My CD collection

Only the greatest compilation album ever made. This was a Christmas gift from my SIL, who clearly knows me very well. I love it!!

A gateway electronica album for teenage me. Also probably the most French thing I own. This is still pretty great imo. I think the kids need to rediscover Air.

Bought this one entirely because I had a week where I was absolutely obsessed with "Pure Shores", which is an all-time great pop song.

An all-timer.

Album art goes crazy hard

Arguably my favourite B-52s album! So many great songs on this.

One of my favourite albums of all time. I will never shut up about how good this is.

Considering how popular they are, it is weirdly hard to find Beatles albums at charity shops, and they go for more than expected on eBay. But I loved this film as a kid so this was an easy grab.

Foundational album of my youth. Beck's run from this to Guero should be studied.

Sometimes my favourite Beck album. I love sleaze!!!

Sometimes my favourite Beck album, and still a go-to for sadgirl hours.

My second favourite live album. I love Bill's monologue about his grandma. Also the version of "Use Me" on this is just incredible.

It turns out the UK version of this has some differences to the US one, which is what I previously listened to. So I was a bit confused (and disappointed) to get "Madame Zzaj" instead of "Mizz Bed-Stuy", but even with that it's still a great album.

My favourite album of 2025! I love it so muchhhh. There is a 75% chance of me crying every time I listen to "Lord, Let That Tesla Crash".

Case got smashed to fuck in shipping 😭 Lost a few auctions for this one as it's definitely in demand. Probably because it's fucking great

Foundational album of my youth and (imo) criminally underrated beyond the hit single. Still love this.

Impulse buy before I had even bought a CD player (and look where I am now, uh oh). Arguably the best album of 2024 for me. "Sicko" in particular really gives me that transcending-my-body feeling. Also holy shit check out that cover art

Major nostalgia album. My parents used to have this on all the time.

Hadn't listened to this for almost two decades so it was fun to revisit. Some swings, some misses.

How fucking good was Rachel Nagy's voice????

Heard this playing in a bagel shop and was reminded of how incredible an album it was. 1997 was a great year for music, huh?

This album was huge for me as a teenager. I used to walk around listening to it on repeat and obsessing over the first season of Battlestar Galactica and now the two things are inextricably linked in my head.

One of my favourite albums of 2025. Love the album art too!

Honestly one of the albums I see most in charity shops for some reason. Apparently everyone and their mum bought this album in 2006 and then got rid of it.

Basically perfect. A foundational album of my youth and still one I love deeply. Desert island disc contender.

Question that applies to basically every song on this album: is it a bop, or is it a personal attack? Both, usually. I never really got into Paramore but I really like this, so maybe I should.

One of my favourite albums of 2025. Came with a little photo signed by JADE herself, ooh fancy

Love this album. Also, great cover art. Have to admit the classic Kate Beaton "Nasty" comic put me onto this, lmao

When I was a teenager Jenny Lewis seemed like the coolest woman alive. And honestly she still kinda does. I accidentally bought two copies of this lol

I don't look back fondly on much 00s UK indie but this album is an exception. Some really good hooks. Also Ricky Wilson put in a solid effort on Catchphrase and I respect that

Hot take: I don't like "Mr Brightside" and there are much better songs elsewhere on this album.

Peak Gaga tbh. There are a few songs on here I'd cut (I do not want "How Bad Do U Want Me") but man are the rest bops.

Synth-pop banger. Given the popularity of sapphic pop at the moment, I think this album is way overdue for some reappreciation.

A foundational album of my childhood, although the copy we had was a burnt gift from someone else, and they inexplicably left the first two tracks off. So for years I thought this opened with "Ex-Factor" and it still feels kinda wrong hearing "Lost Ones" instead (even though that's also good).

Honestly had not listened to this before buying it but picked it up on reputation alone (and also from having "Perfect Day" stuck in my head after watching the film Perfect Days). Glad I did as it's pretty great.

Seller informed me this was an original pressing, oooOOoooOooooh. I have no idea if that's impressive or not.

omg BANGER CENTRAL 🔥🔥🔥

I was OBSESSED with this album when I was fifteen. "Third Planet" still goes pretty hard!

