CDs I own

Artist	Title	Comments
...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead	Source Tags and Codes	I got this one during my emo phase. I liked the single and the name of the band (I love bands with weird names), but the rest didn't impress me.
10,000 Maniacs	In My Tribe	One of my oldest cds. I remember listening to it on tape back in high school while watering my neighbor's garden while they were on vacation. In addition to tomatoes and cucumbers, they also grew marijuana in their garden, which I thought was weird.
	The Wishing Chair	Bought this on the strength of In My Tribe. Didn't like it as much, but still not bad.
14 Iced Bears	Let the Breeze Open Our Hearts	I heard that these guys were the fathers of shoegazer music, so I bought the cd when I was rabid about My Bloody Valentine. I was totally unimpressed.
6ths	Hyacinths & Thistles	Bought this on the strength of Wasp's Nests. Sucks.
	Wasp's Nests	A great cd, In someways better than the regular Magnetic Fields cds.
65daysofstatic	The Destruction of Small Ideas	A post-rock band similar to Mogwai. For some reason they opened for The Cure on a tour once.
	One Time for All Time
777	777	I liked the single about fishermen. Never really listened to the rest of it. By the time I got this cd, I was out of my electronica phase.
808 State	808 Utd. State 90	I got this way before electronica became popular, back then it was still considered part of the Manchester, Stone Roses scene.
	Ex:El
A Perfect Circle	Mer de Noms	I liked the single, and the vocals, and the cool videos that Tool made.
A Silver Mt. Zion	Born Into Trouble	Better than their other cd, because they have more people involved.
	He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace The Corners of Our Rooms	I got this because it's 3 members of Godspeed You Black Emperor, which is a kick-ass band. But with only 3 people and not 9, it seems a little sparse compared to the full band.
	Horses in the Sky
	"This Is Our Punk-Rock," Thee Rusted Satellites Gather + Sing
A Split Second	From the Inside	Surprisingly the first cd I ever bought. Don't know what I was thinking.
AFX	Analogue Bubble Bath	I love early Aphex Twin, and this is even earlier stuff from the same guy.
Aislers Set	How I Learned to Write Backwards
	The Last Match	Someone on the internet told me that these guys sounded like Belle & Sebastian. And they do. And that's a very good thing.
Alison's Halo	Eyedazzler	Part of my shoegazer phase. Not great, but better than nothing. I bought this mail order off their site and the guitarist was the one who packaged the cd. I like that level of intimacy with my music.
American Analogue Set	Know By Heart	One of the cool things about iTunes on the mac is that when you are in a public place, it'll find other people with iTunes in the area and allow you to listen to their songs on your computer. That's where I first listened to this cd.
AMP	Astralmoonbeamprojections	My first AMP cd. I bought it because they were related to Flying Saucer Attack
	Heart & Soul Dissolves	I'll admit it, most AMP cds sound the same, it's hard to tell them apart. I probably don't need all of them.
	Perception (2-cd)	Probably my fav AMP cd.
	Sirenes
	Stenorette
	Syzygy
	Unconscious Country
Aphex Twin	Selected Ambient Works 85-92	Simply the best electronica cd ever made. When I was in Berkeley some raver friends turned me on to these guys.
	Selected Ambient Work Vol 2 (2-cd)	Aphex Twin is so ahead of it's time that they fell out of electronica into complete discordant cacaphony. I saw him play a concert in DC once and no one knew how to listen to the music or if they should be dancing or anything. It was very strange.
Appliance	Imperial Metric	Saw their video on Subterranean. Got over it pretty quick.
Aqualite	Aquaplant	Decent electronica.
	Night Before Launch	Haven't listened to it as much as the other one.
The Ascent of Everest	How Lonely Sits the City	This post-rock band only made 1000 copies of this cd. I have copy #388.
Atari Teenage Riot	Burn, Berlin, Burn	I hated these guys when I first heard them, but they grew on me. To sample Nirvana into a tape-looped, neo-punk, electronic scream fest was quite cutting edge. Plus I liked their politics. Too bad the one guy died.
	Redefine the Enemy	This is just like live stuff and b-sides. Not that great.
The Autumns	In The Russet Gold of of This Vain Hour	Another band I was told was shoegazer, but didn't really impress me.
The Avalanches	Since I Left You	Loved the video for Frontier Psychiatrist.
Banco de Gaia	Big Men Cry	I have the same statue that graces the cover of this cd.
	Igizeh	I bought this more to complete the set than anything else, but it turned out to be pretty good.
	Last Train the Lhasa (2-cd)	My first cd from them. I can't remember how I heard about them.
	Maya
	The Magical Sounds of Banco de Gaia	My least liked Banco de Gaia cd.
Band of Bees	Sunshine Hit Me	I tried to like this cd, but so far I haven't been able to.
Basement Jaxx	Remedy	This band was supposed to be the future of electronica, but I hated this cd. Perhaps I was just getting over my electronica phase when I heard it.
Bauhaus	1979-83	I bought this to get Bela Legosi Is Dead.
	Burning From the Inside	I had a copy of this on tape freshman year with Sisters of Mercy on the other side. I listened to it a lot. I even had my sister make me a Bauhaus t-shirt. My appreciation for them has gone down a lot since then though.
	Press the Eject and Give Me the Tape	I actually have this on vinyl. I never listened to it because I don't have a record player. I like the cover photo though.
	Swing the Heartache	I bought this cd to get the Ziggy Stardust cover.
Bedhead	What Fun Life Was	I saw these guys open a concert for somebody and liked it so much that I bought the cd.
Belle & Sebastian	3..6..9.. Seconds of Light (ep)	Probably song-for-song the best B&S cd.
	Black Sessions (bootleg)	This is a live recording of some French tv show. Good quality, but my French is so bad I still can't understand what the presenter is saying.
	Dear Catastrophe Waitress	I hated this cd for a while, but I've grown to appreciate it a bit.
	Dog On Wheels (ep)	Another great B&S ep.
	Fold You Hands Child You Walk Like a Peasant	Until Dear Catastrophe Waitress came out, I liked this B&S lp the least.
	I'm Waking Up to Us (ep)	Not their best work.
	If You're Feeling Sinister	One of the top 10 cds of all time. I spent about a year in a complete B&S frenzy after being exposed to this cd. To get anyone addicted to B&S, just tie them up and make them listen to Judy and the Dream of Horses 3 times in a row.
	Johnathan David (ep)	The single makes me think about my ex-girlfriend who is now married to one of my ex-best friends. I suppose I'm happy for them in the end.
	Lazy Line Painter Jane (ep)	I don't like the title track from this cd. Sorry.
	Legal Man (ep)	Not great, but still way better than most of the crap you listen to.
	Peel Sessions (bootleg)	This has the last songs Isobel worked on. I haven't seen a lot of these tunes elsewhere. I was expecting them all to be on Dear Catastrophic Waitress, but they weren't.
	Storytelling	It isn't really a B&S cd. I hate soundtracks in general.
	The Bowlie Weekender (bootleg)	Live. It's too bad Stuart messed up the lyrics on my fav B&S song.
	The Boy with the Arab Strap	Decent, but not as good a Sinister.
	The Life Pursuit
	This is Just a Modern Lovesong (ep)	I bought this in NYC once and we listened to it on the way back, laughing hysterically at the lyric, "We're four boys in corduroys, We're not terrific but we're competent."
	Tigermilk	When I was in Amsterdam, I needed gloves and I bought them in a C&A just because they mention the store in one of their songs. How fanboy is that!
Belly	Star	These guys were big on the 120 Minutes circuit. the single was ok, but I don't remember anything else from the cd.
Bentley Rhythm Ace	Bentley Rhythm Ace	Very catchy single. Plus, it's the guy from Pop Will Eat Itself!
Beth Orton	Central Reservation	I first heard her when she sang on the Chemical Brothers cd. Then I saw the single on MTV. I bought it in the used bin for like $5 one day in Maryland.
Bethany Curve	Gold	More shoegazer that failed to impress me.
Billy Bragg	Don't Try This at Home
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club	B.R.M.C.	I liked the single, even though it's totally obvious that this band wants to be Jesus & Mary Chain. I didn't like the rest of the cd.
Black Tape for a Blue Girl	The Rope	I saw ads for this in the back of mags for years, way before Projekt was an established label. I bought it during a goth phase because I like bands with weird names. It was a little under-produced. Their later stuff was better.
Blake Babies	Sunburn	Juliana Hatfield's band before she went solo.
Blind Mr. Jones	Stereo Musicale	People on a shoegazer newsgroup told me that this band was great. I d/led 4 songs off Napster and they were all fantastic. However, this cd (their ONLY cd) has none of those 4 songs on it. sigh.
Boards of Canada	Music Has the Right to Children	electronic pastoral. I older I get the further I retreat from what most people call 'music'. I liked this cd a lot when I first bought it, but now, not so much.
Book of Love	Book of Love	I bought this one by mistake. I was trying to get "Pretty Boys and Pretty Girls", but that song isn't on this cd.
The Breeders	Pod	I'm a big Pixies fan. This isn't as good as the Pixies. But It was ok.
Brendan Perry	Eye of the Hunter	I liked his parts of Dead Can Dance, but I never got into his solo album. Maybe it was because I bought it way after I was out of my Dead Can Dance phase.
Broken Social Scene	Bee Hives	I like this one, but not as much as their other one.
	Broken Social Scene
	Feel Good Lost	Their weakest cd.
	You Forgot It in People	Someone on the internet told me I should listen to this, and that the more I listened, the more I'd like it, and they were right.
Buffalo Tom	Let Me Come Over	Another cd I bought because I wanted a specific song (Sunflower Suit), and I couldn't find the cd with that song on it. I should stop doing that, I'm always disappointed with the results. I bought this cd way before Napster came out.
Camera Obscura	Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi	Not as good as their other one.
	Let's Get Out of This Country	They sing a song here called, "Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken", which is a response to an old Lloyd Cole song ("Are You Ready to be Heartbroken") that's almost 20 years old and was pretty obscure a that.
