February is Music Writer Exercise Month #MWE • Page 40

just realized I listened to 40 new (to me) albums last month. can I do this retroactively lol

 

Unofficially sure

 

fuck the rules

 

If anyone's curious, here's the 20-song mix I made for 1973, enjoy!

1973 mix

 

Pretty unimpeachable batch of staples, but kudos for including “Chevy Van”. It seems like it should be stupid, but it ends up sweet and charming

 

Yeah a ton of classics I couldn't keep out. Chevy Van was a new find for me, cool ass song that is extremely smooth. Midnight at the Oasis was another new one for me that I constantly get stuck in my head now.

 

Fun fact: Prince LOVED “Midnight at the Oasis”

 

Nowhere else to post this, but I'm starting on 1972 albums now...

Al Green - Let's Stay Together
Really solid album throughout, the title track being the obvious standout, but the rest is solid.

Credence Clearwater Revival - Mardi Gras
I understand that this is their only album without Tom Fogerty and good lord does it show. If I wasn't such a completionist, I wouldn't finish this album. But it's only 28 minutes, so I might as well. "Someday Never Comes" is pretty good, but the rest is prettttttty rough.

I also never realized that CCR released 6 albums in 3 years, fucking WILD how quickly they churned out music when they were a full group. I know that artists released music quicker back then, but that's a pretty breakneck pace

 

In theory, really democratic and cool of John Fogerty to share the writing with the rest of the band. In practice...why bench one of the greatest of all time for a bar band rhythm section’s dabbling.

 

Curtis Mayfield's Super Fly is so damn good, top to bottom.

 

It's not February anymore but I'm doing a sophisti-pop deep dive. The Style Council, Scritti Politti, Prefab Sprout, Simply Red, Everything But the Girl etc.

 

I've found myself on RYM a little bit because the interface is much better than listnd. It's so wild to see what they tout as some of the best albums ever over there, haha. The Money Store by Death Grips is #71 on their best albums of all time list.

 

Loving Prefab Sprout. Style Council was not very good but "You're the Best Thing" was a solid song.

 

I LOVE Picture Book by Simply Red. Haven't heard any of the others yet.

 

That's what's on deck

 

Straight up jamming to “Money’s Too Tight to Mention” now

 

People starting to put their lists together yet?

 

I’m drafting one

 

Thanks for the bump, may do this this year

 

same

 

Want to throw two recs at me?

 

Came to post thinking people could drop some random recs here and there and then saw @cshadows2887 kinda beat me to it

 

Kinda interested in doing this again. I'd like to find a theme to plan around but haven't settled on anything yet

 

This was fun last year, enjoyed it a lot - a great way to "force" yourself to discover new music! Will make a list of this year, might try and combine it with the Years in Music threads, so I can check out some releases from the years we cover there.