So what should be a MUST in my collection?

Dara Robinson

So just lost a tonne of my music collection (20+ gigs to be exact) due to iTunes making a complete and utter mess of my collection. I had set it to NOT organise my stuff and then some how in one of the updates it took control again and took all my movie sound tracks, compilations and so on and created folders for almost each song. And moved every song around so its easier to delete anything thats not an album and download again.

So after I uninstalled iTunes, made a sacrifice to the got of sweet revenge and installed Winamp back onto my PC I was trying to make a list of what I had lost and so on and it got me thinking. What should I have in there?

So I'm asking others to see what they think and I will then see what I think. Its always nice to hear what others say as normally people remind of some great music that you had forgotten about or missed.

Ok, tell me what of the following I should have or is a must in any good music library in your opinion:

• Greatest Hits Albums
• Movie Soundtracks
• Compilations (Summer chill music, Xmas music, Air Guitar, Rock Anthems... you get the picture)

smokedeels

if you've already purchased music with your itunes account, can you not download the same songs/albums again?

bigwormbundoran

I would consider these to be on the ould essential side of things now

Queen - Greatest Hits I
Faith no More - This is it , the best of Faith no More
Blues Brothers soundtrack
Rolling Stone Magazine 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (some amount of kak on it but some real gems too)
The Very Best of Dire Straits
The Dock of the Bay (The definitive Otis Redding Collection)
Dedication (The Very Best of Thin Lizzy)
The Cream of Clapton

DazMarz

The Best Of Def Leppard (great rock tunes on here; two CD collection containing their finest material from all their albums up to 2002)

30: The Very Best Of Deep Purple (exactly what it says on the tin, some of the best tunes and anthems from one of the original rock/metal bands)

Red, White And Crüe (two CD's of the best from the 1980's hell-raisers)

Pulp Fiction Soundtrack

Reservoir Dogs Soundtrack

Journey Greatest Hits

Dara Robinson

smokedeels wrote: »

if you've already purchased music with your itunes account, can you not download the same songs/albums again?

Yip I can but its just that the whole experience got me thinking. So after this thread I will probably be off to get more

@bigwormbundoran
with Faith no More, is that the "Sultans Of Swing" best of? Cause if so I have it already and its great
And I did not know of The Dock of the Bay, thanks

@DazMarz
I was stunned and ashamed when I realised I did not have any Thin Lizzy in my Library. Some gremlin must have deleted it, my story and I'm sticking to it

smokedeels

Dara Robinson wrote: »

Yip I can but its just that the whole experience got me thinking. So after this thread I will probably be off to get more

ahh... I see, I'd recommend you get "Superfly" by Curtis Mayfield (film soundtrack)

jaybee747

Just to add one of my favorites, Forrest Gump soundtrack is a must.

A V A

u2 - boy
joy division - substance / unkown pleasure
new order - movement/power,coruption and lies
huma league - travelogue/dare/ reproduction
john foxx - meta matic
the smiths - the very best of/ meat is murder
kraftwerk - trans europe express/ tour de france
depeche mode - speak and spell
the clash - london calling
the knife - silent shout
hans zimmer- the pacific ost / inception / the last samurai
michael kamen - a band of brothers ost
gary numan - pleasure principle
the drums - the drums
the cure - boys dont cry / three imaginary boys / the head on the door
bauhaus - the collection "best of"
the beatles - please please me
nine inch nails - pretty hate machine
the police - synchronicity
yazoo - you and me both / up stairs at erics


thats not including today modern music :P

Dara Robinson

Some really nice stuff there man, I have a good bit of it but lots I dont. Nice taste

A V A

sh*t sorry didnt read the best of part

Dara Robinson

post again, its a forum :P

A V A

haha most of them bands dont have a greatest hits :P

Sinfonia

Dara Robinson wrote: »

Movie Soundtracks

Pulp Fiction
High Fidelity
Platoon
Amelie
Blues Brothers
The Virgin Suicides
Friday Night Lights
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
The Royal Tenenbaums
The Darjeeling Limited
The Matrix
Romeo & Juliet
Cinema Paradiso
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Out of Sight
Rock n' Rolla
Semi-Pro
28 Days Later
The Godfather
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Graduate
Psycho
Vertigo
The Shining
Amadeus
The Last Waltz

...for starters!

Malice

Make sure you make a backup of your music and synchronise it regularly this time so that if something bad does happen, at least you won't be starting from scratch again.

Andy-Pandy

Here is my lastFM profile, anything i would recomend you is on this.

Oasis_Dublin

Oasis – Definitely Maybe
Oasis – (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
Oasis – Dig Out Your Soul
Radiohead – The Bends
The Smiths – The Sound Of The Smiths (The Very Best Of)
Arctic Monkeys – Favourite Worst Nightmare
Radiohead – OK Computer
The Fratellis – Costello Music
Arctic Monkeys – Whatever people say I am that's what I'm not
Noel Gallagher – The Dreams We Have As Children
Blur – Parklife
Coldplay – Parachutes
Coldplay – A Rush of Blood to the Head
The Coral – Roots and Echoes
Radiohead – Pablo Honey
Muse – Black Holes & Revelations
The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses
Muse – Origin of Symmetry
The Cure – Greatest Hits (CD1)
Blur – Blur

Thats my top from Last.fm. There are some that are missing from there that I haven't listened to much since I signed up to last.fm but all of the above are worth an extended play

Auvers

A few essential R&B albums

Roy Gallagher - Irish Tour '74

Albert King & Stevie Ray Vaughan - In Session

Freddie King - Burglar

Bob Dylan - Blood on the tracks (not R&B but a bloody good album)

Muddy Waters - The London Sessions

Howlin Wolf - The London Howlin sessions

Paul Kossoff - Back Street Crawler