Saturday, March 27, 2010
Victim of the Shuffle
I was just walking the dog, and this song came up on the iPhone.
The last time I heard it was probably last summer when I was up at my dad's place.
There is a link between the sense of smell and memories (a good write up on sense memory can be found here) but what about when a song can provoke particular memories, of a time, place or event?
This is just wanking and has no real point, but...I do have to wonder...
Friday, March 26, 2010
Elizabeth's Top Albums
Elizabeth Barbone, of GlutenFreeBaking.com, put together a list of her favorite albums for The Album Project.
You can find her list here.
You can find her list here.
Maura's List for The Album Project
Maura put together a list of her favorite 25 albums for The Album Project.
As many know, music is very much a part of my life. I credit it for saving my life, actually, and for inspiring my identity. I tend to forget things, but this is the best list i can think of at present. #1 never changes.
My list:
Echo and the Bunnymen "Ocean Rain"
Portishead "Live at Roseland"
White Stripes "White Blood Cells" *thanks ned :)
Cure "Pornography"
Dead Can Dance "Toward the Within"
Radiohead "Ok Computer"
Siouxsie "Peepshow"
Nine inch Nails "With Teeth"
White Stripes "Elephant"
Gnarles Barkley "St. Elsewhere"
Afghan Whigs "Gentlemen"
Radiohead "Amnesiac"
Queens of Fado
Nine inch Nails "The Fragile"
Siouxsie "Haeyna"
Creatures "Boomerang"
Heavenly Voices Comp Vol 5
Faith and the Muse "Branwen"
Changelings "The Changelings"
Siouxsie "Through the Looking Glass"
Cure "Disintegration"
Cure "Bloodflowers/The Top"
Dead Can Dance "The Serpents Egg"
Hall and Oates greatest hits
tba
Thank you, Maura! This is another great list!
Please keep them coming in!
As many know, music is very much a part of my life. I credit it for saving my life, actually, and for inspiring my identity. I tend to forget things, but this is the best list i can think of at present. #1 never changes.
My list:
Echo and the Bunnymen "Ocean Rain"
Portishead "Live at Roseland"
White Stripes "White Blood Cells" *thanks ned :)
Cure "Pornography"
Dead Can Dance "Toward the Within"
Radiohead "Ok Computer"
Siouxsie "Peepshow"
Nine inch Nails "With Teeth"
White Stripes "Elephant"
Gnarles Barkley "St. Elsewhere"
Afghan Whigs "Gentlemen"
Radiohead "Amnesiac"
Queens of Fado
Nine inch Nails "The Fragile"
Siouxsie "Haeyna"
Creatures "Boomerang"
Heavenly Voices Comp Vol 5
Faith and the Muse "Branwen"
Changelings "The Changelings"
Siouxsie "Through the Looking Glass"
Cure "Disintegration"
Cure "Bloodflowers/The Top"
Dead Can Dance "The Serpents Egg"
Hall and Oates greatest hits
tba
Thank you, Maura! This is another great list!
Please keep them coming in!
BaristaBabe's Contribution to The Album Project
BaristaBabe contributed her list of top 25 albums for The Album Project.
Alright, so my friend A Futile Mistake is running his own Album Project and asked me to participate by giving him what I think of as my top 25 albums. Now, these are by no means The Greatest Albums Of All Time. Most of them are not revolutionary, earth shattering, musically unique, and so forth. My criteria was basically whether or not it was an album I could listen to from beginning to end without skipping anything (with a few exceptions). Which would be the criteria I'd use if I had to reduce my music collection down to only 25 albums.
