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| Over the course of 1 week, I listened to all of these records |
Moby: Animal Rights
Green Day: Dookie
Rogue Wave: Out of the Shadow
Zaz: Self-Titled
Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros: Streetcore
Beck: Mutations
I completed my task within a week, and then I began to process what the experience was like, and what I took away from the experiment. Here are my findings.
The Music
- I really liked the selection of albums I chose. They were all albums I haven't listened to in a very long time. In the case of a few of them, it had been years.
- Dookie is ridiculously good album.
- Joe Strummer's Streetcore has a very interesting sound to it. The best way to describe it, is a mix between punk and reggae.
Attention Span
- There were times that I was able to soley focus on the music, and then there were times where I surfed online while I listened to the music. I don't feel either one was better or worse. Although I like the idea that I was able to listen to an entire record not being distracted. BTW the record I was able to do that with was Animal Rights by Moby. I feel that part of that reason was because I am currently reading Moby's Memoir Porcelain.
- To expand on the whole not being distracted piece. That's currently a big deal for me because I feel like my attention span is getting smaller and smaller. So I am making a concentrated effort to focus more.
Mood
- I felt like I was in a better mood all last week when I conducted this little exercise. I find that if I watch too much TV or Netflix that I more easily become melancholy. Plus I felt like I accomplished something, and surprisingly it gave me some good musical ideas that I'm going to try and incorporate into my podcast the Looking Glass.
- It was a really nice reminder of variety of music I have in my collection. Going from electronic to gypsy jazz to pop punk to punk to alternative to indie rock was a really cool experience.
Overall, I liked this so much that I am going to try and keep it up. I have Coldplay's concert this upcoming Saturday, and to prepare for that, I've been listening to a record a night by them. Tonight's is Myolo Xyloto (I'm working backwards). It's not that bad of a record as I remember it to be.
3 comments:
Thanks to your blog and how you speak about the importance of albums, I've been doing this with jazz albums on the train. My ride is about 30 minutes, so I can through a good chunk of an album in one ride. I originally was going to do one album per week from this list list "10 Essential Jazz Albums" http://www.jazz.org/blog/10-essential-jazz-albums/ Currently I'm on number 4.
That's amazing!!! I may have to join you. I am really getting into jazz recently, thanks to Esperanza Spaulding. Do you have a favorite thus far?
Hmm, no favorites thus far.
Hey, a separate idea. What if your blog had a "reader requests" section where people could request you blog about certain things. Basically, it would mean I would post crazy questions to you. This came about because I do have a question for you, and I was considering how to ask it to you. Do you know of any songs that have NASA or space quotes? I've come across two songs so far; and I really like them a lot. It would be sweet to know of more. I'm building a playlist on Google Music. https://play.google.com/music/playlist/AMaBXym0XQFFqa9UqUUIYDrTPl34USSRxDqs0yWaej7qLdu84Wk4zBI2QfXsdVrPHOl11oFrdJ4O3nrz7xkLzpXfgBrjCxHYSQ==
Come to think of it, the Chicago Public Library has a "Ask a Librarian" feature. I'll submit my question to them too. It's not exactly a library-type question. But it's a media question, and libraries are media centers now.
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