2 posts tagged “playlists”
Last fall, once I moved to my new regime of syncing my iPod with my Macbook (instead of manually managing music as I had in the past), I decided to listen to every album I own at least once. Well, not every album I own, but every album that I would consider part of my personal “canon.” Not including live dead, that works out to about 8300 songs, 26 days of continuous listening. In short, a hell of a lot of music.
On Friday, I finished. Last song? Rival, from Pearl Jam’s 2000 album “Binaural.” Did I learn anything from this, other than that I have a huge music collection? Not much, but I was pleasantly surprised to learn that most albums that I have purchased over the years I still enjoy as much as I did when I first got them. Some bands have aged better than others—in the early 90s I would have probably ranked Smashing Pumpkins over Alice In Chains, but AIC seem to have aged better—but maybe that’s just because they haven’t released an album since ’95, while Billy Corgan seems to only tarnish his legacy further with every release post-Mellan Collie, whether Smashing Pumpkins, solo, or even, God help us, “Zwan.”
Because I’ve been consumed by this project I haven’t really been listening to new music as much I should have. I now have a backlog of albums from last year that I need to give more attention to. Wilco, The National, Band of Horses, Rush, Ghostface Killah, Wu-Tang Clan, Robert Pollard, Mountain Goats, Drive By Truckers and many more have been neglected for far too long. Time to stop living in the past.
What is one of your addictions?
Submitted by Paperheart.
Making playlists in iTunes. As these screen captures attest, I can do it as a full-time job.
