Hey kids! Collect The Whole Set!

The main point to notice in the formula, is that a value is given to each 45 based on the combined TBM ratings of both sides, but the lesser side only counts for 12.5 percent of the combined rating. Then a rarity factor is applied, ranging from .2 for a ".5 rarity, ie very common" record, to 350 for an "11 rarity, ie one known copy" record. Then the result is multiplied by the legend factor, also derived from a table of values between .3 and 5.
The final result is a computed value with a range of 1 - 17,500. This could be thought of as a G45 rating, or a dollar value, which is linked to current market conditions via the inflation, hot item and genreheat factors. It's infallible.

For a record to score 17,500, it would have to be a 2-sided 10 in TBM, with one known copy and an "off-the-scale" Legend factor. Currently there's no such 45 in existence.
 
Don Julio said:
So you do put rarity above musical quality? Or are you saying that Jeannie is a better record than the Keggs?
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Musical quality trumps rarity every time, for my own collecting jones.

But I would prefer to own JEIII or Jeannie Jim Tom & Bill vs. the Keggs or Randy Alvey & Green Fuz, not because of ultra-rarity - I like both of those more than I do "To Find Out" or "Green Fuzz". Not that I'd turn down either one of the latter examples if they came my way and I could afford them.
 
bosshoss said:
I What I can't decide is whether to make it all uncompiled, or not. Obviously all uncompiled would restrict my choices severely. Also, the only way I can check if it's compiled is via Searchin For Shakes, and that seems to be out of date. If I decide to go uncompiled, I'll probably post the short-list here and ask for help picking the uncompiled ones.
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Already compiled is OK I think, if the idea is to show the quality of some 3 and 4 star 45s.
 
I realize that a lot of my fave records get a '6' in TBM. A lot of my fave 'psych records' get a '5' or a '4'. Children of the Mushroom - Mirror... gets a '5' and that's one of the greatest records of all time.Even my friends who hate psych can't deny that record haha. Point is that the rating system works for me - I think the system is great and easy to understand.
I also hate records with a "mersey sound" haha! Probably because it's a lot easier to try n rock like the Stones than try n write like the Beatles, but I don't go there heh. Not even the Beatles managed to 'write like the Beatles' all the time. Maybe not even 50% ;)
A song needs a break (preferably Guitar) to be exciting. OR it needs to be genius, but then it's almost automatically a '6' or higher. Like The Night Crawlers - You Say. A three second drum break also works.
Bosshoss: you shold print some wall paper! It would look incredible in the record room
 
I think, MTM, one needs to keep in mind the distinction between "collecting records", and "collecting sets". A passion for music will easily lead to collecting records. There was a time when I would have been happy to settle for a digital recording of a song if it approximated, or bettered the quality of the original vinyl release, but I contracted the collector bug somewhere along the way. (Maybe it was at that point where a most magnanimous fellow collector gave me a clean copy of the Dominions 45.)

While writing my comments further up, I considered the fact that if there was a "set", which I was collecting, it would be the set of all records which I rate (musically) above 6 stars - but that doesn't qualify as a set to the outside world as it is totally subjective. However, now that I think about it, that hardly distinguishes me from bosshoss, who merely has cast his net wider. :lol:
 
I've noticed that many of the TBM 3-star ratings are equivalent to my 4-star ratings, which is why I don't have any doubt you can make a great comp, Mark - even bordering on exquisite. I do have a few unreleased tracks I'd be happy to lend you for digitising for any comp you're making, but my only fear is that some of them are so wild they'll outshine the rest. I also have a killer late sixties acetate which might satisfy H77. Anyway the offer is there.
 
Outside_Lookin_in said:
While writing my comments further up, I considered the fact that if there was a "set", which I was collecting, it would be the set of all records which I rate (musically) above 6 stars - but that doesn't qualify as a set to the outside world as it is totally subjective. However, now that I think about it, that hardly distinguishes me from bosshoss, who merely has cast his net wider. :lol:
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I too only collect one set. The set of all '60s garage records.
 
Re: Jeannie Jim Tom & Bill. Is there a reason why they were thought to come from Minnesota?
 
Terry Day

"Julie, they use to practice in our basement. Memories forever. I loved listening to them. They were all very good friends. We lived Auntie Jeannie, she washed our hair with care!! Lol. Boy was she beautiful. I loved Silly Whim too, Devotion was the other side of the 45."
 
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