How do you sort your LPs?

Just like almost everything else in audio there seems to be a diverse set of opinions, methods or philosophies applied to LP sorting. Who would of guessed that :) Thanks for the good ideas.

I like the idea of having an area or section to queue LPs. My current loose method needs a little work. Weeding out the "unlikely to be used again" LPs will help too.

Thanks.

Wow thats a though one.

New Arrivals/The Rest-Sometimes regret this when hunting for something in particular but generally works well. I have gone through alphabetical, genre, but found this overall gave me the best listening possibilities. My only misgiving was it difficult to discover misappropriation although it's less of a problem in my later years.

Lol, I don't sort any of them due to laziness. I could not tell you where one record is from another as they are pretty much all over the place but neatly stored if that makes any sense. I probably have several thousand by now and it is too monumental a task to go thru them all. Maybe someday I'll come accross that Who album again and play it lol. I'm too busy with all of life's other crap to worry about it right now. 

For my collection of about 3,000, I do what others have noted, sorted by genre, then alphabetical, and the genres within rock are arranged in a loosely narrative way.For example:
1 - before the Beatles 2 - surf and hot rod
3 - garage and mid-60’s verse-chorus-verse stuff
4 - late 60’s hippie stuff
5 - country rock
6 - Southern rock
7 - mid to late 70’s American pop/rock
8 - British Invasion
9 - British rock after the British Invasion
10 - American singers and songwriters
11 - 80’s rock
12 - soundtracks
13 - blues and guitarists
14 - 70’s hard rock
15 - heavy metal
16 - power pop and 70’s verse-chorus-verse stuff
17 - female singers
18 - R&B
19 - protopunk & 70’s punk
20 - 80’s punk
21 - 80’s garage rock revival, cowpunk, Paisley Underground-related, and other non-punk underground rock
22 - countryish singers and songwriters
23 - jazz
24 - pre-70’s country
25 - female country singers
26 - 70’s and 80’s country
27 - instrumental country
28 - bluegrass
29 - folk
30 - comedy
31 - classical
32 - miscellaneous
I do this to make sure I can find what I’m looking for and so that some records don’t get forgotten. For example, when I was filing a Beau Brummels record away, I did a little browsing and saw The Buckingham’s first album, Kind of a Drag, a great little garage rock record before the band got lame and added horns; I hadn’t looked at or thought of that record in a year or two. There are many great records, like that one, that might otherwise get lost if I did everything alphabetically.
Other times, I might say to myself, "I’d like to listen to some Chicago blues," and I can go browse the blues and guitarists section, and it is all there in one place; I don’t have to go to several different places.
There are all kinds of "does this go here or there?" questions, and I enjoy pondering those. For now, for example, Led Zeppelin goes in hard rock instead of British Rock after the British Invasion with Elton John and Dire Straits. Anyway, that’s what works for me.