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Posted by Giuffre on 13 October 2009 - 8:21pm.
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Great spot davecowps.
That's exactly what Loudon Wainwright III
is talking about on the story before the song "They Spelled My Name Wrong Again" on the 'Carreer Moves' album.....which was part of another thread recently.
Loudon
Good old Gordondon
On names
Some time ago in the Rocking Vicar email someone wrote about how they had worked at Andy's Records and had to phone up head office to order new labels for the CD dividers. Cue linguistic confusion, most notably when a new card arrived for the jazz section to point browsers towards 'The Loneliest Monk'.
Truesay regarding The Lonliest Monk
I was that man, and I was only too pleased to have independent corroboration appear on another magazine's blog, courtesy of surely the most Word-friendly artist working today. In this one Boo Hewerdine mentions record shops, beards *and* grammar in one fell swoop.
http://www.themusicmagazine.co.uk/features/5908
That Boo Hewerdine …
… blog is one of the funniest reads since Wodehouse hung up his Remington. Sign him up, Wordsters!
Agreed!
Nicely written, naturally witty stuff. Perfect for the Word.
Not quite the same, but similar
Soon after I started my career with Arthur Andersen in 1998, I received a phone call via the switchboard and answered it, as I had been trained to do, with my full name; "Good morning, Martin Palmer".
After a short pause, the caller said, "I'm sorry, I asked to be put through to the Marketing Department!"
Our local branch
of said well known music store had great difficulty trying to place Euros Childs in the rock/pop section... one week under c, next week under e....
Further along the browser
is a divider marked Bo Dylan.
Furthermore
what is Cliff doing next to Lavern Baker, Chuck Berry, "Bob" Diddley et al?? He doesn't seem to fit genre-wise or alphabet-wise.
Customers
occasionally "forget" where they picked up a CD from, and dump it anywhere; so I imagine it's laziness. However, the lad in charge may just be a bit dim.
In regards to Euros Childs, the clue is in the track-label (i.e. price sticker). If it reads "Childs, Euros" it should be under "C", if it's "Euros Childs" it should be under "E".
Rock & Roll
They will all be filed in "Rock & Roll"
Indeed,
but it still doesn't explain why Cliff is inbetween the D's.
In fact, the new Cliff album may be filed under "Easy Listening"; though I can't be 100 per cent certain. Our store isn't big enough to have it's own "RnR" section.
Filing
The browser's going down, not across. Cliff Richard's section is clearly just before Frnnky Valli and Gene Vincent under blues/r n' b/ rock n roll. Or possibly MOBO.
But..but
Do I file my Chris De Burgh under "D" or "B"...?
Buggered me up when MVC used to file under first name i.e. Leonard Cohen under "L".
Ah people have
debated this for years. I put my Bob Dylans under B which infuriates my wife as she looks for them in D. My Beatles solo stuff goes next to The Beatles and not in P,J,R or G and don't even get me started on bands that begin with 'The'.
This is not made up
I worked for Sony about 10 years ago
One particular month-end the management accounts get circulated, along with commentary about certain key releases and the number of "units" that had been shifted
Anyone for a copy of "The Best of Bob Dyson" ?
apparently it sucks, etc
In Japan and various other
In Japan and various points east, artists are organised according to their first name. So as well as being listed, on two occasions that I have seen, as Eric Crapton, EC is found in the E section.
So where should I...
...file my MC Hammer?
Try here
http://www.recycle-more.co.uk/banklocator/banklocator.aspx
McHammer?
File under Scottish Rap.
I keep mine in the toolbox
along with my MC Screwdrivers, MC Drillbits and MC Rawlplugs
categories then alphabets as a subset
when rummaging through the collection i don't think "I feel like listening to the letter A"( though I may feel like some E's but that's another story).
No , I feel like some reggae, or folk or jazz etc,. Then having located the relevant genre I peruse alphabetically to locate an artist or more often zone in by the colour coding of distinctive albums ( in the case of vinyl).African albums are categorised by location.
up to a point
All my jazz lives in a separate group. There was a time when I was buying a lot of jazz, esepecially in Fopp, and I wanted to be able to grab a handful of it for the long car journeys.
Everything else is alphabetical by surname, with compilations in their own group separated by title. The jazz compilations live at the end of the jazz. For ages, I've been meaning to group the rest of the compilations by genre - if I can get it down to a sensible grouping, then I will.
Genres, though - hard work! Either go for the widest possibles - reggae - does ska go on its own or with the reggae ? - doo-wop, rock & roll, world music, soul, soundtracks, electronica - but what about the soundtrack to "The Harder They Come"? Reggae, probably. What about the Munster tribute to Suicide?
The most visually stunning CD collection was that of a former colleague who grouped them by colour of CD spine. Which was great for him, and looked gorgeous, but made life very difficult if you wanted to hear "Space Ritual" but didn't know what colour the spine was.
There is a related thread on organising of collections
at http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/ben-folds-dilemma
What's that to the right? FRNNN?
Anyone got any of their records? Is it the 'Foreign' section?
edit - just saw Skirky's comment - Frnnky Valli is it?
Yea, that's him,
used to sing with The Foouurr Seasons.
Captain Beefheart?
C or B?
Loo Reed
remains my all time favourite mis-spelling. I suppose it depends on whether it was divided into early / middle / late Reed...
Back in my Virgin Megastore days
When bored we'd occasionally deliberately misspell the artist names on the backboards, put them out and see how long it takes for the manager to find them and order us to change them back.
David Cassidy and the sundance kid was found fairly quickly but Alanis Marmoset lasted for a few months until it was found...
Teens eh?
In our teens, when passing the time off day in Bolton Town Centre, it was compulsory to go into the pet shop near the train station and perform the parrot sketch. If we got bored with that we could always go into a local record emporium and ask if they had any Balls.*
(* short-lived supergroup with Steve Gibbons, Denny Laine & Trevor Burton. Ask your gran. Well WE thought is was funny...)