✸ Longview is still a banger.
✸ More pencil-crayon album covers, please.
✸ Basket Case awakening my sense memory: I'm a pre-teen being driven around in the family car while listening to 102.1 The Edge.
✸ I'm realizing how fried my attention span is when I find myself wanting to skip a 2 min long song, instead of sitting through it.
✸ When I Come Around!!
✸ I was 4 years old when this album was released.
✸ First time ever listening, and Zappa is really good at playing guitar (complimentary, obvious, etc.)
✸ This isn't my usual style or genre of music, but I'm having NO problem listening to songs that are 8+ minutes long. My attention is grabbed.
✸ Horn sounding like an angry goose on The Gumbo Variations.
✸ Overall, really interesting, really complicated, and only sometimes discordant or annoying (subjective opinion, etc.)
✸ In my mind Leonard Cohen and Ron Perlman are in a competition for deepest voice.
✸ Unfortunately this isn't my musical taste, so this is a more challenging listen (I'm tempted to just skip songs, or scrub through them).
✸ Trying to remember that what I like about this project is that it stretches your capacity and experience, surfacing things you might have not listened to otherwise.
✸ So many albums I've never listened to before!
✸ The horror of realizing that I never knew "Heros" was originally a David Bowie song. I've been thinking that the Peter Gabriel cover was the original all this time.
✸ Another album I've never listened to!
✸ Perfect Day so devastating.
✸ Walk On the Wild Side so chill.
✸ It's always a trip reading through the Wikipedia articles for musicians like this, because he's a very talented performer and also was probably not a very nice guy??? (obvious, etc. etc.)
✸ Okay! Another banger album from an annoying man.
✸ Tonight, Tonight is so good.
✸ Zero!!! So angsty (complimentary).
✸ Bullet With Butterfly Wings!!
✸ With only a half work day today, there's no way I'm going to get through this two(!!) hour long album.
✸ Smoooooth.
✸ It feels reductive to say it's so all so warm and soulful sounding, but it is.
✸ It's such a cohesive record, but no one individual song really stands out to me as a favourite.
✸ I am nervous about this one, but what if I love it?
✸ I don't, DNF.
✸ Would you believe... I've never listened to an album by the Beatles before?
✸ "It Won't Be Long" is cool, I like a call and response.
✸ "Don't Bother Me" is miserable and emo, I like it!
✸ I am wondering if I research which Beatle was responsible for each song will finally reveal to me who my favourite is? (like a Buzzfeed quiz).
✸ Most of this is a little too sleepy for me.
✸ "I Wanna Be Your Man" is interesting too, I am sympathetic to the idea of crowds of fans going feral for these men.
✸ "Not A Second Time" giving me "Don't Bother Me" vibes. Is there a spiteful and scorned Beatle, who can be my favourite?
✸ Highlights: Boyz, Jimmy, Paper Planes, Come Around
✸ This is no fault of M.I.A, but listening to this album is giving me flashbacks to shopping at American Apparel (cursed experience).
✸ Okay, read the Wikipedia page and I can't help but imagine what this album would have been like if she'd been able to work with Timbaland for the whole record?!
✸ I can't believe how many absolute bangers and classics are on this album: I'm So Bored with the U.S.A, White Riot, London's Burning, Career Opportunities, etc.
✸ Wait, I forgot about "What's My Name" Love it.
