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Life Soundtrack Snapshot

Life Soundtrack Snapshot

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For historical purposes, here are my current 50 most-played songs on the iPod.

A Thousand Years Sting 5:58
All I Have to Do Is Dream The Everly Brothers 2:25
All I Really Want Alanis Morissette 5:25
All This Beauty The Weepies 3:20
Big Wheel Tori Amos 3:18
Bloodletting (The Vampire Song) Concrete Blonde 6:07
Comfort Deb Talan 3:16
Counting Stars Sugarcult 3:38
Daily Living Eldar Djangirov 6:12
Down to Nowhere Thea Gilmore 3:54
Dream of You Mary Fahl 3:44
Drink Me (Acoustic Version) Anna Nalick 3:03
Everybody Knows Concrete Blonde 4:44
Feelin Way too Damn Good Nickelback 4:15
Goodnight Moon Shivaree 4:04
Gotta Have You The Weepies 3:22
Green-Eyed Lady Sugarloaf 3:40
Hold On KT Tunstall 2:58
Hushabye Mountain Stacey Kent 2:38
I Summon You Spoon 3:56
I Want You Rachael Yamagata 2:56
In the Summertime Roger Miller 1:45
Infinity Merrick 3:21
Jonathon Fisk Spoon 3:16
Kiss Moi Sportes 3:27
Kryptonite 3 Doors Down 3:54
Life During Wartime Talking Heads 3:42
Love Hurts Nazareth 3:53
Make My Day yes but 3:52
Novocaine for the Soul Eels 3:09
Persephone Kula Shaker 4:43
Phantom Doll Tracy Grammer 4:09
Raise the Veil Lily Frost 2:42
Rollin’ And Tumblin’ Bob Dylan 6:02
Sexybeast Paul Sabo 3:51
Sister Moon Thomas Hellman 5:48
Sleep to Dream Fiona Apple 4:11
Song Beneath the Song Maria Taylor 4:00
Strawberry Fields Cyndy Lauper 4:24
Sweet Dreams Tori Amos 3:40
Take Me As I Am October Project 4:38
The Creationist Kerli 3:38
The Dreaming Dead Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter 6:04
This Will Be Our Year The Zombies 2:08
Trouble Over the Rhine 4:01
Velvet Revolution Tori Amos 1:19
Waltz of the Malcontent Lily Frost 3:53
Without a Word yes but 4:15
Writing On the Wall Blackmore’s Night 6:01
Your Rocky Spine Great Lake Swimmers 3:36
iPod Nano Babblings

iPod Nano Babblings

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I am totally in love with my new green 4G iPod nano. I love it, totally love it.

I only wish that I had gotten the one with more capacity. I am very close to crossing the limit already, and I’m only about halfway through my CD collection. I’ve had to redo a couple of the songs – some of my favorite CDs are a little beat up.

Of course, I can keep more on my computer, and just check the songs I want to synch to my iPod. In fact I’m thinking of slaving an old hard drive specifically for this purpose.

4 gigs is still a decent selection – about a 1000 songs, or a little less because I want to display the cover art too.

It took me about three minutes to familiarize myself with how to change the volume and so on. The mouse-like wheel makes things very easy.

If I’m a little quiet here, it’s because I’ve discovered (and rediscovered) so much music – even in my own collection. I’m totally immersed. I was out dancing on the deck again last night. This will make housework a lot more bearable, I can tell you that right now.

I’ve already got my complete Kate Bush, Tori Amos, and Zombies collections synched, with their own playlists. Ahhhh.

Did you know that Smashmouth did a version of “I’m a Believer” (Monkees)? Yeah, ok, it dates me and it’s not cool or anything like that, but I’ve never been cool anyway and I love this song.

I wonder if there is a WordPress plugin to display what’s playing? Hmm. I’ll look into that.

“Lullaby” (The Cure) just finished.
Now “Itsy Bitsy Spider/Coming Around Again” (Carly Simon) is playing.
“P**s on the Wall” (J.Geils) is up next.

After that, the next ten on random play are:

  1. I am the Walrus (Jim Carey) – This is a bit of a find, I think.
  2. Undertow (Suzanne Vega) – Ethereal trancey pop
  3. Smokey Day (Zombies) – I love the Zombies, still. This is one of the best.
  4. Black Horse and the Cherry Tree (KT Tunstall) – This is a terrific song! (thank you, Bonbon)
  5. In the Summertime (Roger Miller) – Childhood memories – good ones.
  6. Armageddon Days Are Here Again (The The) – Oh, that voice.
  7. Sister Moon (Sting) – I would love to sing this myself
  8. Feelin’ Way Too Da*n Good (Nickelback) – Love, love, love – and more love
  9. Candy-O (The Cars) – I died the first time I heard this described as an “oldie”
  10. Sad Lisa (Cat Stevens) – Plays my heartstrings every time

Oh, yeah! And more than 900 more…

I am having so. much. fun.

ITunes Madness

ITunes Madness

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Thanks to my boss, who donated a used computer to me for my birthday, I now have a computer that can handle ITunes. Unfortunately, the CD drive on the computer reads but doesn’t write.

I guess I could hook up my old computer, wipe most of the drive, and use it as music backup. Or even harness the CD drive to make a couple of music disks. I have an mpg player, but it plays cds.

I’ve finally begun looking at IPods. The IPod shuffle would be great for me, except I don’t like the idea that it is basically disposable. You can’t replace the battery? I’d love one of those IPod Nanos (I’m partial to the green one – 4G maybe?), but they are a bit expensive for me. The bigger IPods are right out of range for me. Hah. I even looked at the Bose system you can dock it on – wouldn’t that be sweet? I have one ancient stereo, and a kind of boomboxy sort of thing. For someone who loves music as much as I do, it is strange that I don’t really have a good way to play it.

I know I’m way behind on all of this. Hey, I don’t even have a cellphone. I’m not a Luddite or anything – I just don’t have the cash.

Once again – I could really, really use a good Atlanta job. I’m still working part-time, no paid sick days or vacations, no benefits. I like my job, but I’ve got to start paying off those student loans…

Anyway, I couldn’t burn a CD, and I started looking around at ITunes. Ooooooo. Big mistake. BIG BIG mistake.

I started thinking about songs I hadn’t heard in a long time – say, all the way back to “All on a Golden Afternoon” from Alice in Wonderland. I found that some songs were only available if you buy the whole album, which kind of defeats the whole purpose. Other songs I wanted weren’t there at all (like Danny Kaye’s “Inchworm” – I was feeling nostalgic, all right? I loved Danny Kaye.)

Before I knew it, I had purchased a number of songs. I will not tell you the number of songs.

I had to forcibly stop myself from buying songs that I already own!

And now I’m eyeing those IPod thingies. It would be so nice to be able to convert my favorite music…

Tell me your IPod experiences – pros and cons. Are there better alternatives? Can you even burn the ITunes format as Mp3? This is all new to me, but I know there are some experts out there. Tell me what I need to know.