My suggestion is to go someplace that isn’t spotify, preferably a record store but we’ll take what we can get, and play the following albums on an endless loop:
Neil Young – Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
Joni Mitchell – Blue
As more artists join the crusade we can add more records. Sound good?
There are a couple of things going on at work today that are going to make the day a tough one. Not really looking forward to this one. Oh well, that’s what they pay me the big bucks for (I do not actually make big bucks, more like just normal bucks).
So, anyone else suddenly seeing an increase in Apple Watch battery use? I charge to 100% in the morning, and then for months I was maybe 45-55% when I went to bed. On Monday and Tuesday I was down to the low 30’s, and last night I was down to the high teens. Did something change? My iPhone took an update a few days ago. I wonder.
Looking ahead to the weekend, it sounds like we’re going to get bitch slapped with a snow storm on Saturday. On that day we are planning something insane. Something… unbelievable. Jen wants to… rewire a light switch. I’m totally going to make you wait for more info on that. Just call me Rob the Blog Tease, oh yeah.
Spotify had the choice between music legend Neil Young and Covid misinformation spewing bullshit podcaster joe rogan.
They made their choice and it was wrong. They removed Neil Young’s music and backed the podcaster who vomits lies about Covid that literally put his listeners lives in jeopardy. At least rogan probably doesn’t have any horse worms though, you know?
The only thing I use Spotify for is the little playlist that was on the sidebar of this page. I say was on the sidebar because I think I just removed it. I don’t pay for Spotify and I know that I’m less than insignificant to them, but I’ve decided I won’t be using any of their services anymore.
This is meaningless in the grand scheme, but I feel like it’s the right thing to do.
I think today was my ninth or 10th time playing Wordle. Not only was it my first fail, but it’s the first time I even needed to get to the sixth attempt.
I feel like such a loser, vocabularily* speaking.
The good news is we are going to do a Book of Boba Fett watch party with Harry in about an hour. That should make me feel better.
*Did I just use the word “vocabulary” as the basis for inventing a new word? I think I did. Is that irony?
I’ve always liked Neil Young, but I never really dove into his music the way some people do. I know people whose obsession with Neil Young rivals my obsession with Rush*. I never dug that deep. Everybody Knows This is Nowhere and After the Gold Rush and Harvest and Deja Vu are friggin masterpieces. I can’t really tell you what they are musically because Neil Young is such his own thing that it defies categorization, but I can tell you that they are pretty much perfect. After that my knowledge of his career is kind of spotty.
Yesterday though, Neil proved that he is indisputably The Man. He sent a letter to his management and his label telling them to remove his music from Spotify in protest of Spotify hosting Joe Rogan’s podcast. Rogan spews Covid disinformation and puts Spotify customers at risk. Neil Young’s letter says that Spotify can have him or they can have Rogan but they can’t have both.
Kick ass. Neil Young: The Man. If I were wearing a cap right now I would 100% be tipping it to him.
In a world of schmucks like Eric Clapton, be Neil Young.
*Rush did a Neil Young song on their covers EP. Buffalo Springfield’s Mr Soul. That really doesn’t mean anything at all, I just feel happy that it happened. They actually did two Buffalo Springfield songs on that EP but the other was a Stephen Stills song. They covered For What it’s Worth. I don’t know if Neil Young (or Stephen Stills for that matter) ever heard the covers, but I hope he (they) did and I hope he (they) dug them. I guess I just like the idea of knowing that artists I admire also admire each other. I think that’s a happy thought.
Okay, this post is going to be dumb. Just making that claim ahead of time. Transparency, right?
Right.
The Great 2015 Re-recording project was meant to take songs from older music projects and update/upgrade them. Last night I was wondering, which old projects contributed the most songs? In other words, out of all the crap I’ve done, which ones had the best songs?
So I made a spreadsheet because I am a fricken nerd.
There are six Quarantine Tunes projects. Number five is all from this year’s 50/90 so it really doesn’t count. For the other five projects there are a total of 47 songs, which is WAY more than I was originally planning.
Here’s the breakdown of where they all came from:
Original Project
Number of Songs
2007 RPM Challenge
2
2008 Song Fight
1
2009 RPM Challenge
2
2010 RPM Challenge
3
2011 Test Drive GarageBand for Mac
2
2011 RPM Challenge
2
2013 NaSoAlMo
1
2013 RPM Challenge
2
2014 50/90
5
2014 April Music
2
2014 June Music
3
2014 RPM Challenge
3
2015 RPM Challenge
2
2016 50/90
1
2016 RPM Challenge
6
2017 RPM Challenge
1
2018 RPM Challenge
1
2019 Album in a Day
1
2019 RPM Challenge
1
2020 50/90
1
2020 June Music
1
2020 RPM Challenge
2
2021 RPM Challenge
1
2012 RPM Challenge*
1
There you have it. The 2016 RPM Challenge has contributed six songs for the win. The 2014 50/90 is a close second with five. Good work, folks! Now I have all the facts. Now I know, and knowing is half the battle**.
*Yes… when I was typing all of that garbage out I missed an entry. Sadly, the wordpress.com editor’s table function doesn’t let me insert a row, so I stuck it on the end. Yeah… I suck.
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