Ok, so here's the thing.
Since I posted my "Part 1" music thing I've been writing, re-writing, scrapping and altering the "Part 2". It's logical that as I'd done one, there really ought to be the other.
The problem is that I just can't get the damn thing down.
The first bit was quite easy - there was a natural flow to things and a link between some of them. My head could hear some and still be in the same place when writing (and thinking) about the others. Sounds crazy that I've put this much thought into it as it's only a Blog post in what is currently a rather erratically updated Blog.
That is, in a nutshell, the exact issue though.
I love music with a passion. You should all know that by now and if not then you'll have to refer to your revision notes. Making the second part of the list was always tough, pulling a handful of totally separate music down to sum up a year. For every one album I had down, I thought about and juggled with about 3 others. That's probably an understatement.
I can't let one album get treated like the poor relation to another - that's how music gets me. If you knew how many single tracks, EP's and albums I've probably listened to over the last 12 months you'd chuckle then reach for the phone to the brain doctors. Everyday sees my nearly full 20Gb Zen Touch used going to and from work and then things parped out of the PC in the evening, usually whilst finding, buying or grabbing more music too. It's what I do, to an extent who I am, and the reason Nick Hornby would love me.
How do I decide what to include - do I make it heavy on the rock side or waffle on about some progressive tech-house that's got to me ? Even that in itself made me rake through stuff.
So I guess that's my music post "Part 2".
I've listened to so much old stuff, and a surprising amount of good to wonderful new stuff, that I can't make a post from it. If I list 6 albums, two artists, a riff and a breakbeat then that really doesn't sum it up in the slightest...so why stress about it and bother ?
I'm sure that if I can get myself motivated I'll get posting again, even if only silly things to tide me (and you, of course) over until something worth posting comes along.
It will do, I'm sure.
Most likely when I've got some good music on ;o)
