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Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Jan. 07 2001, 15:28 Hi everyone. To begin with, let's clarify the title to this topic. I don't mean arranging in the musical sense, but only with regards to the position of the CDs. To furter clarify the issue,I'll split it into 3 points: 1) I have all of Mike's albums on original Virgin and WEA CDs. In what order should I put them? Chronological (from TB to TMB) or alphabetical (from Amarok to Voyager) or what else? Obviously this does not count for people who have the complete remasters: their chronological arrangement forms this huge TB picture which IMHO is nice. And anyway WEA CDs do not fit into this... 2) What position should I put them in? Horizontal? Vertical? In a CD-rack? This also does not count for people who own all of the remasters. 3) Should I place the three TBs (and TMB?) one after another?? Please tell me your ideas about this. P.S.: I'm a little uncertain if this is the right place for this post. But I thought that since this forum used to be Criticism & Humour, and since the issue is way far from being serious , I think it fits here... -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

Korgscrew Group: Super Admins Posts: 3511 Joined: Dec. 1999 Posted: Jan. 07 2001, 16:33 All of my CDs are organised in a very strange way, which of course makes perfect sense to me, but can't be figured out by anyone else. They're kind of almost arranged by musical style but...well...that went out the window really, so they just end up in all sorts of places... Anyway, when I have more than one by the same artist (as I do with Mike Oldfield), I seem to end up putting them in chronological order. That means Tubular Bells first, all the way down to The Millennium Bell at the bottom. I have them in racks...stacked vertically... Of course, when I buy a new CD, there is a danger with my arrangement that things will have to be reorganised (or risk bad feng shui, etc ) But that isn't how a serious MO fan should be doing things at all...No, if you're really dedicated, you will construct a rack in the shape of the 'tubular bell' (preferably using pieces of old furniture, in true rock and roll fashion) which will hold your CDs in true MO style. Real hard-core fans will also incorporate lights, preferably flashing and brightly coloured. A large picture of Mike in the centre, again lit up, is optional. Back to top

tubularbills Group: Members Posts: 528 Joined: Aug. 2000 Posted: Jan. 07 2001, 16:49 I have my CDs arranged horizontally (from left to right) and they are in front of all my other CDs I also put them in chronological order, and since i don't have all of them ( ) or any of the remasters ( ) it wasn't a very difficult task! If i put my CDs in a portable CD holder, i sort them out differenty: The Bells in front, from 1 to 3; The Songs of Distant Earth & Voyager; then the rest are all kind of just plopped together. I figured it out, i ended up arranging them by color/style/look of the actual CD. since only a few are different colors they go in front, all the other plain silver with black text go in back ! sounds like the Symptoms of Mike Oldfield fanatics!! -------------- Terrible, Wonderful, Crazy, Perfect. Back to top

sunjammer Group: Members Posts: 22 Joined: Jan. 2001 Posted: Jan. 07 2001, 17:48 Here's another fan who puts them in chronological order. What then, though, to do with the compilations???? Another quandary rears its ugly head!!! As for myself, I place the compilations AFTER the other CD's. So...I have TB on the left, TMB on the right, then "Complete" followed by the "Elements" boxed set. Which presents yet another issue, that being the size of the boxed set. AAAAGGGGHHHH!!!!!! Back to top

TimHighfield Group: Members Posts: 543 Joined: Oct. 2000 Posted: Jan. 07 2001, 20:22 Every so often I reorganise all the CDs at home, usually in alphabetical (artist) order. Thus I always move my Mike Oldfield CDs to where I'm reorganising, and give them pride of place. Then, within an hour usually, my organising is a mess, because I then move one of the Mike Oldfield CDs back to my stereo, and probably another one to the computer, and another one to the main stereo, and so everything is a complete mess. When I get all of Mike's CDs, it will be another story. Well, actually it probably won't, but still. Anyway, back to my organising. I have artists arranged alphabetically, but the Mike Oldfield CDs are mostly chronological. Except: Since we have two copies of the Orchestral Tubular Bells (one the Disky version, the other one I found lying around gathering dust that isn't the remastered version), I put the Disky version in the proper Orchestral Tubular Bells spot (after Hergest Ridge, before Ommadawn), and leave the other one, because it isn't in its proper CD case, until I've finished. The rest of the albums follow along the lines, you know, Ommadawn, Five Miles Out, Crises, etc, etc. After the Millennium Bell, I put the Complete Mike Oldfield, although sometimes, if I was organising by quality of album, I might put Complete Mike Oldfield above the Millennium Bell. After the Complete Mike Oldfield comes the second Orchestral Tubular Bells. Now, because I have organised the albums in columns on top of each other, the second Orchestral Tubular Bells is stuck underneath a double album, which does not really matter, as I don't really listen to Orchestral Tubular Bells much anyway. Although it does sound good when synchronised to Australian Rules Football matches on television. I am also working on some little LED-Bent Bells to have around the place. The rack does sound a good idea, Korgscrew. Who's already made or got one? -Tim- Back to top

