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In Reply to: RE: Hoardingg is a problem for many of us. Since I retired I have been slowly selling off excess posted by Smelly_Socks on November 10, 2015 at 11:58:13
and then I realize how good they sound. It is hard to do. I usually run out of time because I am not retired, yet, and the collection doesn't get culled at all. But, I'm working on it!
Do you get any sleep with so many records to play?
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Music which is clearly derivative and with no originality TOSS
Music which is 'elevator quality' TOSS (some music used to be 'interesting; and is now 'elevator quality': for example plenty of Erroll Garner now, for me, has become elevator music. Some of his music is still stimulating, but a lot has lost it's luster.
In Rock music, I can play a few cuts and know the music sucks, or is interesting. So I went through about 800 LPs listening to bits and deciding toss or save. Like the "Swimming Pool Qs" got saved. But if I had to cull another five hundred, that album would go. Ditto 'Illinois Speed Press' one and only album.I hate boring music. And plenty of average bands in Rock are playing boring chords someone else made interesting years before. The copycats can be retired.
Then you got copycats who revitalize the old music (like Led Zeppelin!!) who are total keepers.
In Classical I find Brahms to be copying old music and trying to make it fresh, Sadly for me all he usually is doing is making more drivel. Give me Debussy or Ravel or Stravinsky any day over Brahms. (though I love Beethoven, Any Beethoven (except Fidelio) .. And find Mozart to have some great music, but also some excruciatingly boring elevator music for rich people)Last year I tossed about 800? LPs. I want to clear out some more.. But I have to be in the mood. Without the desire firmly in mind to clear out crap, nothing can be tossed. Some folks can muster it. Some cannot, and those will die with the endless piles of crap clutched in their dead, cold hands. Their estate cleaner upper will rent a few dumpsters to get rid of the endless crap..
I want to die with a small but fabulous collection the folks who come in to clear it out go crazy over.As of now I still have about 4,500 albums. equally Rock, Jazz and Classical. I want to reduce that to say 3,000 Lps. Making up my mind, in advance that I AM going to cull xx number of LPs helps a lot. I break down the total into how many per shelving unit.. Usually 3 per 80 or so. This 'forces' me to cull if I am uncertain, vs saving crap I am undecided about.
Edits: 11/12/15
I can't imagine having 4,500 albums!
I have about 250 LPs and about 80 CDs, and that's just about enough. Yet, oddly, of those, I have four versions of Holst's "The Planets", three of Beethoven's 9th Symphony and three of Hummel's Concerto for Trumpet. Go figure.
(But I only have one version of EL&P's "Brain Salad Surgery".)
So, pretty much all of my collection is awesome classic stuff - very few for me or anyone else to cull.
:)
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