Assuming you care about Pitchfork and/or the kind of music Pitchfork covers (I’ll avoid stepping into the “indie” semantic dog poo), I highly recommend clicking through on the link above. Scott is considered and thoughtful, as always.
Sometimes it feels like subscribing to feeds is really just storing up information for my next life when the internet won’t exist, and I’ll have five brains and time to just sit and process it all.
A timely reminder.
Oh hey, there’s a new Lone album, I liked the last one (meaning I bought it off Bleep and listened to it at least 3 times all the way through) so I should probably listen to this one but…
Wait, here’s this Freddie Gibbs mixtape that I downloaded two weeks ago sitting on my desktop! SFJ and The Fader both liked it, and at least one of them said it sounds like classic West Coast gangsta rap and I totally love Regulate, so I should listen to this! Starting track one now!
But hey, Electric Light Orchestra! “Livin’ Thing” really might be the best song of all time! People love this band, right? Maybe I should listen to pretty much every song they’ve ever made for free on Lala!
No no no, wait, I heard “Peg” at a wedding last night and damn, that song is pure musical godhead. STEELY. DAN. There’s a band I’ve been meaning to check out for years. They’re geniuses! OK, every Steely Dan album for the rest of the day, that’s the plan. I’ll just leave it open in one of the 20 browser tabs I have open right now, 4 of which are albums I want to listen to, and I’ll definitely starting listening right after I send this half-written email.
But really all I ever really want to listen to is Ram. Paul McCartney does domesticity better than anyone else, and these Beatles reissues are definitely reminding me that they really are the best band of all time, and I bet Paul has some really great songs hidden in his five million shitty solo albums. Time to dig! What about that one he did with Elvis Costello? OK, listening to 30 seconds of the first song off that now…
But shit, Warp is turning 20 this year! One of my favorite labels ever! OK, totally going to Amoeba and buying one of 3 physical CDs I’ll buy this year (the remastered Abbey Road and The White Album are the other two) because I really like the cover design and I bought Warp’s 10th anniversary discs, and maybe buying a CD will be fun. Sure, it took me an hour and half to get out there and back on the bus (lame!) and the packaging for this CD is less “minimal” and more “bare bones,” but what the hell. And holy crap these remixes are horrible actually. But hey, I’ve been meaning to actually listen to that Flying Lotus album for what, a year and a half now? And hey, it’s actually REALLY GOOD!!
[In the middle of writing this post about how distracted I am I get distracted by this. Totally buying that and attempting to actually focus and listen to it after I finish writing this post about being distracted. New Nice Nice!!]
I still love Tribe more than pretty much any music ever! And I love Midnight Marauders so much that I’ve barely heard any of their other albums, and I heard “Scenario” at a party the other night and it ruled! OK, downloading all of their albums for $5 or whatever off eMusic right now, I’m sure I’ll listen to them sometime. And hey, what was Native Tongues anyway? The Wikipedia article mentions this Queen Latifah album from 1988 that I’ve never heard. Listening. Whatever happened to Justin Warfield? I had that cassette in my Jetta all through high school. Zulu Nation! Wow, weird website! Dolphins!
Oh hey, people are posting their year end lists! I have no idea what Sleigh Bells is. I kinda liked that one Lily Allen song actually, meant to listen to the album, had it in my Lala queue before that got 2,000 songs long and I gave up and deleted the whole thing.
Holy crap, we’re getting the entire Treasure Isle catalog in at IODA! Classic, classic rocksteady reggae jams. I could totally spend the rest of the year just listening to the five million amazing LPs they put out that I’ve never heard and probably be happy. Downloading all of it (it’s my job to know this stuff, FOCUS), adding to iTunes. Oh hey, my mom’s talking to me on Gchat! She’s on Facebook too — this internet thing is for real! Man, what do I want for Christmas?
This is overwhelming. I should totally read Michelangelo Matos’ Slow Listening Movement blog. I can relate! I’ve got the feed in Google Reader (1000+ unread!) and I’m following him on Twitter (59 updates since I last refreshed the page 2 minutes ago!), but you know, needle, haystack.
Oh hey, time to head home. Sweet, I’ve got 5,000 articles in my Instapaper queue to read on the bus. It never ends.
Also, I’m probably forcing you to scroll at this point. Losing some incredible percentage of readers. Bye. Have fun on Facebook.
Taming Your Digital Distractions, illustrated by Frank Chimero. Nicely done.
Internet by Joe Porter
