okay, you are selling all your records (and not buying a real doll) and starting over...

...and you can only buy records in one genre for the rest of your days.

i'm thinking movie soundtracks. or maybe 70's disco 12 inches. but i would probably pick jazz.

be kinda cool to own thousands of movie soundtracks though. fun to shop for them.

i've always been a bit jealous of one genre collectors. makes life easier in so many ways.

i feel like 60's-70's soul 45's and '77-'85 disco/house/techno 12"s are the richest relatively unexplored genres for me. i might stick with jazz, but i might go for one of the other two.

oh wait and gospel.

45's from the punk/postpunk/indie era.

heavy metal

pre-war string bands exclusively.

or maybe... just 78s.

i was thinking i could do small label/private/local country releases too. from the 50's to 70's. i'd be happy with that. i think.

78s i bought yesterday:

frankie wallace - oh! for the wild and wooly west/eleven more months and ten more days (perfect)

vernon dalhart - can i sleep in your barn tonight, mister?/hand me down my walking cane (perfect)

ella fitzgerald and her savoy eight - the darktown strutters ball/my last affair (decca)

vincent rose - nasty man/my dog loves your dog (perfect)

chick bullock - there'll be some changes made/amapola (okeh)

owen fallon and his californians - you must believe me/have you ever been lonely (have you ever been blue) (perfect)

ink spots - a lovely way to spend the evening/don't believe everything you dream (decca)

phil harris - goofus/the thing (rca victor)

buddy spencer trio - ivy covered cabin home/the old ladies home (perfect)

but i couldn't collect nothing but 78s. i would miss longplayingrekkerds and 7inchsingles.

i would miss LPs, i guess, but only cuz i had getting up to flip the record.
but i think there's enough music out there on the format to keep me going for a long while.

78s isn't a 'genre' though?

Although I can sure see the attraction - people would back away immediately, and you wouldn't be competing much in charity chops/ flea markets; and usually they're dirt cheap.

I think Jazz would be the serious answer.

i'd go for "world music" but that's cheating.
70's hard rock i guess?
i think jazz would be the easiest to not stray from

just so many eras, yknow

psych

probably one of those ex-punks that could live with only listening to reggae from here on out

Indonesian music

probably one of those ex-punks that could live with only listening to reggae from here on out

― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Wednesday, May 12, 2010 11:29 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

ohhhhh yeah good point

this is a ridic question but oddly i find myself thinking that jamaican music might do the trick. as long as i could throw in some rocksteady.

vitaphone discs!