After starting one massive list on a single page I quickly decided that wasn't the way to go about it and broke the list into separate  pages for each letter of the alphabet with one catch-all for everything that doesn't fit anywhere else at the end. 

As previously noted, this is a work in progress. Although I have the bulk of my collection listed here, I've got music all over the place - mostly on CD at the time of this writing, but also a fair amount on cassette, DVD and lately DVD-A, and I'm constantly adding more. Now if only I could gather back all the music I've loaned out over the years and never gotten back... Maybe when I get through listing what's here I'll make another page for the missing titles and see if I can track them down...

Recent additions and comments:

Wayne Gratz: A Place Without Noise. Solo piano, and pretty much what you'd expect, given the title. I've been in Love with Gratz' piece "The Green Room" for years; I don't know why I waited so long to sample more of his music. Peaceful, soothing, hypnotic... Gratz plays the music I'd play if only my meager keyboard skills would allow it.

Deuter: Earth Blue. Floating, ambient. Room noise. Space music. Music for meditation. Deuter.

Narada Artists: A Childhood Remembered. I had a little trouble tracking this one down on CD. When my son was a toddler I used to send him to sleep with peaceful music from various Narada artists. He took a particular liking to Wayne Gratz' "The Green Room" from this album, and to this day (he's now 22) remembers it. It is a magical piece and still brings memories (and tears).

Conjure One: Conjure One. New name, familiar sound. Yes, it's our old friend Rhys Fulber of Delerium (and assorted other side projects) fame. Lush, trippy chillout. Would this be gen-x elevator music? Good stuff, nonetheless. 

Emerson, Lake and Palmer: Works Volume 1. I used to have this one years ago on vinyl and picked it up on CD recently. An interesting, if uneven effort. It has one of the best (Pirates) and some of the worst (just about any of Carl Palmer's solo contributions) of ELP's creative catalog.

America: Homecoming. Another one I used to have years ago. A little more adventurous than their first, fresher than much of their later efforts. This one brings back some warm memories.

Neal Morse: Testimony. Neal's Christian "coming out" CD... and it's prog! Like his last release with Spock's Beard, "Snow", this is a 2 CD set. I think both could have been trimmed down to solid single disc releases. Some really strong material, but in places you start to wonder if it's ever going to end. More of a traditional orchestral feel here - less synth and Mellotron.

Spock's Beard: Feel Euphoria. Their first release with drummer Nick D'Virgillio fronting the band. I was a little worried, but there's enough good stuff here to calm your fears. Some odd moments - "Shining Star" sounds more like an Eagles cut than a Spock's tune. "A Guy Named Sid" has some good music but is pretty much a lyrical embarrassment. "Ghosts of Autumn" is a masterpiece.

Dream Theater: Train of Thought. DT drummer Mike Portnoy is a very busy and talented guy, also handling the drums on Neal Morse's "Testimony" and was part of Transatlantic, a side project with Neal, Roine Stolt of the Flower Kings and Pete Trewavas of Marillion. I'm not a huge metal fan but iTunes had "Train of Thought" cheap so I thought I'd check it out. At first listen, I'm not terribly impressed. Opening cut "As I Am" sounds  to me like a typical Metallica effort. Guitarist John Petrucci is certainly a skilled player, yet he resorts to nearly non-musical chromatic speed runs at the drop of a hat. Maybe I don't understand metal - maybe I just don't appreciate it, I don't know. Not a bad album, but... Highlight: Portnoy's drumming.