Spin ’em Up Record Album Collection
This site is ridiculously outdated. Since I created it in ’12 or ’13 my album collection has undergone a number of changes. There have been 2 purges over the past few years that have seen a dramatic reduction of albums in my collection, which, was a good thing. As I type this end of april in ’22 my collection sits stagnant at around 2000 albums, which, for my tastes, seems about right.
3 Nov 2023 – Check this out – New handy functionality lower right. I found this handy recreation of the wheel this morning – trying it out. The only question I asked was – what year was in through the out door released. Bam – it told me. Handy. Try it out. I know it’s going to prompt me to write a bunch of new stuff because the data it learns from is exclusive to this site. That’s cool. Rock on. UPDATE: I removed that useless AI bot 2 weeks later.
The Sansui gear is down and the turntable is in the living room plug’d into the yamaha theater receiver. I took the front surround speakers out of the mix (energy classic 5.1’s) and put the klh model 6’s in. Sounds pretty good.
“Who will save your soul…”
No matter our distinctions or crooked ideas, you and I have at least 1 thing in common – we like to boogie and we like it on vinyl. There are sounds and grooves all about us and we will tune-the-fuck-in and be better for it. We have senses for this, hot-damn, and we’re glad of it.
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Every kid coming up wants to express themselves. Every kid has a lot to say, to figure out, to try, to learn. Kids becoming people with their big ideas and whatnot might not know how to say stuff – to emote, though they gotta. HA! Rock and Roll, man – that’s how.
‘Teenage Jail‘, ‘If you Don’t Know me by Now‘, ‘Louie, Louie‘, ‘It’s My Party‘, ‘For What it’s Worth‘, ‘Brother Louie‘…You could be 8 and get a hold of that old suitcase record player and that stack of 45’s one of your folks has buried in a closet somewhere. And you could play those and you could know someone else felt or thought that very same thing and now you had an emissary and that was so fuckin’ cool.
And so, in 1978, with my paper route money, I went and bought K-Tel’s ‘Hot Nights, City Lights‘, and celebrated the hell out of how cool I was, privately, lol, because Disco was dead and that shit would have gotten me beaten up in my neighborhood. That Christmas I got another K-Tel gem: ‘Hi Energy‘. WOOHOO!! But it was the next album I bought that really did it for me, that really spoke to me, that really sucked me in: Boston’s ‘Don’t Look Back‘. It was on. By the time I had my 11th birthday party, I had a stack of expression I couldn’t wait to play for my friends.
In ’12 I started using Tellico to catalog my album collection. Those weekends where I (or, sometimes, we) came home with 20 or 30 some-odd albums saw me catalog’ing and whatnot for hours in my home *ahem* office. Needle drop’d on something new playing in the ‘almost’ background while I scour’d discogs and other places for all that sweet data. Sometimes I’d find that album I decided not to buy as a kid, that I’d missed all these years.
Tellico is a terrific catalog’ing program and it’s got a handy customizable html export, ish. You could export in a number of ways, depending upon how and what you wanted presented as data. Most times I’d just copy the table out of the exported file and paste it into an html page. Saved a ton of time. There were caveats.
The albums grouped menu listing is outdated, specifically. I lost my original tellico dumps and only have the exports – tedious!
