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First, I find it disrespectfull for the artists. Those couplings make them look like second-rate artists.
Then, as an archivist who have documented some discographies on the web (on Wikipedia and on my own websites), I found those releases not always easy to handle...
And you, what are your thoughts about that?
Hi, Bespin.
Are you referring to the pairing of 2 LP programs whose music was not written by the same composer such as George Duning's Any Wednesday coupled with Not with My Wife, You Don't! and other FSM discs which pair John Williams with Mancini, Schifrin or Quincy Jones?
If so, are you implying that Duning, Jones, Mancini & Schifrin all appear as 2nd rate artists when sharing disc space with Williams?
Regarding these types of albums, I agree that their album programs are not the easiest to place in a sorting order. Does one alphabetize the album by only one of the 2 film titles ... or by only one of the two composer names?
The solution I've used for my own personal database is to record the album information by label name, and create multiple entries per that album's product ID/serial #.
Thus, FSM's 1103 has one entry for Duning's Wreck of the Mary Deare, The and another for Green's Twilight of Honor
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I don't like the habit either. As someone who thinks like a librarian, I like to be able to sort my CDs, like my books, alphabetically by composer/author, and CDs from multiple composers, like the old Ace Doubles (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ace_Books#1952:_Ace_Doubles_concept) confound this ambition.
However, in both industries, economics beats cataloguing.
Besides, in this modern age, I don't listen to CDs anymore. I buy the CD, then rip it to MP3 (please, don't anybody start on about file formats; it's off-topic) and then listen to the music on my phone. This way, it's easy enough to split the album.
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OCD is the new black.
In the classical music world, the grouping of several works by different composers is not, nor has ever been, 'disrespectful'. If anything it implies parity of their talents. Harry Janos is routinely paired with Lt. Kije for reasons of genre, mood, and subject matter.
Sane folk organise CDs by CD title, whether using a database or not. Apollo the organiser gives way to Boris the buttock clencher the world over now, since IT programmers took over.
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Nov 15, 2016 - 3:41 AM
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Bespin
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In the classical music world, the grouping of several works by different composers is not, nor has ever been, 'disrespectful'.
We are not talking about the same thing. The composers are one thing yes, but there is the conductor, the performer too. When Karajan records an album containing a Mozart's work and a Beethoven's work it's a Karajan album. And if it's a collection of already issued recordings using different sources, then it's a various artist compilation.
I think we will never see on DG a coupling of a Karajan original album with a Kleiber one.
Remember in the case of John Williams, that we are facing a case where the composer have always, except few minor cases in his disco, conducted his own music.
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Hi,
I hate when labels do that!
OK, from now on we'll break them into two discs and charge you $20 for each. Will that satisfy you?
thats funny onya.
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ON CD is better than NO CD.
i like this. And i want to pinch this succinct catchphrase and post it liberally around the forum as though it were me who made it up. 
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