Comments on: A Hundred Hearts

By: Dominic

Dominic — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 23:48:04 +0000

YES! A little love for The SWIMMERS! Me too! So nice to come here for an always satisfying mix of selections. Thanks.

By: Ample Sanity

Ample Sanity — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:41:36 +0000

[...] of my signature deep fried liverwurst with rhubarb and pistachio salsa. MP3s: High Shelf Booze. Things That We Do. Recipe: Patatas a la Riojana. Revisit: Nim’s Winter Tale. Found Sentence: Dick Cheney seems to [...]

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 08:23:49 +0000

Yay, Rose Melberg!

By: squashed

squashed — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 06:38:35 +0000

There are several regular categories of posts at MdM. In general the most common are impressionistic/mood piece. The list would be madebfirst, usually in some simple and obvious element inside songs (rhythm, keys, melody, etc), then images and the texts are inserted to point, which mood, what the thinking behind the list construction. Usual blurb.

Above post, to regular MdM readers, would be “play it while sipping coffe”, easy does it, recent pop releases. Not much to it.

Most other are mechanical. best of, recent releases, various reports, interview, context, or more mundanes functionalities (small rooms rock, bedroom, dance, etc)

The bigger posts such as the adorno, are usually explorations. Taking inventory of available releases against particular ideas, be it interesting statements, insight, or opinion. In adorno post, I was trying to give counter example against his basic claim that pop music is not serious and inferior in term of structural subtleties and innovation vs. classical/serious music.

By: hke

hke — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:36:41 +0000

your lists work better when theyre not grasping for the more abstract/insupportable. the big notes often don’t add much to the existing tracks, and they could use some cleaning up/expansion. (probably sound like one of my english TAs right now)

i appreciate the dialogue you’re trying to promote though, esp re: the adorno post, which i thought was a bit all over the place but hey, whatever. i very-tangentially studied adorno in a sociology course so i’m not one to really talk.
that isn’t to belittle the obvious work you put into the posts, though it frequently leaves me with thinking: “okay i have absolutely no clue what the fuck he was trying to get at.”
(ie. risks pretension)

just a thing i’ve been meaning to comment on for awhile. the work you guys do still inspire me to treat list-making as a serious craft, so keep it up.

i’m rambling.
this lists works better for me, for example. then again i am also very scatterbrained right now and need something like this. cheers to you and the rest of MdM; hoping for continued great (though sometimes, simplified) posts in 2010+.