Today's Song of the Day is from
THELIMECD 
It's called "Make a Joyful Noise / I Will Not Be Silent" and I wasn't sure I liked it at first. The track lived in my iTunes "Wish List" for a while before I said, What the heck? It's only a buck! But the more I listen to it the better I like it. Of course, it's Christian Alternative Rock so the message really sells. The music is really addictive, though, and that's a large part of it's appeal. It has a great arrangement and a unique spin on the vocals. And it rocks. Not a hard, in-your-face kind of Rock, but a persistent, driving rhythm that has an appealing charm without letting you forget the genre.
At this time I have between 65 and 70 tracks (not counting Holiday music) from various flavors of the Inspirational genre, including Blues, Rock, Alternative, Pop, Jazz, and Gospel related to the three major faiths. All are great (otherwise I wouldn't have bought them, I suppose), but consider that's almost 10% of the music library on my computer and you can see I have a certain preference. Sure, there are a lot of CD tracks that I haven't ripped, but even it weren't for space limitations (both on the laptop and the iPod) I wouldn't have ripped too many more to effect much of an increase in either total tracks or tracks in that genre. So that's a healthy number.
But it has to stop. I was telling someone at work that I have 158 tracks that I bought from iTunes alone in the last ten months. That's like buying an album a month. Maybe not a lot of money, but that's still over $150.00 (buying whole albums decreases the cost as you usually get more than ten tracks for ten bucks)! I try not to consider that there are sixteen more tracks lurking in my Wish List plus six more tracks and two albums on deck in the Shopping Cart. I might have to ask everyone for iTunes gift certificates for Christmas.
Warning to anyone reading this:
That's just random thinking.
I still don't like to receive gifts on the Lord's Birthday.
That's just random thinking.
I still don't like to receive gifts on the Lord's Birthday.
But even the not-so-good tracks are worthwhile. "Golden Rust" by Trilok Gurtu & Robert Miles is now playing on the 'Pod and it's not as good as I had hoped it would be. It slinked around the Wish List and then prowled the Shopping Cart for a month before I gave in to the urge. Still, it's good enough depending on my mood and whim at the time. It's terrible -- and expensive, apparently -- to have such diverse aural tastes.
Same with my taste in videos. Today Barnes & Noble delivered The Incredible Adventures of Wallace & Grommit DVD today with my Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 1 DVD boxed set along with Mark Frost's novel The List of 7 (Avon Books, 1994). So I'm off to play with these new toys that were actually free thanks to the reward points on my Yahoo! credit card (shameless plug given gratis). Peace & Prayers!
