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So, anyway, back to the oft-mentioned nine-disc '90's Alternative Nostalgia Mix from Hell. (I'll pause for the sound of 1,000 eyes rolling heavenward and 500 scroll wheels zipping readers somewhere else.) No, I did not add a tenth disc—when I said it was done, I meant capital-D Done, even when I discovered a few tracks that should've been included but weren't. The playlists were set, finished, good to go, sitting pretty as you please in our iTunes library.
Were. Before the computer crashed last month and wiped out all our playlists. Some days, you just want to kick the Universe right in the kneecaps.
Luckily, the mp3 files themselves were untouched, and I still had a hard copy of the track listings, so it didn't take more than 10 minutes to toss everything back into the original playlists. However, since I'd been offered such a clean slate by Cruel Uncaring Fate, I couldn't resist making the most of it by tweaking a few things:
* rotating in some of those aforementioned tracks that deserved a spot in the final line-up
* reducing the number of repeated artists (the only acts to have more than one song on the master playlist now are R.E.M. and Beck, and I have my reasons for both)
* ditching one song that, embarrassingly, I didn't realize came out in 2001 **
* swapping a few songs for other ones by the same artist that I thought worked better or, in one or two cases, by request
* finding better copies of a few mp3's that turned out to be really bad CD rips
* totally resequencing the whole shebang, because the last few discs of the old version were largely padding (that, and any '90's alternative mix that does not end with Semisonic's "Closing Time" is Just. Plain. Wrong.)
I'm not going to post the track listings as they stand unless people really want me to (don't everybody shout at once), but I do have a bit of a quandary now, because I'd burned a couple of copies of the pre-crash version for distribution to a couple of people who wanted them, and now I'm less than inclined to hand them out because they aren't as "good" as the new version, and I apparently have a large and uncomfortable stick wedged up my fundament about such things. I certainly don't, howvere, wish to just throw them away. Hm. Maybe I can find someone at work I can foist them off on....
** Although I did leave in "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" by the Proclaimers even though it was released in the 1980's, because its greatest chart success only came about with its inclusion on the Benny and Joon soundtrack. Yes, I am JUST THAT PEDANTIC.
Were. Before the computer crashed last month and wiped out all our playlists. Some days, you just want to kick the Universe right in the kneecaps.
Luckily, the mp3 files themselves were untouched, and I still had a hard copy of the track listings, so it didn't take more than 10 minutes to toss everything back into the original playlists. However, since I'd been offered such a clean slate by Cruel Uncaring Fate, I couldn't resist making the most of it by tweaking a few things:
* rotating in some of those aforementioned tracks that deserved a spot in the final line-up
* reducing the number of repeated artists (the only acts to have more than one song on the master playlist now are R.E.M. and Beck, and I have my reasons for both)
* ditching one song that, embarrassingly, I didn't realize came out in 2001 **
* swapping a few songs for other ones by the same artist that I thought worked better or, in one or two cases, by request
* finding better copies of a few mp3's that turned out to be really bad CD rips
* totally resequencing the whole shebang, because the last few discs of the old version were largely padding (that, and any '90's alternative mix that does not end with Semisonic's "Closing Time" is Just. Plain. Wrong.)
I'm not going to post the track listings as they stand unless people really want me to (don't everybody shout at once), but I do have a bit of a quandary now, because I'd burned a couple of copies of the pre-crash version for distribution to a couple of people who wanted them, and now I'm less than inclined to hand them out because they aren't as "good" as the new version, and I apparently have a large and uncomfortable stick wedged up my fundament about such things. I certainly don't, howvere, wish to just throw them away. Hm. Maybe I can find someone at work I can foist them off on....
** Although I did leave in "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" by the Proclaimers even though it was released in the 1980's, because its greatest chart success only came about with its inclusion on the Benny and Joon soundtrack. Yes, I am JUST THAT PEDANTIC.
