Just as an aside, this post is something of a landmark, as it's the 100th thing I've posted on Angry Since 1967. Let joy be unbridled.
I think I've worked out what's happened over the past couple of days. It's not that I've not been in the mood listen to music - I have. I've just not been in the mood to listen to a CD properly. And I think this is the key difference between having a huge mp3 collection and having a huge selection of CDs. I've mentioned previously that I'd thought listening to CDs was a less passive experience than listening to mp3's. Now I'm convinced of it.
This little experiment has also demonstrated something that I hadn't really considered. The whole jukebox listening experience effectively reduces music to background noise. I mean we've all been there. A song plays and it doesn't register. Brian Eno might have had a point with "Music For Airports." Just playing random tunes reduces music to something you hear but don't listen to, creating (for want of a better word) "ambience" and not much else.
Of course that's not to say that I don't miss having all those mp3s to pick from. I do. I wonder though. Should I draw a distinction between music that I just "hear" and music that I actually listen to?
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