Note to self: Check out Mitski, a possible new entrant to the WGOM Musical canon.

This afternoon, I'm leaving for a weekend getaway for EAR and myself.
Camper Cabins at Afton State Park, my folks are taking the kids.
Sometimes walking in the woods in winter can be good for things like what Saul Williams talks about here:

Not until you've listen to Rakim on a rocky mountain top
Have you heard hip hop
And let a open wide country side illustrate it
Riding in a freight train
In the freezing rain
Listening to Coltrane
My reality went insane
....
The trains and planes can corrupt and obstruct your planes of thought
So you that forget how to walk through the woods
Which ain't good cuz you ain't never walked through the trees
Listenin' to nobody beats the biz and you ain't never heard hip hop

Not often hip-hop though. More techno and industrial. I liked Carl Craig's Paperclip People or Coil.
But the forecast is a high of 4F, and that's too cold for my headphones. The wires stiffen and pull the earbuds right out my ears.

Not that walks through the park with someone are for headphone listening anyways.

I need to postpone my thoughts on last week's discussion about good music for a girl who is just maybe starting to feel angsty. (Even though I see Tori Amos has new expanded reissues coming out for her Earthquakes and Pink. (Missing the Carl Craig remixes of "God" there, grumble grumble.))

Tomorrow is EAR's birthday and it's now tradition or something that I make her a mix CD. This might be number 15. I've tapped most of what I think she'd like, or what I want to share. I don't not want to make her a CD, I just don't have any strong-enough ideas for it right now. As I write this, I've got like 36 hours tops, and that involves sleeping and working and putting kids to bed and so I don't have time to talk about that other stuff. Next week?

Here's a discussion seed if we need it:
Worst open of an otherwise good album?

I'll start with a thought that I'm not sure counts (as it's more of a gimmick):
Any CD that had blank tracks to start. I'm thinking of Koяn's Follow the Leader, though I'm sure someone else had that bonehead idea first. (Though this would have actually worked for Ariel Pink.)

Did anyone have any idea of best three-track sequence on an album? I didn't, but maybe I will. Sean Paul still has my official entry, but I reserve the right to fix that. Otherwise, it's time for your random ten.

I added a half-dozen albums I read about on best-of-2014 lists last night.
Let's see if any show up on my Random 10.

I also removed my Christmas music. 'Bout time.

No Christmas music. No reading or thinking about year-end lists. Just whatever I actually want to listen to. Maybe the same is true for you.

A short anecdote about one of the entries on my year-end album list, Untold's Black Light Spiral. I added that to my iPod the same day I added all of the tracks I added for the WGOM summer mix, and when I add new tracks, I often make a new Mix to shuffle through the various recent additions. Well, I'd forgotten about the Untold album and thought it was just the Summer Mix nominations, so when I shuffled the "New 2014 06 10"*, I thought that this song was someone's summer mix nomination:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhnajCTEMVQ
So I imagined that the beginning of this amazing noisy thing, an echo chamber without release, was the intro to someone's warped, poppy, summer song. I kept listening without prejudice and without looking until after about 2 minutes I really couldn't figure out what it was. But I was already hooked.

*(or whatever date it was, I delete them when they're no longer new)

Now, share your regular time lists.

Got any good box sets or other good music collections?
P.S. Remember, next week's FMD is reserved for best of 2014 lists.
I'll allow complaints today about how some publication or other put Beyoncé's late 2013 s/t album on their list.

Anyone want to talk about Christmas music? I've barely listened to any this year, but maybe you're different.
Otherwise, randoms and whatevs are good. Save any year-best-ing for January 2, 2015.