What Is on Your IPod?
Remember the question, "What ten albums would you want to have with you if you were stranded on an island?"
I faced something like this, five years ago, when I went to Australia for a month. Which ten CDs would I take in my CD case to listen to on my portable CD player during the long flights there and back?
Times have changed. As I prepared for my travels this summer, I decided to load up my Olympus WS-320 with some music. Let me note that the Olympus WS-320, besides being an excellent digital voice recorder that I highly recommend, has the really nice feature that it takes music in WMA format, meaning you can cram a lot of stuff on a one-gig music player.
The question I am posing here is not the hypothetical one, "What music would you want to have with you?" Rather, it is a revealed-preferences type of question: "What music do you have with you?"
I have two major directories of music on my player, "classical" and "jazz and other". Here is the list:
Classical
Isn't new technology wonderful?! No CDs, No Discman.
All that music in this little thing (3 5/8 x 1 3/8 x 3/8, inches-- about the size of those little 4-packs of cigarettes that airlines used to provide back in the 50s.), and there is still plenty of room to record my last few lectures this term.
I faced something like this, five years ago, when I went to Australia for a month. Which ten CDs would I take in my CD case to listen to on my portable CD player during the long flights there and back?
Times have changed. As I prepared for my travels this summer, I decided to load up my Olympus WS-320 with some music. Let me note that the Olympus WS-320, besides being an excellent digital voice recorder that I highly recommend, has the really nice feature that it takes music in WMA format, meaning you can cram a lot of stuff on a one-gig music player.
The question I am posing here is not the hypothetical one, "What music would you want to have with you?" Rather, it is a revealed-preferences type of question: "What music do you have with you?"
I have two major directories of music on my player, "classical" and "jazz and other". Here is the list:
Classical
- Bach, Brandenburg Concerti (all six)
- Bach, Orch Suite #2
- Bach, Violin Concerto (1041)
- Barber, Adagio for Strings
- Beethoven, String Quartets 15 and 16
- Bruch Violin Concerto #1
- Mendelssohn Violin Concerto
- Mozart, Divertimento K136
- Mozart, 4 Horn Concerti
- Mozart, Eine Kleine Nacht Music
- Mozart, Symphony #1
- Shostakovitch, Symphonies 5 and 9
- Vivaldi, Four Seasons
- Vivaldi, Concerto for Two Oboes
- Warlock, Capriol Suite
- Purcell, Corelli, Albinoni selections
- Dave Brubeck, Time Out
- Miles Davis, Sketches from Spain
- Mike Oldfield, QE2
- Sky (Their first album)
- Stan Rogers, Fogarty Cove
- Madonna, American Pie
- Eagles, Hotel California
- my own arrangement of Louie, Louie
Isn't new technology wonderful?! No CDs, No Discman.
All that music in this little thing (3 5/8 x 1 3/8 x 3/8, inches-- about the size of those little 4-packs of cigarettes that airlines used to provide back in the 50s.), and there is still plenty of room to record my last few lectures this term.
Category: Music Posted on
Tuesday, April 18, 2006 at 1:55am
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The dominant rock artists on my iPod are Billy Joel, Barenaked Ladies, Icicle Works and Yes.
The dominant classical composers are Beethoven, Dvorak and an agglomeration of Russians -- Moussorgsky, Ippilitov, Stravinski, Tchaichovsky, etc. I don't like Mozart.
I am also a huge fan of John Williams' movie scores.
All I need is an iPod now.
Of the CDs that I do own, the ones I listen to most are:
Miles Davis, Kind of Blue
Weird Al Yankovic, Running with Scissors
Barenaked Ladies, Greatest Hits
Ken Burns' collection for the music of Benny Goodman
Ken Burns' Jazz collection
But if I had one, it'd be a lot of Bach, a bit of Brahms and Mozart, and some Alan Parsons Project.