This Week in Pod

For a while now, I've been thinking of attempting to post regularly on what it is that I am listening to.

I recently (well, a number of months ago now) gave in and got myself an iPod. What I have been doing in the time since is loading every CD I own into the iPod.

I have a lot of CDs. I have now loaded the first two of the nine crates (That's right. Crates.) of CDs that I have accumulated since the mid-eighties into the thing.

Most played Song

"River Runs Dry" by The Cosmic Rough Riders

This makes sense as the reason it was played so often was my wanting to make sense of the lyrics.

The first stanza goes:

I don't care if the river runs dry
I don't care if the river runs dry
I don't care if the river runs dry
I'm gonna love you till the day I die

Which is fine. Then the rest goes like this:

I don't care if the river it flows
With the blood of dead fishes
To the ocean it goes
To the fisherman's graveyard
The fishermen's friends
Chew the eyes from their sockets
In a vicious revenge

It is a lovely song nevertheless.

I pick ten tracks at random:

Tears for Fears - "Cold"
Robbie Williams - "Let Me Entertain You"
Dexy's Midnight Runners - "Old"
Alison Moyet - "And I Know"
Geoffrey Burgon - "Robin Hood Suite"
Michael Nesmith - "Keep On"
Broken Social Scene - "Ibi Dreams of Pavement"
Arcade Fire - "The Well and the Lighthouse"
Fiona Apple - "Pale September"
The Byrds - "So You Want to be a Rock and Roll Star?"

For hard drive space (and my own sanity) I do have to delete the occasional album. This week I deleted:

Yoko Ono - Onobox

I had completely forgotten that I owned this CD:

The Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique

The last thing that I ripped:

Original Soundtrack - The Harder They Come