I went to a punk show last weekend. During a song, a cymbal stand collapsed. Someone ran on stage and fixed it, and no one blinked an eye. The person got a few glass raises in their direction.
Each type of music has its things that make the genre a genre. Someone from the audience going on stage to fix the drum kit is one of punk’s things.
The albums that I can remember what they sound like by just reading the title from last week. I really need to go back and relisten to that Jon Appleton album. It was interesting listening to all the snippets of sound back then.
Other big news is I am thinking about changing the font for the blog. I really want to get the font sizes dialed in and I want it to feel more like a book. Research time.
I have a long list of albums I am slowly getting through. They come from all over the place. People tell me suggestions, find suggestions in blog posts, find lists of albums, hear things when I am out and about using Shazam, etc.
I love the list, but sometimes current me and past me get out of phase with what I want to hear. There is stuff from a couple of years ago that is kind of head-scratching to me right now. It's got me ruminating on how to handle the list.
Currently, it's being sorted from oldest to newest. While that is clearing out the albums I added from earlier, there is a lot of "huh" happening. If I reverse the sort to recently added to oldest, then stuff is going to be buried under the sediment of newly added albums. A brainstorm is in order.
Half of me thinks either "two recent one old" or "MWF" would be fun. The second one is probably less thinking in the long run. The main point of all of this is having fun listening to music your own way.
When iPods and iTunes were first released, playing music on shuffle was my default. I can't remember the last time I have done that. I seem to remember there was a point around 8-10 years ago where I would push shuffle and eventually I would hear a song I heard the day before. I got frustrated so I switched to listening to full albums and haven't looked back.
Then by not pushing shuffle, albums I wanted to hear started piling up and I haven't been able to catch up since. Not bashing on shuffle. Just noticing a change.
This last week's music that stuck out. I seem to keep going back to Eric Dolphy a lot lately. I don't know how that Dave Brock album got on my list but that one stood out for sure.
Listened to a lot of top notch albums last week but these four stood out. I think the common thread between the four is the production. All four just sound really good. The music is great of course. When you listen to one of these albums, you can tell they cared more than just recording the songs.
