The 5 albums you'd buy first if all your music was stolen.

When I worked in a record store we occasionally had people coming in for valuations for insurance claims after being burgled and having music collections stolen. If I ever had the misfortune I'd start rebuilding my empire with....

Tripping Daisy - "I am an elastic firecracker"
The Waterboys - "This is the sea"
Eno/Mobius/Rodelius - "After the heat"
Men At Work - "Business as usual"
Natalie Murchant - "Tigerlily"

I just recently had my music stolen, but I had all of it backed up on my laptop. So oh well. I'm not buying anything but an iPod to hook directly up to my car stereo.

The Clash London Calling
Talking Heads Speaking in Tongues
Bob Marley Babylon by Bus
Beck Odeley (sp?)
The Clash Sandinista

Parkway Drive - Horizons
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
The Bronx - 2006 Self Titled
Deftones - White Pony
Rage Against The Machine - The Battle of Los Angeles
my collection is 500+ though so it would be one HUGE effort to get them all again

Machine head - The Blackening
Mark Lanegan - Scraps at midnight
Tom Waits - Nighthawks at the diner
Clutch - Robot hive/Exodus
Alice in chains - Dirt

Good lord that's hard!

Deadguy - Fixation on a Coworker
Lifetime - Jersey's Best Dancers
Converge - Jane Doe
Jeromes Dream - Completed
Husker Du - Zen Arcade

Weirdos - Weird World Vol 1
MC5 - Kick Out the Jams
Really Red - Nobody Rules, Okay?
Fixtures - Dangerous Music Defect
The Beatles - The Beatles (white album)

Talking Heads More Songs about Food and Buildings
The Cure Pornography
John Coltrane Quartet Transition
The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium
The (International) Noise Conspiracy Survival Sickness

kayo dot - choirs of the eye
hood - cold house
city of caterpillar - city of caterpillar
don caballero - what burns never returns
unwound - leaves turn inside you

not necessarily my favorite records, but a good bunch to start out with.

Ben Folds Five - The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner
The Clash - London Calling
Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape
Mastodon - Remission
Bloc Party - A Weekend in the City

Right now it would have to be:

Iron & Wine - Creek Drank The Cradle
Wolf Parade - Apologies To The Queen Mary
The Decemberists - Her Majesty
Randy Newman - Sail Away
Built To Spill -In Reverse

Hey that's a great question, today my answer will be:

1. Velvet Underground - 1969
2. Ornette Coleman - Change of the Century
3. Husker Du - Zen Arcade
4. Neil Young - Harvest
5. Sam Cooke - Man Who Invented Soul box set. (yeah, a box set is cheating, huh?)

tough question, but probably:

television - marquee moon
r.e.m. - murmur
love - forever changes
the band - the band
nick drake - bryter layter

Fuck, there's alotta shitty records on those lists. Men At Work? Bloc Party?? Alice In Chains??? Maybe I didn't read the question right...is it supposed to be the five shittiest albums you own?

Yes.

These are probably the 5 records that mean the most to me. Simply put, the ones I couldn't live without

Minutemen - Double Nickels On The Dime
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
fIREHOSE - Ragin' Full On
John Coltrane - Blue Train
Descendents - Liveage

I have just listened to some tracks from "Silent Alarm". Great sound! I am buying the album tonight if my local has it, otherwise I'll do the iTunes download thing. Cheers

Given the type of culture through this site, I figured I would get a great list of artists to check out and add to my 300+ CD collection. Thanks to everyone who has the confidence in their music choices to post.

Glad I could help to fatten up your CD collection

Jawbreaker - Dear You
Alkaline Trio - From Here to Infirmary
Jimmy Eat World - Clarity
Alexisonfire - Alexisonfire
Planes Mistaken For Stars - Planes Mistaken For Stars

Does being a pretentious ass ever get tiring for you?

Men at Work is a pretty decent band, I'm sorry it's not "totally hip" to like Colin Hay.

Beck - Odelay
Tom Waits - Small Change
They Might Be Giants - Flood
Johnny Cash - Unchained
The Beatles - The White Album

LOL U LIK THE STROKES SO STFU ROFLMAO!!1

Weezer- Pinkerton
Cute Is What We Aim For- The Same Old Blood Rush
New Found Glory-Nothing Gold Can Stay
NIN- The Fragile
Cradle Of Filth- Cruelty And The Beast

does this include both the CDs and iPod being stolen?