Music Collection

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It’s time to show off my music collection, but it’s better to make some things clear:

Most of the entries do not consist of “originals”.

    • A bunch of the entries are LP’s (which will remain forever the only “true” originals.  Long live vinyl!!).
    • A very large  – and still growing – part of the items is represented by CD’s (sometimes doubled-up with the original LP, sometimes not)
    • A few digitized and re-mastered copies of old-fashioned tape reels (from a glorious and by now sadly deceased Revox B-77)
    • A couple of rather large crates of digitized and re-mastered cassette tapes (dubbed on a splendid antique Nakamichi 600 first, which was eventually retired and followed by a Nakamichi BX-2 deck, using top-notch SONY audio software and a lousy operator: me, obviously)
    • A very substantial number of digital files from LPs and CDs that I have sold, given or exchanged in the course of the last 50 years.

The entries regarding the tapes (reels or cassettes) will appear on these lists only when I have digitally re-mastered the whole tape successfully to CD. This is because the restoration process sometimes is close to impossible. In that case, those tapes are lost forever. After all, I’m not a sound engineer.

For the 7″ (45 rpm) entries, since these singles did not have an explicit “album title”, I entered the titles of the A side instead.

This is also true for some of the 12″ (both 45 rpm and 33⅓ rpm) where no “album title” is available.

In all those 7″ and 12″ cases, an asterisk (*) will mark the entry.

The list is not exactly in alphabetical order.

Nonetheless, I did some kind of grouping, depending on the first letter of the artist’s or band’s name, which means: don’t expect to find Alan Stivell at the letter S. He’s under the A, just as The Allman Brothers Band is under the T, not the A (or the B, for that matters).

Maybe one day I’ll order the entries in a “real” alphabetical order.

But most likely, I won’t.

I CANNOT KNOW WHAT I WOULD BE IF I WAS NOT ME…