2/3 of a Snowman

I don’t really need an excuse to obsessively catalogue music, but this week Nick Southall’s #musicdiaryproject has given me one. The fact that this happens to align with a week of unemployment means that I get to be extra extra-indulgent. Here’s day 1.

11:58 AM - Panda Bear - Tomboy (via NPR) - Because you’ve got to, you know. Might as well get it out of the way early. I liked Person Pitch (it was especially great walking around in the jungle, so there’s that), and I could see myself liking or not liking Tomboy. I am struck by how on-the-nose it is—how conservative in terms of giving his fans exactly what they expect from a Panda Bear album. I lost interest around “Drone”

12:33 PM - tUnE-yArDs - “Bizness”/Obits - “I Want Results” (iTunes) - I go back and forth from Sean Fennesey’s Burnt Up and Turnt Out compilation all day long. These are the first two songs. I end up downloading the Obits album later in the day.

12:41 PM - Nas/9th Wonder - “Get Down” (iTunes) - It came up.

12:45 PM - E-40 - “I Be Beastin” (YouTube) - Posted on I Love Music.

12:50 PM - Cults - “You Know What I Mean” (Soundcloud via P4k) - Been meaning to listen to this.

12:53 PM - Bill Calahan - “Free’s” (70 seconds)/Frank Ocean - “We All Try” (iTunes) - From Burnt Up and Turnt Out.

12:57 PM - The Weeknd - House of Balloons (iPhone through iPod dock) - While washing dishes and making lunch. Fucking love this album.

2:44 PM - Charles Bradley - “The Telephone Song”/The Strokes - “Gratisfaction”/Fergus & Geronimo - “Powerful Lovin’”/Generations - “You Say It Too”/Alex Turner - “Stuck on the Puzzle”/Yuck - “Suicide Policeman”/Purity Ring - “Ungirthed”/Smith Westerns - “End of the Night”/Destroyer - “Kaputt”/The Babies - “Run Me Over”/Dirty Beaches - “Lord Knows Best”/Kurt Vile - “Peeping Tomboy”/Nicolas Jaar - “Space is Only Noise”/TV on the Radio - “Caffenated Consciousness”/James Blake - “Why Don’t You Call Me”/Radiohead - “Codex” (iTunes) - Back to Burnt Up and Turnt Out as I try to write something. Most of this is familiar, but nicely recontextualized. I end up downloading the Dirty Beaches and Fergus & Geronimo albums later—they both have this garage rock, King Khan-type thing that I am interested in. I also agree with myself to give Smith Westerns another chance, as I am digging the Thin Lizzy meets Exploding Hearts steez of “End of the Night.”

4:03 PM - The Hold Steady - “Stevie Nix” (iTunes) - Thinking about this song in relationship to The Weeknd.

4:08 PM - Clams Casino - “Cold War”/Mouse on tha Track - “Alligator Humming Bird”/Big K.R.I.T. - “Another Naive Individual Glorifying Greed and Encouraging Racism”/Cass McCombs - “County Line” (67 seconds) (iTunes) - Back to Burnt Up and Turnt Out. Nothing here really strikes me, though I do love Big K.R.I.T. I can see myself coming around to Cass McCombs someday, but not today.

4:20 PM - Clams Casino - “Motivation,” “All I Need,” “Cold War,” “Real Shit From a Real Nigga,” “Realist Alive” (iTunes)/Lil B the Based God - “Motivation” (YouTube) - I like this Clams Casino guy. I do not like this Lil B guy, though sometimes it’s good to just check and see if I’m wrong.

4:49 PM - The Herbaliser - Very Necessary (through 2:37 of “Mind in the Frame”)/Jamie Woon - “Street,” “Lady Luck”/Clams Casino - “Numb” (iTunes) - Now I am just lost in the iTunes k-hole.

5:55 PM - MNDR - “Cut Me Out”/Raekwon - “Molasses”/Braids - “Plath Heart”/The Strokes - “Taken For a Fool”/Purity Ring - “Ungirthed”/Dum Dum Girls - “Wrong Feels Right”/Night Plane - “Parallel Lines”/Patrick Wolf - “The City”/Fleet Foxes - “Helplessness Blues”/Yuck - “Georgia”/Tyler, the Creator - “Yonkers”/Dodos - “Black Night”/XXXY - “You Always Start It”/Charles Bradley - “The World (Is Going Up in Flames)”/Ill Blu - “Meltdown”/Clams Casino - “Motivation”/Burial & Four Tet & Thom Yorke - “Ego”/Katy B - “Broken Record”/Frank Ocean - “Novacaine”/Radiohead - “Giving Up the Ghost” (iPhone) - These are all on a playlist called “Heavy Rotation” that I listened to going to the supermarket, cleaning the apt and reading a magazine.

7:37 PM - Avril Lavigne - “What the Hell”/Ke$ha - “Sleazy (Remix)”/Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie xx - “I’ll Take Care of U”/DJ Quik - “Luv of My Life”/Dirty Beaches - “Speedway King”/Obits - “You Gotta Lose”/Fergus & Geronimo - “Girls With English Accents,” “Wanna Know What I Would Do”/tUnE-yArDs - “My Country,” “Es So,” “Gangsta”/Tyga - “Really Raw”/Tyler the Creator - “Yonkers”/Smith Westerns - “End of the Night”/Wiz Khalifa - “The Race” (iTunes) - Just fuckin around on iTunes, killing time. Deleted most of Burnt Out and Turnt Up (I have most of the albums the tracks are from), and organized the rest into my iTunes.

8:39 PM Rick Ross - “Mafia Music”/Jeru the Damaja - “Come Clean”/Public Enemy - “Rebel Without a Pause”/Luniz - “I Got 5 On It”/Public Enemy - “Shut ‘Em Down (Pe-Te Rock Remix)”/Doug E. Fresh & The Get-Fresh Crew - “La Di Da Di”/Digital Underground - “The Humpty Dance”/Cannibal Ox - “The F-Word”/The Fixxers - “Can You Work With That”/Jimmy Spicer - “Money (Dollar Bill Y’All)”/The Roots - “Silent Treatment” (iPhone through iPod dock) - All on a recently made 100 Favorite Rap Trax playlist while I cook dinner for my girlfriend.

Total # of songs listened to: 107