ArmyWifeToddlerMom tagged me with a music meme, and although I think I may have done a similar one some months ago, I would love to do it again. Music's a pretty big interest in my life...

I am like AWTM, in that I absolutely love all music. There is no genre I can honestly say I hate, although some I enjoy more than others.

Total Volume of music:

CDs: 440 and yes, I did catalogue them some time ago.

Cassettes, Records, tapes: Cassettes, probably only about 30 or so left around here. I have no medium to play them anymore. Records, about 200 or so LP's and probably 100 45RPMs. A few years ago, I started collecting the discards of my brothers and family when they decided to get rid of their turntables. I don't have a turntable either but have decided to try and find one, with the intention of converting them into MP3.

MP3, and other hard drive format: 150GB, or somewhere around 28,000 songs. I had only about 40GB until a week ago, when a friend at work loaned me his hard drive of 113GB of songs. I am still going through deleting all the duplicates but I feel right now like I must have every song ever recorded!

Last CD I bought: Rod Stewart/Stardust. I love his new style...mellow, and great background music.

Song Playing Right now: .38 Special, Caught Up in You

5 Songs that mean a lot to me:

1) I'll Stand By You - The Pretenders (I've always wanted that to be my first dance song)
2) With Arms Wide Open - Creed (when Hayley was born, it seemed so perfect!)
3) Blueberry Hill - Fats Domino (my parent's first dance, and it reminds me of the love they share even after 53 years of marriage)
4) Someone Else's Dream - Faith Hill (reminds me of when I finally felt strong enough to leave home and start my own life)
5) Good Mother - Jann Arden

First recording I bought myself: a 45 of Bette Davis Eyes by Kim Carnes.

Artists whose recordings you own on more than 2 manufactured (not home copied):
Rod Stewart, Aerosmith, Garth Brooks, John Cougar Mellencamp, Billy Joel, U2, oh..there's lots. Many of my CDs are various artists. I have a 'compilation cd' addiction and especially when I travel, I always like to grab a few compilations. England's always got much better compliation CD's than we ever seem to get in North America.

And on that note, I bought tickets to two concerts this week too. On August 23, I will be in Row 8 for John Cougar Mellencamp/John Foggerty, and in October, we will all be going to see Loverboy at the casino!