Digg ThisI have been passed the Musical Baton by Eric Meyer. I have been buried with work of late, and I haven’t had a chance to read Eric’s post to know that I was summoned. My sincerest apologies…
OK, so I’ll get on with it:
Total volume of music files on my computer: 185 songs, 13.2 hours if played consecutively, totaling 737.9MB. Yep, that’s Mega-bytes.
Why so little? Well, since we moved into the house, I have misplaced half of my CD’s, for one. I’m missing stuff like Chant, most of my Frank Zappa (save for “Joe’s Garage” and “Sheik Yerbouti”), all of my Pink Floyd.
Second, I am building up my files at work, where we have iTunes shared across a network. If you count all of the music I can listen to, it would total something near 10,915 songs, which would play for approximately 49 days, and total about 50GB. As there were three people missing from work today, these numbers are estimates; also figure in about 15% duplication (which is far less than I suspected there would actually be).
The last CD I bought was: Miles Davis, Kind of Blue.
Song playing right now: “The Flavor” by Oscar Lopez (Seduction).
Five Ten songs albums I listen to a lot, or that mean a lot to me (in no particular order):
- Dark Side of the Moon — Pink Floyd (1973)
- Friday Night in San Francisco — Al DiMeola, John McLaughlin & Paco DeLucia (1981)
- Peter Gabriel Plays Live — Peter Gabriel (1983)
- The Telluride Sessions — Strength in Numbers (1989)
- The White Album — The Beatles (1968)
- Offramp — Pat Metheny (1983)
- Holst Suite No. 1 in E-flat; Holst Suite No. 2 in F; Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks; Bach’s Fantasia in G — Frederick Fennell directing the Cleveland Symphonic Winds, which, by the way, was the first digital recording ever, by the local company Telarc. This bad boy’s been on my favorites list since 1978.
- Mozart Symphony No. 40/Beethoven Symphony No. 1 — Frans Brüggen & The Orchestra of the 18th Century (1985)
- The Gold Collection — Glenn Miller (released 1997)
- Moontan — Golden Earring (1973)
I have been toying with the idea of creating my all-time 100 favorite rock songs for a post, and haven’t gotten around to it yet. Perhaps soon, before summer (if it ever gets here).
I hereby pass this baton to (in no particular order, but with a particular order):
- Lori Kozey (I just gotta know!)
- Grayden MacLennon
- George Nemeth
- Big John
Now to get that iPod Mini, and an FM transmitter for the car…
May 23rd, 2005 at 10:40 pm
Skip the FM transmitter and save ~17,500 pennies to get the mechanism by which you plug the iPod directly into the stereo. I can’t get enough volume out of the transmitter, and almost all the transmitter stations are used, so static happens. Often.
May 23rd, 2005 at 10:47 pm
Nah… ya gotta go either high-end or low-end of the scale… besides, I can’t plug any type of external player into my car stereo: it’s a ‘99, before anybody even thought of attaching something to the stereo…
May 24th, 2005 at 6:47 am
It’s a gizmo you have the car stereo guys install: http://www.mp3yourcar.com/ . Or I you can do it yourself if you’re handy with such things. I hardly ever use the transmitter anymore, it’s so annoying.