[Music] Music Completist

[zefarelly]

I have recorded some vinyl via a focusrite audio interface, works very well, but obviously time consuming. I have done it on a few rare/oddities that don't exist digitally.

Keeping on track . . . The first Caravan album is a good example ;-). And the Moby Grape album.

 

[GT49er]

Difficult to decide what to put in. Prollific bands that stay together for a long time tend to get less interesting after the initial energy that took them to the top wears then - Genesis is a classic example - I've a complete selection of early Genesis, but wouldn't give house room to their later stuff!So, my complete selections will likely be bands that had the sense to quit while they were still good (or if not quit, pretty much go out of sight).

So, I don't do singles, and I don't give a toss whether it's coloured vynil or special edition (or other format for that matter, if I've got the music) - and not bothering about compilations, bootlegs, etc. So, I think I've got complete sets of The Damned, The Velvet Underground, The Records and The Smithereens (and early Genesis!). Complete Beatles (on MP3), and I think I'm pretty well complete on Sandy Denny.

 

[Kosh]

I don't think I'm completist for many, HP Lovecraft, The SPecials, Jam, and anyone else who only made 1 or 2 albums! There are a few Caravan gaps, have first three and cunning stunts. Madness up to rise and fall, think I have All the Steve Miller band albums up to Abrcadabra, most artists seem to wane after 3 or 4 albums, or drift off somewhere. . . .or maybe thats my taste drifting.

It's impossible to maintain the standard, although Caravan had the brilliant Cunning Stunts after the poorer (in my opinion) Waterloo Lilly... So artists can bounce back. Camel too, had a few ups and downs. It's really transitional eras that break most bands - by this I mean straddling trends and coming out stronger (Queen? Rush?) than expected. Once the 80s dawned the brilliance was drained from even superb bands like the Strawbs. It's far easier to be a completist when it comes to a band like Wally or a Black Widow or even a Flowerpot Men (John Carter), when output was fairly minimal in terms of albums etc.... I even own the brilliant Mythological Sunday b/w Piccolo Man 45 as put out under the Friends moniker and later appearing on Flowerpot Men comps... Mythological Sunday is probably my favourite 'men track... it's got it all. Journeys End too is a personal favourite.

Yeah, I'm proud of my Flowerpot Men 45 and album collection, including CD comp and the Peace/Past Imperfect album that Repertoire put out.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I baulked at a frst pressing of the first album . . .£400 for a good one! The early 70's reissue is good quality

I have Art, Skip Bifferty, Arc and a few other oddities, bands that only ever did one album.

View attachment 140353

Superb. I bought my copy of the first album in the early 70s so the same is probably true for me.

Edit: Some of the CD releases during the last 20 years are excellent. John Peel sessions...and a reworking of old tracks with Dougie Boyle playing guitar.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Difficult to decide what to put in. Prollific bands that stay together for a long time tend to get less interesting after the initial energy that took them to the top wears then - Genesis is a classic example - I've a complete selection of early Genesis, but wouldn't give house room to their later stuff!So, my complete selections will likely be bands that had the sense to quit while they were still good (or if not quit, pretty much go out of sight).

So, I don't do singles, and I don't give a toss whether it's coloured vynil or special edition (or other format for that matter, if I've got the music) - and not bothering about compilations, bootlegs, etc. So, I think I've got complete sets of The Damned, The Velvet Underground, The Records and The Smithereens (and early Genesis!). Complete Beatles (on MP3), and I think I'm pretty well complete on Sandy Denny.

Me too. To be fair the first Album (genesis to revelations) is rubbish too.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

“Caravan!

I could go on....but the tennis is about to start!!!!!”

Ha - that even sounds like an If I could do it all over again… outtake title… brilliant, and probably deliberately so.


I’d sell the rest, but kudos on the above. I bet you don’t own them all though… come on, even the ‘reunion’ albums and the latter day live albums from back in the day ?

I think you’re trying to pull a cunning stunt, that and caravan are way too mainstream for you surely ?

Lol.

#2eclectic.

I have everything up to 'Stunts' on vinyl and the rest on CD. There are 22 CDs. I think that's everything!

 

[GT49er]

Me too. To be fair the first Album (genesis to revelations) is rubbish too.

I liked that one! Not that they didn't make some dramatic strides forward after that.

