Adventures in iTunes Land Day1

Day one of my little project was a little rocky. I remembered my iPod today, which is good.  Unfortunately my peaceful (not) work environment wasn't conducive to music listening today.  I soldiered on any way.  I followed my friends advice and am listening by album.  I figure that way I'm keeping the artist vision complete while still giving myself some variety in listening. First up Aaliyah's Aaliyah ( albums are alphabetical in case you hadn't guessed).  A seemingly strong start, up beat, catchy songs that I am familiar with, but after about four songs I realized why I hadn't listened to this album in six years.  Primarily produced by Timbaland, the over all sound of the album got old really quick.  And while some of the songs ("We need a Resolution, More Than a Woman, Rock the Boat) still got my feet tapping and me singing along, the rest sounded dated.  It reminded me of that summer when "Sexy Back" was released. Timbaland had produced a few other songs that same summer that were hits but none of them kept my interest like JT's song did. That song was great, the rest just seemed to try to recreate that same sound and didn't cut it.  I will say this about Aaliyah, it did take me back. "Rock the boat" reminds me of this awful church I went to when I first started studying in Boston.  I had a few friends who played in the band and whenever they had an opportunity to, at some point in the  service they would play that song.  It was the only redeeming part of the service. The rest was like watching bread go stale.  

After Aaliyah my listening went a little awry.  The next album on the list was the never listened to before Achtung Baby by U2. Before my husband, I never listened to U2, I'd never listened to a lot of things which I'm sure this experiment will illustrate.  I think I'm a fan, I enjoy the songs I know, which I guess is a start. So again my first day of listening could have been a lot worse than it was turning out to be.  At first listen, I thought it was Prince, that first song "Zoo Station" definitely didn't sound like the U2 I know.  Not that I know them all that well, but that's beside the point.  Though as I listened The Edge's guitar sound made it's presence known.  To my surprise I knew one of the songs from the album ("Mysterious Ways") and my favorite off the album was hands down is "Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses".  It was around this point that my co-workers started hinting for a change in music.  The disadvantage of not having it on shuffle is that if you don't like the artist you still have to sit through the whole album.  So about two songs into Acoustic Soul (India.Arie) someone started blasting Alice in Chains.  I figured that would be a good time to stop.  Tomorrow I'll bring headphones so I can listen without distraction. Until then...

Much Love

* Little factoid: Achtung means attention or warning in German.