Dan Hill passed me the
Musical Baton, so I feel obliged, even though I may have just been a sloppy second choice for him. Thanks, Dan.
Total volume of music on my computer
7,360 songs taking up 23.66GB of space. According to iTunes this covers 382 artists, and could last me 16.5 days of continuous listening. Everything is meticulously tagged through Musicbrainz, and rated by hand, so I know these statistics to be terribly accurate.
The last CD I bought
Jonathan Fire*Eater – Tremble Under Boom Lights, purchased used at Amazon. You can always see all my music, because I keep track of such this on the music page of my Web site.
Song playing right now
“You’re Right, I’m Wrong” by Thee Headcoatees, from the album Punk Girls. You can always see every song I’m playing, because I keep track of such things on Audioscrobbler.
Five songs I listen to alot, or that mean a lot to me
I could spend the rest of my life trying to figure out 5 songs that mean a lot to me, so instead I will take the easy, literal route and just look at my iTunes playcount and tell you them in order:
- Converge – Forsaken (album)
- Cursive – When Summer’s Over Will We Dream of Spring (album)
- Descendents – Catalina (album)
- Excuse 17 – Carson (album)
- Born Against – Sendero (album)
Like I said, not necessarily the greatest songs, but it’s all weighted through ratings and party shuffle and iTunes’ (seemingly non-random) randomness… although Catalina has a special place in my heart. (This song made we want to learn how to play guitar. I brought this song on tape with my acoustic guitar to my first day to my teacher (who by coincidence was Bob Mould’s first guitar teacher), and we ended up going through and writing out this punk song in dorky acoustic chord tablature.)
Five people to whom I’m passing the baton
I will (try to) pass it on to George Hotelling, Alf Eaton, Irdial Discs, juniorbonner, and Paul Hammond…all of which are in my Audioscrobbler network.