April 11, 2005
Musical Madness
my iPod has been nearing overflow for some time with 8,506 songs and with 40 iTunes still in my account from pepsi caps, i will either have to clear away some more space or upgrade to a 60gb iPhoto which frankly will only push the problem out a little further as i haven't ripped all my cds yet not to mention all the cds i'll continue to get. and if i went with an iPhoto i would want to put some pictures, cd photos, and so forth on the darn thing.
at some point i will simply have to be more discriminating about the music i put on my iPod. do i really need 22 eric clapton cds? all three versions of shania twain's up!? i did keep only the latest version of ottmar liebert's nouveau flamenco, so that's a start, but live aus berlin must stay despite having the other rammstein cds. anyway, what would be nice is for there to be some way to tell my iTunes player how to select what should be synced up. something that would make sure any new music gets on and other less played and low rated music gets rotated on and off occassionally.
as i sit here listening to billy squier's greatest hits, i must confess that i always thought of him as more of a one-hit-wonder, but the fact of the matter is he turned out more than one or two hits. i find myself saying to myself -- oh yeah, he did that song too. my one disappointment about this cd is that it includes a few less-than-great tunes and fails to include lonely is the night and surely they could have dropped another track and worked in too daze gone.
this is also as good a time as any to admit that just the other day i discovered that the song stuck in the middle with you is by the group stealers wheel. all these years i thought it was by steely dan. i hang my head, but would like to note -- stealers... steely -- somewhere in my youth a bit flipped and never flipped back.
moby's new cd titled hotel is excellent. i haven't listened to the whole thing yet, but so far my favorite track is "where you end". you can buy it in stores now. :-)
Posted by ac at April 11, 2005 05:22 PM