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smartpatrol
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Posted: April 29 2013 at 16:10 |
This includes both albums I own and albums I want:
1959 - 1 * 1960 - 2 ** 1961 - 4 **** 1962 - 0 1963 - 5 ***** 1964 - 4 **** 1965 - 10 ********** 1966 - 9 ********* 1967 - 14 ************** 1968 - 15 *************** 1969 - 19 ******************* 1970 - 20 ******************** 1971 - 17 ***************** 1972 - 15 *************** 1973 - 21 ********************* 1974 - 10 ********** 1975 - 15 *************** 1976 - 12 ************ 1977 - 5 ***** 1978 - 14 ************** 1979 - 18 ****************** 1980 - 13 ************* 1981 - 20 ******************** 1982 - 12 ************ 1983 - 11 *********** 1984 - 12 ************ 1985 - 6 ****** 1986 - 8 ******** 1987 - 10 ********** 1988 - 10 ********** 1989 - 4 **** 1990 - 6 ****** 1991 - 13 ************* 1992 - 9 ********* 1993 - 6 ****** 1994 - 6 ****** 1995 - 6 ****** 1996 - 14 ************** 1997 - 9 ********* 1998 - 8 ******** 1999 - 11 *********** 2000 - 12 ************ 2001 - 10 *********** 2002 - 8 ******** 2003 - 10 *********** 2004 - 15 *************** 2005 - 13 ************* 2006 - 13 ************* 2007 - 14 ************** 2008 - 11 *********** 2009 - 16 **************** 2010 - 21 ********************* 2011 - 19 ******************* 2012 - 29 ***************************** 2013 - 8 ********
Edited by smartpatrol - April 29 2013 at 22:19
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The.Crimson.King
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Posted: April 29 2013 at 15:27 |
I started cataloging my albums in the early 90's so this exercise was easy.
1964 - 1 * 1965 - 2 * 1966 - 2 * 1967 - 16 ******** 1968 - 16 ******** 1969 - 24 ************ 1970 - 29 ************** 1971 - 26 ************* 1972 - 40 ******************** 1973 - 40 ******************** 1974 - 57 **************************** 1975 - 50 ************************* 1976 - 40 ******************** 1977 - 42 ********************* 1978 - 35 ***************** 1979 - 26 ************* 1980 - 36 ***************** 1981 - 26 ************* 1982 - 16 ******** 1983 - 25 ************ 1984 - 30 *************** 1985 - 26 ************* 1986 - 14 ******* 1987 - 21 ********** 1988 - 23 *********** 1989 - 17 ******** 1990 - 20 ********** 1991 - 26 ************* 1992 - 32 **************** 1993 - 30 *************** 1994 - 24 ************ 1995 - 24 ************ 1996 - 21 ********** 1997 - 16 ******** 1998 - 21 ********** 1999 - 22 *********** 2000 - 15 ******* 2001 - 15 ******* 2002 - 8 **** 2003 - 14 ******* 2004 - 11 ***** 2005 - 8 **** 2006 - 8 **** 2007 - 0 2008 - 4 ** 2009 - 0 2010 - 1 * 2011 - 3 * 2012 - 0 ======== Total albums - 1001
I built my album collection up in 3 distinct ways.
1st from hearing stuff on the radio and buying the album or being intrigued by the album cover art or recommendations from other people.
2nd I had this friend who was also heavy into prog and also had a large collection. We started getting together once every couple of weeks where he'd bring me 3 or 4 things from his collection and I'd bring him some things from mine. He turned me onto Hawkwind, Marillion, Kate Bush, & Greenslade and the best of the neo prog bands like IQ & Twelfth Night.
3rd in the 1990's I ran across this project on USENET (the text-based precursor to the internet) called "The Gibralter Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock". They were putting together the A-Z of every prog band out there and everyone was encouraged to help contribute band/album reviews. It was eventually a massive text document that I printed out and brought with me to record stores. I discovered Ange, Pulsar, Anekdoten, Devil Doll, Thinking Plague, Henry Cow, Terraced Garden...
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infocat
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Posted: March 03 2013 at 22:32 |
I've been keeping track for I don't know how many years. Release date and title only. I started too late to do acquisition date. Wish!
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-- Frank Swarbrick Belief is not Truth.
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: March 03 2013 at 16:15 |
I've been cataloging in Excel since 1999. I've been numbering them at 100 a pop since I began getting CDs. I regret not having acquisition dates on the first 500. I use recorded date rather than release date whenever possible. 2013 - 1 2012 - 7 2011 - 14 2010 - 17 2009 - 19 2008 - 23 2007 - 29 2006 - 26 2005 - 24 2004 - 29 2003 - 40 2002 - 36 2001 - 39 2000 - 31 1999 - 44 1998 - 29 1997 - 40 1996 - 36 1995 - 42 1994 - 45 1993 - 42 1992 - 33 1991 - 36 1990 - 30 1989 - 36 1988 - 30 1987 - 32 1986 - 31 1985 - 24 1984 - 35 1983 - 26 1982 - 27 1981 - 30 1980 - 39 1979 - 44 1978 - 47 1977 - 48 1976 - 53 1975 - 50 1974 - 52 1973 - 39 1972 - 31 1971 - 23 1970 - 30 1969 - 21 1968 - 15 1967 - 12 1966 - 2 1965 - 3 1963 - 1 1962 - 1 1961 - 1 1960 - 1 1959- 1 1958 - 2 1957 - 1 1955 - 1 1953 - 1 1949 - 1 1937 - 2 1920 - 1 1910 - 1 1905 - 1 1903 -1 1893 - 1 1874 - 1 1791 -1
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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AlanB
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Posted: March 03 2013 at 13:13 |
elbownut wrote:
Main buying period between 1972 - 1980 ( vinyl )
Occasional purchases during 80s
Kinda hiatus in the 90s and early 00's
Since around 2008 have rediscovered passion for music ( and particularly prog )
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That pretty much sum's me up too, though the bit about buying 100 albums in the last two years doesn't apply
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Guldbamsen
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Posted: March 03 2013 at 13:11 |
Alright I can do that as well. Think I'll think about it
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Roland113
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Posted: March 03 2013 at 13:07 |
You've inspired me to think about properly cataloging my music collection.
