Maybe the time has come to discuss just how BIG our CD Collections are! What on earth were we thinking about?... how much $$ was involved...how taste change...where do we go from here...etc...
This is a subject too painful to talk about. Rich Ladew rladew@verizon.net -----Original Message----- From: zorn-list-bounces+rladew=verizon.net@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:zorn-list-bounces+rladew=verizon.net@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of RBranch97@aol.com Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2004 9:47 AM To: zorn-list@mailman.xmission.com Subject: Massive CD Collections!! Maybe the time has come to discuss just how BIG our CD Collections are! What on earth were we thinking about?... how much $$ was involved...how taste change...where do we go from here...etc...
I remember in the good old days (about 5 years ago) when I had under 40 CDs. Last count, I'm up to somewhere near 600, with few signs of slowing. I can blame John Zorn for most of it (he's the largest single artist % and he spurred on my collecting). The money spent (especially to a high school and college student) is very painful indeed. I try not to think of such depressing topics. I really feel that those shiny discs are like any other drug that psychologically addicts.you just need your fix. There is much guilt after a binge. Maybe rehab for CD collectors would be a welcomed addition to the music community. Though, it is people like us that keep small labels in business, so it's not a bad thing altogether. Zach _____ From: zorn-list-bounces+zsteiner=butler.edu@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:zorn-list-bounces+zsteiner=butler.edu@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of RBranch97@aol.com Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2004 9:47 AM To: zorn-list@mailman.xmission.com Subject: Massive CD Collections!! Maybe the time has come to discuss just how BIG our CD Collections are! What on earth were we thinking about?... how much $$ was involved...how taste change...where do we go from here...etc...
2770 CD titles, maxing out at 3120 individual discs. Databases are great.... -- * David Beardsley * microtonal guitar * http://biink.com/db
Hi David, DBs are great indeed. 1425/1443 not including about 50 new ones sitting on my desk, 200 left behind in my home town and 10 unrecognized. Bearing in mind that my first CD was bought in the fall of 1993, it brings us to roughly one CD every 2.3 days. Horrible, isn't it? I would like to add some more fun to this little quiz. What was the first CD you get? Mine was the counterfeit copy of the Black Rider by Tom Waits. Sunday, July 11, 2004, 12:46:16 PM, you wrote: DB> 2770 CD titles, maxing out at 3120 individual discs. DB> Databases are great.... -- All the best, Peter Gannushkin URL: http://downtownmusic.net/
Hi, You do have large collections guys! But considering that I'm 26 and that I only left the university a year ago more or less (i.e, I was pennyless), I'm quite happy with my almost 1,000. The important thing for me is to have time to listen to everything.
Bearing in mind that my first CD was bought in the fall of 1993, it brings us to roughly one CD every 2.3 days. Horrible, isn't it?
Indeed, it is! I'm averaging 5-7 cds per week when translations are coming in with enough frequency. Plus dvds, plus books, ... quite sick, as most of you I'm sure! But the feeling of going shopping or opening your P.O Box and seeing those nice packages inside is uncomparable!
I would like to add some more fun to this little quiz. What was the first CD you get? Mine was the counterfeit copy of the Black Rider by Tom Waits.
Certainly a good choice, imho! I think mine was the Pixies' "Trompe le Monde". But my fondest memory was the first cassette my parents gave me when I was really, really young: Morricone's "For a Fistful of Dollars". I still keep that yellowish cassette at my parent's house. They had a good taste and my father loves spaghettis, fortunately. Best, Efrén del Valle n.p ______________________________________________ Renovamos el Correo Yahoo!: ¡100 MB GRATIS! Nuevos servicios, más seguridad http://correo.yahoo.es
Hi, --- Efrén del Valle <efrendv@yahoo.es> escribió:
They had a good taste and my father loves spaghettis, fortunately.
