Comment on September 8th, 2007.
I'm not really fond of "I'm Easy." But in the context of Nashville, it is rather dramatic when Carradine sings it.
He may be psycho. but no one does Phil Spector better than Phil Spector.
Comment on September 9th, 2007.
Yeah, I kind of don't have the patience to ever listen to "I'm Easy" but I have been known to watch Nasvhille more than once in a single day.
Shaun Cassidy's "Da Doo Ron Ron" is amazing to me. It turns one of the best songs in all of history into one of the worst. I've never in my life managed to listen to it all the way through.
Comment on September 9th, 2007.
I've always been interested by genuine two-hit wonders, like Golden Earring.
I loved Disco Duck when I was a kid, but I shudder to imagine just how awful it probably sounds now.
Love these updates--it'll be interesting to see when the tipping point comes where you're not just sifting out the utter dross.
Comment on September 9th, 2007.
Another genuine two-hit wonder, I think: Sugarloaf.
I think I've already reached the point where I'm eliminating good songs, but that's due to the sloppy way my mp3 player handles shuffle play: several songs have come up three or four times while many, many songs have yet to play at all. So there are inevitably some perfectly decent songs that get eliminated because they've had the opportunity to outwear their welcome, while a lot of dross that would get eliminated on first play just hasn't come up. I suppose some of them might sneak into the last five hundred, though I hope not. This is going to take me a long time; there's still 860 songs left on the player (and I'm way behind on updates).
Comment on September 11th, 2007.
>several songs have come up three or four times while many, many songs have yet to play at all
Off the top of my head, this seems like a perfectly reasonable outcome, statistically. I take it you'd prefer to have every song played once before repeats? (Which is what would happen on an iPod =if= you listened to it in one session, but it doesn't have any memory if, say, you listen to an album and then go back to shuffle-play.)
Comment on September 11th, 2007.
Yeah, I wish it played every song before starting to repeat. It might, I suppose, if I didn't turn it off.
Comment on September 11th, 2007.
Dunno about your mp3 player, but in iTunes you can set up a "Smart Playlist" with play count = 0 and play nothing but songs you haven't listened to before. I find that a very useful feature.
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