Pressing CD Collection Question
Would you file David Bowie narrating Peter & the Wolf under:
Prokofiev in the Classical section
Bowie in Pop
Bowie in Children’s
Someone inexplicably suggested that I file it in all three places to catch walk-by traffic. Of course, the Josephson household only has one of these CD’s, and our walk-by traffic has looked for it in all three places at various times. Actually, there’s a forth place, but that’s just because Asher can’t reach past the Ws in Pop.
Help!
Would you file David Bowie narrating Peter & the Wolf under:
Someone inexplicably suggested that I file it in all three places to catch walk-by traffic. Of course, the Josephson household only has one of these CD’s, and our walk-by traffic has looked for it in all three places at various times. Actually, there’s a forth place, but that’s just because Asher can’t reach past the Ws in Pop.
Help!
posted by isaacjosephson at 8:46 PM
11 Comments:
Bowie is incidental. Prokofiev in the Classical section.
DEFINITELY filed under Prokofiev. No question.
Prokofiev.
I have this on vinyl.
agree.
The lady of the house has requested that it be filed under Bowie - Children's, since that's the context in which it would most likely fall. She's clearly more of a pragmatist than the rest of us, here.
I was going to suggest Bowie in Children's as well for the same reason.
You mock me, but I give these matters serious consideration. This one is almost as bad as the agony I went through trying to decide whether to file Mancini under pop or jazz (we settled on pop).
Mancini should go under soundtracks.
My difficulties come with classical cds. If it's a cd with a single composer, it clearly should be filed under composer. But what if it's a single artist playing pieces from multiple composers? Then you end up filing by artist instead of compser, which I'm not really in favor of. Or an orchestral disc -- conductor or orchestra name? Then what? These problems are dizzying and neverending.
Of course, I haven't had the space for a cd shelf in many years, so I don't have to make these decisions anymore.
I have the same problem with Classical. Though, my Classical collection is only about 50 CD's, so it's more a problem of principle than practice. That said, I do often forget that I have that one Mendelssohn concerto because it's filed under the violinist Maxim Vengerov.
Clearly, the solution is either (a) a very good database; or (b) owning multiple copies of the same disc....... Ah, decisions.
Post a Comment
<< Home