If these are to be the boundaries of my musical world hereafter, favoritism within it is not a luxury I'll be able to afford. In reality it's hard enough for me to leave my apartment without at least three Big Country albums clutched to my heart, but restricting myself to one entry per artist (one album or one song) makes the list more interesting for both of us.
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And then, once you've resigned yourself to lugging along 100 CDs and LPs and a full stereo system to play them on, I figure smuggling a few homemade cassettes into the cases somewhere wouldn't prove too difficult, so I've added 100 individual songs.Īll good obsessive list-makers make up rules for their lists, and so here are mine. The standard DID list consists of ten albums, but if I'm going to spend any time at all marooned on a desert island, I'm going to need a lot more than ten records, and since TWAS 1-99 have been characterized by nothing so much as a persistently self-indulgent inability to shut up about things at anything like a reasonable point anyway, making my DID list 100 albums long seemed only fitting. As timing will have it, issue 101 will be my 1996 year-in-review issue, so to commemorate 100 it seemed appropriate to look back a little further and write my entry in the grand tradition of Desert Island Disk lists.
This week's issue is my 100th, and while there are plenty of people who have been writing music reviews for a lot longer than just under two years, we carve our own milestones out of the boulders to hand, and so reaching 100 feels to me like a point in the journey when it is appropriate to pause for a moment, look back, contemplate one's cosmic insignificance, and maybe eat one of the nice cheese sandwiches one brought along.