Thanks for showing your collection Alan looks amazing Keep collecting i have about 3,000 cds maybe 25 Box sets not many LPs i got rid of them because i love CDs i have 4,000 DVD movies and concerts DVDs so we have the same passion not to mention Books about 3500 comic books Take care keep collecting

Alan .. hopefully youll live Forever and keep this collective always... Long live rock...

Thanks for showing your huge collection Alan. Stunning!!!! Rolling Stones 428! That's quite a record. They are also my favorite band. In 1973, when I was 13 years old, my cousin made me listen to "Exile...." and from there I became a fan. But I love rock in all its styles: hard, prog, heavy, classic. I have a small, but well-selected collection of approximately 1,000 CDs. Congratulations. And from today I am a new follower! Luis, from Buenos Aires city, Argentina

That is mamath and impressive at the same time. I call that collection 'A Kid in a Candy Store.'

Hi Alan. I really enjoyed seeing inside your basement. I was also fascinated to see your list of most popular artists. Elvis Costello's high placing was a pleasant surprise ... I like your shelving units. I need something similar for my CDs. Best wishes from the UK, Carl

Alan, thanks for video! The Stones are the best 🎉!

Impressive collection. I have a large music collection as well, that I have been converting to a huge digital library, and anytime I see another large collection such as yours it makes me want to dig in and add all that amazing music to the collection.

I too was surprised by your inclusion of Elvis Costello. A major artist up there with Dylan and Van Morrison in my opinion. Great video and what a collection! I've subscribed! 👍👍👍

I have 226 John Zorn cd's including box sets. That's my number one. I only counted after watching this video. Thanks for the inspiration.

Great collection there Alan - love it. You certainly have a lot of STUFF lolol. Cya Doug

Wow!! awesome collection Alan, I hope your home & contents insurance is fully paid up 😀😀

Hi Alan, Great video, just love your passion and dedication, and the incredible knowledge you possess, not to mention the sheer quantity of stuff you have. 428 albums by the Rolling Stones is unbeleivable! You've already shown us in previous videos just how well-versed you are about this band, how many things you know about them, how important they are in your life. You certainly gotta love 'em to have so many albums. Congratulations on your fantastic collection, and the sheer work required to keep track of it all, not to mention the hours upon hours of listening you put in to evaluate all this music. I know, listening is the fun part for a music lover, but you are in a league of your own. It was a lot of fun visiting your home. Thanks for inviting us in.

I had over 3000 LPs when cds came out and then my kids were born at the end of 1985. Had to sell mostly everything. Just kept my Tull. Ultimately I ended up with over 1500 cds and now most of those are gone after downsizing to a condo!

What a great tour. What an understanding wife!!! Great collection there buddy.

Hi 👋 Alan And I thought my music collection is large. I've got nothing on you. You are passionate. Really good Alan. 👍

Wow, amazing collection. Did I just see a RS little people set in the corner? I keep seeing it on Amazon and now tempted to buy one. Looks very cute. Thank you for showcasing your music den.

Very enjoyable to see behind the curtain, that's a very cool basement!

WOW very cool

Well Alan, I survived the video without the Dramamine Lol. (Really I've had issues with vertigo so I know how that goes). Anyway, very impressed with your collection. I do respect your admiration for the Stones (428 albums is incredible), Also, appreciate the fact that you share these videos. Really cool! Of course, I have to give a shout out to your 80 Jethro Tull albums. Very cool, indeed. Thanks again.

Hi Alan Many of my friends are fighters and I do DJ gigs every year at their clam bake! Thank you for your service! Thumbs up! Trish

Wow , and I thought I had a lot,I’ll have to get organised one day and do a video like yours..very impressive.

What a fantastic video have a wonderful day also i have subscribed to the channel ❤😊

Can't forget the 8-Track Player...😄👍

Love your organization and order. I'm lucky my CD's are alphabetized. Recently, I have found myself occasionally buying something a second time simply because I forgot I had it, Have you ever done that ? My collection is between two and three thousand. I have sold 90% of my vinyl. it's obvious you put a lot of time into collecting and organizing. I envy that.

One word: Wow!

Fun video, Alan! It was neat seeing your incredible collection. That basement is like some catacombs of sonic treasure. I find your channel really pleasant and relaxing to watch, so please keep it up. You and Stewart Wood of the Daily Sporran (he does hundreds of acoustic Jethro Tull covers--check him out) are my two main subscribed channels, making my life a bit better. So thanks!

You have a very impressive vinyl record/CD/8-Track collection!! How far back does your collection start? Since childhood? 2nd question....how do you discover NEW music, NEW artists? I love your list of bands/artists but you're missing some current artists/bands that I think you would dig.....My Morning Jacket, Wilco, Black Crowes, Josh Rouse, Ryan Adams........Great video and thank you for sharing!!

Nice collection!

Wow very impressive. I see you are well organized. Mine isn’t. By the way enjoy your concert is it tomorrow Thursday.. Enjoy.

