I’m not sure how big a milestone 1,400 songs of the day represents, but everybody loves a nice even number so… yay, me!
This weekend’s first randomly selected artist is Seal, who has never before graced the blog, or even been mentioned on it.
I own two Seal albums because my wife owned two Seal albums when we met. I have listened to them exactly zero times.
This song is perfectly lovely… the sort of thing you want to listen to while swaying in a hammock on a breezy summer day.
All of Jack Johnson’s music is like that (or at least, all of the Jack Johnson music that I’ve heard). But despite my acknowledging just how sweetly mellow this stuff is, I can’t bring myself to listen to it. With one exception (the theme song to Curious George), I just can’t make it through a Jack Johnson song.
Morrissey’s seventh solo album, 2004′s You Are the Quarry, was released seven years after his sixth. Considering he released all six of those records over the course of nine years, that was a major hiatus.
I didn’t really take to You Are the Quarry the way I did to Morrissey’s previous efforts. Whether that’s due to me or him, I don’t know. It could be I just wasn’t in the same mood or mindframe that made me a huge fan a decade earlier. Or perhaps it’s simpler than that, and the songs just weren’t as good.
Our latest Random Weekend selection is the first instrumental track of the series, and perhaps the first instrumental track I’ve featured on the blog (though I’m not as sure about that).
I’m wholly unqualified to speak intelligently about instrumental music, but this certainly strikes me as a lovely piece of work that captures the spirit of Pet Sounds (on which it’s the sixth track).
I wondered how long it would take the Random iTunes Man to settle on an Elvis Costello song.
I have 536 songs performed and/or written by Elvis Costello in my iTunes collection, even more than the 520-something I have by Bob Dylan. You’d think that those two would pop up with some regularity. But through three and a half months of Random Weekends, each of them has come up only once.
