i have been sidelined with an ear infection and can hear absolutely nothing out of my right ear :’(

so… i took the time to finally go through ALL of my music and limit my albums down to just the essentials—getting rid of all duplicates i have acquired over the years, all irrelevant and otherwise shitty records, redownloading bad rips, and deleting just about any live album that isn’t necessary. this leaves 2,184 albums by 993 artists.. which is going up as i discover more essential stuff that has gone MIA or for some reason i don’t have. i also finally went through every single album and fixed the ones that have no ‘year’ or ‘track number’ info in the id3 tags.

what this means for you, the reader(s?) is that i have been listening to and remembering tons of old records and forgotten favorites. i was reading sebastian’s blog and he threw out an idea of listing his favorite album for each of the past 30 years—an idea i have totally had before also. and i think it is probably time to bring that idea to fruition.

some awesome favorites i have either neglected or forgotten about:

richard hell & the voidoids
black heart procession
the delgados
bonnie “prince” billy and other will oldham related projects
the mountain goats
colour revolt

and many more.

so stay tuned for some forgotten and/or underappreciated and/or just plain awesome albums, coming soon.