ALSO ON MY IPOD: LOTS OF SCUFFS
The inevitable has happened: other than allowing for about 750 MB of breathing room for podcasts and so forth, my 80GB iPod has been completely filled. This gave me a pretense to put together this set of somewhat incomplete but still mostly-representative stats.TOTAL SONGS: 13,446
BY DECADE
1940s: 21*
1950s: 408
1960s: 1,700
1970s: 3,591**
1980s: 1,451
1990s: 1,970***
2000s: 4,305****
*the vast majority consists of Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis.
**this number is skewed somewhat by the fact that I spent a good deal of time over the last few years doing research on hip hop samples, downloading untold numbers of obscure soul comps and assembling 100-plus-song mixes of the best tracks from each year of the '70s. If only Mike Watt wrangled somebody more gripping than Eddie Vedder to sing this, it could have all been averted.
***the decade I went to high school, and it squeaks past the '60s with maybe 20 albums' worth of material. Huh.
****see, I care about things happening in the present day, jeez, lay off
BY GENRE
Hip hop/rap (including crunk; grime; indie rap; instrumental hip hop/turntablism): 2,828
R&B (including disco and funk): 2,386
Rock (general non-punk/metal/indie stuff, including garage rock; rockabilly; surf rock): 2,348
Dance music (acid jazz; big beat; breakbeat; drum’n’bass; dubstep; electro; house; IDM; industrial; jungle; techno; trip hop; UK garage): 1,234 (!)
Punk (hardcore; new wave; post-punk): 1,194
Jazz (big band; free jazz; fusion; Latin jazz; soul jazz; vocal jazz): 803
Indie rock: 492
Reggae (dancehall; dub; rocksteady; ska): 445
Pop (an indistinct and nebulous catchall; includes French pop, indie pop and non-jazz "vocal" music i.e. Sinatra): 347
Progressive/acid/experimental rock (Krautrock; noise; post-rock; prog; psych): 280
Metal (sloppily demarcated between "heavy metal" [pre-'80s] and just "metal" ['80s-onward]): 256
Soundtracks (film scores; library music; video game music): 256
Blues: 242
Various non-Western/sub-equatorial music (afrobeat; Brazilian pop; Middle Eastern pop; etc.): 58
Mash-ups: 48
Country (alt- and otherwise): 46
Latin pop (salsa;... actually, just salsa): 26
Lounge: 23
Folk: 14 (one of them is Peter Stampfel’s cover of "Goldfinger")
Comedy: 1 (a rejected Ween Pizza Hut jingle with gratuitous cursing; may be deleted)
Leftovers, statistical anomalies and other screw-ups: 119
ARTISTS WITH 40+ SONGS
(note: I chose 40 as a cutoff point because I don't want anyone to know I have 38 songs by Night Ranger*)
A Tribe Called Quest (45); The Beatles (49); Beck (79); Bob Dylan (72); Captain Beefheart (52); The Chemical Brothers (58); The Clash (56); Clinic (40); De La Soul (49); Ghostface Killah (74); Guitar Wolf (40); Husker Du (43); J Dilla/Jay Dee (59); James Brown (84); Jay-Z (60); Led Zeppelin (68); The Meters (54); MF DOOM (41)**; Miles Davis (78); Minutemen (73); Missy Elliott (56); Ornette Coleman (50); Otis Redding (66); OutKast (42); Pavement (95)***; Prince (60); Public Enemy (46); Quasimoto (47); Queens of the Stone Age (48); Rahsaan Roland Kirk (60); Ray Charles (52); The Replacements (56); The Rolling Stones (130); Sonic Youth (81); Steely Dan (52); Stereolab (56); Stevie Wonder (42); Sun Ra (54); T.I. (50); Talking Heads (52); Thelonious Monk (59); Thin Lizzy (60); The White Stripes (68); The Who (68); Wire (42); Wu-Tang Clan (63)
*not really, just "Sister Christian"
**not counting his half-dozen aliases or Madvillainy
***includes lots of extra bonus outtake crap from L.A.’s Desert Origins and Sordid Sentinels that I will probably eventually delete unless it's as good as/better than "All My Friends"
At some point while organizing my MP3s I decided to stop poring through each and every track in my library to see which of them were iPod-worthy and just dumped everything on there that could fit. This has resulted in a serious glut of stuff, which will eventually be trimmed down (I am not counting on having 50 T.I. MP3s on this thing three months from now) to make room for other, more essential stuff ("only 84 James Brown songs?") -- the usual process. Though if you'd told me ten years ago that carrying around a portable computerized device containing a dozen thousand songs and occasionally swapping out about ten albums or so here and there would gradually become a "usual process," I'd wonder what kind of William Gibson fan fiction you were writing.
Don't worry, there'll be a point to all this lookit-my-collection business soon. Hopefully some questions will be answered. (Sample question: "Really, you like Beck that much?")
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posted by Nate P. @ 4:38 PM
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