A while back, I decided to go through my music collection and make a playlist of my top ten favorite songs, with only one song from each artist ( Read more... )

So I'm bored, and I've been listening my way through Iron Maiden's discography over the last few days, so I decided to order them from worst to best
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From visiting a few Circuit Cities today, I ended up with five new CDs:

Disturbed
Nine Inch Nails
Disturbed
Still more Disturbed
and...
Paramore

One thing that happens with ripping my old tapes is that I get to hear some really cheesy lyrics.

I think I'd be getting less cheese if I were mainlining Gouda than I do from Europe's song about ninjas.

Which has no idea what ninjas were.

(This'll probably be the last post on the subject, though it may be updated over time ( Read more... )

Audacity is well-documented enough that I seem to be able to operate it. I'm currently doing a test-run on an album I've already got on CD ( Read more... )

I've got everything I need to start ripping my tapes. I just went through them for the first time in at least a decade, and there were a lot of surprises:

• I have way more tapes I never got on CD than I thought I did. (I've got 77 to rip, and another four that I have on CD, but there are differences in the track list.)
  
• There's a bunch of stuff in ( Read more... )

...which is to sell me music.

This time, it was Skullcrusher Mountain.

Of course, I need to be careful. At least once I found myself thinking "this band's singer has a really pretty voice". Then I realized that it was my band's singer.

One thing I noticed in the past is that, when I was in a really good mood, the two songs that had the greatest tendency to pop into my head were singularly inappropriate: Black Sabbath's "Paranoid", and Nirvana's "Lithium ( Read more... )

I settle down on the bus, activate all my bluetooth tech, and pick what to listen to on my iPod. Since I have a song wanderring around my head, I pick the playlist I've made for that band...

...and it randomly starts on that song.

OK, I understand the laws of probability say something like this would eventually happen, but it's still kind of