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September 8, 2009

The music experiment so far

Sa far, so good, although hard to get in lots of listening on the weekends. Some days it is even hard to get in lots of listening at work, missing out on some good stuff. 

Letter B: Bruce Hornsby, Bowling for Soup, Beastie Boys, Badly Drawn Boy, Bow Wow Wow, Bangles, Big Audio Dynamite, Belle Stars. (Didn't get to Didn't get to BT, Beth Orton, or Billie Holiday). 

Letter C: Cheap Trick, Cars, The Call, The Clash, Chicane, Clannad, Coldplay, Cocteau Twins, Crystal Method, Chemical Brothers, Cowboy Junkies, The Church, Catherine Wheel, Cake, Chilliwack, and Camper van Beethoven. 

Letter D: Daft Punk, Dean Martin, Dukes of Stratosphear, Donovan, Dave Edmunds, Depeche Mode, Donald Fagen, Davids Bowie and Gilmour, Del Amitri. 

Letter E: Eagles, Earth Wind and Fire, Echo & The Bunnymen, Eddie Money, Elvises Costello and Presley, English Beat, Esquivel, Eurythmics. 

Letter F: Frank Sinatra, The Fixx, Flight of the Conchords, Funkadelic, Freddy Jones Band, Future Sound of London. 

Letter G: Gap Band, Garbage, Geddy Lee, Gel-Sol, General Public, Genesis (too much Genesis), Global Communication, Go-Go's, Gomez.

So far, so good. 

September 1, 2009

September Experiment

Ok, new month, time for a new experiment. I'll work through my iTunes library one letter a day, sorting by artist. First day will be:
 
  • ABC
  • Adam Ant
  • AC/DC
  • Allan Sherman
  • Altered Images
  • Annie Lennox
  • Aztec Camera
  • Antiguru
  • Aretha Franklin
I'll try to keep this up for the whole month and report in now and then.