Organized or Demented?

But such a fun dementia. When I first started getting CDs, I had a whim -- I guess to show the sweep of history or something -- to organize everything chronologically by country. Thus, the Brit stuff from Beatles to now, American stuff, etc. Silly, of course, but somehow I maintained it for a while. Then when I got around to putting everything in a database (oh, how classically sad!), I thought 'to hell with it' and just made it alphabetical. No database these days -- perhaps a good thing -- but it's all still alphabetical, easy to work with and organize. Scarily, I *am* listening through my collection, but as Andy Kellman can tell you, it's because of all the AMG work I'm doing. When I'm not reviewing, it's anything goes.

I base it on emotion. Which means i occasionly yell there is a difference between sad and meloncholic.

Fritz - that's how I organise my collection. It's very, very difficult, but alphabetical just seems so wrong to me.

Stacks. I have stacks.

No organisation at all to my collection. It's all just stuffed together on shelves, in piles, hither and thither. Some CD cases have the wrong CD inside which is arse annoying - I haven't been able to locate my Cat Power 'What Would the Community Think?' CD in months.
Time I got myself organisized.

Yeah ditto David M. I mean who really has time to sort out their CD collections when there's uh....posting on ILx to do??

LPs organised sorta by decade/genre, alphabetically within. Far from ideal, as most recent are low-down and I am no longer perfectly bendy. I tried perfectly alphabetical: it was shit (forget why). IKEA shleving = exact right depth to have LPs at back, CDs untidily and more or less unorderedly stacked in front = total rubbish. I just spent four hours today "putting away": as usual I now have about 40 inner sleeves adrift from their proper LPs. Where oh where is METAL MACHINE MUSIC!! I cannot have lent it out. My work colleagues all own it: my real-life friends would be more likely to want to borrow a carving knife and cut off their nipples.

I organize by color of spines. White on top (second most frequent), then black (most frequent), then colors as I see fit. No, wait, I changed it last week. It goes black-white-black-color-white-black- white-color, etc.

Mark:

Can I use "most recent are lowdown and I am no longer perfectly bendy" as the name of my memoirs?

cheers,

Fritz

I think Brendan Gillen from Ectomorph has the most interesting filing system for his collection.

Records are organized, by genre, alphabetically by band, and then chronologically by release.

For the electronic records it is organized by country, then city, then label, then catalog number.

If you want to hear an Adult record, if it is on Ersatz Audio, you have to go to the american section, then Detroit, then EA, and then select the record, unless it came out on a different label. If he wants to hear the record they did on Clone, you have to go to Netherlands, then Amsterdam, and then Clone, and then find their release in the catalog.

I think that is a really great label-centric way to organize music.

You have succeeded in making my head hurt.

How about deliberately filing everything in the wrong covers, so it becomes impossible to find anything, and you go by this system where you HAVE to play whatever was randomly inserted in the CD case corresponding to the one you originally WANTED to play.

LPs are just alphabetical. I did have a section for 'rubbish' records, but I'm trying to re-integrate them, as I realise I may grow to like even some of the most hated ones in time, and also partly because I think I offended Christopher Lookout by having a Green Day album in there...

7"s are mostly not organised, but I have separated the normal card sleeves from those with plastic covers.

CDs are again alphabetical. The tiny CDs (3"?? I have no sense of measurement/space) are grouped next to CD singles with soft card covers. Free CDs are in their own section, but only the free Wire CDs are on their own. Compilation CDs made for/by me have their own section. Crap demo CDs are chucked in a box and ignored.

10"s tend to be grouped in the same place as triangular and police car-shaped records etc, but I'm trying to rectify this situation.

Tapes are separated depending on whether they are proper tape albums or not. Compilation tapes that are good and taped albums I listen to a lot are also in a different section. All the rest are in a big box that I ought to get sorted but never get around to as there's just too many of the damn things...

Now can I tell you about how I arrange my books?..........

My CDs, the physical CDs themselves that is, are sitting in four equal piles on top of the turntable of my old, no long living stereo. Their cases and booklets are in various places: the attic, some in the black plastic racks which were bought for the express purpose of holding them, stacked up next to said racks, under the bed, over the floor, in the bathroom, on the kitchen counter. Most of the vinyl is in a taped up box in the attic since I am turntable- less at the moment anyway. I only listen to 10 CDs anyway, so its okay. There was one brief, shining period where everything was organized alphabetically and then by chronological order, but that was a long time ago, and we don't like to think about it too often...

And yes Emily, how do you organize your books?

I oranize my records by how much Im listening to them. cds go on top of the speakers, then in descending order of importance from the top of various piles on my desk, from there its same deal with the piles on my trunk, and then the really godawful cds are still unpacked in the trunk. Anything worse then that gets microwaved in someone elses oven.

Hate to bursts Kodashi's bubble but its a good chance the universe is going to implode if the estimated mass of dark matter keeps rising. No heat death as The Onion likes to call it.

That will prove a complete cunt as our universe would then squash itself out of existence - time, space, EVERYTHING would end literally. Nothing left. EVER.

P00...

This thread scares me. Thank GOD I don't know anyone like this.

I think Brendan Gillen from Ectomorph has the most interesting filing system for his collection. Records are organized, by genre

Lucky chap for not having those records that don't slot neatly into one genre!