Each move requires re-establishing the music catalogue. This time around I realized what a snapshot in time the medium represents. I suppose we could carbon-date backward through eight-track to phonograph and realize they demark distinct periods in history. I happen to have the Indigo Girls on both tape and CD; but has OK GO been on anything but MP3? So I realized my cassettes represent basically 1985 (age 12: first tape ... Anne Murray's A Little Good News) to 1998 (Great Expectations soundtrack ... discount rack ... only wanted the Tori Amos songs.) Anyway, I found myself making a bar chart on the floor. Analysis informs me: Queensryche is the solitary Q; I never bought ZZ Top; and that precious Anne Murray collection must be what pushed the M's above all else.
Saturday, July 7, 2007
Music as Tree Rings
Each move requires re-establishing the music catalogue. This time around I realized what a snapshot in time the medium represents. I suppose we could carbon-date backward through eight-track to phonograph and realize they demark distinct periods in history. I happen to have the Indigo Girls on both tape and CD; but has OK GO been on anything but MP3? So I realized my cassettes represent basically 1985 (age 12: first tape ... Anne Murray's A Little Good News) to 1998 (Great Expectations soundtrack ... discount rack ... only wanted the Tori Amos songs.) Anyway, I found myself making a bar chart on the floor. Analysis informs me: Queensryche is the solitary Q; I never bought ZZ Top; and that precious Anne Murray collection must be what pushed the M's above all else.
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