Hi Cw; over the years I've certainly bought my share of "compilations"-- some good, and some not so. But when CD Recorders became readily available in the last few years, I started making my own compilations of individual artists/groups, but also of varied artists within a particular genre of music.
For example, I've done a 4 CD set I call "Blues & Soul, Nice and Slow". This set was made by selecting favorite songs from about 250-300 blues/soul CDs. I consider this a dynamite set and listen to it all the time. It took me over a month to select, volume match, and record the various tracks-- over 5 hours of excellent music.
After that success, a 4 CD set of "Blues & Rock, Nice & Hot", and 3 CD sets of "Country Angels", and of "Female Jazz Ballads". I did a "Best of Melissa Etheridge" that worked out especially well as her first 5 CDs are on the same label and sound like they were done in the same studio, and volume matching was easy. I've done many others too, but my point is that the CD Recorder has fundamentally changed the way I listen to music. Gotta' have the time to do it though-- and I do.
I'd also say that I don't buy fewer CDs either, in fact probably more-- then select those songs I like best and put them on my own CD-Rs in combinations I like, eg I've bought all of Allison Krause's CDs, and that's probably my next CD-R project. I've owned 4-5 different CD Recorders, and have finally settled on a Marantz CDR500 PRO. Just a different perspective on "compilations". Cheers. Craig
For example, I've done a 4 CD set I call "Blues & Soul, Nice and Slow". This set was made by selecting favorite songs from about 250-300 blues/soul CDs. I consider this a dynamite set and listen to it all the time. It took me over a month to select, volume match, and record the various tracks-- over 5 hours of excellent music.
After that success, a 4 CD set of "Blues & Rock, Nice & Hot", and 3 CD sets of "Country Angels", and of "Female Jazz Ballads". I did a "Best of Melissa Etheridge" that worked out especially well as her first 5 CDs are on the same label and sound like they were done in the same studio, and volume matching was easy. I've done many others too, but my point is that the CD Recorder has fundamentally changed the way I listen to music. Gotta' have the time to do it though-- and I do.
I'd also say that I don't buy fewer CDs either, in fact probably more-- then select those songs I like best and put them on my own CD-Rs in combinations I like, eg I've bought all of Allison Krause's CDs, and that's probably my next CD-R project. I've owned 4-5 different CD Recorders, and have finally settled on a Marantz CDR500 PRO. Just a different perspective on "compilations". Cheers. Craig