ajay124
Well-Known Member
I have been collecting music by the truck loads since the age of 10-11. The only period when my collection remained more or less static was in the 2000-2008 years when I was busy with my work and did most of my listening on the Alpine stereo in my car. In the 70's while I was still interested in pop and disco I started buying every album of Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Pink Floyd, Dire Straits, Eagles, Beatles, Stones etc. that I could get my hands on. And gradually I started enjoying them. In the mid 80's while I was still listening primarily to rock music I started collecting Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong etc. And a little later I started buying every Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert or Haydn that I came across.
I have never regretted the bags of money which I blew on buying music. Sooner or later I got hooked to 99% of the tapes or CD's which I bought. Hardly any duds. But I did keep trading in the music which I was no longer listening to. Sometimes I regret having sold a particular album. But on the whole I prefer to travel light and maintain a rolling collection of 500 albums which I am listening to, have begun listening to, or plan to start listening to in the near future. At the moment I have around 500 albums of western classical music. Roughly 70% of them were bought in the last 18 months. I frequently play around a 100 of these. I play another 200 of them on rare occasions. And the rest are still waiting for their first spin. At the moment I am attempting to comprehend and enjoy the composers I have not heard much before - 20th century composers like Claude Debussy, Anton Weber, Arnold Schoenberg, Olivier Messiaen, Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Prokofiev, Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Bela Bartok, Jean Sibelius, Carl Neilsen, Bohuslav Martinu, Leos Janacek etc.
This is my final collection of music. I would like to add some Indian classical CD's, but apart from that there is no other music left to buy .....
I have never regretted the bags of money which I blew on buying music. Sooner or later I got hooked to 99% of the tapes or CD's which I bought. Hardly any duds. But I did keep trading in the music which I was no longer listening to. Sometimes I regret having sold a particular album. But on the whole I prefer to travel light and maintain a rolling collection of 500 albums which I am listening to, have begun listening to, or plan to start listening to in the near future. At the moment I have around 500 albums of western classical music. Roughly 70% of them were bought in the last 18 months. I frequently play around a 100 of these. I play another 200 of them on rare occasions. And the rest are still waiting for their first spin. At the moment I am attempting to comprehend and enjoy the composers I have not heard much before - 20th century composers like Claude Debussy, Anton Weber, Arnold Schoenberg, Olivier Messiaen, Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Prokofiev, Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Bela Bartok, Jean Sibelius, Carl Neilsen, Bohuslav Martinu, Leos Janacek etc.
This is my final collection of music. I would like to add some Indian classical CD's, but apart from that there is no other music left to buy .....