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Guldbamsen
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Posted: March 03 2013 at 13:00 |
sagichim wrote:
I'm curious to see my results but that's an impossible task for me to do.
| Hahah Sagi, I feel you man! There's no way in hell, I am doing that. I do have a lot of my collection transfered over to a portable hard disk, but I have vinyls under my bed, cds in the kitchen cupboards and stuff packed into big boxes at my parents place. Seems damn near insurmountable to me.
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“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
- Douglas Adams
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Guldbamsen
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Posted: March 03 2013 at 12:55 |
I never chew. I have people for that, or a blender.
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“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
- Douglas Adams
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Sagichim
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Posted: March 03 2013 at 12:45 |
I'm curious to see my results but that's an impossible task for me to do.
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infocat
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Posted: March 03 2013 at 11:44 |
Nightfly wrote:
Would have been to hard to work out but as I have them catalogued it was easy enough. Not surprising the early 70's come highest. |
Wow! That must be quite the collection!
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HolyMoly
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Posted: March 03 2013 at 09:48 |
I have thousands of CDs and LPs and can't even guess as to how they divide out by year, but just looking at my iTunes library, with about 41K songs in it (much of it from the aforementioned CDs and LPs), I see that Weidorje's self titled album is classified as being released in 2012, which makes me think a tally using iTunes wouldn't be too reliable anyway.
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lazland
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Posted: March 03 2013 at 09:27 |
richardh wrote:
One day (would have to be an especially boring one ) I will catalogue my collection. Probably about 700 albums and very few are before 1970. |
I think this also summarises my own position very well.
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Metalmarsh89
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Posted: March 03 2013 at 09:24 |
Guldbamsen wrote:
To be fair, it's the only thing I've ever collected, and I started when I was 8 or something. I don't have a car(or driver's license for that matter), kids or a mortgage either. |
Oh come now, you've got to have bad teeth or something like that to invest your money in
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Nightfly
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Posted: March 03 2013 at 07:44 |
Would have been to hard to work out but as I have them catalogued it was easy enough. Not surprising the early 70's come highest.
1957 = 1
1959 = 4
1963 = 2
1964 = 4
1965 = 9
1966 = 8
1967 = 12
1968 = 24
1969 = 45
1970 = 54
1971 = 66
1972 = 89
1973 = 98
1974 = 79
1975 = 78
1976 = 91
1977 = 80
1978 = 85
1979 = 91
1980 = 91
1981 = 67
1982 = 69
1983 = 54
1984 = 43
1985 = 51
1986 = 60
1987 = 53
1988 = 48
1989 = 61
1990 = 54
1991 = 67
1992 = 60
1993 = 66
1994 = 64
1995 = 71
1996 = 67
1997 = 64
1998 = 61
1999 = 62
2000 = 75
2001 = 49
2002 = 65
2003 = 65
2004 = 61
2005 = 48
2006 = 73
2007 = 79
2008 = 67
2009 = 57
2010 = 51
2011 = 63
2012 = 62
2013 = 4
Edited by Nightfly - March 03 2013 at 07:45
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Dean
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Posted: March 03 2013 at 06:12 |
Impossible to tell, or even guess. I stopped cataloguing my album collection in 1995 and only a few of them were ever dated. I tried analysing the small part of my collection that is in my iTunes database but the date tags are pretty screwed with re-issues and compilations being wrongly dated by Gracenote and I don't organise or tag albums by genre - SuperAnalyzer reported that only 37% of my albums had complete tag information, which isn't really good enough for a proper analysis. So the following graph is a complete crock because the 1000 songs released in 2005 is obviously incorrect,which does not bode well for any of the other numbers:
(as you can see, I don't use iTunes as a music player)
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What?
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akamaisondufromage
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Posted: March 03 2013 at 04:23 |
No idea I'm afraid. Just threw some in a bag to throw away. Mostly recent 2000s albums.
Most popular of my albums are from 1972 till 1982 i reckon. So Prog through to post -punk on the whole.
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richardh
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Posted: March 03 2013 at 03:06 |
One day (would have to be an especially boring one ) I will catalogue my collection. Probably about 700 albums and very few are before 1970.
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elbownut
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Posted: March 03 2013 at 02:57 |
Main buying period between 1972 - 1980 ( vinyl )
Occasional purchases during 80s
Kinda hiatus in the 90s and early 00's
Since around 2008 have rediscovered passion for music ( and particularly prog )
In last two years have purchased c 100 CDs ...which is by far the most music I have ever got.
Thanks to sites like this and being able to find and order on-line.
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Nogbad_The_Bad
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Posted: March 02 2013 at 20:11 |
Unless there is some database out there for me to automatically check against then this looks like way too much effort. I can say I have stuff going back to the 40's, it picks up significantly from 69 through 79 then drops off until the mid 90's when it picks up again through today.
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