AboutAGirl
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Hmm... That's a toughy for me. Unless it's something new or something I haven't explored extensively yet, I don't generally listen to traditional albums. What I like to do is carefully compose new albums out of my catalog, albums that create a certain mood or deal with certain themes or come from a particular vantage point. I just find it really rewarding, it forges a new kind of bond between me and the material. They haven't been officially released, but these albums to me are as real and as concrete as anything in an artist's discography. Once I compose a new album it's something I keep listening to for years on end.
It's also an extremely useful method because I can't keep playing Harvest or ZoSo forever after I overplayed them times a million when I was 13, but I can take pieces here, pieces there, and put them into new contexts that make them viable again.
But I digress! Probably the one album I still play which I never skip tracks on is Neil Young & Crazy Horse's Broken Arrow. It's not generally a favorite among the people, but for it's just one long string of amazing guitar jams, which is exactly what I like most from Neil. It has such a perfect mood and texture, and I only really got into it 4 or 5 years ago, so I never overplayed it to destruction. It's a flawless formula that requires no editing: jam, jam, jam.
On the other side, one album that ranks among my all-time favorites but I definitely can't listen to it all the way through is Neil Young & Crazy Horse's Sleeps With Angels. While I think it's the album with the best atmosphere and mood in the history of music, I really can't handle two versions of My Heart and the aptly titled "Piece of Crap," such an awful song. So my "version" of the album is only 10 tracks. Ten perfect, flawless tracks.
It's also an extremely useful method because I can't keep playing Harvest or ZoSo forever after I overplayed them times a million when I was 13, but I can take pieces here, pieces there, and put them into new contexts that make them viable again.
But I digress! Probably the one album I still play which I never skip tracks on is Neil Young & Crazy Horse's Broken Arrow. It's not generally a favorite among the people, but for it's just one long string of amazing guitar jams, which is exactly what I like most from Neil. It has such a perfect mood and texture, and I only really got into it 4 or 5 years ago, so I never overplayed it to destruction. It's a flawless formula that requires no editing: jam, jam, jam.
On the other side, one album that ranks among my all-time favorites but I definitely can't listen to it all the way through is Neil Young & Crazy Horse's Sleeps With Angels. While I think it's the album with the best atmosphere and mood in the history of music, I really can't handle two versions of My Heart and the aptly titled "Piece of Crap," such an awful song. So my "version" of the album is only 10 tracks. Ten perfect, flawless tracks.