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occultatioMy days have been consumed with homework, but my escape has been music. I started over the weekend with a little project. I made it so that, whenever any song begins playing on my computer, the cover of the album it comes from appears on the screen. Cool, no? Then I spent some time making surrogate covers for the albums I made up, like “VH1’s Top 100 Songs of Rock and Roll” (a collection which everybody on earth should have, by the way) and the “Weird Al’s Misogyny Mix” that Rae made for me a while back. But now I’ve finished, and its very cool.
While I was focusing so much on tracking down album art, though, my mind naturally wandered to cool covers I knew of but didn’t have. At this time, our local rock station was playing the albums its listeners had voted the greatest of all time. Thus, two separate trains of thought pulled into the same station: Dark Side of the Moon.
Unbelievable as it may seem, I had never heard this album before, but I quickly made efforts to remedy this. I borrowed it from a friend, and I have been hooked for the past two days. Wow. Just, wow. I know that I’m about 30 years behind the rest of the world in making this observation, but better late than never. Wow wow wow. I don’t know that I would rank it Greatest Album of All Time, but it is truly amazing and I am thrilling to it. I’m going to ask my friend to lend me some more Pink Floyd.
On the complete other end of the musical spectrum, or at least the rock and roll spectrum, I have also gotten hooked on the metal band System of a Down. For a while I hated what I heard of them, but then one morning I woke up and was like, “I need to hear people I don’t know screaming at me from my computer.” So I borrowed Toxicity and it is very cool. I recommend it.
The other neat thing I did was put my entire music library into my playlist. That’s 566 tracks, but it’s kind of cool to hit the Shuffle button and see what pops up. Basically, I’m rediscovering all the stuff I acquired a while ago and forgot about. I’m especially into Tom Lehrer all over again. For those who don’t know, he was a very funny songwriter and Harvard professor in the 50s. Well worth downloading.
So I’m grooving off into the sunset.
While I was focusing so much on tracking down album art, though, my mind naturally wandered to cool covers I knew of but didn’t have. At this time, our local rock station was playing the albums its listeners had voted the greatest of all time. Thus, two separate trains of thought pulled into the same station: Dark Side of the Moon.
Unbelievable as it may seem, I had never heard this album before, but I quickly made efforts to remedy this. I borrowed it from a friend, and I have been hooked for the past two days. Wow. Just, wow. I know that I’m about 30 years behind the rest of the world in making this observation, but better late than never. Wow wow wow. I don’t know that I would rank it Greatest Album of All Time, but it is truly amazing and I am thrilling to it. I’m going to ask my friend to lend me some more Pink Floyd.
On the complete other end of the musical spectrum, or at least the rock and roll spectrum, I have also gotten hooked on the metal band System of a Down. For a while I hated what I heard of them, but then one morning I woke up and was like, “I need to hear people I don’t know screaming at me from my computer.” So I borrowed Toxicity and it is very cool. I recommend it.
The other neat thing I did was put my entire music library into my playlist. That’s 566 tracks, but it’s kind of cool to hit the Shuffle button and see what pops up. Basically, I’m rediscovering all the stuff I acquired a while ago and forgot about. I’m especially into Tom Lehrer all over again. For those who don’t know, he was a very funny songwriter and Harvard professor in the 50s. Well worth downloading.
So I’m grooving off into the sunset.
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Date: 2002-03-14 06:26 am (UTC)It's not considered one of the best albums they did, but it's my fave...brings back the most delicious memories. Falling asleep on the beach...waking up to the album sounding from the boombox, a sunrise, hot coffee and a joint.
Now -that-, mi boy, is LIFE...