I’ve always had a lot of interest in music. Incapable of making
it myself, I have a deep respect and love for those who can.
My favorite artists would be
described as complex without complication. The best songs ideally invoke subtle
depths that provide plenty of food for thought. Songs don’t have to go all over
the place. Contrapuntal harmonies don’t have to be at loggerheads throughout
and singers don’t need to command seven octaves when what they can do with two
or three just blows you out of the water.
Of course not everything I listen to needs to be so terrifically
complex and arch and subtle. Sometimes I just listen to stuff because I enjoy
it and it makes me happy. But most of my favorite artists and music got that
way because of emotionally satisfying chord progressions and powerful poetry.
One of the coolest things about being alive right now is that if
you hear it and love it, you can almost certainly own it. I bought my tjPod a
year ago, recently replacing it with a tjShuffle. They’ve accompanied me on
more than 500 miles of walking.
Along with a number of iTunes purchases, my collection has been
growing since high school. My 45s and vinyl LPs and my earliest mixes taped off
the radio gave way to cassettes, cassette singles and eventually CDs. I’ve been
buying mp3s almost exclusively for the past year. It’s a little weird not
having the CD, but the tradeoff in convenience is incredible.
In anticipation of my tjPod arriving, I ripped all my CDs to my
hard-drive, and then brought my cassettes in as well, which was a tedious but
ultimately rewarding process. Altogether, between CDs and cassettes and purchases,
I’ve got something like 3,000-plus songs, quite a few of which I love.
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