2024 Listening Stats
In 2024 I kept a spreadsheet of everything I listened to (starting on January . It was partially because I was jealous of Spotify Wrapped, and partially to make me listen to things more intentionally. I kept track of everything I listened to except one off songs (but I did keep track of 7″ records),…
October 2024 Music Wrap Up
I’ve been tracking my music listening via a google spreadsheet this year. And kept a very irregular music journal with my thoughts. I’ve been intending to post more on here from it, but haven’t got around to it. So I’m going to do a monthly round up with a highlight and a few other thoughts.…
What I listened to today 16 July 2023
What I listened to today 16 July 2023 I had a really nice day listening to records from about 10am til about 9pm. I didn’t write about any of them but had such a nice day I want to record it somehow. This is what I can remember listening to, there may have been another…
Sprig and Fern Playlist 02/07/23
Sprig and Fern Set 02/07/23 Had a fun time playing these records. Was the first time I did it alone (but Ox and Eddie both played a couple of records) most are mine, but John at the Sprig has a few crates with some fun compilations I played some songs from
33 1/3 Birthday Celebration Day 4
33 1/3 Birthday Celebration Day 4 Every Record I Own: Jenny Hval – Classic Objects. Today I’m prepping for the sprig and fern Sunday afternoon session. I was intending to only write short pieces and get through many records but then I got caught up writing this piece and have listened to it three times…
33 1/3 Birthday celebration weekend Day 3
33 1/3 Birthday celebration weekend Day 3 After a late night and tired day I didn’t listen to as much today as I planned to, but had a nice evening playing Zelda and listening to music. Not writing anything in detail today. Was looking through the records to prep for tomorrow’s set at the Sprig…
Every Record I Own: 33 1/3 Birthday Celebration Day 2
33 1/3 Birthday celebration weekend Day 2 30 June 2023 Mount Eerie, Julie Doiron and Frederick Squire – Lost Wisdom. One of the rules I had set myself for this weekend was everything at 33 1/3. Nothing at 45. I broke it almost immediately with Lost Wisdom by Mount Eerie, which I had forgotten was…
Every Record I Own: 33 1/3 Birthday Celebration Day 1
Every Record I Own: 33 1/3 Birthday Celebration Day 1 It was my 33 1/3 Birthday on Thursday 29 June. And to celebrate I’m spending the weekend listening to records and on Sunday I will play them at Sprig and Fern Berhampore. I wanted to write about all the records I am listening to, but…
Every Record I Own: Toro Y Moi – Outer Peace
Every Record I Own: Toro Y Moi – Outer Peace I first listened to Outer Peace on a road trip with my friends Callum and Annabel when we were going through our favourite albums of the 2019 while driving Christchurch to Dunedin. My picks were Stella Donnelly’s Beware of the Dogs (Post coming sometime. It…
Every Record I Own: Low – Hey What
Every Record I Own: Low – Hey What note: this post was written in January and edited in April. I felt a lot of pressure on myself to get Low right as they’re so important to me and couldn’t quite face finishing it. This is a new record to me. It was a Christmas gift…
Every Record I Own: Coolies – Master
Every Record I Own: Coolies – Master The other day I was walking through town and suddenly had ‘searching the night/searching the night/running from you/running from you’ stuck in my head out of nowhere. I found the release on bandcamp and listened to it on the way home. This LP had been relegated to my…
Every Record I Own: Talking Heads – Little Creatures
Every Record I Own: Talking Heads – Little Creatures This was one of the first records I owned. I bought it from the Penny Lane records shop in the Christchurch city centre in 2009/10. Penny Lane is one of the great record shops of New Zealand. It has been based in Addington for decades but…
Every Record I Own: The Beths – Expert in a Dying Field
Every Record I Own: The Beths – Expert in a Dying Field Elly got me this album for our anniversary. She was on a 2 month walk in Australia and the morning of our anniversary I got a message from her saying to check behind my copy of Michael King’s History of New Zealand and…
Every Record I Own: Local Tourist – Other Ways of Living
Every Record I Own: Local Tourist – Other Ways of Living I bought this album last year after only listening a couple of times. It was released by Melted Ice Cream, a Christchurch record label run by an old friend of mine, and another old friend played bass and recorded it. Erin Umstead lived in…
Every Record I Own: Bright Eyes – Noise Floor
Every Record I Own: Bright Eyes – Noise Floor This is another record left behind by my old flatmate Jonny years ago. Thank you Jonny for leaving this behind as it’s a good one. I came to Bright Eyes slightly too late in life. I first started listening when I was 18, and got really…
Every Record I Own: Dinosaur Jr – Bug
Every Record I Own: Dinosaur Jr – Bug Dinosaur Jr are probably my second favourite of that late 80s wave of punky alt rock American bands. By that wave I mean the bands covered in the book Our Band Could Be Your Life which I read last year. A lot of those bands were really…
Every Record I Own: Peter Jefferies: The Last Great Challenge in a Dull World
Every Record I Own: Peter Jefferies: The Last Great Challenge in a Dull World Peter Jefferies is likely the artist that plays on the most records in my collection. He was the drummer in every Dunedin band around 1990. I have records from his earlier bands with his brother, a bunch of his solo stuff.…
Berhampore Sprig and Fern 16/4/23
Berhampore Sprig and Fern 16/4/23 I was joined by Eddie, Oli, Audrey and Ox over the three hours to play records at the local most of the records are mine but some Oli’s and some John’s from the S&F
Every Record I Own: The British Pop Collection – 60 Original Top 10 Hits
Every Record I Own: The British Pop Collection – 60 Original Top 10 Hits A good compilation is a rare thing for some reason. As someone who spent years doing radio shows and making mixtapes and playlists for friends and crushes, ordering songs so they flow nicely into each other while playing a diverse range…
Every Record I Own: Dawn Richard – Second Line
Every Record I Own: Dawn Richard – Second Line I discovered Dawn Richard (or DΔWN or DAWN) when I was doing a daytime radio show on Radio Active in 2015/2016. There were a couple of singles she released through the adult swim singles series, which always was worth listening to when creating my playlist for…
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