If you had all your records stolen....
 

If you had all your records stolen and had to start from scratch what 15 would you start with? (no compilations)

My list is pretty standard...looking forward to seeing everybodys.

In no order...

Licensed to Ill - Beastie Boys
Violator – Depeche Mode
London Calling – Clash
Never Mind The Bollocks – Pistols
Some Girls – Rolling Stones
Doolittle - Pixies
The Head on the Door - The Cure
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
Siamese Dream-Smashing Pumpkins
Badmotorfinger- Soundgarden
It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back Public Enemy
Highway to Hell AC/DC
Dookie – Green Day
The Cars - The Cars
Pisces Iscariot-Smashing Pumpkins

Could I argue that this is essentially a "what are your top 15 records of all time" list?

And I'll add that it sounds like you're about my age. :p:

well no not really. Ok well kinda. But I think Id start out with a good mix ..just not my favorites, give you a better starting point. More like a personal essentials list..

I'm 38..you?

I would cry my little girly eyes out and not be able to start again really, a lot of my LPs have good memories attached to them, not just what's on it but how I came to have them.

For example, when I was 14 I was skipping school with a girl who'd only been friends for only a couple of days, and we stopped into the little record store in town, and come to find my favorite record is in, Sandinista!, of course. I've never seen Sandinista! vinyl in this city and it was in great condition, but I had no money and knew it would be gone if I didn't get it that day. So, my friend tells me that she'll put half down on it so I wouldn't lose the chance to have it. It was one of the kindest things anyone had done for me, because she could tell how much it meant to me.

That's a great story. My Mum used to work at a paint store and money was tight. Every payday she would call from work and ask me what record I wanted from Sam the Record Man. I didn't matter if it was Big Balls from ACDC she would pick it up.

She let me develop my taste not guide it. Perfect.

if i had to start rebuying everything i probably wouldn't (d/l everything instead) but for the sake of this thread i'd start with these.

eric dolphy - last date
jimi hendrix - axis:bold as love
red hot chili peppers - freaky styley
kyuss - ...and the circus leaves town
QOTSA - R
monster magnet - 4 way diablo
jaga jazzist - a livingroom hush
mogwai - the hawk is howling
air - moon safari
aphex twin - saw2
stan getz & luiz bonfa - the jazz samba encore!
radiohead - OK computer
boards of canada - geogaddi
jane's addiction - nothing's shocking
gandharvas - kicking in the water

this makes me happy.

these are excellent choices.

as for me...if this were to really happen i would probably continue searching for new stuff and just pick up the albums that got stolen as i felt like listening to them.

but, if i did have to pick 15

smashing pumpkins - siamese draem
boards of canada - the campfire headphase
the cure - disintegration
elliot smith - either/or
the flaming lips - yoshimi battles the pink robots
the mars volta - deloused in the comatorium
mew - and the glass handed kites
my bloody valentine - loveless
radiohead - hail to the thief
rush - permanent waves
thievery corporation - the cosmic game
yo la tengo - i can hear the heart beating as one
allman brothers band - live at filmore east
king crimson - red
genesis - foxtrot

chosen with both variety and essential-ness in mind. not necessarily my top 15 of all time.

EXACTLY. Nice.

funny how in the last half hour since i posted this i'd change about half my list hahaha

Let's see here... Using Duga's criteria:

The Clash - Sandinista!
Talking Heads - The Name of this Band is Talking Heads
R.E.M. - Fables of the Reconstruction
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
Brian Wilson - SMiLE
The Feelies - The Good Earth
Miles Davis - In a Silent Way
Joy Division - Closer
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: L.A.'s Desert Origins (Reissue)
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
Aesop Rock - Labor Days
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion

This makes sense...getting a good variety to get started with. I'm 33.

Yeah I feel the same way. I've invested so much time and money into my physical collection, that if it got stolen I'd cry a few rivers and be slightly relieved to be free of something that essentially owns me. Plus these days I download more than I buy, and when I buy I've already heard the album most times so I just throw it on the shelf. I would just take the opportunity to move on.

This make sense too. I may not re-purchase anything I already owned unless it meets the following criteria: Awesome music & excellent artwork or packaging.

Lots of great stuff posted so far. Perhaps I'll work up a list soon.

ALRIGHT '76 :beer: hahaha

this exact situation happened to my roommate about 10 years ago. the physical replacements for his collection have been very few and very far between since. can't say i really blame him though.

I'd only get my singles back.

Just like duga said, I'd just get them as I became in the mood. I know it wouldn't be very long before I reacquired these though.

Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?
A Name Unheard - S/T
The Cure - 17 Seconds
Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me
Death From Above 1979 - Heads Up
Attack in Black - Marriage
Fugazi - Repeater
Lightning Bolt - Hypermagic Mountain
Eric's Trip - Forever Again
The Locust - New Erections
Lullabye Arkestra - Ampgrave
Wintersleep - Untitled
Andrew Jackson Jihad - Only God Can Judge Me
Minutemen - Double Nickles on the Dime


Partially due to their greatness and my desires for the moment. Also not including stuff I don't physically own.

I couldn't even decide which 15 Fall albums i'd want to keep, let alone every other band too.

Operation Ivy - Energy
Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me
Wu Tang Clan - Enter The Wu-Tang
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
Pixies - Surfer Rosa
Minutemen - Double Nickels On The Dime
JFA - We Know You Suck
Fugazi - 13 Songs
Drive Like Jehu - Yank Crime
Descendents - Livage!
maybe Dirt - Alice In Chains....can't think of anymore as of now.

I really don't see the 'essentialness' of this album whenever someone brings it up in a hip-hop thread. I do like it, but it doesn't stand out very much among other old-school rap albums.

You're kidding.

It's those beats, man. Those beats are sick. Excursions samples Art Blakey, Jazz (We've Got) samples Freddy Hubbard's Red Clay, and coolest of all, Scenario samples Davis' "So What", the Ohio Players, Kool & The Gang (TWICE) and Jimi Hendrix.

This might not mean much to you, but that is revolutionary.

Not to mention, Tip's lyrics are some of the best of the genre. Audacious and thought provoking, yet restrained.

The Smiths - Meat Is Murder
The Clash - London Calling
The Shins- Wincing The Night Away
Jeff Buckely - Grace
The Zombies - Odessey And Oracle
The Kinks - Arthur (Or The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire)
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
R.E.M. - Murmur
Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols
The Chameleons - Script Of The Bridge
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
The Smiths - The Smiths
The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde
David Bowie - Aladdin Sane

stolen????
ha!
no problem...I listen to radio and use interner sources....
don't bother about this.
though, definitely Franz Ferdinand will eb the first choice) maybe White Stripes, Rolling Stones, Beatles, etc...etc

I think this is a really great story. I enjoyed reading it. Not everyone would understand how much something like that could mean to someone. Are you still friends with that girl?

trick question.

I'd buy a gun, and a dog.

Isn't this the same as "your top 15 albums" or "15 albums you'd take with you to a deserted album"?

"chosen with both variety and essential-ness in mind. not necessarily my top 15 of all time."

Hmm... probably these:

Strapping Young Lad - City
Death - The Sound of Perseverance
Killing Joke - Democracy
Blackalicious - The Craft
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Aesop Rock - Labor Days
Elliott BROOD - Ambassador
The Smalls - My Dear Little Angle
Green Carnation - Light of Day, Day of Darkness
Gruvis Malt - ... With the Spirit of a Traffic Jam
Enslaved - Below the Lights
Opeth - Deliverance
Devin Townsend - Terria
I Monster - Neveroddoreven
Portishead - Dummy

Those were just off the top of my head and ones that I primarily use to enhance or change moods, therefore they take precedence over other albums I would consider to be my "favourites".

April March Paris In April
Art Of Noise The Seduction Of Claude Debussy
The Beautiful South 0898
Blue Foundatoin Life Of A Ghost
Bran Van 3000 Discosis
Cranes Loved
David Gilmour David Gilmour
DJ Krush Zen
DJ Shadow Endtroducing
Eels Beautiful Freak
Erik Truffaz Arkhangelsk
The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
Flunk Morning Star
Honeycut The Day I Turned To Glass
Hooverphonic A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular


goddamnit i only made it to H.
ok i give up.

I don't call people ignorant very often, but yo: you're ignorant. This is like saying Straight Outta Compton isn't essential because it sounds like every other West Coast album of that time. ATCQ were one of the first groups to pioneer the use of jazz samples in hip hop, if it wasn't for them and their contemporaries you'd still be listening to leather-clad proto-boy bands rapping over Donna Summers and James Brown.

Hmm...

Thievery Corporation - The Mirror Conspiracy
The Future Sound Of London - Lifeforms
Dead Can Dance - Spleen and Ideal
David Bowie - "Heroes"
Elvis Costello - Spike
Steel Pulse - True Democracy
Augustus Pablo - East Of the River Nile
The Byrds - Sweetheart Of the Rodeo
PIL - Metal Box
Ali Farka Toure & Toumani Diabate - In the Heart Of the Moon
Sam & Dave - The Very Best Of...
Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street
The Beatles - The White Album
The Pogues - Red Roses For Me
Bob Dylan - Blood On the Tracks

...or something like that.

/schooled

NICE hahaha i busted out their debut 'Glee' the other night at work. no matter how much people hate 'Drinking in LA' i freaking love that album.

nice...a david gilmour solo fan. did you like on an island? i thought it was pretty good. everytime i listen to it, though, i just feel like i'm trying to get my new pink floyd fix. let's face it, that voice of his is owned by pink floyd.

