5- Your 2000-2004 track faves: One track per album

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   ^ & ^^ I commonly prefer latitude in topics.  I can come up with own rules to narrow my focus if I want to, so can others, and I often do that in topics if I feel I need to narrow my parameters.  People can be creative, but some are less comfortable with such freedoms and desire more set structure than I do. 

Other than the "no more than one track per album for the set years" criterion, I wanted myself and other to feel free to list what they want to.  I find narrower criteria tends to be more beneficial when it's a contest, in something like the Interactive Polls when we are expected to listen to each other's choices and hope for comments etc.  It made sense for me with those to let my interests (and time, mood, and desire to be thorough at a given time are major factors) dictate the length of the list rather than choose some arbitrary number to stick to.  Follow your bliss, though.

For me it has been mostly a joy revisiting music, discovering some more music along the way, choosing the tracks and returning to that music.  My appreciation has increased for a variety of music.  It did get to be something of a slog, especially with the long 1975-1979 list, as that took me considerable hours and with COVID making me woozy.  And in some 80s I feel like I over-represented certain artists, although part of the joy for me is delving deeper into discographies.  A big part of my joy is in preparing my playlists -- I sometimes love that instead of full albums.  Each list has got me excited over something, and it can be like hearing music in a new context.  This 2000 to 2004 list is one of my most trodden and so not quite as exciting as some others to me (I tend to most love that which is fresher to me) but I was excited to revisit Secret Chiefs 3.  

For the 1995 to 1999 list, which is a favourite era of mine for a few years, I love Fishman's Long Season but I had never listened properly to Fishman's Uchu Nippon Setagaya, and I found "Daydream" so enticing.  A fave of mine on that playlist is Mr. Bungle "Pink Cigarette".  I adore it.  In the 2010s, doing this got me to explore Beach House more, and that bands, especially the Bloom album me through a lot of strenuous work over the last few weeks.  And listening again to St. Vincent has been a joy -- covered in the 2005-2009 list with the song "Black Rainbow".

Doing this kind of thing really gets me excited about music and appreciating music all the more, and i hope it will be that way for some others who prepare and consider their lists.

By the way, a nice thing about short lists is that it makes it easier to check out and comment on each other's choices, and I do like that kind of interactivity, a communal listening room type experience.  I had planned early on for the series that we choose one or two tracks to highlight from each list and then maybe eat the end I could use those for an interactive poll.

I have two more polls to go, 1970-1974 and then 1965 to 1969, and then I might end up choosing just five tracks from each of these periods (either on my list or not).

Lewian, the Hamburg Radio FSK Sunday Service list looks up my alley (I got Tortoise and Broadcast in mine).  A lot of what excites me now led from discovering a radio program from the 90s a few years ago (put up as a podcast).  I have mentioned it various times, but it was a very dark, can be disturbing, and quite surreal radio comedy sketch show mixed with a lot of boozy-woozy music done by Chris Morris called Blue Jam.  In that he played music like Portishead, Stereolab, Bjork etc.  It had a big influence on my music directions.

Edited by Logan - November 15 2023 at 12:19