Let's get this party started!
- Robyn Hitchcock - I Often Dream Of Trains
- Andrew Bird - Why?
- Pink Floyd - Careful With That Axe, Eugene
- The Replacements - Swinging Party
- Rein Sanction - Sideways Down
- The Chieftans - Away We Go Again
- Miles Davis - Two Bass Hit
- Elliott Smith - Thirteen
- The Raconteurs - Hands
- Norman Blake - Six White Horses
Wooohooo! Now that's quite a variety.
First list from my slimmed-down library.
1. Primal Scream – Come Together.
2. New Order – Age Of Consent.
3. Bob Marley & The Wailers – Bad Card.
4. Cold War Kids – Red Wine, Success!
5. The Beatles – The Long And Winding Road.
6. Stevie Ray Vaughan – The Things I Used To Do.
7. Seahorses – Blinded By The Sun.
8. The Stone Roses – Driving South.
9. Pulp – Monday Morning.
10. Diana Ross & The Supremes – Stop! In The Name Of Love.
Absolutely ‘kin marvellous. No filler, all crackin’ tunes.
FWIW fellow Cleekians, I recently went through my 12,000 strong song list on iTunes and removed all the crap I’ve accumulated over the years. I used to collect music and ended up with albums that never got heard. I’d get something because it was considered a classic by others, or because it came top in an end-of-year poll in an indie magazine/web-site.
I trashed a good third of my collection – of course I didn’t delete the MP3 files – just removed them from iTunes. Now I can put my iPod on shuffle with some confidence the next track to play will be one I won’t skip.
Collecting music is great if you have time to listen to it all and are willing to exercise some quality control if you end up with something you don’t like.
It actually feels kind of liberating in a sad middle-aged kind of way. Perhaps this is my mid-life crisis? Deleting old rave tunes from 1990 that do nothing for me now (and in fact sound incredibly dated 20 years later) … finally realising that I really don’t like ‘Pet Sounds’ … or ‘Loveless’ … or … well, a whole load of stuff it turns out. ha ha.
i get chills just thinking about such a move.
a fat library is a happy library!
I blame my bloated collection on a number of things.
1. I used to work from home and I listened to music 8 or 9 hours a day. I had time to filter out the dross and listened to a lot of new stuff. Now I am back in the office, where any attempt to don headphones is a signal for some twunt to come and ask me a stupid question, I only tend to listen to music in the car or in the gym – and my gym playlist is a special kind of stomping rock. No time for the chance you’re going to get a Coldplay tune when I’m trying to feel the burn.
2. Herbs and booze. Oh the amount of music I’ve gone out and bought because it sounded so f*cking awesome last night round a mate’s house when we were all high as monkeys … but in the cold light of day … well, it doesn’t sound quite as good.
3. Peer pressure. I’m a sucker for ‘…what do you mean you don’t own a copy of [insert seminal work by your favourite artist here]!’. Sigh. I bought a load of Stranglers and Siouxsie albums on the back of such recommendations but when push comes to shove, I only like the odd track.
And so it goes. The pipe and slippers beckon. :)