A while back, I was attempting to reformat a flash drive and I accidentally wiped the external hard drive containing all my digital music files.I
was able to recover most of the files, but some are incomplete, some
are corrupted, some are simply not there. The only way I can find out
what needs replacing is to listen to it all, so that's what I'm going to
do, in alphabetical order, artist by artist, and I'm going to blog about it.
There's going to be a lot of stuff I haven't listened to in years, some of it no doubt great and I'll wonder why I haven't listened to it, some of it terrible and I'll be ashamed to admit to owning it. There's going to be a lot of stuff I've listened to far too much and don't ever need to hear again. There will no doubt be a lot that I've never listened to, some of which I'll wonder why. But it'll all be here, demonstrating, amongst other things, that people pretty much stop listening to new music some time in their 30s.
I hope to find a few gems I'd previously ignored, a few bands I have little by and I want to find out more and hopefully to inspire a few readers to listen to something they'd never heard before.
I wonder if I'll get to Yo La Tengo...
I hope to find a few gems I'd previously ignored, a few bands I have little by and I want to find out more and hopefully to inspire a few readers to listen to something they'd never heard before.
I wonder if I'll get to Yo La Tengo...
Al, I meant to say, I used to do something a little like this on long commutes. Move through each album on my MP3 and *force* myself to listen to 1 track on each album, no skipping allowed. Amazing how you end up enjoying stuff that you've been skipping over for years. Nice idea for a blog!
ReplyDeleteCheers Tom.
ReplyDeleteI'll get to the full story when I do The Amps (in a couple of weeks, hopefully...), but part of the reason for doing this was that one day when I was recovering from illness and seriously bored, I put on some CDs I never listened to and realised that, actually, some of them was great.
My friend Sam has to take most credit/blame though. When I mentioned to him that I was going to listen to all the music I had in alphabetical order, he said "You should do a blog about that".