this week’s work-distraction on facebook is ‘five things….’ – you know the thing, someone fills one in, then you fill it in, then someone else fills it in….
anyway.. the topic that came up was ‘five albums you can listen to from start to finish’ and i thought ‘i’ll have some of that’… except… when it came to thinking about it i was stumped. i got as far as the last maximo park album and, currently, the new super furrys and after that i was ‘…..’
you think of the classics from yesteryear that you still listen to, but even those have got ‘skip’ firmly over track 4, or 5. the stone roses debut for example, my favourite album of all time and even that i have to skip over ‘don’t stop’ – tedious overblown nonsense.. orbital’s snivilisation? the mental track before ‘are we here?’ can’t be doing with it, it makes me cross
it gets worse the further along the timeline you go – band gets quite good, band gets ‘caught’ by the internet, band releases single, band releases album WAY before they’ve got enough material – you end up with 3 or 4 decent efforts and the rest is filler.
the invention of mp3 shuffles doesn’t help either – i have 1500 tunes on my phone, album after album of material, yet i’ll put it on shuffle and have a 3 day long disco.
all this might be about to change though thanks to spotify – there’s a whole world of music i’ve either forgotten about or ‘never got round to listening’ – load it up, click on an album and away you go. maybe in the thousands of songs i’ve never heard there’ll be a decent set of consecutive tunes i can get along with.
and then go buy Dark Days/Light Years by the Super Furry Animals.
I don’t do hyperbole as a rule, but this could well be the greatest thing ever recorded. Ever.
If nothing else, download this
