Billy Mays wrote:I don't know what to make of this list? Paul's Bananarama pick was brilliant, and then he managed to somehow find a bad Beatles song in the same post.
"Engage reflexively in sexual intercourse, inclusive of your equine transport"
[1] This was a lot of work and I had to make some sacrifices, plus errors (96 and 101, 40 and 70 are the same song ; the first 5 (100-96) I did off the top of my head, the others were in one batch cut into about 19 pieces; I missed changing #23 from HTTPS to HTTP on the inline reference, even though I read every single item before submitting it.)
Look, I'm not a big Beatles fan AND I happen to like that one. "Reasonable people can disagree over controversial issues." I also had no trouble picking ONLY one. But for Tears for Fears (73, 72) and The Bee Gees (15,14) I had to pick two. And (1,2) I picked a Fleetwood Mac song and one by a former FM member.
When I was doing the list I was thinking of what songs I like the most and the only ones I was absolutely certain of, and their order, were #1 and #2; the rest I moved around as I dropped some known duplicates, and moved some because some I like more than others, and I'd say 1-30 I agree with most of the selection and order and I definitely agree on the top 20.
The hardest part was collecting the links and formatting them for PHPBB so they would show up as videos so those you did not know you could hear. I actually dropped one off my list because YouTube no longer has a video of it (even though I do). And I chose actual performances first, then ones with lyrics, then anything available.
Maybe I'll do a "Top 200" and include some where I had several songs an artist did (everything by Anita Baker except "I apologize" even though I do like the song) and some I like but couldn't squeeze in a Top 100 list (ELO, Credence Clearwater Revival, Olivia Newton John, Elvis, Ronnie Milsap, and more) but if I did it would be sans You Tube links, that was a big headache.
Of the circa 2700 music videos I have in my collection, how many have I listened to at least once? All of them; it just allows me to re-listen without having to use Internet to hear it again. (At least T-Mobile excludes YouTube views in their high-speed data cap so I don't have to keep them in the tiny space on my smart phone.)
Whenever I back up those files, it requires several hours and 57.8 gigabytes of space. But at least I only have to do that once each time I replace a backup device. Since I do triple redundant now, a dropped drive is no longer a disaster (as it was three years ago when I reported here that I dropped
both backups of my music I made of leaving them in the same spot), now it's just another $120 for a 4-TB external drive and $150 for a 3-TB NAS.
Billy Mays wrote:The Peter Cetera pick was epic.
Thank you. If I hadn't been restricted by number of items I might also have included Peter Cetera and Amy Grant, "The Next Time I Fall."
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[1] This is the polite form of "fuck you and the horse you rode in on."
[quote="Billy Mays"]I don't know what to make of this list? Paul's Bananarama pick was brilliant, and then he managed to somehow find a bad Beatles song in the same post.[/quote]
"Engage reflexively in sexual intercourse, inclusive of your equine transport"[size=59][1][/size] This was a lot of work and I had to make some sacrifices, plus errors (96 and 101, 40 and 70 are the same song ; the first 5 (100-96) I did off the top of my head, the others were in one batch cut into about 19 pieces; I missed changing #23 from HTTPS to HTTP on the inline reference, even though I read every single item before submitting it.)
Look, I'm not a big Beatles fan AND I happen to like that one. "Reasonable people can disagree over controversial issues." I also had no trouble picking ONLY one. But for Tears for Fears (73, 72) and The Bee Gees (15,14) I had to pick two. And (1,2) I picked a Fleetwood Mac song and one by a former FM member.
When I was doing the list I was thinking of what songs I like the most and the only ones I was absolutely certain of, and their order, were #1 and #2; the rest I moved around as I dropped some known duplicates, and moved some because some I like more than others, and I'd say 1-30 I agree with most of the selection and order and I definitely agree on the top 20.
The hardest part was collecting the links and formatting them for PHPBB so they would show up as videos so those you did not know you could hear. I actually dropped one off my list because YouTube no longer has a video of it (even though I do). And I chose actual performances first, then ones with lyrics, then anything available.
Maybe I'll do a "Top 200" and include some where I had several songs an artist did (everything by Anita Baker except "I apologize" even though I do like the song) and some I like but couldn't squeeze in a Top 100 list (ELO, Credence Clearwater Revival, Olivia Newton John, Elvis, Ronnie Milsap, and more) but if I did it would be sans You Tube links, that was a big headache.
Of the circa 2700 music videos I have in my collection, how many have I listened to at least once? All of them; it just allows me to re-listen without having to use Internet to hear it again. (At least T-Mobile excludes YouTube views in their high-speed data cap so I don't have to keep them in the tiny space on my smart phone.)
Whenever I back up those files, it requires several hours and 57.8 gigabytes of space. But at least I only have to do that once each time I replace a backup device. Since I do triple redundant now, a dropped drive is no longer a disaster (as it was three years ago when I reported here that I dropped [i]both[/i] backups of my music I made of leaving them in the same spot), now it's just another $120 for a 4-TB external drive and $150 for a 3-TB NAS.
[quote="Billy Mays"]The Peter Cetera pick was epic.[/quote]
Thank you. If I hadn't been restricted by number of items I might also have included Peter Cetera and Amy Grant, "The Next Time I Fall."
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[size=59][1][/size] This is the polite form of "fuck you and the horse you rode in on."