If You're Blue And You Don't Know Where To Go

Picture Gallery Recovery Fund What's this?Rev. 13-Jul-1997

"I used to ride with a vending machine repairman. He said he's been down this road more than twice..." About fifteen years ago, I tried to catalog my LP collection, but didn't get very far. Then a friend of mine at the office bought and brought in a CD player, so I decided I'd start my own CD collection. After all, I didn't need to invest in the CD player right away - I could accumulate tunes instead, and buy the unit when I was good and ready.

I decided that the best way to put together a list of my CD's was to start when I had less than a dozen, so that's what I did. The file has managed to stay with me, through several different job changes and computer system changes. Now our compact disc collection numbers more than a couple dozen CD's, and just about all of them are written down. (Good thing, too, in case there's a fire here, because I can document them for insurance purposes.)

There are some albums I've been looking for, ever since I was buying up LP's for $5.98 ($6.34 with sales tax) at Music Market in Costa Mesa, and there are other albums that I've developed a hankering for by hearing their songs on the radio. Oh, eventually, I'll get around to getting everything on my list, but for now I'll offer this deal: if you have an extra copy of anything on my list, I'll swap you for a box of hand-made chocolate truffles. (We can talk how much chocolate a particular CD is worth...)

A nifty resource I've found is the Ultimate Band List. And yes, it has a search engine. I've been going through my CD list, and putting links to the UBL on those artists who have pages indexed at the UBL. The UBL is sort of like a Yahoo for music; if there's no web page for an artist on the web, they won't get listed in the UBL. (This means that, for example, Corey Hart is listed, but Kim Carnes isn't, at least as of April 1997.) To put it librarianist terms, it's a bibliographic reference, and not an encyclopedia.

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