Anyways, as of March 22nd, 2015. here is my CD collection. Some other commentary is at the bottom of the list regarding special editions and stuff if you are interested.
The All-American Rejects - The All-American Rejects
The All-American Rejects - Move Along
The All-American Rejects - When The World Comes Down
American Idiot: The Original Broadcast Recording
Anti-Flag - For Blood and Empire
Anti-Flag - The Terror State
Bad Religion - How Could Hell Be Any Worse?
Bad Religion - Recipe For Hate
Jeff Beck - Emotion and Commotion
Chuck Berry - The Best of Chuck Berry The Millennium Collection
blink-182 - Greatest Hits
blink-182 - Enema of the State
blink-182 - Neighborhoods
Boston - Greatest Hits
Bowling For Soup - Drunk Enough to Dance
Bowling For Soup - A Hangover You Don't Deserve
Bowling For Soup - Sorry For Partyin'
The Box Tops - The Best of The Box Tops
The Bravery - The Bravery
Bring Me the Horizon - Sempiternal
Bring Me the Horizon - Suicide Season
Capital Cities - In a Tidal Wave of Mystery
Catherine Sound Disc and Artbook
Various Artists - Happy Anniversary Charlie Brown!
Cheap Trick - The Greatest Hits
Chicago - Chicago VI
Fritz Reiner Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Beethoven Symphony No. 5 and Schubert Symphony No. 8
The Clash - The Clash
The Clash - Black Market Clash
The Clash - Combat Rock
The Clash - From Here to Eternity
The Clash - Give 'Em Enough Rope
The Clash - Live at Shea Stadium
The Clash - London Calling
The Clash - Sandinista!
Coldplay - Mylo Xyloto
Coldplay - Parachutes
Coldplay - Prospekt's March
Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
Coldplay - Viva La Vida
Coldplay - X&Y
Collective Soul - Collective Soul
Collective Soul - Dosage
Collective Soul - Hints Allegations and Things Left Unsaid
J. Bradley Collier - J. Bradley Collier
Vladimir Ashkenazy Concertgebouw Orchestra - Rachmaninov Symphony No. 1
The Cranberries - Everybody Else is Doing it, So Why Can't We?
Creedance Clearwater Revival - The Greatest Hits
Dashboard Confessional - A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar
Dashboard Confessional - The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most
Dead Kennedys - Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death
Deep Purple - Deep Purple
Deep Purple - Abandon
Deep Purple - The Best of Deep Purple *pre 1969-ish
Deep Purple - The Best of Deep Purple Live in Europe
Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water
Dissidia 012 [duodecim] Final Fantasy Original Soundtrack
The Distillers - The Distillers
The Distillers - Coral Fang
The Distillers - Sing Sing Death House
The Doobie Brothers - Toulouse Street
The Doors - The Doors
The Dread Crew of Oddwood - Heavy Mahogany
Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Volume 3
The Eagles - Their Greatest Hits
The Explosion - Black Tape
Filter - Short Bus
Flashpot Theater - Think of the Possibilities
Foo Fighters - Greatest Hits
Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
Foster the People - Torches
Foxboro Hot Tubs - Stop Drop and Roll!!!
Peter Frampton - Frampton
frnkiero andthe cellebration - Stomachaches
Fun. - Some Nights
Godspeed You! Black Emporer - F♯ A♯ ∞ (vinyl)
Goldfinger - The Best of
Good Charlotte - Good Charlotte
Good Charlotte - The Chronicles of Life and Death
Good Charlotte - The Young and the Hopeless
Grateful Dead - Skeletons From the Closet
Green Day - Uno!
Green Day - Dos!
Green Day - Tre!
