Sunday, 16 May 2010

Project 1: Pitchfork Top 100 Albums of the Seventies

The plan is to listen all 100 of Pitchfork's Top 100 Albums of the Seventies. All albums will be listened to, including albums I have listened to previously. I will listen to them all at least once; the aim being to listen to them multiple times but I will not penalise myself if a. I'm already familiar with them or b. I play them once and just have no interest in playing them again. Albums will be listened to in sets of 10 and I will not look ahead to see what is coming.

Of the first ten (100-90), I have listened to three and am familiar with other material by the artist of another three. Of the other four, one has been high on my to-listen list for quite some time with two of the others on my "vague aspirations to listen to possibly someday" list. I'll be honest and say I had no intention really to listen to one of them at all, but have no problem at all checking it out. I only hope that the rest of the list falls into place quite as nicely as this group does.

The reason for doing this? Immediate inspiration: hearing Coconut by Harry Nilsson used on the soundtrack of Alan Wake, being inspired to check out Nilsson Schmilsson and noticing its inclusion on the aforementioned list.

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