Cataloguing My Prog Collection

Purely by coincidence, the title of the Simple Minds album in my latest poll for 1982 is "New Gold Dream (81,82,83,84)."  

My welcome back, Paul! 

Looking forward to them! 

Thanks. In that case, you'll be glad to hear my next music-themed poll will be coming up sometime tomorrow,  provisionally titled "Tea or Coffee?" - just as soon as I've put the kettle on. 

I'll also be continuing where I left off with my yearly album polls. 

Thanks Will. Your check's in the post.  I wish you good luck and Good Will Hunting out those classic prog albums to add to your collection, and on that musical note, these are some of the prog Relics I've picked up at bargain basement prices from various car boot sales and charity shops so far this year:-

David Bowie - Low

Deep Purple - Shades of Deep Purple

Bryan Ferry + Roxy Music - More Than This: The Best of Roxy Music

Jethro Tull - Stand Up

Marillion - Script for a Jester's Tear

Mercury Rev - Snowflake Midnight

Muse - The Resistance

Mike Oldfield - Amarok

Pink Floyd - A Saucerful of Secrets

Pink Floyd - Meddle

Pink Floyd - Relics

Todd Rundgren - The Best of Todd Rundgren

Supertramp - Crime of the Century

Vangelis - Chariots of Fire

Rick Wakeman & the English Rock Ensemble - A Gallery of the Imagination

Roger Waters - Amused to Death

YES - Yes

How are you doing, Paul?  

I prophesy disaster wrote: Grumpyprogfan wrote: List under last name. Stressed Cheese wrote: Alan Parsons Project is a group, not a person, so A would be appropriate.   What about Jethro Tull, Sebastian Hardie, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Van der Graaf Generator?

If you sort them both in the same way alphabetically, it wouldn't really matter if you treat them as one entry, but they are separate entities.

Sometimes, artists do The [NAME] Band, or [NAME] and the [BLABLABLAs], in which case it can usually be treated as the artist releasing something under a different name. Or you get stuff like Hiromi releasing albums under the "The Trio Project" moniker, but it's still a solo album for all intents and purposes. But that's not what The Alan Parsons Project is. In his solo career, AP has the final say, but in tAPP, it's him and Woolfson. The Alan Parsons Project is like Steely Dan, but with a more misleading name, really. It was used for marketing purposes, and because, once they got well known, it would be a bit confusing to change the name. But it was always a duo. If anything, Eric Woolfson is more responsible for APP's music, so it'd probably be more appropriate, if you HAD to sort it under a solo artist, to file it under Eric Woolfson.

Grumpyprogfan wrote: List under last name.

Stressed Cheese wrote: Alan Parsons Project is a group, not a person, so A would be appropriate.

 

What about Jethro Tull, Sebastian Hardie, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Van der Graaf Generator?