Gerry's Music Collection

At least, what I'll admit to

The following represents my wide range of musical tastes. It is by no means a sum total of what I listen to, as I do not have the time, effort, or financial means to buy every album I like. Some of these are copies from friends (There's even two vinyl records in here!), but most are from my own CD collection or--depending how far back you go--cassette tapes.

There's plenty in here to be delighted and/or disgusted by. While your favorite group may not be in here, there's bound to be somthing in here you'd listen to.

These are sorted with some evidence of thought put into it. Not all things fall into a particular catagory, while others seem to belong to two or three. For the former, I put them where I thought they should most likely go. Some of the latters I have put in duplications if I felt it justified. If you disagree with my catagorization, you're more than welcome to mail me. I may or may not agree with you, and I may or may not take your advice. I make no promises. I just like getting mail.

There are, of course, some things even I won't admit to having. Those may get there own section at the bottom, or perhaps even their own page . . . MUCH later.

When possible, I have provided pointers to web pages devoted to the artist(s) in question. Often times there is more than one of these pages. Usually I will pick the one with the most information or the most pointers to other such pages. If I don't have a pointer to a specific group and you know such a page exists, tell me. (There's that getting mail thing again . . .)

I recently realized that my organization was different here than the way I've actually got it at home. So I've altered this page a bit to reflect that. The catagory of "Music To Stare At The Ceiling By" may require an explanation. In my old apartment, I had a large, glow-in-the-dark poster of the night sky on my living room ceiling. On the rest of the ceiling and part of the surrounding walls were those glowing stars you can buy at most any nature or specialty store. My (then) roommate and I then got a fluorescent blacklight bulb and attached it at the top of the blinds, just out of view. At night, we could turn on the bulb for a bit to charge up the cosmos, then turn it off for full effect. When friends came over, we would often set up blankets and pillows on the floor, turn off the lights, and relax for a bit (no, we were not on drugs). I, who wanted music in the background, would have to put in selections that wouldn't disturb the atmosphere. Thus the catagory came into being. Though I have moved since, I still enjoy listening to that music...

Many thanx to all the hard-working folks at Yahoo! for making portions of this page possible.

I wonder how many people have come across this page while I wasn't looking?

Oh. Thanx Web-Counter.

Modern Stuff

Paula Abdul Aerosmith Alpha Team Laurie Anderson The Art Of Noise Ben Folds Five Billy Pilgrim The Bingoboys Blue Velveta The B-52's BS&M Kate Bush C&C Music Factory Camper Van Beethoven The Changelings Neneh Cherry Natalie Cole Phil Collins Concrete Blonde The Cure Terence Trent D'Arby The Dave Matthews Band Dead Can Dance Depeche Mode Digital Underground Enigma Faith No More Front 242 Fusebox Peter Gabriel Garbage Genesis Glass Hammer Godhead Gravity Kills Guns 'N Roses Information Society Janet Jackson Michael Jackson Quincy Jones Jump In The Water King Missle Kitchens of Distinction The KLF Lords of Acid Lush Madonna Marillion Bobby McFerrin Loreena McKennitt Sarah McLachlan George Michael Ministry Moby Morphine My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult Stevie Nicks Nine Inch Nails Gary Numan Tom Petty Pink Floyd Pocket Fish'r'men Prince The Pursuit Of Happiness Bonnie Raitt The Rave-Ups R.E.M. Renegade Soundwave Rhapsody Rolling Stones Rush Saigon Kick The Shamen Shonen Knife Paul Simon Siousie And The Banshees The Smashing Pumpkins Soho Soul II Soul Switchblade Symphony Tears For Fears Technotronic t99 Travelling Wilburys Type O Negative Vast Suzanne Vega Voltaire Was (Not Was) Wyzards XTC Yaz Various

Music To Stare At The Ceiling By

2002 777 Laurie Anderson Aphex Twin David Arkenstone Bang On A Can Enya Etoile Christopher Franke The Future Sounds Of London Peter Gabriel David & Steve Gordon I Ching Jan Hammer Kitaro Kodo Mannheim Steamroller Moodswings Herb Moore Kenneth Newby Spencer Nilson Secret Garden Tangerine Dream TMA-2 Michael Uhrich Vangelis Richard Warner Various

Soundtracks

Walt Disney's Aladdin
Babylon 5
Batman
Walt Disney's Beauty And The Beast
Beverly Hills Cop
Beverly Hills Cop, II
Buster
The Civil War
Cocoon
Songs from the Cool World
The Crow
Dances With Wolves
Dirty Dancing
More Dirty Dancing
Bram Stoker's Dracula
E.T.
Fantasia
Fantasia 2000
Fantasmic!
Heaven and Earth
The Hunted
Walt Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame
Imagine
Kundun
Legend
Lost Highway
Miami Vice
Miami Vice II
Mononoke Hime (Princess Mononoke Symphonic Suites)
Moonlighting
Mulan
The Music Of Disney - A Legacy in Song
Natural Born Killers
Out of Africa
Passion - Music from The Last Temptation of Christ
Phantom Of The Opera - Original cast recording
Princess Mononoke
Pump Up The Volume
Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves
Robot Wars
Survivor
The Secret of N.I.M.H.
Twin Peaks
Until The End Of The World
VR 5
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

Classical / Instrumental

J. S. Bach Jerry H. Bilik Georges Bizet Johannes Brahms Johan de Meij Paul Dukas Antonin Dvorak George Gershwin Georg Friedrich Handel Joseph Haydn Gustav Holst Paul Hindemith Franz Listz Gustav Mahler Felix Medelssohn Bartholdy W. A. Mozart Modest Mussorgsky Ravel Steve Reich Saint-Saens Clara Schumann Dmitri Shostakovich Bedrich Smetana Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Ralph Vaughan Williams Antonio Vivaldi Richard Wagner Weber Masters of Classical Music Empire Brass Thomas Bacon (French horn) James Galway (flute) Los Angeles Guitar Quartet Hillary Stagg (electric harp) John Williams and the Boston Pops Various

Be sure to check out these and many other composers and performers at Classics World.

New Age / Jazz / Fusion

Gary Burton Celestial Navigations Karl Jenkins Pat Metheny Jeanne Newell Mike Oldfield Osamu Lee Ritenour Arthur Russel Sola Yanni Various

International / World Music

The Baltimore Consort The Chieftans Pentangle Schooner Faire Silly Wizard Stone Age Sonus Yothu Yindi Various

Ambient / Techno

Aphex Twin The Future Sounds Of London Moby 777 Vapour Space Various


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