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It started in earnest back around Bats' GTG. Awaiting me at his place were two CD box sets that I'd ordered from Amazon.com: "original album series" sets for America and Seals & Crofts. Spent the better part of a couple of hours in the Batcave grooving (along with a few other members) on those magical tunes.
My music collection, while vast, is also pretty shallow in many places. For many artists and bands I had but a few (or less) of their albums (many on vinyl and cassette!) and a greatest hit CD. Like America and Seals & Crofts.
So I started to change that by sourcing artists' entire discographies, wherever possible. The effort has picked up steam over the last month in particular and I have been very busy ripping and curating all the new acquisitions. I wanted to finish the huge bulk of the collecting by the end of this year and I'm happy to say I'm there.
Today I got around to adding Buffalo Springfield, The Byrds, April Wine, Joan Armatrading, The Animals, and others. I'm not talking an album here and there: I really mean pretty much their entire discographies. I did skip many of the "live" recordings - unless there were significant unique tracks that were not to be found on their studio works. The whole process meant digging through Wiki links like crazy to see what the releases were, what tracks they contained, what formats they are available in, "remastered" and "reissued" albums, etc. Of course doing that leads to all sorts of neat and wonderful discoveries - when you trace band members, before and after they are with a particular group.
For example, take The Guess Who. From that I now have two great albums by Brave Belt (predecessor of Bachman-Turner Overdrive - which I also completed), the entire Guess Who catalogue, everything Randy Bachman's done, solo and together with others, and all of Burton Cummings stuff. Dozens and dozens of great albums.
Being retired and having the ability to make time for this endeavor certainly helped!
While I did a lot of sampling of tracks and albums during the process, I'm now set to make 2017 the year that I spend a lot of time listening to music. Since it's all ripped to 320kbps MP3 I can do it just about anywhere and any time.
Jeff
My music collection, while vast, is also pretty shallow in many places. For many artists and bands I had but a few (or less) of their albums (many on vinyl and cassette!) and a greatest hit CD. Like America and Seals & Crofts.
So I started to change that by sourcing artists' entire discographies, wherever possible. The effort has picked up steam over the last month in particular and I have been very busy ripping and curating all the new acquisitions. I wanted to finish the huge bulk of the collecting by the end of this year and I'm happy to say I'm there.
Today I got around to adding Buffalo Springfield, The Byrds, April Wine, Joan Armatrading, The Animals, and others. I'm not talking an album here and there: I really mean pretty much their entire discographies. I did skip many of the "live" recordings - unless there were significant unique tracks that were not to be found on their studio works. The whole process meant digging through Wiki links like crazy to see what the releases were, what tracks they contained, what formats they are available in, "remastered" and "reissued" albums, etc. Of course doing that leads to all sorts of neat and wonderful discoveries - when you trace band members, before and after they are with a particular group.
For example, take The Guess Who. From that I now have two great albums by Brave Belt (predecessor of Bachman-Turner Overdrive - which I also completed), the entire Guess Who catalogue, everything Randy Bachman's done, solo and together with others, and all of Burton Cummings stuff. Dozens and dozens of great albums.
Being retired and having the ability to make time for this endeavor certainly helped!
While I did a lot of sampling of tracks and albums during the process, I'm now set to make 2017 the year that I spend a lot of time listening to music. Since it's all ripped to 320kbps MP3 I can do it just about anywhere and any time.
Jeff