@nessisonett It's kind of helpful in a way because I can hold a conversation about jazz or black metal or french pop from the 1960s but also it's kind of annoying because I can sometimes find myself unable to settle on any one thing. Like right now today I've been jumping about all over the place - I started making a playlist of kinda chill acoustic stuff but I got bored of it and started listening to kpop and then switched to 90s alternative music and now I've settle on disco.
@johncalmc At least the upside from that is that you get absolutely hilarious Spotify playlists. I had one the other day which went from Elliott Smith into Scooter. They quite literally do not know how to recommend to people whose taste can’t be described in a couple of sentences.
@nessisonett Yeah I've seen some chaotic ones. My Release Radar is all over the place generally. I like the ones where it does all your most listened to stuff in a certain time period so you can kinda trace what happened. Last.fm is kinda useful for that too. Sometimes I have too many ideas and too many things pulling me in different directions and I just end up having to listen to a podcast or something.
@Jimmer-jammer Merry Christmas for tomorrow in case I don't catch you on here, and a Happy New Year - Did you get a chance to listen to either or both of those albums yet? What did you think, if so?
"Preoccupied with a single leaf, you won’t see the tree. Preoccupied with a single tree, you’ll miss the entire forest. Don't be preoccupied with a single spot. See everything in its entirety...effortlessly. That is what it means...to truly "see." "
It’s near the end of the year so I’ve been trying to work out my favourite albums of the year. It’s been a hard one actually because I didn’t really enjoy a lot of the ‘best’ albums this year! I can’t really separate my top 3 so I’ll probably just list them and then the other two in the top 5.
The North Water (Original Score) - Tim Hecker
Sometimes I Might Be Introvert - Little Simz
Promises - Floating Points and Pharoah Sanders
4. To See the Next Part of the Dream - Parannoul
5. Mercurial World - Magdalena Bay
At least it was a decent year for individual songs, but again probably worse than the last few years for me!
1. Like I Used To - Sharon Van Etten and Angel Olsen
2. You Lose! - Magdalena Bay
3. Well Rested - Kero Kero Bonito
4. A Bottle of Rum - Xiu Xiu and Liz Harris
5. Hazard Duty Pay! - JPEGMAFIA
@nessisonett The Floating Points album sounded like it should have been a slam dunk for me to love but I just find it so monotonous and feel the London Symphony Orchestra as just way under-utilised.
It didn’t help that the vinyl record was delayed by like 6 months and then didn’t even come with a download code anyway so I had to buy it digitally again too..
The death of download codes with vinyl records was a very weird thing to suddenly happen this year too as I think that was the case with about two thirds of my record purchases.
@Jimmer-jammer Good, I'm glad you enjoyed it, shame to hear that The Hot Spot was blocked in your country but you might be able to find different videos for that album that are not, on Youtube. Birds of Fire, is, as you say an amazing album, John McLaughlin, the guitarist also worked on a shred-fest of an album called Love, Devotion, Surrender with Carlos Santana so that might be worth your time as well.
"Preoccupied with a single leaf, you won’t see the tree. Preoccupied with a single tree, you’ll miss the entire forest. Don't be preoccupied with a single spot. See everything in its entirety...effortlessly. That is what it means...to truly "see." "
@Th3solution I noted that Alfa Mist wasn't your usual style. Is this more up your alley then? Let me know what you think.
"Preoccupied with a single leaf, you won’t see the tree. Preoccupied with a single tree, you’ll miss the entire forest. Don't be preoccupied with a single spot. See everything in its entirety...effortlessly. That is what it means...to truly "see." "
@nessisonett What do you reckon of John Coltrane's 'First Meditations' Sorry if I've asked you before.
"Preoccupied with a single leaf, you won’t see the tree. Preoccupied with a single tree, you’ll miss the entire forest. Don't be preoccupied with a single spot. See everything in its entirety...effortlessly. That is what it means...to truly "see." "
@TheBrandedSwordsman Listened to it tonight and I’d say it’s a mid-tier Trane album. Not my favourite, not my least favourite. Parts sound just a little flat in my opinion. Consequences is fantastic though, it really feels like the quartet is letting go! Even still, I think I just prefer the original Meditations. That recording has a little more urgency.
Elsewhere, I’ve been listening to all sorts of random stuff. My dissertation revolves around a musical password system I’m developing for senior citizens therefore I’m having to throw myself into 50s - 70s music in order to find the most earwormy nostalgic stuff for that age group. Has to be pretty varied too in order to include as many demographics as possible. I’ve at least got a newfound appreciation for early rocksteady and reggae though!
In terms of less forced listening, a pretty eclectic bunch. Here’s a couple of tracks that stood out though!
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