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Nogbad_The_Bad ![]() Forum & Site Admin Group ![]() ![]() RIO/Avant/Zeuhl & Eclectic Team Joined: March 16 2007 Location: Boston Status: Offline Points: 20520 |
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I think it tells you that the original print runs were relatively small in comparison the the first half of the 70's when all the artists were on big labels.
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RockHound ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: March 03 2013 Location: USA Status: Offline Points: 659 |
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I’ve always been rather anal retentive about organizing and cataloging my collection. For physical media, Rock and Jazz are organized alphabetically by artist and chronologically within artists. I organize classical by composer, type of work, and then either chronologically or by opus or catalog number. Schubert and Mozart can be confusing in this regard, whereas Bach and Beethoven are easy to organize.
Digital media are organized in iTunes, which with a little elbow grease works really well. I have spent countless hours managing and editing ID3 tags to get things the way I want them. I have spent so much of my life curating rock sample and fossil collections, that curating my music is just a natural outgrowth of that activity. But I’ll tell you this-organizing music is much easier than organizing the biosphere, which is quite subjective and requires application of stochastic principles. If you think defining progressive rock is hard, you should try organizing brachiopods for size! Edited by RockHound - September 02 2022 at 01:05 |
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Jared ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: May 06 2005 Location: Hereford, UK Status: Offline Points: 18021 |
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I think your first sentence goes for most forum members, Jack! I have downsized my Classical collection quite a bit now, rather than let it collect dust, but I used to organise mine, firstly in terms of era: Early - Baroque - Classical - Early Romantic - Nationalistic - Proto-Modern. Then, within the confines of each composer as follows: Orchestral - String Orch - Concertos - Chamber (Reducing by number of Instruments from Octets to Duos) - Solo Instrumental - Choral - Opera - Lieder. It generally used to work for me, insofar as I could find everything fairly easily. If I had more than one recording of a work, then they would go in chronological order... Oh, I do love a good catalogue!
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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Psychedelic Paul ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: September 16 2019 Location: Nottingham, U.K Status: Online Points: 37096 |
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I organise my CD collection into these 25 separate genres, with Prog Rock being one of the smallest genres, but wishing it was one of the largest.
![]() Alternative Rock/Indie Rock (97) Box Sets (110 box sets consisting of 476 individual CD's) Classical Crossover (79) Country (80) Dance Music (82) Disco (63) Easy Listening (82) Electronica (93) Folk (106) Hard Rock (46) Heavy Metal/Symphonic Metal (37) Indie Pop (34) Jazz-Funk/Smooth Jazz (200) New Age (80) Pop/Rock groups (249) Progressive Rock (174) Psychedelic Pop/Rock (138) Reggae (3) Sophisti-Pop (67) Soul/Motown (272) Soundtracks (78) Synth Pop (36) Various Artists Compilations (101) Vocal: Female (193) Vocal: Male (237) Number of CD's (in brackets) Edited by Psychedelic Paul - September 05 2022 at 14:17 |
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Jared ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: May 06 2005 Location: Hereford, UK Status: Offline Points: 18021 |
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^^ Paul, would it be worth selling some CDs you don't listen to any more on eBay, in order to fund a growing Prog collection?
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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Psychedelic Paul ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: September 16 2019 Location: Nottingham, U.K Status: Online Points: 37096 |
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I've given away CD's to charity shops in the past (including 3 by Tangerine Dream) but I no longer do that as I've always ended up regretting it in the end, especially in the case of Pink Floyd's Animals, which I gave away to a Dogs charity.
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Jared ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: May 06 2005 Location: Hereford, UK Status: Offline Points: 18021 |
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Oh, I think every collection is often in need of a bit of judicial pruning...
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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Psychedelic Paul ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: September 16 2019 Location: Nottingham, U.K Status: Online Points: 37096 |
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I already pruned out my Bay City Rollers, Culture Club & Glitter Band albums.
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David_D ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: October 26 2010 Location: Copenhagen Status: Offline Points: 13948 |
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Sounds like a good idea to me. ![]() Edited by David_D - September 02 2022 at 04:39 |
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quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond
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Psychedelic Paul ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: September 16 2019 Location: Nottingham, U.K Status: Online Points: 37096 |
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Okay, I've finally added up how many CD's I have in my entire collection across all music genres.....
3103 ..... give or take the odd one or three, and I do have a few odd ones in my collection.
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Friedrich Nietzsche: "Without music, life would be a mistake."
Music Is Live Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. Keep Calm And Listen To The Music… < |
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Psychedelic Paul ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: September 16 2019 Location: Nottingham, U.K Status: Online Points: 37096 |
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^ Thanks! It wasn't so much of an effort as compiling my Japanese psych list yesterday though.
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Jared ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: May 06 2005 Location: Hereford, UK Status: Offline Points: 18021 |
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Oh, we can imagine there being a few odd one, Paul! ![]() I have a lovely Oak, wall mounted rack which contains 355 CDs... if I buy some more, others find their way on to eBay, I'm afraid...
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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David_D ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: October 26 2010 Location: Copenhagen Status: Offline Points: 13948 |
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My collection is a bit bigger, about 450 albums and mostly LP's, and I don't intend to make it much bigger, either. ![]() |
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quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond
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Jared ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: May 06 2005 Location: Hereford, UK Status: Offline Points: 18021 |
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One important thing to add David, is that my CDs are keenly guarded by my collection of 18 'Brambly Hedge' mice...
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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We need a photo of that Jared.
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Psychedelic Paul ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: September 16 2019 Location: Nottingham, U.K Status: Online Points: 37096 |
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Top 12 Oddities & Obscurities from My CD Collection (across 12 different genres of music)
David Axelrod - Songs of Experience (Jazz Rock/Fusion) Banco de Gaia - Last Train to Lhasa (Dance) David Bowie - Space Oddity - (Pop/Rock) - an obvious choice! ![]() Cantamus - Aurora (Classical Crossover) - a girls' choir from Mansfield ![]() Holger Czukay - Movies (the only Krautrock album in my entire collection) ![]() Strange Country (compilation) Strange Folk (compilation) Strange Soul (compilation) Ryuichi Sakamoto - Nat Geo (Progressive Electronic) Secret Garden - Songs from a Secret Garden (New Age) - winners of the Eurovision Song Contest for Norway in 1995, so maybe not so obscure after all. ![]() Tarja Turunen - Henkays Ikuisuudesta (Symphonic Metal - although not really Metal at all) ![]() The Zodiac - Cosmic Sounds (Psychedelic Rock) If anyone else here at PA has any of these albums in their collection, then they're probably not as obscure as I thought.
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Jared ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: May 06 2005 Location: Hereford, UK Status: Offline Points: 18021 |
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Does it contain a 12 minute extended mix of 'Grandma, We Love You?'
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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Psychedelic Paul ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: September 16 2019 Location: Nottingham, U.K Status: Online Points: 37096 |
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It's not that kind of choir.
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