The Music Diary Project

This was my Day One: http://troubleddiva.wordpress.com/2011/04/04/music-diary-project-day-one/

Over 50 blogs & tumblrs & stuff are involved in this so far. My blog, which normally averages 50-200 hits a day, got over 1,700 yesterday, and has nearly 500 already today. It's a little mental.

I have listened to no music at all today. Not one little bit.

Nick can I take part if I don't have a blog?

That's something a couple of people have asked; I don't see why not at all. The whole point is just to document what you listen to, so anywhere you can do that - there's no reason not to post your listening on this thread, for instance. People are doing that on the Drownedinsound thread about it. I've seen another guy using Facebook; I know someone else who's tweetign nothing but #musicdiaryupdates this week. Plus several people have set up Tumblrs just for the week, I gather.

Okay thanks.

i've actually delayed doing my first quarter report on tumblr b/c of this (otherwise it'd be LIST OVERLOAD) (which is why i'm not bothering twitter too much about it)

here is my day one: http://stopmoving.tumblr.com/post/4335482416/music-diary-project

i was thinking, oh, this is a weird week because i'm in london and have a friend visiting and etc so it's not going to reflect my typical listening habits, but tbh i don't know that i ever have a 'typical' week

swapping ipods when travelling with someone! how have i never thought of this before!

http://shaolin-directory.tumblr.com/post/4362857784/music-diary-project-4-4-11

Monday 05-Apr, I listened to:

Art of Noise: "Into Battle With", the new 'deluxe' version with the unreleased "Worship" album added as extra. In the car, during a shopping run.

swapping ipods while travelling is kind of tricky-- always the possibility you'll end up judging them by what they have, or miss out on good stuff because the name means nothing to you, or, if you're me, get annoyed by poor mp3 tagging.

but when it works it's p fun.

barest of barebones tumblr, if I get time I'll make it a little easier on the eye. Day one:

http://hastilyerected.tumblr.com/

Well over 70 blogs etc involved now.

i hate to be annoying (yeah right!) but just gonna post my stuff in this thread each day or two

Monday:

Panda Bear – Tomboy – full album (NPR stream)
Lull – Dreamt about Dreaming – first 20 min. or so
Craft Spells – Idle Labor – full album
Aaliyah – “Choosey Lover (Old School/New School)”

Tuesday (so far):

ESG – Dance to the Best of ESG – first 30 min. of disc 1
Bardo Pond – s/t album – first three songs
The Mountain Goats – four songs played live, SPIN.com video

How is Tomboy?

I really like it so far.

i like it! lots of looped vocals, big washes of processed guitar, rudimentary backing rhythms. as usual, the melodies he comes up with on a few tracks floor me; others are more ambient, or sound like a skipping disc, looping over and over.

have a listen yourself -

http://www.npr.org/2011/04/04/134987319/first-listen-panda-bear-tomboy

Yeah I found that link like 10 minutes ago. It's like an indie version of an old Scientist dub record or something - I think I like it?

not sounding too confident there

Here's my summary of Day Two: http://troubleddiva.wordpress.com/2011/04/05/music-diary-project-%e2%80%93-day-two/

Tuesday, nowt.

Right now, watching TOTP1976 on iplayer (doesn't count, right?)

day 2! http://alexmacpherson.tumblr.com/post/4375670491/music-diary-project-5-4-11

days 1-2 (for now): http://mookieproof.tumblr.com/tagged/musicdiaryproject/chrono

Day one and two:

http://closer-to-perfection.tumblr.com/

I hate Tumblr so excuse the formatting.

Here's my Day Three: http://troubleddiva.wordpress.com/2011/04/06/music-diary-project-%E2%80%93-day-three/

i'm doing this too - here's day 1:

http://casinosoul.tumblr.com/post/4366537634/music-diary-project-day-1-late-pass

(late pass bcz i started yesterday, not monday)

drunx day 3 http://alexmacpherson.tumblr.com/post/4400827817/music-diary-project-6-5-11

Tuesday 5th April MG entries:

ILX compilation "Tiny Music" - in anticipation of the next one...

