RASIE

5y

Start slow, one or two films a week

And you could end up adding to your listening by finding GOAT scores/soundtracks too

Elric

5y

A few more lyrics references this why you don't understand why we stan Dylan so hard

rvi

5y

So I'll just be tuned in to a few more choice lyrical references? I'm not exactly convinced it'll make much of a difference to my enjoyment

and i am already dabbling

internet buddy

5y

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It enhances the experience by connecting human achievement
Your man Zappa even said to read a Kafka story before listening to the last song on We’re Only In It For The Money

internet buddy

5y

It enhances the experience by connecting human achievement
Your man Zappa even said to read a Kafka story before listening to the last song on We’re Only In It For The Money

rvi

5y

idc what he said, youre having a laugh if you think reading any story is going to somehow affect my enjoyment of this sound collage

Elric

5y

Oh you f***in got em now

internet buddy

5y

Same song inspired Colony from JD

rvi

5y

"short story" i might read it anyway jsut for the hell of it tho

Elric

5y

Couldn't this be considered like proto prog or prog prop pop or something? Feels like this was doing a 1966 what Stills thought he was doing on Bluebird in '67. Definitely never heard anything in rock structured like this before.

rvi

5y

idc what he said, youre having a laugh if you think reading any story is going to somehow affect my enjoyment of this sound collage

Elric

5y

It never doesn't blow my mind that someone would be listening to old bowling games it's a movie yeah but someone probably does it

Atlienz

5y

this is worse thing since weezer covered paranoid android

Atlienz

5y

there's gotta be some old bowling places that throw a party and play this movie annually

Elric

5y

Man there are whole festivals based on this film. I'm sure bowling is part of the festivities.

rvi

5y

i use Musicbee which I have laid out basically the same as iTunes. i just had to switch a few years ago because iTunes search of my whole library started taking like 10 seconds to load and scrolling lagged on my s***ty laptop back then.

I have "playlists" that I use, but theyre really just piles of albums categorized in certain ways. The main playlist "all" is just the entire library. The other main playlist is called Protein based off Henry Rollins method. "Protein is when you’re burning. You’re finding new bands, you’re trying to push yourself. You’re listening to bands where you know it’s good, but it’s tough. You have to drag yourself up to it. You put in the time." its the playlist with all the albums i'm currently digesting that I listened to for the first time in the past 6 months or so. i've tried to keep the total albums in there lower but now its a somewhat manageable ~100. when its gotten bigger things really get out of hand with the digestion process. The ideal standard that I've started using is an album typically stays in there for about 5 listens. if it's something I'm really feeling then it's at least 10, and for the rare cases where I dislike it its only like 2-3 listens. i used to have bigger standards for these numbers but ngl I kinda caved and lowered them partially out of needing less listens for styles I already know and love, and just wanting to listen to more music. the original number I started at was 15. After the album is done in the Protein playlist, it goes into the Rate playlist where I give it one more non-super passive listen and log it into Rateyourmusic, then delete it from the rate playlist. At that point the first round of digestion ends. but recently I've found that a second round of digestion is when I really especially fall in love with an artist, and happens once I put them away for a year or two and then suddenly really want to revisit it. then i'll give as many non-protein listens as I want as long as I'm feeling it. there's also a playlist of albums I just downloaded to listen to for the first time, usually stays at <50. in my other notepad file of non-music stuff I'll also throw artists/album names on there as I discover them to download some time later

so those are the "piles" of albums that I choose from. I have yet to find a good way to split the following and always break my own guidelines, but this is what I've been going with for now roughly. I assume like 12 listening hours for a normal work day (though its actually more like 10-11), and I divide it between albums in the Protein pile, albums in the Rate pile, albums to revisit for secondary digestion, and just simple extracirricular listening of whatever I want to hear the most. typical divide that I'm trying to go for is like 5 hours of protein digestion, 2 first-time listen albums that get added into the Protein pile. 1 hour of rating albums, 1 hour of secondary digestion, and 4 hours of whatever I want at the end of the night. Recently though because its nearing the end of 2021 and I want to whittle down my currently ~100 albums ready to rate as much as possible, I'm probably doing 4 hours of that a day. then as a result im kinda falling behind on the regular protein

as for choosing the albums for each day: at the beginning of every week I will make other playlist piles of albums of the different categories: protein, rate, re-listen, 1st listen. then for the next day I will choose albums accordingly from those piles and make it into another playlist ie: Thurs daytime. the daytime playlist aims to be like 8 hours, and then there's another nighttime playlist where I will add the albums I'm really feeling for the tomorrow night. and for that I just have a notepad file with a list of the artists I'm currently binging on every night so I don't forget. Weekend is similar but I tend to do a lot more of the "whatever i want" listening. then on Sunday I kind of clear everything out and prepare all the piles again

The playlists I plan out for each day are very idealized though and I almost always fall behind, like I'll have 10 albums on there but for some reason or another I only got to 8 of them, then the other 2 have to roll over to the next day etc. which pushes everything back again. but I figure its better to have a larger list then to have a smaller realistic list that I might reach the end of and have nothing left to listen to. ill also totally break the rules sometimes and just kick an album out of the protein list and just slap a quick rating on it if things are getting super congested and I'm not feeling it

and i think that covers the listening process for now lol. always looking to try to perfect it though and its changed a lot from when it started

edit: also should say that I do such a scheduled order of listening because I found that when I'm interested and thinking of something that's when I really want to listen, so spur of the moment decisions and shuffle don't do it as much for me

Elric

5y

Still trying to wrap my head around how maniacal this is

rvi

5y

it makes it easier

id lose my mind if it wasnt organized

Atlienz

5y

do have an rym account?