That’s an awesome collection Alan, very impressive indeed sir. Personally, I have 2649 vinyl albums, 1579 cd albums and 842 vinyl singles, 95% metal. I’m primarily a collector of coloured vinyls, love those and love taking them out to look at. Fan first and foremost but just love collecting and keeping them mint. That thrill of owning a certain vinyl edition, addictive! Take care and all the very best 🤘👍

O M G..... That basement is something else. I wish I could be so organized. I have stuff everywhere. There are CDs under the bed and everywhere else, including the attic which unfortunately is not air conditioned since Katrina. Is the basement air conditioned? If that basement was here. in would have water in it since we are below sea level. My house is about 1,200 square feet. I think you once said it was around that size. Your house seems so much bigger. I think I need a drink now😂 P S I like your baby doll and teddy bear in the basement 😂😂

Thanks for sharing Alan. Great collection mate!

Great collection! Subscribed!

My favorite band beyond the Beatles is Grand Funk Railroad, and I notice you have 34 of their albums. I own their entire 69-76 and 81-83 catalog on both CD and Vinyl., but I don't have as many as you. I wonder what I'm missing. I have their compilations, too. Love that you got a mess of box sets, as well. I am a sucker for a box set, even when I'm just a marginal fan of the band.

Thanks so much for showing. Have wondered what that library must be like. So well curated over decades. Would get lost in bliss looking through the old magazines/programs/books and cranking up the Stones on the the stereo. Hope that many many years down the road you can find the "Charlie" to turn this "Chocolate Factory" over to so that it can go on and on and on. It is a National Treasure of sorts.

Very cool of you to show us your collection Alan. Thanks 😊

Hey Alan, the song vote is up for the next Stones show. I voted for Depending On You. I always vote even if I won't be at the show.

Great Stuff! Thank you for sharing!!

Thanks for sharing my friend!

20 albums by the Knack? Wow! That's more than three times as many as I knew they released! Mind blown! ;) I know most are probably bootlegs but I'm still impressed. I guess I have at least as many titles but spread over loads more artists. Guess I'm more the pick and choose type! Very cool to see your list and collection though. Clearly a labor of love.

Wow that was a great video Alan.If you get a double cd do you count it as 1 or 2?Your basement I assume is a no smoking area lol.I'm going to have to send you a video of mine one of these days.But ya I really enjoyed this Alan thank you

Imprssive Alan. I have about 3000 cds and vinyl. About 50 in backlog to check out. Space is always a bit of a problem. I'm trying to he a bit more picky about buying stuff.

I’m so glad that photographs of your archives are allowed because the contents must be seen to be believed. You’ve done an awesome job of arranging your massive collection of music and music-related treasures. Thanks for a fun tour of your impressive acquisitions.

It never ceases to amaze me that people have this much money to spend on records/music in general. Clearly they must get a lot of freebies, but even so, it amazes me...

My problem with having such a large collection filing the cd's a-z is when the shelves are full and I have new editions to add and no room left to shuffle the alphabet along. As I suggested before may be 10 favourites artists is too hard and maybe a countdown from 20 would be better. Will be good to see if its not just numerical too. Keep up the good work Alan!

Thanx so much, Alan. This is original what rockfans need - someone who's got the knowledge and shows ya where his knowledge comes from! Not only by havin' so much hot stuff, no, if one got a little knowledge 'bout human beeings, he sure sees/feels that yar integer! - Thank you again, for your heartful words to me, 'cause of my house burned down! (isn't there a song, think from Talking Heads called "burnin down the house"?) My collection wasn't sooo big as yours, but close yar eyes and imagine that all this you got went up in smoke... You're a volunteer of fire department, so YOU can imagine, like ya wrote gently to me. But I'm not here to wail. Wanna say, that your show is a pleasure to me and that you know your followers, 'cause you said my name. - By the way, unfortunely I forgot a very important album by BURDON, called "mirage"/1970. It's Hardrock. It's 'bout the Vietnam war. Should be a big project by Eric, who wanted to make a movie & comic & album with that issue. But 'cause of some buisness problems, "only" the album came out. All songs by Eric, exept one, he wrote together with Jimi Hendrix! Eric and Jimi were friends and Eric was the first went to Jimis apartment/London, after Jimis girlfriend phoned him and said something wrong with Jimi, that she can't wake him up... Eric came for support & helped her to put all the drugs Intro tha toilet, just before the cops arrived. The nite before, Eric had a gig at Ronnie Scotts Club with WAR & Eric offers Jimi to come on stage for a jam. Couple of hours later Jimi died. - At last: I met ERIC, a very kindlly man, no "diva"-reactions... - Like always: kindly regards to you and your beloved. Praises Aaron

GREAT VIDEO ALAN ‼️ 👏 👍😊

Great.

My official count of my collection of CD's, vinyl & cassettes has reached 1,000. I have almost everything i want so i don't see my collection growing too much in the future. I'll likely never pass 1,100 because most of the bands i collect have broken up, so no new releases coming from them. Also i haven't liked any new band since the early 2000's.

