(Advance warning: this turned into something far more boring than I had originally planned. Unless you are extremely bored and/or worryingly interested in the most boring goings-on of my life imaginable, turn back now.)
Some background for you. In March 2005, I was given an iPod mini for my birthday. Not having really been 'into' music up to this point, it took me nearly a month before I finally decided to load onto it the eighty-one songs that resided on our family's PC. As I discovered my musical tastes, that playlist expanded - passing two hundred songs in late July, and then doubling that by December.
It was in December - just before the Christmas school break - when "Ryan's iPod", as iTunes so affectionately called it, played its last song. As my Accounting teacher assigned the class some work for the rest of the hour, I pulled out the iPod...and nothing happened. It wouldn't play music, it wouldn't start up, I couldn't reset it in any way.
Ryan's iPod had died, the most-played songs from the era in which I eventually discovered my musical taste being "Hey Jealousy", "Radar Love", and a Styx cover of "Summer in the City".
Too late for me to ask for a replacement iPod for Christmas - and, as you will have noticed, exhibiting brand loyalty to the highest degree - I instead realized "Hey! I have all this money I've been saving up and doing nothing with!", and went to e-Bay. I forget the exact price I paid, but a 6GB iPod Mini (My original was 4GB) cost me less than a 2GB iPod Nano was going for retail at the time. Thus, "Ryan's iPod II" was created.
As an aside, I had been given a laptop computer for Christmas, and now had the option of listening to music in my bedroom from that, rather than solely the iPod. However, as I was a stickler for maintaining strict and accurate records of what I listen to, even music through my computer would be filtered through the iPod (to keep all such records in one place).
This worked fine. Then in late 2006, the amount of music I had finally outgrew the amount that could fit on my iPod. Simple solution - only my favourite 6GB of music would wind up on the iPod, the rest would be stored on my computer for no real purpose. This meant the removal over time of a lot of songs I never really listened to anyhow, and anything I had by the Arrogant Worms.
But recently, another problem has beset Ryan's iPod II - for no apparent reason, the play counts of random songs seem to reset from time to time. So now that the one reason I listened to all music through my iPod is gone, I'm going to start listening to music directly from my computer from time to time - mainly when I want more variety.
And what, you ask, is the most played music from this era of Ryan's iPod II? Well, the top ten is pretty nice in my opinion - Werewolves of London, some Rush, some New Pornographers, some Supetramp...and as for the top three...
3) "I Am The Walrus" by Styx, thus keeping in tact my bizarre affinity for Styx performing cover songs.
2) "Under Pressure" by David Bowie and Queen, can't argue with that.
1) "Tonite Is A Wonderful Time" by April Wine, in what I hope is some sort of practical joke. Surely I haven't really listened to this song 20 times more than any other???
--Ryan
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