I realized as I was listening to my iTunes on shuffle is that I have some real garbage in there and I don’t know how it got there. My tweet about it got some feedback that I wasn’t the only one with this issue. So I want to know, what tracks in your music collection have you throw up in your mouth a little bit each time it comes on and make you wonder how that sick song crawled into your rotation? The following are the worst 5 songs in my collection and I have no good excuse for why they are in there:
1. Haddaway – What Is Love?
If I were a sketch comedian I might have an excuse. But Night at the Roxbury was cool like what 10 years ago? My only defense is I have this track unchecked. A brief moment of sanity in an otherwise bat crazy decision.
2. Dawn Penn – You Don’t Love Me
Wut the….how the…where the….why is this track within 10 laptops of me? Some one slipped me a rufee and popped this in my iTunes and somehow rigged it so it comes on EVERY TIME I shuffle. There’s only a couple acceptable raggae artists and this isn’t one of them.
3. Dirty Vegas – Days Go By
Ok yeah I get it, it was a big hit for a while. But I never even liked this song. I’m chalking this one up to some friend’s wedding I dj’d and they made a special request. I can’t be held responsible for this.
4. Duncan Sheik – On a High
I must have been on a high when I purchased this one. Yes kids, the evidence comes back this was purchased by me. This proves total human depravity more than any other experiential evidence ever could.
5. Boyz II Men – End of the Road
No this isn’t cool, not even in a reminiscent sense. Confession: I remember playing this in the background as I talked to ladies on the phone when I was in middle school. I was Leon Phelps smooth. Double Halfway confession: I actually did this first in the 5th grade to a much worse song that I will take to the grave. I’ll never tell, my mom reads this blog for heaven’s sake. Mom aren’t you amazed I made it through?
one more as a special bonus…
6. Randy Travis – Open the Eyes of My Heart
If Jesus would have opened the ears of my head up I would have nothing to do with this track. This officially marked Open the Eyes of My Heart covers had run their course. The Randy growl going into the chorus does bring a smile to my face for all the wrong reasons. Lord I apologize, I should have stopped at 5.
Ok so let’s hear it, don’t be embarrassed we all have our musical skeletons in the closet. What’s the worst in your collection?
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Truly, Maddly, Deeply-Savage Garden
Some how a few of my wife's songs wound up on my iPod, but this is the worst one by far.
Over the course of the last year, I've been doing an alphabetical survey of my iTunes library. I've been listening through every song, in albetical order, by album. Any songs that don't have a full album to go with them, I either complete the album or chuck the song. If I skip more than half the tracks on any album, I delete the whole thing. I've droppded from 42gb of music to just shy of 34gb (and I'm only in the S's). But now, I only have songs that I'll actually care to listen to.
My worst:
Madonna: Candy Perfume Girl
Shawn Mullins: Lullaby
Us3: Cantaloop
Randy Newman: Short People
Shawn Mullins!!! Yeah get him out of there. That's a good pruning system you have. I'm doing something similar, trying to get my rating system in line with smart playlists both for listening and syncing to mobile device purposes.1 star = removed2 star = archived3 star = stays in iTunes but doesn't get synced to mobile devices4/5 star = synced to mobile devices