^First album that came to mind when I read this thread.

Going by the idea of what you'd pick up first just to listen to...here's my list. 2-4 are Fabriclive mix's, which are mostly mixes of electronica genre's with quite a bit of variety thrown in as well.


DJ Shadow - Entroducing
Fabriclive 35 - Marcus Intalex (DnB)
Fabriclive 22 - Scratch Perverts (Hip-Hop/DnB)
Fabriclive 26 - Herbaliser (Hip-Hop/Funk)
Air - Moon Safari
Dieselboy - Dungeon-masters Guide
Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Between the Buried and Me - Colors
Chick Corea - Time Warp
Noir (Anime) - OST
Propellerheads - Decksanddrumsandrockandroll
The Faint - Wet From Birth
Cirrus - Counterfeit
I Am Ghost - Lover's Requiem
KMFDM - Retro

Yeah, that was seriously tough.

Edit: Wow, I forgot BT - Movement In Still Life...that would be my 16th pick up...

Here goes:

The Band - self-titled
Captain Beefheart - Clear Spot
King Crimson - Red
Johnny Cash - Live at Folsom Prison
Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Pearl Jam - Vs.
Neil Young - Tonight's the Night
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
The Black Keys - The Big Come Up
Willie Nelson - Willie and Family Live
Waylon Jennings - Live
Phil Collins - Face Value
Tool - Lateralus
Radiohead - The Bends
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks

After thinking it through, a few come to mind for various reasons.

Yes - Close to the Edge - Not an album I like to really listen anymore, but I'd just have to have this one again. It was not only what started my collection, but it made me very ambitious. I picked it up a few hours away from home when I was 13 or so, and the owner told me it was an original press that he just wanted to sell for about 6 or 7 dollars. Truth be told I had no idea if he was lying or not, but the cover was aged so I took it. He ended up being sincere, and it's something I could never let go of. Just that whole feeling of '**** YES I'M INTO VINYL'.

Explosions in the Sky - The Earth is not a Cold Dead Place - Basically just because it's the most beautiful album I've ever heard played on a record. I bought it when I was literally going through a post-rock obsession (although I strongly believe TEINACDP is the only EITS album worth writing home about). This album speaks so much when it's on the stand.

Dead Kennedys - In God We Trust, Inc. - I really like this EP and all, but I just could never let go of my copy, even though it's a boring repress. I brought this in when I did a speech on Jello Biafra in English class and everybody thought I was the coolest kid on the block for the hour. Jello would totally be ecstatic that I use music to gain some form of popularity, he'd be ecstatic!

John Coltrane - Sun Ship - Badass half-way to free jazz Coltrane.Sounds pristine, the cover is something I find myself looking at for hours, and I practically begged to afford it. It's a repress, as well, but it's still damn lovely.

I've started my music collection over from scratch at least a handful of times. While I don't think ahead long enough to know what my next 15 albums are going to be, it become a ritual to acquire Pink Floyd-Animals, Beethoven's Piano Sonatas 14, 23, 8, and Miles Davis-Bitches Brew as my first three acquired albums.

That EP is a tough little gem not to like. I wrote a report on Jello for a guitar class assignment back in middle school. If only I could have gained some sort of social acceptance because of it. :)

Alright, let's see. Seeing as how were just starting over, meaning these would be the ones to tie me over until I restore my collection to it's former glory...

Between the Buried and Me - Colors
Pink Floyd - Animals
Opeth - Deliverance
Mr. Bungle - California
Grails - Doomsdayer's Holiday
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
Dead Kennedys - Plastic Surgery Disasters
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Tool - Aenima
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
NOFX - Pump up the Valium
Bad Religion - All Ages
Primus - Pork Soda
Tom Waits - Real Gone

I made it a point not to name any artist more than once.

people hate Drinking in LA? i never knew. i think all three of their albums (Bran Van 3000) are fantastic. but i do hate the fact that i've never decided what genre to call them in foobar :D

i do like it quite a lot. in fact, i got to see him on that tour. it was the first night he played at Royal Albert Hall. Crosby and Nash were there doing backups, and Bowie made a guest appearance to sing Arnold Layne and then Waters' parts on Comfortably Numb. it was the best show ever!

i just call them eclectic although admittedly i've never listened to a full album besides their debut. a lot of canadians from my generation can't stand Drinking in LA because it got so overplayed when it first came out. personally it was Len's 'Steal my Sunshine' that angered me to no end around the same time period hahaha.

oh you're canadian, that explains it :D

i don't think they ever got much airplay outside of canada.

don't even remember how i came across them - it was years ago. great band.