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Post by xreganx on Jul 10, 2012 2:58:40 GMT
Ok so I'm really anal retentive when it comes to sorting my records and I thought it would be interesting to see how you guys sort your collections.
I don't sort my records how most people do, which seems to be alphabetical. Or even by record lable. I sort my records by year of the bands first release, but keep later relseases with the band, so for example, YOT CCME then YOT s/t. so that way all my old discord records are together and my records from 1988 are together and 90s and so on.
I do this because having my records sorted alphabetically means the records are all over the place, new records mixed up with old records etc. and I don't like just sorting by record label as that means I would have to split up my judge 7"s and there are just too many lables with one or very few releases.
I'm interested to see how you guys sort your records and your reasons.
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Post by Clichejon on Jul 10, 2012 7:47:10 GMT
I have mine split up into collections:
Rev releases in order of release - #08 also incs the BDTWs on WWR
Rev 04 is with the GB collectin
TFS
Champion
On
Restless Youth
Schism - in order of release
Down and Outs
The rest are in alphabetically, the short list of the "rest" is getting smaller and smaller each month as they get used up in trades or sales to fund the rest of my colleciton.
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Post by chris2far on Jul 10, 2012 8:58:48 GMT
I have all rev, dischord, ww, xclaim, teamwork, youngblood, schism, crr, third party, underestimated chronologialy sorted together. Rev in one box dischord, x, schism, ww in an other, teamwork in one an the other labels in one.
Then i sorted the rest alphabetical. But i slit them up with pre/post 90/91/92. The line there depends on the record. I also have for lps and 7ers separate boxes.
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Post by nico on Jul 10, 2012 9:39:34 GMT
Format then alfabectial regardless of the genre, except my Crucial Response collection, which is located in a few different boxes.
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Post by Raven X Army on Jul 10, 2012 12:29:14 GMT
I sort alphabetically by the band name. 7"s > 10"s > 12"s Then within the band name I put records chronologically so CK goes before BID regardless of the alphabetical order  |
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Post by chungking48 on Jul 10, 2012 17:10:09 GMT
I sort alphabetically by the band name. 7"s > 10"s > 12"s Then within the band name I put records chronologically so CK goes before BID regardless of the alphabetical order I file mine the same way as Dobek. However, here's a new area for debate... When filing 12"s, do your records go from left to right or right to left? From the photo, it looks like Dobek's go from left to right (as I think I see the Judge discography to the right of the 45 copies of BID). I do it the other way around, i.e. mine start at A and then go from right to left towards B. So my CK has BID to the left of it, then the discography to the left of BID. To my horror, it seems that most people seem to do it the same way as Dobek. In my mind this is wrong. What do other peple do? |
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Post by geoff on Jul 10, 2012 18:53:08 GMT
seeing that a large percentage of my collection is revelation stuff, i separate all of my rev stuff out. i store them by the rev catalog number. like marcus, i start on the right and go left. that way the first record pulled out of my 12 "s is my chung king. and this is how i store my rev 7"s.  |
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Post by Raven X Army on Jul 11, 2012 5:53:54 GMT
Marcus, Your way is the way of prophet Muhammad PBUH (^_^) I'd be extra careful when talking about this among the fundamentalist catholics as you may find yourself in an awkward situation trying to explain your position to the local office of the H.I. I follow the established European left to right patterns. It's safe and keeps me out of trouble...  Geoff, That looks really cool and on several occasions I considered splitting the records by the label but I have no heart separating my Schism NYC from REV NYC |
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Post by xreganx on Jul 11, 2012 15:15:11 GMT
I actually sort mine from right to left as well. So older records are on the right and newer ones on the left. I do this so the older ones are at the front and easier to see/get to.
