Numbered list day:
1. Just not getting into Christmas music this year. And I'm OK with that.
2. Vampy Weeks is #1 in P4k, but only #3 in Spin. Ye is #1 in Spin and #2 in P4k. I would have guessed the other way around.
3. This isn't an invite to discuss the best of the year's music yet. For those wanting to make lists and whatnot, I've get my eyes set on Jan 3, to make sure that Beyoncé doesn't drop another new album on New Year's Eve at 5pm.
4. But mostly because I need to get my thoughts in order on it.
5. I spent a lot of the year listening to old records that I hadn't tried out in a long time or was trying for the first time, and exploring a certain prolific noise artist's catalogue, but didn't really sit with a lot of new stuff.
6. Is that what middle age is like?
7. Whoa that got contemplative. Save it for the Year-End list write-up, dude.
8. Regarding #5: I remembered yet another album that should have been on my Desert Island 20 40: Barry Adamson's As Above So Below. Hard to accurately describe, but it's a concepty album about sin and death, in a I've listened to Adamson's prior albums and sampled his works since and they just don't work this well. Even listening to one or two songs from it doesn't do the overall jazz-club/noir/cinematic score/vibes/rock type thing the same as listening to the whole album. Does it help anyone if I mention that Adamson was at one time a Bad Seed (Nick Cave band)? I highly recommend everyone this side of Cheaptoy give it a spin.
9. Also regarding that DI20 business: turns out I actually own Cash's AR V on CD. I must have purchased that right before our move 3 years ago because of the box I found it in. I would definitely pick AR over V for my desert island. The highlight on V seems to be "God's Gonna Cut You Down". which would work as a title on that Adamson album is the same traditional song as that which Moby used for his "Run On" off Play, which was ruined for me by Moby's 18. So one more thing that the awful I felt from 18 spread to and infected.
T. Should I have ten things in this list? I don't think I need to.