After finally catching Marillion (first trip to the US since 1998 - at the time I was unable to travel to see them) at the Sunset Strip House of Blues I stopped at the Hollywood Amoeba Records. After leaving my CD collection had officially surpassed 1000 hours. I can say that Chroma Key's This is a Recording was the CD that put me over 500 hours but I have to point to a huge cluster of CDs this time because, well, it was Amoeba. [But first I'll note taht that Chroma Key collection was received June 20, 2000, which means it's taken me just over 4 years to double my CD collection, moving at a rate of 19 minutes 28 seconds per day.]
The honorees (with rank; sort method: decreasing time I own by the CD Artist*)
5 - Anton Brucker - Sacred works for Chorus, 4 CD set on DG with Eugene Jochum/Berlin Philharmonic. His 3 masses, Te Deum, Psalm 150 and 10 of the motets.
39 - Bohuslav Martinu - Memorial to Lidice, Field Mass, Symphony 4
42 - Miles Davis - Agharta (now playing!)
59 - Wilco - Being There. They're coming to the Marquee on November 20.
139 - Earimart - Treble and Tremble. The new album. They're coming to Modified on October 20.
197 - Interpol - Antics. Their new album. October 30 at the Marquee. This album had me hooked before it came out (website had a free stream of Slow Hands) and it's growing on me.
251 - Per Norgard - Symphonies 4 and 5. I've been looking for some Norgard for quite some time. With Leif Segerstam conducting the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra.
281 - Erase Errata - Other Animals. Quite enjoyed them at Coachella. I'd like to see them again having actually heard the CDs.
303 - Long Fin Killie - Valentino. A short lived Scottish band I came across on AMG but I don't recall how and I can't seem to reconstruct the pathway either. At any rate it was $2.99 and it's pretty good.
* - This is how I (currently) file my CDs so each seperate CD package I have has to be alloted to somebody. This is more often an issue with classical music (The Final Concert is filed under Lenny rather than Beethoven or Britten [and also rather than, say, the Boston Symphony Orchestra) but I also, for example, file the Fields and Streams comp with other KRS comps.
