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NowhereMan · 2014-09-02T09:11:29-04:00

I have spent hours organising my albums on my iPod and take take great pride in the collection I now have at my fingertips. I also, however have many loose individual tracks from various artists that I love but just haven't been bothered to listen to further or the fact that I know the song is widely seen as a 'one hit wonder'. Here are a number of examples from my collection - what are yours? A.A Bondy - American Hearts ABC -The Look Of Love Ace - How Long Aha - Take On Me Andy McKee - Rylynn Badly Drawn Boy - Disillusion Billy Bragg - New England Billy Ocean - Love Really Hurts Without You Yardbirds - For Your Love/Evil Hearted You/Shapes Of Things The Bloodhound Gang - The Bad Touch The Boomtown Rats - Rattrap/I don't like mondays Bruce Hornsby and The Range - The Way It Is Semisonic - Secret Smile Doves - Catch The Sun/Black & White Town The Caesars - Jerk It Out Candy Flip - Strawberry Fields Forever The Charlatans - The Only One I Know/North Country Boy

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A few more I have floating in the ether:

Cher - Gypsies Tramps & Thieves
Crowded House - Weather With You
The Culture Club - Karma Chameleon/Do You Really Want To Hurt Me
Deep Purple - Emaretta
Dodgy - Good Enough/Staying Out For The Summer
Eddie & The Hot Rods - Do Anything You Wanna Do
Edwyn Collins - A Girl Like You
Embrace - Ashes
EMF - Unbelievable
Eric Carmen - All By Myself
The Farm - All together Now

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NowhereMan wrote:

I tend to to download compilation albums which may contain singular songs I like and others that I consider dross and simply add that particular individual track onto my iPod that I like or I do not already have. The remains of rubbish or stuff I already have is left on my library.

I kind of do the opposite to this, in a roundabout way.

As memory gets tight on my iPhone and bearing in mind I have to own everything I like (I tend to use Spotify for discovering/trying before purchase) I get round this little issue by butchering compilations I already own and adding relevant individual tracks to these.

For example, there is a fine compy of Post-Punk on Soul Jazz Records called Do It Yourself - The Rise Of The Independent Music Industry After Punk. There are however a couple of duds on it, so what to do? Simple - replace said duds with tracks like TVOD or Psycle Sluts PTs 1&2. Better compilation and odds-and-ends cleared up.
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I only allow albums, compilations, EPs, and singles to be in my iTunes, so no loose songs from larger releases here.

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I have all albums, aside from my college fight song. It is the only "loose" song on my iTunes.

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wow like so many loose songs

like albums are good obviously

but they can be such an ordeal sometimes

songs are good too

plus the new t swift album isn't out yet so i'm resigned to listening to 'shake it off' on repeat until it is

and even then the album will probably be mediocre so i'll still just listen to the singles

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The majority of my itunes library is made up with albums, still I have several songs laying by themselves. Specially mainstream pop songs. I just dont see a lot of potential in albums made by

A-ha - Take on me
Alphaville - Forever Young
Aqualong - Brighter than Sunshine
Asia - Heat of the Moment
Black Eyed Peas - Where is the Love?

.... just to name a few
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noWaxJim wrote:

I kind of do the opposite to this, in a roundabout way.

As memory gets tight on my iPhone and bearing in mind I have to own everything I like (I tend to use Spotify for discovering/trying before purchase) I get round this little issue by butchering compilations I already own and adding relevant individual tracks to these.

For example, there is a fine compy of Post-Punk on Soul Jazz Records called Do It Yourself - The Rise Of The Independent Music Industry After Punk. There are however a couple of duds on it, so what to do? Simple - replace said duds with tracks like TVOD or Psycle Sluts PTs 1&2. Better compilation and odds-and-ends cleared up.
Everyone's a winner.

I will probably end up doing something like this once my memory has to be rationed. My classic has around 120GB so I'm lucky.

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Let's see..

Coldplay - "Charlie Brown"
Crowded House - "Don't Dream It's Over"
Death Cab for Cutie - "Monday Morning" & "Portable Television"
Drake - "Hold On, We're Going Home"
Hey Champ - "Cold Dust Girl"
Jens Lekman - "If You Ever Need a Stranger (To Sing At Your Wedding)"
Jimi Hendrix - "Purple Haze"
Kings of Leon - "Radioactive"
The Magnetic Fields - "The Book of Love"

That's it. The rest is albumized.
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HoldenM wrote:

Let's see..

Coldplay - "Charlie Brown"
Crowded House - "Don't Dream It's Over"
Death Cab for Cutie - "Monday Morning" & "Portable Television"
Drake - "Hold On, We're Going Home"
Hey Champ - "Cold Dust Girl"
Jens Lekman - "If You Ever Need a Stranger (To Sing At Your Wedding)"
Jimi Hendrix - "Purple Haze"
Kings of Leon - "Radioactive"
The Magnetic Fields - "The Book of Love"

That's it. The rest is albumized.

No albums by Hendrix?