1000 MINS
I was doing some blog browsing recently when I came across a project that truly inspired me to think long and hard.
The project is called ‘1000 minutes’ and it has been created by the boys over at Tympanogram. The writers of the blog, Andy and Dave have started an ongoing list project in which they choose 1000 minutes worth of tracks they would fill an mp3 player with if they were stuck on a desert island with only that to listen to. The rules are simple, they’re not with each other, so they can’t share music and bit rates/file sizes are not relevant, the mp3 player will hold EXACTLY 1000 minutes. I’ve been following the project over the last few days and it really is worth following.
You may be thinking whats the point? Well, for me its simple. For some of us, we flood our ears, hard drives and stereos with so much music it can sometimes lose its meaning. So having to pick a limited amount of music that you would be stuck with for life, with no chopping and changing and nothing new to treat yourself with is actually pretty damn hard.
Now, I get quite excited about stuff like this. My inner geek loves the idea of making lists and organising my music collection, so I’ve decided to start something similar. I’m not up for copying the boys at Tympanogram’s idea (and I hope they understand that my reason for this is pure, unadulterated inspiration) but instead, I want to put my thoughts down too.
So, here it begins, my 1000 minutes….thank you Tympanogram for a brilliant idea..
THE LIST
1. Scanners – Lowlife [3:20] [time remaining - 996:40]
2. Cat Stevens - The Wind [1:41] [time remaining - 994:59]
3. The Pretenders - Don’t Get Me Wrong [3:49] [time remaining - 991:10]
4. Mirah - Recommendation [1:21] [time remaining - 989:49]
5. Kings Of Leon – Fans [3:37] [time remaining - 986:12]
6. Metronomy - Heartbreaker [4:13] [time remaining - 981:59]
7. Scarlet – Independent Love Song [3:51] [time remaining - 978:08]
8. Modest Mouse - Float On [3:28] [time remaining 974:40]
9. Urusei Yatsura – Hello Tiger [3:18] [time remaining 971:22]
10. Sleeper – Nice Guy Eddie [3:21] [time remaining 968:01]
11. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Maps [3:40] [time remaining 964:21]
12. Justice Vs. Simian – We Are Your Friends (Original Mix) [4:18] [time remaining 960:03]
13. Sleater-Kinney – Modern Girl [3:01] [time remaining 957:02]
14. The Dresden Dolls – Girl Anachronism [3:00] [time remaining 954:02]
15. The Black Ghosts – Anyway You Choose To Give It [3:38] [time remaining 950:24]
16. The Knife – Heartbeats [3.54] [time remaining 946:30]
17. Snow Patrol – You Could Be Happy [3:04] [time remaining 943:26]
18. Genesis – Invisible Touch [3:26] [time remaining 940:26]
19. Alison Moyet – Only You [3:12] [time remaining 937:14]
20. Skee-Lo – I Wish [4:09] [time remaining 933:05]
21. Arrested Development – People Everyday [4:57] [time remaining 928:08]
22. Help She Can’t Swim – My Own Private Disco [2:34] [time remaining 925:08]
23. Blood Red Shoes – Its Getting Boring By The Sea [2:56] [time remaining 922:38]
24. Kelis Feat. Andre 3000 – Millionaire [3:45] [time remaining 918:53]
25. Riot In Belgium – La Musique [6:38] [time remaining 912:15]
26. No Doubt – New [4:24] [time remaining 907:51]
27. Daft Punk – Digital Love [4:58] [time remaining 902:53]
28. Basement Jaxx – Take Me Back To Your House [5:08] [time remaining 897:45]
29. M.I.A – Paper Planes [3:25] [time remaining 894:20]
30. Longpigs – On & On [4:11] [time remaining 890:09]
31. Echobelly – King Of The Kerb [4:00] [time remaining 886:09]
32. Spin Doctors – Two Princes [4:18] [time remaining 881:51]
33. Transvision Vamp – Baby I Don’t Care [4:41] [time remaining 877:10]
34. Dizzee Rascal - Jus A Rascal [3:39] [time remaining 873:31]
35. Example – Me & Mandy [3:27] [time remaining 870:04]
36. Lady Sovereign - The Battle [7:50] [time remaining 862:14]
37. Lupe Fiasco - Kick Push [4:15] [time remaining 857:59]
38. David E. Sugar – Although You May Laugh [4:15] [time remaining 853:44]
