How do you categorize your music?

[tomEisenbraun]

Cheers for your comments everyone, enjoyed reading those!

Finally, behind Shelf #5 and #6
Stuff I'm too embarrassed to tell you about but I can't part with.

BH, we need to know what's behind shelves 5&6!!!  :o ;D

Tom, I remember you losing your CDs back then, tough break man!

Haha, funny thing is, I used to be pretty anti-downloading for fidelity purposes. I guess I needed someone to change my mind for me? Now I've only got physical copies of say, 10% of my music? The other week I realized that, since I'm comfortable not owning physical backups of my music, I'm also comfortable trading the CDs I have in for cash at the local music shop. Made a nice $80 the other week doing so!

[ali]

after a few tries at other ways to organise them all, i've kind of settled on organising my cds by country.... within that, albums are sorted by artist, then artists who have some relation to each other are next to each other... same with countries (sweden, norway, denmark are all next to each other for example)

so: within the US, mmj is next to andrew bird (i got onto ab through lovely mmj forum people), ab is next to wilco (chicago connection), various ny bands are together... similarly tricky is next to massive attack, portishead, (bristol), elbow is next to doves, happy mondays, new order, oasis (manchester) etc

is a little convoluted, but i find it easy to organise, and easy to find stuff...

[TEO]

All mixed up in a drawer and compartments in my vehicles... ;)

[mjkoehler]

Wow...I feel lame or is anyone not admitting it.  I've ripped all my CD's to  a hard drive organized by band than hit the wonderful sort button ::)  My cds and cases sit in boxes in storage in my attic.

But all my CD's and records are alphabetized.  So unoriginal but I think I wouldn't be able to find crap if it was sorted by genre or color.  Color would be kinda tough with vinyl [smiley=bath.gif]

Plus I'm moving to a smaller apartment and I'm not sure I'd know where to put 10gbs of MMJ burned onto CDs ;D

What would be sweet would be to have a wheel to spin with CDs in sleeves and you play the one that hits the arrow.

That is pretty much what I did. I went to almost strictly digital for space reasons plus having all my tunes on one HD makes it easy say when there is a fire, tornado, psycho stalker/killer and I need to move to the safe room.

[weeniebeenie]

My cd's are in stacks with no order at all (I plan on fixing this very soon because I am a neat freak who likes tidiness).

My records however go from oldest to most recent (by artist and when they began, not by when the album was released).
So It starts with The Beatles and other bands from the 60's on to 70's (Queen, Zep etc), 80's (most of the bands I have in this category began in the late 70's), ninties (Pearl Jam, Foo Fighters etc) and 00's (MMJ obviously).
And all inter-releated bands are next to each other like Yes and King Crimson, Old Pike and MMJ, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden.

I. Need. A. Life.

[Ruckus]

My cd's are in stacks with no order at all (I plan on fixing this very soon because I am a neat freak who likes tidiness).

My records however go from oldest to most recent (by artist and when they began, not by when the album was released).
So It starts with The Beatles and other bands from the 60's on to 70's (Queen, Zep etc), 80's (most of the bands I have in this category began in the late 70's), ninties (Pearl Jam, Foo Fighters etc) and 00's (MMJ obviously).
And all inter-releated bands are next to each other like Yes and King Crimson, Old Pike and MMJ, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden.

I. Need. A. Life.

BIG UPS for the Yes/King Crimson section [smiley=vrolijk_26.gif] [smiley=vrolijk_26.gif] [smiley=vrolijk_26.gif]

[dragonboy]

I'm about to delve in King Crimson for the 1st time. I have In The Court Of...In The Wake Of...Larks Tongues & Red all on order. Good place to start?

[Penny Lane]

Shelf #1
All Pink Floyd, My Morning Jacket and anything related to those two bands.

Shelf #2
Live My Morning Jacket

Shelf #3 & 4
Everything I've been listening too since I joined this forum.  The day I realized that people were still making good music.

