When I first received my iPod I went crazy and added just about every single CD I had in my possession into iTunes.  A large number of these CDs were mixed CDs and albums put out by radio stations and soundtracks and I did not take the time to make sure that I actually liked all of the music that was being loaded into my iTunes library.  I won’t lie.  Over the last few years I’ve turned my iPod onto shuffle and then gone “gross, no, why do I own that? When did I buy that–oh that’s on one of the Alice Music CDs.” as I shuffled through the songs.

Last night I thought that it would be a good idea to start going through my iTunes library and pruning out all of the stuff I don’t listen to and/or do not actually like.  Space isn’t really an issue–I have a 35G iPod, but still… if I want to encounter music I don’t like, I’d just turn on the radio.  So last night while I was working on a project, I opened up iTunes and decided to listen to my music in alphabetical order–by song title.  This has led me to discover just how deep my mania for some songs go.

I have FOUR versions of All You Need is Love.  Four.  And two of them sound exactly the same. And I am keeping them all.  I did, however, delete both versions of…Air? Something that was on both an Alice CD and the Felicity Soundtrack.

I have also had a good laugh at some of the stuff my younger self loved.  I am not ashamed to admit that there was a time when I LOVED O-Town.  Yes that is kind of embarrassing, but there was a time when I was convinced that they would be around for a while and listened to their CD on repeat for weeks (and drove my roommate batshit insane in the process).  One of their songs came on last night and I won’t lie.  My first reaction was “what the hell is this piece of crap??”  But I didn’t delete it.  I like to laugh at my younger self.

According to iTunes, I can listen to my music for 74.5 days without a track repeating so this pruning? Is going to take a while.

Also can someone buy me this shirt for Christmas? Thanks!