logistical question for Zappa collectors?
 

Stores tend to just put the Mothers albums in the Zappa section. In your personal collection to you keep them under M for Mothers or Z for Zappa?

And please, no "I keep them under C for Crap" replies or whatever, because frankly, that's just too easy and won't be considered witty or awesome.

thats kinda like put ciccone youth under "C" or under "S" for sonic youth

My collection is arranged autobiographically.

That sounds.... comforting.

Yr not serious though right?

I go back and forth on this every few months!

mee too. were checking my collection the last days and again struggled. finally putted it to "S"

Yep. Right now it's under S in my collection as well.

"z"

I file the stooges under "p"

I file Brian Wilson under the "Beach Boys"

in my movie collection all James Bond movies are under "B" and all band movies are under the band's name not the movie.
for example Quadrophenia and The Kids are Alright are under "w"

Wow. Hardcore.

I'd group all JAMES BOND (if I owned anY) under J.
I also put all band DVD's under band/artist name.

I MIGHT put Mothers Under Z, because really they were just a vehicle for Zappa... but still not convinced I should.

Beach Boys under B. Brian Wilson under W. Stooges under S. Iggy under P.

Z for Zappa in chronological order, of course.

to clarify, yr saying Mothers under Z and then all in chronological?

All this talk about Zappa is nauseating. The man was a stupid fuck and so was his shit music.

totally doesn't answer my question, but thanks.

IT's so weird, when I see a thread about a band I dont' like, y'know what I do? I just don't even read that thread. Call me nuts.

The person I work for (posthumously) had a Zappa collection that is the most complete I have ever seen. It just has its own set of shelves outside the rest of the alphabet in his archives. Same for his Sabbath, Beefheart, Venom and Kiss stuff.

Good for you, whatever. He was still a gobshite that made crap music. OK?

My Sonic Youth collection is on its' own bookshelf outside of the rest of my collection. Right now it's a shelf of albums, EP's, videos, DVDs, books, 7"s. Then I have a big drawer full of bootlegs and live shows that I really couldnt fit out on display.

Sure. THats fine with me that you think so. I just don't see what it adds to the conversation of ordering a record collection for you to mention how much you don't like the particular band being used for the example?

There's nothing to add, you don't you get it. He was shite. I'm not adding anything to the conversation. Ok?

Oh. Ok. Good then.

Yep, everything.


"Help, I'm a cop!"

They all go under Zappa down my way, and are arranged in numerical order of Rykodisc catalog number. After that they're roughly chronological.

Tell me first of all how resolving this will dramatically improve your life or make the world a better place for humanity.

I don't put my collection into any sort of order, too much work.

I have all of my Zappa CD's filed under F and in chronological order.

I had this problem with Frank Black and the Catholics.

As a solution, I just threw all those CD's away.

Same here for The Rolling Stones. File under T for The, R for Rolling, S for Stones, or F for Fucking Cool Shit.

What this man says is also exactly how I do it.

haha :D

All my music's ordered alphabetically. I used to have trouble with this kind of thing, I didn't know whether I should arrange albums chronologically or alphabetically, eventually I went for the latter. I didn't know if I should put my Syd Barrett stuff with Pink Floyd, but I decided he was good enough to be filed by himself.
If the name on the album is Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention, then it should just go under Z.
By the way, I have Ciccone Youth under C.

Good point. I should probably stop discussing music-related things on a music-related message board. You just saved me time!

Ha, ha, no, no, it just seems a little, well, overly obsessive. I mean, does it make any difference?

To me it does, yes. And OF COURSE it's overly obsessive. I surely will not deny that. But yeah, little things about the arrangement of my music collection will really bug me sometimes. THat's why I was curious what other collectors did in such a situation.

Putting Mothers albums under M, is "right" in the sense that THAT's how the band actually wanted those albums to be considered (ie: as Mothers albums, NOT Zappa albums... which is especially obvious when they were Mothers albums released AFTER the band broke up). But at the same time, filing the Mothers albums under Z (considering them as FRANK ZAPPA AND THE MOTHERS) means that all Zappa will remain together so that when I'm in the mood, I can easily look thru one little section.

And really, I just used Zappa as an example. We could be talking about Kool Keith's, MF Doom's or Robert Pollard's hundreds of alter-egos. We could be talking about Bjork/Sugarcubes, Ryan Adams/Whiskeytown/The Finger, 2Pac/Tupac Shakur/Makavelli/Thug Life, or any other band artist who's had one-offs, side-projects, name changes, etc.

I tend to just go with what's on the jacket sleeve/LP spine. If it says "Mothers" instead of "Frank Zappa and the Mothers", for example, it would go in the M section.

I alphabetize by the first letter of the first word in a band's name disregarding articles (e.g., The Beatles go in the B section), but individuals usually by the last name (e.g., John Lennon in the L section).

I'm guessing this is what most of us do.

Actually that's exactly how I tend to do it. (going by the spine/cover name).

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Man, "Valley girl" is a shitty song, eh? They play that at work all the time. Didn't even realize it was Zappa until I looked it up online.

You dont like it? I think it's pretty hilarious. I actually just picked up SHIP ARRIVING TOO LATE last week.

And where do you work that would play FZ?

A grocery store.

"Valley Girl" was apparently a really popular song, in fact it Zappa's most popular.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_Girl_(song)

# 32 on the top 40 singles.

So, it's not too bizarre that they'd play that song.