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A Thousand Miles
Dec. 9th, 2008 08:28 pmEarlier today I was so obsessed with Adele I was ready to go out specifically to purchase said album. I decided that was silly though, so I settled for purchasing one of my favorites from iTunes instead. Ahh, impulses. A few months back I discovered my copy of Juliana Hatfield's "Only Everything" was scratched and was ready to run right out and get a new one and had to fight that impulse too.
This time of year I like to go to a number of my favorite artist's websites to see if they have any free Christmas songs available, as often some do. Instead of finding Christmas songs this year, when I went to The Innocence Mission's site I found that they had a new EP out that had all new songs on it. They're one of the bands I get things from right away generally, so I was pretty excited and ordered it right away. It arrived today and I listened to it. It's nice, but 3 of the 8 tracks are instrumentals which don't do much for me. One of the other songs I was sure I knew as I recognized the tune and the lyrics. It wasn't a cover as the CD specifically said that it was written by them, so that wasn't it. I looked at the tracklisting of all their CDs and it wasn't on them, I thought maybe the name had been changed, so I listened to some of songs I hadn't in a while to see if they were them...no dice. Finally, I dug through my old storage CDs, namely, CDs filled with MP3s I have taken off my hard drive at one time or another, as I specifically remembered having a folder somewhere called "Rare Innocence Mission". Voila! I found it. It must be from back when they had a free song a month on their website back in 2002 or so. It sounds exactly the same too, kinda weird. I am surprised I recognized it considering how long it had been since I had heard it!
There was also a bunch of other stuff on there I was happy to find again. My hard drive used to be much smaller so I had to clean out my iTunes once every few months to make space, but now there's plenty of room to welcome them back, woo!
The Innocence Mission - "A Thousand Miles"
This time of year I like to go to a number of my favorite artist's websites to see if they have any free Christmas songs available, as often some do. Instead of finding Christmas songs this year, when I went to The Innocence Mission's site I found that they had a new EP out that had all new songs on it. They're one of the bands I get things from right away generally, so I was pretty excited and ordered it right away. It arrived today and I listened to it. It's nice, but 3 of the 8 tracks are instrumentals which don't do much for me. One of the other songs I was sure I knew as I recognized the tune and the lyrics. It wasn't a cover as the CD specifically said that it was written by them, so that wasn't it. I looked at the tracklisting of all their CDs and it wasn't on them, I thought maybe the name had been changed, so I listened to some of songs I hadn't in a while to see if they were them...no dice. Finally, I dug through my old storage CDs, namely, CDs filled with MP3s I have taken off my hard drive at one time or another, as I specifically remembered having a folder somewhere called "Rare Innocence Mission". Voila! I found it. It must be from back when they had a free song a month on their website back in 2002 or so. It sounds exactly the same too, kinda weird. I am surprised I recognized it considering how long it had been since I had heard it!
There was also a bunch of other stuff on there I was happy to find again. My hard drive used to be much smaller so I had to clean out my iTunes once every few months to make space, but now there's plenty of room to welcome them back, woo!
The Innocence Mission - "A Thousand Miles"