 

[1066familyman]

I haven't even started on the vinyl. Not sure how the quality would compare with the CDs on the Cocktail. Mind you, I now realise I am a completist on Kathy Dalton as the owner of 'Amazing', the only album she recorded I think I only bought it because I heard one track and liked the idea of owning a record on Frank Zappa's Discreet label.

I have recorded some vinyl via a focusrite audio interface, works very well, but obviously time consuming. I have done it on a few rare/oddities that don't exist digitally.

Keeping on track . . . The first Caravan album is a good example ;-). And the Moby Grape album.

Off on the recording tangent.

I shall be recording from my turntable onto CD-RW in my cd recorder in the same hifi set up. I will then rip the CD-RW as a flac in Asunder on the laptop and tag it with album art using Kid3. A bit long winded, but it works for me with any source on my hifi.

My aim is to eventually get all the music I own in physical formats saved and easily accessible as digital files.

 

[Kosh]

I have everything up to 'Stunts' on vinyl and the rest on CD. There are 22 CDs. I think that's everything!

By God, that's impressive... I stand corrected.

Your collection must be absolutely MASSIVE.

I've reduced mine significantly over the years, as I regularly run out of space. I then wonder why I bought some stuff?!? and it gets moved on in a lack of quality cull. It's harsh, but it raises funds. Ultimately I decided if it's not on regular rotation and/or I've never even listened to it, OR I had it on once and never again it goes. The other problem is that time is vital, and if I fall into the trap of spending too long staring at my wall of music paralyzed by my own brilliant taste, well, making a choice takes too long and alas the time has come and gone before I hit track 6... nothing frustrates me more...

I'd say a collection of the music you genuinely love, is better than building a gargantuan collection that becomes more about ownership than pleasure. I say this as I've been there before.

Anyway... rock on

 

[bobbab5]

Maiden, Marillion and the Manics. And i bought that Bob Mould boxset a few months ago, so I have all his albums, but only a couple of Husker Du.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

By God, that's impressive... I stand corrected.

Your collection must be absolutely MASSIVE.

I've reduced mine significantly over the years, as I regularly run out of space. I then wonder why I bought some stuff?!? and it gets moved on in a lack of quality cull. It's harsh, but it raises funds. Ultimately I decided if it's not on regular rotation and/or I've never even listened to it, OR I had it on once and never again it goes. The other problem is that time is vital, and if I fall into the trap of spending too long staring at my wall of music paralyzed by my own brilliant taste, well, making a choice takes too long and alas the time has come and gone before I hit track 6... nothing frustrates me more...

I'd say a collection of the music you genuinely love, is better than building a gargantuan collection that becomes more about ownership than pleasure. I say this as I've been there before.

Anyway... rock on

I gather you are still a young man (in your 30s) so you knowledge of music from before you were born is impressive.

I have over 1500 CDs in alphabetical order on a wall, and probably another 1500 in 'temporary storage'. I have over 16,000 tracks on my iPods (some of them whole John Peel programmes mostly from the 80s that I downloaded from an amazing site) and various other downloads (such as the Misery Hour on CITR, the university radio station from Vancouver). I listen to music 3-5h every day. On iPod I always listen on random shuffle. Of my CDs and MP3s I'm happy to listen to anything anytime. My vinyl collection is smaller (300 LPs? 200 7 inches including pretty much every punk rock and related 7 inch released between 75 and 79). I discovered a year ago I'm on the Aspergers/autism spectrum, but with 'insight' so I am pulled in one direction by my peculiar brain (collection, categorisation and order) but fight these instincts (as I do across my life) with the iPod random play, which I find exhilarating. The only issue is having to skip on quickly when the iPod in the car (I own 3 - obviously ) throws up something with language and we have the nipper (age 10) with us

 

[studio150]

I gather you are still a young man (in your 30s) so you knowledge of music from before you were born is impressive.