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Post by Raven X Army on Jul 12, 2012 0:04:28 GMT
I actually sort mine from right to left as well. So older records are on the right and newer ones on the left. I do this so the older ones are at the front and easier to see/get to. I don't get it. When you have records on a shelf I assume they're arranged in rows where you only see a side spine of each record. How do you get "the front" there that is "easier to see/get to"? It's a row of records dude... and they should be sorted A B C D not Z Y X W unless you're used to Arabic writing, or Hebrew, or old style Chinese/Japanese  |
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Post by Raven X Army on Jul 12, 2012 0:08:57 GMT
The only way you get the "front" in your vinyl arrangement would be if you sorted the records in the boxes (not shelves) and had it front to back (which is what I think Geoff has done, it looks like from the photo) but then you wouldn't have L to R or R to L but front to back and back to front dilemma |
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Post by ferry on Jul 12, 2012 5:28:04 GMT
I have my rev and new age collection sorted by catalognumber. All in boxes only for rev of new age. I try to have all release posters in them. All other records are in the order from the time I buy them. This way it's nice to see what years I was into what band or style
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Post by chungking48 on Jul 12, 2012 11:36:39 GMT
Dobek, I love how you base your logic around the order of writing the alphabet. I guess I base mine more around the way that the text on the spine reads. The way that yours are laid out, if you are reading the spines then you are effectively reading 'upwards', i.e. you would read the BID spine and then your eyes would move "up" to the next line of text which would be the discography spine. In my head, reading upwards is not right. My logic of adopting hebrew is based on the following logic: 1. Imagine that the records are not on a shelf, but in a crate on the floor. If you have them arranged your way, then if you then turned the crate 90 degrees so that the front of the crate is facing you, you would be looking at the front cover of the last record in your collection. Yet surely if you were going to store records in a crate and have the records facing forwards, then you would choose to have them arranged running front to back with A at the front and Z at the back. Right? So pretend that you DID have this arrangement for a second... If you then turned the crate sideways, to store it up against the wall, for example, then you would end up with your collection running D C B A. 2. Now imagine that you were an idiot and kept your records in a vertical stack, with the covers laying flat, rather than on their edges. If you did this but also had them in alphabetical order (which seems unlikely as anyone who would store their records in a stack probably wouldn't care about what order they were in), then I imagine that you would logically choose to have A on the top and Z at the bottom. So it would look like this: A B C D And of course, if you did this, then the writing on the spine would be the right way up, and (just like a book) the spine text would read from top to bottom. So if you then if you then took this stack and picked it up to put it on a shelf the right way up (i.e. with the records stood correctly on their bottom edges), then once again you would end up with D C B A. I think that anyone would agree that these two examples make perfect sense, even though the result ends up being D C B A. But other than simply writing 'A B C D' I'm challenging you to come up with a logical reason why you file your records back to front |
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Post by Clichejon on Jul 12, 2012 11:58:29 GMT
I was waiting for someone to say that they did there's autobiographical ala high fidelity.
