More Proof I'm Insane

Amongst my Twitter travels I encountered someone working on an #iTunesZero project.  The point being to listen to all the songs on your iPod at least once.   My eyes grew large.  YES!  I should do this.  I often feel guilty seeing the play count for my music as blank, 0 doesn't display in iTunes, blank.. null.  Music should be loved, not sitting on a hard drive with 0 plays. 

Here where this idea intersects with crazy:  my iTunes library includes 4,853 items for a total run time of 13 days and 52 minutes.   Due to catastrophic hard drive failure last year, I couldn't (or didn't know how to) import play counts from prior to that time.  Result:  there are 3,881 songs that iTunes considers unplayed.   Obviously, this is way.   I listened to many, many of these songs on various iPods and even in other formats in the (gasp) pre-iPod era (yes, youngsters, the iPod did not always exist).

But yet, I still think this is an idea worth pursuing, though it may take me the rest of my life (do you know how long it's going to take me to get through the Bob Dylan, Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones trifecta?  Do you know how much I am going to enjoy doing so?).   So for a couple of days I've been plugging in the iPod to my Bose iPod dock (just a plug because I love this toy so much, well worth the money) and start playing my smart playlist (where plays = 0).   So far I'm loving this project because it's an amazing walk down memory lane, but I'm also learning a few things: 

- I own music I had no idea I owned
- Stevie Nicks had a really bad, cocaine fueled, not reigned by Lindsay Buckingham, period
- I'm not sure the Wallflowers were ever really necessary
- Faith Hill holds up remarkably well
- I had forgotten how brilliant Aimee Mann is
- I should spend more time listening to Billie Holiday
- Tori Amos has an entire record of cover songs that I apparently bought, but have no memory of
- Counting Crows:  all that 90's angst.  Cheer up already.   Yet, it's still fantastic stuff
- There are some songs I really don't ever need to hear again and I'm getting them off my iPod
- I could listen to Buffalo Tom every day. 


Because I've been using shuffle play so far, it's a crap shoot what I've heard so far, so this is all I've got for you, but I'm fascinated to see how this goes.