Music
I have an enormous music collection (in-your-endo!). Literally thousands of tracks and about 500 albums. And its a damn tragedy that out of all this music, it's quite likely that I have only listened to a minority of these song. Normally my listening pattern when using a computer is thus:
Pick Track I like>Put iTunes on Shuffle>Skip tracks I don't know.
When using the iPod its more like this:
Pick track I like>Make genius playlist>Skip tracks I don't know>repeat.
So I miss out quite a lot of music in my collection. Only very occasionally will I listen to an album front to back and it is only when the album is by a band I really like e.g. Glasvegas, Muse, Brand New, Pendulum or Arcade Fire. So thinking to myself, I decided to have a go at listening to maybe one album every day/every other day and listening to them front to back without interruption, just to justify to myself having so much music. Now according to my iTunes my top 5 most played songs are Not The Sun by Brand New; Enjoy The Silence by Depeche Mode; Propane Nightmares by Pendulum; Parabol/Parabola by Tool; and Time To Pretend by MGMT. I listen regularly to the 3 albums that contain the first 3 song, and I did give Oracular Spectacular a go, but was dissapointed. However, aside from Parabol/Parabola, I'd never really given Lateralus by Tool a go. Tool being a band who I really should get into, according to my housemate.
So after listening to Lateralus, its pretty easy to see how this is a pretty good album and as an album it works. There are one or two skippable tracks (The Patient, Disposition) but for the most part there is great continuity and some absolutely incredible music (Parabol, Parabola, The Grudge, Lateralus). 8/10.
Pick Track I like>Put iTunes on Shuffle>Skip tracks I don't know.
When using the iPod its more like this:
Pick track I like>Make genius playlist>Skip tracks I don't know>repeat.
So I miss out quite a lot of music in my collection. Only very occasionally will I listen to an album front to back and it is only when the album is by a band I really like e.g. Glasvegas, Muse, Brand New, Pendulum or Arcade Fire. So thinking to myself, I decided to have a go at listening to maybe one album every day/every other day and listening to them front to back without interruption, just to justify to myself having so much music. Now according to my iTunes my top 5 most played songs are Not The Sun by Brand New; Enjoy The Silence by Depeche Mode; Propane Nightmares by Pendulum; Parabol/Parabola by Tool; and Time To Pretend by MGMT. I listen regularly to the 3 albums that contain the first 3 song, and I did give Oracular Spectacular a go, but was dissapointed. However, aside from Parabol/Parabola, I'd never really given Lateralus by Tool a go. Tool being a band who I really should get into, according to my housemate.
So after listening to Lateralus, its pretty easy to see how this is a pretty good album and as an album it works. There are one or two skippable tracks (The Patient, Disposition) but for the most part there is great continuity and some absolutely incredible music (Parabol, Parabola, The Grudge, Lateralus). 8/10.