I was breastbed to the sounds of the Beatles, or at least I am pretty sure I was. Music was played in my house repeatedly, all day, and when it wasn't records played it was piano or drums. I had bad dreams about the part at the end of Yes' Fragile and the cover of Gensis' Nursery Chryme, long before I could read the covers.

But I remember two devastating moments of my childhood with regards to music, one was when my father was showing me Genesis' new album Trick of the Tail and explaining to me the Peter Gabriel was not singing with the group anymore (my mother had left us earlier that year) and the other a year or so before, when he told me the Beatles broke up "a few years ago." Back then, albums we did not listen to all the way through were basically unheard of.

These days, I run around too much to listen to full albums all the time, but when I am home listening to music I rarely program anything out. There are plenty of times I only listen to tracks and even acts to whom I only listen to one or two tracks. That's both a product of what popular music is about and my own disjointed lack of extended listening time. Some bands are one-hit wonders in any generation, and thanks to MP3's I can at least have that one hit.

But there is plenty of great music still being made. The radio and MTV have been useless for so long I strain to remember what it was like to use these avenues to find out about bands. I still have people get into my car and marvel at my lack of station presets. Than I show them the 20 GB on my Ipod and they flip out...until I tell them this represents about 20% of my collection...

BTW Revolver is still my favorite Beatles album.