Mission statement: the CD collection project.
I have around 400 CDs.
The collection is mostly indie-rock of its era or earlier classic rock, with a lot of jazz as well, but it ranges widely. The precise set of albums I own is haphazard. Many came from a Columbia House subscription I had in college; the rest were based on whim when I was in CD stores. The albums aren’t some sort of definitive list of what’s the greatest or what I love the most—they’re just what I happen to own in that particular format.
My peak CD-buying years were, like most people, roughly 1995-2005, after which digital services largely displaced it. I’ve bought new digital music—and new vinyl—in recent years, but haven’t bought a CD, and the technology of finding and consuming music has advanced such that I rarely listen to CDs. In the last of the several moves I’ve made in the decade and a half since my peak CD buying era, I switched out my collection from milk crates and jewel cases to liner notes and discs stuffed into four big black zippered cases. There, they’ve mostly laid dormant in a cabinet for five years.
So my project here is just to reacquaint myself with what I actually own, and go through, in alphabetical order, listening and tracking what’s there. Sometimes I’ll take a post to write at more length about a particular album—the music, a memory associated with it.
I’m also going to make a Spotify list to accompany this blog (pending availability of any given album) so you the reader can listen along.
That’s it! Enjoy.
The collection is mostly indie-rock of its era or earlier classic rock, with a lot of jazz as well, but it ranges widely. The precise set of albums I own is haphazard. Many came from a Columbia House subscription I had in college; the rest were based on whim when I was in CD stores. The albums aren’t some sort of definitive list of what’s the greatest or what I love the most—they’re just what I happen to own in that particular format.
My peak CD-buying years were, like most people, roughly 1995-2005, after which digital services largely displaced it. I’ve bought new digital music—and new vinyl—in recent years, but haven’t bought a CD, and the technology of finding and consuming music has advanced such that I rarely listen to CDs. In the last of the several moves I’ve made in the decade and a half since my peak CD buying era, I switched out my collection from milk crates and jewel cases to liner notes and discs stuffed into four big black zippered cases. There, they’ve mostly laid dormant in a cabinet for five years.
So my project here is just to reacquaint myself with what I actually own, and go through, in alphabetical order, listening and tracking what’s there. Sometimes I’ll take a post to write at more length about a particular album—the music, a memory associated with it.
I’m also going to make a Spotify list to accompany this blog (pending availability of any given album) so you the reader can listen along.
That’s it! Enjoy.
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