Bright Moments Posted July 31, 2003 Report Posted July 31, 2003 I have a very large cd collection which i love to organize and reorganize. recently i pulled out of my "rock/pop" cd's donald fagan's the nightfly. after listening to it again i could not put it back into "rock/pop". the question looms, where to file it? is it jazz?. . . . . Quote
RDK Posted July 31, 2003 Report Posted July 31, 2003 I love the album, but I wouldn't call it jazz. If nothing else, Fagan is a pop/rocker, so that's where I'd put it. Quote
DrJ Posted July 31, 2003 Report Posted July 31, 2003 Not that I think it really matters except for helping you remember where you filed it, but no, clearly not a jazz album. A very good pop record, though, and that's not faint praise coming from me as it might be from some others. Quote
Bright Moments Posted August 1, 2003 Author Report Posted August 1, 2003 thanks guys, but listen to the album again. remember "we've got to have some Brubeck for the new frontier!" also IGY, they sure sound a little jazzy to me! but now the real purpose of the thread . . . . just what IS jazz anyway! Quote
Soul Stream Posted August 1, 2003 Report Posted August 1, 2003 thanks guys, but listen to the album again. remember "we've got to have some Brubeck for the new frontier!" also IGY, they sure sound a little jazzy to me! but now the real purpose of the thread . . . . just what IS jazz anyway! If they play it on any sort of commercial radio...then it's not jazz. Quote
Free For All Posted August 1, 2003 Report Posted August 1, 2003 The word "jazzy" has always scared me. Quote
Jad Posted August 1, 2003 Report Posted August 1, 2003 Another vote for organizing alphabetically. Quote
jmjk Posted August 1, 2003 Report Posted August 1, 2003 Fagan definitely belongs in the rock section. By the way, I LOVE your Betty Page avatar! Quote
Rooster_Ties Posted August 1, 2003 Report Posted August 1, 2003 (edited) I might naturally be inclined to alpha everything "all together" as was suggested above, but then my wife would scream bloody murder cuz she'd have to wade through hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of discs she has no interest in at all (never!!), just to browse the 300 or 400 that she would be interested in. I've got everything split into the following categories... [*]Pop/Rock (everything) [*]Classical (that my wife will listen to, 19th Century and before, and select 20th Century composers) [*]Classical (that my wife won't listen to, basically all my weird and/or atonal (often serial) 'classical' music) [*]Jazz (the 90% that my wife won't listen to) [*]Jazz (the 10% , mostly piano trios and similar jazz with no horns, that she will listen to) Oh - as far as the question about where to file "donald fagan", definitely in "Pop/Rock", without any doubt. Edited August 1, 2003 by Rooster_Ties Quote
Dan Gould Posted August 1, 2003 Report Posted August 1, 2003 And do you label these categories, Rooster, to help her? "Honey, You've Shown In The Past You Like These" My filing system is simple-Jazz and Everything Else. No sub-organizing, and with the expansion of slimline cases with burns plus the near-to-capacity shelves, its still not so easy to find stuff, since a lot of CDs are resting horizontally in the gap between the vertical CDs and the shelf above, and sometimes the shortage of space sends them a significant "distance" away from their alphabetical spot. Quote
catesta Posted August 1, 2003 Report Posted August 1, 2003 By the way, I LOVE your Betty Page avatar! Me too, and I think I can see nip.... Quote
Bright Moments Posted August 1, 2003 Author Report Posted August 1, 2003 Fagan definitely belongs in the rock section. By the way, I LOVE your Betty Page avatar! thank you! you obviously are a person with exquisite taste! Quote
Bright Moments Posted August 1, 2003 Author Report Posted August 1, 2003 I might naturally be inclined to alpha everything "all together" as was suggested above, but then my wife would scream bloody murder cuz she'd have to wade through hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of discs she has no interest in at all (never!!), just to browse the 300 or 400 that she would be interested in. I've got everything split into the following categories... [*]Pop/Rock (everything) [*]Classical (that my wife will listen to, 19th Century and before, and select 20th Century composers) [*]Classical (that my wife won't listen to, basically all my weird and/or atonal (often serial) 'classical' music) [*]Jazz (the 90% that my wife won't listen to) [*]Jazz (the 10% , mostly piano trios and similar jazz with no horns, that she will listen to) Oh - as far as the question about where to file "donald fagan", definitely in "Pop/Rock", without any doubt. here are my catagories, all are alphabetized within: Jazz Big band Rock/pop Classical Country (my Wife's) Kids Religious/Comedy (they both share the same drawer <ggg>) Wife's (non-country) Reggae Ska Misc. Musicals/Soundtracks Quite eclectic, but i always have something good to listen to! Quote
RDK Posted August 1, 2003 Report Posted August 1, 2003 Who woulda thunk it? Betty Page, Bizarro Superman, Flaming Carot, and Hong Kong Phooey avatars all in the same thread! Now that's cool! Quote
Alexander Posted August 1, 2003 Report Posted August 1, 2003 My collection is organized thusly: Jazz Pop/Rock/Country/Blues/Funk/Soul Folk Classical My CDs are alphabetized by artist, and then filed chronologically by recording date (if known). In my collection, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, and Rosemary Clooney are all filed under "jazz," as are Benny Goodman and other Big Band/Swing artists. As to what, exactly, jazz is: As Fats Waller once said: If you don't know, for heaven's sake don't mess with it! Quote
David Williams Posted August 1, 2003 Report Posted August 1, 2003 Haven't you blokes seen High Fidelity? The only way to sort your LPs/CDs is autobiographically. Quote
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