Well I wondered just how many vinyls I owned. And being the archivist that I am, I decided to sit in the floor, and put them all into a spreadsheet on Excel.

I think I got all of them. I have 302 listed. However, a few are Laserdisks, which aren't albums of course. I just store them in the vinyl, since it's all 12" casings. So albums might be just under 300. I noted anything that is a laserdisk (which might be a movie, or a concert tour). But the Laserdisks number under 10 or 12 probably. The majority is vinyl. I also noted if they were singles, as well as a few promos in there.

How extensive is your collection???

Abba - I Love Abba
ABC - When Smokey Sings (Single)
Adams, Bryan - Into The Fire
Aerosmith - Classics LIVE!
Air Supply - One That You Want, The
Alpert, Herb - Keep Your Eye On Me
American Anthem - Soundtrack
Art of Noise, The - Paranoimia (Single)
Arthur - Soundtrack
Asia - Asia
Bailey, Philip - Chinese Wall
Baker, Anita - Rapture
Bee Gees - Odessa
Blondie - Eat To The Beat
Bootsy's Rubber Band - Bootsy! Player Of The Year
Breakfast Club - Breakfast Club
Breakin' - Soundtrack
Brothers Johnson, The - Blam!!
C+C Music Factory - I'll Always Be Around (Single)
Cara, Irene - Flashdance…What A Feeling (Single)
Carey, Mariah - One Sweet Day w/ Boyz II Men (Single)
Carlin, George - Class Clown
Chavez, Ingrid - Hippy Blood (Single)
Cher - Take Me Home
Chic - Jack Le Freak (Single)
Chicago - 17
Chicago - C'est Chic
Cinderella - Night Songs
Collins, Phil - Sussudio (Single)
Commodores - Midnight Magic
Company - Soundtrack
Cross, Christopher - Christopher Cross
Crow, The - Laserdisk
Crowded House - Crowded House
Culture Beat - Mr. Vain (Single)
Culture Club - Waking Up With The House On Fire
Culture Club - Colour By Numbers
Culture Club - Kissing To Be Clever
D'Arby, Terence Trent - Dance Little Sister (Single)
D'Arby, Terence Trent - Introducing The Hardline According To
Day, Morris - Fishnet
Def Leppard - Hysteria
Def Leppard - Pyromania
Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
Devo - Freedom of Choice
Diamond, Neil - Jazz Singer, The
Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms
Dokken - Tooth and Nail
Dokken - Under Lock and Key
Doobie Brothers, The - Best Of The Doobies, Vol II
Doobie Brothers, The - Best Of The Doobies, Vol I
Duran Duran - Seven and the Ragged Tiger
Duran Duran - Rio
E., Sheila - Droppin' Like Flies (Single)
E., Sheila - Sheila E.
E., Sheila - In Romance 1600
E., Sheila - In The Glamorous Life
E., Sheila - Glamorous Life, The (Single)
Earth, Wind & Fire - Best Of, Vol 1, The
Easton, Sheena - A Private Heaven
Easton, Sheena - Eternity (Single)
Electric Light Orchestra - Discovery
Electric Light Orchestra - Out Of The Blue
Electric Light Orchestra - Eldorado: A Symphony by the Electric Light Orchestra
Electric Light Orchestra - A New World Record
Electric Light Orchestra - Time
Evita (American Cast) - Soundtrack
Evita (Concept Album) - Soundtrack
Evita (London Cast) - Soundtrack
Fame - Soundtrack
Family, The - High Fashion (Single)
Family, The - Family, The
Fantasia - Laserdisk
Fleetwood Mac - Rumors
Foreigner - Agent Provocateur
Foreigner - 4
Franklin, Aretha - Freeway of Love (Single)
Franklin, Aretha - Jumpin' Jack Flash (Single)
Gabriel, Peter - So
Gaynor, Gloria - Love Tracks
Genesis - Abacab
Genesis - Genesis
Glass Tiger - Don't Forget Me (When I'm Gone) (Single)
Graham Central Station - Release Yourself
Graham Central Station - Mirror Mirror
Graham, Larry - Star Walk
Grease - Soundtrack
Hall & Oates - Live At The Apollo
Hall & Oates - Big Bam Boom
Hayes, Isaac - Joy
Honeydrippers, The - Volume One
Hooked On Swing - Hooked On Swing
Hooters - One Way Home
Hooters - Nervous Night
Hornsby and the Range, Bruce - The Way It Is
