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February 17, 2007
After today, consider me gone
Today while driving in my Car, listening to my iPod, which was plugged into my car stereo, it dawned on me that the concept of the killer CD that you can't stop listening to, may be dying.
Back in the day, one would buy an album on vinyl, cassette, or CD and, if it was good, they would play it till the record skipped, tape wore out, or CD froze up. Now we buy tracks, we may even buy whole CDs, but how often do we listen to the whole thing?
I know some people still do that, but I really don't. I create mammoth mixes of differing genres that can play for hours or days without repeating. The major downside of that, is that I don't know the songs by heart anymore.
The title of this post is a line from a Sting song Consider Me Gone, I knew it and the few other tracks from those CD's by heart. That was because I would be so enamored of them that I listened to them all the time, but that was also because I had done that with previous albums and grown tired of them. It was a cycle, buy a record, play it to death till the next one came out. Now, I know a line or two from a song, but usually, it gets played once and then I am off to listen to one of the other 13,336 tracks in my iTunes library. That's 40.2 days worth of fresh, non-repeating music.
I'm surprised I know any of the new songs at all!
Posted by Mike at February 17, 2007 8:00 PM
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I used to do that all the time. You can hit repeat on the Ipod, and it will play it over and over again, til you get tired of it. That's my suggestion.
Posted by: Robyn at February 17, 2007 9:35 PM
Good point!! I don't have quite as much music as you do but I often listen to music I buy once or twice and then no more. Christmas music is different though!!! We listen to it over and over during the winter holidays and really enjoy it. Why not the rest of it???
Posted by: Dad at February 17, 2007 9:37 PM
I personally like the "old" songs of the 50's, I can sing all the words of most of them. I rarely listen to the music of today, Perhaps I should.
Posted by: mom at February 18, 2007 7:55 AM
I hate that about my iPod...I need new music I feel like I play the same music over and over. My definition of new music is simply music that is new to me...
Posted by: sally at March 5, 2007 2:31 PM
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