Off the top of my head, 2 albums by Liz Phair, 2 albums by Eric B & Rakim, 2 albums by Todd Rundgren, 40oz To Freedom by Sublime. Urm!
Difficult to say, but the artist that surprised me the most was Tom Waits. I had never heard of him nor his music until I needed one of his albums. There are five of them in the book. Now I have nine of his albums and absolutely love them all.
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I do like some Sinatra and Steely Dan songs and can understand why people like them.
But Kind Of Blue, and jazz for the most part, I find unlistenable.
Like you say, each to their own.
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Ah someone on my list, good to know.
And telling everyone you sat and streamed 1000 albums from a book… would be er… well.
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LOL!
If I played them back to back then I would be even more insane than I actually am. No, I played them as I bought them over the last 24 years.
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Wonderful life adventure!! Congrats!
There are definitely many very positive aspects in this journey as you mentioned.
I’m sure it’s well worth all the time and money invested.
It goes far beyond making a check beside 1000 lines
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Thank you, and you are right, it really does go much deeper than simply checking items off a list.
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What a great idea. As my system improved over the decades, I’ve tried many different genres of music “to see what it sounds like” and my musical tastes and are now very wide so Motorhead sits comfortably alonside Heatwave, Miles, Krall, B-52s, Howlin’ Wolf, Lab-4, Funkadelic, Julie London. You get the picture
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Brilliant!
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Ok, That’s a great reason to do it.
It takes me back to my collecting days which were pre-Internet.
I collected First edition novels and records and that took me Into book and record shops hundreds of times in many countries, and made contact with hundreds of people who bought and sold books and records.
One example is when the writer and book collector Peter Hopkirk sold his collection of adventure and spying books in connection with the Silk Road and the Great Game at Sotheby’s I went to the sale, which was on a weekday, and ended up by chance sitting next to him.
The books one by one sold for total of about £1 million as I recall.
This was a long time ago when £1 million was worth more than it is today.
The Internet more or less ruined collecting of that sort because instead of being a skill and a delightful part of one’s life, you could then buy almost anything from anywhere or anyone at the click of a button.
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I guess that’s a significant difference between you and me: I would never want to waste money on duds, so would always want to hear first or have some reasonable degree of certainty of liking. But then I am absolutely not a collector, never collecting for the sake of so doing.
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We agree at 100%.here. Worth mentioning.
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Yes, I guess we are different. I like to take risks in so many ways. Sure, I took a risk on some cd’s and lost because they were duds, however, some were good too. But you know what? This whole thing was an education for me and I look at it like this, I spent some money on an education and that’s never a waste in my opinion.
You prefer to tread more carefully and I respect that. Vive la différence.
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There’s an extraordinary act of collecting by a member of this forum @Lontano:
“I guess I like Ecm as I own everything the label has released on Ecm, new series and other sister labels. It’s been a fun journey chasing it down and listening to it.”
I recall him saying that he had listened to every single one of these albums too.
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I seem to remember that you also had a lot of fun, learning experiences and social interaction when you went around building your Olive system, buying components from people up and down the land.
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Indeed I did. It was a blast. Well remembered!
But when I began collecting vinyl it was difficult or impossible to listen to all the things I was tempted to buy on record because it simply wasn’t very easy in those days.
I’d listen to John Peel and scribble down the names of bands that he mentioned that I liked.
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My “treading carefully” as you put it is primarily finance driven, a necessity I learnt at a young age, and which has stood me in good stead ever since. But also there is the collector gene, which s missing in me! But this forum would be less interesting if we were all the same!
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