Macca
20-07-2014, 18:23
Fed up with not being able to find a Cd I want to play and even if I do after a long search I discover the case is empty.
I've only got a little short of 300 Cds so I thought I would spend an exciting afternoon putting them into alphabetical order. No need to sort by genre as well with only 300.
So I take them all off the shelves and pile them up on the table. The go through each one checking it has the right disc in it, or that it doesn't have two in it, one of which will mate to one of the empty cases.
I made a little pile of case without discs, another pile of discs without cases, a third with all the crap I never listen to (anyone want a copy of Queens Of The Stone Age: Songs for the Deaf'? -you will need to be) and everything else that passed quality control went into one of many separate piles on the floor, one for each letter of the alphabet.
there were some cataloguing queries that came up during this process. Should 'Dizzy Rascal' be under D or R. Normally it would be 'R' along with the Rolling Stones and Redman. But I suspect 'Dizzy Rascal' is probably not his real name, so should I file it under 'D'? Difficult stuff.
Anyway what was surprising was how many albums I have by artists with names starting with 'S'. The 'S' pile was more than three times the height of any other. Conversely I only had one artist beginning with 'I' (The Isley Brothers - Greatest Hits) and only one 'N' (New Radicals).
All my stuff is pretty mainstream so my advice if you want to make it big in rock n roll is to start your band name with an 'S'. The odds seem to favour it.
I'll give the new alphabetical order system about a month before it is all over the shop again but at least I have filled a couple of the previously empty cases with the correct disc.
I've only got a little short of 300 Cds so I thought I would spend an exciting afternoon putting them into alphabetical order. No need to sort by genre as well with only 300.
So I take them all off the shelves and pile them up on the table. The go through each one checking it has the right disc in it, or that it doesn't have two in it, one of which will mate to one of the empty cases.
I made a little pile of case without discs, another pile of discs without cases, a third with all the crap I never listen to (anyone want a copy of Queens Of The Stone Age: Songs for the Deaf'? -you will need to be) and everything else that passed quality control went into one of many separate piles on the floor, one for each letter of the alphabet.
there were some cataloguing queries that came up during this process. Should 'Dizzy Rascal' be under D or R. Normally it would be 'R' along with the Rolling Stones and Redman. But I suspect 'Dizzy Rascal' is probably not his real name, so should I file it under 'D'? Difficult stuff.
Anyway what was surprising was how many albums I have by artists with names starting with 'S'. The 'S' pile was more than three times the height of any other. Conversely I only had one artist beginning with 'I' (The Isley Brothers - Greatest Hits) and only one 'N' (New Radicals).
All my stuff is pretty mainstream so my advice if you want to make it big in rock n roll is to start your band name with an 'S'. The odds seem to favour it.
I'll give the new alphabetical order system about a month before it is all over the shop again but at least I have filled a couple of the previously empty cases with the correct disc.