My most listened to song this year is apparently 'Every Single Day' by Melt Yourself Down. If ever a song summed up a year, then this must surely be it.
Khruangbin also feature heavily, as does Beck - I'm in his top 0.5%, which I imagine he's chuffed about
@nessisonett I think what I listen to most is based on what playlists I've made this year. That's how it usually goes. Like my most listened to track is nearly always whatever the first track on my best of whatever year it is playlist is. And I've made playlists for all of my top five this year. I have a lot of neatly organised playlists.
@johncalmc I just put any song I feel like into one massive playlist. I’ve done it since I was about 15 and it’s currently sitting at 60 hours and 44 minutes. I used to have terrible problems with streaming music while out and about so I do that to download the music onto my phone.
The albums on my phone from my alphabetical run through of my library has given me albums from;
Moose Blood (English emo/pop punk band), Mumm-Ra (best known for a single that featured in 500 Days of Summer), Muse (Blacks Hole and Revelations), The Music (a great early 2000s English band), and The National (Boxer).
At this minute I’m listening to the end of Craig Charles’ Funk and Soul Show from last Saturday (6 music).
@Thrillho I listened to Boxer a few weeks ago for the first time. I’m still not sure how I feel about it, parts of it are amazing but I think the whole album seems to be at the same kinda pitch and tempo and it washed over me a bit. Still a good album though.
@Draco_V_Ecliptic I’ve been listening to DJ Sabrina The Teenage DJ’s DJ mixes which are really great house music. Ichiko Aoba’s new album came out a couple days ago and I heard it’s incredible so I’m gonna give that a listen too.
@Draco_V_Ecliptic I’m not a huge fan of his show to be honest, I find it a bit hit and miss for me. I always catch up with the Craig Charles and Huey Morgan shows as they’re outside of stuff I’d buy but I enjoy the stuff they play.
Mary Ann Hobbs did an hour long special with Nils Frahm last night that I need to catch too.
@nessisonett My feeling with The National is that I feel I want to like them more than I do. High Violet is fantastic but most of their other albums have a few great tracks but lots of meh ones. Boxer is a perfect example for that! Like I say, I put it on rotation as it’s been years since I last listened to it.
Newer stuff I’m listening to includes Daniel Avery and Rival Consoles (both electronic artists), Off With Their Heads (punk rock), and the acoustic reworking The Menzingers did of their last album.
@Draco_V_Ecliptic She’s mostly known for doing folky singer-songwriter stuff with a big heap of field recordings and ambient influenced material. And yes, DJ Sabrina The Teenage DJ is a great name. Second only to Ross From Friends.
@Draco_V_Ecliptic I go through pretty extreme phases with music and listen to one type of thing exclusively for days then ditch it and take up a new thing. I also like projects and constructing playlists as a means of having some kind of record of everything I like.
My current thing was to finish an old project of mine that I never finished before I abandoned ship and started listening to something else. I was making playlists based on decades but not genre specific - I have lots of genre specific ones of these like 90s pop, or 80s indie etc.
Having already done a big '60s one - like 20 hours - and a shorter '60s one comprised of 50 of my favourite songs which runs 3 hours, I'm now putting 20 of my favourite '60s albums together so I'm listening to lots of '60s albums to see whether they're going to make the cut.
I'm doing this for every decade 😅
I don't think I'll finish this project before moving on to something else.
@nessisonett Ross, the Divorce Force, I believe it was right? Or are you referring to when he made his comeback foray into electronic music? I'd be interested in hearing some of Ichiko's stuff with the field recordings thrown in, sounds like my kind of style - what's a good album by her that features that stuff?
@nessisonett@Thrillho Have you heard Bob Dylan's latest album, Rough And Rowdy Ways? - it's a decent album @johncalmc ,do you reckon you have a lot of work left in compiling your playlists?
"(Music is) a purposeless play. This play, however, is an affirmation of life" (paraphrased) - John Cage
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