1000 Songs In 1000 Days: Put A Fork In It!

So... now what? You and I have spent the past 1000 days talking about 1000 songs (plus, we're at about 2000 total posts). Feels kinda silly; nobody reads blogs any more, and this whole project was started out some 6 years ago largely as an exercise in beginning each day with just a little bit of light writing, back when I was working on my book--hey, have you checked that out yet?--and I needed a way to loosen up my musical brain. 

The list itself originated long before that, back in my days as a practicing attorney. An online musical friend from a mixtape-trading website I used to participate in (burning CD mixes and sending them via snail mail to complete strangers--R.I.P. the long-obsolete Art Of The Mix) had impressed me by posting his Top 500 songs, and I rose to the challenge. Turns out spending a few minutes during a lunch or coffee break was a good way to distract myself and decompress amidst a stressful day. And being the competitive sort, with an endless supply of work-stress to distract myself from, that eventually expanded into a Top 1000.

Later, long after I'd entered semi-retirement and spent a few years writing about albums each morning, I decided to pull out that list again and turn it into a daily writing exercise.

1000 days later, I've gotta figure out whether to keep it up. Doing a little music writing, even if just for myself and a handful of folks who stumble across this page, is still a helpful way to wake myself up each morning and get my semi-retired brain moving. I've got about 200 additional songs that missed the cut, and I'm sure I could cobble together another 800 to make up a Top 2000. So maybe I'll soldier on for just a little longer? Right now I'm  on a short break (ok, grading law school exams while catching up on some other things), but soon enough...

For now, though, a complete list of the Top 1000 can be found below. And if you're Spotify-friendly and could use a few new playlists, the entire 1000 songs (broken up into 10 100-song playlists) can be found over on fagel.com, as well as a few playlists dedicated to cover versions of those same songs (far from incomplete, so maybe I'll round those out next).