Sunday, January 1, 2012

2/52: Thank You for the Music

So a few weeks back my laptop crashed. Yes, all great blog entries start with that. Haha. My impatience finally got the better of me. It was one of those things my dad warned me about while I was busy being my stubborn self. Admittedly that was long overdue but still, it didn't make the "loss" any easier. So yes - 2 years worth of music downloads, most of my college files, more recent photos that I haven't transferred to my external drive- all that and maybe a little more, poof! Gone just like that. In retrospect, I took it surprisingly well for someone who has lost her life's work (at least that's how my brother referred to my files). But alas! There was hope; for my music files at least. Thank God for my recent travels which prompted me to sync my ipod with the iTunes in my laptop! A half an hour, several websites, a few virus-infected blogs, and two tutorials later, I was on my way to regaining my music back. But the playlists were never revived (taking a moment to mourn the loss). But hey! At least I won't be going back to square one. It was, and still is a long process - putting back my songs and playlists together. I'm only halfway done and I'm slowly realizing that I could never bring it back to the way it once was. So before I completely accept the fact that I will have to move on and leave some of those songs behind, let me share to you the Top 25 Most Played Songs in my iTunes for the last 2 years. 

A Collage of Album Arts
  1. Landslide - Smashing Pumpkins
  2. I Will Follow You Into the Dark - Death Cab for Cutie
  3. No One's Gonna Love You - Band of Horses
  4. Skinny Love - Bon Iver
  5. A Girl, A Boy, and A Graveyard - Jeremy Messersmith
  6. Pale Blue Eyes - The Velvet Underground
  7. Furr - Blitzen Trapper
  8. Challengers - The New Pornographers
  9. Arrest this Heart - Hungry Kids of Hungary
  10. A Comet Appears - The Shins
  11. Train Song - Feist & Ben Gibbard
  12. Slow Show - The National
  13. The Greatest - Cat Power
  14. Walking After You - Foo Fighters
  15. Survival - The Colorful Quiet
  16. Naked As We Came - Iron & Wine
  17. Belong - Cary Brothers
  18. Here Comes A Regular - The Replacements
  19. Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want
  20. Sleeps with Butterflies - Tori Amos
  21. Kinderszenen Op. 15: VII Traumerei (Dreaming) - Robert Schumann
  22. All My Days - Alexi Murdoch
  23. I'll Say I'm Sorry Now - Shawn Colvin
  24. Come On Get Higher - Matt Nathanson
  25. Gravity - Sara Bareilles
So that's it folks. Goodbye, iTunes...whichever version that was. We had a good run, but it's time to move on. Thank You for the Music.

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