bennyboy Group: Members Posts: 177 Joined: July 2000 Posted: Jan. 08 2001, 04:27 Most of the time I just arrange by artist but on the rare occasions when I decide to organize my CD's I organize ALL my CD's by the ones I listen too most then the rest of em by artist. Of course this system only works for a short period because I soon find some other stuff and start listening to that more, but Mike's "XXV: The Essential Mike Oldfield" is always there somewhere. Back to top

Archangel Foster Group: Members Posts: 215 Joined: Oct. 2000 Posted: Jan. 08 2001, 07:43 I've thought about that a lot, too. I've come to the following solution: I arrange my Oldfield CDs so that they all stand together. Nothing else. I recognize them by the back cover anyway, so there's no need to further arrange or sort them. After all, they're all Mike Oldfield records, right? Back to top

CarstenKuss Group: Musicians Posts: 362 Joined: Nov. 1999 Posted: Jan. 08 2001, 16:55 I've got all my OTHER CD's and vinyls arranged is neat order, but not Mike's. They keep flying around in my studio because I listen to them so often, play them to friends, get inspiration, or look for things discussed here. "Some like the [...] chaos..." -Carsten- -------------- -Carsten- Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Jan. 08 2001, 19:01 THANX SO MUCH TO ALL OF YOU FOR YOUR IDEAS!!! Korgscrew, you're the best as usual. Your idea is the most interesting because is very similar to mine... Only that my arrangement is reversed: I have a vertical rack and I placed TB at the bottom and TMB at the top...only spatially Nice idea...yours, for the rack. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Jan. 08 2001, 20:51 PS: I placed The Complete next to TKF. I don't have neither the 1-CD Elements [I have the 4-CD box, and I obviously keep it separated from the rest... ] nor XXV. The real problems will come when I'll get to burn on CDs all the Oldfield MP3's I have on my hard disk... -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

cp Group: Members Posts: 46 Joined: Feb. 2001 Posted: Feb. 14 2001, 06:59 Although this subject seems to be old news by now, I'm going to have to add my own method to the list. Basically, I have my CDs arranged in a big heap, more or less in order of most recent use. When I want to listen to a CD, I dig through the pile so that it's on top, and all of the others are in a complete mess around the shelf. It's more "organic" rather than a strict order (and it isn't even remotely logical), but there's still a reasonable chance of an Oldfield CD being towards the top of the mess. Back to top

GMOVJ Group: Members Posts: 273 Joined: Dec. 1999 Posted: Feb. 14 2001, 07:55 Hi all I've got a almost similar way to arrange them on a tower-rack, wich only contains Mike CD (or related): Chronological order, from TB to TMB (top to bottom), with TB-HDCD just after TB and The Complete after TKF. HO-HDCD is placed where HO should be if I had it. I don't have any compilation like XXV or Elements, but if i would, I'll place them chronologically too. After TMB, I have Duo Sonare, and an album called 'A Shropshire Farewell' (very good album indeed, only synth, but this music is very close to Mike, I can feel some similarities with MFTB and TBx). Then I put some live performances, in chronological order too. Finally, I have some 'special things' : B-sides and rarities (4 cd), Covers (2cd), Making of TB2 and OHR. cheers, GMOVJ -------------- Cheers, GMOVJ [URL=http://tubular.fodplanet.com]http://tubular.fodplanet.com[/URL] - The french speaking mailing list Back to top

KE9 Group: Members Posts: 7 Joined: Feb. 2001 Posted: Feb. 24 2001, 18:51 I used to organise alphabetical-chronological.  Now I have two CD piles.  Pile 1 contains my industrial, goth and 80s stuff (NIN, Front 242, Depeche Mode).  Pile 2 contains 70s rock, new age, neo-classical and prog-rock (Jarre, Vangelis, T : Dream).  Somehow Mike fits into Pile 2.  The order of the CDs is semi-random - basically the most played ones sit near the top.  And I can't remember where I keep my battered old copy of 'Hergest Ridge' on vinyl either....or my 'Mistake' single.....help me! Back to top

