The Sorting Urge

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So I just spent a half hour sorting through CDs coz I couldn't find Trail Of The Dead which I had a random urge to listen to. Things are in slightly better order -- I also returned The Lilys to the case they'd been missing from for roughly a year and etc. But also it reminded me that I owned Tigermilk barely a week before it went missing and I keep the CD case I don't know why and that my Britney "...One More Time" CD is missing and I think my girlfriend threw it in the wrong case grrr... and that I have no idea what happened to my Dismemberment Plant which I also want to revisit. I also pulled a number of "hmm haven't listened to these in a while put them on deck" albums.

Vitaman C -- More
The Fall -- Hip Priest and Kamarands
Feelies -- Crazy Rhyhtms
Ludacris -- Back for the First Time
Pere Ubu -- Modern Dance
Manic Street Preachers -- Gold Against The Soul
Truth Hurts -- Truthfully Speaking
Sleater Kinney -- One Beat companion single
8 Mile OST
Living in Oblivion v. 4 (absolutely the best one -- Tones on Tail, Wang Chung, Strawberry Switchblade, The Fixx)
MJ Cole -- Sincere

So my life feels mildly more in order though I wonder of the accordian of "It Was There I Saw You" on the Trail album is the same Ms. Dynamite uses. Probably not.

Also gone without a trace -- the CD of the Mogwai EP and the whole of the last Mogwai album and the Soca Party comp and Pavement's Brighten The Corners are both probably scratched beyond all use.

Sometimes I feel that if I replace all my scratched CDs and missing ones my life will be somehow more orderly and complete. Have you done so and is this really the case?

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 13 March 2003 07:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Also Baudelaire (the song by Trail) is the same song as Scarnella's Dandilions and the Geraldine Fibbers song that the Scarnella song is a rip of (about palm trees I recall).

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 13 March 2003 07:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Well I think that just as in any other aspect of one's life organization is urgent and key. I mean, why wouldn't you feel at ease with less clutter, more ability to access stuff for listening/reference whatnot. If only I could adhere to that principle.

Crap like this happens after weekends/late-nights. Piles of cds and lps left stacked and sleeveless after a binge of "that one track I have to hear". It usually comes home to roost in the worse ways. Like the time I drunkenly left a pile of cds out including one of the discs to the Prince Crystal Ball set. Which naturally ended up scratched and unplayable. So even though it's the only disc of a four disc set, as a huge Prince fan I feel like I need to buy the (not inexpensive) damn thing all over again.

Or another drunken night I left a batch of cds spread out on the floor, and of course one of the cats came along and puked alongside it. None of the cds were damaged but the insert to the Boredoms Super Ae bore the brunt of it. So now I've got a perfectly fine disc, with a warped booklet infused with some kind of vile cat-bile substance.

But yeah, it all comes down to putting things away when you're through with them. A lesson my mother tried to teach me but, alas, never stuck.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Thursday, 13 March 2003 09:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, considering Boredoms ways, they probably would've preferred being able to ship the album with a catpuke-booklets if they had the chance.

My CD collection is pretty unordered, though I do have certain systems, like putting all my jazz in one particular place, and my death metal somewhere else, all my prog in another place yet etc. It's just something that came naturally after a while. But alphabetizing etc scares me, considering I have a few of those slot-racks, that'd be complete hell to live with.

Nothing like those marathon searchingsessions when you want to hear something you haven't played in ages, and don't even recognize the album till you're on your first browse through your collection.

This reminds me that I need to rebuy Descendents' "Two things at once".
I lost my copy in 1995 or so, and keep nurturing some small hope that I'll suddenly stumble upon my copy one day. I guess my urge to hear it again isn't large enough to force me to rebuy it. I have replaced my scratched CDs though, of which there have thankfully been very few, and yes, it IS a great feeling.

― Øystein Holm-Olsen (Øystein H-O), Thursday, 13 March 2003 10:28 (twenty-three years ago)

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