How many unopened Cd's do you have?

[karlhenning]

Just one unopened CD, and I don't know just why I haven't opened it yet . . . .

[BachQ]

Just one unopened CD, and I don't know just why I haven't opened it yet . . . .

Subliminally, you haven't opened it just in case a thread like this were to emerge .......... So that you could post and feel a sense of belonging ........

[Don]

How can you guys have that many CDs that you haven't listened to? I usually buy stuff because I want to hear it - I'd be naturally curious as to my new purchase... Or why are you not listening to these?

I don't have a great answer to the above.  For me, a new cd competes with all the others I own.

Here's a typical example.  I love Bach and bought the Goldbergs played by Jill Crossland on Apex.  Normally, I'll put that new disc right in the car's cd player and start listening on the drive home.  But I was feeling lazy that morning and didn't want to exert the effort to make the change.  So I continued to listen to Claves disc of Schumann piano music.  I found the performance of Humoreske magnificent and started making comparisons with other favorites when I got home.  So quickly, Crossland becomes history.  But I'll get around to her and all the others.

[techniquest]

I don't have any unopened CD's, but I do have just a couple that haven't been played yet (Yoshimatsu 5th Symphony, Petterson 9th Symphony). I haven't listened to 'all' of most of my CD's, but I have listened to 'most' of all of them (if that makes sense).

[M forever]

Oh shit. Waaaaay too many. Plus a lot which I haven't listened to completely, plus a lot in box sets which I have opened but listened to only partially.

[techniquest]

Update: I have now listened to Yoshimatsu's 5th Symphony and thoroughly enjoyed it. 

[Don Giovanni]

At the moment I have an unopened recording of Solti's Salome but I shall open it soon.

[Sergeant Rock]

I don't have any unopened CDs but the other day I found another unopened LP:




I must have bought it around 20 years ago. It wasn't with my other Mahler records and has been completely overlooked for 20 years. I didn't even know it existed.

Sarge

[marvinbrown]

At the moment I have an unopened recording of Solti's Salome but I shall open it soon.

  If thats the recording with Birgit Nilsson you are in for a treat.  Although some opera fans would argue that Nilsson does not sound like a spoiled, sexually obsessed teenage girl (ie. Salome) I happen to like that recording. So much excitement in that recording and its been digitally remastered....also check out Solti's Elektra on cd another splendid recording......


  marvin

[BachQ]

Update: I have now listened to Yoshimatsu's 5th Symphony and thoroughly enjoyed it. 

Great idea for a thread: "Your Reactions to Music which had Remained Unopened for Prolonged Periods ........"

[not edward]

How about "How many unlistened-to OperaShare downloads do you have?"

[M forever]

About 2.3 million, I think. But most of them are unlistenable anyway. But it's free, and it's more about the collecting, right?

[sidoze]

But it's free, and it's more about the collecting, right?

I think so. It's about finding rare stuff, for those of us who are fairly jaded with local stores  I think it's bad enough for us piano and orchestral guys. the opera and vocal fellows though, they must be overwhelmed b the flood. But then they are a sort anyway....

[Coopmv]

I must have a Vivaldi Four Seasons disc somewhere, but I'd be hard-pressed to produce it within an hour's time.  Whenever I want Vivaldi, which is never, there's always a steady dose of the guy on the local classical station in the morning.  The station's audience loves Vivaldi, guitar music, crossover and bite-sized pieces of long works.

BTW, I only have the equivalent of 3 sets of Bach Cantatas and still have not opened up that 60-CD Harnoncourt Bach Cantatas set I bought back in early February.

[Jay F]

No more than ten, all pop/rock.

[snyprrr]

2...both on Sony.

Ligeti/Arditti...saving for the "last days"

Berio/Boulez...a "library" cd that I then bought new

For me, it's important to feel like I've got SOMETHING for my "present opening" fingers...oh, how I love to open presents!!

They say that if you mis place something you'll want it forever, but as soon as you find it and log it, you'll never need it again!

[RussellG]

None.  As soon as I get something new everything else goes on hold until it's been heard, plus it gets heavy rotation for the next few days.  It does help being able to listen to 10 or so hours of music every day though.

[Coopmv]

None.  As soon as I get something new everything else goes on hold until it's been heard, plus it gets heavy rotation for the next few days.  It does help being able to listen to 10 or so hours of music every day though.

I do not have that kind of listening time.  I may be able to do 8 hours on Saturday ...

[prémont]

How many unopened CDs?

Exactly zero, as I always open the CD boxes when I receive them to make sure that all the CDs are there and to check their condition.

On the other hand I may own somewhere between 500 and 1000 CDs unlistened to.

[Que]

On the other hand I may own somewhere between 500 and 1000 CDs unlistened to.