Oh my sweet lord did I not like this album. I don’t think I’ve heard any of the songs before. Or maybe I’ve heard them all before; they all sounded to me like the generic 60’s psychedelica you’d put under a TV montage of a drug trip. Maybe this album came first and maybe it’s important for what it presaged but, man, not for me.
Category: Music
New Year, new meaningless music project. I’m listening to the top 100 albums based on some random list. Gonna try to listen to all 100 before the end of the year. First up: Swordfishtrombones by Tom Waits. I didn’t think I was a fan of Tom Waits. And listening to this album, I’m still not. This album isn’t as shrill and grating as some of the other stuff I’ve heard by him, but still not my jam. And I just know some hipster-doofus fought like hell to put this in the top 10 and everyone else finally aquiessed to put it at 100 just to shut him (undoubtably a him) up.
I’ve started a new waste-of-time project. I’m posting one music video to mastodon (@mbarron@mas.to) each day. The only rule about what’s included is that I like the song. Though, in typical fashion, that means the videos are heavily pulled from about, oh, six years immediately before, during, and after my college years. \_(ツ)_/¯
(As I’ve said to many people: I’ve got all the world’s music at my fingertips and I’m still listening to the same 500 songs I heard in college).
You can follow along on mastodon or find the whole playlist on YouTube.
Inspired by Get Back I recently undertook to listen to every Beatles album in order. Herein lies what I learned.
- It’s harder than you’d think to say what is a Beatles album. Wikipedia list 21 studio albums, five live albums, and 54 compilation albums. That’s a lot and a lot more than the 12 I listened to.
- Singles used to be a real thing. There are a lot of Beatles hits that aren’t on any of the canonical albums.
- The Beatles were pretty great.
And here’s how I rank the Beatles albums, worst to best:
12) Yellow Submarine
11) Help
10) Magical Mystery Tour
9) Beatles For Sale
8) With the Beatles
7) A Hard Day’s Night
6) Let it be
5) Abbey Road
4) Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart Club Band
3) The Beatles (The White Album)
2) Revolver
1) Rubber Soul