contemplating the concept of too much music
I go through phases in my never-ending quest to acquire music. Sometimes I have a couple of albums kicking around my hard drive or shelf that I need to review and decide whether or not they're keepers. At other times it gets to be dozens. Right now it's getting ridiculous though. I just checked my "to review" folder on my fileshare drive and there's *ninety* albums in there. I know people who have entire collections that consist of ninety albums!
Sometimes I wonder if I enjoy finding and acquiring albums more than actually listening to them. That sounds really weird now that I say it, but I think it might be true. Then again, everybody loves a treasure hunt, right? On the other hand, having music that you don't listen to is like a sin to me. I don't want to be like those people who go on shopping binges and buy tons of clothes, 90% of which they will never wear again. Though I'm kind of leaning in that direction actually. Come to think of it, deep down I kind of am a hoarder. That reminds me that one of the good things about having had to recently pack my life into the space of a medium-sized SUV and move back "home" forced me to throw away so much stuff. And you know what? It was really, really, really hard to part with that stuff at the time, but now I don't miss any of it really. Well, I sure wish I still had those hand made, custom speaker cabinets. Ugh, let's not delve into losses of the recent past right now.
Alabama Thunderpussy -- Staring at the Divine
Bauhaus -- Go Away White
Bjork, Brant -- Punk Rock Guilt
Black Moth Super Rainbow -- Dandelion Gum
Bloodhorse -- Horizoner
Breathe Carolina -- It's Classy, Not Classic
Clarke, Stanley -- School Days
Cobra Starship -- While the City Sleeps, We Rule the Streets
Coldplay -- Parachutes
Coldplay -- Rush of Blood to the Head
Crack, Carl -- Black Ark
Crystal Antlers -- Tentacles
Curious Mystery, the -- Rotting Slowly
Dead Meadow -- Old Growth
Deep Space Network -- Big Rooms
Depeche Mode - Speak & Spell
Derringer, Rick -- Best of
Dillinger -- Cornbread
Doors -- Other Voices
Dragontears -- Tambourine Freak Machine
Dream Syndicate, the -- The Days of Wine and Roses
Earth -- Earth 2
Eels -- Shootenanny!
Electroscope -- Journey to the Center of the Electroscope
Embryo -- We Keep on
Explosions in the Sky -- The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place
Farflung -- A Wound in Eternity
Farflung -- Belief Module
Flaming Lips, the -- At War with the Mystics
Flaming Lips, the -- Christmas on Mars
Flaming Lips, the -- Zaireeka [4 CD]
Flaming Lips, the -- Zaireeka [mixed]
Flogging Molly -- Swagger
Franti, Michael & Spearhead -- Yell Fire!
Frogs, the -- It's Only Right and Natural
Fugs, the -- Second Album
Hub -- [self-titled]
Illuminati -- On Borrowed Time
Jackie-O Motherfucker -- Fig. 5
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion -- Now I Got Worry
Juno Reactor -- Gods & Monsters
King Diamond -- Best of
LCD Soundsystem -- [self-titled]
Leeches of Lore -- [self-titled]
Loggins, Kenny -- Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
Mahogany Rush -- Strange Universe
Marilyn Manson -- High End of Low
Mars Volta, the -- The Bedlam in Goliath
Mingus, Charles -- Let My Children Hear Music
Mingus, Charles -- Mingus Ah Um
Motorpsycho -- Black Hole - Blank Canvas
Motorpsycho -- Little Lucid Moments
Mudhoney -- Since We've Become Translucent
New Keepers of the Water Towers -- The Chronicles
Nilsson, Harry -- Nilsson Schmillson
Orbison, Roy -- Laminar Flow
Owl City -- Maybe I'm Dreaming
Peaches -- I Feel Cream
Pop, Iggy -- American Caesar
Pop, Iggy -- Brick by Brick
Pram -- The Museum of Imaginary Animals
Psychic Ills -- Mirror Eye
Puressence -- Only Forever
Quaye, Finley -- Maverick a Strike
Royksopp -- Melody AM
Salamander -- The Ten Commandments
Second Hand -- Death May Be Your Santa Claus
Sia -- Colour the Small One
Silverchair -- Diorama
Simple Minds -- New Gold Dream (81, 82, 83, 84)
Simple Minds -- Reel to Real Cacophony
Spacefarm -- Going Home
Spearhead -- Chocolate Supa Highway
Spearhead -- Everyone Deserves Music
Spiral Realms -- Crystal Jungles of Eos
Spiral Realms -- Solar Wind
Steely Dan -- A Decade of Steely Dan
Stereolab -- Chemical Chords
Tears for Fears -- Songs from the Big Chair
Tegan & Sara -- So Jealous
Truckfighters -- Mania
Valient Thorr -- Iimmortalizer
Van Zandt, Townes -- Live at the Old Quarter, Houston, Texas
Vibravoid -- Love Is Freedom
Vibravoid -- The Politics of Ecstasy
Vibravoid -- Void Vibration
War -- All Day Music
Warlocks, the -- The Phoenix Album
Yawning Man -- Pothead
Yawning Man -- Rock Formations
Wow, there's quite a few in there I'm embarrassed to admit that I don't already own.
