The Gift of Music
 

So what did everyone get music related? Here's what I got; U2 Vertigo Tour 05-Chicago (DVD), Sammy Hagar, "Halelujuah" (Dual Disc), & Hall & Oates Video Collection, Seven Big Ones (DVD). I got Sammy & U2 from my husband & Hall & Oates from my sister. :blob2: Now I have to make time to watch the DVDs & Sammy's Dual Disc. :nod:

Oh, & I also got a cold for Christmas. :(

Lee :)

LOL I got a cold for Christmas too.

I also got Pink Floyd - The Final Cut, the Live 8 DVDs, a picture frame big enough to put a vinyl in, a Queen poster, and gift cards for HMV to go buy all the weird rare **** I asked for. Hehe.

Edit: I totally forgot to mention my record player, which is a big deal because I have been waiting 3 years for a working record player. I love it!

Cyndi Lauper - The Body Acoustic
Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
The Killers - Hot Fuss

I bought hubby:

Johnny Cash - Legend
Audioslave - Out of Exile
System of a Down - Mesmerize

I bought the folowing for myself the day after with some of my Christmas cash - Media Play is closing, so I got some great deals!

LB's Soundstage
Melissa Etheridge - GH
Jackson Brown - GH
Mac - Mystery To Me

I got the Zeppelin 2 DVD set that was released in 2003. :nod: I can't wait to watch it.

I bought more music gifts than recieved. I got my fiance' a les paul flight case, a guitar strap, a chet atkins DVD and some other guitar DVD. He's a lil obsessed with guitars. :rolleyes:

CDs I got:

U2 - Pop
Stevie - The Other Side of the Mirror
Blondie - The Curse of Blondie
Franz - You Could Have It So Much Better
Rent Soundtrack

and the Live 8 DVDs. :nod:

I got:

Kate Bush: Aerial (2 CDs of purr-fection).
An Abba coffee cup from 1977 (<3).
A CD-R of improvised ambient music by my friends made especially for Christmas (way cool).
A 14 cm long cassette tape loop of spoken Christmas messages on both sides (and those can go on forever if there's no power cuts). :lol:

I gave:

Brian Wilson: What I Really Want For Christmas (vinyl).
Kauko Röyhkä: Oskar Koposen Seikkailut (a book by one of those Finnish writer-musicians).
Yes: Tales From Topographic Oceans (2 CDs for sis, she loves megalomanic prog).

And for mum's birthday (which will be soon); a collection of Georg Malmsten's children's songs from 1930-1951 (<3).

Ditto on the cold.

Susan Tedeschi - Hope and Desire (I LOVE this)
Bo Bice - The Real Thing (this is over produced IMO and the song selections could have been better)
Madonna - Confessions (this was a grab gift I bought for a party that I did not make it to in time for the grab - I'm really not too crazy about it)

Brian Wilson - Smile
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (in the form of a sort of coupon that says it will arrive to me as soon as it will be released on January 30th)
Willie Nelson - Songs
Transatlantic - Bridge across Forever
Level 42 - Ultimate Collection
A live act on dvd of an Italian actor/singer I'm a fan since I was thirteen, called Johnny Dorelli - Swinging live.


As presents I gave:
Kino - Picture
Cafe Moscow (a collection of Russian traditional songs)
Etta James - Burnin' Down The House
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk remastered

Romy

I hope you like Duran Duran.

I got Dire Straights Best Of - Box Set & Patti Smith - Horses Reissue :blob2:

Aerosmith-The Hits Live
Queen-Live at Wembly Stadium
Queen-Platnium Edition
QUEEN TICKETS
Tusk-Fleetwood Mac (Lost my old copy)
Blues Brothers Sound Track
No Direction Home DVD
Houses of The Holy by Led Zep
Let It Bleed by The Stones
The Beatles the Biography by Bob Spitz
A new guitar
Aha Shake Heart Break-The Kings of Leon
Translanticism-DCFC

I 3rd or 4th the cold thing. Ugh.

I also got:

Muse - Absolution
Death Cab - Plans
Death Cab - Transatlanticism
Berlin - Pleasure Victim

all via gift card. Meaning I basically got them for Christmas.

Let's see...
 

"Doomsday Machine"-Arch Enemy
"Alive 2"-Anthrax
"Kings of Damnation"-Black Label Society
"Generations"-Journey
"Images and Words"-Dream Theater (Import)