One Grand Undertaking Completed

From “Blackened” to “Rock & Roll Suicide” and the 9689 tracks in between, I finally finished playing my entire music library.

Way back on June 10th, I decided I was going to listen to all 7400+ tracks that I had from start to finish, as sorted by album title. Here, nine months and four days later, nearly 2300 additional tracks later, I’ve finally finished.

My goal was to finish in a year, to do 25 tracks per day. I obviously blew that away. My biggest push came over winter break as I cranked out 1100 tracks in two weeks. Check out my weekly progress at http://www.last.fm/user/soulpopped.

Here are some updates I posted on last.fm:

UPDATE #1 - I'm almost out of "E" (August 25th).
UPDATE #2 - I'm almost out of "G" (September 12th).
UPDATE #3 - I'm into "I" and just passed track #3000 (now of 8019; September 27th).
UPDATE #4 - I'm into "M" and passed track #4000 after adding over 1100 new tracks (9121, November 5th).
UPDATE #5 - I'm into the heart of "O" and passed track #5000 (November 26th).
UPDATE #6 - I'm in the middle of "R" and passed track #6000 (December 19th).
UPDATE #7 - I'm finally nearing the end of "S" and passed #7000 (January 12th).
UPDATE #8 - Track #8000 was the last "T" track (January 28th/29th).
UPDATE #9 - I passed track #9000 and now have under 700 to go (February 24th).

Obviously, update #10 is the completion.

Also, for reference sake, my 9691-track library is 27 days, 11 hours, 0 minutes, and 37 seconds. That means that (if my math is right), 3.9% of the time it took to play my library, I had music playing.

What now? I have a bunch of artists I want to hear their discographies again, so I’ll be going through a bunch of them. Who are they? I’m glad you asked.

Bang Camaro
The Chemical Brothers
Coldplay
The Donnas
Muse
Queens of the Stone Age
Raidohead
Van Halen

It was a fun ride. I have five more movies to go on my list of 160 to see, so that’ll be finished soon as well. Now it’s time to eat cake! Well, when I get back to school.

Why Am I Crazy?

I’m currently participating in two great undertakings, one of which I chronicled already on this blog. The one that I’ve mentioned is my movie list – I came up with a list of 160 movies that I wanted to see (way back in November 2007) and I’m currently down to 10 to go.

The other one seemed equally daunting but has actually gone far quicker – listen to my entire music library. Back this past June, I started out on track 1 of 7400+. My goal was to complete the library in one year; I think I calculated that if I averaged 25 tracks a day (a reasonable goal) I would finish in roughly one full year.

I sorted my music library by album title and started going. From …And Justice for All through (currently) Unleashed in the East, things have been going well. I knew from the start that if I bought a new album that I had already passed in the playlist, I’d go back and listen to it.

What I DIDN’T anticipate was adding over 2200 new tracks (and the eight new albums I’ve gotten in the last week or so doesn’t help).

Anyway, I’m on track 8927 of currently 9620 right now (with four more albums to add and listen to). I’ve obviously exceeded my 25 tracks per day goal, but it’s still taken me over eight months to get here. I hope to have it done by the end of April, which is kind of now the goal for the movie list as well.

If anyone is interested in checking out the music listening I’ve done lately, check out my last.fm (and if you’re reading this and have a last.fm and you’re not already friends with me, friend me!):

http://www.last.fm/user/soulpopped