Shelf #5
Classic Rock

Shelf #6
College Music

Drawer #1
Jane's Addiction, Blues Explosion, Boss Hog

Drawer #2
Primus, Soundgarden and Audioslave

Drawer #3
Tool, NIN, and A Perfect Circle

Drawer #4
Bob Marley and The BlacK Crowes (and probably a few seeds)

Drawer #5
Ministry, The White Stripes and Nirvana

Drawer #6
Butthole Surfers and Revolting Cocks

Finally, behind Shelf #5 and #6
Stuff I'm too embarrassed to tell you about but I can't part with.

mine is similar to this.

top shelf: beatles/the verve/the band/oasis bside singles
second: MMJ all/DBT
third: all classic brit pop-stone roses to weller
fourth: all classic americana
fifth/fifth/sixth-everything else
bottom shelf: andy dick's cd/crash test dummies

[weeniebeenie]

BIG UPS for the Yes/King Crimson section [smiley=vrolijk_26.gif] [smiley=vrolijk_26.gif] [smiley=vrolijk_26.gif]

Thanks.

[weeniebeenie]

I'm about to delve in King Crimson for the 1st time. I have In The Court Of...In The Wake Of...Larks Tongues & Red all on order. Good place to start?

I have Beat because I really like Yes and Bill Bruford so I looked for a King Crimson album with him on it and I really like it.
In The Court Of King Crimson was probably a wise choice though seeing as it's the first album.
But I think Bringdaruckus would probably have a more informed answer than me.

[dragonboy]

I'm about to delve in King Crimson for the 1st time. I have In The Court Of...In The Wake Of...Larks Tongues & Red all on order. Good place to start?

I have Beat because I really like Yes and Bill Bruford so I looked for a King Crimson album with him on it and I really like it.
In The Court Of King Crimson was probably a wise choice though seeing as it's the first album.
But I think Bringdaruckus would probably have a more informed answer than me.

Thanks WB!

I've heard a few tracks from In the Court Of & Red that have blown me away, Starless in particular.

[BH]

Cheers for your comments everyone, enjoyed reading those!

Finally, behind Shelf #5 and #6
Stuff I'm too embarrassed to tell you about but I can't part with.

BH, we need to know what's behind shelves 5&6!!!  :o ;D

Tom, I remember you losing your CDs back then, tough break man!

Let's just say there is a LOT OF HAIR involved.

[AMightyCaporal]

I guess it looks as if you're reorganizing your records. What is this though? Chronological?
No...
Not alphabetical...
Nope...
What?
Autobiographical.
No fucking way.

;D i love that movie

[mjkoehler]

Cheers for your comments everyone, enjoyed reading those!

Finally, behind Shelf #5 and #6
Stuff I'm too embarrassed to tell you about but I can't part with.

BH, we need to know what's behind shelves 5&6!!!  :o ;D

Tom, I remember you losing your CDs back then, tough break man!

Let's just say there is a LOT OF HAIR involved.

So it's a shrine to CC?!?! Nice.

[BH]

Cheers for your comments everyone, enjoyed reading those!

Finally, behind Shelf #5 and #6
Stuff I'm too embarrassed to tell you about but I can't part with.

BH, we need to know what's behind shelves 5&6!!!  :o ;D

Tom, I remember you losing your CDs back then, tough break man!

Let's just say there is a LOT OF HAIR involved.

So it's a shrine to CC?!?! Nice.

;D  Well lots of hair, but not so much makeup.   Some, but not that much.

[aMillionDreams]

I switched to completely digital a few years ago.  My music is organized on an external hard drive alphabetically by artist and within those folders the artists' music is ordered chronologically by release date.  All my CDs find a home in a storage box in my garage.

[FACE]

a - z, too. but now it's way out of order as i had to stack them on top of each other.  when i move, i'll do over.

[FACE]

I switched to completely digital a few years ago.  My music is organized on an external hard drive alphabetically by artist and within those folders the artists' music is ordered chronologically by release date.  All my CDs find a home in a storage box in my garage.

you don't text but you do digital music?!?!

[FiddleCastro]

My Vinyl are A-Z, easiest way IMHO.  Side-projects and Solo work are put with the original band,

My CD's, however are a disorganized pile of wtf. One day I'll go through them and organize them....

[capt. scotty]

I guess it looks as if you're reorganizing your records. What is this though? Chronological?
No...
Not alphabetical...
Nope...
What?
Autobiographical.
No fucking way.

;D i love that movie

Cusack's best IMO