(Interlude in my 200 Albums project. 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.)

link: https://youtu.be/s2rmjN3rS-c?si=NXzOA6rW4d0KaUWZ

(An entry in my 200 Albums project. Starting March 2026 I decided to listen to 200 more-or-less random albums.)

Part of my random generation strategy is to ask someone – What’s an album I should listen to? Tom the bartender suggested Twilight Override, probably because I’d just mentioned that I went to see Rhett Miller recently. I’ve listened to a lot of Tweedy and Wilco and was rabid about Uncle Tupelo’s No Depression when it came out so I was completely willing to drop a 3-disc album into the mix.
I’m not sure I’ve ever been so bored listening to an album. Half-way through the first disc I started wondering if I’d made a serious mistake.
Now that I think about it, I was never as enthused by Wilco as I was by Uncle Tupelo and the Mermaid Ave. sessions. Maybe my Tweedy phase was over years ago buy I just didn’t realize it until now.

(Interlude in my 200 Albums project. 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.)

link https://youtu.be/im_kphj1C3Q?si=MgpFau9sQrPtPEO7

(An entry in my 200 Albums project. Starting March 2026 I decided to listen to 200 more-or-less random albums.)

Nope.

I thought I was going to like this album. I have some friends who are hardcore GbV fans and a few GbV songs have made it into regular rotation through the years, but this album did not connect with me.

In some weird way this almost makes me want to listen to them some more to determine if I just don’t share their vibe, or if this album is anomalous for some reason.

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!