SXSW 2010 Torrent Culling - Final Stats
By skrutop 2 Comments
I finally got through the SXSW Festival's 2010 torrent today, weeding out the crap that I didn't want, which turned out to be almost every Latin, Hip-Hop, and Country track, as well as the myriad of indie rock that all sounds the same. I'm not a musician or anything, but if there's one recommendation that I can give from this, it's the importance of sucking in the listener right away. Too many of the tracks have an ethereal, dreamy-like quality to them or slowly build over the song. Give me a snappy intro once and awhile.
- Starting count: 1038 songs (5.4 GB)
- Songs kept: 142 (12%)
- Favorites: "Around the Bend" by Asteroids Galaxy Tour, "Blue Day" by Darker My Love (in GH5, who knew?), "We the People" by Guitar Shorty, and "Changing" by The Moondoggies
- Honorable mention: "Splash Woman" by MegaRan (because I'm a huge nerd)
- Best band name: "Tiger! Shit! Tiger! Tiger!"
- Best song title: "this is what celine deon would sound like if she had a dick"
- Letter with most songs kept: D (21)
- Letter with least songs kept: Q, X, Y, Z (0)
- Most disappointing letter: T (kept 1 song out of 57, the rest were total garbage)
Overall, I feel like I sunk way too much time into checking out all of these bands, given the low amount of material that I hung onto. Also, I confirmed that my tastes are far more mainstream than is appropriate. Despite that, I enjoyed the exercise, and am going to do it again with the 1251 tracks that I have from 2009.
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