Day 8: Magical Animals and the Meaning of "Enough."

I am yet to get used to the weird rambling my playlist can manage. As I promised last post, I got started with Metallica's ...And Justice For All. Its good to finally listen to an iconic band like that. It got me some strange looks from my dad as I listened, passively reading on my computer or deliriously twitching at The Binding of Isaac. By the way, I finally beat the last level with Satan today! This of course means that the endings went to a whole new level of confusing twistiness (what a twist!). Anyway, Metallica's aggressive pedal lines and rough textures helped put a lot of other music I've dabbled with into place. I also got to dig into some Mew, which is pretty chill and hazy.

Next...well,

Wizard Rock! I had forgotten about my short delve into this weird genre. The closest I've come to actually going to a "concert" concert, we say Harry and the Potters and Draco and the Malfoys. Harry turned up in my playlist as well, but up above I show The Mudbloods perform Eulogy for an Acromantula. I don't think there's a lot to say. Moving on...

Somewhere between The Slip (Angels Come On Time) and Yo La Tengo (And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out) I tuned into Pink Floyd's Animals album. How could you go wrong there? I considered posting Sheep from that album, but I have a feeling that wouldn't be news to you. Instead, allow me to introduce Kraddy, former member of The Glitch Mob. I'm a sucker for electronica, especially when it gets a little heavy.

Steppin' Razor satisfies some self-indulgent part of me that just wants to hear something thick and synthetic blast its way out of my speakers from time to time. Foregoing complicated, obtuse rhythms, this music just hits its beats and hits them hard. Not Waters of Nazareth hard, but hard enough. Additionally, anything I'm doing when music like this comes on instantly becomes part of a montage in some heist film. Trust me.

Of course, I couldn't stop there. Oh, no. I sprinted through two Eno albums back to back: Another Day On Earth and Another Green World. You can't spell "enough" without Eno. His music is so ineffably boring. Except when he's singing, then its just terrible. I was reading up on him on wikipedia, and I noticed two strange things: there is almost no mention of his successes (for example, this album or that song becoming extremely popular), and everyone seems to want to work with him in some form. This leads me to the conclusion that somehow Eno has orchestrated a situation wherein everyone wants him to produce crap, and absolutely no one wants the crap. They just want him to keep sounding of his banality for some inscrutable, eldritch reason.

One final note: I've been discovering a number of duplicate, and in the case of Yo La Tengo, triplicate and... quatruplicate (?) tracks that I've had to clean up. Also, I've found a large number of stand-up comedy tracks which I've gotten rid of. I don't really care for them and I consider them outside the scope of my project - to listen to music. Because of this, there might be some odd fluctuations in the amount of music on occasion as I find this artist to clean up or this comedian to delete completely. Also, I've thrown a bunch of Arvo Part into the mix. Good times for all.

Music left: 168.41gb

Cheers, 

Bodhisvaha