“This collection tells a very specific story about a listener who leans hard into the heavy hitters of the seventies and eighties. Pink Floyd leads the pack with fifteen records, followed by Dire Straits with ten and the Beatles with six, anchoring a massive seventy-record run from the 1970s alone. It's not a pristine museum display — there are gaps like Private Investigations in the Dire Straits run or One Of These Days in the Pink Floyd sequence, but that gives the shelf character. You've got two hundred twenty records across one hundred twenty-seven artists and one hundred thirteen labels, which means the taste is wide even if the heavy rotation sticks to the giants. No filler, just heavy guitar work, stadium-scale ambition, and a clear dedication to the golden era of album rock. Keep digging through the bins.”
Collection at a Glance
- On the shelf
- 241 236 unique albums 216 on streaming
- Format mix
- 236 vinyl · 2 CD · 2 cassette
- Top genres
- Rock · Alt/Indie · Country · Classical
- Last spin
- On A Back Porch, Vol. 1 — The Grateful Dead · today
- Wantlist
- 2 records sought
- Badges
- 25 earned
- Member since
- Aug 2026
The Clerk's take
Fifteen Pink Floyd albums and you missed one.
Thirteen deep from 1967 to 1983, Piper to Final Cut. But One Of These Days is sitting empty on the shelf. One record short of the run. That's the kind of gap that keeps you staring at the spine when you should be dropping the needle.
Dire Straits from '78 to '85.
Six records deep from the self-titled debut right up to Brothers In Arms. Private Investigations is missing from the middle, but the groove holds up. Sometimes the hole in the shelf is louder than the music.
Seventy records in the seventies.
The 1970s dominate this crate with seventy LPs, followed by thirty-seven from the 1980s out of a total two hundred twenty. Pink Floyd leads the count with fifteen, Dire Straits right behind at ten. That's a real heavy rock foundation.
The Beatles from Rubber Soul to Let It Be.
Six albums owned between 1965 and 1970 out of thirty-one possible releases in that span. Pull Rubber Soul tonight and let the Fab Four do the heavy lifting while you sort through the rest of the crates.
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Stats for nerds
- 2020s127
- 2010s61
- 2000s27
- 1990s33
- 1980s61
- 1970s109
- 1960s31
- 1950s5
- 1Sony Music19
- 2Columbia19
- 3Deutsche Grammophon18
- 4Vertigo10
- 5Atlantic10
Badges 9
Unicorns 15
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