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Mock My Taste!

Every song marked with five stars in my iTunes…

3 A.M. Eternal (Live At The S.S.L.) – The KLF
All Along the Watchtower – Bear McCreary
America, What Time is Love? – The KLF
Ana Ng – They Might Be Giants
And God Created Brixton – Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine
Angel of Harlem – U2
Annie Waits – Ben Folds
Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (Solomon) – Handel
At the Bottom of Everthing – Bright Eyes
Bomb the World (Armageddon Version) – Michael Franti and Spearhead
Bus to Beelzebub – Soul Coughing
Canon – Funtwo
Carribean Blue – Enya
Copperhead Road – Steve Earl
Dancing Queen – ABBA
Det Snurrar I Min Skalle – Familjen
Experimental Film – They Might Be Giants
Gimme Sympathy – Metric
Girl Anachronism – The Dresdon Dolls
Girl From Mars – Ash
Gloria in Excelsis Deo – Vivaldi
Go Your Own Way – Fleetwood Mac
Goodnight Moon – Shivaree
Heaven – DJ Sammy
Hold On – Tom Waits
How Soon is Now – The Smiths
Hymn to Her (7″) – Pretenders
Janie’s Got a Gun – Aerosmith
Last Train to Trancentral (LP Mix) – The KLF
Lock It (I Really Like You) – Falling Joys
Man it’s so Loud in Here – They Might Be Giants
Palaces of Montezuma – Grinderman
Read to Me – B(if)tek
Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) – Kate Bush
Santa Monica – Everclear
Scrub – Shivaree
Serenity – David Newman
Shining Light – Ash
Something Dark is Coming – Bear McCreary
Stone Me Into the Groove – Atomic Swing
Summer Rain – Belinda Carlisle
Sweet Child o’ Mine – Guns N’ Roses
Take on Me – A-Ha
Temple of Love (Touched by the Hand of Orfa Hazra) – Sisters of Mercy
Tender is the Night (The Long Fidelity) – The Triffids
The Jeep Song – The Dresden Dolls
The Shape of Things to Come – Bear McCreary
The Winner Takes it All – The Black Sweden
This is Gallifrey: Our Childhood, Our Home – Murray Gold
Throw Your Arms Around Me – Hunters and Collectors
Time After Time – Cyndi Lauper
True Dreams of Wichita (Live, Boston, 10-15-1996) – Soul Coughing
Walk Like a Man – Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons
Waterloo – ABBA
What’s He Building in There – Tom Waits
What Time is Love? (LP Mix) – The KLF
Wichita Lineman Was a Song I Once Heard – The KLF
Wickerman – Pulp
Wide Open Road – The Triffids
Winter (Second Movement) – Vivaldi

There’s still about 90% of my music collection to be ranked…

Damn you Jobs!

Songs that should be on iTunes but aren’t…

Delicious – Moler
Brazilian – Primary
Penis Size and Cars – Theaudience

That is all.

A Musical Cornucopia

Doing what every sane person did years ago

Caught up with Fabes and Juan over the weekend. We got the last of the boards flocked and had a quick scratch-up game of 40k. Fabes totally kicked my arse again – this time in two rounds – but that’s cool because I wasn’t actually trying to win. I was actually using the game to test some different strategies and gathered some very interesting data for further consideration…

(Fabes may think I’m just saying that after the fact to excuse my execrable performance, but I said as much to Juan before the game began, so there! :))

I’ve also started work on another project. While hanging around at Fabes’ place it occurred to me that I haven’t actually sat down and listened to a CD in ages. In years in fact. I listen to plenty of music, but it’s all via iTunes on my computer. I’ve got a couple of two metre tall IKEA racks full of CDs that I never touch, and I desperately need somewhere to store all the 40k models I’ve been buying. The solution is obvious – pack all the CDs up in a cupboard somewhere, and use the racks to hold my army. Brilliant!

So how is that a project you ask? It’s simple, I’ve got to go through and rip all the CDs before I put them away.

You see, I’ve never properly ripped most of them. When I first started listening to music on my computer I was cursed with a small hard drive, and a highly tempermental CD drive, which meant I could only afford to rip the songs I really liked at comparatively low quality to save space – and I usually had to rip them multiple times to get versions without annoying drop outs. In the end about 10% of my music collection actually ended up on my computer.

But now I have a huge hard drive and a CD/DVD drive that reliably rips tracks at close to the speed of light (or so it seems compared to my old machine). So I’m going to go through every single CD I own and get it ripped, imported and organised at high quality. It’ll be a marvellous cornucopia of music! And I’ll have somewhere to keep my Valhallans. Everybody wins!

Yeah, that’s really all I’ve got to say 🙂

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