Criminal Records

Every few years I embark on a Stalinesque purge of the CD collection. Anyone else do this or is it just particularly Anorakish behaviour on my part?

After a good few years of gathering dust, the following were sacrificed to the Wheelie Bin this week (Even Freebird wouldn't want most of this lot):

Expecting to Fly - Bluetones
Return to the Last Chance Saloon - Bluetones
Laid - James
The Optimist - Turin Brakes
Life in Slow Motion - David Gray

Anyone any dodgy musical skeletons in the CD collection they care to mention?

Nah I do the same, if only to save some space, but there have been some recent ones deleted.

Razorlight - Razorlight and Slipway Fires...
Both albums as bad as each other, but I still think the first, Up All Night is quite good. Slipway Fires is just laughable.

Kaiser Chiefs - Off With Their Heads
More of the same, why bother?

Pendulum - In Silico
Gave it a few listens, and not sure what all the fuss is about... good luck.

Tool - 10,000 Days
I really really want to like it, but just dont have the patience...

It's not a collection if you throw stuff out! It's all part of your musical history.

I've a few boxes of singles in the loft which contains some crap.

The Bluetones were of their time, and Expecting to Fly is innocuous enough. I'm actually digging out some of the Early/ Mid 90's indie for nostagic listening - a lot of it isn't as bad as I remember in the cold light of day seperated from personalities and NME hype (both pro and anti).

I dislike about 9 out of 10 records I hear yet still I find the idea of committing any to the bin repugnant. A record ...carried on a vinyl, a CD, a cassette or whatever is exactly that - a record. Dumping them is as absurd as chucking out old photographs.

Try ebaying them for starters.

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Originally Posted by Lionel Ritchie

I dislike about 9 out of 10 records I hear yet still I find the idea of committing any to the bin repugnant. A record ...carried on a vinyl, a CD, a cassette or whatever is exactly that - a record. Dumping them is as absurd as chucking out old photographs.

Try ebaying them for starters.

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"Repugnant" and "absurd" is a bit strong in this case - I'd understand it if I was discarding an album I'd divested some emotional worth upon in the past or stirred up memories of a time, place, person, event etc etc - even if the music had dated.

I just threw out a few dodgy scratched CD's that never meant much to me.

I didn't throw a bag of kittens off a tower block!!!!

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Originally Posted by Wolfie

"Repugnant" and "absurd" is a bit strong in this case - I'd understand it if I was discarding an album I'd divested some emotional worth upon in the past or stirred up memories of a time, place, person, event etc etc - even if the music had dated.

I just threw out a few dodgy scratched CD's that never meant much to me.

I didn't throw a bag of kittens off a tower block!!!!

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Funnily enough -I'd have little enough issue with you chucking a bag of kittens off a tower block. This country is awash with unwanted, unspayed, uncared for, uncontrolled pets. ...and besides - I really hate cats. :)

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Originally Posted by Lionel Ritchie

Funnily enough -I'd have little enough issue with you chucking a bag of kittens off a tower block. This country is awash with unwanted, unspayed, uncared for, uncontrolled pets. ...and besides - I really hate cats. :)

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Indeed. I'm posting from a Ballymun Tower as we speak.

If you'd excuse me...................................

I wouldn't be able to do it. I've spent too much time and money getting my vinyl, cassettes and CD's together to just chuck them or sell them. There's a fair amount of crap that will probably be never listened to again but I would rather have the old cassette than be a euro (or less, in a lot of cases) richer. They're part of your history, like it or not.

I've been exclusively digital for the past five years or so, so no real shockers to report. Think I bought a Stereophonics album once, though. :o

Like Lionel and others on here I'd have a sort of innate revulsion to the idea of chucking a CD, unless it really, really was mind-meltingly awful.
Same with books as a matter of fact. I've never chucked a CD or album yet, and have only ever binned one book, and that because it was so pathetically poor in every regard that it was an affront to keep it in the same house as I was!
As a result though, I have an awful amount of crap in the collection, and one in particular will beat anything anyone has to offer, though it's on vinyl and not CD.

The most awful brand of new-age, euro-hippy trippy synthy prog-mongery that is Bo Hansson's Music Inspired By Lord Of The Rings.

Where do I get my prize? :D

By the way, In Silico is a cracking little album!

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Originally Posted by stann

Like Lionel and others on here I'd have a sort of innate revulsion to the idea of chucking a CD, unless it really, really was mind-meltingly awful.
Same with books as a matter of fact. I've never chucked a CD or album yet, and have only ever binned one book, and that because it was so pathetically poor in every regard that it was an affront to keep it in the same house as I was!
As a result though, I have an awful amount of crap in the collection, and one in particular will beat anything anyone has to offer, though it's on vinyl and not CD.

The most awful brand of new-age, euro-hippy trippy synthy prog-mongery that is Bo Hansson's Music Inspired By Lord Of The Rings.

Where do I get my prize? :D

By the way, In Silico is a cracking little album!

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Will see you and raise you Boney M -Live ...the only thing 'live' on it is the crowd mic ...and that mightn't even have been a Boney M gig.

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Originally Posted by Macy

It's not a collection if you throw stuff out! It's all part of your musical history.

I've a few boxes of singles in the loft which contains some crap.

The Bluetones were of their time, and Expecting to Fly is innocuous enough. I'm actually digging out some of the Early/ Mid 90's indie for nostagic listening - a lot of it isn't as bad as I remember in the cold light of day seperated from personalities and NME hype (both pro and anti).

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if i looked hard enough i could find a vinyl copy of menswears album....altho i probably stil have a fondness for the single..name escapes me..

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Originally Posted by Lionel Ritchie

Will see you and raise you Boney M -Live ...the only thing 'live' on it is the crowd mic ...and that mightn't even have been a Boney M gig.

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No, not having it! :D
It in all likelihood has Daddy Cool in it, which straightaway makes it, well, cool. :cool:
Incidentally, I think I have their album Nightflight To Venus somewhere about the place on vinyl too, though I was given it at the time, rather than bought it like.

I never chuck anything out, it's a part of your history, regardless of how bad it might now seem to you; There'll come a time when you wake up one morning Cast's guiding star in your brain, you'll shake your head in disbelief that you ever wasted your money on buying it before digging it out for a play on the way to work, you'll then irritate the cr@p out of your co-workers by singing it all day, and this will somehow make you feel so much better about the 10 quid you shelled out in 1997.... or is that just me?

That said I can't believe you're purging Laid, that's a very decent album
As mentioned elsewhere Bluetones were of their time no shame in that.

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Originally Posted by endabob1

I never chuck anything out, it's a part of your history, regardless of how bad it might now seem to you; There'll come a time when you wake up one morning Cast's guiding star in your brain, you'll shake your head in disbelief that you ever wasted your money on buying it before digging it out for a play on the way to work, you'll then irritate the cr@p out of your co-workers by singing it all day, and this will somehow make you feel so much better about the 10 quid you shelled out in 1997.... or is that just me?

That said I can't believe you're purging Laid, that's a very decent album
As mentioned elsewhere Bluetones were of their time no shame in that.

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It's irritation as opposed to shame, Endabob. Hadn't listened to them in years and just decided to chuck them.

I respect and understand the view that records are part of your history.

Indeed, I've many records from the 90's (of varying quality) that I've not listened to in years but would never discard them as they remind me of people, places, occasions etc.

The ones I've not real attachment to and which begin to get on my nerves are binned.

Deleted any Red Hot Chili Peppers stuff. I did like them at one stage but i've gone completely off them now, probably for good.