Houston, Whitney - My Name Is Not Susan (Single)
Human League, The - Fascination! (Single)
Human League, The - Don't You Want Me (Single)
Human League, The - Human (Single)
Irby, Joyce 'Fenderella' - Mr. D.J. (Single)
J. Geils Band, The - Freeze Frame
Jackson, Janet - All For You
Jackson, Janet - Rhythm Nation (Single)
Jackson, Janet - Miss You Much (Single)
Jackson, Janet - Control (Single)
Jackson, Janet - Control
Jackson, Janet - What Have You Done For Me Lately? (Single)
Jackson, Jermaine - Jermaine Jackson
Jackson, Michael - Off The Wall
Jackson, Michael - Farewell My Summer Love 1984
Jackson, Michael - Scream (Single)
Jackson, Michael - Thriller (Single)
Jacksons - Victory
Jacksons, The - Destiny
Jesus Christ Superstar - Soundtrack
Johnson, Jesse - Crazay (Single)
Johnson, Jesse - Shockadelica
Johnson, Jesse - Jesse Johnson's Revue
Jones, Howard - Things Can Only Get Better (Single)
Jones, Howard - Action Replay
Jones, Howard - Dream Into Action
Jones, Jill - Jill Jones
Jones, Quincy - Roots
Jones, Tom - Kiss (Single)
Journey - Escape
Journey - Frontiers
KajaGooGoo - White Feathers
Katrina And The Waves - Katrina And The Waves
Khan, Chaka - What Cha' Gonna Do For Me
Khan, Chaka - Chaka
Khan, Chaka - Naughty
Kids From Fame, The - Live!
King, Carole - Tapestry
King, Carole - Music
Kiss - Gene Simmons
Kiss - Paul Stanley
Kiss - Peter Criss
Kiss - Ace Frehley
Klymaxx - Man Size Love (Single)
Kool & the Gang - Something Special
K-Tel - Soundwaves
K-Tel - Soundwaves
LaBelle, Patti - It's Alright With Me
LaBelle, Patti - Stir It Up (Single)
LaBelle, Patti - I'm In Love Again
LaBelle, Patti - Winner
LaBelle, Patti - Look To The Rainbow Tour (Laserdisk)
Lawnmower Man, The - Laserdisk
Lewis & The News, Huey - Fore!
Madonna - Blond Ambition World Tour Live (Laserdisk)
Madonna - Open Your Heart (Single)
Manchester, Melissa - Don't Cry Out Loud
Manilow, Barry - Tryin' To Get The Feeling
MARRS - Pump Up the Volume (Single)
Mary Jane Girls - Only Four You
Mazarati - Mazarati
Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell
Mellencamp, John Cougar - Scarecrow
Mellencamp, John Cougar - Uh-Huh
Miami Sound Machine - Conga! (Single)
Michael, George - Faith
Midnight Star - Headlines
Milsap, Ronnie - Greatest Hits
Nelson, Tyka - Royal Blue
Next Millennium, The - 1999
Oak Ridge Boys, The - Greatest Hits
Orlando & Dawn, Tony - Greatest Hits
Palmer, Robert - Riptide
Peniston, CeCe - I'm In The Mood
Prince - Black Sweat (Single)
Prince - Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic
Prince - The Beautiful Experience
Prince - Good Life, The (Single)
Prince - The Hits (Laserdisk)
Prince - Joffrey Ballet: Billboards (Laserdisk)
Prince - Thieves In The Temple (Single)
Prince - Graffiti Bridge (Laserdisk)
Prince - Partyman (Single)
Prince - Batdance (Single)
Prince - I Wish U Heaven (Single)
Prince - Glam Slam (Single)
Prince - Alphabet St. (Single)
Prince - Sign O The Times (Single)
Prince - I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man (Single)
Prince - I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man (Promo)
Prince - U Got The Look (Single)
Prince - If I Was Your Girlfriend (Single)
Prince - If I Was Your Girlfriend (Promo)
Prince - Sign O The Times
Prince - Under The Cherry Moon (Laserdisk)
Prince - Little Red Corvette (Single)
Prince - Little Red Corvette (Promo)
Prince - Let's Pretend We're Married (Single)
Prince - 1999
Prince - 1999 (Single)
Prince - Let's Work (Single)
Prince - Prince
Prince - Glam Slam (Promo)
Prince - 1999 (Promo)
Prince - Let's Pretend We're Married (Promo)
Prince - Controversy (promo with poster)
Prince - Head (Promo)
Prince and the New Power Generation - 7 (Single)
Prince and the New Power Generation -
