Here's something you might be interested in.
We all know a few vinyl junkies like the waxhead referenced in the newest Overheard comic -
Back when I still had a mountain of vinyl cracking the floorboards of our La Mesa rental, I wrote a poem about our personalized -- if imprecise -- filing methods:
I FOUND NIRVANA (NEXT TO THE FOO FIGHTERS)
I found Nirvana - next to the Foo Fighters
I saw Asia alongside ELP
I caught Badfinger copping the Beatles
and Velvet Underground burying Lou Reed
I filed Buster Poindexter with the NY Dolls
And placed Ted Nugent with his old Amboy Dukes
I mixed Meatloaf with a side of Rocky Horror
and Southside Johnny with the Asbury Jukes
I parked Box Car Racer right next to Blink
I placed Yes with Wakeman and Howe
I have Roy Harper mixed in with Pink Floyd
And the Doors with “Apocalypse Now”
I split Fripp with King Crimson and Gabriel
With Bowie, there’s Eno and Pop
Roxy Music includes Manzanera and Ferry
and Texas Jam's there with ZZ Top
Denny Laine's filed with Wings, not the Moodies
Ronnie Wood's with the Stones, not Small Faces
And Cream just goes perfect with Clapton
Like A Night At The Opera goes with A Day At The Races
ELP has Greg Lake, 3, and Carl Palmer
But Emerson’s under the Nice
Bauhaus has Pete, Love & Rockets
(and an audio book read by Anne Rice)
Tommy Bolin’s with Deep Purple and Zephyr
Frampton’s solo, not with Humble Pie
Alan Parsons has Ambrosia AND Pilot
(most of whom played on Eye In The Sky)
I found so many folks with the Dead
they needed their own separate box
a mystery worthy of Behind The Music
given I think that most Dead music sucks
I'm so sick and tired of filing
and remembering where things are filed
but it's better than trying to find things
in a mountainous, long-playing pile.
We all know a few vinyl junkies like the waxhead referenced in the newest Overheard comic -
Back when I still had a mountain of vinyl cracking the floorboards of our La Mesa rental, I wrote a poem about our personalized -- if imprecise -- filing methods:
I FOUND NIRVANA (NEXT TO THE FOO FIGHTERS)
I found Nirvana - next to the Foo Fighters
I saw Asia alongside ELP
I caught Badfinger copping the Beatles
and Velvet Underground burying Lou Reed
I filed Buster Poindexter with the NY Dolls
And placed Ted Nugent with his old Amboy Dukes
I mixed Meatloaf with a side of Rocky Horror
and Southside Johnny with the Asbury Jukes
I parked Box Car Racer right next to Blink
I placed Yes with Wakeman and Howe
I have Roy Harper mixed in with Pink Floyd
And the Doors with “Apocalypse Now”
I split Fripp with King Crimson and Gabriel
With Bowie, there’s Eno and Pop
Roxy Music includes Manzanera and Ferry
and Texas Jam's there with ZZ Top
Denny Laine's filed with Wings, not the Moodies
Ronnie Wood's with the Stones, not Small Faces
And Cream just goes perfect with Clapton
Like A Night At The Opera goes with A Day At The Races
ELP has Greg Lake, 3, and Carl Palmer
But Emerson’s under the Nice
Bauhaus has Pete, Love & Rockets
(and an audio book read by Anne Rice)
Tommy Bolin’s with Deep Purple and Zephyr
Frampton’s solo, not with Humble Pie
Alan Parsons has Ambrosia AND Pilot
(most of whom played on Eye In The Sky)
I found so many folks with the Dead
they needed their own separate box
a mystery worthy of Behind The Music
given I think that most Dead music sucks
I'm so sick and tired of filing
and remembering where things are filed
but it's better than trying to find things
in a mountainous, long-playing pile.