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by this river
so tired... no sleep last night, watched tv until the light broke through the curtains and i had no choice but to dazedly get up and drive my brothers back over to my mothers house so they could catch the bus. school was a blur of faces, i dont really remember what went on in my classes... driving to my dads house was like an out-of-body experience. i started falling asleep, listening to whatever cd id shoved in before leaving my driveway. it turned out to be a mix cd of king crimson, brian eno, iron butterfly, and apocalyptica.... i listened to eno as my eyelids began to close, and listened to the lyrics from some distant place at the back of my mind.....

"Here we are
Stuck by this river,
You and I
Underneath a sky that's ever falling down, down, down
Ever falling down.

Through the day
As if on an ocean
Waiting here,
Always failing to remember why we came, came, came:
I wonder why we came.

You talk to me
as if from a distance
And I reply
With impressions chosen from another time, time, time,
From another time."

i love that song.
 
 
   
 

What is the "Perfect Album"
A few weeks ago plastic asked, "What is the perfect album?"

This is what the guy posting said:

I recently came up against a wall. While sorting my albums of music in the MP3 format, I came to the conclusion that for most, if not all, of the albums I own, there are only a handful of tracks per album that I love. Generally there are a few tracks that are passable and almost always several that are forgettable. This makes listening to an entire album or even mixes of albums set to random less enjoyable than if it was just the best songs per album. So I began purging tracks, saving only the best of each album.

Then I ran into a phenomenon, the phenomenon of the perfect album. An album in which every track is great, each one worthy of being a hit. An album with not a single song I would skip past and nothing mediocre or even average.

I'm only part way through my music library and I've only found a handful. But it piqued my curiosity. What albums would you nominate as a perfect album?


For me, I'd pick Brian Eno's Here Come the Warm Jets, The Beatles' Abbey Road, both Gorillaz Albums (Demon Days and Gorillaz), any Elliot Smith album, Ataxia Automatic Writing (really depressing), Eminem's Marshall Mathers LP.

The discussion on plastic generated 775 album suggestions. Check out The Perfect Album, according to Plastic to see what the final results are. Hint: Radiohead's OK Computer is no. 1
 
 
 

 
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