Just a quick glance back in time—we had a meetup in Portland that happened not long after the meficomp track submission period.  I had received excellent and varied tracks from all sorts of mefites, and made my painful final decisions, and alerted artists.  But, a month later, chosen tracks or not, I was still listening to this stuff.  Constantly. 

At some point during the meetup, I snapped a couple of pictures of my ipod (to which, let us presume, I was not actually listening during the meetup).  Behold:

That’s a pretty healthy collection of contenders, actually—everything in this screenshot made the album, with the exception of “Just Like the B-Movies”, which is in fact an excellent and clever (but, damningly, very long) track from Paul “goodnewsfortheinsane” Hunt.  Sorry, Paul. 

Lesson learned, there: next time around, one should be explicit about a “shorter is better” guideline.  Many of the tracks I had to cut were cut as much as anything for time—a six minute song, or two three minute songs?  Balls!  This Editor stuff is plain mercenary.