Ipods
Having rather late in the day bought an Ipod I have three observations.First, if like me you put your entire music collection on it (or what you can find of it) then, at least in my case, it brings home the sheer dross of the much of the music you've purchased in your lifetime. Worse because of the automatic song listing software (so it lists song/album/year etc) you can see when you bought most of the music. In my case its a terrible excess of poor mid-1990s Britpop.
Second, on a happier note, setting it to random does bring up some songs or albums that you probably haven't listened to for years. For example, I'm not sure I've listened to Paul Weller's 'Stanley Road' since I bought it in 1995, and -- embarassing though it is to admit it -- it's rather good (the Gallagher monstrosity of 'I walk on Gilder Splinters' not withstanding).
Or is it because I am nearly 30? Oh god I've turned into my dad...
Update: The leitmotif of this site appears to be my inability to count points. The third point is simply that it's not loud enough. This might be a headphone issue. Or perhaps I'm going deaf? Oh god I've turned into...
posted by Matthew @ 1/12/2005 06:51:00 PM
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