Green Day - 1039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours
Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown
Green Day - American Idiot
Green Day - Awesome as F**k
Green Day - Dookie
Green Day - Insomniac
Green Day - International Superhits
Green Day - Kerplunk
Green Day - Nimrod
Green Day - Shenanigans
Green Day - Warning
Guns and Roses - Greatest Hits
Hawthorne Heights - If Only You Were Lonely
Hey Monday - Hold On Tight
Indigo Girls - Indigo Girls
Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman: Israel Philharmonic Orchestra - Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante, Concertone
Jesus Christ Superstar (written and produced by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber)
Jet - Get Born
Jethro Tull - Stand Up
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
Jimmy Eat World - Chase This Light
Jimmy Eat World - Clarity
Jimmy Eat World - Damage
Jimmy Eat World - Futures
Jimmy Eat World - Futures (2 disc version)
Jimmy Eat World - Invented
Jimmy Eat World - Static Prevails
Journey - Greatest Hits
Kaiser Chiefs - Off With Their Heads
Kansas - Leftoverture
The Killers - Battle Born
The Killers - Day and Age
The Killers - Hot Fuss
The Killers - Live From Royal Albert Hall
The Killers - Sam's Town
The Killers - Sawdust
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Less Than Jake - Anthem
Less Than Jake - Borders and Boundaries
Less Than Jake - Hello Rockview
Less Than Jake - Losing Streak
John Mayer - Heavier Things
Metallica - Metallica (you probably know it as "The Black Album")
Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf - Muddy and The Wolf
Muse - The 2nd Law
Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
Muse - HAARP
Muse - Live at Rome Olympic Stadium
Muse - The Resistance
String Tribute Players - String Tribute to Muse
My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade is Dead!
My Chemical Romance - Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys
My Chemical Romance - I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love
My Chemical Romance - Life on the Murder Scene
My Chemical Romance - May Death Never Stop You: Greatest Hits 2001-2013
My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge
The New Minstrel Revue - Big Blue Sea
The New Minstrel Revue - Far and Away
New Politics - A Bad Girl in Harlem
Nirvana - Nirvana (a greatest hits album)
Nirvana - In Utero
Nirvana - Nevermind
North Mississippi Allstars - Shake Hands with Shorty
Operation Ivy - Energy (reissue version with 2 other EPs tacked on the end)
Operation Ivy - Seedy
Paramore - Paramore
Paramore - All We Know is Falling
Paramore - Brand New Eyes
Paramore - The Final Riot!
Paramore - Riot!
Pencey Prep - Heartbreak in Stereo
The Presidents of the United States of America - The Presidents of the United States of America
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Greatest Hits
Pink Floyd - Dark side of the Moon
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Radiohead - The Best Of
Ramones - Greatest Hits
Ramones - Rocket to Russia
Rancid - Rancid (1993)
Rancid - Rancid (2005)
Rancid - ...And Out Come the Wolves
Rancid - ...Honor is All We Know
Rancid - Indestructible
Rancid - Let the Dominoes Fall
Rancid - Let's Go
Rancid - Life Won't Wait
NOFX/Rancid - BYO Split Series/Vol. 3
Robert Randolph and the Family Band - Colorblind
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium
R.E.M. - Document
Rise Against - Appeal to Reason
Rise Against - The Black Market
Rise Against - Revolutions Per Minute
Rise Against - The Sufferer and the Witness
The Rolling Stones - Flowers
Carlos Santana - Santana's Greatest Hits
Carlos Santana - Seriously Santana
Joe Satriani - The Electric Joe Satriani: An Anthology
The Sex Pistols - The Sex Pistols (live CD)
The Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bullocks Here's The Sex Pistols
She Wants Revenge - She Wants Revenge
She Wants Revenge - This is Forever
Skee Lo - I Wish
The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Bruce Springsteen - 18 Tracks
Star Ocean Till the End of Time Director's Cut Original Soundtrack
Steppenwolf - The Best of Steppenwolf: The Millenium Collection
Styx - Gold (2 disc greatest hits)
Sum 41 - All Killer No Filler
George Thorogood & The Destroyers - Live In '99
K.T. Tunstall - Eye to the Telescope
U2 - U218 Singles
The Used - In Love and Death
Van Halen - Best of Volume I
VaNa MaZi - Flux
VaNa MaZi - Nostro Tokoro
Joe Walsh - Rocky Mountain Way
Warped Tour 2010 Compilation
Weezer - Weezer (blue)
Weezer - Weezer (green)
Weezer - Weezer (red)
Weezer - Everything Will Be Alright in the End
Weezer - Hurley
Weezer - Pinkerton
Weezer - Raditude
Barry White - The Best of Barry White: The Millenium Collection
The Who - Live at Leeds
The Who - The Ultimate Collection
Yellowcard - Lights and Sounds
Yellowcard - Ocean Avenue
Frank Zappa - Freak Out!
