I had friends in town so I couldn't review week eight last Monday. Looking back on two weeks of albums today. Here are the albums I can still hear in my head:

• Nahida Akhtar Best of Nahid Akhtar 87 #playbacksinging
• Walter Franco Revólver #MPB
• Johnny Preston Rock #rock
• Joe Pass For Django #jazz
• Super Heroines Souls That Save #punk
• Terry Riley Shri Camel #electronic

What are you listening to? Point me to your list. Don't have a list of music you are listening to? The best day to start one is  today.

Having a massive list of genres was impressive at the bottom of an album. It was also becoming visual clutter. How to make it less obnoxious?

Did a little think on it and decided to make the Genres list more of a self-challenge. So I set the numbers of genres to display at five.

If it is making me crazy that a certain genres isn't on the list then I'd better start listening to some music.

Example

Looking back at last weeks music I listened to, these were the one that I could hear in my head when I read through the list:

• Strange Translucent World
• Sonny Rollins Newk’s Time
• Alternative TV The Image Has Cracked/The ATV Collection
• Mary Hopkin Post Card

At first I thought that an artist being “recall” level is too low of a criteria to make a list about. You’d think it would be something like “check out cool drum part” level or something.

Actually an album that I hear once and can survive in my head for almost a week is very impressive.

What are you listening to? Where's the list?

I just got my music list filtering so music from this decade is popping up for me. I have date filters setup in the MusicBox app for each decade now.

The goal is to listen to at least one album from this decade more.  If I listen to an album from the past, there is an easy list to pull from.

Sidenote...I have no problem with current music per se. The way I find stuff to listen tends to surface stuff from before more than now.

A rough one yesterday. Found out right before our show our recording got cancelled because our friend who is engineering severely injured his back and can't travel. Which means he can't do the show we set up for him. Scrambling to find another band to fill the spot.

Then a fight broke out at our show. Couldn't enjoy the other bands dealing with the situation.

Just gotta bounce back.

Looking back on the week, the overarching theme seemed to be balancing discipline with joy and prioritization. There was a lot of focus on tweaking of the flows. Songs for 1000s of cats, to-do app/gtd, and even wiki for work all got smoothed out.

There was an undercurrent of appreciating control and structure to achieve goals.

Music

Listened to so many amazing albums this last week. There were a few that had some whoa-ments.

At the Five Spot Vol. 1 
Eric Dolphy feat. Booker Little, Mal Waldron, Richard Davis & Ed Blackwell 

Dissonance rules. This album has dissonance wonderfully blended with sweetness and sadness. I love live jazz album that make you feel like you are in a tiny club.

In the Land of Grey and Pink 
Caravan

Columbia Singles 
Susan Christie

These two albums came out decades before their times. From what I read about both is that people completely didn't get it when they were released. It's like two indie albums hatched way before the rest of the eggs.

One of my nods to an album that is genius is to switch from Music to Podcasts.

I was hearing a weird voice mumbling something while I was doing some free-writing. For a second, I thought someone was talking loud through the floor, on our veranda or someone was talking on a mic outside.

Finally figured out it was someone on a Jazz album I am listening to is humming on the recording.

Watched a punk band, called Lolita #18, play their 35th anniversary show last night in Hibiya Park. It was around two hours, outside, and about 5°C / 41°F. Totally fun but my nose is paying the price today. I want to see them in a toasty live house next time. I am fancy like that.