	Underachievers Please try Harder	I'm sure they'd hate to hear it, but I bought this cd solely because they are a Belle & Sebastian protegee band. I like the songs that are B&S-like, and not the songs that aren't.
Candy Flip	Madstock	Manchester-raver version of Strawberry Fields Forever.
The Charlatans	Some Friendly	Part of my Manchester phase. It's too bad that style of music died out (or mutated into Oasis).
Charlie Parker	Charlie Parker Plays It Cool	I like bee-bop. I play this cd in the background when people come to visit (or at least I would if I ever had visitors.
	The Essential Charlie Parker	I know its probably heresy, but I can't tell most bee-bop jazz from one another, so I can't say anything specific about this cd vs my other Charlie Parker cd.
Chemical Brothers	Brother's Gonna Work It Out	It's just an extended dance mix. They spin the Jimmy Castor Bunch. If I had a band, I'd want it to be a 'Bunch', or maybe and 'Experience'
	Dig Your Own Hole	This was when they started to get popular.
	Exit Planet Dust	From the cover, I thought this band was some stoner rock band. I first listened to this one morning at a girl's house after she had left for work but while I was too lazy to get out of bed to put on another cd. It was my first experience with breakbeat, and I was immediately hooked.
	Surrender	I hate underground bands once they get popular.
Chicane	Behind the Sun
Clannad	Anam	I bought this because I'd hoped they'd sound like the Cocteau Twins. They sound like the Cocteau Twins would sound if they'd have sucked.
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah	Clap Your Hands Say Yeah	I'm a sucker for any band with a non-traditional name.
Clay People	The Clay People	Someone told me this band sounded just like some other band I liked, but they totally don't. They don't to such a degree that I can't even think of what band they could be construed to sound like. It's just crappy grungy-metal.
Clinic	Internal Wrangler	Any band that wear surgical masks in concerts and sings songs like 'Distortions' is cool. Any band that puts out singles like 'Distortions' and has cds filled with crap that sounds like a different band made it is uncool.
Close Lobsters	Foxheads Stalk This Land
	Headache Rhetoric	Bought this one because I couldn't find the one with 'Just Too Bloody Stupid' on it. When will I learn that's never a good idea!
Clutch	Clutch
	Transnational Speedway League	My uber-cool Oakland roommate with the tattoos and ritual scarring loved this band, and I bought the cd because I wanted him to think I was cool too. After I moved out of Oakland I really never listened to it.
Cocteau Twins	Aikea-Guinea (ep)	If you can't tell, I've got the ep boxed set.
	Blue Bell Knoll	One of the best cds of all time! This is what the soundtrack to heaven must be like.
	Echoes In a Shallow Bay (ep)	If you can't tell, I've got the ep boxed set.
	Garlands
	Head Over Heels
	Heaven of Las Vegas
	Iceblink Luck (single)	If you can't tell, I've got the ep boxed set.
	Love's Easy Tears (ep)	My uncle actually had this cd way before I ever heard of the Cocteau Twins. He was a hipster way back in the '70s.
	Lullabies (ep)	If you can't tell, I've got the ep boxed set.
	Pepperment Pig (ep)	If you can't tell, I've got the ep boxed set.
	Rare Tracks (ep)	If you can't tell, I've got the ep boxed set.
	Sunburst and Snowblind (ep)
	The Moon and the Melodies	This is technically a 'Moon and the Melodies' cd, but the band members are all the same as in the Cocteau Twins, and it sounds the same, so I'm listing it here.
	The Pink Opaque
	The Spangle Maker (ep)	If you can't tell, I've got the ep boxed set.
	Tiny Dynamite (ep)	If you can't tell, I've got the ep boxed set.
	Treasure	If I ever have 10 kids, I'm going to name them after the songs on this cd.
	Victorialand	I remember being an undergrad, lying on the floor of a friend's room after doing a lot of drinking. He had put this cd on and we were watching the fan blow the tie-dye sheet he had taped to the ceiling and just chillin'. When the music kicks in after like 5 minutes of being very quiet (if you have the cd you know what I mean), it scared the crap out of me.
Coldplay	Parachutes	I had hoped that this was the second-coming of shoegazer. Unfortunately it became too popular, and as soon as a band becomes popular, they begin to seriously suck (see REM and U2).
The Connells	Darker Days	The title track is one of my favorite songs. The rst of the cd isn't that great though.
Controlled Bleeding	Golgotha	Very depressing dark ambient cd I never really listened too. Once, during a party, this dorky philosophy major no one invited was so impressed that I had the cd that he turned off my dance mix and put it on, despite the fact it isn't in any way party music. What a jerk.
Cornelius	Remixes	Nowhere near as good as his other cd.
	Fantasma	I saw this guy open for somebody and was so impressed I had to but the cd immediately. He played a theremin with an electric guitar neck! What was even more impressive was that his sequencer broke and he reprogrammed his entire set from memory in like 5 minutes. Unfortunately, his music gets more annoying with each listen.
Counting Crows	August & Everything After	I bought this in Berkeley, and it's one of the few cds that I had that became popular and I continued to like it. I can even play most of the songs on cd.
	Recovering the Satellites	I only really listened to the single.
Cranes	Forever	I love the lead singer's voice.
	Self-Non-Self	Bought this rare cd way way after I was out of my ethereal phase. I've never listened to it.
	Wings of Joy	They played a concert in San Francisco just after I moved there. I dragged to raver friends along with me and I don't think they liked it very much.
The Crystal Method	Vegas	Bought during my breakbeat phase.
The Cure	Disintegration
	Staring at the Sea	One of the first cds I ever had. I got it way back in high school when existentialism and Camus still seemed really cool.
	Wish	I bought this because the song 'High' reminded me of an ex.
Daft Punk	Homework	Bought during my breakbeat phase. I think the video for 'Around the World' is fantastic though.
Darkside	All That Noise	This is the bass player from Spacemen 3. It is a great cd actually.
	Mayhem to Meditate (ep)	Just an ep. Not as good as their other ones.
	Melomania	This is pretty rare actually, and I didn't know it existed for a long time. But it's really worth seeking out.
Darren Hanlon	Hello Stranger	Saw this guy open for The Magnetic Fields. He's from Australia and sings mildly funny acoustic songs.
The Darling Buds	Crawdaddy	Pop band I bought after seeing the video on 120 Minutes. My best friend from high school had a massive crush on the lead singer, but then again he had a crush on a lot of people.
Dashboard Confessional	The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most	The problem with singing songs about loneliness and heartbreak is that once you become popular, you get riches, groupies, and attention, and you lose the ability to convincingly write songs about getting dumped and sleeping alone.
	The Swiss Army Romance	Ok, I'll admit it, Dashboard Confessional's lyrics are fantastic. I really like them. Despite the fact that they are 'emo' and despite the fact that the lead singer whines and mopes constantly despite being a good looking guy in a band (and therefore probably mobbed by hotties).
David and the Citizens	Until the Sadness is Gone	Technically, they are all citizens of Sweden.
Dead Can Dance	Aion	Very old skool! In fact, most of the songs on this cd were first written in the middle ages.
	Dead Can Dance	More punk/goth than their later works, but I like this cd a lot.
	Into the Labyrinth	In my opinion, the pinnacle of DCD before they got into that 'world music' crap.
	Spirit Chaser	That 'world music' crap.
	Spleen and Ideal
	The Serpent's Egg
	Toward the Within	I think this is a live album. I just bought it to complete the set.
	Within the Realm of a Dying Sun	My first DCD cd. I bought it way back when they were all mysterious. I hadn't heard them, but I'd heard that they were like the Cocteau Twins, and they had a cool name.
Dead Kennedys	Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables	I first heard this cd in 7th grade from some protopunk kid that claimed he smoked marijuana. I originally liked it because they swore a lot, but looking back on it now, I agree with a lot of their politics and frustration with the US.
	Plastic Surgery Disasters	I wanted to like this, I bought it because I really like their other cd, and I love Lard, but it was disappointing.
	In God We Trust Inc.	Ditto Plastic Surgery Disasters
The Dears	End of a Hollywood Bedtime Story	I met a girl in a Belle & Sebastian chat room when I was obsessed with B&S and she claimed to know of a lot of bands that were similar. This was one of the ones she recommended. It's pretty crappy and doesn't sound at all like B&S.
Death Cab for Cutie	Forbidden Love (ep)	I generally don't like eps, but this one is worth it.
	Plans
	Something About Airplanes	I first d/led 'Bend to Squares' back when I was first getting into my emo phase. By DCfC is NOT emo at all. They are however, really damn good.
	The Photo Album	I was worried that this cd would make them popular (and therefore sucky), but thankfully that didn't happen. I even like the single though they plaed it on MTV a lot.
	Stability (ep)	Only three songs, and they are all pretty weak.
	Transatlanticism	One of these songs was playing in the background in a commercial for the NFL. I found that strange, since most football fans would think DCfC were kinda whiney.
	We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes
	You Can Play These Songs with Chords
Death In Vegas	Dead Elvis	Breakbeat. Got over it pretty quick. Hated the video
The Decemberists	5 Songs (ep)	The best part of this ep is the fact that it actually contains 6 songs.
	Castaways and Cutouts	This album is similar to the Smiths in that the lyrics are quite disturbing, but you'd never know because the music is poppy. Reminds me or Robyn Hitchcock.
	The Crane Wife	This album marked a switch from a English, Victorian sea-shanty feel to a more American Civil-War era feel.
	Her Majesty the Decemberists	I heard the lead singer does coke on stage during concerts, but I'm not sure that was true. This isn't as good as their 1st cd, but it's still pretty good.
	Picaresque	I was worried when I first heard this cd that they'd begun the decent into sucking because it seemed more over-produced than their previous efforts. But in retrospect it was still a damn fine album.
	The Tain (ep)	One long 18 minute song.
Depeche Mode	Music for the Masses	Way back in 1988, I had this cd listed as one of the Top 10 cds ever made!
