Best Tracks of the Year

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Time for our first annual Oct-Sep year in review.  (This blog actually started in September of 2008, and found its voice again a year ago, so we're on a fiscal year.  Besides, I used to be a bookkeeper.)

Our 60 posts this year have included 37 audio posts, appearing with the help of Box.com.  This isn't a commercial, but I do want to mention my appreciation for Box's reliability and (lack of) cost.  I've been using it here for 17 years, and it's always worked- a rarity in the tech world.  

A year ago, I resumed regular posts with the idea of three audio per month, and one commentary on movie/TV "character actors" of the Minor Arcana.  With the idea of trying to see if I could ultimately do three new audio bits per month.  How's that gone?

37 posts / 12 months = 3+ every month.  So, the basic goal was met.  How many of them were "new", as in, "appearing here for the first time"?  

The stats: 

14 new 

15 created previously (sometimes, very previously), maybe posted earlier

3 made for a CD that wasn't done, posted earlier and removed

2 extracted from podcasts elsewhere on the site

3 unaltered audio by other people

 

I've been thinking about the proportion of new bits.  Can we get it higher this year?  It's going to take some kind of cognitive framework.  We'll continue to experiment.  The results are all that matter.  Giving it another year.

 

And now...Cutupsound's Best Bits of the Year, October 2025!  Here in one handy spot.

 

Oct 2024: Killers Car Race (9:28)

Nov: The 1812 Overdub (4:38)

Dec: D-Day Trout (4:21)

Jan 2025: Auf Der Hop (2:29)

Mar: The F Production (1:51), and 

     American Fantasy (5:23) 

Jun: Broken Record Sale 2014 (16:35)

 

7 tracks,  45 minutes.  The 3 made for the never-did CD, plus the rest all new.  

This is kind of a CD-y thing, almost.  Are we still doing those?  

Ya got me- I'm just trying to dig into this mass of audio before it dissolves back into vanilla electrons.  

Next week: our monthly Old TV Guy feature.  Audio resumes on October 19.