Take Two

Having realised that I almost exclusively use iTunes for listening to music, I’ve gone through my CD collection and ripped them at higher quality. You’d think this would use a lot more disk space, but it’s actually not very bad; I’ve taken the opportunity to go through and remove duplicates, which help.

I also had a look a playlist I’ve not noticed before—I cannot even remember if I’ve created it, or it’s some iTunes default list. At any rate, the list contains the 25 most played songs in my collection, and it is an interesting mix. The list contains: A Perfect Circle (8 songs), Anneli Drecker (1), Björk (4), Massive Attack (1), Paradise Lost (1), Tool (3), Ugress (4) and Vanessa Carlton (3).

Björk managed to slip four songs into my top six—very impressive. Jóga is in first place, followed by Play Dead; the fifth entry has Venus As A Boy, and Hunter takes sixth. What I find really peculiar is that while I like most of the work by the rest of the artists in this list, those songs by Björk are actually the only ones of hers I like. At all. It really is a love/hate relationship.

I was going to link to all the artists’ web-sites above, but showing my hippy nature (again—this is getting embarrassing) I chose to link only to Ugress because they have several songs available for download on their site, free of charge. Also, it’s not a crappy Flash site that invariably requires Flash version N+1, where N is the version you currently have.