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.
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.
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.
I listened to all or part of 391 new (to me) songs tonight/this morning.
Of those, I liked 23.
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.
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.
I listened to all or part of 223 new (to me) songs this morning.
Of those, I liked 14.
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.
Wow, rock really cratered. I don’t have a good sociocultural explanation for why that’s the case, though.
The definitive Retail Hell playlist.
I like eight of those songs, though none of them I’d want to hear 20 times a day while working retail.
I lost count somewhere along the way, but I listened to all or part of 380+ new (to me) songs this morning.
Of those, there were 19 I liked.
Only got through 109 songs tonight. My steamer just stopped steaming; it was a long day.
I listened to all or part of 376 new (to me) songs tonight/this morning.
I listened to part or all of 315 new (to me) songs tonight/this morning.
About average for a day I guess.