I listened to all or part of 392 new (to me) songs tonight/this morning.
Of those, I liked 16. This took approximately two hours.
Music
What’s the Dyl?
Try as I might, I never have and still do not see what’s so special about Bob Dylan. His appeal is completely lost on me, both musically and as a celebrity apart from that.
I feel like Dylan about some people do about Taylor Swift, I guess.
Appealing Pealing
I listened to all or part of 409 new (to me) songs this morning.
Of those, I liked 20.
Music Curbed
TIFU by calling my girlfriend’s music taste ”basic.”
Playing music out loud in a pricy restaurant on a phone is a huge red flag. It’s good she kicked him to the curb — for his sake.
That said, never insult anyone’s taste in music. It can only go wrong…and just, why? It’s pointless. Everyone has to start somewhere. And not everyone is going to be the kind of listener you are or care about music at all. I’ve known several people who just didn’t listen to music at all. Any kind. Ever.
Hell, all y’all can see how broad my tastes are and because I don’t listen to full albums “true” music aficionados have called me basic and unrefined in the past.
Referring to anything by Taylor Swift as “underground,” though, is pure crazy. That part made me laugh.
New Tuneage
I listened to part or all of 262 new (to me) songs tonight/this morning.
Of those, I liked 16.
All Bum
I barely have a dog in this fight as I do not listen to albums and pretty much never have. In fact, I think I have only listened to (maybe) three of those albums in their entirety, though I’ve heard songs from all of them.
Albums to me have always felt a bit outmoded; I just do not consume music that way and never have. It’s all about the song for me.
Not Blu
Blu DeTiger, you’ve fucking ruined me. I kind of hate you now. 😉
Now when I listen to any other song with a bassline, I think, I wish Blu were playing this; she’d sound better. Ugh she is so embarrassingly good.
Stale Chimps
I’m not a particular fan of The Talking Heads, but I listen to a vastly broader range of music now than when I was in my teens and early 20s. I discover new genres and many, many new artists I really like all the time.
Turns out, you don’t have to go stale till you actually die.
Disco(very)
I listened to all or part of 391 new (to me) songs tonight/this morning.
Of those, I liked 23.
It’s There
Anyone who says there isn’t any good music made anymore: LOL, y’all stupid.
There’s plenty. You just are too lazy to find it.
Miltonian
ZZ Top is not a band exactly known for being poets, but I think these verses are pretty damn fine; it’s like if Milton were alive now with all his bombast and glorious overreach:
Well, I was movin’ down the road
In my V-8 Ford
I had my boots shined up
And my sideburns loweredWith my New York brim
With my gold tooth displayed
Nobody give me trouble
‘Cause they know I got it made
That’s from “I’m Bad, I’m Nationwide” of course. Though I was listening to the Dwight Yoakam version. It paints a vivid picture in very few words — and that is exactly what writing at its best should do.
223 14
I listened to all or part of 223 new (to me) songs this morning.
Of those, I liked 14.
Tomber
Tamsyn Muir’s Locked Tomb series would’ve been vastly better if it’d resembled in novel form Lingua Ignota’s “Faithful Servant Friend of Christ.”
Now that I coulda worked with.
Not Rocking On
Wow, rock really cratered. I don’t have a good sociocultural explanation for why that’s the case, though.