Friday, May 02, 2008

  • Home, finally.

     After two weeks in Houston, I've finally come home.

    While in Houston I managed to wash and dry my iPod in a load of laundry.  Four gigs of music, gone, just like that.   Keep in mind almost none of it was backed up on my computer....most of it was just lifted from friend's computers, the Seattle library, etc.  Yep...I was pretty careless.

    I lost :

    every Nirvana song ever made, including rare demos

    work by my bud Adam Bricks, which I'm sure can be replaced, but will certainly be a hassle with the distance

    Buddy Holly albums

    Britpop

    the entire Mogwai anthology...

    On the bright side, it finally forced me to upgrade to an 8 gig iPod touch.

    It's going to be loads of fun locating my lost music, but in the meantime, here are some photos of my younger siblings chalking up my friend's driveway.

     

    you told me you loved me, baby 016

    you told me you loved me, baby 014

    you told me you loved me, baby 015

    you told me you loved me, baby 018

    you told me you loved me, baby 021

    you told me you loved me, baby 022

    Okay...so if your MP3 player were approaching death, which three albums would you save first?

     

Comments (11)

  • Lithium98
    You rock!!

    I'm actually very paranoid about losing my music. I have ten gigs saved on my laptop which has the "master" copies of all my music. Then there's a back up external hard drive that has all my music backed up. I also have every cd I owned copied onto my laptop and in addition to that, copied onto a rewritable cd. None of my original cds get played and are stored away.

    With all that said, I've thought about this before. I don't think I would go for any three albums. I have so many covers, "rarities", live performances, acoustic versions, remixes, and imported tracks that I couldn't go for any three albums. Though, out of all that music, I'd have to go with my collection of John Mayer music. And now, because of you, I think I need to back up all that music onto a separate device, just in case.

  • GunStarHero1988

    Dr. Octagonecologyst by Kool Keith

    Purple by Stone Temple Pilots

    And hell, even the large greatest hits collection by Johnny Cash.
  • CallMeQuell

    Paul Simon, Negotiations and Love Songs
    The Velvet Underground & Nico, The Velvet Underground and Nico
    and either The Clash, London Calling or The Pixies' Greatest Hits.
    Not sure there.

    Actually, you know, most of this is backed up from where I got it...Zeke's computer. Ha.
  • sahel578

    I dont know if I would be saving albums as much as playlists.  I've had dear friends make playlists for me over the years and they mean the world to me.

  • Saphira07

    I have absolutely no idea...I buy or have most of my music burned to CDs...I'd probably save whatever I really liked that I didn't have a copy of aside from that.

    And my boyfriend absolutely loves Kurt Cobain/Nirvana. I'm sure it wouldn't be a problem to steal his stuff for a day to send you songs or something if you wanted. :)
    I'm not sure what you meant by the rare stuff, but I know he has some huge like, silvery looking anthology set that has some pretty weird stuff on it (Kurt singing Smells Like Teen Spirit in a garage while drunk and forgetting the lyrics...). Let me know what I can try to get back for you...'cause I'm pretty sure I'd cry if I lost that much not-backed-up music.
  • everybody_do_thebender

    Master of Puppets by Metallica, Mothership By Led Zeppelin, and Ten by Pearl Jam.
  • lotta_valdez

    @Saphira07 - Miracle of miracles!  Carlos messed around with my washed-out iPod and the darn thing turned on like nothing ever happened!  Too bad I purchased and opened a new iPod before my old one woke up.  I'm going to buy a program that rips music from iPod to computer and get everything back.  Thanks for the help-offer though, it was really heart-warming :)
  • lotta_valdez

    @CallMeQuell - I would definitely save the Pixies.  Ah!  I love them so.
  • lotta_valdez

    @Lithium98 - That's a lot of backing up!  I imagine you have an extra hard drive?
  • CallMeQuell

    @lotta_valdez - Yay!
  • selective_intuition

    Aaah the wonders of flash based technology. The nano is just like a USB flash drive. No moving parts. Just let it dry out and it's usually fine.  Plus, I believe you do not actually need to buy a program to reverse transfer tunes.  There are free programs out there. 
        •    
        •    try media monkey: http://www.mediamonkey.com/product_ipod.htm

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