We all know a few vinyl junkies like the waxhead referenced in the newest Overheard comic -

Back when I still had a mountain of vinyl cracking the floorboards of our La Mesa rental, I wrote a poem about our personalized -- if imprecise -- filing methods:

I FOUND NIRVANA (NEXT TO THE FOO FIGHTERS)

I found Nirvana - next to the Foo Fighters

I saw Asia alongside ELP

I caught Badfinger copping the Beatles

and Velvet Underground burying Lou Reed

I filed Buster Poindexter with the NY Dolls

And placed Ted Nugent with his old Amboy Dukes

I mixed Meatloaf with a side of Rocky Horror

and Southside Johnny with the Asbury Jukes

I parked Box Car Racer right next to Blink

I placed Yes with Wakeman and Howe

I have Roy Harper mixed in with Pink Floyd

And the Doors with “Apocalypse Now”

I split Fripp with King Crimson and Gabriel

With Bowie, there’s Eno and Pop

Roxy Music includes Manzanera and Ferry

and Texas Jam's there with ZZ Top

Denny Laine's filed with Wings, not the Moodies

Ronnie Wood's with the Stones, not Small Faces

And Cream just goes perfect with Clapton

Like A Night At The Opera goes with A Day At The Races

ELP has Greg Lake, 3, and Carl Palmer

But Emerson’s under the Nice

Bauhaus has Pete, Love & Rockets

(and an audio book read by Anne Rice)

Tommy Bolin’s with Deep Purple and Zephyr

Frampton’s solo, not with Humble Pie

Alan Parsons has Ambrosia AND Pilot

(most of whom played on Eye In The Sky)

I found so many folks with the Dead

they needed their own separate box

a mystery worthy of Behind The Music

given I think that most Dead music sucks

I'm so sick and tired of filing

and remembering where things are filed

but it's better than trying to find things

in a mountainous, long-playing pile.