Eclectic Much?

Loading the new CD case scared me

Published on April 5, 2006 By Ms Mitchell In Entertainment

I live with mood disorders among my family members. Mood swings like you wouldn't believe. Child is coloring nicely--wait... DUCK! He just chucked a shoe at my head. You put the clutch in, shift, and keep going.

What does this have to do with my CD's? Maybe it's because I am, in fact, a teacher and perpetual student of music; maybe I'm overdue for a meds check my own self. Even I find my choices odd. The favorites that I carry with me from car to car are a little, well, bipolar.

Here's the list:
Swingle Singers--Jazz Sebastian Bach
Celtic Woman
Raffi--Singable Songs for the Very Young
Mozart--Mass in C minor
Ladies of Song (cheap Wal-Mart compilation)
Cecilia Bartoli--The Salieri Album
Jazz for When You're Alone (cheap Wal-Mart compilation)
Lionel Richie--Greatest Hits
Kiss Me, Kate Soundtrack
Barbara Bonney--Sallie Chisum Remembers Billy the Kid
Ute Lemper Sings Kurt Weill
Seussical the musical
Gladys Knight--One Voice
Il Divo
East Village Opera Company
Chris Botti--When I Fall in Love
Chris Botti--A Thousand Kisses Deep
Essential Billy Joel
Billy Joel--Fantasies and Delusions
Emmylou Harris--Heartaches and Highways
Classical Music For People Who Hate Classical Music
Judy Collins--Classic Folk
The Mamas and the Papas--California Dreamin'
Indigo Girls--Retrospective
U2--War
Natalie Merchant--The House Carpenter's Daughter
Frank Sinatra--Gold
The Real Group
Radio Disney Jams 8
And the Complete works of Gaelic Storm

You can tell me straight. Is this a cry for help? BTW What's in your CD wallet?

Comments

Tova7

on Apr 05, 2006

That's quite a list. Where do you keep all that?

I don't get to listen to much music while in the vehicle. The DVD player is usually on. When alone I like to drive in silence, or blasting whatever radio station flavors my day.

Ms Mitchell

on Apr 05, 2006

Where do you keep all that?

I just bought a CD case that holds 48 discs. I commute an hour and a half so I either listen to my CDs or books on tape.

Buddah Moskowitz

on Apr 05, 2006

Here is a brief selection of the cds in my office cd rack:

West Side Story -Soundtrack
New York Tendaberry - Laura Nyro
Best of the Ronettes
Strictly Commercial - Frank Zappa
Kylie - Kylie Minogue
Los Angeles/Wild Gift - X
The Rising - Bruce Springsteen
Switched On Bach - Wendy Carlos
The Berkeley Concert - Lenny Bruce
Mr. Jones - Tom Jones
Girl - Tiny Tim and Brave Combo
Gett Off (cd single) - Prince and the NPG
The Sounds of Science - The Beastie Boys
I Don't Get No Respect - Rodney Dangerfield
Music from Disneyland's "Haunted Mansion"
The Four Seasons - Anne-Sophie Mutter and the Trondheim Soloists
Judy Garland Speaks! (rare outtakes of Judy's drunken notes for her autobiography)
Great Jewish Music (Tribute to Burt Bacharach) - Various Artists
Charles Brown - Wouldn't it be Grand
The Essential Willie Nelson

so, I think your collection is just right. Then again, I'm a recovering alcoholic with OCD tendencies.

ParaTed2k

on Apr 07, 2006

I'd say that you have nicely irratic tastes... no wonder we get along so well..... (not enough guitar music there though ;~D).

Mine:

The Ramones: End of the Century
Led Zeppelin: IV
Willie Nelson: Greatest Hits (and some that will be)
Rod Steward: MTV Unplugged
Fats Waller: Best of...
Beethoven: Piano Concerto #5 (Emporer opus)
Ozzy Osbourne: Randy Rhoads Tribute
SuperTramp: Breakfast in America
Ray Charles: In Concert
Earl Scruggs & LeRoy Leavit: Live at Carnegie Hall
The Oakridge Boys: Have Arrived
Iron Maiden: Piece of Mind
Elton John: Don't Shoot Me, I'm Just the Piano Player
Animaniacs: Wakko's World/State Capitals

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