I'm Just the Piano Player
Animaniacs: Wakko's World/State Capitals