After building that mixtape for Correy a few days ago, i just really got itching to put some work in on the Poor-Ass Christmas. In the last five years i've often ended up with difficulty getting the thing together in a timely manner, including one year where i didn't officially finish it until several months into the following year. So i thought i'd get a head start this year and start collecting what i needed from my Shazams, various Spotify playlists, Chelsea's new Jam of the Day Discord server, and other spots i've recorded incoherent notes. And, well, since i've got Covid and i can't go outside anyway and Amanda can't be here anyway, i started thinking. Well. Maybe Christmas just comes early this year. Amanda hates it when i'm scrubbing though tracks and listening to little slivers of songs and tracking transitions and such anyway, she finds that really annoying, as a bystander. So hell, why not start getting it together. The established cutoff for PAC additions has been October 1 for a decade or so anyway, so i'm only trimming it a little short. Besides, what with me being trapped inside and all our major get togethers and things behind us for the year, and given how my music habits have changed since the failure of the Wisconscene Kickstarter a few years back, it's unlikely i'm going to even be exposed to any new music that will impact me significantly in the next couple weeks. So hell! Here we go!
Right now the work list contains 42 songs, 2 hours 36 minutes. Not bad. Only have to trim about half of that off. And since there's currently 3 Naked and Famous, 4 The Sounds, and 5 Ladyhawke songs (the three bands that have shaped my year), some of these cuts will be obvious.
Stray observations? As quickly as my synthwave obsession started, it seems to have ended. I noticed there was very little of it on the worklist, and as i thought back over the last eleven months, i realized that i really haven't been returning to that well as much this year. Rock and roll is back. Also back, with lesser fanfare, male vocals. I noticed an increasing preference for female vocals over the last ten years, culminating in 2018 having no male vocals at all and 2019 having only one, but i think i've been letting dude rock return this year in a way that i wasn't fully conscious of. Although checking the statistics spreadsheet now i'm seeing that 2020 had a 5:4 male majority? Huh. I don't remember that.
In other news the Queen of England died today. I added Chumbawamba's Farewell to the Crown to the work list in response.
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