en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 60 http://www.audioscrobbler.net/data/webservices http://www.last.fm/user/Goatfeatures/journal The Last.fm journal for Goatfeatures. Last.fm journals are a place to talk about all things music. http://www.last.fm/user/Goatfeatures/journal/2006/03/07/53sl_alphabetical_mindfugblur Tue, 7 Mar 2006 18:25:36 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/Goatfeatures/journal/2006/03/07/53sl_alphabetical_mindfugblur I may scream if I hear any of the following Blur songs ever again: Country House, Stereotypes, Charmless Man. And there are more. But it's my own fault.

I started on The Plan last year, after realising just how many CDs sit on the shelf and never get played. I'm working through them all, alphabetically. Each gets loaded up onto iTunes in turn, so that there are 100-ish songs loaded altogether (about a day's worth). Nothing may be deleted until after its sixth listen - this is to ensure that I give everything a fighting chance. They can stay on there for much longer than 6 listens if I feel like it, but no less. And nothing can be added until the number of tracks has got back down to under 100.

The other rule is that I only have to do the alphabetical thing for every other CD I load up, or set of songs I download. Otherwise I'd never listen to anything new.

There are some real downsides to The Plan. The CDs in this house aren't all mine, and some of them - especially the lesser Britpop owned by my boyfriend - I'm not especially interested in. Yet, according to the rules of The Plan, I must play them all. 6 bloody times. Which, at the moment, is doing my nut in.

Some Blur I like. I enjoyed Modern Life is Rubbish, and the later albums. The Great Escape, however, is awful. Really formulaic, churn-out-another-Parklife- before-the-end-of-the-year rubbish. If it wasn't enough to listen to it 6 times, J also has some of the singles from the album, some of which thoughtfully include multiple versions of the same song. And these all have to go through the 6 times thing. But now, just to break my spirit, the final Blur CD is: The Best of Blur, with extra live CD! So I have to listen to them all again another 6 times, plus, for some tracks, yet another six times on the frigging live CD.

I should have learnt my lesson when I got to Baddiel and Skinner (please note: not mine) just before Christmas. That was a dark week.

Stereotypes has come on as I type this. I feel the need to go out and kill.]]>