Yesterday, I heard something that reminded me of a song I had on repeat a few years back. I knew it wasn’t on Spotify, I knew it was a duet and one of the singers was Conor Oberst. I remembered the theme and a few words, but all of my searches came up empty. I even asked AI but it didn’t know. I finally checked my YouTube history and scrolled back to 2016 before I found it. It was Conor Oberst’s band Bright Eyes doing a cover of Magnetic Fields “Papa Was a Rodeo”. I felt elated that I’d found it, but then had no good way to listen to it besides YouTube. I mentioned to Pete how the cd was still available used some places, and he encouraged me to get it. So now I’m looking forward to the mail.
Other than that I’ve been listening to NPR’s New Music Friday playlist each week and seeing if anything sparks joy. I seem to have better luck with hearing random interesting songs on WLTL. For awhile I was trying to find new music on Bandcamp but got disillusioned after liking something I found out was AI generated. That’s why I rarely take Spotify’s recommendations either.
Whenever I find something I do like, I’ll add it to a playlist for the year. I just realized I’ve been creating playlists like that for the past 6 years. It’s fun to go back and listen and sift through memories and maybe even rediscover a band I’d like to listen to again. So for now I’ll jump back to 2019 and see what life sounded like the year kiddo was a newborn and no one knew what COVID was.
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