Cataloguing My Prog Collection

I’ve always been rather anal retentive about organizing and cataloging my collection. For physical media, Rock and Jazz are organized alphabetically by artist and chronologically within artists. I organize classical by composer, type of work, and then either chronologically or by opus or catalog number. Schubert and Mozart can be confusing in this regard, whereas Bach and Beethoven are easy to organize.

Digital media are organized in iTunes, which with a little elbow grease works really well. I have spent countless hours managing and editing ID3 tags to get things the way I want them.

I have spent so much of my life curating rock sample and fossil collections, that curating my music is just a natural outgrowth of that activity. But I’ll tell you this-organizing music is much easier than organizing the biosphere, which is quite subjective and requires application of stochastic principles. If you think defining progressive rock is hard, you should try organizing brachiopods for size!

Edited by RockHound - September 02 2022 at 01:05

RockHound wrote: I’ve always been rather anal retentive about organizing and cataloging my collection. For physical media, Rock and Jazz are organized alphabetically by artist and chronologically within artists. I organize classical by composer, type of work, and then either chronologically or by opus or catalog number. Schubert and Mozart can be confusing in this regard, whereas Bach and Beethoven are easy to organize.

^^ Paul, would it be worth selling some CDs you don't listen to any more on eBay, in order to fund a growing Prog collection?

Psychedelic Paul wrote: Jared wrote: ^^ Paul, would it be worth selling some CDs you don't listen to any more on eBay, in order to fund a growing Prog collection? I've given away CD's to charity shops in the past (including 3 by Tangerine Dream) but I no longer do that as I've always ended up regretting it in the end, especially in the case of Pink Floyd's Animals, which I gave away to a Dogs charity.

Psychedelic Paul wrote: I already pruned out my Bay City Rollers, Culture Club & Glitter Band albums.

Edited by David_D - September 02 2022 at 04:39

Psychedelic Paul wrote: Yes, it's another list. I finally got around to cataloguing my entire prog collection on CD (with the number of albums in brackets) whist listening to Rick Wakeman's 100+ albums.   Canterbury Scene Total Albums = 14   Caravan (10); Steve Hillage (4)   Crossover Prog Total Albums = 99   Argent (1); Barclay James Harvest (6); Be Bop Deluxe (5); Kate Bush (8); Electric Light Orchestra (8); Peter Gabriel (1); Justin Hayward & John Lodge (1);  Kayak (2); The Moody Blues (16); Mike Oldfield (14); Sally Oldfield (3); The Alan Parsons Project (6); Robert Plant (5); Procol Harum (4); Radiohead (3); Rare Bird (2); Roxy Music (2); Todd Rundgren (5); Supertramp (3); Talk Talk (1); Roger Waters (3)   Eclectic Prog Total Albums = 17   Frumpy (1); Steve Hackett (5); King Crimson (1); Sky (2); Traffic (6); Van der Graaf Generator (2)   Heavy Prog Total Albums = 17   Porcupine Tree (5); Rush (2); Uriah Heep (10)   Indo Prog/Raga Rock Total Albums = 2   Quintessence (2)   Jazz-Rock/Fusion Total Albums = 74   Jeff Beck (5); Blood, Sweat & Tears (5); Chicago (6); Billy Cobham (1); Colosseum (1); Miles Davis (2); George Duke (8); Jan Hammer (1); Herbie Hancock (3); Return to Forever (1); Santana (30); Carlos Santana (1); Solution (2); Steely Dan (3); Lenny White (5)   Krautrock Total Albums = 1   Holger Czukay (1)    Prog Folk Total Albums = 54   Amazing Blondel (1); Tim Buckley (5); Clannad (6); Dead Can Dance (7); Judy Dyble (1); Espers (3); Iona (1); Jethro Tull (6); Loudest Whisper (1); John Martyn (3); Mellow Candle (1); Mostly Autumn (3); Pentangle (2); Strawbs (7); Trader Horne (1); Trees (2); Trembling Bells (4)   Prog Related Total Albums = 98   Jon Anderson (1); Asia (1); Peter Bardens (1); Black Sabbath (4); Blue Oyster Cult (8); David Bowie (10); Budgie (3); Fairport Convention (6); Flied Egg (1); David Gilmour (5); Roger Glover (1); Japan (1); Jean Michele Jarre (2); Jon & Vangelis (5); Journey (2); Led Zeppelin (14); Magna Carta (6); Mercury Rev (3); Jimmy Page & Robert Plant (2); Queen (8); Rainbow (1); Styx (1); Super Furry Animals (5); Vangelis (3); Wishbone Ash (4)   Progressive Electronic Total Albums = 27   Ian Boddy (5); Edgar Froese (5); Kitaro (1); Mark Shreeve (3); Tangerine Dream (12); Wavestar (1)   Progressive Metal Total Albums = 15   Dream Theater (7); Epica (1); Nightwish (7)   Proto Prog Total Albums = 62   Andromeda (1); The Beatles (4); Deep Purple (2); The Doors (8); The Gods (1); The Gun (1); H.P. Lovecraft (2); Jimi Hendrix (5); Iron Butterfly (5); It's a Beautiful Day (2); Jefferson Airplane (10); Nirvana (1); The Pretty Things (2); Spirit (5); Spooky Tooth (7); Tomorrow (1); Vanilla Fudge (5)   Psychedelic/Space Rock Total Albums = 26   Arcadium (1); Astra (2); Group 1850 (2);  Hawkwind (3); Jade Warrior (2); Man (5); Pink Floyd (9); Pond (2)   Symphonic Prog Total Albums =61   Camel (9); Earth and Fire (2); Emerson, Lake & Palmer (1); The Enid (2); Fruupp (2); Genesis (9); Greenslade (1); Kansas (6); Nick Magnus (1); Renaissance (10); Rick Wakeman (5); Yes (13)   Total number of prog albums across all genres = 565

I’d have a brain cells total meltdown. If I was to attempt it. Awesome list I’m impressed

Psychedelic Paul wrote: Okay, I've finally added up how many CD's I have in my entire collection across all music genres.....                                                     3103 ..... give or take the odd one or three, and I do have a few odd ones in my collection.

David_D wrote: Jared wrote: I have a lovely Oak, wall mounted rack which contains 355 CDs... if I buy some more, others find their way on to eBay, I'm afraid...  My collection is a bit bigger, about 450 albums and mostly LP's, and I don't intend to make it much bigger, either.

Top 12 Oddities & Obscurities from My CD Collection (across 12 different genres of music)

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - September 06 2022 at 06:32

Jared wrote: Psychedelic Paul wrote: Top 12 Oddities & Obscurities from My CD Collection (across 12 different genres of music) Cantamus - Aurora (Classical Crossover) - a girls' choir from Mansfield  Does it contain a 12 minute extended mix of 'Grandma, We Love You?'

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - September 06 2022 at 06:31