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| Organizing cd's is hard | |||||||||||||
| I'm on another break from school. I have two weeks off to do whatever I feel like doing. Some people go on a crazy vacation to some exotic place like Jamaica or Mexico and get so drunk they would be considered retarded. I, on the other hand, have no real social life to speak of so I engage in the more mundane. Basically, I start drinking when I wake up around noon every day. Once inebriated, I do boring things like cleaning my house, writing things for this webpage, playing nintendo, writing music, reading books about the world ending in 2012, aliens, ghosts, conspiracy, politics, Nikola Tesla's inventions, hypnosis, and trying to play violin. This break though, I've decided to organize my cd's. A lot of bands have released new albums as of late, and I've just had them piled up on my desk. Now that I have the time, I want to arrange the cd's in a more efficient way. This leads to a lot of confusing situations. | |||||||||||||
| I could just arrange everything alphabetically, but then, the cd's I listen to more frequently aren't as easily reached. I have a cd rack mounted on my wall, it's vertical so if the cd's were organized alphabetically, a band like Wurdulak, which I listen to more frequently than say, Arcturus, would be closer to the ground than some cd's I listen to less frequently. Why should it be easier to reach a cd I listen to less than a cd I listen to all the time? That's just one of the many problems with arranging cd's alphabetically. | |||||||||||||
| I thought of arranging cd's by record label, but there are problems with that as well. I listen to Decapitated all the time, but I listen to fewer bands on Earache than bands on Century Media. So why should a great band like Decapitated be lower on the rack just because of the label the band is signed to? That's discrimination and I just won't stand for it. Also, Opeth, one of the best bands ever, released their latest album, Damnation, on Koch records. I don't think I have any other cd's released by Koch (I could be wrong) so that causes problems as well. And another thing, Orchid was released by Century Black, so what am I supposed to do? Split up the band's cd's just because they were released on a different label? I'm certainly not going to put Bloodbath, a Mikael Akerfeldt death metal side project far away from Opeth. | |||||||||||||
| When grouping bands with member's side projects it gets very complicated. You could never group by side projects if you want to arrange your cd's alphabetically. For instance, Defecation should be next to Napalm Death if you arrange by side project, yet alphabetically, the bands are very far from each other. | |||||||||||||
| I thought of arranging cd's by how frequently I listened to them, but there is a flaw in that logic as well. I listen to Samael's Ceremony of Opposites more than Eternal, but I don't want to split up the band's cd's. | |||||||||||||
| I know what you're thinking; arrange the cd's by genre. That won't work either. Some genre-defying bands like Opeth could be classified as death metal, black metal, or even accoustic, atmospheric rock. Am I supposed to split the band's cd's up just because the genre changes slightly? If I did that, I would have to find a way to split the songs on the cd's up as well because they change their genre so often. Also, some Behemoth sounds more death metal, while some sounds more black metal. What then? Hell, Cephalic Carnage usually sounds more grindcore, yet Halls of Amenti is one, 20-some minute long trippy song. Not only that, but Halls of Amenti isn't even on Relapse records like all of their other realeases. You can see how this task can be confusing. | |||||||||||||
| I don't know exactly what to do. I think I need to drink some more. Maybe I can figure it out if I get really, really drunk. I'll probably just end up spending my two weeks getting loaded and never actually organize my cd's. Or, I could just be a dirty bastard and download all of my music online. That way, I'd never have to organize another cd again. All of my music would be on my computer. Wow, that would be great. NOTE: If blatant sarcasm isn't obvious to you at this point, please remove your shoe and repeatedly, and violently slam it against your head. Thank you. | |||||||||||||
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