Musical Passions

Newer albums simply don't move the same way that the albums of my youth did. After all, U2's Joshua Tree was the soundtrack of my life. It was also played so much in my tape player that it got warped. Now, with a digital library of over 90 Gigabytes (17k+ songs for those curious) before I've begun digitizing my CD's in earnest, no one album gets the attention it used to and even, perhaps, deserves. It's not that I'm not passionate about music in general. Actually, I feel addicted to it sometimes. I can't work without it and it makes me giddy with excitement to work so closely with the folks from iTunes (of course I can't talk about why--neener, neener). I've felt so bad for some of my digital files that I've resorted to creative playlist creation. In an effort to democratize the process of my music listening I've created Smart Playlists that capture all of the songs of a particular genre that have a play-count equal to zero. This might seem a little extreme to some of you. but I know that to others it will seem perfectly normal. Welcome to my mania. Oh, this post was inspired by this Forbes article about music's passion being gone....B.S.

Written while groovin' to Sirènes de la Fête from the album “Brazilian Girls” by Brazilian Girls

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