{"id":1611,"date":"2023-10-16T00:39:12","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T23:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theacousticeggbox.com\/?p=1611"},"modified":"2023-10-16T00:39:12","modified_gmt":"2023-10-15T23:39:12","slug":"music-lovers-of-the-world-unite-in-a-z-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theacousticeggbox.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/16\/music-lovers-of-the-world-unite-in-a-z-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Lovers Of The World Unite… In A-Z Order Of Course"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Curates Egg (Box)<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The great German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, once wrote: \u201cWithout music, life would be a mistake\u201d. He is, of course, absolutely\u00a0correct. Then again, he\u2019d never heard a Whigfield record…
\nI always intended for The Acoustic Egg Box blog\u00a0to be about my love of music (and books, films and the creative arts\u00a0in general). I realise, though, that I\u2019ve gone a little off-topic lately. However, over the next few months, I\u2019ll\u00a0try to\u00a0redress the balance by posting less stuff about \u201cstuff\u201d and more stuff about music (and books, films and the creative arts\u00a0in general!).<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve already got some magnificent ideas for new topics and posts, one of which involves revisiting my entire music collection and attempting an A-Z review of it all. More details about this ridiculous project will follow ASAP. In the meantime, you can read a little about my formative years and the sparks that ignited my interest in music (and writing) on this site\u2019s “About Me<\/a>” page. This will give you a\u00a0brief\u00a0outline of my musical journey, and if you ever had any notion that\u00a0I was \u201ccool\u201d, I\u2019ll completely dispel that myth over the coming weeks with more in-depth posts. \u201cLaughing Gnome\u201d and \u201cFunky Moped\u201d anyone?<\/p>\n

Auteurs, Beck, Costello, Dexys<\/strong><\/h4>\n

I don\u2019t know anyone else who wakes in the middle of the night fretting about whether I should file\u00a0A House\u00a0before Aaliyah or after a-ha, but for me, it\u2019s a huge\u00a0deal! I lose sleep over these things. I\u2019m a pedant and it IS important. I know some people who arrange their record collections by genre, label, release date or weird systems that even Alan Turing would struggle to fathom. If I did this, I\u2019d\u00a0go mad. What about sub-genres, label imprints, re-issues, remasters or re-presses?\u00a0After all, one man\u2019s funk is another man\u2019s disco, and those bloody foreigners sometimes release things years after we do. I\u2019ll put this to all\u00a0the freaky filers out there:\u00a0if your destitute best mate\u2019s about to win a shitload of money on \u201cWho Wants To Be A Millionaire?\u201d, gets a difficult question about Terence Trent D\u2019Arby and chooses you as their \u201cPhone a Friend\u201d candidate, because of your ridiculously filled racks you won\u2019t know where to look for the answer within the allocated 30 seconds? Next thing, you\u2019ll never get another phone call from them and they\u2019ll remain poverty stricken.\u00a0Me? I\u2019m happy with the simplest order – alphabetical.<\/p>\n

As my CD\/ LP collection now numbers around 4,000 bits, to help keep track of it all, I use a fantastic software package from Collectorz (collectorz.com<\/a>). This great bit of kit costs me just \u00a32.60 a month and is an invaluable tool for filing, sorting, and reminding me of the vast amount of money I could have saved over the years. But there are strict rules for my catalogue system – here are a few of the main ones:<\/p>\n