These were my Top 5 hits exactly 10 years ago this weekend – Sunday January 20TH 2008.
‘Saturday Night Retro’ used to be a regular series on this blog. Now it’s the name of the blog. It was inspired by a popular series on my former hit music-based web site (‘MASSIVESMASH.COM’) known as ‘The Major’s MASSIVE Memories’.
Yesterday I added the 800TH hit to my iTunes collection. This past week I quietly celebrated my 5TH anniversary with iTunes. (The date actually came and went without me even realizing it until just now.) So that’s 800 hits in 5 years – or an average of 160 hits per year – less than one every two days. I’m very meticulous as to which hits get added to my iTunes collection. Each one is added for a reason. Mainly that reason is that it’s one of the greatest hits ever made according to me. My iTunes collection is essentially ‘The Music Of My Life’. It spans six decades from the 1960s to the 2010s. 617 of the 800 hits (over 77%) are from the 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s. My admiration of classic hit music – particularly classic rock – from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s is fairly new, and it’s slowly building within my collection.
521 of the 800 hits were purchased directly from the iTunes Store at $0.99 or $1.29 a pop. The remainder were imported from my CDs of the 1990s and 2000s. If only there was a way to somehow import all of the great music that I still have on cassette singles of the 1980s !
Listening to all 800 hits one right after another would take approximately 3,200 minutes (based on an average length of four minutes per hit). That’s over 53 hours of non-stop hits with no repeats. Of course that’s impractical. I’ve actually got a special smart playlist known as my ‘HOT 275’. It’s the best of the best – the cream of the crop – the best 275 hits of them all – and it’s on one of my four iPod Shuffles – the one that goes to work with me. It’s my workplace jukebox. It’s my own personal hit music station that I control. Hit after hit. No radio station can match my ‘HOT 275’.
Saturday February 19TH 2011
Volume 3 / Number 15 / Edition 112
As of this writing I’ve got 607 songs within my iTunes collection. I often refer to it as my coveted iTunes because it takes a special kind of song to make it onto my constantly evolving hit music hall-of-fame. It’s the music of my Life, and it’s what I listen to at home, at work, and at play.
I joined the iTunes revolution during the Summer of 2007 – a few days after my 40TH birthday. My brother and his wife bought me my very first iPod Shuffle, and they had it shipped to me back then. That was by request, as I was looking for a nice yet simple-to-use music player to store the music of my fantastic journey – the music that was playing on The Call.
Nowadays I’ve got 3 iPod Shuffles that I utilize daily. That original 1GB 2007 model is now my ’50-50 MIX’ – half music of my journey and half music of my life (going back to the late-1960s). It’s split right down the middle – 120 Christian and 120 Secular. It’s my ‘go-to’ Shuffle for the workplace.
My 2ND iPod Shuffle – a 2GB 2008 model personalized with my name on it – contains all of my Christian songs only – all 286 of them to date – pop, rock, and hip hop. This is a music genre that I didn’t even know existed before my journey began during the Summer of 2006.
And then there’s my 3RD iPod Shuffle – a 2GB 2010 4TH Generation model that my brother and his wife bought me as a Christmas gift just a few months ago. It’s got 40+ years of mainstream pop, rock, and dance hits on it going all the way back to the late-1960s. It’s the music of my life, and it’s the songs that I’ve chosen to represent its soundtrack.
Once upon a time I regularly presented ‘The Major’s MASSIVE Memories’ on my web site. Nowadays I’m creating fresh new memories on this journey to go with my lifetime of memories. My coveted iTunes is its soundtrack, as my new Life continues to move forward further into His light.
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