	Depeche Mode 101 (2-cd)	Never listened to it. I hate live cds. I only got it because I signed up for one of those cd clubs and needed to make a selection.
Dif Juz	Extractions	Fantastic guitar music. I bet you've never heard of them though. But if you like 4AD, and don't require lyrics, you can't go wrong with this cd.
	Soundpool	Easier to find than Extractions, but not as good.
Dinosaur Jr.	Bug	mmmm grungy!
Dntel	Something Always Goes Wrong	More electronic pastoral. I had this way before I ever even heard of The Postal Service. Bet you can't say the same...
Do Make Say Think	Do Make Say Think
	Goodbye Enemy Airship The Landlord is Dead	Bought while I was obsessed with Godspeed You Black Emperor. Unfortunately you can't sound like GYBE with just a 4-piece band.
	and yet and yet	I saw these guys in concert in Arlington VA once and the guy next to me asked me to settle a bet with his girlfriend as to whether the guitar player did or did not look exactly like the guy from the old tv show Simon & Simon. He did. This cd is best one.
	Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn
	You, You're a History in Rust
Dodecahedron	Vacuum	I got this cd off mp3.com while they were still around. That was a cool site. You could upload your band's music and a cover image, and people could listen to, comment on, and buy your cds. That should have been the future of music retail. oh, and this electronica cd is pretty good for being recorded in some kid's basement.
Early Day Miners	Offshore
Echo & the Bunnymen	Echo & the Bunnymen	Another cd that was one of my Ten Best of All Time way back in 1988. Still better than Depeche Mode.
	Reverberation	This was the one they made without Ian McCulloch, so most fans shun it. But they shouldn't. It's as good as the rest of their catalog.
	Songs to Learn and Sing	It was easier buying the Best Of than having to buy all their other cds. I never liked them enough to get obsessive over them.
Editors	The Back Room	These guys are a direct copy of Interpol, but that's ok because interpol is a direct copy of Joy Division
	An End Has a Start
Eisley	Room Noises	I always find it annoying when you like a single and so you buy the album and find that the album has a much different version of the song than the single you heard on the radio. Plus, these kids are like 14 years old.
El Ten Eleven	El Ten Eleven	There was this great web site called Pandora where you could just type in the name of a band you liked and they'd invent a radio station that played similar music. This band appeared when I asked for things similar to Explosions in the Sky
Electric President	s/t	These guys sound like The Postal Service. Their name makes me think of a robot that looks just like Abraham Lincoln that fights crime!
Elf Power	A Dream in Sound	Everybody likes the single 'Jane'. The rest of the cd is unimpressive.
Empiron	Advanced Technology	This electronica band thanks their Moms in the liner note. That's never cool.
Enya	Shepherd Moons	Sort of like a pop Cocteau Twins. It's not horrible, but it makes me feel like a loser to even mention I own it.
Esmirine	Aurora	This is a subset of members from Godspeed You Black Emperor! The subset who doesn't play guitars.
	If Only A Sweet Surrender To The Nights To Come Be True
Experimental Audio Research	Beyond the Pale	Sonic Boom's new band after Spacemen 3 broke up. Unfortunately, he's now done so many drugs that this cd is completely incomprehensible. See Spiritualized instead.
Explosions in the Sky	All of a Sudden I miss Everyone (2 cd)	I had to have the limited edition with the bonus remix disc. Amazon couldn't get it for me, so I had to order it from some guy in Germany.
	Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place	A lot of post-rock people think that EitS isn't real post rock, and they are worried that it'll dilute the purity of post-rock by attracting emo kids. Those people are wrong, EitS rocks.
	How Strange Innocence	This is their 1st cd, which isn't as polished as their later work.
	Those Who Tell the Truth with Die, Those Who Tell the Truth will Live Forever	Bought while I was obsessed with Godspeed You Black Emperor. They have a cool name and aren't bad. Unfortunately you can't sound like GYBE with just a 4-piece band.
Faithless	Outrospective	I buy every Faithless cd for the single. I really should just wait for their Best Of.
	No Roots
	Reverence	I remember seeing 'Insomnia' on French MTV when I was in Paris, and I thought that the French must be much cooler than the Americans, who filled their MTV with crap like N'Sync.
	Sunday 8pm
The Farm	Spartacus	I bought this in a used cd store for a buck way, way after the Manchester scene ended. Should've saved my money.
Fatboy Slim	Better Living Through Chemistry	I saw him 'play' live at a club in DC a few years ago.
	You've Come a Long Way Baby	Breakbeat was a short-term fad, but Fatboy Slim was really good at it. It's also cool how he was the bassist for The Housemartins.
The Fauves	The Scissors Within (ep)	How geeky is this: I bought this cd because a character in my fav comic book (Doom Patrol) had a Fauves poster on his wall.
The Feelies	Only Life	I love the title track and the Velvet Underground cover, the rest of this cd is forgettable. Except for the fact that is was recorded in Boonton NJ, where I lived for a while as a kid.
Felt	Forever Breathes the Lonely Word	the first two songs are ok. I really can't deal with that organ though. Unless you are The Doors, you don't need an organ.
	Strange Idol Patterns	I know that Felt is considered one of the most influential bands of the 80s, but I just never got into them. Sorry.
	Ignite the Seven Cannons
Field Mice	Coastal	When I was in engineering-geek college, I used to love coming home because my friend would collect all these cool songs he found at his liberal-arts hipster college and make me compilation tapes. He put the song "If You Need Someone" on one tape. I found this cd in the store a few months later. I had no idea that it was really hard to come by in the US.
	For Keeps	You could tell that this band was going to break up. Instead of songs about love, these were songs about problems.
Fields of the Nephilim	Dawnrazor	What trend was stranger than cowboy goth? I liked the single, but could never find the cd, until my girlfriend went to England and found it. I was really impressed because I hadn't mentioned it in months, but she still remembered I wanted it.
Fluke	Atom Bomb (single)	I loved this single, and the video too. Maybe I just go for purple pigtails. I even bought the video game that this song was featured in. Never felt the need to buy any more Fluke cds though.
Fly Pan Am	Ceux qui inventent	More post-rock, but tith a bit of a dance beat.
Flying Saucer Attack	Chorus	Probably my second fav FSA cd.
	Distance	I wish I could find one person besides me who is in love with FSA. They've got all these cds, somebody must be buying them.
	Distant Station (ep)
	Flying Saucer Attack	I was in Amoeba Records in Berkeley (the best damn record store on the planet!), and they were playing this cd and it so grabbed me that I had to run up to the counter and buy it immediately. Holy crap, there's even a Suede cover.
	Further	FSA is best listened to at full volume in a dark room after taking a lot of drugs.
	Mirror	Too electronica. I didn't like the direction FSA was going. I read on their web site that he went off his meds and couldn't make music anymore. That's a shame.
	New Lands
	Roy Montgomery (ep)
	Sally Free and Easy (ep)	I wonder what Marianne Faithful would think of this one.
From Monuments to Masses	The Impossible Leap in One Hundred Simple Steps	San Francisco post-rock.
Frontline Assembly	Tactical Neural Implant	I got this at the end of my industrial phase. I'm not sure I ever listened to it.
Fugazi	13 Songs	I saw Fugazi play in Bennington Vermont way back in 1992. The only thing I remember about it was that there were a lot of lesbians in the audience, but I think that's a Bennington thing, not a Fugazi thing.
Further Seems Forever	The Moon is Down	Not as good as Dashboard Confessional.
The Future Sound of London	Accelerator
Galaxie 500	Selected Galaxy 500	I bought this in a used cd store to get their cover of 'Ceremony'. Joy Division never recorded a proper version, and the New Order version is too synth-pop. This is the closest to the original vision I think.
	This is Our Music	I kept trying to like this cd, but it never really made an impact on me.
Genitorturers	120 Day of Genitorture	For a very short time back in 1995, I used to ride my motorcycle to underground clubs in San Francisco wearing latex pants and knee high jack boots. Mostly because my cool roommate with the tattoos was going. This cd was our theme music.
Gentle Waves	Green Fields of Foreverland	People kept telling me to get a Belle & Sebastian cd. So one day I was at Ameoba Records in Berkeley and I bought one in their used bin. Amoeba often puts spin off bands in with the main bands, so I accidentally bought this Gentle Waves cd instead of a B&S cd. Although it was pretty good, and I didn't get around to listening to a B&S cd for several years. What a waste of several years of listening time!
	Swansong for You	I didn't like this as much as the first one. Probably because there was less B&S influence.
The Get Up Kids	Four Minute Mile	I don't know why emo is such a bad word. It's like no one who is emo will admit to being emo. I've never seen that before with any other trend.
Gin Blossoms	New Miserable Experience	one of those cds that sounded good way back in the 80s, but pretty much sucks now. Yet for some reason lots of people still have it.
The Glove	Blue Sunshine	A friend of mine bought this cd in a used cd store in Albany. I borrowed it and thought it kicked ass. But the cd store never got another copy in for me to buy. But then that jerk of a friend of mine stole my girlfriend, so I decided to keep his cd as payback. ha!
Godspeed You Black Emperor!	Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven	Conceptually, I love GYBE. I love the titles of their songs, I love their packaging, I love their political stance, I love their noncomeercialism. The music can be hard to get into though.
	Yanqui U.X.O.	GYBE is best listened to as background music while you are doing something else. Then let it creep up on you getting louder and louder and more and more intense until it completely takes you over.
	F#A# Infinity	There was this girl at work that asked me what I was listening to. I told her I liked music that as way to inaccessible for most people. She dared me to give her a cd to listen to so she could challenge my preconceived notions of accessibility. I gave her this one. She never asked me for another cd again.
	Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada	For a long time, every time I listened to a cd that wasn't GYBE, I thought to myself, "this isn't as good as GYBE". The only problem with GYBE is that they run their cd tracks together so you can't separate a song out for a mix tape.
Hallucinogen	Twisted	More goa trance.
Head|Phone|Over|Tone	Anomalicon	Like Dodecehedron, I got this cd off mp3.com They claimed to be shoegazer, but they were way more FSA-style space rock. It's pretty good, although the band name is quite odd.
