Writer's Block: Listen to This
Tastes in music tend to be more individualized than, say, tastes in reading, and everything I listen to seems to drive everyone else around me nuts. But here's a 10-song sample playlist of what I'm listening to now:
Etude No. 5, Philip Glass (Minimalist piano; it depends on a simple, repeating motif with varied phrasing weaving around it. When I say "this music drives everyone else nuts!", I specifically refer to music like this.)
"Elephants," Rachael Yamagata from Elephants...Teeth Sinking Into Heart
"One by One," Unkle Bob, from Sugar and Spite
"An Ocean and a Rock," Lisa Hannigan, from Sea Sew
"Sundrenched World," Joshua Radin, from We Were Here
"Welcome to England," Tori Amos, from Abnormally Attracted to Sin (though the album itself is a disappointment)
"Dark Blue," Allison Crowe, from 6 Songs+
"Losing Touch," The Killers, from Day and Age
"All Along the Watchtower," Jimi Hendrix
"The Scientist (Live)," Aimee Mann (a cover of the Coldplay song), Lost in Space (the deluxe anniversary edition)
"Karma Police," Radiohead, OK Computer
Heavy on the whisper-rock, segueing into things that people have actually heard of (maybe?)
Also, on a pair of random notes to end the post: "segueing" looks strange, spelled out like that, but it's correct (and I don't know how you'd spell it otherwise.) Also, spelled vs. spelt - when did the irregular verb form die out? Or is it even dead? Like "dreamed" vs. "dreamt," with both being acceptable usages but the regularized form being more common.
Etude No. 5, Philip Glass (Minimalist piano; it depends on a simple, repeating motif with varied phrasing weaving around it. When I say "this music drives everyone else nuts!", I specifically refer to music like this.)
"Elephants," Rachael Yamagata from Elephants...Teeth Sinking Into Heart
"One by One," Unkle Bob, from Sugar and Spite
"An Ocean and a Rock," Lisa Hannigan, from Sea Sew
"Sundrenched World," Joshua Radin, from We Were Here
"Welcome to England," Tori Amos, from Abnormally Attracted to Sin (though the album itself is a disappointment)
"Dark Blue," Allison Crowe, from 6 Songs+
"Losing Touch," The Killers, from Day and Age
"All Along the Watchtower," Jimi Hendrix
"The Scientist (Live)," Aimee Mann (a cover of the Coldplay song), Lost in Space (the deluxe anniversary edition)
"Karma Police," Radiohead, OK Computer
Heavy on the whisper-rock, segueing into things that people have actually heard of (maybe?)
Also, on a pair of random notes to end the post: "segueing" looks strange, spelled out like that, but it's correct (and I don't know how you'd spell it otherwise.) Also, spelled vs. spelt - when did the irregular verb form die out? Or is it even dead? Like "dreamed" vs. "dreamt," with both being acceptable usages but the regularized form being more common.