Saturday, February 28, 2004
Triumphant Return: The Top 50 Songs of my College Era 1999-2003
Welcome back loyal readers! Aha ha ha.
If you want to know about my last job and the results of the land use campaign I was working on please go to the Ames Tribune website and search in the archives for articles with "new mall" in the subject matter.
My new job is working for Representative Ed Fallon at the State Capitol of Iowa . Ed is a very nice guy and as you can see he's a pretty interesting person to work for right now.
I am exhausted looking at such great political news sites and fantasizing about someday thinking its worth my while to attempt to write as well as all of them, but I would like to start a series of music posts. I am hope to one day have more well-rounded interests, but music and politics are my only in depth ones at this point.
I love cataloging my tastes into list form, and when I was temporarily unemployed I compiled a list of my 50 favorite songs of my college years. I made a lot of mix tapes as a youth, including an ambituous project of a Top 150 countdown (recorded from 1994-1995) and when my music tastes changed another top 100 countdown shortly before I went to college (1999). After four years of buying CDs, and presumably becoming more cultured, as well as gaining personal experiences that have the music I purchased as a soundtrack, the time was right (and available) to bring all the music released that year together into a list. The chronical range of music will be from Moby's "Play" album (which was the first I purchased as a college student, although no songs from that piece cracked the top 50) to roughly White Stripes "Elephant". Of course this countdown has changed even over a few months. But I want to enter as much thoughts I can conjure up on each of the 50 songs. So stay tuned everyone! This will give me something to discuss on this blog that's unique. Perhaps if I get into this blogging routine I will make regular comments on other issues. But come on, who is paying attention? I wonder what point of view it is when you are typing as if you have an audience when you are really typing to yourself?
#50 coming up!
