Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Operation: Whole-Hog

Operation: Whole-Hog is what I have dubbed my current endeavor. This particular task involves listening to every album I have in my possession that is on my computer. Note I said computer, as what is on my PC is only a portion of what I actually own in terms of music media and does not count my music library in it's physical form.

While it can be said I should listen to every album as I acquire it, it is not always that easy, or at least it wasn't before.

My place of work allows me the ability to listen to my iPod and with that privilege I have finally decided to listen to every release that is in my possession in it's digital form. Gone are the albums I am familiar with and in their place are all the releases I have yet to really lay ears on completely.

I figure if I listen to at least 5 hrs worth of music, 5 days a week, it will take a minimum of 2 months to go through all of the albums. Once again this is not counting the physical music media I own.

I'm doing this as a way to weed out any lame albums I may indeed have (not likely) but in the rare case I find something that really isn't all it's chalked up to be, it will be done away with. The opposite of this is that I'll finally delve into some acts I've only had a glimpse of. The releases that I neglected since my initial listen will push me to explore more material of a given act.

Ultimately I'm doing this for YOU. With a keen ear, I will be able to provide you, the faithful reader, with oodles of selections that will see the material of this blog increase ten fold provided that my daily work load does not become too cumbersome.

Every day I will log which bands and albums I have gone through on that particular day. I admit I'll be a a little late on this as I will be on the B's starting today. So my next post will go through the albums I have already plowed through over the past 3 weeks.

Prepare for some new insight people.

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