One Hundred Albums You Should Remove from Your Collection Immediately

[hummingwolf]

List found here. How many of these albums do you own? I don't own all that many albums, but I own a few of these.

7. The Police--Synchronicity "To enjoy Synchronicity is to consider one's self to be socially enlightened without having to dredge up any real empathy." Or perhaps it's to enjoy catchy pop songs, maybe even to wander around singing "Murder by Numbers" to anyone who complains about your owning a copy of Synchronicity. I'm just saying.

24. Nine Inch Nails--Pretty Hate Machine. I've mentioned before that three albums helped me get through the early '90s when my health started to go downhill: For entirely different reasons, Bel Canto's Birds of Passage, Peter Himmelman's From Strength to Strength, and Nine Inch Nails' Pretty Hate Machine. Boys and girls, music can save your life. That said, I'm still not sure how I feel about the fact that musesfool says "The Only Time" reminds her of me.

I do not actually own a copy of 42. The Police--Zenyatta Mondatta, but I do have to say that "Everything else is overwhelmed by the shallow ball of ego that is Sting" does not strike me as a compelling reason to toss any album. I like Sting's shallow ball of ego. I think it's fun to toss around like a big beach ball of melody. Or something like that. For the record, I've got albums by another Policeman as well--Stewart Copeland, the drummer. Too bad guitarist Andy Summers' music never thrilled me as much somehow.

I have never owned the Celine Dion album listed at 45 and hopefully never will. Got to agree with at least one thing on the list.

67. Paula Cole--This Fire
"Ah, step by grueling step through Paula's therapy sessions. She's angry! She's repressed. She's angry! She's happy. She's outraged...(see track listing for sense of closure)." Heh. I don't disagree with a word of this and will mock Paula Cole's lyrics mercilessly (are we sure she's a native speaker of English?), but I do love the music.

90. Sting--Ten Summoner's Tales
"Next he'll be doing country-western, and I ain't buyin' it." Sting actually has done country-western music, you know, but it was in 7/4 time.

Comments

[mystified13.livejournal.com]

I would reply, but I can't hear above the din of my Rice Krispies.

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

We know all your suicides are fake.

What I am guilty of:

[zoopownsyou.livejournal.com]

U2 - The Joshua Tree (hate it though)
Nirvana - Nevermind
The Beatles - Let It Be
Lou Reed - Transformer
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew (fuck whoever compiled the list)
Oasis - What's the Story, Morning Glory?
Pearl Jam - Vs.
Death Cab for Cutie - Something About Airplanes
Beck - Midnite Vultures
The Who - Tommy
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
White Stripes - White Blood Cells
Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
Wilco - Being There
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Radiohead - I Might be Wrong: Live Recordings/Built To Spill - Live
Mogwai - Come On Die Young
Ben Folds Five - Whatever and Ever, Amen
Green Day - Dookie
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Counting Crows - August and Everything After
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band
R.E.M. - Out of Time
Bob Marley & the Wailers - Legend
Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
The Roots - Things Fall Apart
Beastie Boys - Check Your Head/Ill Communication
The Doors - The Best of the Doors
The Wu Tang Clan - The W

I'm going to hell I guess. Not only I own these, but I think some of them are damn great albums.

Re: What I am guilty of:

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Heh. I never really agree with lists like this. They do provide some amusement though.

Most of your list doesn't surprise me, but Smashing Pumpkins? Eurgh.

It's okay. We still think you're cool.

Re: What I am guilty of:

[zoopownsyou.livejournal.com]

Most of your list doesn't surprise me, but Smashing Pumpkins? Eurgh.

Bought the album went it came out, went to see a show, but I was never a huge fan to start with.

It's okay. We still think you're cool.

That's because I am!

Oh might be the perfect day to start working on those CDs.

[sophy.livejournal.com]

I own six of the listed and wouldn't dream of getting rid of any of them. heh

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

I'm with you! Maybe the listmaker wants you to get rid of them so they'll be easier to find at the used CD store.

[dcjensen.livejournal.com]

What a pretentious asshole the lister is.

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Sure. But do you think you could make a list of albums people should throw away without sounding pretentious yourself? Seems like the lister took about the right tone for a humor piece.

[madralaoi.livejournal.com]

*lol*

Well, different tastes I guess. ;)
Personally, I LOVE Sting so I'm not listening to anything this person says. You diss Sting, I diss you.
*feels slightly teenagey by using the word diss*

;)

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

It's okay, you're allowed to feel like a teenager when you're talking about Sting. :-)

By the way...

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

This tarot deck has a Nik Kershaw card.

Re: By the way...

[madralaoi.livejournal.com]

OMG!!!! *dies*

[icefacade.livejournal.com]

Looking through that list, I have to question whether the writer was really working on a musically comparitive spin or if these are all cd's the last girlfriend that dumped him had in the book she left in his car. I'm guessing the latter.

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... you may have a point there. My guess would have been more along the lines of him wanting to see how many people he could piss off with a single list.

[icefacade.livejournal.com]

Well, I mean, he lost all credibility when he compared Nirvana's Nevermind to a Pixie ripoff. Hellooooo Nirvana and the Pixies sound nothing alike. Anyone who listens to both on a daily basis (which I do) knows that. So...all I could see was him trying to gain credence by attempting to snob what most lovers consider quality entertainment of some form or the other.

[rialian.livejournal.com]

===I will have to look at the list sometime...but I had to comment...

===Bel Canto!!!! YAY! (grins) One of my all-time favorites.

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Anneli Drecker has one of the most wondrous voices ever. And of course the songs are excellent too!

[bunney.livejournal.com]

Who are these assholes that want to tell me what I can or cannot listen to?

::beats rude assholes with a shovel::

Here's what I own off their list...

Nirvana - Nevermind
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
Pulp Fiction soundtrack
No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom
Sarah MacLachlan - Fumbling Towards Ecstasy AND Surfacing
Offspring - Smash
The Cult - Electric
Pink - Mizundastood
Madonna - The Immaculate Collection

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Wow, on second thought, the asshole who put this list together is a genius.

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Heh.

At least you don't have Celine Dion. ::shudder::