Now that We are Through

Some of my friends and I share music to listen to while we work. Sometimes we rate/review what gets shared with us and share those reviews with the group.

Röyksopp – Melody A.M. (2001)

I kind of set this up more than a month ago. Following a rap rock rabbit led me down a worm hole past Beck (his song Where It’s At, not his newer stuff), Bloodhound Gang, Chumbawamba, Rage Against the Machine, 311, and other artists we’ve covered in this game to more electronic groups, which all of culminated in a Norwegian EDM duo a guy from my church introduced me to more than 10 years ago (and I haven’t really listened to since).

Crank It to Eleven and Blow Another Speaker

Some of my friends and I share music to listen to while we work. Sometimes we rate/review what gets shared with us and share those reviews with the group.

A Late ’90s/Early ’00s Playlist

Prepare yourself.

Recently, my wife had a conversation that ended going down odd avenues. I don’t remember what sparked it (something in a show we were watching probably), but my wife asked who sang a particular song. She thought it might have been Sublime, and while I knew that was wrong, I couldn’t remember either.

Turns out, it was a one-hit wonder group called Citizen King:

Hold On to the Minute

For a couple of years some of my friends and I have been sharing music. We’re supposed to review/rate what gets shared with us, and share those reviews with the group, but that doesn’t always happen.

Steven Wilson – To The Bone (2017)

A new release, the solo album of the brains behind the prog rock band Porcupine Tree. It’s fun and more accessible than most prog rock.

Blessed All the Young at Heart

For a couple of years some of my friends and I have been sharing music. We’re supposed to review/rate what gets shared with us, and share those reviews with the group, but that doesn’t always happen.

Count Basie Orchestra – April in Paris (1957)

This may be my shortest review of an album since we started playing this game:

Its Better than I Ever Knew

Some of my co-workers and I started sharing some of our favorite music. We’ve been doing it for a while, but now we’re actually reviewing them and sharing those reviews with one another.

This week it wasn’t an album. It was a mix of 10 songs from our senior year of high school. For some of us these would have been literal mixtapes. My list has songs which were big the summer before my senior year through graduation. And they are songs I liked at the time. For other people they might be older songs which they liked while they were in high school (if I would have done that, The Beatles would have made the list)(spoiler: The Beatles weren’t on my list). For others, they might be songs which were popular, but they didn’t like them until later. Whatever.

I’m pretty sure this post has more tags than any other I’ve ever written.

Tim’s mix (1996-1997)

“While I did graduate in 1996, my graduating class was 1997, so I am pulling from music all the way to ’97. This includes songs popular then, and songs recorded around then, or songs I just liked and listened to a lot. I thought it would be fun to arrange them in album style, by where I think the best listening order is. So, while the same artist might be listed multiple times, I think it is more enjoyable to listen to in the order below:”

Jump off Van Halen’s 1984