Filing your music alphabetically - C/D?

lol just remembered any band name starting with "A (other word/s)" gets filed under "A", as in A Primary Industry. it's so much less common than 'The".

do you treat "this" like "the?"
right now "this mortal coil" is under the T section

For me, it's only 'the' and foreign permutations of. A Certain Ratio would be under A. I realise the difficulty with La Düsseldorf's double linguistic thing, but I won't change my mind. Even though it makes La! Neu? even more difficult to file.

what about 'thee' which is just a silly way of spelling 'the' in the circumstances?

"th'" is the most annoying thing actually

Avoid this conundrum by boycotting artists who do that.

"This Mortal Coil" under "this", yes

"Thee Oh Sees" are under "thee", right after "The The"

With 'thee' I give credence to the band clearly making a "thing" about the word, so I put them under T. I don't think I own any records by Th' Faith Healers, and can't think of any other bands that do that. Not sure what I'd do. Probably F.

yeah I wound do F for that as well, it's a fine line

th' inbred was the other band i had in mind, old 80s band on alt tentacles

seems I have Th'Faith Healers under F... L'Acephale (from the US) under A, L'Altra (from the US) under L. can't deal w/ this

but band names that are people's names (hello John Sims) would be under the first letter of the whole thing.

PJ Harvey?

I don't have anything by Thee Oh Sees, but I do have Thee Silver Mt. Zion etc. -- which gets back to the issue of band names starting with "A" or "An," my solution being to file it under "S".

This Mortal Coil unequivocally belongs under "T," btw.

funny i feel like i file silver mt zion under S - it wasn't always "thee" was it? used to be "a" silver mt zion?

Most of my records have plain sleeves so just cant look down the spines anyway

More and more i like the idea of painting over the middles of the records and forgetting things like the names of them, but just associating them with whatever is painted there

funny i feel like i file silver mt zion under S - it wasn't always "thee" was it? used to be "a" silver mt zion?

Yes and yes.

PJ Harvey's real last name is Harvey iirc, so she goes under 'H"

PJ Harvey?

PJ Harvey is the name of the artist, not a fictional name. So it'd be under Harvey. If you choose to call your band your own name then you're treating everyone else as a session player; don't then try to say "but it's a band".

xp

what about e.g. The Charlie Daniels Band?

"D" for me, although I don't have any of those records

like "Baker-Gurvitz Army" would be under 'B"

PJ Harvey is/was ostensibly a band, though. Still, despite protestations from Peej Pedants, though, most people treat it as a solo act, and not the best example in this case.

A more straightforward example: how do we file Dave Matthews Band Name Your Reasons Why They Are So Bad & Hated?

basically if there is a real name in my collection, it goes under last name regardless of individual vs. band semantics

what about "mr" and "mister", like would I file it (for example), mister mister/momus/mr airplane man OR momus/mr airplane man/mister mister. St Vincent before or after saint vitus?

hahaha jeez I have no idea

subjectively:

Mister/Momus/Mr

Saint/St

basically if there is a real name in my collection, it goes under last name regardless of individual vs. band semantics

sir you are history's greatest monster

hey you gotta break some eggs to make an omelet

Move over, Jimmy Carter! xp

Daniels Band, Charlie, The
Matthews Band, Dave, The

Lee, re: PJ Harvey, I repeat: If you choose to call your band your own name then you're treating everyone else as a session player; don't then try to say "but it's a band".

Mr & St I think I expand into 'mister' and 'saint', but I'd have to check, it doesn't come up much.

because a band name might look the same as one of the band members doesn't mean that the band name is doing the same thing as the person's name

what about the Freddy Jones Band, noted chicago roots rockers. No member of the band is named Freddy Jones.

Burrito Brothers, The Flying

AKA "Oh and by the way, which one's Freddy?"

SMH, Noodle.

I think half the reason I don't own any records by excellent Danish jazz bassist Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen is bc no one knows where to file him alphabetically (and neither would I!!!!)

Floyd, Pink

I already dealt with this stuff, guys! Read the bloody thread.

can see the value in keeping your Alice Cooper and your Cooper, Alice records separate tho

Most single-artist pseudonyms I would file like real names with surname first, but band names that are people's names (hello John Sims) would be under the first letter of the whole thing.

So if it's a fictional name that covers the band, it's the first fucking letter.

PJ Harvey doesn't get a pass, sorry. She chose to do it that way, that's the way it's gonna be.

I was looking for one of his LPs recently and looked in H, O, and P and couldn't find it. Turns out there was a scratched copy but it was filed in under the section of one of the sidemen (after someone got frustrated with the conundrum probably)

emily i don't agree if you mean "treating everybody as a session player" - yr status in a band is defined by contractual or other remunerative things, not the name of the band

i file randomly.

makes the hunt for a particular cd a lot more fun.

yr status in a band is defined by contractual or other remunerative things

Okay, I know you're talking about "real bands" with "real contracts" playing "real music" or whatever here, but that is so completely a) unlike any band experience I've ever had, and b) unromantic. ;_;

actually not earning any money is a good counter to my theory, must rethink

anyway, yr status in the band isn't about the band name, people might just mutually decide that one of them has a really cool name, like Dave Killdozer or Gary Modern Jazz Quartet

^__^

Yeah but what about PJ Harvey?

/ducks

ya know, most of these problems are solved with a "file under first name only" system, but I am just not ready for that part of the 21st century

our radio station switched over to first name filing a couple of years ago because that's how iTunes works

(assuming you don't change the CDDB tags)

yeah as i say i feel like first names is the most consistent way to go