Music is Joy

For me, i'm realizing how much joy music brings to my life. After experiencing so much loss lately i've needed a good way to cope. i'm not sure how i feel about coping, but i will say that sometimes, i just cant deal anymore with my overthinking of things and music just seems to be the healthiest escape for me.

Lately i've loved listening to Stevie Wonder's Pastime Paradise. The production on that song is incredible. i dont know anything about production, but i noticed it on that cut. And that says something.

So this year i've decided will be a year of music and finding joy in it because it seems like that is one of the few constant sources of joy in my life and to carry out my year of music i've decided to buy an album a week. Expensive, but right now (even though it's a vanity) the thought of buying a little bit of peace seems like it could possibly pan out this time. To quote Tobias,

"No, it never does. I mean, these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might, but...but it might work for us.

Well, it might just work this time for me.

So to start i bought Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited and Miles Davis' Kind of Blue. Now whenever i hear the song Highway 61 Revisited i think of Joaquin (sp?) Phoenix in Walk the Line wandering crazily around his room blasting it. That's pretty much what i look like when i listen to music i really like.

As far as Kind of Blue goes, i'm not sure what i think. As a self-proclaimed Miles Davis fan i have to say i'm partial to his Gil Evans collaborations (such beautiful melodies and simply epic arrangement), but i know that Kind of Blue was an album that turned the jazz world topsy-turvy. Honestly, i just dont understand it. i figure it's kinda like reading On the Road. Today it seems plausible that someone would meander all over the place, but back then it was novel and special and that much crazier.

So what albums are next? i'm not sure. i've had a mental list for years, but limiting myself to two now that i've given myself permission to actually buy something feels like just a tease.

Right now i'm thinking about picking up some Wes Anderson film soundtracks. Or Pink Moon. Or some more Stevie Wonder. Or maybe some Led Zeppelin albums. Or perhaps that Mae cd i always wanted but never seemed to get around to picking up. Or maybe something that i've never even heard of before?

There's too much to keep track of these days.

Stay tuned for more album posts. It'll give me a good reason to blog consistently, even though the blog boat has blown by. In that case, maybe i'll just twitter everything so people will actually read all the way to the bottom.