Comments on: The Record Stacks

By: Rothko

Rothko — Fri, 18 May 2007 14:50:51 +0000

I’d sensed a little of the agitation in you lately. Glad you got it sorted out. Mike, your technique sounds a little like mine, except mine might be even a little less logical, if that’s possible.

By: Any Given Tuesday

Any Given Tuesday — Wed, 16 May 2007 18:45:33 +0000

Guilty! I leave CDs all over the place. They’re by the TV instead of on the CD shelf, stacked on the floor next to the CD shelf, all over the car. It’s awful. I just don’t have the room to fit them on the shelf anymore. I’m actually bordering on selling some of my collection to pay some bills, but I’d rather sell all the furniture than my CDs.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 16 May 2007 16:04:58 +0000

I imagine if I had a 1500 CDs instead of ~320 it probably wouldn’t be as manageable.

Example might be SKA mixed with Squirrel Nut Zippers and Cake. Why.. cause cake uses some horns (or one horn) rather frequently.

Or the Dischord section. Or Talking Heads mixed with David Bowie and the Who.

I think in the end many of my discriminating factors lie upon some commonality and how many CDs from each group i have. The commonalities constantly change. In the end it tends to be whatever I need to put less effort into..

A lazy mans way to organize.

By: Laundro

Laundro — Wed, 16 May 2007 15:27:22 +0000

Mike – That’s a pretty interesting way to organize. It’s almost like tagging in the blogworld. Could you give me some examples or is it totally personal?

By: Rona

Rona — Wed, 16 May 2007 14:35:22 +0000

Nope. I disagree. I think you are just seriously nesting! Kidding.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 16 May 2007 14:18:44 +0000

I seriously have mine organized by a random system that consists of grouping bands that I think of in the same light together. This does not always stick to genre though it does mostly. After that the placement of such groups is totally random. I find it easy to find things when scanning my cd shelf mostly.. since i merely need to make an assocation with 1 band in the area i’m looking and then I usually find it.

I’m sure alphabetizing would work too, but i’ve been way too lazy for that.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 16 May 2007 13:18:14 +0000

My problem is that my CD shelf isn’t big enough. I have CDs on top of CDs and next to CDs. I’m trying to keep things neat and organized but it’s getting tough.

At least the family knows that I know every CD or record that I have so if they borrow something it’d better be back before I get home.

By: Ameche

Ameche — Wed, 16 May 2007 01:35:58 +0000

Yeah, I feel you on that. I get a little edgy when I have a few dozen discs scattered about with open slots on the shelves where they should return. My wife is the biggest culprit.

Sun Ra segueing into Superchunk… I might have to try that.