media Music meme

Posted February 8, 2006 • Comments Off on Music meme

Anna passed me the musical baton, or something.

Total volume of music on my iPod: 15gb minus whatever the system software takes, minus (if you want) the sizable portion given over to podcasts and (especially) audiobooks. My iPod is full, and I need a new one.

Total volume of music (and podcasts and audiobooks) in my iTunes: 15.24gb (3095 items, 15:07:11:58 total time).

Note that podcasts and audiobooks I’ve listened to already get archived in my home folder and are not included in these totals.

Five most recent acquisitions (not including podcasts and audiobooks and videos) (also not really representative of actual listening habits, but more of collecting habits):

  • Three songs by Jonathan Coulton
  • Gilligan’s Island/Stairway (a classic mashup), Little Roger & the Goosebumps
  • the entire contents of “Once More With Feeling,” from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a CD I finally got for Christmas
  • Sink the Bismarck, Johnny Horton
  • Let’s Put Christ Back in Christmas, Pat Godwin

That sucks. Please note that I had to go through seventy-five lines of my recently added tracks to even find five things I could call songs that weren’t all from the same artist or album. Almost everything I add recently is podcasts (NPR Story of the Day is my favorite) or videos (yes, I have the Chronic-what!-cles of Narnia in there, as well as a 1946 sex ed film produced by Disney animation). Because my iPod is full, music acquisition has been poor of late.

No song is playing right now. Usually I listen to my “Underheard” playlist on Party Shuffle, so let’s see what it pops up … “Be My Number Two” by Joe Jackson.

Five songs I listen to a lot (these being mostly songs I feel I can sing along to with gusto while alone [or with Lisa and David, but no one else] in the car):

  • Such a Way, by Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers
  • Independence, Indiana, by Eddie From Ohio
  • Insomniac, by Billy Pilgrim
  • Sloop John B., by the Beach Boys
  • Devil’s Dance Floor, by Flogging Molly

My last.fm (formerly Audioscrobbler) lists (top artist and top tracks) are all STILL wrong because they are heavily weighted with an accidental all-night repeat a year ago of my “bedtime CD,” which I listen to every night and every morning between sleeping and waking. The seventeen tracks on that CD are still my top seventeen songs. Argh. Some of the songs on there:

  • Stay, by Lisa Loeb
  • Broken Night, by Salamander Crossing
  • Pink Moon, by Nick Drake
  • Blackbird, by Sarah McLachlan
  • Sister Madly, by Crowded House

While I undeniably love all these songs, I really don’t listen to them the same way I listen to other music. The bedtime CD has served me well since May 2004, and the only tracks I’d change out had I the chance to redo it are “I Want You” by Elvis Costello, because it varies in volume too much to be truly soothing, and “Downeaster Alexa” by Billy Joel because it is at the point in the CD where I tend to actually turn the light off and stop reading and try to sleep, and has thusly picked up an unwelcome connotation of dread.