A Note to Maude the Ipod
I’m listening to my Radiohead station on Pandora this morning and a song from Modest Mouse’s The Moon and Antarctica just came on. I had forgotten how much I love that album and really, in the wake of their last horrible album, how much I love that band.
And Pinback came on my Radiohead station too! (attesting, I’m sure, to Radiohead’s far reaching badassity)
Why have I not been listening to these bands? I still love them as much as I ever did, probably more now with that extra boost from nostalgia. I think it’s because I mainly listen to music on my Ipod which is a horrible, awful idea. My Ipod Maude gives me too much license to skip to songs, find that one song I really want to listen to (and usually that one song for me is some hipster thing that I’ve gotten over in a matter of days.)
In trying to find that one song, I also skip over all the new stuff I put on the Maude in a misguided effort to expand musical horizons, etc and I skip over favorite bands because they have so become part of my established musical landscape (to extend the music-land metaphor) that I don’t even notice these bands anymore.
So Maude, I’m going to take a break from you. At least until I can load you up with old favorites and force myself to really listen to them instead of shuffling songs and then just skipping to that yeasayer song. I will still visit on Mondays for This American Life, but I am going to see where this Pandora thing takes me, I think we are really connecting.
Really, it’s not you, it’s me.
