Maybe the world has moved to Spotify and Pandora, I haven’t and
don’t plan to. Music is too personal to
me to be a rented art. I want my music
all day everyday if it can be in the back or foreground of my life I want it
layered, direct, ready on the whim of playlist to shift with my moon from fun,
to lonely, to inspired, to angry, to energetic, to Mardi Gras, to pensive, to
loving and to flow wherever I go.
I originally made an My iPod on shuffle list back in April of
2013, it appeared to be based on the hits very popular on the blog. I would like to update it as it has ballooned
from around 11,000 to around 22,000 songs in about two years. I listen to music all day at work, when I am
writing, driving, or hanging. I don’t
want to have to rely on an internet connection.
My iPod on shuffle is one of my favorite things in the world
wishing I could go bigger than 160 GB without the internet involved. I
use it as the foundation to much of my daily artistic life. I have spent pretty much my
entire life alone. The breadth of my
music collection is commensurate with that space of having other voices in that environment so my head doesn’t go bat-shit crazy. I thought I would continue to share the
list with the blog
This is the complete expanded list of albums on my iPod as of
February 2015, which I think is worth listening. Maybe you might too or if you have not heard
them you may be inclined to check some out. I often listen to music
while I write. This may offer some idea
of the universe of musical inspiration I seek. I have received a few
of these records from my two siblings, a lot recently from the public library, but
the vast majority of it I have purchased myself. I tend to spend my resources on art and the
spiritual journey many of these musicians have opened has been something well
worth the investment.
I am no expert and I am sure many of you know more about these
bands than I do, but here is my list with a few thoughts/descriptions of the
artists. Please feel free to comment and
suggest other artists you think I might like as I am always hoping to expand my
listening experiences.
Enjoy
Hitch-22
My top dozen albums of all time that I enjoy / affected me
growing up or in my life revised for 2015 that I actually own, not allowing
myself to include compilations or greatest hits collections. Some it
is just when I found that album and where I was in my life.
1. Operation Ivy – Energy
2.
Bruce Springsteen –
The Darkness on the Edge of Town
3.
The Beach Boys – Pet
Sounds
4.
The Avett Brothers -I
and Love and You
5.
Bob Dylan –Times they
are a-changing
6.
The Clash – London
Calling
7.
Public Enemy – Fear of
a Black Planet
8.
The Ramones – Ramones
9.
Green Day – American Idiot
10.
Nine Inch Nails – The
Downward Spiral
11.
Bob Marley -Uprising
12.
Antony and the
Johnsons – I am a Bird Now
Please Check out the full lists of albums by genre in the links below which cover about 22,000 songs and 800? albums or so if you like. (Click on the Rants tab on the blog front page and you can also find them.) I have spent many years
finding all these sounds and continue to explore every day. I enjoy spreading their gospels or at least
most of them. Some I use to like or only kind of like, and everybody has
their own tastes, but if you like folk/punk/soul/intelligent hip-hop/jazz/New Orleans/rock
you will probably find something you did not know existed that you will
probably or do enjoy. You can see my rankings what albums most and least matters to me Here. Peace
Links:
·
Blues
·
HipHop
·
Indie
·
African
·
Soul
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