Prince and the New Power Generation - Cream (Single)
Prince and the New Power Generation - Diamonds and Pearls Video Collection (Laserdisk)
Prince and the New Power Generation - Gett Off (Single)
Prince and the Revolution - Mountains (Single)
Prince and the Revolution - 1999: The New Master
Prince and the Revolution - Anotherloverholenyohead (Single)
Prince and the Revolution - Kiss (Single)
Prince and the Revolution - Under The London Moon
Prince and the Revolution - Parade
Prince and the Revolution - America (Single)
Prince and the Revolution - Pop Life (Single)
Prince and the Revolution - Raspberry Beret (Single)
Prince and the Revolution - Paisley Park (Single)
Prince and the Revolution - Around The World In A Day
Prince and the Revolution - Take Me With U (Promo)
Prince and the Revolution - I Would Die 4 U (Single)
Prince and the Revolution - Purple Rain (Single)
Prince and the Revolution - Purple Rain (Single) (Purple Vinyl)
Prince and the Revolution - Let's Go Crazy (Single)
Prince and the Revolution - Purple Rain (Purple Vinyl)
Prince and the Revolution - Purple Rain
Prince and the Revolution - Purple Rain
Prince and the Revolution - Purple Rain
Prince and the Revolution - Purple Rain (Laserdisk)
Prince and the Revolution - When Doves Cry (Single, Lmt Edition)
Prince and the Revolution - When Doves Cry (Single)
Prince and the Revolution - Pop Life (Promo)
Prince and the Revolution - Take Me With U (Promo)
Prince and the Revolution - I Would Die 4 U (Promo)
Pryor, Richard - That Nigger's Crazy
Queen - Jazz
Rabbit, Eddie - Greatest Hits, Volume II
Ratt - Dancing Undercover
Ratt - Invasion Of Your Privacy
Ready For The World - Oh Sheila (Single)
Richie, Lionel - Dancing On The Ceiling
Richie, Lionel - Can't Slow Down
Richie, Lionel - Lionel Richie
Rogers, Kenny - Greatest Hits
Ross and the Supremes, Diana - Greatest Hits
Ross, Diana - Eaten Alive
Ross, Diana - Touch Me In The Morning
Roth, David Lee - Eat 'Em And Smile
Rufus featuring Chaka Khan - Rags to Rufus
Salt N Pepa - Whatta Man (Single)
Saturday Night Fever - Soundtrack
Scorpions - World Wide Live
Secret Weapon - Must Be The Music (Single)
Sesame Street - In Harmony
Sevelle, Taja - Taja Sevelle
Sgt. Peppers's Lonely Hearts Club Band - Soundtrack
Shannon - Let The Music Play
Simmons, Richard - Reach
Simon, Paul - Rhythm of the Saints, The
Six Million Dollar Man, The - Soundtrack
Sly And The Family Stone - Fresh
Sonny & Cher - All I Ever Need Is You
Sound of Music, The - Laserdisk
Springfield, Rick - Hard To Hold
Springfield, Rick - Living In Oz
Squier, Billy - Don't Say No
Streisand, Barbra - On A Clear Day You Can See Forever
Styx - Kilroy Was Here
Styx - Cornerstone
Summer, Donna - Live And More
Supremes, The - I Hear A Symphony
Swing Out Sister - It's Better To Travel
TaMara And The Seen - Thinking About You (Single)
Thompson Twins - Here's To Future Days
Thompson Twins - Into The Gap
Thoroughly Modern Milly - Soundtrack
Til Tuesday - Voices Carry
Timex Social Club - Rumors
Toto - Fahrenheit
Toto - IV
Turner, Tina - Break Every Rule
Turner, Tina - Show Some Respect (Single)
Turner, Tina - Private Dancer
U2 - Under A Blood Red Sky
U2 - War
USA For Africa - We Are The World
USA For Africa - We Are The World (Single)
Van Halen - 5150
Van Halen - 1984
Van Halen - Women and Children First
Van Halen - Van Halen
Van Halen - II
Vanity - Skin on Skin
Vanity 6 - Vanity 6
Watley, Jody - Don't You Want Me (Single)
Wham! - Music From The Edge of Heaven
Whitesnake - Slide It In
Winwood, Steve - Roll With It
Winwood, Steve - Back In The High Life
Winwood, Steve - Talking Back To The Night
Wonder, Stevie - Songs In The Key Of Life
Wonder, Stevie - Innervisions
Yello - Oh Yeah (Single)

