CD Allison Krauss/Robert Plant Raising Sand John Lennon The John Lennon Collection LP Rickie Lee Jones Flying Cowboys Jenny Lewis Acid Tongue (great sounding LP!) ITunes ALAC LaLa Land Original Soundtrack Leo Kottke 6- and 12-String Guitar Hard Drive Hi-Rez King Crimson Lizard Neil Young After the Gold Rush
Le Silo - Japan avant-jazz-punk-classical-noise. John Lee - eclectic "Chinese Irishman" guitarist, sorta in the spirit of Michael Hedges. Probably because a word space creates a listing ahead of "A" on computer files. "Le Silo" winds up ahead of "Led" on my server.
Immediately after any "big" artist who has them, I have a "tributes" section. So really, "Led Zeppelin Tributes" follows Zeppelin, but I'll skip that. So before and after at present are: Led Bib
LPs (I don’t have any LZ on CD): Lawnmower Deth Le Butcherettes L’Eclair Led Zeppelin John Lennon (and John Lennon and Yoko Ono) Ted Leo (and Ted Leo and the Pharmacists) Let’s Active Barrington Levy would be in there too, but those are filed in the reggae section.
Nope, it is actually Le Butcherettes, described as a Mexican garage punk band. Their leader Teri Gender Bender is pretty out there, so she probably has a reason for naming the band that way.
Spacemen 3- taking drugs to make music to take drugs to And Built to Spill- perfect from now on I don’t alphabetize
I dont think any of you would like my file system....sure is not alphabetical. I probably have 2000 lps Complete subscriptions of 45rpm's of Music Matters, Analogue Production Impulse, Verve on separate shelfs as is the 33rpm AP Prestige lps(with Tone Poets) Mostly separate shelfs: Miles Coltrane MFSL One Steps Ella Van Morrison The Beatles Neil Young w/ CSN etc but also with Lynrd Skynard Frank Zappa Led ZEP box sets and Classic The The Waterboys are next to Van Morrsion and Jimi Hendrix Female Soul (Aretha, Teena Marie, Motown) are next to Shirley Horn Blues lps are on a couple of shelves as is Male Soul Pat Metheny is next to Miles Zep is next to Jeff Beck, Clapton, etc New Wave Elvis Costello, Joe Jackson has a shelf with other 70/80 rock Harry Belafonte is next to Mariam Mckaba and Mahailia Jackson and Simon and Garfunkel Pink Floyd is with ELP Traffic etc, yet YES is nect to Frank Sinatra who is next to Tony Bennet The Stones share a shelf with the Allman Brothers The Who share a shelf with Gil Scot Heron and Tom Petty, Carmen McRae, Nina Simone Kate Bush next to Duke Ellington and misc Jazz Louis Armstrong 45rpms and 6 eye Columbias next to Prince Bob Dylan shares a shelf with the Band, Grateful Dead and David Bromberg Scattered through out are 15 or so Mosaic lp box sets to serve as dividers or padding(all the Miles sets are with the other Miles Davis) I guess you get the ida and Yes I can find lps quickly!!
I file by first name and first word including articles, with the only exception being "The" in English. I don't want a crapload of commas in the names of my computer files or in spreadsheets. And that partially stems from the fact that I was using computers (including using early spreadsheets to create a database of my collection) all the way back when software often misinterpreted commas to denote separate items in a list. So I file Bob Dylan under "B," A Perfect Circle under "A," "Os Mutantes" under "O," etc. (although actually I've gone back to "extended family" filing recently, so now A Perfect Circle is under "T" for Tool--that would probably really drive you crazy).
The OP asked for bizarre responses from those who choose to adopt a more idiosyncratic filing system. So here you go. This is one of about five such maps of my record shelves that I've designed. See that green pic of a bowler-hatted John Bonham in the top left quarter? - That's where my Led Zeppelin stuff is placed - scarlet and plum first pressings to deluxe boxes. That gives you some notion of the floor to ceiling scale of the thing too. The dark grey is all vinyl, the paler grey is the poor relation CDs. They don't get a picture key. I mean, I'm not that crazy. From this you can see that - in answer to the OP - they all sit next to a zone of grunge era stuff - Redd Kross, Royal Trux etc. There is some logic, and some connections made as you travel around the map, but not a huge amount. The 50's, a whole lot more of the 60's, the 80s, the recent stuff, the cassettes, the 45s ( except for a full set of Stones UK first pressings which is, obviously, denoted by the black and white pic of Charlie Watts centre right) - that's in other places in other rooms.
Vinyl - Gladis Knight and the Pips / Jerry Lee Lewis CD - Lenny Kravitz / Jerry Lee Lewis Media player - The Leasebrakers (off the Music to Read James Bond By LP) / Leith Stevens What a fun idea!
CD's - Laura Cantrell <- Laurie Sargent <- Led Zeppelin -> The Lemonheads -> Lene Lovich LP's - Ladysmith Black Mambazo <- Larry Johnson <- Led Zeppelin -> Lene Lovich -> Lenny and the Squigtones