Too much fun this weekend: I meant spaghetti westerns. He hates pasta actually! Best, Efrén del Valle ______________________________________________ Renovamos el Correo Yahoo!: ¡100 MB GRATIS! Nuevos servicios, más seguridad http://correo.yahoo.es
Considering I already had a couple of thousand LPs and a couple hundred cassettes, the addition to CDs took a while to take hold, but now ... In terms of my first CDs, though, I held off for as long as possible until I couldn't get any new music on LP. Then I took the plunge. But my first CD -- Pino Minafra's Sudori (Victo) was bought before I even had a CD player.[!] Ken Waxman --- Efrén del Valle <efrendv@yahoo.es> wrote: > Hi,
You do have large collections guys! But considering that I'm 26 and that I only left the university a year ago more or less (i.e, I was pennyless), I'm quite happy with my almost 1,000. The important thing for me is to have time to listen to everything.
Bearing in mind that my first CD was bought in the fall of 1993, it brings us to roughly one CD every 2.3 days. Horrible, isn't it?
Indeed, it is! I'm averaging 5-7 cds per week when translations are coming in with enough frequency. Plus dvds, plus books, ... quite sick, as most of you I'm sure! But the feeling of going shopping or opening your P.O Box and seeing those nice packages inside is uncomparable!
I would like to add some more fun to this little quiz. What was the first CD you get? Mine was the counterfeit copy of the Black Rider by Tom Waits.
Certainly a good choice, imho! I think mine was the Pixies' "Trompe le Monde". But my fondest memory was the first cassette my parents gave me when I was really, really young: Morricone's "For a Fistful of Dollars". I still keep that yellowish cassette at my parent's house. They had a good taste and my father loves spaghettis, fortunately.
Best,
Efrén del Valle n.p
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Hi, I'm somewhere around 3100 CDs....unfortunately I stopped using Access few years ago (i was using a homemade database to list my CDs) so I lost the exact count. And my first CD was..........U2's Joshua Tree in the early summer 87. So it's been 17 years from now...so it's around 182 CDs a year....1 CD every two days...it's not really asact because in fact i dramaticaly increased my CD collection in the last 5 years (i guess i must have bought around 1800 CDs in 5 years). Boris np : Freddie Hubbard - Echoes of Blue
Sorry if this is a little late but have been out of town. I am not sure what my first cd was. I had over a hundred before I ever bought a player. I would never had made the jump had my collection of vinyl not been destroyed by fire. I worked at sound exchange in both Austin and Houstion during the late 80s and early 90s. I think many of the early stuff was trendy college stuff (chili pepers, pixies etal) and punk. It was surprising how often we would get extra cds in the deliveries. We could not return them because there was no record so we were allowed to keep them. The fellow store rats drifted toward the "cool" stuff (at the time) so I went for all the stuff no one else wanted.. .zorn, sun ra, spoken word by bukowski, la vey, etal. grey area stuff with no contact label and classical. What I would do to be back there...... I think my collection is between 3 and 4 thousand. CDs are everywhere although seperated by "style" (what ever that means). I am out of space due to philosophy books and cds (I won't mention dvds). Now I have this collection (not part of my counted legit cds) of burned cds (bill hicks downloads, 365 music downloads) I am not even counting those. I now average 3 cds a week due mostly to time constraints. I want to be able to truly listen to something rather than just add it to the piles. Although if I make a stop somewhere that has a good stores then I stock up (mostly Austin rip 33 degrees and Sound Exchange although San Francisco is always good to me at Subterranean(.org for those buying on line but bad search engine). I should sell some but can not part with many. Has to have at least two "songs" that I like but even that rule is static, --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage!
LPs and CDs stay in balance, currently around 1100 of each, plus about 450 7" singles and a half-dozen 78s (who could resist mint Sister Rosetta Tharpe shellac at Goodwill?) I haven't gone far down the DVD road yet, only a half-dozen of those as yet.
