Season's greetings, 2022
Well, 2022 happened. Every few weeks I'd think, Maybe I should write a blog post, and I wouldn't get around to it. Since the card Sarah made this year is sort of one-sided (more below), I figured I'd use this annual post to write up some highlights from the year.
Tags: cd-listening, christmas, ginny, meet-the-mayhaks, music, photography
From Electric Light Orchestra to Folds
With the busyness of preparing for a move in a couple weeks, intentional music listening has fallen by the wayside as of late. Even so, I wanted to get a short one out about a few more discs in the collection.
Tags: cd-listening, meet-the-mayhaks, music
From Death Cab for Cutie to Does It Offend You, Yeah?
After much procrastinating, I finally started writing this post while staying at our new house in Barron, WI. We haven't officially moved yet, but we took Sarah's spring break to drive up and take a closer look at this place we bought entirely from Virginia. I'm very thankful for my dad's willingness to go and look at the house and give an informed opinion before we made an offer. Cheers to Casey Watters and her team for all their help.
The release of this post was also delayed for a special appearance.
Anyway, we continue exploring the collection with a look at a handful of different bands.
Tags: cd-listening, meet-the-mayhaks, music
From Daft Punk to Daft Punk
For no particular reason other than I like the way it breaks up the artist groupings in my collection, we start the Ds with a single band (duo? group?). This is also a feeble attempt at posting more regularly by covering fewer albums at a time.
Tags: cd-listening, music
From Costello to Crane Wives
I'm happy to bring reminiscences of an artist enjoyed by generations of Mayhaks, along with a band Sarah and I discovered together. This one encompasses quite a few discs from the collection considering it only covers two distinct artists and nine albums. Lots of "deluxe editions".
Tags: cd-listening, meet-the-mayhaks, music
From Albright to Albright
We interrupt our regular broadcast to bring you a late Christmas treat: a new addition to the CD collection--by an artist I hadn't heard of before--received as a gift.
Tags: cd-listening, christmas, music
From Computer Magic to Costa
More of my CDs and why I have them. These sort of hit on opposite ends of my life, from recent adulthood to early childhood.
WARNING: This episode may contain a tangent of love.
Tags: cd-listening, meet-the-mayhaks, music
From CAKE to Cars
This time, we have two bands from the collection. One I have a little, one I have a lot. Don't be fooled by the CDs that I've got: I'm still, I'm still avoiding disc rot.
Tags: cd-listening, meet-the-mayhaks, music
From Bowie to Brubeck
This one brings us two artists who shouldn't need any introduction, and about whom I feel woefully underqualified to write. As with previous entries, I'll focus mostly on what they mean to me and how their albums made it into my CD collection.
Tags: cd-listening, meet-the-mayhaks, music
From Beat to Boston
In this installment, we go across the pond and back again. These are all bands that have been with me in spirit for a long time, but they entered my CD collection at very different times.
Tags: cd-listening, meet-the-mayhaks, music
From Banta to Battles
After completing my CD ripping project, I decided it was time to listen to my 264-disc collection all over again. I haven't listened to some of these albums in their entirety for years, and I wanted to revisit some of those less-worn tomes. I figured it might be nice to write a little about them as I go, but don't expect top-quality music journalism or in-depth song analyses.
Tags: cd-listening, cd-ripping, music