His Name is Alive	Ft. Lake	The collapse of one of my favorite bands.
	Home is In Your Head	This is the only cd I've ever listened to that actually scared me. I think a horror movie should use this as it's soundtrack.
	Livonia
	Mouth By Mouth	One of the best cds of all time! It's catchy enough to be accessible, but still very disturbing.
	Stars on E.S.P.	The beginning of the end. I loved the disturbing, scary, Karen Oliver HNIA, not the bluesy gospel choir HNIA.
Hood	Cabled Linear Traction
	Home Is Where It Hurts (ep)	I was in a cd store in Berkeley one day and the cashier recommended Hood as a Spacemen 3 sounding band. He was totally wrong, but this cd is still pretty good.
Hoodoo Gurus	Magna Cum Louder	More crap I bought because they played it on 120 Minutes all the freaking time. At least I got it used and cheap.
The Hope Blister	...Smile's OK	The new version of This Mortal Coil.
Hope of the States	The Lost Riots	Major label post-rock.
Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions	At The Doorway Again (ep)	For some reason, the songs on this ep were d/led more often than any other song in my mp3 collection on Napster. By like a factor of 10 over the next most popular d/l.
	Bavarian Fruit Bread	Never really listened to it. I only bought it because it's got the former drummer of My Bloody Valentine.
The House of Love	The House of Love	One of my fav songs is their b-side "Christine", which is completely out of print. That sing is not on this cd.
hrsta	L'eclat du Ciel Etait	Another post-rock GYBE spinoff.
	Stem Stem in Electro	Actually, a Mike Moya solo project, but he was in GYBE
	Ghosts Will Come and Kiss our Eyes
Hypnolovewheel	Space Mountain	This cd came out in the mid-80s. Then nothing for like 15 years. Then around 2000 I saw them open for Yo La Tengo. They were pretty good.
I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness	Fear is On Our Side	I bought this cd based solely on the strength of their name. C'mon wouldn't you?
Ian McCulloch	Candleland	One day I was missing Echo & the Bunnymen.
	Mysterio	Got this used for a buck.
ICU	Chotto Matte a Moment	This band opened for Cornelius the night they were opening for somebody else. In both cases, I had to rush over to the t-shirt stand and buy their cds because they were so amazing. After I got home, I listed to this cd again and wasn't impressed. Maybe they are just a good live band.
In The Nursery	Duality	Strange combination of classical orchestra and industrial music. This is what you'd get if Ministry lived in the 16th century.
	Koda	When I hear this band, I imagine an army of knights attacking on horseback.
The Innocence Mission	Glow	I liked 'Black Sheep Wall' but never bought that cd. Years later my girlfriend played their song, "Speak Our Minds" off this cd, and I was so enchanted I had to buy it. Later I saw them in concert, but they didn't play "Speak Our Minds".
Insides	Euphoria	At the time, I was buying any cd that was from 4AD.
Inspiral Carpets	Life	More of my Manchester phase.
Interpol	Antics	I ordered this straight from the lable, but I think I checked the wrong box because they sent me the LP not the CD. So I just downloaded all the songs off the internet into my iPod and called it even.
	Our Love to Admire
	Turn on the Bright Lights	I really like this cd a lot. It's very Joy Division-ish. I remember driving through the New Mexico desert listening to this on my iPod, wondering if it was legal to drive with headphones on.
Ivy	Realistic	A guy I knew at Berkeley was fascinated by Ivy, although I really just liked the single. One of my punk rock roommates in Oakland mixed them up with Operation Ivy and thought I was cool, until he listened to the cd.
Jack Drag	Dope Box	First heard these guys on Much Music (Canada's answer to MTV). I only liked the single though.
Jakob	Solace	For some reason, a lot of good post-rock bands come out of New Zealand these days.
Jane's Addiction	Ritual de lo Habitual	One of those cds that I bought, liked, and got over, and then it became popular, forcing me to hear it again and again and again after I was already tired of the thing.
Jem	Finally Woken
Jenny Bliss	See You Again (ep)
Jessamine	Don't Stay Too Long	I found this in a SoHo cd store listed as being Spacemen 3 sounding. It isn't really. I think they just recorded a cd with Sonic Boom once under the name 'Spectrum'. I like it though, although I'm a bit tired of it.
	Jessamine	I bought this because it seemed rare, even though I was already tired of the band.
	The Long Arm of Coincidence	ditto
The Jesus & Mary Chain	Automatic	I like JaMC, but usually only a few songs per album.
	Barbed Wire Kisses	Just b-sides.
	Darklands	I borrowed this on lp from my friend in high school and my Mom got all worried because she thought I was listening to religious music.
	Honey's Dead	I like to play 'Reverence' for my Christian friends.
	Psychocandy	Probably the best JaMC cd, but mostly because I like all that feedback.
Jesus Jones	Liquidizer	I had this cd a long time before it came out in the US and got overplayed. Until I saw the video though I always thought Mr. Jones was black.
John Coltrane	Blue Train	Someone at work saw I had a John Coltrane cd and said that this was his best one.
	Priceless Jazz Collection
	The Very Best of John Coltrane
John Williams	Spanish Guitar Music	I really wish I knew hoe to play solo Spanish guitar. I'd be fantastic to play at parties or just sitting on the front porch. It's really, really hard though.
John Zorn	Naked City	My high school friend went through a John Zorn phase. There is a cover song on this cd that I remember liking, but it's really too experimental for my tastes.
Joy Division	Closer	"24 Hours" was the first song I learned to play on the guitar exactly the way they play it on the recording. I suppose that says something about the complexity of their music.
	Preston 28 Feb 1980	I hate live cds. I don't know why I keep buying them.
	Still	This would be much better if the recordings weren't so crappy.
	Substance 1977-1980	JD really radically changed styles in their 3 years of existence.
	Peel Sessions
	Unknown Pleasures	In high school I bought this lp for a goth girl who invited me to her birthday party, but it was already open, so I took the time to make myself a tape of it before I wrapped it up. My friend said I was a jerk for doing that, but I can't see how it would've made a difference to her.
Juno Reactor	Beyond the Infinite	This was my fav goa trance cd.
	Bible of Dreams	I never quite got into this one. It came out at the end of my electronica phase.
	Shango	Love the classical guitar single.
	Transmissions	Great classic goa trance.
The Killers	Hot Fuss	I really didn't want to buy this album because it was so trendy, but I had to admit it didn't suck.
	Sam's Town
King Missile	Mystical Shit/Fluting on the Hump	My roomate in Berkeley had this cd and it had some really really funny songs. So I bought it. Most of the songs aren't that funny, they need to edit it down a bit.
Kirsty McColl	Kite	Like most people, I bought this because she used to sing with The Smiths.
Kissing Book	Lines & Color	I heard on the internet that these guys sounded like Belle & Sebastian. I don't think that they do, but they do sound pretty wimpy.
Kitchens of Distinction	Love Is Hell	I got this at a little record store in Allentown called "Toonz" that I think they sold drugs in the back of. But they always had the rarest and coolest import cds. My friend sand I would go there, buy really rare cds, and then talk about how cool we were that we listened to such obscure music. Finding cds like this was hunting buried treasure. There was no internet back then, so you had to rely on the word of mouth from 'cool people' to find out what you should be listening to.
	Strange Free World	A great cd from beginning to end. I used to play this cd all the time when I lived in Albany. One of the more romantic songs reminded me of a girl I tried to date, but failed because she was more interested in becoming an alcoholic than in dating.
	The Death of Cool	This cd has some great songs, but overall, it's pretty overtly gay.
The Kooks	Inside In/Inside Out
Languis	Unithematic	I bought this on the strength of the song on the Dublab sampler I have. Decent electronic pastoral.
Lanterna	Highways	There was this great web site called Pandora where you could just type in the name of a band you liked and they'd invent a radio station that played similar music. This band appeared when I asked for things similar to Explosions in the Sky
	Desert Ocean	Apparently this is a solo project from the guy from gothy band The Moon Seven Times.
Lard	Pure Chewing Satisfaction	Got this because I liked Ministry and Dead Kennedys, and it does not disappoint.
	The Last Temptation of Reid	About as good as the other one. It almost sounds like a mash-up. Ministry still sounds like Ministry and Jello still sings like Jello, they just happened to get recorded to the same tape.
Laura	Radio Swan is Down	More New Zealand post-rock. I think that they made a bad choice of name because it is almost impossible to find them via a google search.
Let's Go Sailing!	The Chaos in Order
Lemon Jelly	Lemonjelly.ky	I heard that song "Space Walk" on an internet radio station, so I bought this cd, even though they didn't list the song titles on the cd cover (jerks). Of course, "Space Walk" isn't on this cd. That made me feel perfectly within my rights to just d/l the song off Napster.
The Lemonheads	It's a Shame About Ray	The girl in the video for the title track looks exactly like this girl who was at my college. She was cool and popular and never even acknowledged my existence. But then, like 2 weeks before graduation, I was out at a bar in Albany and she happened to know a friend of mine, and we got to talking and she decided I was a really cool guy and said that if she'd only known earlier she would have set me up with a bunch of her sorority sisters. sigh.
Light	Turning	Don't let the name fool you, this is a Flying Saucer Attack cd. Same sound, same artists, same everything.
Lilys	In the Presence of Nothing	I've heard this cd referred to as 'the best My Bloody Valentine album they didn't make'. That's totally true, this sounds just like MBV. I love MBV. Unfortunately other Lilys cds don't sounds like this one.
Lisa Gerrard	Duality	Well, if she's not going to make Dead Can Dance cds anymore I guess I'm stuck buying her solo albums.
	Gladiator Soundtrack	In general I hate soundtracks, and I hated this movie. But it's really just another Lisa Gerrard cd.
	The Mirror Pool
Lloyd Cole & The Commotions	1984-1989	I loved this cd back in the mid 80s, every sing is great. Strangely I never felt the desire to buy an other Lloyd Cole cd.
