Musical New Year's Resolutions

I want to get into Bach.

I really want to listen to all the cd's I've downloaded in the last five years.

I will resist the urge to buy those (post-Maggot Brain) Funkadelic reissues, since the ones I own all sound fabulous to me, and the bonus tracks are mostly inessential remixes and single-edits.

I will check out some Penderecki.

I will not post to ILM late at night while intoxicated. Unless I forget. Which is likely.

I will listen to less techno/electronic, and more world, jazz and whatever... Will go to more live stuff.

I'm gonna ignore ILM a lot more than I've done recently!

Although it is high time I bought a bunch of Greek CDs.

Even while I continue to obsessively try to squeeze the last musical drops out of 2017*, I hope I put less time and energy into keeping up with current-year music in 2018. It's enough to have enough new-to-me music to keep myself engaged, without having to hunt down everything I might possibly enjoy from the current year. I need to spend more time reading (and not about music). But it will probably depend on how much fatigue continues to be an issue for me. Following music is a good, accessible "hobby" for the quasi-invalid, so my habits may not change. It may depend on what my new Taoist shaman (of sorts) is able to do for me.

*Actually, I suspect I will be continuing to discover good music from this year for years to come, given how much I've already found.

in 2018, i will finally get around to listening to kendrick lamar's new record.

My resolutions are to finish ripping my last couple hundred CDs, make more of an effort to engage with new music and new genres and start to create and share some Spotify playlists.

^ How'd you guys do?

My one thing for 2019 would be listening to more music in the car. I probably listened to less music in my car last year than in any other year of my adult life. I try to keep up with too many podcasts/audiobooks.

I failed to finish ripping - didn't even try, really - but I managed to get a good weekly routine of checking out new stuff and explored new genres. And I did create one Spotify playlist that I shared, so that's something.

lol, no more blog

I have a few boxes of CDs that I'd love to rip so I can get rid of them.

I'm going to stop being so obsessed with finding new all-time favorites. It's not going to happen. I like lots of new music, and my all-time favorites aren't going anywhere.

You just may. I had the same favorite album for ~20 years, only to find a new favorite a few years ago.