On 7/2/03 12:02 PM, "skip Heller" <velaires@earthlink.net> wrote:
I have a failsafe system: alphabetically by artist, and compilations alphabetically by title.
It's easier to find a Ray Charles album that way, instead of wondering if he's jazz, blues, vocal or whatever.
I think it all depends on your "case logic" Skip. Jon Abbey said in an interview this week that he owns somewhere in the neighborhood of 6000 CDs. I would need a secretary to manage that volume--not to mention a few categories.
Of course, if you don't have any Ray Charles albums, there are too many levels upon which you can't be helped.
Oh now, now. Some of us happily don't know what we're missing. Ray's always in the background when I try to muster some endurance for a mandated karaoke session. Besides, I can always play the "my nostalgia is hipper than thou" with my Sidney Bechet and Django Reinhardt CDs. Don't have any of those? God have mercy on you. -- The human being is an unconscious prisoner of the ideologies and beliefs of society and the state who use him as a blind pawn in their machinery ever so destructive of lives and destinies.--Iannis Xenakis
I think it all depends on your "case logic" Skip. Jon Abbey said in an interview this week that he owns somewhere in the neighborhood of 6000 CDs.
I don't know how old Jon Abbey is, but I think the figure is just insane. How is a human being supposed to absorbe such an amount of music? I listen to about 8-10 new albums each week and it's absolutely crazy (I'm only counting those I'm interested in). Maybe if you get paid for just listening... Best, Efrén del Valle n.p: Steve Reich "Music for 18 Musicians" BMG ___________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - Nueva versión GRATIS Super Webcam, voz, caritas animadas, y más... http://messenger.yahoo.es
I think Abbey's around 30. I've got about half what Abbey has, and with the exception of a few dozen 20th-C. classical LPs I bought from the Memphis Public Library back in 1996, I've listened to everything I own at least once, and I'm a single dad & don't get much listening time (except to Bob Wills, Hank Williams, The Fall, and Joseph Haydn, my daughter's faves). I have friends who have tech industry jobs that don't require much human interaction & they listen to music on headphones all day long, and on their stereos when they get home - at that rate, it would be easy to get through 10-12 albums a day. People I'm acquainted with who have much larger collections than Abbey's plan to spend a lot of time in the listening chair after retirement - so do I. I read an interview with Jimmy Johnson, who owns Forced Exposure, and he was talking about Byron Coley - he said Coley has about 4000 records that he's waiting to get around to at any given time, and around 150,000 records in his collection; unless something is truly exceptional, he only listens to it once. At 12:57 PM 7/2/2003 +0200, Efrén del Valle wrote:
I think it all depends on your "case logic" Skip. Jon Abbey said in an interview this week that he owns somewhere in the neighborhood of 6000 CDs.
I don't know how old Jon Abbey is, but I think the figure is just insane. How is a human being supposed to absorbe such an amount of music? I listen to about 8-10 new albums each week and it's absolutely crazy (I'm only counting those I'm interested in). Maybe if you get paid for just listening...
Best,
Efrén del Valle n.p: Steve Reich "Music for 18 Musicians" BMG
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