Music Memory

This entry was mainly for me so I can remember should I lose track of this stuff someday somehow, it’s just a big run down of music and then youtube links to songs I enjoy, unless you’re bored I wouldn’t bother read this. Although the music links might interest you, possibly not though.

I’ve been sorting through music this last few days, because I consume so much I’m in this perpetual cycle of finding, reviewing, enjoying and then finally naming them correctly. I have a complicated system.

All music I download goes into a folder called ‘Reviewable’ which has three categories in it, ‘Priority’ ‘Next’ ‘Last’ which is the order of importance. From there 3 folders then exist, 2010, 2010 Fail, Genre Casting and Rebirth. Any song off an album I like I copy into Genre Casting to listen to it, it’s basically my revolving current music folder, once I’m tired of a song in Genre Casting I put it into an Mp3z folder, currently I’m on Mp3z26, I keep them to 1.4gbs in size because when I started making them I used 700mb CD’s to burn them, I liked to keep it to 2 CD’s. As for the album itself if there weren’t at least two passable songs on the album it will go into 2010 Fail, that changes every year by the way so next year it will be 2011 Fail, if the album was average to good it’ll go into 2010 and if the album was exceptional I put it into Rebirth, very few albums make it into Rebirth it is the strictest and I’ve really got to love at least 4 songs off the album. I’ve only got about 200 albums in Rebirth.

Every album I download I listen to at least twice before picking songs off of it or deciding where to put it, usually I listen to the album 4 or so times if it’s average and if I love the album then I don’t bother counting since I’ll probably listen to it dozens of times. If I hate the album I’ll still listen to it twice, it’s important I think because the first time I listen to a song I don’t notice any of the details, but once I’m even basically familiar with a song I can start picking things out, the layered melodies, the lyrics, supporting instruments, the drums, lots of details which help to make a song enjoyable.

My personal favourite album is Plans by Death Cab For Cutie, if you’ve ever known someone who died that album will make a lot of sense to you, regardless of that though the melodies are catchy and very pretty and the lyrics are very well considered, I’m not really a Death Cab fan but that album was quite the revelation for me. Other than that the other pick of picks would be

Sigur Ros – Með suð I eyrum við spilum endalaust / Untitled, The Postal Service – Give Up, Sufjan Stevens, Seven Swans / Illinois, Ludovico Einaudi – Divenire, A Perfect Circle – Mer De Noms / Thirteenth Step, Mineral – The Power of Failing, Flyleaf – Flyleaf, Underoath – They’re Only Chasing Safety, Iron & Wine – Our Endless Numbered Days, Jason Mraz – Live At Jaza Joes, Of Sinking Ships – Of Sinking Ships, Pinback – This is A Pinback CD, Something Corporate – Ready Break, The Getup Kids – On A Wire,  Nada Surf – The Weight is a Gift, This Will Destroy You – This Will Destroy You, City & Colour – Bring Me Your Love, lord I need to stop this could just keeping going on and on.

Pinback – Loro http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEQCsiBMoqs

Sufjan Stevens – John Wayne Gacy Jr http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otx49Ko3fxw

A Perfect Circle – 3 Libras http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWFv5ZoVET8

The Getup Kids – Overdue http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te4Wof1zGVk

The Postal Service – The District Sleeps Alone Tonight http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn4AWCqx8qQ

Death Cab For Cutie – Marching Bands of Manhattan – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se4NBz5N_SA

Mineral – Parking Lot http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj879fSVbTQ

Flyleaf – Cassie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5X0cWsC8rY

Ludovico Einaudi – Primavera http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmxFAT581T4

Iron & Wine – Fever Dream http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvtRLtmEhvM

Jason Mraz – After An Afternoon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lSFwOQ12pQ

Of Sinking Ships – The Last Signal… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrtM2qvIwhg

Something Corporate – Konstantine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMwI1DlZpyY

Nada Surf – Always Love http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ulU08Se7Qs

City & Colour – What Makes A Man http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pavcTA_K7QU

Sigur Ros – Ara Batur http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NecFN-cfwlk