Or, rambles incoherently to an audience approximately as rapt as a wall, if you prefer.
But that suits me fine. As much as I hate how my lists tend to take over my life (spending over an hour on a write-up every other day just isn't something I can sustain, sadly), I kinda feel sad when they finish 'cos I have nowhere to spill my random enthusiasm for music no-one else cares about.
So that's where this comes in. It'll be sporadic, I'm sure, but that's kinda the point. And people caring is certainly far from mandatory, but it might be nice.
I'm not much of a nostalgic. Don't get me wrong, every couple of years I'll listen to a few Korn songs I used to like on youtube, but that's more out of intellectual/morbid curiosity than anything else. The prog I graduated on to when I was 13 or so hasn't fared too much better, either (I still own four Dream Theater CDs, after all) but there are glimmers of hope in there.
This is one of them. I don't care much for the majority of Porcupine Tree's work these days, but they were intermittently a great pop band, and they never wrote a better song than Trains.
Still shouldn't have based my lifelong AIM name on them, though. Whoops.
before you edited that post, i was trying very hard to remember where the 'loose lips sink ships loose lips sink ships' thing came from! i haven't listened to cherry tree in ages, and that depresses me. time to do so!
also, i haven't really kept up with new music since like... mbdtf/oneirology/krit wuz here - those are the most recent albums i remember listening to. give me a list of five albums to download or something. artists represented on my top 5 albums, if it gives you a better feel for my taste: the national, asmz, gy!be, bob dylan, silver jews
-- You saved science, SuperNiceDog! Call me numbers.
and yeah vince, probably. i think the entire all dolled-up in straps/cherry tree/about today triptych is absurdly under-rated though; all three would make my top ten national songs