My first LP was Styx's "Kilroy Was Here," and I don't have it any more, nor do I have Bauhaus's "Burning on the Inside," which I'm pretty sure was the first CD I bought - yeech! I bought all of the Minutemen's "Post-Mersh" CDs and Bongwater's "Double Bummer" on my birthday a few months later, maybe my 10th-13th CDs, and I still have those. The first LP I bought that I still have is The Cramps' "Bad Music For Bad People," and the first single was The Dead Kennedys "Nazi Punks F*** Off." The best boxes of all for CDs, if you can get your hands on them, are the boxes that Quantum DLT tapes come in - they're for high-end computer backup devices, and come in incredibly strong boxes that hold about 120 CDs. Assuming you don't have the necessary connections, there's a largish LP mailer that Bags Unlimited sells that's quite stout and holds maybe 50 CDs. If you have a CD store nearby, see if you can get the 25-count CD boxes that CDs come in, tape those shut and pack them inside larger boxes. The main thing is really getting a sturdy box, taping it up tightly, and packing it tightly so the CDs do not bounce around. -Chris
seeing everyone is doing it, I'll do it too. :) First tape: Guns n' Roses - "Appetite For Destruction" age of 9 First vinyl: Def Leopard - "Hysteria" age of 10 First CD: Motley Crue - "Dr Feelgood" age 10 maybe 11? First Zorn(esque) purchase: Death Ambient - "self titled" Naked City - "Grand Guignol" yes, I was into cock rock! :D Andrew n.p: Bernard Herrmann - "Taxi Driver" -----Original Message----- From: zorn-list-bounces+andrewm=mail.selc.com.au@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:zorn-list-bounces+andrewm=mail.selc.com.au@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Chris Selvig Sent: Wednesday, 14 July 2004 2:28 AM To: zorn-list@mailman.xmission.com Subject: Massive CD Collections, moving CDs
LPs and CDs stay in balance, currently around 1100 of each, plus about 450 7" singles and a half-dozen 78s (who could resist mint Sister Rosetta Tharpe shellac at Goodwill?) I haven't gone far down the DVD road yet, only a half-dozen of those as yet.
My first LP was Styx's "Kilroy Was Here," and I don't have it any more, nor do I have Bauhaus's "Burning on the Inside," which I'm pretty sure was the first CD I bought - yeech! I bought all of the Minutemen's "Post-Mersh" CDs and Bongwater's "Double Bummer" on my birthday a few months later, maybe my 10th-13th CDs, and I still have those. The first LP I bought that I still have is The Cramps' "Bad Music For Bad People," and the first single was The Dead Kennedys "Nazi Punks F*** Off." The best boxes of all for CDs, if you can get your hands on them, are the boxes that Quantum DLT tapes come in - they're for high-end computer backup devices, and come in incredibly strong boxes that hold about 120 CDs. Assuming you don't have the necessary connections, there's a largish LP mailer that Bags Unlimited sells that's quite stout and holds maybe 50 CDs. If you have a CD store nearby, see if you can get the 25-count CD boxes that CDs come in, tape those shut and pack them inside larger boxes. The main thing is really getting a sturdy box, taping it up tightly, and packing it tightly so the CDs do not bounce around. -Chris _______________________________________________ zorn-list mailing list zorn-list@mailman.xmission.com To UNSUBSCRIBE or Change Your Subscription Options, go to the webpage below http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/zorn-list
my first: rush, a show of hands. I do all my cd buying online, Ive agreed to 50$ a month on music, its not nearly enough. Theres nothing like getting discs in the mail, the anticipation, the opening [tearing off that damn ultra sticky tape along the top] taking in the album art and sounds, driving anywhere and cranking it. I want all cds to be cardboard, down with jewel cases! jt np, birds, bugs, wind and leaves out my window
I would like to add some more fun to this little quiz. What was the first CD you get? Mine was the counterfeit copy of the Black Rider by Tom Waits.
