I have a signature from Progfreak, a site I contribute to regularly, and the usual signature is my album playlist, which is fine. You will see it below, and note I listened to the wonderful STCBM by Marillion.
Except, that playlist does not really tell the true extent of my music listening. It only tells the whole albums I listen to.
There are sometimes huge gaps in this. This is because I do not, as with many others, always listen to entire albums. Fairly often, for example when I am relatively merry/pissed (delete as appropriate) on a Saturday night, at lunch time at work, or just plain in the mood, as with tonight, I like to have a mixed playlist of individual tracks.
Basically, I rip every cd I purchase (I am old fashioned, and like to have a physical copy of my music. Like Dean, I don't trust sites on the net enough to think they will be there forever) to my laptop, and this gets uploaded to the cloud thingy I pay for with PC World, and listen via an app on IPad. Isn't technology wonderful?
So, why this blog? Are there a pile of people out there who really care what Mr Laz listens to on a balmy Tuesday (or any other) evening? Not at all. Indeed, I suspect that only the wife and dog would be even fleetingly interested (my son's attention span for Dad's music rules him out).
No, this is for my rather sad completionist tendencies. I have the PF log for whole albums. This blog is for the gaps.
It is also, though, for the thoughts sometimes of why and what, of random things, and of where I am. You see, I am a frustrated novelist, and this site is really the only place I can vent my inner thoughts, hopes, fears, and opinions without prejudice.
I am happy tonight. The tracks I listen to tend to mirror my mood, although this is not always the case. I spoke to my eldest friend, Dave, to catch up (we do not do this often enough), and to remember especially Jim, our old friend, who died too young at 49 last week. RIP. But, it was, overall, a happy conversation. I do not have many close friends, but I am blessed with the ones I have.
So, tonight's playlist:
Blue Room. David Minasian. This from one of my favourite symph albums.
The Wanting Comes In Waves. Decemberists. American rock at its best.
Arc of the Curve. Fish. Who doesn't enjoy a bit of Dick?
Wish You Were Here. Fleetwood Mac. No, not the Floyd classic, but the achingly beautiful Christine McVie track. I love this woman's music. The vinyl record Fleetwood Mac Live has a set of photo's of the band after a night's work. I fell in love with McVie when I first got this. Her look of pure exhaustion and longing is worth the price of the album alone, and I thought her commercial sensibilities a perfect foil to Buckingham's more adventurous compositions.
Are Friends Electric? Gary Numan. One of the most influential, and best, singles of all time. I fell in love with this on release.
No Return. Harvest. Fantastic modern female fronted pop prog.
Lasts, or Eschaton. Charlotte Church. This set of EP's, and this track in particular, were THE revelation of 2013 to me. I will get around to proposing this for PA addition when I can, because it is psych prog pop at its finest.
The Road of Bones. IQ. They excel and delight. Again.
Constellations. IQ. From the special edition of the new album. This is one of the finest tracks this lot have ever recorded. Staggeringly good.
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Cue another couple of hours analysis. I overdid it, really, but there we go.
