How do you sort your albums?

Easy Livin wrote: A poll is a good idea. Here's what was said last time this was discussed: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=14402 Does nobody have them in order of relationships, like the guy in the film "High fidelity"

well it appears that Gecko and I do use association, but since my very first records (it wzas not relly a problem for the first few, though) it never even dawned on me to order them up alphabetically

I fully agree that alphabetically is boring but it is not anal , though >>> logical is more like it!!! you do not try to think up of alternatives because you probably do not care about such things

An-alphabetical order are more likely to be anally driven, since it takes the reflection (and passion) to think up such weird schemes of orders

let's face it "High fidelity" is pretty anal, even if we all love the movie

artists are arranged intuitively; artist catalogs are arranged chronologically.

I have a double system to sort my albums:

• I use a tagging machine that numbers each album as soon as I buy it to keep an exact record (I lost some because I lent them to friends).
• Then I add each one to my PC

In my bedroom a have three 400 archives for CD's and I sort them:

1. By favorite band starting with the big six
2. After each band I add all the albums related to members of that band so I start with Genesis - Steve Hackett - Peter Gabriel - Anthony Phillips, Tony Banks - Smallcreeps Day (Of course I don't have any M&M or Phil Collins album) and then all the tributes to Genesis, then Yes - Wakeman - Howe - Squire - Moraz, etc, and at the end Yes Tributes the same whith each band
3. Each artist album is sorted chronologically
4. After the six bands I start by country, first UK, then USA (Because of Kansas), Italy, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, etc
5. Always try to keep very specific genres at the end, Fusion, Prog Metal and Canterbury and whatever elseI have and adter all that Non Prog. One different archive is for Classical.

I know I'm a bit neurotic obsessive, but what can I do?

Iván