As I mentioned below I have, off and on, considered doing my own blog. I'm not going to start one now because I don't want to bother starting if it's not going to work (this, distilled, is one of my biggest faults, a lazy, defeatist, perfectionism, sort of, if you will.)
It's not yet time to post my top 10 CDs for 2004 but in preparation for that I wanted to look at my list from last year (actually I wanted to look at my lists from many years previous... but only last year's is on this blog.)
If I were to make that list now there would be only minor changes. I've gotten a little sick of Sumday by Grandaddy, maybe because I figured it was a good "I like this and it won't annoy people who share my lab at work as much as, say, KaitO so I can listen to it at work a lot" CD so I listened to it a lot. And saw Grandaddy twice (if you count the early hours of January 1st, 2004... which I don't elsewhere so I shouldn't here but whatever.)
Speaking of KaitO their album would probably move to the top 10 from the honorable mentions and Metric's Old World Underground Where Are You Now? and Cooper Temple Clause's Kick Up the Fire and Let the Flames Break Loose would move at least as far as the honorable mentions... probably causing Chutes Too Narrow and Elephant to feel nervous. Give Up by the Postal Service, Everybody Come Down by Earlimart and Hate by the Delgados all would also need some mention in there.
All said I am still rather happy with the 2003 list.
What I really would like to do is do a list of top 10 CDs bought in 2004, the main problem being that that's one thing I don't keep track of (it would be exceedingly easy... and I figure I should for 2005 just cause I'm thinking of it now.)
Now Playing: digital music collection on random: I started this earlier to prepare a "guess the song from lyrics for 25 random songs" bit I stole from Matt the Bruce and I've just stuck with that listening method for a while. I am unsure whether to post the fruits of my random playlist partially because there's not going to be enough recognition to make it worthwhile (the point is not to demonstrate to people that you listen to music that they've never heard of but to allow other people the joy of recognizing lyrics out of context.) Hell, I doubt I'd get that many of them. Since I did it I probably will post the stupid thing (especially since I've spent this much time on it already.) But not now. And I should, like, have cash prizes (but I won't.)
