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    Default If you could only have one label for the rest of your life

    For reasons I can't explain, I organize my music by record label, with the exceptions of Bruckner, chamber, and piano CDs. LPs are all organized by label. [how do you organize your records?]

    Which led me to this question:

    Which label would you pick if you could only have one for the rest of your life?

    BMG, Decca/London, EMI, Sony/Phillips, CBS, can't forget DG, Hyperion, oh, this would be a tough choice. Audiophile labels like Classic Records, MFSL...

    I probably own more DG than anything else.

    I'm not certain of the answer to my own question: if asked at gunpoint, I think I'd say London/Decca.

    But that would leave me without Du Pre's Elgar (EMI) or Gendron's stately Bach suites (Phillips), not to mention Walter's Bruckner 9 on CBS/Sony!
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    Hmm. That's like only buying books from one publisher . . .

    I'd find it impossible to say, because no one label would cater for my tastes.

    But if pushed it'd be Blue Note for their classic jazz, or World Circuit for their fantastic Afro-Cuban fare.

    Could I really live without Vaughan Williams, Walton, Finzi, Bax, Moeran etc.? er,

    Edit: of course there's always Lyrita !

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    Easy for me, 4AD
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    Quote Originally Posted by JJack View Post
    I organize my music by record label
    Seriously? That would be like finding books used to be in the old Foyles (all sorted by publisher).

    If I had to have one label, it would be Decca.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MartinT View Post
    Seriously? That would be like finding books used to be in the old Foyles (all sorted by publisher).

    If I had to have one label, it would be Decca.
    I can't explain it. Instead of "Beethoven 6, Klemperer" I think "EMI"
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    I guess it must make for nice blocks of colour on the shelves

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    I organize by composer then type of work (alphabetically) then chronologically.

    Which label is an impossibility for me. If someone put a gun to my head and told me to choose, I think I would convulse uncontrollably and drop to the floor in a heap. There's just too much good stuff out there. Take DG/Archiv; but, not RCA Red Seal or Columbia Masterworks. Take London/Decca; but, not Angel. Nope. I think I feel my eye starting to twitch.
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    Nick, you made the same mistake as me This is about classical music, it's the second time I have messed up & had to delete a post...

    Too confusing & I was sober to
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    Good lord! Thanks for the tip Mark. I need to do some tidying up
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    The perils of clicking "New Posts" instead of going section by section...
    Lyrics are the ramblings of man, sometimes inspired by The Creator, most often, not.
    But music (melodies, harmonies, rhythms), that's God stuff.
    Always was. Always will be.


    One of the biggest lies ever told was that only certain kinds of people should listen to certain kinds of music.

    (silent) VINYL LP SLIDESHOWS

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