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Sunday, July 11, 2004, 7:47:25 AM, one spoke: Rac> Maybe the time has come to discuss just how BIG our CD Rac> Collections are! What on earth were we thinking about?... how Rac> much $$ was involved...how taste change...where do we go from Rac> here...etc... Rough guess based on counting one shelf of each format and multiplying: about 3400 LPs, 2700 CDs. Maybe 400 k7's, about 50/50 80s industrial and my own live tapes from when i was active doing that; can't be bothered to count the 7"s but it's about 4.5' long. Yeah, there's some overlap between the formats but not a whole lot, maybe 125 if you count all the live TG separately. If I'm lucky I get to listen to 6 albums in a day. First LP buy is way back in the haze (would've been late summer of 68), either the Brendel recording of Mozart Piano C. #20 on Vox, or Simon & Garfunkel _Parsely, Sage..._ and _Two Hours with Thelonious Monk_ on Riverside (boy was I pissed when I bought _Monk in Italy_ six months later!). First CD buy included Art Ensemble of Chicago _The Third Decade_ and Morton Subotnik _Key to Songs_. So maybe 3.5 titles/week since 6th grade. PLEASE don't make me think about $$. -- Jim Flannery newgrange@newgrangemedia.com http://www.newgrangemedia.com/pii np: Crawling Chaos, _Homunculus Equinox_ nr: Bernard-Henri Levy, _War, Evil, and the End of History_
Sunday, July 11, 2004, 7:47:25 AM, one spoke: Rac> Maybe the time has come to discuss just how BIG our CD Rac> Collections are! What on earth were we thinking about?... how Rac> much $$ was involved...how taste change...where do we go from Rac> here...etc... Rough guess based on counting one shelf of each format and multiplying: about 3400 LPs, 2700 CDs. Maybe 400 k7's, about 50/50 80s industrial and my own live tapes from when i was active doing that; can't be bothered to count the 7"s but it's about 4.5' long. Yeah, there's some overlap between the formats but not a whole lot, maybe 125 if you count all the live TG separately. If I'm lucky I get to listen to 6 albums in a day. First LP buy is way back in the haze (would've been late summer of 68), either the Brendel recording of Mozart Piano C. #20 on Vox, or Simon & Garfunkel _Parsely, Sage..._ and _Two Hours with Thelonious Monk_ on Riverside (boy was I pissed when I bought _Monk in Italy_ six months later!). First CD buy included Art Ensemble of Chicago _The Third Decade_ and Morton Subotnik _Key to Songs_. So maybe 3.5 titles/week since 6th grade. PLEASE don't make me think about $$. -- Jim Flannery newgrange@newgrangemedia.com http://www.newgrangemedia.com/pii np: Crawling Chaos, _Homunculus Equinox_ nr: Bernard-Henri Levy, _War, Evil, and the End of History_
For some reason I can't remember my first cd purchase. I resisted the transition for a long time. Maybe it was Joe Farrell's 'Moon Germs' (which I remember buying simply because it had a weird cover - i had no experience with jazz music at the time; great album, though). I do remember my first vinyl LP: Devo, 'On No! It's Devo'. (for those who remember early MTV: french fry enters doughnut and breaks off - "Ha Ha Ha Ha! Peekaboo!") As for the collection: Maybe 1500 legitimate releases, a comparable number of bootlegs, a couple hundred tapes, and 700 vinyl lps (mostly pop, rock, and thrift store crap. If anyone wants to buy Mick Jagger's 'She's the boss' on lp, let me know ;). -Whit n.p. - the neem, 'shove it' p.s. Speaking of bootlegs: If anyone has recordings of recent Bill Frisell shows (e.g., the organ trio), PLEASE contact me. I can promise to keep them out of circulation.
so much coffee, so little time ... -- Jim Flannery newgrange@newgrangemedia.com http://www.newgrangemedia.com/pii
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Andrew Mortensen -
billy macmillin -
Boris Campan -
Chris Selvig -
David Beardsley -
Efrén del Valle -
Jason Tors -
Jim Flannery -
Ken Waxman -
Peter Gannushkin -
RBranch97＠aol.com -
Richard E Ladew -
William W. Schonbein -
Zachary Steiner