Longwave	The Strangest Things	Saw the video on Subterranean. Like the single, don't care for the rest.
Looper	Geometrid	It's the old bass player from Belle & Sebastian, but doing weird electronic music.
Love & Rockets	Love & Rockets	Bought this in my Bauhaus phase. Soon realized that the part of Bauhaus I liked was Peter Murphy, not these three yahoos.
Love is Colder Than Death	Teignmouth	My girlfriend ordered this goth cd online, but then got tired of waiting for it and bought it in the store. When the 2nd one came in the mail she gave it to me. I never even took it out of the wrapper.
Love Spirals Downward	Ardor	I bought this cd because I liked the name. I first listened to it one day while working on my thesis. I had thought it was pretty innocuous but then all of a sudden it kicks in like 3 minutes in, sorta like the beginning of Cocteau Twins' Victorialand. I thought to myself that I had to get more LSD cds.
	Ever
	Flux
	Idylls
	Temporal	I only ought this one because they had a promotion on the bands web site that if you ordered two cds they'd add in a signed pic. It's a best of, which I don't need because I've got all the rest.
Loveliescrushing	Blow Eyelash Wish	This is a very hard cd to listen to. It makes your brain hurt.
Luna	Lunapark	I bought this because my friend couldn't shut up about Galaxie 500.
Lush	Gala	When I was younger and cheaper, I told my firend that I wasn't going to buy those three import Lush eps, I was just going to wait for the domestic release. He said Lush would never come out in the US. But he was wrong.
	Lovelife	I was waiting and waiting for this cd to come out. Then one day on the DC subway I saw a guy with it. I had to go up and ask him where he got it. I normally don't talk to strangers. But at least I learned that the cd had been released.
	Split	This is my fav Lush cd. I loved the direction they were going in up until this point, but then they decided to get pop.
	Spooky
	Topolino	B-sides, but as good as the rest of their work.
Lycia	A Day in the Stark Corner	Boy are these guys depressing. I think it'd be hard to keep making music like this for as long as they have been.
	Cold	Lycia was part of my dark ambient phase that I was into when I first moved to DC.
	Ionia
	Live	I saw Lycia play live in Maryland once.
The Magnetic Fields	69 Love Songs (3-cd)	too eclectic. They made a decision to try all sorts of styles, and so it's hard to get into. I 've only listened to the first cd though.
	Charm of the Highway Strip
	Get Lost	I bought this used hoping to find maybe one song I liked, since I liked one single on the first Mag Fields cd I got. But I liked it so much it made me go out and buy the rest of their catalog.
	Holiday	Probably overall the best Mag Fields cd.
	I	I bought this on a trip to Toronto because it was cheap and I wanted to complete the set.
	The Wayward Bus	One of the reasons I didn't get a lot of Mag Fields cds was that I liked the girls voice way better than the guys, and the girl quit the band.
	Distant Plastic Trees	I bought this cd because I liked the name of the band. I thought the single was great, but the rest of the cd never grabbed me. I had this one years before I got any more Magnetic Fields.
Man or Astroman?	1000x	All MoAM cds sound exactly the same don't you think?
	Destroy All Astromen	ditto
	Experiment Zero	I bought this because I liked the name of the band. I had no idea what they sounded like. But their sci-fi surf rock sound is unique and fantastic.
Man With No Name	Moment of Truth	He has a name. It's in the liner notes. I think if you are going to call yourself 'The Man with No Name', you can't put your name in the liner notes. I bought this goa trance cd in an electronica store in Baltimore.
Maritime	We, the Vehicles	Neo-emo from the guy who was in The Promise Ring.
Marlowe	Galax-sea	Found out about these guys on a My Bloody Valentine board.
Massive Attack	Blue Lines	I loved the single when I first heard it on 120 Minutes, but like most dance music, you can't judge a cd by the single.
	Mezzanine	I was in a record store in DC and they were playing the song 'Teardrop', and I thought that it was a stunning mix of ethereal, goth, metal, dance, and everything. It was the most fully realized song I'd ever heard, one that you could enjoy no matter what genre of music you liked.
Matt Pond PA	Emblems	I saw him play at a tiny bar in Virginia.
	I Thought You Were Sleeping (ep)	I think that the 'PA' comes from the fact that the band is from Pennsylvania, kinda like how Wham UK! shows that they are from England.
	Measure	The title track is one of my fav songs in the past few years, but he didn't play it in concert.
	The Green Fury	I have a theory that all rock bands that have a cello are great. Who doesn't love the haunting melodies of a cello? If I had a band, I'd definitely hire a cellist, but I'd also want a vibraphone so what the hell do I know?
	The Nature of Maps	I first heard about Matt Pond when a girl I met on the internet told me they were like Belle & Sebastian. Other than the fact they have a cello player I don't think that's true.
Matthew Sweet	Girlfriend
Mazzy Star	So Tonight That I Might See
Meat Beat Manifesto	99%	I could have seen them play in Albany, but I didn't go. I heard it was a freaky show.
	Storm the Studio (ep)	I got this at a little record store in Lancaster PA.
Metric	Live It Out
Metropolitan	Side Effects	There was a really cool cd store in Virginia called Now!, it was one of the only cool stores in the DC area. I bought lots of stuff there including this local band that sounds like Sonic Youth. Then they moved to a new location and don't seem as cool anymore.
Miles Davis	The Complete Birth of the Cool	I'm a bit embarrassed to listen to Miles because he was one of my dad's favs.
Ministry	Land of Rape and Honey	Loved this cd. Never had any desire to get another Ministry album though.
Mint Royale	On the Ropes	The song "Don't Falter" is great, but the rest of the cd sounds nothing like it. It's secretly breakbeat, but you'd never know it from the single.
Mira	Mira	I bought this solely to get their cover of My Bloody Valentine's When You Sleep.
Mistle Thrush	Silt	I saw this band open for somebody in DC and had to buy the cd. I thought that the music, lyrics, and voice were great.
	Superrefraction	By the time this one came out, I was over them.
Moby	Move (ep)	Bought to fulfil the requirements of a mail-order cd club.
Mogwai	Come On Die Young	Bought it because I heard they sounded like Godspeed You Black Emperor.
	Happy Songs for Happy People	After I saw them in concert, I posted in my blog that their light show was boring. And their lighting guy contacted me to apologize! How weird was that?!?
	Mr. Beast	I saw them in concert once, and I realized that the problem was that I wasn't listen to the cd LOUD enough. My ears are still ringing, but it was worth it.
	Rock Action
	Ten Rapid
	Young Team
Mojave 3	Ask Me Tomorrow	Spinoff of Slowdive, which I liked. I didn't like this cd so much. I saw them open for somebody in DC once.
Monster Magnet	25-Tab (ep)	In Berkeley, my friend loved heavy metal, and I was more into space rock. This was the only cd we agree on as being good.
Moodswings	Moodfood	Got this because Johnny Marr of The Smiths plays on it.
Moose	Jack (ep)	Ok, I'm cheating a bit on this one. I don't actually 'own' it. I just d/led all the songs off Napster. I'd buy it in a second if I could ever find it. My friend in high school had the title track on a mix tape that someone he knew had gotten in England, and back in the day, obscure English bands that were so obscure you had to physically go to England to find them were the pinnacle of coolness.
Morrissey	Viva Hate	The problem with singing songs about loneliness and heartbreak is that once you become popular, you get riches, groupies, and attention, and you lose the ability to convincingly write songs about getting dumped and sleeping alone. This was pretty much the end for Moz.
Movietone	Day and Night	A Flying Saucer Attack spinoff band. Nowhere near enough feedback in my opinion.
	The Blossom Filled Streets
Mum	Finally We Are No One	I loved this electronic pastoral band for five minutes or so, then it started to get annoying.
	Please Smile My Nosebleed	The twin singers in Mum appear on the cover of a Belle & Sebastian cd, but don't make the mistake of thinking they are chamber pop.
My Bloody Valentine	Ecstasy & Wine	I had no idea how rare this cd was when I bought it.
	Feed Me With Your Kiss	The song 'I Believe' is probably my fav MBV song, and that's saying something!
	Geek (ep)	I like old MBV, deal with it.
	Glider (ep)	This was supposed to be a full length album. There are rumors that one day they'll release the rest of the songs.
	Isn't Anything	The song Sue Is Fine reminds me of this girl Sue that I knew in high school and had a major major crush on for years but never did anything about. I haven't heard from her in a long time, but I'm sure she's fine.
	Loveless	MBV is one of my all time fav bands. I loved the dream-pop sound. I wish they had a bigger catalog.
	New Record By MBV (ep)	Ok, some of these old eps are just bootlegs I got off Napster. But dammit, if they aren't going to release their older stuff, I have no choice.
	Sunny Sundae Smile (ep)	I think the title track is about a pedophile, but I can't be sure.
	This Is Your Bloody Valentine (ep)	This would be a lot better if the production quality didn't suck.
	Tremolo (ep)
	You Made Me Realize (ep)	I bought this ep in a record store in London and I thought I was super-lucky because it was so rare. Turns out that it's rare, but not all that rare. It's my fav MBV ep though.
My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult	Confessions of a Knife	This is the only cd I ever bought twice. I dropped the first one and it cracked. I used to like them because I thought they were quite evil.
	Sexplosion!	I hear this band was originally going to be a movie, but they decided to record the soundtrack first, and then never got around to making the rest of the movie.
N.W.A.	Straight Outta Compton	I think this cd is very important because it really gives you an idea of what inner city youth were thinking in the late 80s. My white middle-class suburban friends used to hang out an amusement park we worked at in Allentown summer 1990, and sing NWA songs. Of course, we substituted in the word "Lizard", and used aligator puppets they sold there to mouth the words. I bet Easy-E would've capped us in a second if he had ever found out.
Ned's Atomic Dustbin	Are You Normal?	These guys may seem cheesy by today's standards, but I still think they sound pretty good. Plus, they have two bass players.
