How do you file bands that have "ownership names"?

what I mean by that are bands like Darryl Way's Wolf, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Barbara Thompson's Paraphernalia or Tony Williams Lifetime. do you file them under the band name (in the examples Wolf, Earth Band, Paraphernalia and Lifetime) or under the leader's name (like for example: Way, Darryl)? or do you use another method?

Friede and I have decided to go with the band name alone. if a band has a name that's it, period; no matter who the leader is


Edited by BaldJean - December 06 2016 at 01:54

Tom Ozric wrote: Seems 'Band Name' is cool........... I guarantee there's no group by an 'Ed Sheeran Band' that performs 11/8 with fuzz-organ and jug-band percussion.......

That would be the Allman Brothers Band and Whipping Post (Organ, 11/ 8, ownership).

I do know the Alan Parsons Project is filed under P in my local retail emporium.

Nowadays I have most of my collection digitized and I'm just too lazy to create a different system from the one created by Logitech Media Server. So if you're in this position, it is ordered by first letters which means first names of artists. This is kind of ugly but at least it resolves dilemmas like the one leading this thread. 

(I still do work on filing classical music by composer - the digital information on classical CDs is just too inconsistent -, and also LMS has some strange moods like it recognizes some articles and doesn't count them but it also assumes that some three letter names are articles apparently, so that Wim Mertens appears under M but Cat Stevens is still C, wtf?? So if you still use your own system I will not try to convert you whatever dilemmas you're facing.)

Edited by omphaloskepsis - December 06 2016 at 11:04

Manfred Man's Earthband -> Mann, Manfred Earthband
Darryl Way's Wolf -> Way, Darryl Wolf
Barbara Thompson's Paraphernalia -> Thompson, Barbara Paraphenalia
Tony Williams Lifetime ->  William, Tony Lifetime

I don't file them at all...not even alphabetically.......I have bands in genre areas and just remember where they are.

Some folk seem to overthink ... how would you file Mabel Greer's Toyshop?

Dean wrote: Some folk seem to overthink ... how would you file Mabel Greer's Toyshop?

Since there isn't an actual Mabel Greer, I would file under M.  The same with Jethro Tull being filed under J.

AFlowerKingCrimson wrote: rushfan4 wrote: Dean wrote: Some folk seem to overthink ... how would you file Mabel Greer's Toyshop? Since there isn't an actual Mabel Greer, I would file under M.  The same with Jethro Tull being filed under J. Ahh, but there was an actual Jethro Tull. ;)

and there is an actual Uriah Heep, but only in the Charles Dickens novel "David Copperfield"

With ownership names like Darryl Way's Wolf, or Manfred Mann's Earthband,or Manfred Mann's chapter three it depends how the computer will file them,and often I have to change the name in the properties box to get all the albums by those bands in the same place otherwise they end up in two or more places which is awkward.