I think what is most indicative of my music collection is the era that I grew up in. The fact that I own CDs at all is an indication that I'm old enough to where streaming music over the internet wasn't a very viable option at the time due to dial-up internet being too slow and occupying the phone line. So, it may seem like I own a lot of greatest hits albums and that is probably because I do. In present times, if I want to check out a band I hadn't listened to before, I just do a YouTube search and find all kinds of full-length albums. But back then, buying greatest hits albums was the best way to determine whether you wanted to listen to a band's more obscure stuff or not.
There are some interesting entries on the list so I'll talk about those a bit.
The Catherine soundtrack I didn't even intend to buy but came with my used copy of the game Catherine (which is a pretty awesome puzzle game by the way). I'm glad that I had obtained it though because it's a pretty good soundtrack containing entries from Beethoven, Bach, Dvorak, Chopin, and others.
My copy of Dashboard Confessional's A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar is some kind of special edition that came with a making of DVD documentary and a couple of live performances.
The cover for The Best of Deep Purple Live in Europe has clearly been flipped since it shows a left-handed guitarist. Neither Ritchie Blackmore, Tommy Bolin, Joe Satriani, or Steve Morse were left-handed.
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Jimmy Eat World's Futures album was one of the first albums I ever purchased, which I had bought the year it came out in 2004. However, years later, I came across a 2 disc version of the album where the second disc contained all of the demo versions of the songs on the album. It's a pretty interesting listen especially if you are a fan of the studio recordings.
My copy of Jimmy Eat World's Bleed American is an original pressing that did not contain the name of the album on the cover due to sensitivity centered around the events of 9/11. Reissued versions of the album contain the words "Bleed American" on the cover.
The version of Less Than Jake's Borders and Boundaries album also came with a live DVD of the band playing the album in its entirety.
The Nirvana greatest hits album also contains a song called "You Know You're Right" which the band had recorded only a couple of months before Kurt Cobain passed on. It's a really good listen. Click here.
Operation Ivy's Seedy is a compilation of random cassette tapes and live performances. Interesting listen.
My copy of Rancid's Let the Dominoes Fall came with a second CD with acoustic versions of the songs, a DVD with a making of documentary, 4 guitar picks each featuring a different band member, and two posters (4 if you include the images on the flip side of each poster)
Skee Lo's I Wish I got for free. A local used music and game store had trouble giving the thing away. Needless to say, not the best hip hop album. The song "I Wish" though has a cute charm to it.
The copy of The Smashing Pumpkin's Siamese Dream I have is a special remastered version that also came with a B-sides disc and a live DVD of the album release show at The Metro in Chicago in 1993.
The copy of Weezer's Pinkerton also contains a second disc with B-sides and demos.
The Yellowcard Lights and Sounds album also came with a making of DVD and live performances.
I think it's also interesting to note that every Collective Soul album I have I got for a dollar or less. They're not great albums but for a dollar it's a decent deal.
Some of the other albums I have also are special editions but I figured they weren't mentioning here. I definitely don't claim to have the most expansive or rare collection, but I listen to what I like. A lot of albums I really like I don't own either on the account that my old man owns them on vinyl so, growing up, I could listen to them whenever I wanted. For instance, my father owns most of Led Zeppelin's releases, all of Deep Purple's (pre-1990), Black Sabbath, The Eagles, Styx, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Elvis Costello, the list goes on. So, a lot of the older hard rock and metal music I own supplements what he already owned.
I recognize that vinyl records are still the highest quality of audio recording, due to the analog nature of recording opposed to digital. However, I don't buy vinyl records for two main reasons; the first being that they are much more expensive and the second being that CDs are more convenient. What I mean by this is that ripping a CD is much faster and requires less setup/mixing than recording a record. Also, you can listen to CDs in the car.
CDs also degrade much slower since playback of a vinyl record significantly damages it. My old man has listened to Alice Cooper's School's Out so much that now the record is virtually unlistenable.
Well, that about sums up my music collection. I think I'm pretty far from being the stereotypical hipster but I do have some obscure entries in my collection. If you would like to hear more about those, leave a comment requesting a review for a particular artist/album and I will probably do it. Until then, keep kickin'.
Deep Purple cover image: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/72/The_Best_of_Deep_Purple_Live_in_Europe.jpg/220px-The_Best_of_Deep_Purple_Live_in_Europe.jpg
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