Another one that my mum used to have on all the time. This isn't commonly available on streaming so it's nice to have a physical copy. I think it's lovely.

I definitely owned this as a teenager but I have no idea what happened to that copy. Not as good as Whoa Nelly unfortunately!

One of my favourite albums of 2025.

All due respect to André 3000 but I totally bought this for Speakerboxxx. This album lived in my mum"s kitchen all throughout my teenage years because my mum has cooler taste in music than I do.

Just a fun-ass album. Saw them live in 2025 as well and they rocked.

Honestly I have never watched this movie. But this CD was in the British Heart Foundation shop, which generally has nothing beyond Take That's entire discography, and the Philip Glass soundtrack for a Paul Shrader biopic about an unhinged Japanese fascist just seemed like a hilarious thing for them to have in the middle of all that. Peak impulse buy but whatever, it was £1.

Somewhere there is a video of me as a toddler going absolutely nuts to "Fiesta".

I felt incredibly cool listening to this back when I was in school. And I still do

Still my favourite Pulp album. As noted elsewhere, I love sleaze.

As a teenager I owned an alarm clock CD player and this was in heavy rotation, so I regularly woke up to "Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk". There are worse starts to the day.

A better album than Short 'n' Sweet imo, even if the singles aren't as good. One of my favourites from 2025. I am obsessed with the whipcrack sounds on "Nobody"s Son".

A gift from a family member. Actually one of my first exposures to The Simpsons as we didn't have TV at home. However I did love comedy songs so I loved this.

Some of us were into "Murder on the Dancefloor" the first time it was popular. Some of us.... are old

Purchased because I saw a play that used "Golden Brown" heavily and it was stuck in my head for months after.

Sufjan has been my boy for twenty years now (I should really have more of his albums tbh) but this is my favourite work of his. Just rip my heart out and feed it through a paper shredder!!!

Love love love this.

One of the best albums of the 2010s imo. SZA's voice and songwriting are both stunning.

I currently have two copies of this because I bought one off eBay and then I received another copy as a gift less than a month later. This is fine with me because it's a great album. I don't mind some slight disorder!

Clearly the greatest live album ever recorded. Arguably just one of the greatest albums full stop. An easy desert island disc for me.

Just fuckin rules

Probably the best album about loving anime, jacking off and wishing you were your cat.

Honestly I had never listened to this before buying it but I had heard it was a famously good album. And it is pretty good.

Maaaybe my favourite Viagra Boys album?? It's this or Street Worms. Anyway this album goes unbelievably hard and it's phsyically impossible for me to put it on and not end up dancing around my kitchen whisper-screaming about shrimp, so shoutout to Henrik Höckert on that bass (or is there some sort of connection to my ADD?). I have to admit I sometimes skip "Creepy Crawlers" because it stresses me out. Also, spiritually, I feel that this is part of the Conner O'Malley cinematic universe... the vibes are in alignment. LEAVE SOCIETY. BE A MONKEY.

Another amazing Christmas gift from my SIL, and one of my favourite albums of 2025! "Years ago, on the plains of North America, there weren't no rules about nothing and you could pay a guy to get his horse to stomp you on the head" is my favourite lyric of the year and I am not sure what that says about me.

I will be honest and say I absolutely hate this band's name lmao. But I like their music a lot. Had a phase where I listened to "Piece of Shit" like 50 times in a week, not sure what was going on with me there but I'm sure it was fine. This CD came in a tiny case for some reason, basically just a little card sleeve.

Put your mouth to miIne, give me CPR! Aphex Twin-ass cover (complimentary)

Another foundational album of my youth. However the copy we used to have was a burnt CD and the track order was completely reversed, so the regular order now sounds weird to me.

My excuses: it was £1, and "Miami" is a stone-cold banger.

Bless my parents for putting up with my nonsense. I still love at least half of these songs though.

Literally went "yesssss!" out loud when I found this.

I went down a weird rabbit hole about Volume in the middle of 2025. It was a defunct music magazine that was basically a compilation CD with interviews and articles about all the artists. The graphic design is nuts (complimentary). Unfortunately one of the contributing authors is now a famous bigot so that put me off getting much more into them, but the CDs are pretty cool and overall they're interesting little artefacts.