Record Reconstructor

  ...but I do I was driving with Matt through the streets of suburban Birmingham to go collect an Indian takeaway for the group of friends we were hanging out with for the week at the UK Games Expo, and we were talking about music.  Matt had asked me what my favourite song of all time was, prompted by the fact that the extremely lengthy and highly eclectic playlist which I put on in the car when I can't think of anything else to play had delivered a motown standard which had been played at his wedding.  I told him it was an impossible question;  I've got a hundred favourite songs and it changes from minute to minute and mood to mood, and is highly dependant on what is top of mind when I'm asked.  I could give you a list of 20 albums which are my favourites, maybe 100 songs I'd consider the pinnacle of my musical tastes, but they're all tied for joint first; or at least, they shift places so often based on my whims that they may as well be. He asked me what it wa...

Dashboard! Yes, I'm putting two up on the same day, look, time has got away from me this week a little and we have guests arriving today who I'll need to socialise with this evening so this is going to be a more truncated than normal weekly wrapup, but fortunately its only seventeen albums so that shouldn't take too long.   On with the show. I listened to my 200th unique album in its entirety since January 1st on Monday this week, driving back from Manchester after watching the Superbowl, and as a special treat (and to keep my .swifties.com tag on Bluesky validated) I decided to listen to the most recent Taylor Swift album.  First, a couple of notes - I understand the machinations of releasing multiple versions of albums to keep them in streaming charts longer and produce limited run vinyl and the like.  When I am listening to albums, if there are multiple versions, I'll almost universally choose the studio version over any extended cut that is available (though with...