Why I love having an ungainly music collection

As of this moment, my iTunes library has 10,410 songs from 1791 artists. It's a total of 48.78GB of music, which would take 28.2 days to listen to. That's pretty incredible. I could start my music on February 1st and it would keep playing into March (non-leap years only). From time to time I struggle with the fact that I could never really listen to and enjoy that much music, nor have I actually listened to all of it. I frequently download new music on spec, suggested by blogs or friends or band pages or music mags. I download more than I get a chance to listen to, and frankly, it's information overload.

However, this has had some rather positive unintended consequences. I now have, more or less, my own radio station packed with new music that I'm likely to find interesting. Of course it's already packed with music I love, which I can play whenever I like, but when I'm lazy and want to listen to good, new stuff without thinking about it, my best bet isn't going on a quest through the internet or turning on the radio, but just putting my existing music on shuffle. It's especially great because sometimes certain songs just have to catch you in the right mood for you to recognize how great they are.

Anyway, that's a long way of saying I found these tracks in the depths of my music collection and now I think they're brilliant:

Holy Fuck "Lovely Allen"
Holy Fuck - Lovely Allen by bakedfreshplaylist

The Electric Prunes "You Never Had it Better"



Josef K "Chance Meeting"

(Version with better sound quality after the break)