music

So, we're almost two weeks in.  My wife had a little bleeding on what would be day 20 of her cycle.  My mind immediately went to a drastic place, but in reality I'm pretty sure it would be far too early for that sort of thing to be happening- I'll leave it unsaid.  So it was either a reaction to the fact that we're having sex far more often (sometimes three days in a row- ee!) or more than likely one of those 'post pill system re-adjusting' things.  It was only for a day or so, so not a thing to worry about.  We don't really know how long it takes for a womans body to re-adjust after coming off the pill, but as some people get pregnant the first month, and for some people it doesn't happen for over a year- I think we'll probably wait at least a couple of months before we go to the doctors for check ups.
I read somewhere online that it's a good idea to go for a fertility test straight away, but well, I feel we should just try for at least a couple months before doing that sort of thing, and with the wife's system settling down hopefully by then, there'll be a few things to ask the doctor about in 2 or 3 months as opposed to now where any conceivable problem is all in the mind.

I'm getting a bit ahead of myself in my mind, I suppose everyone does it- once you've decided to try for a baby, you sort of start thinking about 'having' one, and one of the first thoughts I had (a thought I haven't been able to shake) is that- 'oo- I better get my music collection sorted'

I know it's a little morbid, but I have a kindov picture in my head where- I'm dead,  and my kid is scouring my record collection and putting stuff on and thinking 'wow, i've never heard this before, it's brilliant- i didn't know my dad had such good taste in music'
I havent really been into music for many years although when I was into it, i was into it in a BIG way.  I was pretty renowned at uni for having an eclectic taste and listening to bands no-one else had heard of.  I started off with CD's, I had a massive collection, but when I decided to travel Europe with my girlfriend (who is now my wife) I sold my entire collection on Ebay to pay for the trip. After that, my close bond with music was pretty broken.  During the period when I was saving for the trip, I got a minidisk recorder and I used to go to the library to rent 20 cd's at a time and then I'd copy them to minidisk.  I ended up with hundreds more Minidisks that I ever had CD's.  The great thing about getting disks from the library was that I would take bands I'd never heard of before because it was included in my membership, so it didn't cost me anything more to give everything and anything a go (this is how I discovered 'Everlast' and 'Hed(pe)' amongt others... hundreds of others.)

So getting back from the trip I had no CD's and a full collection of copies so I kinda stopped searching out new music. No real reason other than my heart wasn't in it any more.  Those minidisks lasted me years until I discovered illegal online downloading and soon my MASSIVE minidisk collection was eclipsed again.  If I discovered a new band, I'd download their entire back catalogue.  This was ok for new bands with only a couple of albums, but when I discovered people like Van morrison... well, I basically ended up downloading more than I could even listen to, so again I lost interest. And to top it off, my hardrive died one day and I lost everything so I was back to my minidisk collection, that I'd kinda moved on from (in the same way I moved on from CD's.)

So when I got a new hard drive, I tried downloading the albums again, but could really only remember a small part of it, so I did it half heartedly and very piecemeal, and kinda just stopped. And since then i've mainly listened to talk radio, and most recently podcasts. I'm addicted to podcasts.  but also recently, the next music thing has happened: Spotify.  Access to every album ever made (pretty much) with no need to actually own the songs at all, legally OR illegally.

So where am I now, well the mental image of my kids looking at my record collection now consists of the shitty CD's I couldn't sell from 7 years ago, no minidisks, because I threw them all out when I discovered spotify, and random collection of mp3's on my desktop that are completely random and not even my favourites, just what I could remember from before I lost my harddrive.

I have NO music collection. And now with Spotify, I don't even need one.  But I want my kids to know the music I liked.  So this is what's on my mind.  How to sort a record collection that my kids can look at.  What do I do? - just create an Excel spreadsheet with a big list?  Maybe I should make a ton of Spotify playlists, but then what if spotify doesnt exist in the future?

your suggestions, most welcome.