Record Collection
Tuesday 19 May 2009
Having spent some time tagging my MP3s and collecting them centrally to allow them to be played from any of the computers in the house, I realise that I really don't listen to music much any more.
I used to collect CDs pretty prolifically, but I haven't bought much new music in, say, the last 5 years. I'm also not that well versed in that music I have. I'm sure I've forgotten some gems, and I bet I have stuff I've never even heard.
So I'm going to go through my collection and try and listen to an album a night. I'll do this alphabetically according to my Winamp library (although I'm not that convinced I tagged everything corectly) and I will then put whatever thoughts that particular aural experiment puts into my head 'out there'. Or rather, here.
There are a bunch of MP3s that one picks up here and there that do not have an 'album' associated with them and I'll probably stick to the complete albums I have. Random songs will get a mention.
In fact, a couple of tracks with no album tag got an airing tonight: He Really Wants You by Aimee Mann and No Myth by Michael Penn. The first is a live track and Aimee's voice seems a little more nasal than usual, so maybe the post production softens that normally -- although I've seen her twice and I didn't notice it in the flesh as it were.
Michael Penn is Mr. Mann and he played No Myth at one of the concerts, which lead me to seek it out online. They were both members of Artists Against Piracy, so I guess he'd not be pleased. It's a good song and appears on the album, MP4.
Artists Against Piracy don't seem to exist any more.
