Steve F.
www.waysidemusic.com
www.cuneiformrecords.com
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“Remember, if it doesn't say "Cuneiform," it's not prog!” - THE Jed Levin
Any time any one speaks to me about any musical project, the one absolute given is "it will not make big money". [tip of the hat to HK]
"Death to false 'support the scene' prog!"
please add 'imo' wherever you like, to avoid offending those easily offended.
Ya know one thing that drives me crazy with CD's is the different spines on some things. Case in point: the earlier ECM CD's all had a red stripe on part of the spine. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get all the Pat Metheny and Terje Rypdal albums on CD at the time. So those parts of my collection are a hodge podge of titles, some of which have the red stripe and some don't, which I find aesthetically displeasing. BUt what can you do?
Actually, with regard to Metheny, the only one that I have that has the red stripe is Travels. The others were from pressings that came later, after they dropped the red stripe. Still, in the middle of the Metheny ECM CD's, you've got that red stripe one, with different font from the others, etc.
I'm pleased that all the Whitesnake CD's I bought recently (essentially, their first six albums) are all from the same reissue series, so they all have the same spines, with the same logos, font, etc (except two, for some reason, have a Parlophone logo on the spine, while the others have the EMI logo...but I think I can live with that). Likewise, all my Black Sabbath CD's are from the same reissue series, and as such, also have matching spines (the frell am I gonna do if/when I finally start buying the post-Born Again albums, which weren't part of that reissue series?).
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Hurtleturtled Out of Heaven - an electronic music composition, on CD and vinyl
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I also know someone who files his collection by date of purchase. He's a retired postal carrier so I don't know if this somehow ties into some U.S.P.S. way of doing things. He frequently comes into the record shop and asks us if we can look up the release date of some title he's looking for at home. That in and of itself should serve as a clue to him he needs to come up with a better way of organizing things. Having said that I know we're all different and our brains work different ways -- so whatever floats your boat.
And that reminds me of something else that drove me crazy for a long time: I was never able to completely KCCCC collection, so there's gaps in those photos on CD's. I had them turned around so you can see the pictures, but there's bits missing, because several of the titles went out of print before I could lay hands on them.
Way back a couple million years ago, when I had only LPs and I had a DOS computer, I created a relational database in ProFile that listed:
- Alphabetizer (usually band's or artist's last name, but for soundtracks it would be the movie title)
- Second Identifier (usually album title, but again there were exceptions)
- Format
- Label
- Release (catalog) number
- Genre (rock, jazz, folk, classical, etc.)
- Sub-genre (traditional, contemporary, avant-garde, etc.)
- Date of recording
- Date of release
- Country of recording
- Country of release
- Length
- Cross references: this is where I'd put who played on it, or bands related to this release, or "harp" if I wanted to search for all my harp recordings, or anything else searchable
I miss that old database. I had a lot of fun putting it together and using it to find unlikely connections and running reports on anything imaginable. However the company that made ProFile (Norton Utilities or somebody) went out of business, then I gave up on Windows, then I gave up on IBM computers, then I gave up on LPs. I never could find an infinitely-variable relational database for Apple for a reasonable price, and the prospect of entering this level of detail on 8,000+ CDs would be daunting at my age.
There are shortcuts -- listing your collection at Discogs, or the MusicCollector software out of Denmark or wherever they are -- but they never had the flexibility or depth of detail or the ability to customize CD-R releases that would make it worth the effort.
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This was the bookshelf in an apartment I stayed in in Amsterdam.
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Alice Cooper is a tough case. At first it was the band's name, then later Vincent adopted it as his own stage name.
Missus Beastly and Mr. Big under 'M."
The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The GTOs and The Who not filed under "T." But at the same time, Les Vampyrettes, Los Lobos and L'Ensemble Raye filed under "L." Go figure.
Steve F.
www.waysidemusic.com
www.cuneiformrecords.com
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“Remember, if it doesn't say "Cuneiform," it's not prog!” - THE Jed Levin
Any time any one speaks to me about any musical project, the one absolute given is "it will not make big money". [tip of the hat to HK]
"Death to false 'support the scene' prog!"
please add 'imo' wherever you like, to avoid offending those easily offended.
Why is it whenever someone mentions an artist that was clearly progressive (yet not the Symph weenie definition of Prog) do certain people feel compelled to snort "thats not Prog" like a whiny 5th grader?
ProfessionalFile was a hell of a shareware program. It could even be used (as it was by me) to create a rudimentary Windows GUI before WIN 3.0 came out.
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