Musical Tase Defined...or at least listed

Since I am out of ideas and still in a vaguely pissy mood (it’s been that way all week. When you have a headache before you go to work things tend to go downhill from there) I’ve decided to try something that my friend Nathan did in his MySpace blog. Below is the list of all of the artists that I own on CD. I have a lot more sitting in files and on compilation discs but these are all of the ones that I went out and said, “You know what, I want a full album by this person.” In some instances I have no idea what precisely I was smoking at the time but apparently it must have been pretty good.

(Oh, and the picture is the cover of Sting’s “The Soul Cages”, which is the first CD that I ever bought. I’m not entirely proud of that but given that the first cassette that I ever bought was Men at Work’s “Cargo” I must consider it to be an improvement. Anyway, here’s the list.)

10,000 Maniacs
Aaron Neville
Aimee Mann
Air
Alaine Vinet Mouvement
Alejandro Escovedo
Allain Toussaint
Allison Moorer
Amy Farris
Anders Osborne
Arc Angels
Arcade Fire
Beausoleil
Belly
Ben Folds Five
Beth Orton
Bettie Serveert
Big Head Todd and the Monsters
Billy Bragg
Billy Bragg and Wilco
Billy Pilgrim
Black 47
Black Crowes
Blake Babies
Blue Mountain
Blue Rodeo
Bob Dylan
Bob Marley
Bruce Robison
Bruce Springsteen
Buddy Miller
Buick MacKane
C. J. Chenier
Caitlin Cary
Carbon Leaf
Caroline Herring
Cat Power
Cathy Richardson
Charlie Parker
Chris Mills
Cirque du Soleil (technically, this was a gift, not a purchase)
Coldplay
Continental Drifters
Corn Sisters
Counting Crows
Cowboy Junkies
Cowboy Mouth
Cracker
Damien Rice
Dave Matthews Band
David Ford
De La Soul
Death Cab for Cutie
Drovers
Eleni Mandell
Emmylou Harris
Freakwater
Freedy Johnston
Gear Daddies
Gershwin
Get Up Kids
Gillian Welch
Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova
Golden Smog
Gomez
Gram Parsons
Guided by Voices
Guster
Hank Williams III
Harry Connick Jr.
Henry Rollins
Howie Day
Immaculate Machine
Iris Dement
Jack Ingram
Jack Johnson
Jay Bennett and Edward Burch
Jay Farrar
Jeff Buckley
Jeff Buckley and Gary Lucas
Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins
Jenny Orenstein
Jesus Jones
Jimmy Buffett
Jimmy Lafave
Joan Osborne (why?)
Joe Ely
Joe Henry
John Hiatt
John Mayer
John Wesley Harding
Jon Dee Graham
Josh Ritter
Josh Rouse
Juliana Hatfield
Julie Delpy
Julie Miller
Jump, Little Children
Kasey Chambers
Kathleen Edwards
Keb’ Mo’
Kelly Hogan
Kelly Willis
Kelly Willis and Bruce Robison
Laura Cantrell
Laura Minor
Leonard Cohen
Liz Phair
Loreena McKennitt
Lucinda Williams
Luscious Jackson
Lyle Lovett
Maggie Walters
Marshall Crenshaw
Martin Zellar and the Hardways
Mary Chapin Carpenter
Mary Lou Lord
Matt Nathanson
Matthew Sweet
Mekons
Michael Mcdermott
Midnight Oil
Mike Doughty
Mike Plume Band
Mindy Smith
Moby
Monte Warden
My Morning Jacket
Natalie Imbruglia (egads!)
Neko Case
Neko Case and her Boyfriends
New Pornographers
Nick Drake
Nickel Creek
Nina Simone
Nirvana
Nora O’Connor
Old 97’s
Old Crow Medicine Show
Pat McGee Band
Patty Griffin
Paul Burch and the WPA Ballclub
Paul Simon
Paula Cole (Yes, posting this online is proof that I have no shame)
Peabody
Pearl Jam
Peter, Bjorn and John
Peter Gabriel
Pieta Brown
Po’ Girl
R.E.M.
Rachmaninov
Rex Hobart and the Misery Boys
Rhett Miller
Richard Buckner
Richard Thompson
Rilo Kiley
Robbie Fulks
Robert Earl Keen
Rufus Wainwright
Ryan Adams
Ryan Adams and the Cardinals
Sally Timms
Sally Timms and Jon Langford
Sarah McLachlan
Scott Miller and the Commonwealth
Shannon McNally
Sheryl Crow
Sinead Lohan
Sister Seven
Sleater-Kinney
Smashing Pumpkins
Social Distortion
Son Volt
Sonny Landreth
Soul Asylum
Star 69
Steve Earle
Steve Earle and the Del McCoury Band
Sting
Sufjan Stevens
Tanya Donelly
Terrance Simien
The Be Good Tanyas
The Blacks
The Brunettes
The Clash
The Connells
The Dirty Dozen Brass Band
The Ditty Bops
The Elders
The Flying Burrito Crothers
The Frames
The Freddy Jones Band
The Gourds
The Handsome Family
The Iguanas
The Insiders
The Jayhawks
The Minus 5
The Mollys
The Neville Brothers
The Pogues
The Police
The Polyphonic Spree
The Postal Service
The Saw Doctors
The Shins
The Smithereens
The Subdudes
The Sundays
The Tragically Hip
The V-Roys
The Young and the Sexy
They Might Be Giants
Tift Merritt
Tim Buckley
Tiny Town
Toad the Wet Sprocket
Tom Petty
Tommy Malone
Tori Amos
Trent Summar and the New Row Mob
Two Dollar Pistols with Tift Merritt
U2
Uncle Tupelo
Urge Overkill
Veda
Veruca Salt
Victoria Williams
Waco Brothers
Wayne Toups and Zydecajun
Webb Wilder
Whiskeytown
Widespread Panic
Wilco
Zachary Richard
Zack Burkhart