precocious metals
or 'How i relearned to love my CD collection'.
A long time ago i made an excel spreadsheet of all my albums; featuring heavyweights such as Be Here Now by Oasis, and having separate columns for album length and 'place of purchase', it was quite a sight to behold.
Anyway, my music taste may have moved forward (slightly) but my obsession with excel spreadsheets remains as unnerving as ever, so i had another go. By now, there is no chance of me remembering where I got most of my cds, and seeing as I am simply baffled by the fact i even had an album length column, both of these could go.
They were replaced with the more useful 'album release date' and 'album year' columns. I haven't really found a use for release dates yet, beyond finding the "average date of release" - 30 July 1999.
According to wikipedia, absolutely NOTHING happened on 30 July 1999.
Album year is much more useful as it eventually led to this beautiful graph
There is a bigger version here.
No... here.
The 80's is represented by the Smiths and REM. Late 90's indie is well-stocked before the early 00's surge and the inexplicable drought of 2004. The simultaneous events of my ensuing poverty and music becoming RUBBISH lead to a drop off after 2005.
The exercise gave me a renewed appreciation for my modest collection and the rediscovery of one or two gems. It also made me realise once and for all that Deserter's Songs by Mercury Rev is hella crap, and Mono's remix album is meandering, unlistenable pointlessness which doesn't even show up on Last Fm!
It also prompted me to try and replace my lost Ben Folds Five debut album; found one on ebay with this very informative description:
"fantastic sound/ bargained c.d/ 2nd clas"
...on this occasion, i think i'll pass.
A long time ago i made an excel spreadsheet of all my albums; featuring heavyweights such as Be Here Now by Oasis, and having separate columns for album length and 'place of purchase', it was quite a sight to behold.
Anyway, my music taste may have moved forward (slightly) but my obsession with excel spreadsheets remains as unnerving as ever, so i had another go. By now, there is no chance of me remembering where I got most of my cds, and seeing as I am simply baffled by the fact i even had an album length column, both of these could go.
They were replaced with the more useful 'album release date' and 'album year' columns. I haven't really found a use for release dates yet, beyond finding the "average date of release" - 30 July 1999.
According to wikipedia, absolutely NOTHING happened on 30 July 1999.
Album year is much more useful as it eventually led to this beautiful graph
There is a bigger version here.
No... here.
The 80's is represented by the Smiths and REM. Late 90's indie is well-stocked before the early 00's surge and the inexplicable drought of 2004. The simultaneous events of my ensuing poverty and music becoming RUBBISH lead to a drop off after 2005.
The exercise gave me a renewed appreciation for my modest collection and the rediscovery of one or two gems. It also made me realise once and for all that Deserter's Songs by Mercury Rev is hella crap, and Mono's remix album is meandering, unlistenable pointlessness which doesn't even show up on Last Fm!
It also prompted me to try and replace my lost Ben Folds Five debut album; found one on ebay with this very informative description:
"fantastic sound/ bargained c.d/ 2nd clas"
...on this occasion, i think i'll pass.
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