Listened to Galaxy 500 today for the first time in more than seven years, which reminded me I also needed to hunt down a Blue Airplanes album.
Got a copy of The Queen is Dead on Saturday, and Exile on Main Street is being bought for me probably as we speak. Pornography and Faith I'll pick up in Australia, because the Cure only seem to merit greatest hits albums in Japan's CD shops these days.
And I've Closer in mind for the way home, though I might go for Blood on the Tracks or some Badly Drawn Boy instead. Or some Wedding Present. Bizarro, maybe.
iPod is good for you. It makes you remember. And its church is ecumenical: it accepts Belgian crooners and bearded Irish folk singers/piss artists alike.
Posted by Setsunai at February 24, 2004 4:24 PM | TrackBack"iPod is good for you...", sounds like a brand of cereal. It could be the next religion. Then again if you drop your beloved iPod it could be like the end of the world.
But I agree, music is great, in whatever format you listen to it. Like you say it can conjure up great memories and terrific feelings.
Comes from the famous Guinness advertising slogan, "Guinness is good for you," where the rhythm of the actual sentence is so solid you feel the meaning must be too, but as we, and our bellies, know only too well, the meaning isn't sound at all.
Posted by: Setsunai at February 24, 2004 6:14 PM | Permalink to CommentIt seems that the Ipod is a little like the compilation tapes which Im sure everyone made when they were kids! Good to see The Cure are making it into your list! I just heard "Six Different Ways" on a film I rented the other night and it was so weird hearing that old tune again.
Posted by: MickMcD at February 24, 2004 6:59 PM | Permalink to CommentYes and no Mick.
The compilation tape aspect is there, and souped up with loads of technological options (self-creating compilations based on genre, ranking etc.) Which is great but the danger is you stop listening to full albums and "greatest hit-ize" your music collection.
The no side is that I never remember carrying hundreds of compilation tapes around with me in my pocket every day. Which is the real beauty of the iPod. I have nearly 300 albums on mine now, and it is nowhere near full. And the empty space makes you want to fill it, so you start remembering old classics, things you used to love, and digging them out or rebuying them (loads of my stuff is at home in Dublin on tape or record). And all this stuff has loads of memories, which come back as you listen to it again.
And then there's the design: Apple leave Microsoft for dead in design.
Posted by: Setsunai at February 25, 2004 11:06 AM | Permalink to Comment