Sometimes I wonder if I enjoy finding and acquiring albums more than actually listening to them. That sounds really weird now that I say it, but I think it might be true. Then again, everybody loves a treasure hunt, right? On the other hand, having music that you don't listen to is like a sin to me. I don't want to be like those people who go on shopping binges and buy tons of clothes, 90% of which they will never wear again. Though I'm kind of leaning in that direction actually. Come to think of it, deep down I kind of am a hoarder. That reminds me that one of the good things about having had to recently pack my life into the space of a medium-sized SUV and move back "home" forced me to throw away so much stuff. And you know what? It was really, really, really hard to part with that stuff at the time, but now I don't miss any of it really. Well, I sure wish I still had those hand made, custom speaker cabinets. Ugh, let's not delve into losses of the recent past right now.
Alabama Thunderpussy -- Staring at the Divine
Bauhaus -- Go Away White
Bjork, Brant -- Punk Rock Guilt
Black Moth Super Rainbow -- Dandelion Gum
Bloodhorse -- Horizoner
Breathe Carolina -- It's Classy, Not Classic
Clarke, Stanley -- School Days
Cobra Starship -- While the City Sleeps, We Rule the Streets
Coldplay -- Parachutes
Coldplay -- Rush of Blood to the Head
Crack, Carl -- Black Ark
Crystal Antlers -- Tentacles
Curious Mystery, the -- Rotting Slowly
Dead Meadow -- Old Growth
Deep Space Network -- Big Rooms
Depeche Mode - Speak & Spell
Derringer, Rick -- Best of
Dillinger -- Cornbread
Doors -- Other Voices
Dragontears -- Tambourine Freak Machine
Dream Syndicate, the -- The Days of Wine and Roses
Earth -- Earth 2
Eels -- Shootenanny!
Electroscope -- Journey to the Center of the Electroscope
Embryo -- We Keep on
Explosions in the Sky -- The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place
Farflung -- A Wound in Eternity
Farflung -- Belief Module
Flaming Lips, the -- At War with the Mystics
Flaming Lips, the -- Christmas on Mars
Flaming Lips, the -- Zaireeka [4 CD]
Flaming Lips, the -- Zaireeka [mixed]
Flogging Molly -- Swagger
Franti, Michael & Spearhead -- Yell Fire!
Frogs, the -- It's Only Right and Natural
Fugs, the -- Second Album
Hub -- [self-titled]
Illuminati -- On Borrowed Time
Jackie-O Motherfucker -- Fig. 5
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion -- Now I Got Worry
Juno Reactor -- Gods & Monsters
King Diamond -- Best of
LCD Soundsystem -- [self-titled]
Leeches of Lore -- [self-titled]
Loggins, Kenny -- Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
Mahogany Rush -- Strange Universe
Marilyn Manson -- High End of Low
Mars Volta, the -- The Bedlam in Goliath
Mingus, Charles -- Let My Children Hear Music
Mingus, Charles -- Mingus Ah Um
Motorpsycho -- Black Hole - Blank Canvas
Motorpsycho -- Little Lucid Moments
Mudhoney -- Since We've Become Translucent
New Keepers of the Water Towers -- The Chronicles
Nilsson, Harry -- Nilsson Schmillson
Orbison, Roy -- Laminar Flow
Owl City -- Maybe I'm Dreaming
Peaches -- I Feel Cream
Pop, Iggy -- American Caesar
Pop, Iggy -- Brick by Brick
Pram -- The Museum of Imaginary Animals
Psychic Ills -- Mirror Eye
Puressence -- Only Forever
Quaye, Finley -- Maverick a Strike
Royksopp -- Melody AM
Salamander -- The Ten Commandments
Second Hand -- Death May Be Your Santa Claus
Sia -- Colour the Small One
Silverchair -- Diorama
Simple Minds -- New Gold Dream (81, 82, 83, 84)
Simple Minds -- Reel to Real Cacophony
Spacefarm -- Going Home
Spearhead -- Chocolate Supa Highway
Spearhead -- Everyone Deserves Music
Spiral Realms -- Crystal Jungles of Eos
Spiral Realms -- Solar Wind
Steely Dan -- A Decade of Steely Dan
Stereolab -- Chemical Chords
Tears for Fears -- Songs from the Big Chair
Tegan & Sara -- So Jealous
Truckfighters -- Mania
Valient Thorr -- Iimmortalizer
Van Zandt, Townes -- Live at the Old Quarter, Houston, Texas
Vibravoid -- Love Is Freedom
Vibravoid -- The Politics of Ecstasy
Vibravoid -- Void Vibration
War -- All Day Music
Warlocks, the -- The Phoenix Album
Yawning Man -- Pothead
Yawning Man -- Rock Formations
Wow, there's quite a few in there I'm embarrassed to admit that I don't already own.