The Island of Misfit MP3s

I’ve been cleaning off my hard drive and it’s crazy some of the MP3s I’ve run across.  I’ve got a problem where I get these MP3s and it sounds like a good idea at the time, but then I never listen to them and yet I don’t want to delete them just in case.

Some of the crap I found:

- A poor quality Dream Theater bootleg.  I’ve got a couple of their legitimate live albums that I never listen to so why do I have this?  Delete this one.

- Alternate versions of the songs from Paul McCartney’s second solo album which I don’t even own.  What was I thinking?  Frozen Jap? Really?  Delete.

- Jani Lane, Jabberwocky.  A Jani Lane solo album?  I’ve never listened to it, it never made it to the iPod, and yet it stays.

- Fastway’s first album featuring the singer from Flogging Molly.  It stays for just that reason.

- Girls Got Rhythm! An album of songs by all-female tribute bands, such as the Ms. Fits and The Iron Maidens.  Interesting concept but not interesting enough to keep.

- Low quality Asia bootleg, probably on their first reunion tour.  The thing about Asia is that outside of a couple of singles their songs just blend into a great mass of mediocrity.  Dump it and meditate on why I had it in the first place.

- Heaven, Where Angels Fear to Tread.  I once saw them in an odd show in El Paso.  A buddy’s band was supposed to be playing but they got kicked out once the owner found out Heaven was in town with no gig.  They played a handful of their songs then started playing covers as their singer got more and more drunk.  Keep this for sentimental purposes.

- One of those homemade Chinese Democracy bootlegs where someone compiled all the songs from live performances.  I didn’t like the real Chinese Democracy so dump this.

- Oh but now we have the best for last.  “One Tin Soldier” from Billy Jack.  You know this one’s a keeper.

“One Tin Soldier” - Coven

It’s one of those songs I loved as a kid (along with the movie).  The memory is so strong that I can’t listen to it objectively.