MUSIC FOR FEBRUARY

This past month, I managed to find time to listen to 103 complete albums (down one from January).  Remarkably — and for the first time ever for me — NONE of these albums was actually played on the stereo from a physical CD!  With (most of) the music I want to listen to residing in my iTunes and iPod it's becoming increasingly rare for me to fiddle with a disc.  Most of the time these days I play music on the laptop through it's built-in speakers.  If there's something I want to hear through decent speakers, I just hook the iPod up to the stereo or TV.  I can play lossless FLAC directly on the computer through the foobar2000 application but any music I download in the older SHN format has to be decoded to WAV first (my favorite app for this is the all-in-one Trader's Little Helper) and burned to disc.  While it would seem that I'd be doing this a lot (certain artists I download, including Pink Floyd, seem to ALWAYS be in SHN rather than FLAC), the past few months have seen me just archiving all of my lossless downloads onto DVD-R and listening to very few of them!

Anyway, without any further preample, I present the breakdown of artists listened to in the month of February 2007 (all of them instead of just the most-played):

• Marillion — 11


• Genesis — 5


• Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes — 5


• The Beatles — 4


• Heart — 4


• Pink Floyd — 4


• U2 — 4


• ZZ Top — 4


• The Band — 3


• Eric Clapton — 3


• Fleetwood Mac — 3


• Steely Dan — 3


• ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead — 2


• Derek And The Dominos — 2


• Fish — 2


• Robbie Robertson — 2


• Santana — 2


• Bruce Springsteen — 2


• The White Stripes — 2


• The Who — 2


• Webb Wilder — 2


• The Allman Brothers Band — 1


• David Baerwald — 1


• Calexico — 1


• Johnny Cash — 1


• Phil Collins — 1


• The Corrs — 1


• Elvis Costello — 1


• Cowboy Junkies — 1


• The Doors — 1


• Bob Dylan — 1


• Garbage — 1


• Grateful Dead — 1


• Al Green — 1


• Kings Of Leon — 1


• Oasis — 1


• The Police — 1


• Iggy Pop — 1


• Jeff Porter — 1


• Prince — 1


• Linda Ronstadt — 1


• Ronnie Spector — 1


• Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs — 1


• Wilco — 1

There were also a total of nine various artists compilations (mostly miscellaneous downloads from music blogs but also including one classical music compilation and a couple or romantic Valentine's Day mixes).