Delfín Group: Members Posts: 667 Joined: Nov. 2000 Posted: Feb. 25 2001, 15:20 O.K.,I think you all can do what you want with your CD's. As I'm a poor man,I've got only a few ones, the rest on L.P. I'm a poor man still,as I'm a musician but haven't found still my own Ricky Branson...as well as my own Anita Hegerland or Diana Fuller...(I fully prefer the first one) O.K.,only time will tell... Delfín -------------- The most precious thing I possess, is knowing the answer's yes Back to top

raven4x4x Group: Members Posts: 1535 Joined: Jan. 2002 Posted: July 23 2002, 06:01 Our's are arranged by artist (hopefully...) or we just stick them anywhere on the cupboard. The Mike Oldfield ones are all out in the cupboard in the front, because they're special! They aren't in any order. I prefer to sort artists alphabetically, then albums alphabetically or chronologically. -------------- Thank-you for helping us help you help us all. Back to top

tubularbills Group: Members Posts: 528 Joined: Aug. 2000 Posted: July 23 2002, 11:38 Ok, since i've aquired some CDs since i posted here last time, my order has changed. In my portable CD case, it goes in this order: The Best of Tubular Bells; Tubular Bells 1; The Orchestral Tubular Bells; Tubular Bells 2; Tubular Bells 3; The Millennium Bell; Guitars; Voyager; Tres Lunas; The Songs of Distant Earth; Let There Be Light Single; Exposed CD1; Exposed CD2; Five Miles Out. (and then my other CDs from other artists). But in my CD stand i have all his albums arranged in chronological order. crazy -------------- Terrible, Wonderful, Crazy, Perfect. Back to top

Sweetpea Group: Members Posts: 1476 Joined: April 2007 Posted: Oct. 12 2007, 14:34 I go chronological, with compilations at the end. I used to have my MO CDs with the rest of my collection, but I was running out of space on that rack. Since I am currently without a home stereo system, I've been playing my music on computer and iPod. So, I picked up a 40 slot rack for my desk. Though my preference is for horizontal storage, this one is vertical. I've discovered that I am possessive of my MO CDs. When one of them is out on loan, the empty space really bothers me. It's not like I can't listen to it since it's all on my iTunes, but still... -------------- "I'm no physicist, but technically couldn't Mike both be with the horse and be flying through space at the same time? (On account of the earth's orbit around the Sun and all that). So it seems he never had to make the choice after all. I bet he's kicking himself now." - clotty Back to top

larstangmark Group: Members Posts: 1767 Joined: Mar. 2005 Posted: Oct. 12 2007, 14:59 OK, I want to make this clear: CDs should be put in chronological order and they should be put horitzontal. Not in a ugly CD-rack, but in a nice wooden bookshelf with adjustable rack height. I find chronology to be very important when it comes to record and music. That's why I don't like compilation albums. They just don't fit in. New records with old music? That's just nasty. -------------- "There are twelve people in the world, the rest are paste" Mark E Smith Back to top

jonnyw Group: Members Posts: 522 Joined: Oct. 2005 Posted: Oct. 12 2007, 17:34 I really dont like oganising things, So my CD's are not organised in any way, and are where I left them. -------------- Grand piano. Reed and pipe organ. Glockenspeil. Bass guitar. Vocal chords. Two slightly sampled electric guitars. The venitian effect. Digital sound processor. And Tubular bells. Solo music - http://-terrapin-.bebo.com Band music - http://www.rsimusic.com Back to top

arron11196 Group: Members Posts: 826 Joined: April 2005 Posted: Oct. 13 2007, 07:08 LOL jonnyw I am usually fairly anal retentive about my music. My MP3 playlist is currently numbering in the 3500+ area, and I have a specific naming and ordering scheme that I have to implement with folders, seperator MP3's and the whatnot. *sigh*. As far as the physical storage is concerned, its in order of: Artist (Most liked first) Date released (religiously, compilations when released). However... I put TB 2003 before Ommadawn... because although it was recorded later, like a live album would be... it was composed at that time. So i guess its really in order of "known date of composition". Just don't even get me started explaining my MP3 system though. It's a nightmare to manage after 1000 tracks... just don't lol. -------------- Arron J Eagling Everyone's interpretation is different, and everyone has a right to that opinion. There is no "right" one, I am adding this post to communicate my thoughts to share them with like-minded souls who will be able to comment in good nature. (insert the last 5 mins of Crises here) Back to top

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