Take one and pass it on...

May 19, 2005 3:41 PM

Passing the 'Musical Baton' (link to google search, follow the many links therein).
A particularly virulent meme currently rampaging around the Blogosphere, whereby participants - 'baton holders', I guess - are invited to announce to the world:-

1. The person (or persons) who passed the baton to them.
2. Total volume of music files on their computer.
3. The title and artist of the last CD they bought.
4. Song playing at the moment of writing.
5. Five songs they have been listening to of late (or all-time favorites, or particularly personally meaningful songs)
6. The five people to whom they will themselves 'pass the musical baton'

A 21st Century Internet version of the chain letters of old - or indeed the more recent phenomenon of 'forward this story to 10 or your friends or [ something unpleasant ] may befall you' chain emails - but this time eventuating in something fun and informative?

Any Mefi'ers been passed the baton?
Any ideas from whence this meme sprung?
posted by stumcg (14 comments total)

Also interesting is Caesar's Bath.
posted by Kwantsar at 3:43 PM on May 19, 2005

The Smelling BATON
posted by riffola at 3:43 PM on May 19, 2005

So, does this Google do anything else?
posted by fenriq at 3:44 PM on May 19, 2005

i have always wanted to rampage around a blogosphere.
posted by quonsar at 3:46 PM on May 19, 2005

I'd rather listen to music than to the blogosphere. And you know where you can stick that baton eh?
posted by furtive at 3:49 PM on May 19, 2005

I've ignored email from my own mother for weeks for lesser offenses than this FPP. ;-P
posted by mischief at 3:54 PM on May 19, 2005

So, this Google... it vibrates?
posted by Doohickie at 3:56 PM on May 19, 2005

So its not just me being amazed that this post is still here upon a refresh?
posted by fenriq at 4:24 PM on May 19, 2005

There could be a good discussion about this particular weblog-hopping thing (which I've seen several places, including mathowie's blog), but this post is essentially null.

I know how to use Google.

If you're interested in mindless chatter regarding nothing in particular, I suggest either John Knowles or MetaChat.
posted by gramschmidt at 4:26 PM on May 19, 2005

I like to brag to my iPod owning, but non-warez-savvy friends about my MP3 collection - currently resting comfortably at 5,980 files (individual tracks) and taking up 30.5 gigs of space. Not earth shattering by some standards, but then again my friends are prone to buying movie soundtracks and are easily impressed.
posted by wfrgms at 4:32 PM on May 19, 2005

Oops.

Sorry all... first time I've found something moderately interesting on the Net that wasn't already linked and discussed to death on Mefi (well I thought it was interesting - or potentially interesting - but I'm clearly in a minority on that one!)

Reason I linked to the Google search wasn't to raise ire but simply to show how many blogs had been affected. I'm fully aware people know how to use Google.

I guess it just didn't occur to me that noone else would find the nature of how these kind of things spread interesting - or the inherent difference in this (as opposed to other chain-type communications) as the networked nature of the Net means you can - if motivated - follow the trail backwards and discover new music.

Reason I linked it was cause I thought it'd be interesting to discuss... this was my first thread - so I guess I should go back to lurking and posting the odd comment!

Again... sorry everyone.

Mefi overlords - delete away!
posted by stumcg at 4:45 PM on May 19, 2005

Sure, I'll participate in this harmless little meme. I've got 356.2 gigs of MP3s and-- wait, who's that knocking on my door?
posted by Faint of Butt at 4:57 PM on May 19, 2005

bizzarely enough, I haven't seen the music one, but I just did the books version of this meme. I don't think that's particularly interesting or anything, but right now I'm tired enough to type shite when normally I wouldn't bother (anyone know why this happens? I'm sure I'm not the only person affected like this - my body is telling me 'sleep', but a corner of my mind that seems to have done a prett good job of hijacking most of my motor skills (allowing for typos) is saying 'no! stay up reading pointless stuff on the internet until your eyes won't actuallly stay open any more! type stream-of-consciousness drivel in every text box you see!')

It's just a meme. They happen. They're not particularly big or clever, and I'm not in the habit of doing every one I see just because someone whose blog I find interesting has done them, but on the other hand, sometimes I do. That's all.
posted by Lebannen at 4:58 PM on May 19, 2005

There's nothing wrong with this post, stumcg. It's interesting to see what people are listening to (and linking to)--it reminds me of the "random 10" thing that just went around tho.

1. The person (or persons) who passed the baton to them.
stumcg
2. Total volume of music files on their computer.
2024 songs
3. The title and artist of the last CD they bought.
Adem- Homesongs
4. Song playing at the moment of writing.
Last Time Forever -- Squeeze
5. Five songs they have been listening to of late
Krafty -- New Order
Waiting for the Siren's Call -- New Order
Queen of Detroit -- +/-
Pata Pata -- Miriam Makeba (live)
To The Sky -- Cure
6. The five people to whom they will themselves 'pass the musical baton'
quonsar, riffola, Kwantsar, furtive, mischief

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posted by amberglow at 5:13 PM on May 19, 2005