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Post by xreganx on Jul 12, 2012 13:26:09 GMT
I actually sort mine from right to left as well. So older records are on the right and newer ones on the left. I do this so the older ones are at the front and easier to see/get to. I don't get it. When you have records on a shelf I assume they're arranged in rows where you only see a side spine of each record. How do you get "the front" there that is "easier to see/get to"? It's a row of records dude... and they should be sorted A B C D not Z Y X W unless you're used to Arabic writing, or Hebrew, or old style Chinese/Japanese Dobek, my records aren't totally compacted like yours, they can be flipped through (sort of). As you can see below. Also having my older records at the front means not only are they easier to get to, but there is less weight pressed onto them from other records.    |
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Post by nico on Jul 12, 2012 13:37:31 GMT
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Post by xreganx on Jul 12, 2012 13:54:22 GMT
Hahaha, yeah I was actually talking to Leigh about this tonight. I have plastic sleeves for about 90% of my records but I need to buy some more, especially for my LPs. |
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Post by Raven X Army on Jul 12, 2012 23:26:49 GMT
Marcus, I'm into your explanation. It makes perfect sense however I believe in simplicity in life. When I look at a row of things (anything) my head automatically turns to the left seeking the beginning of whatever it is and then follows the row towards the right to find the end. It just feels unnatural to do it the other way around. If I arranged the records in a D C B A pattern I would be fighting my natural instincts. I don't have any other rational explanation for you except that arranging shit alphabetically you should follow the alphabet as in A B C D therefore technically your records are NOT arranged "alphabetically", they are arranged in a reverse alphabetical order defying the Natural Order. Sean Vegan Reich would be upset The spine writing argument makes sense but you don't see it on 99% of the 7"s and for the LPs I either had gotten used to how it is by now or never really cared in the first place which is probably the case because other than being highly annoyed with the spine on the BAD BRAINS I and I Survive / Destroy Babylon 12" (it took me a while to figure out how to place that fucking record) I don't really remember pondering any other spine writing dilemmas too hard in the past. Interestingly enough, thanks to you, I experimented with reading spines around the JUDGE area and have noticed that just about every other Madball LP has the spine written upside down. Also, thanks to you I noticed that the Minor Threat Out of Step (any pressing with the colour stripe) has the MINOR THREAT at the top of the spine written correctly, then OUT OF STEP is upside down and at the bottom DISCHORD No.10 is correct again. Never really noticed that before. Summarising: I would naturally organise anything that goes in a row (including vinyl) in the A B C D pattern regardless of the spine writing (which most of the time is printed correctly but sometimes it is not anyway). * * * Now, Regan, I believe you said: Ok so I'm really anal retentive when it comes to sorting my records but by looking at the photos you posted I see no anal retentiveness, in fact, I see no any sort of logical order whatsoever, I see chaos, anarchy and destruction (the no poly bags part) LOL Which is kind of cool seeing punk was built on those 3 important aspects of life but with volume of vinyl I have to deal with, it would probably take me 20 min to find the record I want to listen to so I would hesitate to apply the chaos based rules to sorting my records. I think, despite Marcus's good argumentation that simple A B C D > then chronological L to R (applied to vinyl stored in rows on shelves) is the simplest and easiest solution to bring peace and love to your vinyl collection  |
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Post by xreganx on Jul 13, 2012 1:33:47 GMT
Hahah, fair enough on the poly bags, as you call them. Like I said have just ran out and need to buy some more. But I guess one man's chaos is another's order. It makes much more sense to me to have teen idles, then SOA then Minor Threat than having Madball or something next to minor threat, that seems not only chaotic but just wrong, but that's just me. To each their own I guess.
I'm actually surprised no one on here has said they split their records up by genre, since most of you seem to listen to a whole heap of other genres apart from hardcore/punk.
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Post by Raven X Army on Jul 13, 2012 3:07:43 GMT
I have Belle And Sebastian records right next to the Bad Brains lol Grouping records by era or genre might make sense if ALL you have are 19 Agathocles splits, The Get Up Kids 10", 3 Madball LPs, 2 Minor Threat, 1 SOA and 7 AFI records. I have 1400-1500+ platters on them shelves covering probably 100s of genres and different eras from pre-76 punk through 77-80 UK, 82 UK, late 80s US, early 80s US, indie, rock, whatever... it would be a massive undertaking to even list all the different genres. Now if I want to listen to Into Another I just go G, H, I ... HERE IT IS!! and pop it on the turntable. I really give very little thought what lies next to it. Run DMC cover band, clone of GG Alin 12"EP or Krsna Chant 12" flexi or Vegan Reich unreleased double LP. I don't care. All I care about is that I'm able to quickly and efficiently locate whatever it is I want to listen to. |
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Post by lins87 on Jul 13, 2012 12:49:57 GMT
early 80's (all of the classic shit), mid 80s to early 90s (up to the end of the youth crew era), then everything else...all in alphabetical order...my misfits/samhain/danzig stuff is again kept seperate as is my rev stuff....fuck it I'm OCD!!!!!
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