Cataloguing My Prog Collection

 

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 (4)

 

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) 

Neo Prog Total Albums = 4

Marillion (4)

 

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 = 31

 

Arcadium (1); Astra (2); Group 1850 (2);  Hawkwind (3); Jade Warrior (2); Man (5); Nektar (5); Pink Floyd (9); Pond (2)

 

Symphonic Prog Total Albums =62

 

Camel (9); Earth and Fire (2); Emerson, Lake & Palmer (1); The Enid (2); Focus (1); 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 = 576

I have some classical music CDs not on the site, and the rules are really complex for those, so I haven't attempted them. Plus a stack of CDs I bought from the old independent artists site mp3.com (ca. late 1990s through about 2003). These artists are hard to add because they haven't had a web presence in years and I have to try to hunt them down on old web pages stored in the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.

I haven't even touched the vinyl stuff, though I sold off the bulk of that years ago.

It took me about four hours in total to list my entire prog collection, but the time passed really quickly listening to Rick Wakeman at the same time, and I came across several artists who I didn't realise were listed on ProgArchives, so it was time well spent.

Agree.....for my digital catalog I do have artists by genre using metadata edit software so it shows up when playing. Whether it is 100% accurate based on PA or any other list is not a worry for me, in a lot of cases I have made up genre or sub-genres, I mean it is MY music catalog .

For my records in my bins they are not in alphabetical order, they are separated by band/artist name. Although I do not mix for example The Flower Kings section is only that, does not include Anderson Stolt LP.

Although sounds like a great Covid stay home project....Catalog everything!

 

Total number of prog albums across all genres = 565

 

That's out of a total of around 3,000 CD's overall.

Physical collections are quite different from digital in that way. It is incredibly useful being able to sort or search through a digital collection by metadata (be it year, genre, record label, or whatever else you’ve ascribed to your collection). But for physical, anything other than alphabetical is terribly cumbersome.

ROFLMAO

Well, I've given up counting how many CDs and albums I have. And you are right, for physical product alphabetizing is the simplest way to go....the Occam's razor of finding a specific CD in a sea of CDs with tiny lettering along their spines. And even then, when you have 20-something Beatles or Jethro Tull or King Crimson CDs, even that takes a minute to find a specific one. And then there are the boxed sets. 

Boxed sets and odd-sized digipaks are the only thing that stops my collection from being uniformly alphabetised. I suppose it depends on what kind of shelving/storage unit someone uses, but my shelves don’t allow much extra space in terms of height or depth, so if I can fit something in (including smaller box sets) then I will, but all the rest of the odds and sods have to find a place somewhere else. They are as alphabetised as possible, but because of the varying shapes and sizes, some pragmatism is applied. 🤷🏻‍♂️

To be fair, it’s not the actual number of categories that is the problem. I have 26 separate categories (A-Z). 😜