Musical Baton

Hey, thanks Gerrit for passing me the stick, now it’s finally my turn to convince the world of my incredibly good taste of music :) I’ll do it in english since the questions are in english, and I can practice a little bit…

Total Volume of Music Files on My Computer
A few gigs of correctly tagged music in iTunes. With Covers. I know I’m a pedant, and it was a lot of work, too, but I like to have my music sorted so I can find it. I’ve heared every song at least once (smart playlists are great!), and delete everything that I don’t like :)

The Last CD I Bought
Hard question, and I honestly can’t remember the last physical CD I bought. Propably Morcheeba’s “Charango” or “Neon Golden” by the Notwist. CDs get ripped into iTunes once and collect dust for the rest of their lifetime.

Last Music I bought online: Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man. There are three live bonus tracks for the “Out of Season” masterpiece they made. You can buy them seperately for 0.99€ each at iTunes, if you already own the album. If you don’t, then spend 9,99€ at the whole thing!

Last LP I bought was actually today. Yes, I’m one of these “it sounds better”-Nerds. It really does. I wanted to buy Maxïmo Park’s “A certain Trigger” that some very credible reviewers hype currently. I didn’t buy it – not because I didn’t like it (I listened to it too biefly to judge it fairly, though I won’t give it a 10/10), but instead I saw – and bought – a copy of what I consider last year’s best album by far: “Antics” by Interpol. Listen to the whole album, instead of single songs, it will blow your mind.

Song Playing Right Now
Selig – Knocking on heaven’s door. A cover version, but a good one.

Five Songs I Listen to A Lot
Ok, a little selection of the most often played songs according to iTunes:

• The White Stripes – Jolene (Live under Blackpool Lights)
  

Nobody can cry into a microphone as loud and angry as Jack White in this song. A Dolly Parton Cover, but you won’t recognize it.

• Tenfold Loadstar – Sun and Rain
  

I featured this Song earlier on this site and I do it again. Great Song, and matches the current weather perfectly :-)

• Promoe – These walls don’t lie
  

Hip Hop. But good Hip Hop. It’s rare but it exists. Also recommendable: Looptroop, the Crew/Combo/Formation/Band/Gang/WhateverHipHoppersCallIt Promoe is a member of. I heared they had a good new album, but I wasn’t able to listen to it yet.

• Caesars – Jerk it out
  

You can her it a hundred times in the commercials. It will still rock the 101th time. Best song this year, so far.

• Bright Eyes – Landlocked Blues
  

Yeah, it is depressive. Extremely sad (it says “Blues” in the title, so you’re propably not surprised, eh?). But it’s fascinating, since you simply can’t escape the attraction of its simplicity and beauty.

And a lot of Interpol appears in my top played Songs, but I already told you about them :-)

5 People to Whom I’m Passing the Baton

• Dominik, so he has something to write about in his new blog (and he has quite good taste in music, too)
• Martin, I dont’t know if he does these kind of things, but I’m really interested in what he listens to.
• René, because I know he likes to blog about music
• Tobias, although I don’t know him, i know that he likes top-5-lists and music

• Tilo, since he reads this blog but not my emails and I still hope he tells me what the 19-9er in San Francisco is, and why I have to get there…
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