	God Fodder	When I lived in South Carolina, my girlfriend won tickets to see NAD in Atlanta. That was only thing I ever got free from a radio station contest. It was a good show though.
Negativland	Escape From Noise	I bought this because it has the song, 'Christianity Is Stupid', which was the basis for their Helter Stupid album. Negativland is good in small doses, but I get tired of them quickly.
	Free	Bought for a dollar in a used cd store.
	Helter Stupid	This was the first Negativland cd I bought. I liked the name, and heard they were 'experimental'. This cd is their hilarious story of how they started a rumor they were involved in an axe murder and how most major new outlets picked it up and broadcast it without checking to see if it was true. The whole cd is made up of sample from news reports.
New Model Army	Thunder and Consolation	I loved this cd sophomore year in college. I played it so much that it got stuck in my geeky roommate's head and he had to buy a copy. It was his only non-classical cd. After the 80s ended though, their music seemed tired and dated.
New Order	Movement	The best New Order cd, I probably say that because it sounds the most like Joy Division. In fact, I think the songs were originally written in the Joy Division era.
	Republic	I bought this one when I was in Berkeley mostly out of a sense of nostalgia.
	Substance 1987 (2-cd)	This was one of my first tapes. True Faith is still one of my favorite songs. A guy I knew in high school loved to steal things he didn't want, and so gave me Substance, the Cure's Staring at the Sea, and the Smiths' Strangeways. I have his kleptomania to blame for my lifelong addiction to music.
	Technique	I listened to this cd a lot as an undergrad.
New Pornographers	Electric Version	I'm not sure why I bought these guys, I only knew about them vaguely. But the cd is catchy. I listened to it a lot during a vacation I took to North Carolina once.
Nine Inch Nails	Pretty Hate Machine	What annoys me most about NIN is that I owned this cd like 2 years before it broke, and I tried to get people to listen to it, but they refused to listen to my 'weirdo music'. Then, after MTV started playing them in heavy rotation, everybody loved them all of a sudden.
Nitzer Ebb	Belief	When I was an undergrad I had a short-lived radio show on the college station dedicated to industrial music.
	That Total Age	I think this was one of the most expensive cds I ever bought. It was worth it at the time, but now, I'm not sure what I was thinking.
Olivia Tremor Control	Dusk at Cubic Castle
	Singles and Beyond	I was back in Berkeley for a visit a few years ago and went to my fav cd store. They had this cd on their 'recommendations' list, and they have a weird name, so I bought it.
The Orb	Orblivion
Orbital	Insides (2-cd)	I found the video for 'The Box' to be really spooky, and for some reason this cd reminds me that I'm very pro-environment.
	Orbital II (The Brown Album)	I think this is the best Oribital album.
	Orbital I (The Green Album)
	The Middle of Nowhere	I saw Orbital twice and they were two of the best shows I've ever seen. I saw them play in DC and the stage was dark and full of equipment and you couldn't even see them except for their flashlights. I thought that was so gloriously un-vain of them. I also saw them once in London and they played the Dr. Who theme as an encore, and that rocked beyond all description.
Pale Saints	In Ribbons	The first one with that horrible shrew who joined, took over, and destroyed one of my fav bands.
	Mrs. Dolphin	Very rare Japanese import that combines some of their very rare eps. As good if not better than Comforts of Madness.
	Slow Buildings	Ugh. whey did she have to come along and ruin the band?
	The Comforts of Madness	One of my fav cds ever. This was another one of those mysterious imports that my friends and I obsessed with back before Amazon.com came along. If it were possible to wear a cd out, this one would have been gone by the time I left college in 1992.
Pegboy	Strong Reaction/3-Chord Monte	Saw the single on 120 Minutes, bought the cd, promptly forgot all about it.
Pelican	The Fire in Our Throats will Beckon the Thaw	Someone told me that the Red Sparrowes sounds just like Pelican. Since I liked the Red Sparrowes, I bought the Pelican cd. They were right!
	City of Echoes	My sister likes to rock out, so I got her a copy of this cd as well.
Pelt	Empty Bell Ringing in the Sky	Heard it was good. Wasn't.
Pete Yorn	Day I Forgot	He's got a powerful voice, but this cd isn't good at all.
Peter, Bjorn, and John	Writer's Block
Peter Murphy	Deep	Here's the part of Bauhaus I love.
	Love Hysteria
Piano Magic	Writers Without Homes	I first heard about this band when I was searching Napster for Spacemen 3 covers. The cd is experimental and good, but I never got into it. Probably because I had already gotten over my space rock fascination.
Pixies	Bossanova	One of my fav cds junior year of college.
	Doolittle	I remember sitting around at home one evening and having my uncle read the lyrics of 'Monkey Gone to Heave' out loud. They sounded pretty stupid actually. The song still rocks though.
	Surfer Rosa	One summer I came home from college and my high school friend was raving about the Pixies. I listened to it and thought it was horrible and amaturish. He told me that you have to listen to it again and again. So he made me a tape, and I listened to it again and again and when I came home the next time I was raving about the Pixies as well.
	Come On Pilgrim (ep)	Actually, I've got the Surfer Rosa/Come On Pilgrim combo cd, but since those greedy jerks started selling them separately, I figured I could get away with listing them separately.
	Trompe le Monde	What happened? All of a sudden they decided to suck! I'm glad they broke up before they made more music like this.
Polygon Window	Surfing on Sine Waves	Actually, this is Aphex Twin.
Pop will Eat Itself	This is the Day, This is the Hour, This is This!	Alan Moore knows the score! This band references freaking everything! Plus, one of the guys joined Bentley Rhythm Ace.
Popinjays	Flying down to Mono Valley	When I worked at the amusement park, I dated a girl who looked just like the lead singer.
Portishead	Portishead	I like it in theory. I mean, it sounds like the stuff I think I like, but I never really liked it.
The Postal Service	Give Up	Holy cow is this cd good! I liked Dntel and I loved Death Cab for Cutie, but only an insane person would've thought that you could combine them. But somehow, they did. What vision!
Prana	Cyclone	Some of the best goa trance ever made.
	Geomantik	I bought my two Prana cds in a raver music store in a crappy part of Baltimore. They were very hard to find.
Pretty Girls Make Graves	Good Health	The girl in the record store thought this band had a funny name. But you and I know that its from a Smiths song. Of course we're both wrong, it's actually a line from Kerouac's 'The Dharma Bums'.
Primitives	Lovely	I wanted this album after seeing it on 120 Minutes but I didn't want to pay for it, so I convinced my friend to buy it and let me tape it. He was pretty happy with it though, so I didn't feel too bad about that. Then they released it with an extra track and I bought that one. His is way more rare though.
Primal Scream	Xtrmntr	I bought this because Kevin Shield from My Bloody Valentine plays on it.
The Promise Ring	Nothing Feels Good	When emo first came out, I was listening to a lot of electronica, and 120 Minutes was no longer on the air, so I missed a lot of it until the trend was pretty much finished. I can't freaking believe that this band says in interviews that they aren't emo. They are practically the very definition of emo!
The Psychedelic Furs	World Outside	I really like the lead singer's voice, and this band always reminds me of high school.
Psychick Warriors of Gaia	History of Psychick Phenomena (2-cd)	Drum and base. Quite repetative.
	Record of Breaks	This might be a single with just remixes of the same song, but since all their songs are so similar, it's hard to tell.
R.E.M.	Dead Letter Office	The best part of this cd is that it comes with the Chronic Town ep, which is fantastic.
	Eponymous	This cd belonged to my roommate junior year, but he kept getting drunk and breaking my stuff, so I kept his cd.
	Fables of the Reconstruction	Did you know that all the REM cds up til Green had a hidden number on the cover? It looked like they were counting down from 9 to 1, but then the stopped for some reason. Probably because they made a conscious decision to begin seriously sucking.
	Green	REM was one of my favorite bands freshman-sophomore year in college, but then, inexplicably they decided the completely change styles, get popular, and suck. I feel really betrayed. I feel even worse because most people don't take the time to seek out good music and therefore have only heard REMs later stuff, and are deluded into thinking that their new crap is good. Green is at the edge of the precipice.
	Life's Rich Pageant	Probably my fav REM album.
	Murmur	Michael Stipe said publicly that he doesn't consider REM's first few albums to really be REM since they've changed so much. You know what, I agree. Screw you you sellout.
	Reckoning	When I graduated from college, I had a job offer to move to Augusta GA. I figured that it was probably secretly pretty cool, since REM and Pylon and such came from Athens. Boy was I wrong. Augusta is a total stinkhole. I wouldn't go back there for a million bucks. Or even for a new REM album that doesn't suck.
The Rabbit in the Moon	Remixes	I'm not sure if this technically counts as a band, since all they do are remixes.
Radiohead	Kid A	I bought this mainly because I was impressed something this uncommercial could hit #1 on Billboard. Take that REM you pop sellout jerks!
	Pablo Honey	I liked "Creep" after I heard it on 120 Minutes because the guitars come out of nowhere. Plus, the band looked really, really geeky.
Red House Painters	Ocean Beach	I can't listen to this cd because it reminds me of their other cd. Sorry RHP.
	Red House Painters	I can't listen to this cd because the song 'Katys Song' reminds me way to much of the girlfriend I had in grad school.
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry	Nothing Wrong	Another import cd we were glad to find in the states. The title track was great, but the album is really dated. I heard that they once held the record for loudest live show.
Red Sparrowes	At the Soundless Dawn	More Mogwai-style post rock.
	Every Red Heart Shines Toward the Red Sun	I have a sneaking suspicion that this might actually be heavy metal.
The Replacements	Don't Tell a Soul	A friend of mine in college turned me on to The Replacements. I bought this cd because I couldn't find 'Pleased to Meet Me', which I think is much better. I consider them the forefathers of emo.
	Pleased to Meet Me
The Residents	The Commercial Album	This cd has 60 songs, each one exactly 60 seconds long. If they didn't all suck, that would make a cool concept album.
