icon count them

nineweaving says she has 598 versions of Child ballads on her ipod. That sounds like her.

I don't have an ipod, but I do have a fair number of CDs, and today I did a bit of reorganizing and reshelving of the collection. I took the opportunity to count them up. Counting my personal collection and our "merged collection" (the ones we keep on a shelf in the dining area so that B can listen to them while doing the dishes - I cook, she does the dishes - which are mostly folk and musical theatre), but excluding B's own CDs in her office - I have about 1200, of which 2/3rds are classical. About 2/3rds of the non-classical ones are folk, or what I call folk, which includes electric folk. About half of my tiny rock shelf consists of a nearly complete collection of everything the Beatles ever did. I can't break down my classical collection, or count up my number of Child ballads (which must be in the dozens) without a lot more work.

None of this includes my LPs, which I still listen to fairly regularly. I have lots of music which has either never come out on CD or which I am too impecunious, or too otherwise occupied, to replace. I haven't counted up the LPs lately, but they take up about as much wall space as the CDs do.

Yes, this is a new icon. No, it doesn't replace the old cat icon. Even us freeloaders get the option of 3 icons, and I've decided to take advantage of it. This is Joseph Haydn, whom on consideration I must name as my all-time favorite composer. (He also has the advantage of being less of a cult figure than some of my other favorites, like Shostakovich.) If all goes as planned, he should appear in future on my music posts. Icon #3 shall be introduced as the muse hits.