So, in no particular order (well, with the exception of the first handful, as those three always come to mind when someone asks me my favorite albums):
1. Ani Difranco - Little Plastic Castles
2. Sarah McLachlan - Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
3. Tool - Aenima
4. Michael Jackson - Thriller
5. Pink Floyd - Division Bell
6. Beatles - Abbey Road
7. Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
8. Fiona Apple - Tidal
9. Mike Doughty - Haughty Melodic
10. Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds - Live at Luther College
11. Better than Ezra - Live at House of Blues
12. A Perfect Circle - Mer de Noms
13. The Eagles - Selected Works: 1972-1999
14. Sia - Colour the Small One
15. Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
16. Depeche Mode - Exciter
17. The Beatles - The Red Album: 1962-1966
18. The Cure - The Cure: Greatest Hits
19. The Pretenders - Greatest Hits
20. Jonatha Brooke - Live
21. Ani Difranco - Like I Said
22. Soul Coughing - Lust in Phaze: The Best of Soul Coughing
23. Tool - 10,000 Days
24. The Long Winters - When I Pretend to Fall
25. Harry Connick, Jr. - When Harry Met Sally...
This would, no doubt, change if I were to try again in a month or if I had written it a year ago. I would probably miss Matt Nathanson and Jason Mraz, eventually. Maybe the Rolling Stones. I also tried to do most of it without sifting through my music collection (I was mostly successful), which means huge sections of it have no doubt been forgotten. It's not part of the rules, but if I could include just two more songs, they would be "Angie" by the Rolling Stones and "Thunder Road" by Bruce Springsteen. Imagining my music collection without both is sad, but I'm just not in love with any of the whole albums both songs are on. I went for several greatest hits albums because I wanted to include the artist but couldn't settle on a single album. Runners up for instrumental albums: The Hours Soundtrack and Live at The Quick: Bela Fleck and the Flecktones.
Thank you for taking the time to do this.
I still have lists coming in and I am astounding by the good taste of the people contributing as well as the variety of the music.
Please take the time to contribute yours.
(Originally posted here.)
Alright, so my friend A Futile Mistake is running his own Album Project and asked me to participate by giving him what I think of as my top 25 albums. Now, these are by no means The Greatest Albums Of All Time. Most of them are not revolutionary, earth shattering, musically unique, and so forth. My criteria was basically whether or not it was an album I could listen to from beginning to end without skipping anything (with a few exceptions). Which would be the criteria I'd use if I had to reduce my music collection down to only 25 albums.
So, in no particular order (well, with the exception of the first handful, as those three always come to mind when someone asks me my favorite albums):
1. Ani Difranco - Little Plastic Castles
2. Sarah McLachlan - Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
3. Tool - Aenima
4. Michael Jackson - Thriller
5. Pink Floyd - Division Bell
6. Beatles - Abbey Road
7. Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
8. Fiona Apple - Tidal
9. Mike Doughty - Haughty Melodic
10. Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds - Live at Luther College
11. Better than Ezra - Live at House of Blues
12. A Perfect Circle - Mer de Noms
13. The Eagles - Selected Works: 1972-1999
14. Sia - Colour the Small One
15. Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
16. Depeche Mode - Exciter
17. The Beatles - The Red Album: 1962-1966
18. The Cure - The Cure: Greatest Hits
19. The Pretenders - Greatest Hits
20. Jonatha Brooke - Live
21. Ani Difranco - Like I Said
22. Soul Coughing - Lust in Phaze: The Best of Soul Coughing
23. Tool - 10,000 Days
24. The Long Winters - When I Pretend to Fall
25. Harry Connick, Jr. - When Harry Met Sally...
This would, no doubt, change if I were to try again in a month or if I had written it a year ago. I would probably miss Matt Nathanson and Jason Mraz, eventually. Maybe the Rolling Stones. I also tried to do most of it without sifting through my music collection (I was mostly successful), which means huge sections of it have no doubt been forgotten. It's not part of the rules, but if I could include just two more songs, they would be "Angie" by the Rolling Stones and "Thunder Road" by Bruce Springsteen. Imagining my music collection without both is sad, but I'm just not in love with any of the whole albums both songs are on. I went for several greatest hits albums because I wanted to include the artist but couldn't settle on a single album. Runners up for instrumental albums: The Hours Soundtrack and Live at The Quick: Bela Fleck and the Flecktones.
Thank you for taking the time to do this.
I still have lists coming in and I am astounding by the good taste of the people contributing as well as the variety of the music.
Please take the time to contribute yours.
(Originally posted here.)
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