Ride	Nowhere	Great dream-pop, although more pop than dream. The song 'Vapour Trail' reminds me of this girl I knew in college. And when I saw 'knew', I mean 'longingly stared at because she was way too beautiful and cool to talk to'. I'm not sure why, maybe she once said she liked Ride.
	Smile (ep)	Chelsea Girl is the track you want from this ep.
Rocketship	A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness	Another band with a freakin' organ player. Actually, I had heard that they were good dream-pop, so I d/led the song 'Hey hey Girl', and I liked it, so I bought the cd. Of course, that song isn't on this cd.
Screams for Tina	Screams for Tina	Heard the song '11:11' from my cool tattooed roomate in Oakland about the same time I bought that Genitorturers cd. It was pretty good so I got the album. I got over it quite quickly.
Seahorses	Do It Yourself	This has the guitar player from the Stone Roses which I absolutely love. I never listened to this cd though. I kept meaning to, but I just haven't.
The Seers	Psyche Out	The title track is good, but the rest of the cd is forgettable, and that's just what happened to them...
Set Fire to Flames	Mouths Trapped in Static	Set Fire to Flames is a side project of Godspeed You Black Emperor
	Sings Reign Rebuilder
	Telegraphs in Negative
Shellyan Orphan	Century Flower	Cocteau Twins rip-off band. I didn't like to admit I had this cd until it became very very rare and people wanted copies of it from me.
SiANspheric	Else	Just b-sides, and it's disappointing because they are early b-sides from when they were more electronic and less guitar noise.
	Somnium
	The Sound of the Color of the Sun	Wow! These guys are almost as good as Flying Saucer Attack with their feedback sound. Even better, they sometimes have a catchy melody.
	There's Always Someplace You'd Rather Be	I think this is my fav SiANspheric cd, which is saying something.
Sigur Ros	( )
Silverscene	Clue In (ep)	While I was obsessing about Lush, I found some Lush fanboy site that listed these guys as comparable. The Silverscene web site had full streams of all their songs, and they were actually really good.
	The Pendulum Demos	Their web site said this was available at Now!, a cd store near my house. So I went there and bought it. The cashier told me he had been trying to book them for a show but couldn't find them. When I bought their two eps, I had to go through their web site and wound up talking to the guitar player. I told him about the guy wanting to book them. A few weeks later they played a show at Now! I didn't go.
	Unlucky (ep)	The song 'You Had Friends' is fantastic. I bet you'll never find this ep though. Go ahead, I dare you.
Silversun Pickups	Carnavas
Singapore Sling	The Curse of the Singapore Sling	These guys sound like the Jesus and Mary Chain even more than the Lilys sound like My Bloody Valentine.
Siouxsie & the Banshees	Superstition	It's strange that this is my only Siouxsie cd. I had a copy of 'Juju' on tape. I never really liked them all that much actually. I bought this after seeing 'Kiss Them for Me' on 120 Minutes when I lived in SC.
The Sisters of Mercy	First Last and Always	This was one of my first fav albums of all time. My god did I love this album freshman year of college. Andrew Eldritch may be a world-class dick, but this cd kicked major ass. I listened to it again recently, and even though its dated, I still think its pretty good. Oddly, I never bought another one of their cds.
Skinny Puppy	Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse	Bought during my industrial phase.
	Too Dark Park	Bought after my industrial phase, hence, I never really gave it a good listen.
Sloan	Smeared	Love the single 'Underwhelmed'. I didn't like the rest of the cd at the time. Years later, my friend from high school couldn't stop raving about their later work. I kept meaning to pick up another cd, but I never did.
Slowdive	Just For a Day	Like sucking molasses through a straw, but in a good way.
	Pygmalion	I didn't know this cd existed until recently, so finding it was a treat.
	Souvlaki
Smashing Pumpkins	Gish	I didn't like this at first, but it definitely grew on me. I was originally unsure about how they radically change volume in each song, but now I like that effect.
	Siamese Dream	When I first left SC to go to grad school in Berkeley, this was the only cd I took with me on the plane. I listened to it over and over again my first few days there waiting for the rest of my stuff to arrive. I loved Berkeley, and I'm sad I don't live there anymore, so listening to this cd makes me very depressed, especially the song, 'Today'.
The Smiths	Hatful of Hollow	This was stunningly hard to find in the US for the longest time. Its got different versions of songs that appear on other cds.
	Louder Than Bombs	The Smiths are my fav band of all time hands down. Never before or since did I think a singer was talking directly to me. Most pop music is about love and sex and other stuff, but the Smiths sang about things I actually could relate to, like being lonely and not having any friends or a chance at getting a date.
	Meat Is Murder	Meat is murder, damn right!
	Strangeways Here We Come	One of my first tapes ever. I loved it for camp at first, since the music was so bouncy but the singer sang about killing his girlfriend. Later, I started to appreciate it more and more and more. It's still the weakest Smiths album though, but I'm glad to have it because it introduced me to the band.
	The Queen is Dead	The song 'I Know Its Over' is really the theme to my freshman year in college. Yeah, I was that pathetic.
	The World Won't Listen	Try to find this one in the US. I dare you.
	The Smiths	Probably my #1 fav cd of all time. I remember freshman year I asked this girl out on a date and she said yes. But then at the last minute she cancelled because she was sick. So I went to the student union to play pinball, and there she was on a date bowling with some other guy. I was devastated. I wandered around campus all night skateboarding and listening to this cd on my walkman. How angst/cliche is that!
Snow Patrol	Final Straw
Snowpony	The Slow-Motion World of Snowpony	I bought this because it's the bassist from My Bloody Valentine. Unfortunately it's the singer from Stereolab.
Sondre Lerche	Faces Down	Another cd I bought because someone on the internet told me it was Belle & Sebastianesque. for a few weeks, I loved it. Now, I can't for the life of me remember why.
	Two Way Monologue	Bought this after I was already tired of him.
Sonic Youth	Daydream Nation	Another 120 Minutes staple. My friend from high school had a giant crush on Kim Gordon. I never quite got into them, although I had a really cool Bad Moon Rising poster on my wall in college.
	Bad Moon Rising
Sonny Rollins	Alfie Soundtrack	My high school friend came back from college one day with this tape. It's quite catchy. I looked for it but could never find it. Years later they put it out on cd. It's the best soundtrack of the bee-bop era. You can't help but dance.
	The Best of the Complete Sonny Rollins	What the hell does the title of this cd mean?
Spacemen 3	Dreamweapon	One long, long song.
	Recurring	I hear that the two remaining members of Spacemen 3 hated each other so much they just made two solo eps and mashed them together for contractual obligations. It's still great though. A little too electronic.
	Sound of Confusion	I love the fact that when their drummer quit, they didn't bother to replace him. Who ever heard of a rock band with no drums? This is their one cd with a drummer though.
	Taking Drugs to Make Music to Take Drugs To	Love the title. Unfortunately Spacemen 3 had a habit of putting out different versions of the same song with new names. It's really repetitive to try to buy their whole catalog.
	The Perfect Prescription	I have the import version with the purple dots. I listened to this a lot when I lived in Berkeley.
	Playing with Fire	One of my fav cds. The song 'So Hot' was on my first mix tape ever.
Spacetime Continuum	Emit Ecaps	Crappy title.
	Sea Biscuit	Reasonable electronica.
Spectrum	A Pox on You	More post Spacemen 3 stuff from Sonic Boom. He needs to lay off the drugs.
	Forever Alien
Sparrows Swarm and Sing	O'Shenandoah, Mighty Death Will Find Me	A complete GYBE clone, and I mean that in a good way.
Spirea X	Fireblade Skies	Another 4AD band that I bought because I saw the video on 120 Minutes.
Spiritualized	Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space	I love the way the liner notes imply that the music is a drug. This is the only Spiritualized cd I ever really got into.
	Lazer Guided Melodies
	Pure Phase	I wanted to like this because is Jason Spaceman's new band after Spacemen 3 broke up. And that's a great name. But it never really hit me. Too much electronics, not enough guitar.
Stars	Set Yourself on Fire
Stereolab	Emperor Tomato Ketchup	Blech. Everybody says Stereolab is great. Everybody is wrong.
The Stills	Logic Will Break your Heart
Stone Roses	Second Coming	This came out so far after the Manchester scene had dies out that no one even noticed it. But it was still great. I wonder what would have happened if the Stone Roses had a better work ethic and released this while they were still popular. Maybe the world would never have had to put up with Oasis.
	The Stone Roses	One of my fav cds of all time.
	Turns Into Stone	Mostly b-sides, but still worth it.
The Streets	The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Listening	British pop-rap, but for some reason I felt it was very earnest.
The Strokes	Is This It?	I know it's taboo to say it, but I really liked this cd. I know they were just as manufactured as the Backstreet Boys, and their guitar lines are more simple than the Ramones, but I still think it just worked.
	Room on Fire	In a way, I'm glad this album failed. There was so much hype about The Strokes, and now they can settle down and continue to make good music without having to deal with all the critics trying to tear them down.
Suede	Suede	The successor to The Smiths. This was a great cd, it's too bad that the guitar player quit right afterwards.
Sugarcubes	Life's Too Good	I had this tape in high school. When it first came out, it came in a variety of colors, but I think you can only get it in green these days.
	Stick Around for Joy	One of my ex girlfriends looked a lot like Bjork, and the song 'Hit' still reminds me of her.
Sun Kil Moon	Ghosts of the Highway Strip	A new project from the guy from Red House Painters
	Tiny Cities	I resisted getting this cd for a long time because it is all Modest Mouse covers, and I hate Modest Mouse. But then I heard some songs and I learned that this sounds nothing at all like a Modest Mouse cd.
The Sundays	Blind	To be honest, I think that this is better than they first cd.
	Can't Be Sure (single)	Got it for the b-sides.
	Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic	One of my fav cds ever. Sophomore year I listened to this over and over again to the exclusion of all else. There was a pile of stuff on top of my cd player because I never changed the cd out.
	Static and Silence	I'm totally in love with the lead singer of this band. I wish they'd put out another album.
