Important question from new contributor

/successful SY (mf) song file
or /SY (mf) covers file (aka /SY can play like any other rock band but pretend they're different file)
or /Sonic Bitch (mf) excuse file
or /L for Langegan (m)
or /Fowley, Kim, (male) file
?
is it the same song ?
so, L F (m) SY-side (mf) SoBx

'cause all stuff given the SY/NY stamp is thus rendered exponentially important to rock curates. SY are by definition the primary cultural tract of substantative rock dilligenté, especially with such this successfull art-in-disguise pop, so the connection to them is really much more important than any other little details.

if this is a different "Bubblegum" song, the SY crossover, however slight, is still probably the most important thing to tag as footnote, even if merely in the interests of American posterity and scholarship.

Also, The 101'ers. It seems a little de trop to file them between The O'Jays and Ooberman.

Don't even get me started on !!! and ? & The Mysterians.

I think that's why they changed their name to The Blues Explosion.

Put it in that one stack of CD's next to that old casio in the corner by the window...

As for the album you mention. Do you have a bin? ;-)

are you that Leeds Hooligan guy? Your name rings a bell.

Only if you add a tag field so that the record can be searched with an "and" in place of the anthasand.

Right now theyre under P and T.

I might've said that about the first band you mentioned :)

Actually, it would be theoretically possible to file the latter band under "." - I think the usual practice is to place that at the start of the alphabet.

But really, if you're going to build up a decent collection, you'll need something better than a paltry alphabetical system. I spit on your alphabetical system.

Also, don't attempt to file CDs by colour of spine. Its a rubbish idea. Things have different colour spines to what you think they do.
Oh yes.

I used to file them under 'B'! I mean, even before the name change, everyone just called them 'Blues Explosion,' anyway. Now I think they're under 'S.'

Re: A Perfect Circle and A Tribe Called Quest -- why wouldn't you think of the "a" in the same way as "the" and drop it?

Just to clarify a few points:
As I had previously said I'm not anally retentive enough to file my actual CD's, but just anal enough to have them on a spreadsheet (could come in handy in the event of burglary or it could be that I just like looking at lists of CD's)

Paul - thanks for the support ya Hull yob, for the purpose's of filing I would ignore 'The' and file as Who, The (for example) which I believe is in direct alignment with universally acknowledged correct way of filing stuff and that. Probably ancient handed down through time librarian rules or something.

But using that logic you would have to drop the 'A' from 'A' and they would just be ' ' Where would you file that?!?!!?

no no no no no no NO!!!

NOOO!!!!!!

Somebody get Archel over here to sort this mess out!

Its your choice.. you can either use the "a" or the "the", or you can overlook them as aberrations, brought on by those with no respect for cataloguing practice. But you MUST BE CONSISTENT, otherwise all hell will break loose. Literally. I'm warning you.

I would advise ignoring such flim-flam and concentrating on the main title. Or do what I do. Don't bother organising your CDs at all. Great, unless you want to find something.

But she might have been lying.

dunno about Bo Diddley.

I'm bored of talking about cataloguing now. Time to go back to cataloguing.

An early boyfriend of my stepmother made her sit down and help him file his record collection... for hours... on end. Not just stacking them in order, either: they had to write out each song title on a card, and file the cards away in an index.

She ended up chucking the scissors across the room at him and storming off ... and that was the end of the relationship.

Caveat alphabetisor. Or something.

I have to agree with hobart's reservations re: this kind suggestion.

''A Certain Ratio'' being a lyric, a band name and vital parameters for your spreadsheet, the risk of programmers' drift places variable names, functions and actual values in jeopardy of cross-contamination, potentially organising sound out of sync with the currently fashionable modular approach and possibly even running the risk of spewing forth some now hopelessly unfashionable jarring juxtapositions.
No-one wants to be heard to be flaunting a post-modern taste in 2005, so music fashion being what it is i would advise extreme caution.

Generation X could ruin your dinner party.

PJ Harvey -- is her real name. so H. you can also solve most dilemmas by just filing by first name, actually first NOUN (so all the 'The's' and 'Los' 's aren't together. -exception: DJ. - just file by whatever follows 'DJ')

Genya Rayven - is a pseudonym for Goldie Zelkowitz. If you want to file things in order and are anal enough about it, you could put 'em both under G. But do what works for YOU. Just remember where you FILED the damn Mark Lanegan for the next time you feel like slitting your wrists over how to alphabetize.

Lanegan -- L. Or, if you wish, G for good.

Jesus. You people.

I have no answer re Andrew WK. Personal prerogative.

I ignore "the"s, but not "a"s and "an"s. I'm trying to be consistent across languages though, so "Les Negresses Vertes" go under N, and "Der Plan" under P.

Alice Cooper & Elton John go under C and J. They've never recorded under their real names, so what's the confusion?

Well yeah, I have a 'cyclopaedia where ol' Ig is listed just thusly, under "P": The Penguin Enc. of Popular Music. Nothing doing, yes.

that is fucking awesome.