Some Words

So… there are a lot of tracks on my HD with bad ID3 tags. This means that I can’t find them, as iTunes doesn’t know where to look. I could fix this myself, but I though there must be a faster way. Musicbrainz had a sourceforge app for OS X that seemed like it might help.

I installed it, and ran it for all my songs missing ID3 tags. Blue Valentine by Tom Waits was in there. The program thought that track six, “Wrong Side of The Road,” was Boyz II Men singing “Let It Snow.” It thought that “Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis” was Van Morrison singing “You Don’t Know Me.” The prize, by far, was the mp3 of my old band that I accidentally left in there. This, it turned out, was either “Die Born” by Days of the New, from the album “Days of the New III,” or “Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)” from Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel’s Greatest Hits.