About the SPs

Ok, so a few posts ago I wanted some input about the playlist (which I will now refer to as SPs for Slick's picks because I'm just that lazy) and it turns out I don't think anyone cares too much. Sarah made the only comment that was positive, she said she appreciates a quick peek into my mind as I choose a song and why some songs make the cut and others don't so I wanted to comment on this a bit. This might not interest anyone except her, but I like to write it for her and it's kind of fun for me too. Besides, even if she is the only one who cares about the SPs she constitutes anywhere between a third and a quarter of the readership so I can't afford to alienate her.

With this in mind I'll talk about the SPs and if you don't care about them this might not be the post for you. The initial idea behind the SPs was that because I frequently listen to music at work on headphones, and that I'd make a group of songs that I'd like to hear. Basically some good stuff so I wouldn't have to have CDs and wouldn't have to go looking around for good music every time I used my headphones. At this point this blog was effectively dead. No one was writing anything and I'm guessing not visiting it often. Even though I knew this to be the case I wanted the music to be good enough that even strangers would look at the SPs and get a good sense of my tastes and hopefully find a good mix and some songs they'd like.

With those factors in mind I picked some new songs of bands I wanted to hear, but wanted to have some more popular groups too. So, I know you can't tell which tracks are new to me, but the SPs (that I am already familiar with) represent the things that I really look for in music. I wanted the SPs to represent the good things that people already know (little bits to keep people listening), and to also bring something new to people who might not listen to the things I like that they might too. I wanted a mix of musically interesting songs, but also some with lyrics that were interesting too. Many songs make the list just based on nostalgia and good feelings I have when I think about them or hear them. So anyways, like I said I started the SPs just for me and didn't tell anyone that I'd started writing post about some of the songs and was trying to write more often (though Sarah did know I started the SPs). Anyways, I am now at a point were the SPs are being mixed around pretty frequently. The changes are always subtle, a song dropped here two more added there, etc... and sometimes if one reminds me of something I want to share, or I am particularly fond of one, or I think it's interesting for some reason it becomes its own post. I didn't want the SPs to be overbearing or annoying so they only play if you chose them to. And I fully realize no one will sit and listen to all the tracks at once, but I would encourage you to listen to some of the stuff and you might be pleasantly surprised and if not you can always stick to some of the tracks you know and enjoy and skip through the stuff you don't like.

Well, this is starting to ramble and I do still want to talk about one of the latest tracks so I'm going to go ahead and do that. Added a track by Sun Kil Moon (SKM), which I think is either a really stupid or really cool name depending on when you ask me. SKM is really just Mark Kozelek of the Red House Painters and he started to SKM as new project to distance himself from his older stuff. The track is Pancho Villa, which I figured was about him. But if you listen to the lyrics, that doesn't make much sense. Turns out it's about him. And it's not just about him but about other boxers who died prematurely like him and him, and the album makes references to him and him too. That is one thing I like in a song, (no, not premature deaths you sickos) a good story and it doesn't hurt that it's a cool song musically too. Anyway thought it was an interesting song, album, story.

So I guess the point of all this is check some cool tracks, and feel free to tell me what you think about them. Oh yeah, and if you have dental work done and your dentist tells you to take it easy and rest don't go out and party instead.