Record Reconstructor

This week:  Bon Iver, Paul McCartney, Death Cab, Ani DiFranco and a grab bag of other artists So, I'm not sleeping again.  Good for my productivity - if listening to albums at four in the morning and writing these works at 7am counts as productive - bad for my general focus and energy levels.  In this case, it's not exclusively the general state of the world which is summoning me from my comfortable bed in the early hours, though that's definitely still a factor.  In this case, I think either one or both of Catherine and I are fighting off some kind of low grade summer cold;  nothing major, but it's making Catherine snore like a rusty chainsaw at the moment, and there's really no solving for it.  So for the past few nights, I've been awakened by the miniature grinding wheel taking up residence next to me, which snaps me awake;  and once I am awake, both my body and mind betray me.  My ancient and infirm body tells me that since I am awake, I shoul...

Dashboard! Yes, I remembered I was going to do this.  In fact, it's been playing on my mind since the end of November as I've started to think clearly about what accomplishing this feat is going to take.  As someone who's job involves thinking about numbers a great deal, I'm very aware of how seductive arbitrary numbers can sound.   "A thousand albums?," you think, "That can't be that hard?  I must have listened to more than a thousand albums in my life already that I liked and could go back to?  I'll just do that again, but faster." Think about your favourite, longest running bands.  I've spent more time on earth than I care to admit out loud now, so I have a few bands which I really love which have an extensive back catalogue of studio albums.  If I could get ten bands with ten albums in their discography that I love, then that's a significant chunk of the work done for me, right? Readers, I sat and wracked my brains and in the many...