The way I see this blog, this here Pretty Goes with Pretty, is it's a constant (ideally) analysis of where my listening habits are, where they're going, why. If you like that approach, and if you're curious about where my tastes were, you might enjoy a new endeavor I've set upon: Do You Compute. Consider it a kind of pgwp time warp. You might also like the new project if you're nostalgic for (or curious about) indie rock in the 90s. As I said in my inaugural post over the weekend:
I want to revisit a time when kids discovered indie rock by chance, using a little detective work and taking risks with their wallets. The plan is to try as best as I can to put up mp3s, videos, and words about all the bands I got into when I moved out of metal and toward indie. I’m going to do my very best to tackle this in roughly chronological order—not by the albums’ release dates, but the order in which I discovered them.* I’m going to start with what I was finding around 1994 and move, eventually, toward what I was listening to at the end of the decade. Things will start out on the heavy side but you’ll see it lighten up pretty quickly, I think. There’s going to be a lot of obscure shit and a lot of not-so-obscure shit. Some of it will still be good, some of it probably won’t be. A lot of it I haven’t even listened to since the 90s, so I’m really not kidding when I say I’m “rediscovering my discovery of indie rock.”
I'm not sure, ultimately, how much I'll stick to the chronological thing—I already threw up some Labradford just for the hell of it—but at any rate I plan to dig up as much forgotten or near-forgotten music as I can think of.
Not that this blog is going anywhere. I'm just diversifying (again).
looks like an awesome project. thanks for linking to the Hoover Genealogy Project on it, especially as just did an interview with Joe McRedmond (Hoover, Crownhate Ruin, et al) for it.
Posted by: gabbagabbahey | January 15, 2009 at 05:12 AM