My Music Journal: September 26, 2025

 

Friday, September 26, 2025

Time: 6:00 AM
Song:  Continuous Thunder
Artist: Japandroids
Mode of Consumption: Listening to MP3s on shuffle while doing morning workout.

Link to song: https://open.spotify.com/track/1ZddR6Xh1nOOyTBpVBxtCc?si=8608761a081d4eb4

After I added songs to my SD card last night, I noticed that the shuffle on my music apps had reset. This was the first song to play on the new shuffle. I wonder how long it will take to hear this one again?

The title “Continuous Thunder” has always interested me. Do they mean the thunder is one long rumble or just there are so many rumbles that you can’t hear where one begins and the other ends?

I also noticed after reloading the SD card into my phone that I have 3,799 songs. I’m not sure how many more I can add before it becomes full, but I wager I will find out. I have about twenty CDS right now with songs I plan on adding waiting in the basement, and I am always picking up more at garage sales. 

Then I got to thinking if there was an easy way to digitize songs from my vinyl collection, I would likely double that song number. I have about 500 albums, and while there is certainly plenty of overlap, there is music there that I haven’t encountered yet in CDs. We can actually record our albums on our turntable, but I think you have to do it by track, otherwise it records one long track. I don’t think we have a program where I could separate them if they recorded as one track.

Plus, the sound is different. At least, I think it is. 

Then I wonder how many songs is enough songs. I mean, theoretically, there could be a few songs in the 3,799 that have never played in my shuffle. As I add more songs, that song or two could be falling even farther down in the order.

I realize if I were to play my MP3s continuously it wouldn’t take that long to get through, relatively. If you assume an average of 3 ½ minutes per song, it works out to be a little over 9 days. 

The morbid part of me thinks, I hope someone tosses my phone into my casket and hits play so that my corpse will get 9 days (hopefully much more by the time I am resting in a coffin) to listen to the music that’s been a part of my life one more time. 

Of course, that’s pointless. Corpses can’t hear.