Dog Latin's 'Eureka Moments' Playlist

rushomancy, if I can generalize from our respective experiences, it would seem that Zep immersion is a rite of passage for Hoosier teens.

― My Lunch Is Older Than Your Lunch (Old Lunch)

i lived in new jersey then :)

It seems I have made an ass out of u and me.

there's definitely a "chasing the dragon" element to my listening. the high of hearing something new and great for the first time. but music isn't a drug for me, not really. yeah, we all acclimate, but it's not the music for me, it's anything, anything good we get used to and start taking for granted.

my library is big enough now that i can still be surprised by it. i put it on random and as good as my memory for music is i'll hear something i genuinely don't know, old-time guitar pickers like the Blue Boys or a '70s synth wizard or any of a thousand other things. the element of surprise is still there. and when it's not, the feelings music i love evokes in me are reinforced by repeated listens. i put it on random and "fossil fuel sam" by orifice, a song i've been listening to for twenty years now, comes on and something still kicks in. yeah, i say, that's IT, and IT is goddamn everywhere, every kind of music, painstaking artists and sloppy drunks, you put on a song and there's that electricity, and even if everything else i've ever believed was a lie that isn't.

i don't remember everything, but i do remember what it was like hearing "black dog" for the first time, right down to the stereo alignment tones at the beginning that i thought were part of the song, and that experience repeats itself on a regular basis for me.

i don't believe it'll ever stop. i used to worry that i wouldn't get to hear all the songs that were that great, that express uncontainable joy, but by now i realize i won't. there's no system or path, whatever it is can't be classified or defined- not beyond just plain "music". it's goddamn everywhere, and all i've done in the past 25 years is train myself to hear it. there are no "perfect albums" to me. not even any "perfect songs". my favorite song is whatever i'm listening to right now.

maybe that makes me weird or maybe that makes me crazy, but these days it's the only thing that seems to make sense.

This is a lovely idea dog latin. I'm struck by the eureka moment - it seems like a very honest gesture, an invitation into your life with music.

One thing that I've experienced with some music is the transition through repeated listening from the unfamiliar to the familiar, and how it's nigh impossible to get back the emotions felt and thoughts thought when the music was unfamiliar.

I felt this most when a

I have a list like this of my epiphany tracks, which I put down on paper 3 or 4 years ago. I should type it up.

I'd definitely like to see/hear that JnJ. one of my stipulations when making the list was 'has this stayed with me?', 'would I happily listen to it again today?'

plenty of tunes here were 'growers'. they didn't all just hit me the first time I heard them, although many of them did.

in the case of the grower I tend to find that I can be absolutely repulsed by something but one day I'll give it another go and find that the exact factors that put me off are what I suddenly find intriguing about it. Pere Ubu are a case in point. Think I've recounted a few times here about how I picked up Dub Housing out of a CD cut-out bin while trying to get into reggae as a student.

I was so taken aback by the noise and David Thomas's yelping that I nearly threw it in the bin. But something kept me going back to it and these days when I play in my band, I count him as a direct influence on my vocal style. I now think Dub Housing is a unique and really special work of art and it bends my mind each time I hear it.

(sorry there's something up with my phone - when I try to do long posts the text obscures the submit button :-(

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Try to a quick switching of browser windows, dl. Just click onto another one, and then click back. That usually helps for me.

cheers DAM

kind of overwhelmed by the clear winner here. it's the one I voted for too -- the track that kicked off the idea of doing this play list in the first place.
cheers for letting me share this with you ILM. I might poll the rest of the tracks later on..