Woo! After months of fussing, I have finally completed a brief book of essays inspired by an old CD case I found after my car was totaled last May. Here's the introduction: A few days after the accident, we drove to the auto body shop to say goodbye. The adjuster had totaled the car—the repairs … Continue reading Ebook announcement! On twenty-six CDs I found cleaning out my 2009 Subaru Outlook after a car accident
Tag: CDs
On moments I love in songs I like
When tasked by a friend last year to compile a playlist of my "top "top 50" songs—a worthy and fun exercise!—there was one segment of songs in my listening history that befuddled me: Songs that I mostly liked as a whole—but that I loved one moment of. It's interesting to listen to these songs in … Continue reading On moments I love in songs I like
On feeling ownership of a song
"Yoooooo! Play the song!" "Oh, hell yeah!" "Play the song! Play the song! Play the song!" My high school varsity locker room: the baseball team captain and co-captain. Both of whom I recall intensely disliking. I can also recall my own unsettled sense of self in this era, and have no doubt that this was … Continue reading On feeling ownership of a song
On greatest hits collections
Nearly every greatest hits collection has a problem. Problems arise owing to constraints. There's the high-level constraint, of course—how to pick favorite tracks. And some collections get this wrong! But there are constraints beyond this, too. There were the different labels jockeying for influence over an artist's discography, the artist's own (sometimes wrong-headed) preferences, the … Continue reading On greatest hits collections
On what’s left of my CD collection
I recently came across my old CD case—27 CDs inside that past any point of use. I say that because I no longer possess a way to play them. No Walkman, no sound system with CD rack, no CD drive on any of the three computers in the house, no CD slot in either of … Continue reading On what’s left of my CD collection
Does anyone else miss their CD collections?
One of my most distinct boarding school memories was encountering CD library of my math teacher. The collection took up the entirely of a wall in his house, floor-to-ceiling shelves that spanned some 15 feet across. How many CDs did he own? He had no idea. But that's not to say that the collection had … Continue reading Does anyone else miss their CD collections?
Taylor Coe 