January 2012 - Popular Music

Tori Amos

• Under the Pink
• From the Choirgirl Hotel
• The Beekeeper
• American Doll Posse
• Night of Hunters

Paula Cole - This Fire
Crowded House - Together Alone
Patty Griffin - Flaming Red
Patty Griffin - Children Running Through
Jars of Clay - The Eleventh Hour
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Ray LaMontagne - Til the Sun Turns Black
Wendy Matthews - Lily
John Mayer - Room for Squares
Nichole Nordeman - Woven & Spun
Pearl Jam - Backspacer
Sting - The Soul Cages
Tears for Fears - Elemental
Rachael Yamagata - Elephants...Teeth Sinking Into Heart
Thom Yorke - The Eraser

Um, so. Here's the January list. Finally.

When I went back to work after Christmas, and also having done the 'year in review' here on the blog, there was a little flurry of going back to listen to albums that had appeared quite early in the blog when I realised that it was quite some time since I'd heard them.  I think, without exhaustively checking, that I might not have listened to either the Nichole Norderman or Tears for Fears albums since March last year. And I quite like both albums.

I also listened to a couple of Patty Griffin albums after realising I hadn't listened to as much Patty Griffin last year as I'd thought.  The time seems to go by quite quickly.  On the classical side of things I have pieces that I tell myself I have vivid memories of listening to, yet the spreadsheet data claims it's been a couple of years.  For the pop music, I haven't got as much data yet (and in fact not everything has been added to the spreadsheet - I tend to do bits and pieces as they're listened to) so it remains to be seen if my listening pattern is different.  I suspect it may be less evenly spread, with preferred albums listened to more frequently (yes yes, Tori, but not only Tori) and others less often.

'More frequently' may in fact translate to a couple of showings a year at most.  I do appear to have hundreds of albums. I won't know just how many until the spreadsheet is more thorough.  Meanwhile I keep wanting to add more to the collection! The experience of listening to new music is just too interesting to give up on it.