I have, according to my iTunes column browser, 2065 albums. This is a slightly misleading number. I have 160 CDs worth of audiobooks, a large collection of randomly acquired cover songs that are counted as individual albums even though they only have one song, and an indeterminate number of random mixes from former and current friends and lovers.
This is a difficult amount of music to know well. To play it all in order would take two months(64.1 days, to quote iTunes), even skipping the audiobooks. I always say to myself that I want to get to know my music better, and so I'm embarking on this project. And because I like to do so, I'm giving myself some rules.
1. With iTunes on shuffle, I will jump between 5 songs, not including any audiobook tracks or unidentified random tracks.
2. I will choose out of those 5 tracks one album to write about.
3. I will continue to do this until I have written about or declared null and void all albums in my daunting collection.
Some of these posts will be very specific to the album in question. Some of them will be very general discussions of genre and musical characteristics. Some of these will be intensely autobiographical. But I will try and do this.
Wish me luck.
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