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Right now:

Acetone - S/T
Steve Reich - Works 1965-1995 (Yeah, it's 10 records, but it's one album)
The Fall - Levitate
Tortoise - A Lazarus Taxon
Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact

Tomorrow it'll be different.

Rachel’s Music for Egon Schiele
Wipers Follow Blind
Dinosaur Jr. You’re Living All Over Me
Discharge Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing
The Breeders Pod

Counterpoint -

I've got a bunch of records from my past that I love, but I'm not as compelled to listed to them this morning as I am 4-5 new recommendations or discoveries. None of them are likely to have the same impact on me that my "classic" records did when I first discovered them.

And if you told me I could never hear Spiderland or Te Deum or Paso Inferior again, I'd be a little sad because I like of of them a lot. But I've listened to all of them a bunch and the re-re-re-visit is a different experience than discovering or getting to know a record.

Which - I get isn't what's being asked. It's all context for this point: the Desert Island Discs is a weird forced-ossification of the music-listening experience. This perversion manifests itself most oddly in the deluxe packaging/re-issue/re-mastering/Steve Hoffman forum approach to music.

Not trolling here, but as a more fun thought experiment - forget about Desert Island Discs. Imagine that all music you love has an expiration date of, say, 20 years. Fill the void they leave behind.

= Justin

Justin Foley wrote: Tue Sep 21, 2021 10:16 am Which - I get isn't what's being asked. It's all context for this point: the Desert Island Discs is a weird forced-ossification of the music-listening experience. This perversion manifests itself most oddly in the deluxe packaging/re-issue/re-mastering/Steve Hoffman forum approach to music.

Not trolling here, but as a more fun thought experiment - forget about Desert Island Discs. Imagine that all music you love has an expiration date of, say, 20 years. Fill the void they leave behind.

No, I completely agree, and don't bother with these sorts of exercises. Unless there's an LP with detailed instructions on how to build a fucking boat.. I'd take that one.

I've switched listening gears like 3 times in the last 2 hours alone, and that's part of the experience. If I'm unable to do that why bother.

Justin Foley wrote: Tue Sep 21, 2021 10:16 am ...as a more fun thought experiment - forget about Desert Island Discs. Imagine that all music you love has an expiration date of, say, 20 years. Fill the void they leave behind.

Joanna Newsom - Ys
Neurosis - The Eye of Every Storm
King Midas Sound - Waiting for You
Roy Montgomery - RMHQ
Jim O'Rourke - To Magnetise Money and Catch a Roving Eye

Anonymous37 wrote: Sun Sep 19, 2021 9:36 pm

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Holy crap is this album good.

So fucking good, my Dad got it for me when he was in Bilbao in the early aughts and it blew my mind.

Supertramp - Crime of the Century
Bill Evans - Waltz for Debby
Hugo Largo - Mettle
Mary Margaret O'Hara - Miss America
AC Temple - Belinda Backwards

I could live on those for quite a while.

Fun House
Duty Now For The Future
Dub Housing
Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
Hits (Birthday Party)

I like the idea of listening to these 5 records nonstop on a desert island. It's not something I've ever actually tried to picture when this question comes up.

The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
The Flaming Lips - In a Priest Driven Ambulance (With Silver Sunshine Stares)
Pasteboard - Glitter
Derrick Carter - The Many Shades of Cajual
Yume Bitsu - Auspicious Winds

gonna be spending much time staring at the sky and dancing like nobody's watching