fridayfive on Saturday night

[orangerful]

1. What are the five oldest songs on your iPod, computer, or phone (whatever device you store your music on)?
This question is a difficult one to answer because 1) I don't have all my music in one place anymore because of iTunes and Spotify being two separate things on my iPod and 2) I didn't know what they meant by "oldest" - like, what song have I had on my playlist for the longest or actual oldest song?

So, sorting by publication year (and, of course, a lot of tracks on iTunes don't have years because they were...ahem acquired another way), the song that comes up as the oldest is technically from 1934 - Anything Goes (but it is from the Fallout 3 soundtrack). This album kind of throws off the whole list, so I will mention that the next "oldest" album is The Beach Boys "Sounds of Summer" and The Beatles "Please Please Me".

As for songs that have been on here the longest...I just realized I can't really say because I got a new harddrive installed in March so I had to reinstall iTunes and lost all that data. Best guess are The Beatles albums though since I've been listening to them since I was in middle school and always add those songs immediately.

2. And the five newest songs?
See, this I will have to flip over to Spotify and see what I added from the new playlists...
Seth McFarlane has a new album coming out so he released a single on Friday - Half as Lovely (Twice as True)
MARINA released a new album but I've only listened to 'Handmade Heaven' and 'True' so far
Dylan Gardener's 'Dip' (though I'm not feeling it)
Ricky Montgomery's 'This December'

3. What’s your favorite song to sing along to?
All of them? Currently in love with 'Quarter Past Midnight' and will belt it out any time it comes on.

4. What’s the first song you ever memorized?
omg you would have to ask my Mom! Probably "Somewhere over the Rainbow" or something along those lines. I've been singing along since I was a wee little one.

5. What song is your current earworm?
'This December' gets stuck in my head SO FAST. Damn catchy hook.

Comments

[rhoda_rants]

This is such a weird question meme for me. I can probably count on two hands the number of songs I own that originated via download--the rest are CDs that I bought in an actual store and imported. (Included two that I picked up at Barnes and Noble today.)

Is this the new "What's the first album you bought?"

[orangerful]

Yeah, most of my music I rip from my CDs because I know someday it could all go *poof* and not be available online. It has already happened with video games!

[rhoda_rants]

That's happened to me a few times, now. I'm less leery of losing things with this computer (the Mac is *noticeably* more reliable than all of my previous computers combined), but I like being careful. Plus. liner notes! I always read the liner notes. Don't really get that with downloads.

[orangerful]

Liner notes are a lost art!!!!! I do miss that with downloads. I only buy CDs for bands I'm really into now though because I have moved too many times and damn those boxes of CDs-with-one-song-I-really-like got heavy! LOL.

[rhoda_rants]

But see, that's how I've always been with music. I don't buy it unless I'm obsessed and need it badly, and if there's only one song, I wait for the artist to release at least two more, so I know I actually like them. (I'm not sure when I came up with the 3 song rule, but that's been my thing for ages.)

That said--knowing how common it is for other people to buy whole albums just for one song, made the downloading thing make more sense to me. And also, liner notes. I live for liner notes. (Gerard Way and Taylor Swift write the best liner notes, fyi.)

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[orangerful]

Was Columbia House Music Club a thing for you? They got me when I just started college with the whole "get 12 CDs for a PENNY plus $5 for the next one" so I had a horrible collection of bad late 90s music that I got "but only for a penny" (does math of how much it cost to meet the minimum conditions LOL yeah...)

But, yes, after that I quickly learned to see if I liked a whole album or artist first. But now that I have Spotify and can listen to whole albums through before buying them, I have actually bought more stuff!

[rhoda_rants]

I think my dad subscribed to Columbia House, but I never did. I guess the "bad" ones just got sent to the cornfield, heh.

I dunno, I guess I'm just very patient with my collecting of things? Well, to a degree. I'll freak out over one particular artist pretty consistently for like a year, and not buy any other new things during that time period. Puts me out of the loop a bit, but I've gotten used to it.