Spring Cleaning 'itunes style'
My external hard-drive that had all of my music on it, started to get sick. Luckily, I noticed early on, and everything was taken off before it went on to suffer an ignominious death. May it R.I.P.
This couldn't have come at a better time, because of my current "Spring Cleaning" mood, time to spring clean my music . . . why not? With my eyes closed (thinking to myself what am I doing?) I deleted everything from itunes (keeping the files) and am now starting from scratch, adding back only the good stuff and deleting songs/artists that don't really jive with me anymore. It has been a very fascinating aural journey, exploring music I never knew that I had. I'm almost finished with letter 'B'.
Lovely readers... I'm curious, what are your top 5 most played songs (check your play counts)?
23 comments:
please tell what the sick-signs were! i shiver at the thought of my ex-hard drive dying! i did a clean out when my laptop almost died last year, and even though it was good to get rit of a lot of stuff, i do find i have forgotten some good music in the process.. right now my top 5 songs are all Jens Lekman...
die, blogger. i carefully explained (defended myself on) each of my songs, and now it's gone!
so now. a quick run-down. itunes top 5:
inspiring thunderstorms (ha. plays on repeat on nights i can't sleep.)
abc - jackson five (my alarm clock song. generally plays about 10 times before i wake up. used to be catchy, now i just hate it. but it eventually does the trick.)
zombie - cranberries (revisited the 90s lately. a LOT)
paper bag - fiona apple
harajuku girls - gwen stefani
it's depressing how much of a rut i get into when it comes to music. looking at those play counts really makes that clear.
top 5:
1. You Showed Me - The Turtles
2. Nantes - Beirut
3. Your are the Light - Jens Lekman
4. Again and Again - The Bird and the Bee
5. Where Do You Got To (My Lovely) - Peter Sardstedt
Hmm.. I can see what a rut is..
the entire Kate Nash album, and Natasha Bedingfield's "Unwritten" which I 100% blame on the fact that it motivates me on the treadmill for some unknown reason!
I get stuck on certain albums, which I listen to over and over on repeat.
Currently:
"Mount Wroclai (Idle Days)" - Beirut
"Howlin' a Gale" - Howe Gelb
"I Feel it All" - Feist
"Wake Up" - Arcade Fire
"Wraith Pinned to the Mist and Other Games" - Of Montreal
"Some Crap About the Future" - Electric President
Bonus track:
"15 Step" - Radiohead
OOOOoooo....Bruce Springsteen always tops my list but here are my latest....As you can say I'm all over the place...
1. What it is- Mark Knopfler
2. Do it- Nelly Furtado
3. Hard Sun- Eddie Vedder
4. Din Din Wo- Habib Koite and Bamada
5. Bodies- Drowning pool
Now, I'm wondering what is your top 5?
I'm also wondering about your top five! Post! :)
1. Last Night - Motion City Soundtrack
2. Call It Off - Tegan & Sara
3. Gonna Make You Love Me - Ryan Adams
4. My Favourite Book - Stars
5. The Luckiest - Ben Folds
Oh, cute...mine is..
1) Wish you were here - Pink Floyd
2) Long Nights - Eddie Vedder (from the Into the Wild Soundtrack)...and it's only be out a few months so that's kind of scary.
3) Tangerine - Led Zeppelin
4) American Baby - Dave Mathews Band
5) Money - Pink Floyd (I'm surprised about that one)
...It's funny how you don't even realize what you're listening to the most.
I really like your idea of spring cleaning your music. It's time for me too, doing such exploring and shifting and changing. It's really wonderful, why not have a soundtrack to reflect that? In the meantime, these are my top five.
1. The Way You Look Tonight
- Billie Holiday
2. Wouldn't It Be Nice
-The Beach Boys
3. Cold Sweat (Parts 1 & 2)
-James Brown
4. Redemption Song
-Bob Marley
5. Back to Black
-Amy Winehouse
Oh! Spring cleaning iTunes sound like an excellent idea. And I admire your bravery of (gasp!) deleting all the music.
