Not a bad song to start the day with.

“These Days” is pretty high on my all-time favorite song list but when this album popped up in my self-conjured organic random album generator I realized I’ve never listened to the entire album.

This album completely sealed the deal for me about this project.

I don’t have many hard-and-fast rules for the 200 Album project, but one thing I’m trying to do is to sincerely listen to each song on the album. I want to mindfully listen and not have the album as background music while I attend to other matters (or daydream, or ruminate). I listened to this the old fashioned way, laying on the couch on Sunday afternoon with the earphones on.

Since some (much?) of the album listening might end up feeling like homework, I decided to intersperse some songs that were in heavy rotation back when I listened to music more regularly.

First time I’ve seen that video! Not what I expected.

Not really my jam when it came out. I expected an 80s electronic dance music sound. Wasn’t expecting the ambient vibe.

After not listening to music for a long time I decided to start an album-listening project. In March 2026 I decided to listen to 200 albums.

I want to be more-or-less random. I’m not exactly sure how to generate a random album, so I’m going to let it develop organically.

The blog is to keep track of what I’ve listened to, and to jot down a couple of notes.

Let’s get started!