Swallow	Blow	From my 4AD phase. It was pointed out to me later that the title of every song on this cd can be construed as a euphemism for oral sex.
The Swans	Burning World	Like the song 'Saved'
Syd Straw	Surprise	Saw the video on 120 Minutes. Plus I think Michael Stipe sang backup on this cd before he decided to sell out and suck.
Thee Hypnotics	Come Down Heavy	My friend form high school worked in a radio station in college and stole hundreds if not thousands of promo cds. He gave this one to me. Not my style of music though.
Thelonious Monk	The Essential Thelonious Monk	Piano be-bop.
They Might Be Giants	Best of the Early Years	I'd been meaning to get a TMBG cd for years, so I found this one used.
This Mortal Coil	Blood	Didn't live up to the other two.
	Filigree and Shadow	For a long time, this was one of my fav cds. I remember listening to 'The Jeweler' over and over again on my Dad's stereo back in high school.
	It'll End In Tears	Looking back, This Mortal Coil was pretty pretentious don't you think?
Throwing Muses	Hunkpapa
Tokyo Police Club	A Lesson in Crime	I really think that the song 'Nature of the Experiment' is quite innovative, but it worries me that these band members are young enough to be my kids.
Tortoise	Directions in Music	This isn't technically a Tortoise cd, but it's got all the same people. Very good instrumental guitar music.
	Millions Now Living Will Never Die
Transwave	Phototronic
Trashcan Sinatras	Cake	With songs like 'Only Tongue Can Tell' and 'Obscurity Knocks', I think that these guys were closer to the 2nd coming of The Smiths than most bands.
	I've Seen Everything	Betcha don't have this one.
	Weightlifting	Who knew that they were even still together?
Trembling Blue Stars	Her Handwriting	I loved the Field Mice, but I heard they broke up. Years afterwards, I heard that they had sort of reformed into this band. It sounds exactly like The Field Mice.
Triumph 2000	Phazed & Confused	The guy in the record store said that this was a Spacemen 3 spinoff band, but as far as I can tell, none of the members of Spacemen 3 are in it.
U2	Achtung Baby	My roommate in VA borrowed this cd from me and didn't give it back for over a year. He eventually admitted that he had broken the cd and so he bought be a new one. Which is too bad, because I didn't really want it in the first place.
	War	Similar to REM, U2 used to be pretty good, and then one day they decided to suck and therefore become wildly popular.
Ultra Vivid Scene	Joy 1967-1990	Love the name of the band. It doesn't have the song, 'She Screamed' on it, which is the song I liked.
Ultramarine	United Kingdoms	Never listened to it.
Underworld	Beaucoup Fish	I was in London when this cd came out and I wanted to buy it but my friend told me that I should wait and get it back in the US because it would be cheaper. But it didn't come out in the US for like 6 months afterwards. By that point I was pretty much over them.
	Born Slippy (single)	It's too bad that they never put one of their best songs on a real album.
	Dubnobasswithmyheadman	On of my fav cds of all time.
	Second Toughest In the Infants	Good, but not as good as their other one.
Utah Saints	Something Good	I bought this because at the time, the idea of using someone like Kate Bush in a dance mix was considered pretty novel.
Vas	In the Garden of Souls	These guys sound so much like Dead Can Dance I'm surprised that they haven't been sued.
Velocity Girl	Velocity Girl (ep)	I almost saw them play a concert in Augusta GA, but I was too lazy to go.
Velour 100	Fall Sounds	Older V100 doesn't sound like the 'Of Color Bright' era. It's more sparse and acoustic. Still good, but not their pinnacle.
	For an Open Sky (ep)
	Of Color Bright	On of my fav cds ever. I first heard about them because it's the bass player and singer from His Name is Alive. But they sound nothing like HNIA. This album is lush and full and beautiful dream pop.
	Rainwater (ep)	I got this off their web site at a time when my moron of a mailman had inexplicably thought I had moved. So he returned all my mail to senders. It costs them extra postage to send me the cd a second time, and I feel bad about that.
Violent Femmes	Violent Femmes	My good friend freshman year was a physicist and you'd often find him in the student union staring off into space thinking about the Schrodinger Equation, forgotten cigarette burned down the nub in his hand, with this cd playing on his walkman. He was brilliant, but had to drop out because he couldn't pay tuition. That was a damn shame.
Voice of the Beehive	Let It Bee	B-52 copycats.
The Von Bondies	Pawn Shoppe Heart	I liked the single C'mon C'mon. Plus, the lead singer beat up the guy from The White Stripes, which makes him pretty cool in my book.
The Walkmen	Bows + Arrows	These guys were supposed to be 'just like The Strokes' but better. I really liked the single, but not the rest of the cd.
The Washington Squares	The Washington Squares	Neo-beatnik music, down to the black sweaters and berets.
The Wedding Present	2,3, Go	We snuck out to NYC back in 1989 and saw them play in concert. Holy cow what a show. Gedge played the guitar so intensely that he broke at least one string in every song. He had to get audience members to help him restring his guitars.
	3 songs (ep)	A friend of mine from high school let me borrow this during a college break. I left for school again without getting around to giving it back. Then his parents pissed him off and he decided never to come home again, so I lost touch with him and never gave his cd back. So Dan, if you're out there, give me a call, I've got your cd! Also, this cd reminds me of Gabriel Garcia's 100 Years of Solitude because I listened to these 3 songs over and over while reading that book.
	Bizarro	One of my fav cds of all time. Its another one that was a rare imort that my friend lorded over me because he had it and I didn't, and then it got released domestically with bonus tracks.
	George Best	The Weddoes are like The Smiths for older people. The Smiths are all about the angst you feel because you've never had a date in your life. But after you've been in a few relationships it gets hard to relate to that anymore. The Weddoes are all about having been in a relationship and gotten screwed over. Somebody hurt David Gedge bad. Real bad.
	Hit Parade 1	It's strange, I LOVED Bizarro, but for the longest time I never had a desire to get another Weddoes cd. After a while I got some of their older music, but I never got into anything later than Bizarro.
	Seamonsters	Have you noticed that Gedge moans at the end of every single song?
	Take Fountain	After the lead singer got a girlfriend the band broke up. 8 years later he broke up with the girl and the band reformed.
	Tommy	It's got their best song, 'My Favorite Dress'.
Where I Wake Warm	Where I Wake Warm (ep)	another cd I don't technically have. I borrowed it from a friend, copied it, made a color copy of the cover and built my own cd. I'd love to pay the band, if they ever contact me, or ever put this cd out where I can buy it, I'll pay in a minute. It's great goth music.
The White Stripes	De Stijl	The White Stripes suck. I didn't like them before I got this cd, I bought it because the critics said it was good. I didn't like it. And I still think they suck. What the hell is up with all the red clothes?
The Wolfgang Press	Queer	Back in high school we all really enjoyed the video for 'Mama Told Me Not to Come'
The Wonder Stuff	The 8-Legged Groove Machine	I have no idea why I have this cd.
Yo La Tengo	And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out	I saw them in concert in DC and they rocked! I brought my girlfriend along, but she didn't pay attention at all. She just brought her friend with her and they chatted at the back. That sort of ruined my experience.
	Electr-O-Pura	For some reason I never really liked anything they did except for that one cd. I kept buying more and more Yo La Tengo hoping to find another 'I Can Hear the Heart.." but I never did.
	Fakebook	Everyone says this is their best cd, but everyone is wrong.
	I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One	The best Yo La Tengo cd and one of my all time favs.
	Painful	I first heard about Yo La Tengo on a shoegazer web site.

Various Artists:
4AD	Lonely as an Eyesore	A fantastic 'old' 4AD sampler.
	No Balls	My friend in Berkeley picked this up as a free give-away at a record store. It's got mostly the same songs as 'All Virgoes Are Mad', so I wasn't too impressed when he gave it to me. But it's become quite a collectors item.
	All Virgos Are Mad	The 'new' sound of 4AD, after they decided to stop riding the Cocteau Twins coattails. I was pretty happy I found this because it was a very limited edition. It's also quite good, and has my fav Lush song of all time, an alternate version of 'The Childcatcher'.
Constellation Records	Song of the Silent Land	There have been three record labels that I've bought cds from solely based on the label. First there was 4AD when I was in my ethereal phase, then Projekt when I was in my goth phase, and then Constellation when I was in my post-rock phase.
Dublab	Freeways	Electronic pastoral sampler that I first heard in a record store in SoHo. They were playing it, and I asked the cashier what it was and he just took it out of the cd player and sold it to me.
Boom Selection (3-cd)		This is actually a 428 song mp3 sample cd. Its from an English website that talks about illegal remix mash-ups. I loved the concept of mash-ups. They claimed that they'd mail out the cd for free but that they would probably get shut down because it was 'the most illegal cd ever made'. And they did. Luckily I got my cd before they got thrown in jail for copyright infringement.
Repo Man	Soundtrack	I used to watch this move all the time in college. This soundtrack has some decent punk rock music on it.
Trance II (2-cd)		a few years after I got out of my electronica phase I bought this cd to see what was happening in the genre. It turns out that nothing new was going on.
Excursions in Ambience	Volume 1	One of the problems with listening to electronica is that most bands only put out one or two singles and then disappear. It's hard to buy full albums. You have to resort to buying compilations like this one.
	Volume 2
	Volume 3
	Volume 4
Distance to Goa	Volume 3	The other problem with electronica music is, because the bands change so frequently, it's really hard to find out which are the good ones and which are bad. So you're totally blind when you buy the cds. This series is pretty good though. I recommend it.
	Volume 4
	Volume 5
	Volume 6
Wipeout 2097	Soundtrack	My only video game soundtrack. I bought it because it's actually got some really good electronica on it.

Please note. This is my opinion on the cds I own. If you disagree with me, I really don't care, nor do I particularly want to hear what you have to say.

And yes, I know that the cds are listed in alphabetical order not in chronological order, and that the solo artists are listed by first name. That's the way it all gets listed on iTunes and it was easier to just type it in off my computer than to try to reorder it by hand.

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