I suppose the downside of that is that if you just feel like some jazz, but don’t know what jazz, you can’t leaf through your jazz CDs or albums because they’re not next to each other.
Ah! I have separated out some genres for exactly that reason. Jazz, Blues, Soundtracks, World Music, Bob Dylan, classical, Naim Label, Compilations (not artist specific ones). You get the idea.
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I love the fact that Bob Dylan is an actual genre! 
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I’m so glad that one didn’t make into the 3rd edition (2000). I’d have found it particularly difficult to spend cash on. 
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It had to be. I have 56 titles of his, including boxsets, one of which has 27 discs in it. 
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Wow - that must cover almost all his work.
I Remember once John Peel was doing a live broadcast from Glastonbury and he said, “Bob Dylan just walked past my tent”.
For Some reason that stuck in my mind, Probably because I like John Peel and Bob Dylan a lot (Although I hardly ever listen to Dylan anymore).
I enjoyed the Rolling Thunder Review film.
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I have all his studio albums and more.
Also have a collection of cassettes of John Peels radio shows on Thursday night back in the seventies. Priceless!!
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I’ve got a few of those too, But no Cassette player.
I must congratulate you on finishing what you set out to archive, I know its difficult buying music you know is not to your taste, but you were on a mission!
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If you like Dylan, it’s not surprising you like Tom Waits too - they both have a voice like sand and glue.
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You too @Cmax ! I wonder if we are the only two who have gone through this madness. I enjoyed every cd of it but I’m glad it’s over. But wow! What a ride!
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It goes under C for crap, or S for sh….
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It’s a great experience, I did exactly like you but with the 1998 edition, checked what I had from the list, like you do…and found, I owned just over 230, from the main list and quite a lot from his other lists at the end of the book, thought why don’t I combine the two……and off I went, can’t remember exactly when I completed mine, would be around 2016 ish, it did cross my mind to incorporate the 1001 albums before you die, then listened to a few of the obscure ones on line and thought, nah, No.
It’s a lot easier to do now with streaming, you don’t need to buy the albums, but where’s the fun in that 
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We dont have John Peel but a great record show late every sunday nights that just plays a mix of stuff you never heard before. I always have a backlog of cd:s to buy. They do publish links to streaming services but most of the music is not available on Spotify and so on.
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It never ends does it?
To which show do you refer?
Exactly! Where IS the fun in that?
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If you like them, you can then buy to keep…
But surely the fun with music is listening to it?
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You can now, but when @Graeme started his quest, there were no streaming services, unless you had friends that owned the albums, you were after, you had no way of listening to some of the less common / well known albums, you had to take a punt.
To answer the second part of your question, yes the fun is listening to it and enjoying what you are listening too.
Crate digging, record shopping/browsing is fun even before a record/CD hits the record/CD player. There’d also be fun discussing the ‘journey’ with friends & family I expect. Some of the ‘fun’ for some of the folk on here seems to be using music to evaluate hifi components. So there’s no ‘surely’ about where the fun is i’d suggest. Fair play for collecting the 1,000 CDs which was ‘surely fun’ & is no different to doing the ‘92’ in football or collecting anything which is looked at and not used (stamps etc?). I couldn’t do it myself. There’ll be music in there by artists I wouldn’t give money to and so on.
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Let me describe the fun of what I do.
Today I went to the local record and cd fair. I caught up with the guy who sells cd’s, swapped our stories since we last met, chuckled with a few other customers and I bought a bunch of cd’s on which he offered me a preferential price of 60p each.
Most of them I knew something about, the artist, the style of music etc. even if I didn’t have any of their works in my collection. Some were simply filling in gaps of discographies, some were just to test the waters for new to me artists. At 60p a pop, there was no risk. However, one cd stood out. The Peatbog Faeries. Who the hell are they? Never heard of them. Looked at the booklet inside and found they were a Celtic folk band from the Isle of Skye.
Now Mrs. G and I love Celtic folk music so I bought it. We are enjoying listening to it now, with a glass of wine and we are loving what we hear. I’ve checked their discography and we will definitely be buying more of their cd’s direct from their website. We are both thrilled to have accidentally? discovered a new to us band that we instantly love.
I do sometimes check out new music on Qobuz on my Nova, and it’s very convenient, ( I previewed Van Morrisons new album today, which I will now buy at some point) but if I had to choose between looking online or going out on the hunt, well, pass me my spear, I’ll be back for lunch!!
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