Primal Scream Screamadelica Live - from the superdeluxe edition which is available on itunes.

Day 3

http://sickmouthy.com/2011/04/07/wednesdays-listening/

http://mookieproof.tumblr.com/post/4412809912/musicdiaryproject-wednesday

featuring inspiration from various ilx users

http://shaolin-directory.tumblr.com/post/4413157631/music-diary-project-days-2-and-3

Been posting my updates here: http://viachicago.blogspot.com/

Tuesday (continued):

The Raveonettes - Raven in the Grave - full album - way home from work

Wednesday:

Taylor Swift - "Long Live" / "Sparks Fly" - way to school w/ my daughter (we have Taylor Swift mornings all the time)
The Raveonettes - Raven in the Grave - first half of album - way to work
Melvins - The Bootlicker - first half of album - way home from work
American Primitive Vol. II - first half of disc 1 - way to Lady Gaga concert
Semi Precious Weapons - Lady Gaga's opening band - 5-6 songs, fucking awful
Michael Jackson - "Billie Jean" / "Beat It" / "Smooth Criminal" / "Bad" / "Wanna Be Startin' Something" - over the PA waiting for Gaga to hit the stage
Lady Gaga - setlist here - Austin show, but setlist was the same as Tulsa
American Primitive Vol. II - second half of disc 1 - way back from Lady Gaga concert
LCD Soundsystem - "North American Scum" - checked ILX for 10 minutes before bed, listened to this song to confirm that it's better than pretty much everything on This Is Happening... confirmed yes, it is.

Thursday:

Taylor Swift - "Mine" / "Sparks Fly" - way to school
Crystal Stilts - In Love with Oblivion - first half of album - way to work
The Human League - "Never Let Me Go" / "Heart like a Wheel" / "Human" / "Love Action (I Believe in Love)" / "Don't You Want Me" / "(Keep Feeling) Fascination" / "Tell Me When" - opened Human League interview w/ these YouTubes, played them all
Low - C'mon - full album - playing now at work

My first three days, one by one

Day Four: http://troubleddiva.wordpress.com/2011/04/07/music-diary-project-%e2%80%93-day-four/

We just did Zaireeka at our record club!

today was a pretty interesting day for me, listening-wise! it included a song i'm NOT ALLOWED TO TALK ABOUT.

http://alexmacpherson.tumblr.com/post/4431928365/music-diary-project-7-4-11

it's almost emasculating reading how much music you guys listen to throughout the day. 3 albums a day for me is an accomplishment!

Yeah my head would explode if I ever listened to as much as lex.

Lex listens to way more than I do, although I probably trumped most people yesterday due to a rather epic session. I was listening pretty constantly from about 8am until 11pm. Or, rather, I had music on for pretty much all that time. Whether any actual active listening took place rather than just just passive absorption is a different matter; but that's the point of the project.

i pretty much listen to music whenever i'm not actually with people (unless i'm transcribing or watching tennis or doing something incompatible w/music) - and this week's been a pretty socialising-heavy one. i never watch tv, which might explain a lot of it. am pretty much incapable of sitting in silence.

also whenever i'm on the move i ALWAYS have my ipod on, which accounts for a large amount of time

i also end up listening to totally new-to-me songs every day - yesterday was atypical in that i only listened to five new songs, the live stuff excepted...funny given what some people round here seem to think of me

Right, yesterday I did listen to:

Finished up that Screamadelica live set
Voice of the Seven Thunders, st.

When's it finishing, today?

I'm going to go through the weekend, and send out a survey, but if people only want to do up to today, that's fine.

my Thursday

Ah right, through the wekend too. Righto.

Thing is, we're on a long journey, so I can furnish you with the playlist which is individual tracks, as well as particular albums too...