I have a game I play (using Last.fm) where I try to have listened to an album's worth of music from 15 artists on any given week. A little over two albums a day (one on the commute, one either at home or at work) from a variety of people keeps things fresh.
It's been sort of difficult to keep up with lately. I've been running all over the place, and I don't listen to nearly as much music at home as I used to (as mentioned in a previous week's post). I might have to bump it down to 10.
The new White Lung album it lots of fun. The new Kanye, not so much. I was discussing it with a friend, trying to be devil's advocate for it, but there really isn't much there that I keep coming back to.
Anyways, sorry about the late post. I had something written up on my home PC, but forgot to copy it over this morning.
I've also been listening to the "Giygas Suite" (as I have named it) from the Earthbound soundtrack. I've never gotten very far in the game itself (I still mean to remedy that), but the music that surrounds the game's final boss is fascinating to me. It only take about fifteen minutes to listen to, but it's super dissonant and full of weird, pulsing tones and a certain malevolence that I really enjoy.
Today's Crate
Earlier: Hank Jones – West of 5th
Now: Willie Nelson – Stardust
Next: Errol Garner – The Original Misty
Later: Dizzy Gillespie – At Newport, Thelonious Monk – Criss-Cross, The Kinks – The Kink Kontroversy, The Zombies – Odessey & Oracle, The Byrds – Sweetheart of the Rodeo, Charlie Haden & Chris Anderson – None But the Lonely Heart
I adore that Willie album.
I am completely enamored with Nonagon Infinity by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. It is such named because the last notes of the last song loop back into the first, so if you so chose (and I did, many times, while working on my finals) you can just listen to it over and over and over. But it's a scorching psychedelic garage punk album so even without the neat album organization it would kick all sorts of ass.
Runner daughter pointed me towards Sia's "Elastic Heart" because she said the background was oddly distracting since it was at a different time signature. Well, I think the majority of my library contains mixed-meter music, so I rolled up my sleeves and took a listen. I like the song, but I found the background to be a nice compliment to the melody -- it's also in 4/4 but is masquerading as a 3/4-5/4 alternating pattern. It's certainly no 5/4-5/4-5/4-2/4 combination, but I still enjoyed it.
I wasn't a fan of the new Kanye, either. Like you said, nothing grabbed me. I can tell you that each album up til now had a song that grabbed me somehow (eg the drums on "Love Lockdown" or that emotion in "New Slaves") , but this one just didn't.
Now I'm listening to my Kanye playlist. On "Heartless" - is that one of those wooden train whistles?
pan pipes
Boo, that seems less fun. I liked to imagine Kanye with one of those striped conductor hats puffing into a train whistle in the studio
I'm still going to imagine him that way.
1. Meat Puppets “Up on the Sun (Alternate Version)” Up on the Sun
2. Duke Dumont feat. A*M*E “Need U (100%)”* Need U (100%)
3. Röyksopp feat. Robyn “The Girl and the Robot” Junior
4. Moby “Go” I Like to Score
5. SID “Rain (TV Size)”* FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST Original Soundtrack
a. Black-capped Chickadee “Calls” (Cornell Essential Set)
6. Ha Ha Tonka “Close Every Valve to Your Bleeding Heart” Novel Sounds of the Nouveau South
7. Bobby Bare Jr. “Borrow Your Cape” The Longest Meow
b. Red-shouldered Hawk “'Kee-ahh' Calls” (Cornell Master Set)
8. EAR* “Feels Like Home” Furnace Room Demos, June 2007
9. Peter Tosh “I Am That I Am” Equal Rights
c. Eared Grebe “Male Advertisement Calls” (Cornell Master Set)
d. Scarlet Tanager “Song” (Cornell Master Set)
e. Purple Martin “Song and Calls” (Cornell Essential Set)
f. American Robin “Song and Calls” (Cornell Essential Set)
T. Fila Brazillia “We Build Arks” Jump Leads
E. Sturgill Simpson “Hero” High Top Mountain
*Notes:
2. h/t New Guy, IIRC
5. Season 5 Opening of "Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood"
8. Yeah, my wife, in our old house, in the basement room with the furnace (it was off).
re: "Hero" - I get feelz when I hear that one.