I have over 1500 CDs in alphabetical order on a wall, and probably another 1500 in 'temporary storage'. I have over 16,000 tracks on my iPods (some of them whole John Peel programmes mostly from the 80s that I downloaded from an amazing site) and various other downloads (such as the Misery Hour on CITR, the university radio station from Vancouver). I listen to music 3-5h every day. On iPod I always listen on random shuffle. Of my CDs and MP3s I'm happy to listen to anything anytime. My vinyl collection is smaller (300 LPs? 200 7 inches including pretty much every punk rock and related 7 inch released between 75 and 79). I discovered a year ago I'm on the Aspergers/autism spectrum, but with 'insight' so I am pulled in one direction by my peculiar brain (collection, categorisation and order) but fight these instincts (as I do across my life) with the iPod random play, which I find exhilarating. The only issue is having to skip on quickly when the iPod in the car (I own 3 - obviously ) throws up something with language and we have the nipper (age 10) with us

Space does become a problem, I've got around the same numbers and have my collection spread over 3 rooms.
I'm starting to feel like the Collector in this months edition of Record Collector who has most of his collection in his upstairs music room which is starting to cause concern with the rest of the family as they fear the ceiling may cave in, so the collection is being moved around to various other rooms.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Space does become a problem, I've got around the same numbers and have my collection spread over 3 rooms.
I'm starting to feel like the Collector in this months edition of Record Collector who has most of his collection in his upstairs music room which is starting to cause concern with the rest of the family as they fear the ceiling may cave in, so the collection is being moved around to various other rooms.

 

[Is it PotG?]

Hi Res flac/wav vinyl rips is surely the only way to go

 

[Super Steve Earle]

I gather you are still a young man (in your 30s) so you knowledge of music from before you were born is impressive.

I have over 1500 CDs in alphabetical order on a wall, and probably another 1500 in 'temporary storage'. I have over 16,000 tracks on my iPods (some of them whole John Peel programmes mostly from the 80s that I downloaded from an amazing site) and various other downloads (such as the Misery Hour on CITR, the university radio station from Vancouver). I listen to music 3-5h every day. On iPod I always listen on random shuffle. Of my CDs and MP3s I'm happy to listen to anything anytime. My vinyl collection is smaller (300 LPs? 200 7 inches including pretty much every punk rock and related 7 inch released between 75 and 79). I discovered a year ago I'm on the Aspergers/autism spectrum, but with 'insight' so I am pulled in one direction by my peculiar brain (collection, categorisation and order) but fight these instincts (as I do across my life) with the iPod random play, which I find exhilarating. The only issue is having to skip on quickly when the iPod in the car (I own 3 - obviously ) throws up something with language and we have the nipper (age 10) with us

Interesting stuff. I'm not on any spectrum to my knowledge, but I'm hard to categorise. All the psychometric tests I did at work tried to steer me on one side or the other, but I just don't fit. I love a spot of collection, categorisation and order. Is it the Virgo trait shining through? Earliest memories are of sorting my parents 45's in to strict date order, then my own when I was old enough to have some. Then I wanted more of certain types and was drawn to groups and labels. Charlie Drake drew me to Red label Parlophone, so one single led to a second. The Beatles to Black label, the Stones to Decca, the Searchers to Pye and I loved the ritual of collecting artists, labels, dates and the musical progressive journeys of each. Many the time I spent as a pre-teen re-ordering them in one of the metal sixties toaster rack storage units before plastic 45's boxes arrived. Obviously loved the other rituals of removing, brushing, cleaning and playing. But I just wanted them tidy and in order. Vinyl and CDs the same to this day and an inordinate attention to titles and graphics on my Cocktail hard drive HiFi. Random shuffle is a thrill but whole albums still resonate equally. But I think my completist often only spreads as far as buying one more. In the 60s and 70s, if I bought a single, I'd often buy the follow-up. Later, the same rule applies to albums. I could have gone on to be a completist, but forced myself not to buy a third album if the second just wasn't up to scratch. This makes for weird personal analysis, probably only interesting to me though

 

[zefarelly]

I have my 12" vinyl semi sorted . . . soul, reggae, Blues, new wave then everything else in alphabetical order. my 7" singles are in boxes from DJing, similarly sorted. guess I have about 800 of each having had a bit of a cull in recent years.

got rid of loads of CD's as they were duplicated of vinyl from car days . . . all spotify now. gave in and got a family subscription for my mum/son etc, very convenient in the car.

have kept maybe 3-400 CD's as they're suff you don't get on vinyl without a mortgage. or just can't.

also have a box of casettes, but have nearly finished digitising them.

storage like many, is scattered

have 3 hi-fi systems in the house too one for vinyl, in the miusic room,.one for TV/cd's and one in the man cave with decks!