Just for fun: list 10 CDs in your collection...?

-Palladian Ensemble: Held By The Ears

-Eri Sugai: Kaori

-Clannad: Lore

-Libera: Luminosa

-Mike Oldfield: Music Of The Spheres

-Hayley Westenra: Pure

-Enya: Amarantine

-Bryn Terfel: We'll Keep A Welcome

-Soft Machine: Rubber Riff

-Karl Jenkins: Imagined Oceans

1. Metallica-Ride the Lightning

2. Neon Genesis Evangelion-Addition

3. The Doors-Greatest Hits

4. The Phantom of the Opera (multiple international casts)

5. Kris Kross-Da Bomb

6. David Arkenstone-Celtic Book of Days

7. Star Wars-Complete Symphonic Scores

8. Aerosmith-Greatest Hits

9. Tenchi Muyo-Movie Soundtrack

10. Mortal Syn-Anger Management

Here' I'll give you the twenty that are piled up around my computer at this very moment:

1. Marie-Clair Alain: Great Toccatas

2. Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet: Capriccio di Flauti

3. Blackmore's Night: Shadow of the Moon

4. The Carpenters: Ticket to Ride

5. Charles Dutoit: Jubilee -- Saint-Saens Danse Macabre

6. Enya: Amarantine

7. Virgil Fox: Heavy Organ Bach Live at Filmore East

8. Hilary Hahn: Brahms Strivinsky Violin Concertos

9. Sharon Isbin: Sharon Isbin's Greatest Hits

10. Jars of Clay: Redemption Songs

11. Piet Kee: Piet Kee at St. Bavo, Haarlem

12. Dr. Simon Lindley plays the Makin Organ in The Cathedral Church of St. John the Evangelist Salford (Demo CD)

13. Lyric: Like a Moth to a Flame (Self-produced CD from an a cappella group from Hull, England)

14. Manheim Steamroller: Christmas in the Aire by Chip Davis

15. Tim & Lori McCracken: Mercy Great (14 new Psalm Arrangements)

16. Renaissance: Azure D'or

17. Matsu Takako: Single Collection 1999-2005 (Japanese J-pop)

18. Shania Twain: Come on Over

19. Helmut Walcha: Johan Sebastian Bach Toccata & Fugue in D minor.

20. Todd Wilson: In a Quiet Cathedral

There are also about 300 records (LPs) in boxes under my feet serving as a foot stool and another hundred behind me. The majority of my CDs are downstairs.

I like I Jones' idea. Here are the CDs that are piled on my desk (because of recent listening):

- Dream Theater - Octavarium

- Mahler - Symphony #2 (CBSO, Rattle)

- The complete works of Varese (this one is always out)

- Simon and Garfunkel - "Old Friends" (disc 1)

- University of Miami wind ensemble playing pieces by Colgrass, Daugherty, and Dahl (not a great recording, but the only one I have of the Urban Requiem)

- Snoop Dogg -- Doggystyle (don't ask...)

- Bruckner 7 (RSO Berlin, Chailly) -- I tried yet again, but this symphony is still painfully boring

- Holst, The Planets (Philharmonia, Rattle...not the best recording, but it's the one I listened to most recently)

Sorry, that's only 8. I guess I've cleaned up in the last couple of weeks!

Black Tide-Light From Above

Garth Brooks-Double Live

Backstreet Boys-Millennium

Alison Krauss and Union Station-Home On The Highways

George Straight-50 Number Ones

Disturbed-Down With The Sickness

Jesse McCartney-Departed

Rush-Snakes and Arrows

Reba McEntire- #1's

Pink Floyd-Wish You Were Here

Graham Nash - Songs for Beginners

Arnold Schoenberg - Gurreleider

Magnet - On Your Side

The Butterfield Blues Band - In My Own Dream

Gustav Holst - The Cloud Messenger

Antonio Vivaldi - Gloria (RV588)

Ralph Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on Christmas Carols

Jean Sibelius - Symphony No 7

George Harrison - Brainwashed

Genesis - Trespass

Keith Urban's Greatest Hits

Staind-Break the cycle

Seether Disclaimer

Evanescence- Fallen

POD-satellite

Alanis Morissette- Under the rug swept

Insane Clown Possie- The great Milenko

Linkin Park-Meteora

Default-The Fall out

Flyleaf-Flyleaf

Someday you'll ask a question when we in the US aren't sleeping so someone actually reads our answers. On my desk as I left for work:

Simone Dinnerstein: the Goldberg Variations

Bernd Alois Zimmermann: Die Soldaten

Mstislav Rostropovich : Bach Cello Suites

Simon Rattle (BPO): Mahler 9

Kurt Weill - Happy End

R. Strauss: Die Ägyptische Helena

Rimsky-Korsakov: Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh

Hartke: The Greater Good

Tan Dun: Water Passion after St. Matthew

John Adams - El Nino

Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III

The Offspring - Rise & Fall, Rage & Grace

Coldplay - Viva La Vida

Killswitch Engage - As Daylight Dies

Korn - Untouchables

Frank Sinatra

Sevendust - Chapter VII

Rascal Flatts - Still Feels Good

Atreyu - Lead Sails Paper Anchor

Jack's Mannequin - Everything In Transit

Sixteen Stone - Bush

Because Of The Times - Kings of Leon

A Rush of Blood to the Head - Coldplay

Soundtrack - 8 Mile

Audioslave - Audiosalve

Born in the U.S.A. - Springsteen

Make Yourself - Incubus

Superunknown - Soundgarden

(What's the Story) Morning Glory? - Oasis

OK Computer - Radiohead