Notes on a music collection, part 15

[pedanther]

Bob vs the Omnidroid, The Incredibles soundtrack. Instrumental. Not as effective without the visuals.

Bohemian Rhapsody, Queen. Obviously this is staying in the shuffle.

Bojangles (A Portrait of Bill Robinson), Duke Ellington. Instrumental. Cheerful.

Bojangles of Harlem, Fred Astaire. I actually quite like the instrumental section at the start, but I'm not so keen on the actual song.

Bolero, James Last. Instrumental. A version of the famous Ravel piece.

Boogie Woogie Fiddle Country Blues, Charlie Daniels. A song I don't actually dislike from an album containing few songs I can say that about.

Bookends Theme, Simon and Garfunkel. Short but nice.

Boom Sha La La Lo, Hans Poulsen. A song I don't care for from an album I got for one of the other songs.

Boomtown (Variation Louis' Favourite), Local Hero soundtrack. Written as background music, works as background music. I should get around to actually watching the movie at some point.

Boots, Peter Dawson. A reasonable rendition of a Kipling ballad.

Born Free, Matt Monro. I listened to it thinking it was one of those cover versions that lay the song out over a straight beat, but apparently this is the original. I think the version I'm more used to hearing is the Andy Williams cover.

Bound to Follow, Paul Kelly. It's okay, but not really my kind of thing.

The Boxer, Simon and Garfunkel. Obviously this is staying in the shuffle list.

Boy for Sale, Oliver! Original London Cast (soloist Paul Whitsun-Jones). A fun song that doesn't outstay its welcome.

A Boy Named Sue, Johnny Cash. Another song that I'm not sure if I actually like it or I'm just used to hearing it. It does have some fun rhymes.

Boys, The Beatles. Another one from the early days when they did covers of songs that didn't always suit them.

Boys of the Old Brigade, Peter Dawson. A song I don't particularly care for from an album I got for one of the other tracks.

Comments

[igenlode]

"Obviously this is staying in the shuffle list"...

Are you planning to thin down the list by actively purging some of the other tracks -- having decided that you don't particularly like that part of the album, for instance?

[pedanther]

I'm not going to make any decisions about deleting tracks until I've finished working through everything, because having a constant number of items is useful for tracking my progress (and because I'm constitutionally wary of deleting anything, although I didn't ought to be wary about deleting any songs off my primary music device because I still have the entire collection backed up on two other devices).

What I'm doing is making playlists: one of songs I'd like to hear again, so once I'm done I can put that on shuffle instead of the entire collection, and one of songs I actively never want to hear again, which I'll consider deleting once I've categorised everything.

Currently, after categorising 267 tracks, I have 84 in the shuffle playlist, and 4 in the avoid list. (That leaves 179 tracks that are just sitting there, and will probably be permitted to continue just sitting there, on the off chance that I might need one some day, unless it comes about that I need the storage space for something else.)