Personally I have maybe 4 ECM. So if I would bought the entire catalogue, I would be in a great trouble.
I have never bought albums because they figure on some lists. I find this way of thinking ridiculous. The albums on the list may be considered as very good. But I don’t care if I don’t enjoy them.
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Moi aussi!
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But you do have a collection of files of Music that you like that you own and have bought.
I don’t even have that.
My collection such as it is just consists of favourites and presets and playlists on the Naim app.
Just in case these get deleted or lost, I have a sort of backup as they are stored also in my Qobuz account with a further backup in a dormant Spotify account.
I also have the remnants of legacy collections of cassettes, CDs and vinyl that I never play because I don’t have the means to do so any longer.
So my collection is just a set of digital arrows pointing at albums and tracks that I have enjoyed or which I marked in order to have a look at them later if I ever feel inclined to.
I find it rather liberating not to have to own the Music anymore, and to have almost all the music I could dream of at my fingertips.
Now you have the CDs,
Your have to find them all on vinyl now,
Very impressive collection
Are they in alphabetic order or how they are listed in the book,
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Noooo! It was a one off project and I’m done now. 
They are stored in amongst all my other cd’s, which in turn are alphabetical by artist.
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Regarding collecting , I mean where the collection itself is important as a whole, sometimes as with the subject of this thread, where the collector may not even like all the items they collect. I think many on this forum I would class as collectors of music, having so many albums that they cannot possibly play more than once and in some cases they include things they have never played and probably never will
Yes, I do have a music collection, a collection music enjoy like to play, availability to play anytime being its raison d’être, and I play it all again and again, some frequently some less so, but it is there for enjoyment of listening. There is no way I would abandon that and rely on online streaming, because I would not do not be able to play my favourite music when I want. With online services, assuming thay have all I would want in the first place, there is always a risk of music being unavailable whether because they change their catalogue, go out of business, are forced to remove things due to licensing changes, or due Internet outage. In my case I feel liberated by having the music I like in my possession, now in a form that can’t get damaged or misfiled etc, and it would make me very uncomfortable to be at the mercy of things out of my control if I didn’t, as would be the case relying on online streaming. And file backups mean that even in the event of major catastrophe such as house fire I can be listening again as soon as gear itself replaced.
That’s great Graeme, what a fun project you’ve had for the last 2 decades.
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Well Done Graeme! what you now need to do is buy the 1994 & 98 edition’s and add those to the collection, theirs lot of changes in the intervening 6 years!
P.s agree about Eric B & Rakim, 450 & 979 on the list, its an acquired taste 
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That’s an impressive level of dedication and a fascinating exercise so big thumbs up to you for that! What an interesting journey though…
I already own most of the albums I really wanted either on CD or vinyl and sometimes both, but nowadays I sometimes take a punt on something regarded as a “classic” partly to broaden my musical horizons and partly in the hope of finding more superb recordings on vinyl with an eye to future turntable reviews. As an example I popped into our local record store in Sussex yesterday for an hour of idle browsing and came away with America’s debut album (£10.99) which is highly regarded and often cited for its sound quality and James Taylor’s Gorilla (£4.99) because I rather enjoy his records.
After a thorough clean on the new Keith Monks Prodigy I found the America album rather uninpiring musically and although reasonably well recorded it didn’t strike me as anything to write home about - in fact it’s pretty dull! Gorilla by contrast is an absolutely stunning sounding record full of really good songs and I have no doubt I will be listening to that again. I bought Frampton comes alive and Dyland’s Highway 61 revisited (new remasters) a few weeks back and found those similarly uninspiring and boring despite the rave reviews of Frampton being one of the finest live albums ever made - I just don’t get it!
So I think I’m coming to realise that these attempts to buy records widely hailed as classics are doomed to fail most of the time. I’m far better off filling in gaps in my collection of artists I know I already like - Deacon Blue, Kate Bush, Nick Drake, James Taylor etc - otherwise it’s just money down the drain!
One of the problems with vinyl is that if you do buy an album with a couple of decent tracks and a whole lot you don’t particularly like (Highway 61 revisited being a good example) you end up never playing them at all because it’s too much of a faff to put on a record for just a couple of tracks. Streaming in my view is a far superior solution for such albums!
JonathanG
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Would the Alan Parsons Project, if you a cd by them, go under A or Pa or Pr?
(That’s why I used to just lump them by genre and flip thru the genre til I found one I wanted to hear).
I have 2 records by them in a box somewhere.
But it’s not very likely to get played unless my kids get into vinyl one day (even if I still had a TT).
Never mind being listed as an all time classic!
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My sister bought this when it came out, and I listened to it a lot and thoroughly enjoyed it in those days, especially when Frampton makes the guitar speak (but I was about 14 years old).
I think that’s in the song ‘do you feel like I do’ iirc.
But I recently saw Frampton in the tiny desk concert, and I thought he was really good:
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Classic, personally wouldn’t go that far, but we all have different tastes, which is good, I can listen to the odd track, and I’ve had enough, why do I own them, because I did the exact same thing as @Graeme did, but with the 1998 edition and added the extra lists at the end, including William Shatner…which is a sure way of evicting company !
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Is he a heavy metal drummer?
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Just for you.
From 1968, you cannot tell if Shatner is serious or taking the Pee. but is a must hear, comedy classic.
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Love that font.
Shatner is very funny these days.
But my true hero was always Spock as a kid, I loved Star Trek.
(Now I just love Trek, my modded bike that is).
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Very nice 
don’t own a bike (yet) its on the to-do list when I retire.
I ride it to work all year round.
And at weekends on all local trips.
Such fun with the US swept back handlebars and a US Thudbuster seat post and fat tyres and big fat gel saddle and front forks takes the hammering off my body.
But, full confession, my wife’s bike just broke so she’s going to have mine and I’ve ordered a Trek District 4 Stepthru e-bike on a Cycle2Work scheme so it comes out of my pre income tax and National Insurance salary.
Trek District 4 e-bikes have a Gates CDX belt drive with gears sealed in the rear hub so hopefully don’t need any maintenance for years to come, so a good investment and more reliable.
Delivery mid Oct!
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Thanks for the info, going to check that out
Alan Parsons Project is filed under Pa. Always by surname. For example, Miles Davis Quartet, Quintet, All Stars etc are filed under Davis.
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