andrew wales

In late 2020 I realised I'd spent most of my adult life buying more CDs than I actually had the time to fully appreciate. I set myself a project: stop buying music, and listen to what I had. I thought about putting all my tracks on shuffle and letting rip but wanted something ...

Very happy to now have my very own @Number10cat thanks to the people at @Makeship. He’s even cuter in real life!

LIES. It was just water after all.

HOLY MOLY I’D BETTER STAND BACK!

The next artist is D.A.F., and my only album is Das Beste Von DAF. I don't remember buying this album, but I ripped it in 2020 and have never listened to it. Here goes!

I've now listened to D:ream On Vol. 1 a total of 66 times. Aside from the obvious singles (U R The Best Thing and Things Can Only Get Better), I actually quite liked some of the other tracks on the album. I think Blame It On Me is my favourite.

My only D:Ream album is called D:Ream On Vol. 1. This was their first album, released in 1993, and includes some of their biggest hits. I don't remember buying it. My computer software program shows that I ripped the CD in 2018 and listened to it once. Here goes!

The Czars was the last of my artists beginning with "C" (a band would be hard pushed to be sorted after Czars, but I'm sure there's an indie band called Czzzzxxxz somewhere). The first of my D artists is "D:Ream" (the punctuation means they get sorted first under D).

This album reminds me of the Divine Comedy, and Jeff Buckley. This is a good thing.

My music-playing software program shows that I have listened to this album 19 times, and it's time for me to move on. I enjoyed this album! My personal favourites were the tracks Drug, Side Effects, Killjoy, Roger's Song, Anger, and Autumn.

and for further quantification purposes, the music library is 50,855 tracks, with a total play time duration of 137.9 days.

And yes, that's 57 times in a row without listening to anything else. Let the judgement commence.

For a bit of further context, my play count for Lenses Alien by Cymbals Eat Guitars shows that I listened to the album 57 times before moving on.

I had a similar problem with my DVDs and starting by ripping them to a NAS. It made browsing (and organising) so much easier for me.

First thoughts: that's a really familiar voice. A quick search later, it is of course John Grant, whose solo work I'm somewhat familiar with. I hadn't even realised he'd been in a band. Second thoughts: I like this.

I don't remember buying The Czar's album "The Ugly People Vs The Beautiful People". I couldn't even remember having heard of the artist. But here we are. The album is from 2001, and it's been unplayed in my library since I ripped it from CD in 2020.

and my findings. Better late than never, here we are. In nearly four years, I'm about 20% of the way through (I got really bogged down in Carole King, listening to her work (and nothing else) for literally months). #allmusicalphabeticalorder

more structured. I decided to list all my artists alphabetically and work through them, album by album, only moving on when I felt I'd given everything the attention it deserved. I had 1775 artists in my library, and recently started to regret not recording the journey ...

Thanks, Laura. Will do.

This probably doesn't help.