Oh, Nostalgia..

Venerdì 6 Lug 2007, 17:27

All my surveys have been taken from other users. It's starting to bug me. My Last.fm journal doesn't seem.. "mine." With that in mind, I made a mental note a while back not to post another survey unless I laid the groundwork for the next one myself. And then I forgot about it. But now I remembered. Alright; so here goes. This is it.

I was looking through iTunes and noticed I have music from every consecutive year since 1930. I have more; like classical, folk and other stuff dating to before the 20th century, but my timeline begins to degrade behind Berthe Sylva's Frou-Frou (Les années Odéon). Anyway, it got me thinking. What would a playlist sound like that was built around time? Would the listener actually be able to hear music evolve (or at the very least, would he or she be able to hear a particular taste in music evolve with the eras)? Or is music too fluid; are there too many genres and subgenres?

Needless to say this idea sent my head spinning. It began to seem pretty daunting too. So I decided, if I did this, I'd limit the playlist to the years I've been alive. In addition to making things more manageable and user-friendly, it also makes for a more personal playlist – something you'd actually want to listen to. And I know; someone on Last.fm has probably done this before, but I haven't seen it yet, so I'm going to run with it as if it were my own idea.. which it is (as far as I can tell).

So here’s what you do. Go through your music and pick one song from each year, starting with your birth year. You can choose any songs you like, provided the song’s release date corresponds to your playlist's track year. Whatever your age, your playlist will be that length + 1 (because of the 0-month to 1-year-old age gap). I'll have 25 songs in mine, because well.. you get the idea. Try to choose different artists for each track. It'll make things more interesting. It also makes things exceedingly difficult when you get to years with equally amazing albums (like this year, already!). But such is life. Difficult.

Now, without further ado.. My Chronological Soundtrack:

01. {1983} Bauhaus: Hope

02. {1984} Echo & The Bunnymen: The Killing Moon

03. {1985} The Jesus and Mary Chain: Cut Dead

04. {1986} The Smiths: There Is a Light That Never Goes Out

05. {1987} INXS: Never Tear Us Apart

06. {1988} The Church: Under the Milky Way

07. {1989} The Cure: Pictures of You

08. {1990} Mazzy Star: Before I Sleep

09. {1991} Nirvana: Come As You Are

10. {1992} Curve: Doppelganger

11. {1993} Slowdive: Alison