I like that you keep your music. Keep them if you can. If you rip them on the computer, please make a back up system. I had over 12,000 vinyls and over 8,000 cds. I got most of it on my computer n I sold my collection because I was always moving but one day my computer crashed. Lost all of it. So keep loving music but back them up on a terabyte back up. That’s safe. Just in case.

that was cool to see. some thought: when ya gonna do a video of you on the drums? how often do you sleep with your Care Bear? unless i missed something you have 10 Sting albums but was The Police even on that list?

Thanks - very interesting and impressive - definitely a full basement! No Jimi Hendrix?

I don't remember if I've ever heard you talk much about Elvis Costello on your channel. He's my favorite artist so I'd like to hear more please. Also, I think I might have more Ian Hunter and Waterboys albums than you do. So I don't feel quite so inadequate!

Nice collection. I’m impressed you have everything alphabetized and catalogued. I’ve got approximately 5’000 cds and they’re not alphabetized. Don’t know where to start. Takes me forever to find a disc. I need to find racks like you have. Sold all my vinyl about 900 pieces before they made a comeback Oh well you win some you loose some. Also have a bunch of Circus Magazines and DVD’s. I’m impressed with how organized you are. Awesome collection.

Geez. If I lived there I'd probably never leave the basement!

First, I am a collector myself. I got over 5.000 CDs and about 300 vinyls, but your collection looks amazing. It's amazing, too, how you find records. My favorite bands, for example, are Status Quo (about 40 CDs), Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (80), Volbeat (all regular albums so far), Elvis Presley (over 40), Bellamy Brothers, Alan Jackson, AC/DC (what...), Metallica (...else), and many more. Ah, I almost forgot Visions Of Atlantis (symphonic metal from Austria, where I am from)! Their new album 'Pirates II-Armada' comes out on July 5th! P.S.: I would be happy if I can be in that shape at 80 like the Rolling Stones!

Hard to add artists like CCR to the list, since they only had a handful in the first place. I have all the studio albums, except Mardi Gras. Of course, pretty much everyone owns Chronicle.

Only 17 Zappa? Lotta room to grow there, lol.

when do you find the time to listen to all that

If i close my eyes and just listen to your videos, i sometimes think i'm listening to Stan Lee.

The total for each artists includes lps + cds, isn´t it? Well, I´d like t see your Mick Jagger and Bill wyman collections, if possible. Thanks.

The question is always, who is stuck with getting rid of all your stuff if you were to pass away from this Earth?

I thought it was Kimi Räikkönen doing a vc video

Well, there's collections....and then there's Alan's Collection, or should we call it The Matterhorn? It's pretty overwhelming--how do you find time to listen to anything? I personally have found myself doing a 'bloodletting' of my collection a couple of years ago, but trust me, I was no where near Matterhorn status. That being said, I do have a significant amount of Rolling Stones material, principally on vinyl and CD. I rarely bought their 45s, because that was not format I ever found appealing, growing up in the great Album Era. But unlike other artists, the Stones are the one act I have never off loaded, the exception being a few bootlegs that I may have let go once the official versions became available, or they were very unappealing to me. One title I did sell off on eBay, because I was so angry at what was released, was the 40th Anniversary edition of Ya Yas. I have many versions of that album, and when they do a box set, they gave us nothing except a couple of songs that were on the Criterion edition of Gimme Shelter, and a CD worth of Ike and Tina, and whoever else were the opening acts--ridiculous. Seriously, that was a bigger waste than the almost embarrassing 50th Anniversary of Beggars Banquet--which gave us a flex disc with a radio interview...and a mono vinyl pressing of Sympathy???? When I was a kid, every time I would buy a Stones album, I would write down the title and date of purchase in a notepad that I carried for years, while I accumulated their catalog. I stopped noting titles when I was about 19. I really have no idea how many Stones titles I have, but it is a lot. I am pretty sure it is NOT 426, though. As for other artists, I have off loaded a lot in the last 5 to 10 years, particularly from the jazz side of my collection--and a lot of expensive box sets. You may recall my painful Bill Evans sell off that I mentioned before, and how I had to settle for so much less than what collectors seem to be paying for those sets. Another artist that got purged, almost savagely, was Led Zep. I was surprised when I dug into the shelves at the wealth of Zep bootleg material I had...I kept what I remembered as my favorites, or the best ones, and sold off the others--and I had pretty deep representation of nearly every tour they did, both soundboards and audience recordings. Something got in my crawl about them, so off they went. I did NOT buy the ballyhooed remasters that Page (once again) did in 2014-2015, with the exception of Presence and Vol 1, and those because the former has always been my most favorite of their studio albums, and the latter because they included the powerhouse Paris show from their second tour that was a famed FM radio boot for some time.

I think you better move house ASP!!!!

mick jagger made 4 solo albums… how do you have 42? different pressings? multiple copies?

Hi Alan, Michal here. I'm NOT going to watch this video, & here's why ! ! ! I only have, maybe 600 {un-counted} LP's & CD's in total. {I've had a lot more, but at time's been broke and had to sell them !} Poor, poor, pityful me.

Maybe you dont have Grateful Dead live Stockholm 1990 Group was good but jetlegged,I was there......Too little Moondog albums also......

is it your home basement