Last.fm stresses me out more than it should. And while I don't usually use Last.fm for its recommendations, I've found it to be an excellent tool for researching new music. I've considered getting rid of my account plenty of times, but now I'm glad I never did. I accidentally deleted 30 gigabytes of music from my computer the other day (admittedly I labelled my folders pretty poorly).
I'm in the process now of determining how to retrieve the files. I know a couple computer wizards so I'm fairly confident I'll get back at least some of what I lost. If I can't get all my files back, Last.fm will help me know what essentials are missing. As upset as I am -- it's not all bad. I think it's good to go through a music molting process once in a while.
I had a lot of music, that frankly, didn't interest me anymore. I'm sure we all cling to certain albums on our computers because we think by deleting these old albums we are deleting a portion of ourselves (even if we cringe at certain songs from those very albums). Now that I lost so much music, I can assess which music truly matters to me. I'll only recover the music I want to listen to now, not the music that was once important.
I'm lucky that the music on my phone survived. A few of these albums have been on steady rotation the past few weeks, and now that the rest of my files are gone I'll probably be hearing a lot more of them. There's been quite a bit of Talk Talk, Tears for Fears, and Darkthrone in my ears. But album of the week goes to Mayhem's, Deathcrush. I was reading Tolkien's LotR when Deathcrush's "Witching Hour" and then "Necrolust" played during (spoiler) the Battle of Hornburg. I wholeheartedly recommend the experience because Deathcrush is an absolute frenzied and murky war march. These sounds are dreadfully thick, black as ash, and as vile as Uruk-hai.
- J.B. Geany
- J.B. Geany
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