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phobos 
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 Topic: How do you sort your albums?
Posted: March 15 2006 at 17:20 |
I'm just curious as to how others sort their collections. Generally there would be a primary and secondary scheme (for example: primarily sorted alphabetically by artist and secondarily sorted chronologically by title). In this poll please put your primary scheme and include extra information as comments.
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Xanadu
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Posted: March 15 2006 at 17:27 |
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Iv'e sort of got a pile of cd's in the corner of my room. The most favoured albums are therefore on the top and vice verse...Lars Ulrich hasn't seen the light of day for over a year or so if you know what I mean.
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"Oh, yes, sitting-the great leveler. From the mightiest pharaoh to the lowliest peasant, who doesn't enjoy a good sit?"
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Bj-1
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Posted: March 15 2006 at 17:48 |
Pretty random, but CD's for each artist are placed chronologically.
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RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on!
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rushaholic
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Posted: March 15 2006 at 17:56 |
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Kind of anal about it but I sort them first alphabetically by artist and then by the year released for each artist.
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The Miracle
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Posted: March 15 2006 at 18:00 |
Alphabetically by Artist 
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Catholic Flame
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Posted: March 15 2006 at 18:05 |
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“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.”
~Jack Kerouac
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Zac M
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Posted: March 15 2006 at 18:06 |
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Uhhhhh they're in boxes, no room to store them otherwise, and obviously in no order whatsoever!
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"Art is not imitation, nor is it something manufactured according to the wishes of instinct or good taste. It is a process of expression."
-Merleau-Ponty
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DualXP
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Posted: March 15 2006 at 18:11 |
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sortings for kids with OCD
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If I had a puppy I would name it Tessa so it would cooperate well.
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Valarius
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Posted: March 15 2006 at 18:13 |
Alphabetically by artist, then all cds in chronological order.
Very uniform I am.
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video vertigo
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Posted: March 15 2006 at 18:16 |
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1st by genre, prog is first then other rock/ stuff I was into right before I got into prog, then stuff I'm embarrased to own.
2nd after genres are separated I alphabatize by artists, but keep solo artists with bands they used to be with (Peter Gabriel w/Genesis, etc)
3rd If I have more than one album by a band I have the albums chronologicalized
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"The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse." - Zappa
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Norm Cash
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Posted: March 15 2006 at 18:17 |
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I'm with Rushaholic and Valarius (Alpha then by order of release). Otherwise, I'd have no idea where to find anything.
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"We did it....you and me! Put him right under the table!"
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gabbel ratchett
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Posted: March 15 2006 at 18:21 |
The LP collection is sorted geographically by country and then by how much I like them. For example:
King Crimson (sorted by release date) is followed by solo albums from Fripp, Sinfield, McDonald & Giles, Bruford etc. Which would then be followed by Yes followed by solo albums from Squire, Anderson, Banks etc. Flash would follow Yes as I've always veiwed Flash as an off shoot of Yes. Followed by Genesis blah blah blah, you get the idea.
The CD collection is sorted alphabetically. That is so much easier.
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dead things don't talk too well, they've got a shaky sense of diction.
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Kid-A
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Posted: March 15 2006 at 19:01 |
Wherever I put them in the shelf, so the ones I listen to recently usually end up at one end
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Rust
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Posted: March 15 2006 at 19:05 |
 Bj-1 wrote:
Pretty random, but CD's for each artist are placed chronologically.
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Same for me too. I always have alittle of both styles, a little order mixed with a little randomness. After all, variety is the spice of life. 
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We got to pump the stuff to make us tough
from the heart
Its astart
What we need is awareness we cant get careless
Mental self defensive fitness
Make everybody see in order to fight the powers that be
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sbrushfan
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Posted: March 15 2006 at 19:12 |
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I use both alphabetically and chronologically. My CD case goes ABC, but, if I have more than one CD by a given artist, I put the CD's by date of release.
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Some world views are spacious, and some are merely spaced...
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sleeper
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Posted: March 15 2006 at 19:17 |
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I only have a small collection so at the moment I dont care to much for their order as I can find what I want fast.
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Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005
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aapatsos
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Posted: March 15 2006 at 19:52 |
Valarius wrote:
Alphabetically by artist, then all cds in chronological order.
Very uniform I am.
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exactly
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Ridge
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Posted: March 15 2006 at 20:04 |
I have Prog and Non-prog towers of Cd's. Then I sort them by chronological release. My favorite bands are first (Crimson, Yes, Genesis, etc.) then the rest. But I've really given up trying to sort them because when I buy new ones the order gets screwed and I'm just too lazy to resort them so eventually the new ones and favorites are on top.
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Discipline is never an end in it self, only a means to an end.
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Drew
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Posted: March 15 2006 at 20:09 |
kind of ny artist- that's all- its a mess, actually
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Witchwoodhermit
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Posted: March 15 2006 at 20:10 |
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Albums separated from cds. Genres first (at least 15). alphabetical order by artist, then chronologically by artist.
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Here I'm shadowed by a dragon fig tree's fan
ringed by ants and musing over man.
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