What you can find on your hard drive

So, in the past week or so, I've been cleaning out my music hard drive. It's a 300-gig or so Maxtor thingy and I wasn't near capacity, but it has been difficult to use my computer while running iTunes and I really want to make a clean break and get things down to essentials. So far, I've gotten it down from about 250 megs to a bit over 237. Of course, that's still 47,541 individual tracks, which would take me 123 days and change of constant listening to work my way through, so trimming is in order.

When getting to the "Fs," I found the most recent Foo Fighters album, which I had acquired for review but -- I don't think -- had ever given a listen. Considering the album has been well received, right down to a few Grammy nods, I gave it a whirl. Now understand, I've always liked the Foo Fighters, but usually in a "hey, that's clever rockin' pop music" way instead of a "I must obsess over every second this band has created" way. So, usually I listen to the album a few times, enjoy it, and then sell it back when I realized I hadn't listened to the disc or album in a couple of years. I guess I was trying to avoid those steps this time.

However, the music is fun, and in an era when rock 'n' roll has been fractured into a million sub-genres and largely left behind by the pop world, it's nice to listen to a bit of straight-ahead rock 'n' roll. Will it climb onto my top of the year list? Probably not. Will I listen to it a few more times before hitting delete? Most certainly.

Oh, must dash. The player has turned over from the Foo Fighters to Forbidden, and I'm not in the mood for early-school death metal just at the moment. Of course, Foreigner is up after Forbidden. Damn these Fs. Damn them.