Endless Music Shopping List

Adam gave me another disc full of music today, so I got excited about that and the concept of new music in general, so I decided to do something about the ridiculous pile of lists I'd been keeping in a text file. The problem was a lot of them overlapped and included stuff I already had and whatnot, and basically it just made me not want to learn about the music on there.

So, I got rid of all the numbers and "the"s at the beginning of the list-items, dumped it all into a database so I could sort it, then deleted all the irrelevant information, which was pretty easy, especially the big sections of Radiohead, or the 10 Junior Boys entries from last year. I was able to downsize it from 1100 items to a little over 300, which was a big difference.

It'd be really nice if I could figure out a way to get rid of all the leading numbers without deleting numbers in either the artist or title of the album. If I could get that worked out, it would be supremely easy for me next year when I go through all the year-end lists and try to find out what music from 2005 I missed.