Your desert island MP3's
They used to make you choose your top 3 pieces of vinyl to live with for the rest of your life. Desert Island Discs... Of course we've moved on to CD's on the radio contests, but technology has twisted this just a little more.
Now we rip burn and sync our way to music heaven in minutes. Missing my iPod today (shut up!) has brought a tear to my eye (figuratively) and a desire to post more because well there is no sound but my fingers hitting the keys.
So what playlist of songs would you choose if you could choose any track off any album anywhere. No not just what itunes has for sale. Anything off of any album.
What is the limit. I thought about 700Mb as that's what an MP3 CD will hold... but no... Who actually does that? I could say 20 GB as that is a nice average iPod. Too much. What crap do you have on your iPod that you never listen to?
It's not about the size, it's all about quality here people. If we make it too wide nobody will do it. If we go too narrow then it will be too hard. In this "give it to me now give it to me free and put a smile on your face while you're doing it" kind of world we can't make things too hard. Can we?
So you get up to 3 play lists (yes you must show the order)
of no more than 10 songs each
for a grand total of no more than 3 hours.
Maybe you just want your top 10 songs.
Comment on this post with your answer, if it's not too hard for you. Or if you prefer to stick it in your blog then just drop a link in the comments or send it to me and I'll link it as an answer.
I'm not going to list mine in the post for two reasons. 1. I don't have my ipod with me (again shut up, Dave) and b. I want mine in the comments as well.
Note to the privacy freaks out there: One you browsed here so I already know who you are. OK I don't, but that worried you for a sec didn't it? and c. You can list your comments anonymously but at least list a first name so when we make fun of you for your choices we have some moniker to point with. Otherwise you'll forever be known as the idiot who picked super tramp on their first playlist.
Ready? ... GO!
Now we rip burn and sync our way to music heaven in minutes. Missing my iPod today (shut up!) has brought a tear to my eye (figuratively) and a desire to post more because well there is no sound but my fingers hitting the keys.
So what playlist of songs would you choose if you could choose any track off any album anywhere. No not just what itunes has for sale. Anything off of any album.
What is the limit. I thought about 700Mb as that's what an MP3 CD will hold... but no... Who actually does that? I could say 20 GB as that is a nice average iPod. Too much. What crap do you have on your iPod that you never listen to?
It's not about the size, it's all about quality here people. If we make it too wide nobody will do it. If we go too narrow then it will be too hard. In this "give it to me now give it to me free and put a smile on your face while you're doing it" kind of world we can't make things too hard. Can we?
So you get up to 3 play lists (yes you must show the order)
of no more than 10 songs each
for a grand total of no more than 3 hours.
Maybe you just want your top 10 songs.
Comment on this post with your answer, if it's not too hard for you. Or if you prefer to stick it in your blog then just drop a link in the comments or send it to me and I'll link it as an answer.
I'm not going to list mine in the post for two reasons. 1. I don't have my ipod with me (again shut up, Dave) and b. I want mine in the comments as well.
Note to the privacy freaks out there: One you browsed here so I already know who you are. OK I don't, but that worried you for a sec didn't it? and c. You can list your comments anonymously but at least list a first name so when we make fun of you for your choices we have some moniker to point with. Otherwise you'll forever be known as the idiot who picked super tramp on their first playlist.
Ready? ... GO!
posted by J.R. at 1:07 PM
5 Comments:
OK, I'll start with one playlist. This is hard! I find myself rejecting some of my favorite songs because they don't fit. Note that if you're on the same subnet as me you can get this playlist as "sample" on my iTunes music share.
As I Went Out One Morning - Bob Dylan
Ohio River Boat Song - Bonnie 'Prince' Billie
Gone for Good - The Shins
Radio War - Iron & Wine
Saint Simon - The Shins
Promising Light - Iron & Wine
New Slang - The Shins
What Wonder - Little Wings
What Deaner was Talkin' About - Ween
Rich Wife Full of Happiness - Bonnie 'Prince' Billie (in fact this has holding steady as my favorite song for about a year now)
This is so cool. I actually played Mo's playlist (all legal and shit too). This is really hard and I don't have my playlist yet. I do have my iPod today, but I listened to Mo's list all the way through this morning.
I'm faced with the fact that stuff I like right now will not be stuff I like in 5 years. So I'm giving this quite a bit of thought. Not as hard as photo day, but pretty hard.
ok guys, either you're dating yourselves, or I've been out of the music loop a bit too long. The only name on there I recognize is Bob Dylan. WTF?!
Most of the stuff on my list is just from the past couple of years, which gave me second thoughts about this being an all-time list, but on the other hand maybe i've just discovered better music recently.. Maybe I'm dating myself anyway, though (who else would? haha! Thanks, thanks, I'll be here all week)
Fuck - I need to get up to speed and stop listening to all that techno/house crap. I'm being brainwashed! Heeeellllpp meeee!
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