Continuing with the obsessive documentation of my listening habits as begun here, this post is meant to serve as a more analytical look at the more visually compelling post that kicked off this week's posts. I listened to 126 individual albums from beginning to end during the last three months. Those albums broken down by the year and/or decade of their release:
2008: 10
2000–07: 29
1990s: 31
1980s: 28
1970s: 9
1960s: 10
1950s: 1
Compared to the last couple of years, my listening habits have swung pretty dramatically away from the 60s and 70s and into the 80s and 90s. This is due almost entirely to the book I'm writing. You can see evidence again when I break those same albums down by super-anal iTunes genre tagging:
Classic Indie: 34
Alternative: 17
Electronic: 10
Folk, Punk: 5 each
60s Rock, Brasilia: 3 each
70s Rock, Metal: 2 each
Avant-Garde, Country, French, Garage, Jazz, Oldies: 1 each
Country and 60s and 70s Rock have gone way down—and krautrock is totally absent!—while Alternative and Classic Indie have both increased a lot. Not surprising.
In the past twelve weeks, six albums spent three or more weeks in rotation:
Neko Case, Middle Cyclone (that makes ten weeks for the year so far)
Four Weeks
Akron/Family, Set ’em Wild, Set ’em Free
Peter Bjorn and John, Living Thing
Three Weeks
Dr. Dog, Fate (eight weeks for the year)
Fennesz, Endless Summer
Little Joy, s/t (eight weeks for the year)
The Neko Case isn't surprising, nor is the Dr. Dog and Little Joy albums—both of which have become a kind of musical comfort food (high praise, I promise) since I bought them last year. When you break all my listens down by individual plays—full album, from beginning to end—rather than by week, you see some of the newer acquisitions jump up. That's me trying to get to know a record in a short amount of time. Records with the most individual spins in the the last twelve weeks:
Neko Case, Middle Cyclone: 9 (19 plays for the year so far)
Fennesz, Endless Summer: 7
Peter Bjorn & John, Living Thing: 6
It's a little surprising to see the Fennesz and the Peter Bjorn & John albums show up hear. The Fennesz I think I kept putting on while I was at work, hence my memory of listening to it doesn't match up with the reality of how many times I put it on. And Peter Bjorn & John—I think I was trying to force myself (unsuccessfully) to like that record more than I did.
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