39. Erasure – A Little Respect [3:34] [time remaining 850:10]
40. Lily Allen – LDN [3:11] [time remaining 846:59]
41. Garbage – Push It [4:02] [time remaining 842:57]
42. Soulwax – E-Talking [4:35] [time remaining 838:22]
43. Soulwax – NY Excuse [4:48] [time remaining 833:34]
44. Soulwax – Krack [5:25] [time remaining 828:09]
45. The Futureheads – Hounds Of Love [3:04] [time remaining 825:05]
46. Fleetwood Mac – Everywhere [3:42] [time remaining 821:23]
47. James – Laid [2:38] [time remaining 818:45]
48. Depeche Mode – Just Can’t Get Enough [3:43] [time remaining 815:02]
49. Busy P – Chop Suey [3:03] [time remaining 811:59]
50. Plastic Operator – Folder [4:13] [time remaining 807:46]
51. Imogen Heap – Hide And Seek [4:31] [time remaining 803:15]
52. The Clik Clik – Did You Wrong [3:37] [time remaining 799:43]
53. Patrick Wolf – Overture [4:41] [time remaining 795:02]
54. Au Revoir Simone – Where You Go [2:44] [time remaining 792:18]
55. Elastica – Vaseline [1:24] [time remaining 790:54]
56. Blur – There’s No Other Way [3:24] [time remaining 787:30]
57. The Kills – Cat Claw [3:33] [time remaining 783:57]
58. The Long Blondes – Once And Never Again [3:00] [time remaining 780:57]
59. Sneaker Pimps – Spin Spin Sugar [4:20] [time remaining 776:37]
60. The Distillers - Gypsy Rose Lee [3:54] [time remaining 772:43]
61. The Shins – Turn On Me [3:42] [time remaining 769:01]
62. Amy Winehouse – Tears Dry On Their Own [3.05] [time remaining 765:56]
63. Dancehall Crashers – Cricket [3:39] [time remaining 762:51]
64. Placebo – Teenage Angst [2:42] [time remaining 760:09]
65. Theoretical Girl – Another Fight [3:47] [time remaining 756:22]
66. The Bicycles – I Know We Have To Be Apart [2:41] [time remaining 753:41]
67. Michael Jackson - Dirty Diana [4:41] [time remaining 749.00]
68. Zolof the Rock and Roll Destroyer – Argh, I’m A Pirate [1:54] [time remaining 747:06]
69. Ash – Walking Barefoot [4:13] [time remaining 742:53]
70. Simian Mobile Disco - I Believe [3:19] [time remaining 739:34]
71. The xx – VCR [2:57] [time remaining 736:37]
72. Pony Up! – Marlon Brando’s Laundromat [3:48] [time remaining 732:49]
73. Prince – Raspberry Beret [3:33] [time remaining 729.16]
74. Eric Carmen – Hungry Eyes [4:08] [time remaining 725:08]
75. The Primitives – Crash [3:14] [time remaining 721:54]
76. Cut Copy - Rendezvous [5:18] [time remaining 716:36]
77. Cut Copy - Future [5:12] [time remaining 711:24]
78. Cut Copy - Hearts On Fire [4:53] [time remaining 707:31]
79. The Velvet Teen – Radiapathy [2:32] [time remaining 704.59]
80. Sleater-Kinney – Good Things [3:10] [time remaining 701:49]
81. Frightened Rabbit – Heads Roll Off [3:44] [time remaining 698:05]
tbc….
This is such a cool idea.. gunna definitely give it a try.. but isnt it just a bit of a time waster for bloggers who obviously dont have much to do with there day… I have never enough computer time to either keep up with my fave blogs.. read the new ones listen to the new tuneage that I love so much and make my podcasts… let alone seeing my mates; going to partys; catching up with the family. How do you do it?? Do you just not have a job and sit around in ur floral PJ’s in front of your screen all day???
Haha, your comment made me laugh…
I wish i sat at home all day in floral pjs, i do have a job and a life, but you’ll notice that I only post a 1000 minutes post about once a month or every 2-3 weeks. If I’d completed it all in 1 week, I think your idea would be more accurate…
YEAH it has to be more realistic to make this a life goal… every 2-3 weeks not every day….but having quit my job this morning (Horrible chef and horrible hours -making me too stressed) I am now in my superman boxers and wife beater, on my netbook wasting my morning on bloging and listening to tunes, maybe I can do it in a week.. just have to avoid getting a job =D
aaahhh I wish life could be this easy… sadly I have to get my arse in gear and go back to central for interviews this afternoon…. it just never seems to stop does it??