Unplayed

I own a lot of music.  I have over 10,000 songs in my iTunes library.  After about 20 years of buying CDs, I've been trying to pare down the amount of physical media I own.  I use my work computer as my primary music library.  I back it up and bring it home and copy it to my media PC. 

Looking at the unplayed songs one day, I noticed I had waaaay more Green Day than I realized.  This is somewhat surprising, as I wouldn't necessarily consider myself a huge Green Day fan.  

Apparently I have 141 Green Day songs.

7 hours 11 minutes of Green Day.

That's a lot of Green Day.

In October 2016, I attempted to listen to all them in one day.  This is my own personal Super Size Me.

11:00 AM

Feeling strong.  Made it though Nimrod and American Idiot without any issues.  Still going strong.

(cut to me barfing in the parking lot.)

(interviews with friends and doctors trying to talk me out of doing this)

On to Dookie.


Noon:

(Subject was allowed to for a run at lunch and listened to no music.)


1:15 PM

Insomniac

Bluh.  These are all starting to run together.


2:27 PM

"J.A.R." 

Huh.  This song's not bad.  Haven't heard this in a while.

UH OH...  STOCKHOLM SYNDROME HAS SET IN.


3:19 PM

I have a headache on one side of my head.

I might be having a stroke.

Not giving up yet.


3:24 PM

Finish line in site.  1/2 way through Warning.  Then 21st Century Breakdown and I'm done.

21st Century Breakdown might be the one that takes itself the most seriously though (possibly the inspiration for this video?)

4:58 PM

Phew.  I made it.  I survived.


Experiment follow-up: It was a good six months after this before a Green Day song without immediately hitting skip.

Not really sure we learned anything helpful to man or science (other than "don't try this again").  But... I did it!