✸ Longview is still a banger.
✸ More pencil-crayon album covers, please.
✸ Basket Case awakening my sense memory: I'm a pre-teen being driven around in the family car while listening to 102.1 The Edge.
✸ I'm realizing how fried my attention span is when I find myself wanting to skip a 2 min long song, instead of sitting through it.
✸ When I Come Around!!
✸ I was 4 years old when this album was released.
✸ First time ever listening, and Zappa is really good at playing guitar (complimentary, obvious, etc.)
✸ This isn't my usual style or genre of music, but I'm having NO problem listening to songs that are 8+ minutes long. My attention is grabbed.
✸ Horn sounding like an angry goose on The Gumbo Variations.
✸ Overall, really interesting, really complicated, and only sometimes discordant or annoying (subjective opinion, etc.)
✸ In my mind Leonard Cohen and Ron Perlman are in a competition for deepest voice.
✸ Unfortunately this isn't my musical taste, so this is a more challenging listen (I'm tempted to just skip songs, or scrub through them).
✸ Trying to remember that what I like about this project is that it stretches your capacity and experience, surfacing things you might have not listened to otherwise.
✸ So many albums I've never listened to before!
✸ The horror of realizing that I never knew "Heros" was originally a David Bowie song. I've been thinking that the Peter Gabriel cover was the original all this time.
✸ Another album I've never listened to!
✸ Perfect Day so devastating.
✸ Walk On the Wild Side so chill.
✸ It's always a trip reading through the Wikipedia articles for musicians like this, because he's a very talented performer and also was probably not a very nice guy??? (obvious, etc. etc.)
✸ Okay! Another banger album from an annoying man.
✸ Tonight, Tonight is so good.
✸ Zero!!! So angsty (complimentary).
✸ Bullet With Butterfly Wings!!
✸ With only a half work day today, there's no way I'm going to get through this two(!!) hour long album.
✸ Smoooooth.
✸ It feels reductive to say it's so all so warm and soulful sounding, but it is.
✸ It's such a cohesive record, but no one individual song really stands out to me as a favourite.
✸ I am nervous about this one, but what if I love it?
✸ I don't, DNF.
✸ Would you believe... I've never listened to an album by the Beatles before?
✸ "It Won't Be Long" is cool, I like a call and response.
✸ "Don't Bother Me" is miserable and emo, I like it!
✸ I am wondering if I research which Beatle was responsible for each song will finally reveal to me who my favourite is? (like a Buzzfeed quiz).
✸ Most of this is a little too sleepy for me.
✸ "I Wanna Be Your Man" is interesting too, I am sympathetic to the idea of crowds of fans going feral for these men.
✸ "Not A Second Time" giving me "Don't Bother Me" vibes. Is there a spiteful and scorned Beatle, who can be my favourite?
✸ Highlights: Boyz, Jimmy, Paper Planes, Come Around
✸ This is no fault of M.I.A, but listening to this album is giving me flashbacks to shopping at American Apparel (cursed experience).
✸ Okay, read the Wikipedia page and I can't help but imagine what this album would have been like if she'd been able to work with Timbaland for the whole record?!
✸ I can't believe how many absolute bangers and classics are on this album: I'm So Bored with the U.S.A, White Riot, London's Burning, Career Opportunities, etc.
✸ Wait, I forgot about "What's My Name" Love it.
✸ Yes!! This is beautiful - signer-songwriter, guitar, and verbose (complimentary)
✸ Unfortunately for these artists, my enjoyment of their work has a lot to do with what I learn about their personal lives and context, and I do love a private queer woman, who resists public interrogation
✸ Also reading how mad people are about all the pronoun ambiguity in some of her songs lol
✸ Funky: Join The Boys
✸ Soft: Somebody Who Loves You (like Elliott Smith!)
✸ Shredding guitar: Tall In The Saddle
✸ Now I need to google "what is jangle pop?" okay, it's that shimmering tinkly guitar sound.
✸ I like how this reminds me of The Smiths.
✸ I don't know if any one song was particularly memorable, but experienced all together it's a vibe. I am listening to it a second time through.
✸ I like it, this is a vibe.
✸ Wild choice for a band name, but okay.
✸ Look, I really like New Wave. This works for me!!!
✸ Stand out track: Fall in Love With Me with it's honky fun guitar and horn noises and spooky synth.
✸ Despair is french?!
꩜ Oh no, I LOVE Blur. Or... is this that classic thing where I'm mixing up Pulp and Blur in my mind again.
꩜ Song 2 and absolute classic, love it forever. Listen to it and jump around.
꩜ Though I'm wondering if Park Life is the album like I like most (of theirs)?
꩜ Only Shallow is SO contemporary sounding, can't believe this album is from 1991.
꩜ I think it's impressive how this can ride the line between being melodic and discordant, without it tipping too far into being annoying "noise." I also wonder how often that criticism was leveraged towards this group and this genre in particular.
꩜ When You Sleep! Reminds me of Broken Social Scene.
꩜ I like Sometimes. I can't hear the lyrics but it sounds like a sad love song.
꩜ This is not a Radiohead album that I remember listening to.
꩜ Transported backwards through time to the American Apparel on Queen St!!
꩜ I'm skipping past the annoying noises. Maybe I only liked "My Girls"?
꩜ It's just a lot of noises for me guys.
