I hereby coin a new term: The MP3 Slush Pile — random music that someone recommended as you cruise through their plentiful harddrive, taking anything that sounded interesting on a whim, then immediately forgetting about all together (or losing it among the 3GB you just shared).
This occurred to me today as I was getting bored with my 35GB in iTunes (this scares me, how does this happen!?). I saw this name, Erkin Koray, and thought, “what the hell is that?” So I click on it, and immediately I’m hooked. It’s amazing! But he’s singing in some strange language so I have to go Google him…
Here’s his Wikipedia entry. What a genius, this guy! Says here he was the first dude to play rock n’ roll in Turkey. Clearly, this man must be a national hero over there and I haven’t ever considered his existence!
If anyone remembers giving this to me, thank you! Got any more??
Ah, beloved MP3 Slush Pile, what will you come up with next? You guys know what I’m talking about?
UPDATE: It turns out that my good friend Nat of Deep Water Acres fame gave me the Erkin Koray album. Thanks, Natty! Looking forward to some new stuff soon!
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