Greatest hits records suck.

I’m sitting at my desk at work right now, and it’s four O’clock in the afternoon. I don’t have anything to do right now – and I’m just trying to look busy until the clock strikes five. The truth is, I hate these times – I’d rather be busy just so the time passes by faster. I’ve got Van Morrison on iTunes. Astral Weeks. I don’t recall liking this album that much before, but right now it really seems to be striking me. That happens a lot… I listen to music for the first time, and dismiss it quickly. But sometimes I go back to it and it really hits me the second time. Right now, Van sounds like an angel.

I have a lot of trouble with music, because I hate Greatest Hits albums. I refuse to listen to them because it’s not a good capture of time in the bands career for me. I hate listening to one song, and then next you hear a song that was recorded five years later. That’s not listening to music to me. I really like to fall into the mood, or the theme of a specific album and just get lost in it. It’s hard to do that with greatest hits records because the moods and themes are very inconsistent. This also ruins listening to the radio for me... because for one – nobody plays the music I like, and two, the music is all over the place. How can you listen to Crazy Train right after you just heard Heart of Gold? I’ve never been able to make a successful mixed tape either, because it’s not easy to keep it consistent. I try to keep it in the same era or in the same tone of mood, and it always just blows up into what I didn’t want in the first place.

Thanks to Mr. Morrison for helping me get through the day. By the way, I just picked up MLB 2K7 and am really looking forward to playing it tonight.

-SB-