Spring Cleaning

I hit a turning point in my appreciation for music late in life. For that I’m grateful (and regretful).

Sadly, as an adolescent, I was interested in anything MTV was serving up on their bubble gum platter. I was an only child, from a small family, with zero outside influence on what constituted good quality music. In that, the majority of CDs I purchased pre-2000 would probably work better as coffee cup coasters. I woefully acknowledge that there is a lot of shit on my shelf awaiting its demise.

For years I’ve been inclined to consolidate and refine my music collection to only those albums that would be deemed collection worthy by my present day self.

At the same time I refuse to completely discount all the music I listened to up until my turning point. My personality doesn’t allow me to purge thoughts, feelings or possessions haphazardly. Without having listened to many of these albums for years, the only way I feel I can rid myself of all that sucks, is by painstakingly going back and listening to all those shameful purchases I made years ago.

I can say with 100% confidence that this exodus is going to invoke a lot of memories, making it all the more difficult for me to part with these pieces of my past. My plan is to share each one of my decisions with you via Mild Tenacity. Things are about to get extremely awkward.

Spring Cleaning begins today.

April 5th, 2009