ALBUM-A-DAY AND MUSIC SHUFFLE NOSTALGIA - 20210419

I have to play catch up as I've been slacking. They'll be all posted today but in separate posts so they are contained.

Anyhow, Bonnie Pink was the artist next on the list to listen to for Monday, with her debut album Blue Jam from 1995. I first heard her when I watched Rurouni Kenshin, as her song It's Gonna Rain was one of the Op/Ed songs. Going through her discography is great because she really is a talented singer and songwriter and at some point I may have listened to these albums or had them on a shuffle playlist and focusing on a encapsulated musical experience contained in a single album is so great.

For Music Shuffle Nostalgia on Monday, my shuffle today resulted in listening to J.S. Bach. It was an album I had saved called BACH - The Legendary Masters, which was a compilation of some of his works. I was unable to locate it online and all my CDs are in storage so I am unable to actually look at the album itself or take a picture, so here's a portrait I found and saved from online. 

 

Listening to Bach reminded me that I went through a classical kick for a while, believing it would make me more cultured and appealing to someone like Benedict Cumberbatch or whatever. Now I am living more my true self and while I enjoy some classical, or musical instrumental pieces, it's not something I try and focus on or feel guilty because it's not a priority to know. 

Also, I blame the anime Nodame Cantabile for introducing me to another composer, Rachmaninov, and by that virtue, chose to try and personally expand my classical library the little I did.

ALBUM-A-DAY AND MUSIC SHUFFLE NOSTALGIA - 20210420

 For Tuesday, the artist next on my list was BoA and her debut album, ID;Peace B from 2000. It seems so weird to me that this album is 20 years old. 21, actually. Being 41 and understanding how your parents felt whenever they make comments about how long ago things are but don't feel like they were that long ago is a new thing that I've really become aware of recently. 

Listening to BoA's first album and the quality of her voice and the songs on this album made me wonder how the reception was when it was released. I'm sure there were many then who recognized the absolute powerhouse she would become, especially in the Korean music industry. I know she spread out to the Japanese charts but when she attempted to break in to the USA scene, it wasn't as successful as I hoped. C'est la vie. Not all of my favorites are able to be like BTS. I am not a fan, but they are one group that seems to have exploded worldwide.

Anyhow, I liked this album and enjoyed listening to it.

Next up on Tuesday's Music Shuffle Nostalgia, was a group called The Pretty Reckless and their self-titled EP from 2010. I am not sure how this ended up in my hoarded music library but my suspicion is from a fanmix somewhere. I was actually pretty happy with listening to this as I don't remember if I ever did before. Their sound is definitely along the lines of Paramore and Halestorm and by that virtue, something I would enjoy listening to again.

ALBUM-A-DAY AND MUSIC SHUFFLE NOSTALGIA - 20210421

Alrighty, caught up and ready to discuss today's pulls.

Next on my predetermined list of artists to listen to was Sara Bareilles. I first really started getting into her when she released her album, The Blessed Unrest, and while I haven't 100 percent been into what she created (The Waitress musical), I always appreciate her talent in storytelling and music.

This album is Careful Confessions, released in 2004 and was her debut album that was independently released. Some of the songs on this album are original versions of songs released on her major studio debut on the album Little Voice. All the studio album did was produce them and polish those songs, but it's wonderful to hear just how amazing she was as an independent artist. She has so much talent and had so much potential, which she absolutely lived up to with Little Voice and the succeeding albums she released. Phenomenal talent.

For today's Music Shuffle Nostalgia, the almighty shuffle on my hoarded music files brought up Supercar (スーパーカー), a group I found while trying to find a Japanese band to obsess over in the middle to late 2000s. They came up on a probably now defunct internet radio station on Live365.com (which still freaking EXISTS - the website, not the station) and I decided to find what I could to download as they are nice indie rock band, more contemporary than pure rock and I enjoyed listening to them today. 

The album today was Highvision, released in 2002. The band is no longer active (sad) but at least I have them saved on my harddrive and available to stream on Spotify.