A simple premise. This is the fifty second playlist for Consuming the Tangible. In four days I turn 52 years old. Why not make a playlist of tracks that came out 52 years ago? That’s it. That’s the theme of the playlist.
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Used to be January was a bit of a dumping ground for music; smaller bands and releases living in the shadow of everyone’s year end lists and folks checking out all the stuff they may have missed. So I wasn’t expecting much, thinking I would just nestle down with some cozy 70s prog and 80s metal, hibernating until the “good stuff” starting poking out. Welp, that’s already started to happen, so we’re going to keep this trend of what’s been coming in the house and I’ve been listening to for the last week, and we’re kicking it off with an album I’ve fallen hard for, a surefire bet for my own end of year list. Or albums, I should say, because wouldn’t you know it? Yesterday Ty Segall had to go and release his third album in one 12-month cycle…
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9/22/2024 UPDATE: Don’t ask me how, but in my bleary, exhausted attempt to get Episode 16 out on time, I somehow wrote over Episode 16’s post instead of simply copying the post and using it as a template. So the TL;DR version: for the rest of September and probably most of October I will be participating in the annual Hooptober Horror Marathon, watching and writing reviews for 34 horror films based on a number of rules and criteria that change each marathon. Yo can see my list and the rules that built it here, and follow along over at Cinema Dual. In the meantime I’ll still be getting these playlists out, and will try to do a few capsule reviews in the meantime.
We’ll be back to normal programming in November!
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