I'm currently working on methodically listing them, but the list is nowhere near complete. My guess is that I have around 800 vinyl albums at the moment. I guess that's a pretty respectable number, considering the fact that I've only collected vinyl for about three years, and I'm only 22 years old. Hopefully, my collection will continue to grow

LoveIsTheMessage said:

I love collecting vinyl. I sat down w/ my laptop and Excel and just typed them up in about 30 minutes. But I type fast, too.

Somewhere north of 12,000. Haven't counted the digital & analog tape archive....but it's thousands, too.

Could build a house outta the physical music here in my apt.

Been building up since 73.

ernestsewell said:

I am a fast typer, as well, but I get caught up wanting to listen to the stuff as well as type it down, so that slows the process down quite a bit

ernestsewell said:

omg this post is so cute

LOL Cin

JamFanHot said:

I never did a spreadsheet, but I appreciate the person who will do this!

Cinnie said:

Well they're not hard when you're just typing in two columns, which is what I do for this project. First column is artist, second is title. That simple. I use a spreadsheet because no matter what order I type them in, I can sort them alphabetically after the fact.

ernestsewell said:

Don't you hate when you only alphabetize one column, and now Abba has an album called "All For You"? Fuck!

Cinnie said:

Um....depends. You should always list artist first, then song.

I'm going to bed, so I don't want to go back down and count.

I know I have over 250 45s, because I alphabetized them this past summer.
My sister recently gave me a box from my Granny's house (LPs and 78s). I bought new sleeves and jackets for them, and an LP cabinet.

I have a couple hundred albums and a few dozen 45s. I had more but a so called friend of mine claims he lost a couple of boxes when he was helping me move. I still think the SOB probably pawned them.

Too much to count.

over 500 but sold most of them last year after putting them onto my i-pod

japanrocks said:

Noooo...sacrilege!

vainandy said:

Me too, even though I have them all on my MP3's and my Ipod,I'll always keep them.

Looks like everyone here has more albums than I have but I have more 45s than they have. You really think you have a lot of albums until you put them on a built-in bookcase and that's when they look small in comparison to the bookcase. I have my albums on one shelf and they take up about three fourths of the shelf. Then I have my 12 Inch singles on another shelf which take up about two thirds of the shelf. In the leftover space on the two shelves, I have my 45s stacked in about six stacks and they are tall stacks that almost reach the bottom of the shelf above them. Just an eyeball estimate, I'd say I have about 100 albums, 100 12 inches, and about 500 45s.

My grandmother bought me an album for birthday and Christmas presents, or if she wanted to bribe me to not go somewhere. Other than that, every single weekend, she either bought me one 12 Inch or three 45s. Since an album wasn't an every weekend thing, I only bought albums by people that I knew were going to have the majority of the tracks as jams with around two slow jams at the most on the album. Most of my albums are by male funk bands like The Barkays, Cameo, Zapp, etc. And of course Prince and Rick James and all their protegees. Folks that I knew were going to deliver the jams. As for folks like Deneice Williams or Ashford and Simpson, those types of artists are the ones I bought 45s because I knew their full albums wouldn't have a lot of hard jams on them.
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(these pix were in my Photobucket from something else! I'm bored at work... the kids were working, so... )
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chocolate1 said:

You got it set up like a record store, cool

Chocolate, is that an 8 track player I see up on that shelf? Those were really fun and I hated to see cassettes run them out of style. They just had more bass, power, and thump than cassette players. With a cassette player, I just couldn't get the old "tape recorder" image out of my head.

vainandy said:

Yup!

vainandy said:

I still have all my records in creates, I'm about to hook up some shelves to put them in. All my creates have a specific theme them, Rick James and anything Punk Funk has it's own creates, the same for the whole Jackson family, Prince and crew, P-Funk, The Slave dynasty, The Godfather and crew, SOLAR, Jazz, Hip Hop, etc..... I have about 1000 45's, 50 of them I've had since I was a little kid, the other 950+ I got from my uncle who had them in his basement in a trash bag and wasn't thinking about them, there were tons of 45's from the 60's in those bags.
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around 75 (estimate)

a lot of them arent my type of music and dont get played. the owner of the local record shop died earlier in the year and i went through and picked up a gang of them for cheap during the closing sale.

Vinyl is fun!

chocolate1, what Cannonball Adderley album is that?

1,000 or so.

vainandy said:

I know! Same for me. Upon last count (about 15 years ago) I was at about 300 albums and 12 inch singles. I've added a lot more since then. I have more cds than I have vinyl. I think i have about 2000 cds (singles and albums).
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Nothing,,,,I gave 'em all to my mother.

I donated about 3500 vinyl albums to charity three or so years back. I have no real regrets other than wishing I had catalogued them to have a record of what I'd had. I still have about 350 or so records that I regarded as keepers when I culled the herd, but I plan on getting rid of those sometime this winter. I haven't had a functioning turntable in ages, and if I've managed to survive without listening to them for this long then there's no sense clinging to them.

Harlepolis said:

where are your sister's Debarge records?