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I talk an awful lot of shit when it comes to music. So I’ve decided to put myself to the test. Let’s take a look at my 25 most played:

What we see here is somewhat of an identity crisis. For a self hating Chilean, I’m doing a terrible job at avoiding one of their most popular bands - La Ley.

La Ley (Spanish for “The Law”) was a Grammy Award and two-time Latin Grammy Award-winning Chilean pop rock band formed by Andrés Bobe and Rodrigo Aboitiz with Mauricio Claveria, Beto Cuevas and Luciano Rojas. After a failed first album, Desiertos (1989), they released Doble Opuesto (1990), which appears as the official first album of the band. Singles like “Desiertos,” “Tejedores de Ilusión,” and “Prisioneros de la Piel” made them stars in Chile, Argentina and Mexico, especially after the release of La Ley, their second recording (1992). –WIKIPEDIA

Next, we see too much Assemblage 23. Ten years ago, I loved Assemblage 23 more than anything. Today, I’m sick and fucking tired of them. Every album is the same with the same god damned single.

Disappoing

“Did I disappoint you?
Did I let you down?
Did I stand on the shore
And watch you as you drowned?”

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“I’m suffocating with guilt
Asphyxiating on panic
And I can’t shake off this fear with which I’m bound”

SOMEBODY PLEASE GET THIS MAN AN OXYGEN TANK!

Lastly, I’m VERY disappointed (perhaps even asphyxiated?) that Paul Oakenfold is even on my list.

“Paul Oakenfold’s career was set to be a chef, after having hopes of becoming part of a band.” — WIKIPEDIA

Maybe that is why his cuts don’t mix. Early Oakenfold was smooth as butter. The later CD’s felt like random mash ups to me. Take a look at this POS. The TRUE milk and potatoes are right here: A Voyage into Trance or even Live In Oslo.

The only conclusion I can come up with are:

1. I’m full of shit
2. I love to hate music.

I think #2 is the winner. I start hating artists because I look too deep into the whole music making process. I’m far from a musician or authority, but certain elements of design are universal. When that fourth wall is broken, the illusion goes away and pisses me off.

With the new year, I’m cleaning out some of the stale music on my file server (shitbox music == Media Center music) and replacing with other notables. I believe it’s no longer the “shuffle” feature that’s broken, rather my lack of new music loaded onto the iPod.

As I search through my music, I see that there are multiple albums I’ve yet to listen. For example: what the fuck band is called 7VWWVW? In parenthesis it says “mammal”. What the fuck does that mean? When and why did I get this? I sit here in shock that there are over 50 Fabric releases. That shock is quickly followed by fear that I’ve forgotten to keep up with the Global Underground series. I never know how much Tiesto I really have. Do I file it under  Tiesto? DJ Tiesto? VA? Case logic 92 CD holder or ripped onto MP3s? Why can’t I find my Leftfield CD? Oh wait, was that a Sasha’s Xpander CD? Why do I have so much Laibach?

This whole thing is retarded.