tunequest

Another year come, another year gone. After spending 2006 evaluating the status of my iTunes library and trimming some fat, I took the opportunity in 2007 to explore a lot of new material. And I must say that overall it was a pretty good year for both my library and for music in general. I had added 1,891 songs to my library by the end of October, which marks ...

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When I began the original tunequest in February of last year, I had ~6000 songs in my iTunes library that had a play count of zero. Part of that list consisted of old CDs that just hadn't been played since they were digitized. A good number of them were the result of over-zealous music collection and exploration. That was one of the reasons I decided to undertake the endeavor ...

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As promised, I dug up the column I once wrote about the legendary Martin Denny's infamous (and highly collectable) Exotic Moog record (1969). It wasn't until after I wrote this that I learned that Denny didn't actually play any of the music on the record. In a 1997 interview with Cool and Strange Music Magazine, he revealed that Liberty, his record label, took control of the project and had ghost ...

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65 looks like an impressive number, but today it's not. whereas the 66 songs from yesterday represent just over 5 hours of music, today's 65 only amount to 3.5 hours. this is partially because the severed dreams soundtrack is only 33 minutes for its 22 songs, while mahler's 6th from yesterday clocks in near 90 minutes but counts as only 4 songs. in any event, i did hear some ...

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Highlights: John Williams score for A.I. Artificial Intelligence is a breathtakingly moving film score, particularly The Mecha World suite. The man was on the mark with that one. In a similar vein, I also enjoyed movements I. and II. from Mahler's 6th Symphony performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra as well as some groovin' Les Baxter. I removed a dull number by Hooverphonic and a non-song by An April March.

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