1. I Turn My Camera On - Spoon
2. Tear You Apart - She Wants Revenge
3. Suture Up Your Future - Queens of the Stone Age
4. You Know I'm No Good - Amy Winehouse
5. Toothpaste Kisses - The Maccabees
1. there's too much love - belle & sebastian
2. jonathan david - belle & sebastian
3. funny little frog - belle & sebastian
4. over and over again (lost & found)- clap your hands say yeah
5. painter in your pocket - destroyer
yeah, i´m belle & sebastian obsessed… though I never thought funny little frog would come up in the list.
Good on you for starting over! My, such a big step. I admire you. But it makes sense. I have a lot of music on my ipod that I haven't even listened to. And I desparately needto get an external harddrive for all my music to free up the hard drive on my computer. Ok:
1. Still I wake up in the morning thinking of you - Goma (thanks to Jo, the Belle & Sebastian fan for introduvcing me to this song!)
2. Tiny Little Fracures - Snow Patrol
3.You are my face - Wilco
4. Say it to me now - Glen Hansard (Once)
5. The first day of my life - Brighteyes
these are modest, only because i just got a new computer and only JUST transferred my music, like, yesterday:
the dodos - fools
glos - all love
coconut records - west coast
belaire - step step step
the kills - u.r.a. fever
x
allison
Great idea! I might have to try this on my own blog!!
Here's my list:
-Sand in My Shoes-Dido (Hani Num Mixshow-Dance Mix)
-When the Dawn Breaks-Narcotic Thrust
-Starlight-Muse (I don't know why this isn't my top-I listen to it constantly!)
-Seven Days in Sunny June-Jamiroquai
-Stranger Than Fiction-Bad Religion
I've got a very wide tast in music but my favorites are dance and alternative.
Good luck re-organizing, I can't imagine having to re-load all my music!!!
oh this is such a great idea, i need to revamp my playlist too. i think i'll do the same on my next blog post :) so anyway, my current top 5:
1. summer sun - koop
2. nighttiming - coconut records
3. always a relief - the radio dept.
4. stars in their eyes - just jack
5. einstein - gabriella cilmi
Scary how often I listen to the top 5... I definitely can relate to the music rut.
1. Down Here Below -Steve Earle
2. Same Mistake- James Blunt
3. Mr. Pitiful- Matt Costa
4. 1234- Feist
5. By Your Side- Sade
1. Happiness--Goldfrapp
2. Umbrella--Marie Digby
3. I Wish You Love--Rachel Yamagata
4. The Fear You Won't Fall--Joshua Radin and Ingrid Michaelson
5. Real Love--Regina Spektor
6. Anyone Else But You-- Moldy Peaches
Added one for good luck! This is my fave Spring Mix!
My songs:
1) What a wonderful World
2) Somewhere over the Rainbow
both by Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
3)"Defying Gravity" song from "Wicked".
4)True Colors by Phil Collins
5) Calypso by John Denver
I need songs that get me moving and singing at the top of my lungs.
hi, you have a very good selection in music. my most played songs in a weekly basis are:
1. Breathe(2am)- Anna Nalick
2. Anything Norah Jones,mainly Not too Late or Seven Years
3. Over My Head- The Fray
4. Turn- Travis
5. Somewhere Only We Know- Keane
I also enjoy Aqualung, Coldplay, Debussy, Chantal Kreviazuk and some 50's.
Mette - I had a Western Digital My book and it was quite jampacked, and used daily and frequently. Signs - it just started processing super slow, and later it just wouldn't upload on my desktop. Hope this helps..
Oh ... for those who asked, some of my frequently played songs that I can remember (before the spring clean) were:
1: J.S. Bach: Cello Suite #1 In G, BWV 1007 - Yo-Yo Ma
2: Real Love - Regina Spektor
3: Postcards From Italy - Beirut
4: Fighting Away the Tears - Feist & Mocky
5:Heartbeats - Jose Gonzalez
here's my top 5 on my top 25 at the moment
1) australia - the shins
2)pony - erin mccarley
3) centennial - tokyo police club
4) home life - john mayer
5) I can't make me - butterfly boucher
definitely give them all a listen, their great.
and keep up the great blogging
This happened to my mac, and I ended up having to get a new computer! Good call, and great save!!!
top five on itunes:
(They're all pretty inspirational I might add)
1) You can get it if you really want, Jimmy Cliff
2) I can see clearly now, Johnny Nash
3) Cool Change, Little River Band
4) Somewhere over the rainbow, Israel Kamakawiwo'
5) Three Little Birds, Bob Marley
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