new music!
Friday, April 18th, 2003 03:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chanaleh
I don't usually play any music at work. I tend to find that it (music with words, anyway) distracts the same part of my brain that I need for the visual and text processing I'm doing in my work.
(Contrariwise, it's when I've really got the Quark juices flowing that I can be found *singing* away to myself at my desk. That seems to come from a different place in my brain. Which maybe explains why, as a kid, I used to be able to read a book while quietly singing something completely different. Mom thought this was hilarious, especially after she heard this line in Broadcast News. So anyway.)
But I ordered some new CDs from Amazon last week, and they came today (shipped to the office), so I have been playing them in my CD drive for most of today. Fun!
They are:
This is the most music I've bought in months, let alone music that was new to me (in that I didn't already own anything by the same artists). Of course, I've heard Turn several times in the car with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ablock, so maybe that doesn't count as new to me, but definitely new to my collection.
Hayley, I like the Travis disc so far -- a very Beatlesy sound, how far wrong can you go? -- but I'm going to have to listen to it with more of my brain when I get home tonight, to get the full effect. :-)
Oh yeah, and also, meanwhile, I'm making huge strides on yesterday's evil bad-news projects... so I am on track for a three-day weekend free of residual work stress. Woo!
(Contrariwise, it's when I've really got the Quark juices flowing that I can be found *singing* away to myself at my desk. That seems to come from a different place in my brain. Which maybe explains why, as a kid, I used to be able to read a book while quietly singing something completely different. Mom thought this was hilarious, especially after she heard this line in Broadcast News. So anyway.)
But I ordered some new CDs from Amazon last week, and they came today (shipped to the office), so I have been playing them in my CD drive for most of today. Fun!
They are:
- Travis, The Man Who (inspired by hayley4728)
- Great Big Sea, Turn (inspired by ablock, greenlily, murph_grrl, and all you other rabid fans)
- Billy Bragg, Back to Basics
This is the most music I've bought in months, let alone music that was new to me (in that I didn't already own anything by the same artists). Of course, I've heard Turn several times in the car with
ablock, so maybe that doesn't count as new to me, but definitely new to my collection.Hayley, I like the Travis disc so far -- a very Beatlesy sound, how far wrong can you go? -- but I'm going to have to listen to it with more of my brain when I get home tonight, to get the full effect. :-)
Oh yeah, and also, meanwhile, I'm making huge strides on yesterday's evil bad-news projects... so I am on track for a three-day weekend free of residual work stress. Woo!