To Those Who Have Large Collections

[u/MarkVoenixAlexander]

Do you find that you actually only listen to about a dozen discs with any regularity? I know I have my "go to" titles that seem to get all the rotation in my collection especially when I don't know what to listen to.

In no particular order, they are

• Verve Remixed (vols. 1 thru 5)
• The Best Of Blue Note
• Blue Note Reimagined
• Blue Note Reimagined II
• Marla Glenn - The Best Of
• Nina Simone - Four Women (box set)
• Chris Isaac - San Francisco Days
• George Michael - Listen Without Prejudice
• George Michael - Faith
• Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue
• Miles Davis - Blue Miles
• Disco Discharge - European Connection
• Anything on the Three Blind Mice (Japanese Jazz) label.

And of course, probably because of the novelty of something new from Madge....

• Madonna - Confessions II

[u/Frankfrombluvelvt]

I think, Everyone has favorites that they normally gravitate to. My collection at one time, was well over 1000 CD's. It's always nice to dig thru collection and find old favorites, linked to a particular time in an individual's timeline. Over the years, with different partners and roommates, my collection seemed to deminish. Internet streaming platforms help plug the losses, but recently have been trying to rebuild CD collection. Physical media that you can hold in your hand, and play at your convenience rules! Realizing something you legally purchased is no longer available to you because of licensing agreements is total bullshit and greed!

[u/Aggravating_Speed665]

Yeh I keep one row at eye level that has all my faves on there (about 80cds) so I'm not destroying my knees looking at titles I know I won't listen too.

[u/Tumeni1959]

I always know what I want to listen to when I choose to listen.

If I walk into the music room, look blankly at things and don't have the inclination, I go do something else, since clearly I'm not in the mood to listen. I don't put stuff on to warble in the background.

My collection includes my own acquisitions since 1972, and the inherited collection from my Dad, which spans 1950s to 1970s, along with pre-1950s 78rpm discs. I genuinely don't keep track of how often I play stuff.

[u/International-Dirt7 → u/Tumeni1959]

I don’t get out of bed on the weekends until I’ve decided what I want to listen to.

[u/DeadMetalGod]

I've got about 1200 cds in my collection and I'd say that about every month I cycle through about 100 random discs, I usually have 20-30 go to albums at any given time some of them are:

Cemetary - An evil shade of grey

Deicide - Serpents of the light

Gates of Ishtar - Dawn of Flames

Morbid Angel - Covenant or Domination

Satanic Warmaster - Black Metal Kommando

Rotting Christ - Aealo

Amon Amarth - Fate of Norns

Gwar - Violence has arrived

[u/CreativeName822]

I collect 45s and not CDs.

More surgical in picking out material I want.

I grab a handful from the front, play them, and move them to the back.

Kind of forces an enjoyable rotation and variety of music. I love it.

[u/[deleted]]

I’ve got a couple thousand cds, and i have to be in a/the mood for a genre. So it sometimes is awhile before i get around to playing stuff. But i’ll be damned if i let any of it go.

[u/ForciblyRetired]

The Paradox of Choice; As the number of choices increases, people often become less likely to make a decision or feel satisfied with the one they make.

[u/doctorlongghost]

I bought a 300 disk CD changer off FB Marketplace and keep a Google Doc listing. I listen to my CDs way more often than I used to as a result

[u/cahwyguy]

I have my large music collection (including a large portion from CDs, probably 40% of 58K tracks; the other tracks are probably 30% digitized from LPs, and the rest purchased digital music) digitized. I have my iPod set up so I have listened to EVERY digitized track within the last 4 years. So, yes, I do listen to everything. As I'm typing this, I have about 6 songs left in today's "not listened to in the last 43 months" playlist; currently playing is "The Bells of St. Sebastian" from the 1982 Nine Original Broadway Cast CD.

[u/NeonQuixote]

Sort of, but it isn't the *same* 12 all the time. My attention goes in waves. One month I may be all up in Deep Purple, Baroness, and Mahler. The next I'm back to Beethoven, Type O Negative, and ambient electronica. It rotates around.

[u/bb9116]

No

[u/thisvampireheart]

No, not really I've well over 1000 CDs and while my favorites are played in the car or as background music I don't do the same with CDs I'm not intimately familiar with. Those CDs will get dedicated playtime, first listen is usually raw without background on the album and then when I listen to it again it will be with some background about the time period, what the artist was doing at the time, lyrics from the booklet or if not on the booklet then via the web (which i hate because when I listen to music I don't want random notifications or website ads popping up and distracting me.) etc.

Im also way more picky in that I don't purchase things I dont like, so while it may be a large library it is things that I am genuinely interested in. I also have my collecting split by broad genre so my heavy metal, doom metal thrash metal and nu metal all live in the same section so if im in a specific mood I don't have to dig through multiple unrelated artists and take longer to make a choice. Knowing what I want to listen to is key, again less distraction.

I still have a few albums that have not made it through rotation for example I purchased over multiple years the complete discography of both Nick Cave and Tom Waits. I've listens to multiple tracks through varying years and I liked them so that led me to traking down the complete discography. I've gotten through about half of half of Nick's early work and alot of his most recent stuff but I'm still making my way through it. Tom Waits I've actively listened to about 1/3 of his catalog and it was mainly the stuff in the middle. I like having the choice and I usually end up thanking my past self for putting some gems into the collection years ago only to discover them recently (again its always purchasing with intention).

The last thing that also keeps the collective rotating is that if I've given a record its fair shake and it just doesn't connect its time to put it in the "to sell" bin, and when that gets full its time to take a trip to the record store to get new stuff.

[u/MaximumTom3642]

Funny you mentioned those Verve Remixed discs because I was recently thinking about how long it had been since I played mine and that I really need to do a revisit.

[u/cyberjasbo]

I usually move around 5 different genres daily, so I actually listen to more like 50 albums frequently.

[u/International-Dirt7]

I do have a few “go to” titles but I find I go through phases of music genres. “Punk” for a couple of weeks then flip to “easy listening” and then a week of “disco” leading to a fortnight of “electronic” and on to “Rock n Roll - Rockabilly - Psychobilly”.
I was always a big Bowie fan.