is being separated from your record collection the easiest way to determine which records you really can't live without?

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or, "why did i bring TWO matmos records and no st. etienne?!?!"

― jess, Friday, 10 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

today is jess's day of long subject headers.

― jess, Friday, 10 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

yes.

― jel --, Friday, 10 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've only liked music in a big way for about 3 years, and as I read this I must acknowledge that there are few records I can't live without. But I do know I can't live without music itself, that's for sure. The nature of the music I like at the moment is quite faddish anyway, ie obsessive love of 8 or 10 singles for a month or two, followed by obsessive love of another 8 or 10 singles, and so forth.

― Ronan, Friday, 10 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Easiest"? It may be a straightforward and effective test, but I'd find it intolerably hard.

― Martin Skidmore, Friday, 10 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm flying to Toronto on monday and will be there for 8 weeks. This weekend I will have to choose abt 20 records I think are 'vital' (though I will be buying stuff there).

To answer the question: no, I will have to leave some amazing records here in London, to gather dust. I will choose what I feel I can't leave without on the day I choose it.

― Julio Desouza, Friday, 10 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i haven't had access to my records for about a month, and probably won't for about another month. but i will be able to take about 5-6 cds back with me this weekend. i dont know what i'll take but i do know i have really missed playing piano magics a trick of the sea

― gareth, Friday, 10 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It depends on whether I was stuck in my parents' place or somewhere else. If it was the former, no problem because my dad has an extensive collection of Northern Soul. Even on holiday I don't really miss (my) music. (Why no St Etienne: Because your subconscious has grate taste! hah!)

― nathalie, Friday, 10 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I always find the best way to see what I really love is to not listen to an album for a couple of weeks, then come back to it. If I love it, it makes me high, and I can't see how I survived so long without such great music!:-D

― Anna Rose, Saturday, 11 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i put all my vinyl in storage 8 months ago, its been very liberating not having a huge weight of old music taking up half my flat and instead having the space to listen to mix Cds from freinds and mp3 downloads...

― jk, Saturday, 11 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Short answer to question = yes. Here is a thread that attempted to take this same idea to an absurd extreme.

Personal experience: when I moved away from UK last year, I left behind most of my cassettes (a couple of hundred maybe) representing mainly my tastes in youth - I've missed hardly any of them. I very nearly left my vinyl collection in storage too, but at last minute I couldn't do it. I'm regularly thankful for that decision.

― Jeff W, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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