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Originally posted by Delta
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Well, it's been almost a year...WHY NOT?
Not only am I back in Your Top Ten, I'm back with the Red 40! And I think I'll actually have the time to be able to do this every week, unlike last time. And also unlike last time, there's an interesting new wrinkle.
At the end of the run of my all-rock countdown named The Blokk of Rokk, I wanted to try something a little different. Instead of just providing text countdowns, as I had done for about a decade up until that point, I wanted to give the people of ATRL a choice. You could choose to continue to read the old text versions of my countdown, or you could get a glimpse into the future of my weekly music adventure by watching a video counting down my favorite songs. It was about the idea of allowing the ATRL populace to choose how they wanted to find out what my favorite songs at any given time were. Want to keep things old fashioned? Just keep looking at the text versions of the countdown. Want to listen to the songs themselves? Well, that's what the video is for. Simply put, I don't believe in offering ONE option anymore. It's about duality, the ability to CHOOSE your path.
Of course, this is why it was so difficult to do last time, because it was very time consuming to do both, especially the videos, which could take hours at a time. However, I feel that I've found the right amount of time to be able to provide this every week, instead of hoping that I can do it. So, every week, I will make one post giving you both a YouTube version and a normal version of the Red 40, just as I tried to do with the Blokk before I simply didn't have the time to do it anymore.
The first Red 40 that you'll see in almost a year will be of last week's top 40. THIS week's top 40 is technically complete, but I haven't worked on the video for that yet, so I wouldn't expect that until Sunday, most likely. Last week's will be posted as soon as the video is available, so stay tuned, because this shouldn't take long!