Today I listened to the number 89th album on the UK top 100 albums.
There are two reasons for this. The first is the reason I made up to justify the real reason which is the second reason.
The first reason is because of the album ‘Homosexual’ by Darren Hayes. It entered the chart in the 80s and disappeared the next week. I would never have listened to it. I only found it by accident and that’s unacceptable! I mean, honestly, some of the best albums from 2001 were weird things that no one knew about. To be honest, even things outside of the top 100 deserve a listen and so, only listening to the top albums means that I am missing out on great music.
The second reason is that The 1975’s new album is at number 1 this week and I hate the leader singer so much. Like, so much. And I know you may be thinking ‘how can you hate someone who you have never met?’ and this is a fair point. What I mean, is that I hate the part of him that he presents to the world. I’m sure he’s lovely one to one (I’m not entirely sure of this at all). Anyway, I absolutely refuse to listen to anything by The 1975 and so I’m starting from the bottom.
My blog, my rules.
So I listened to the album ‘Young Forever’ by Nessa Barrett.
And I’m super glad I did. As an album, it’s depressing and very samey-samey. However, there are some individual songs of awesomeness.
To be honest, the first and second songs on the album are the ones I like best. I wonder if I’d listen to two others first I could have also enjoyed them the most.
‘Gaslight‘ is an excellent song. So often I’ve discussed songs which are effectively gaslighting. So it’s good to find an anti -gaslighting song.
‘Tired of LA’ is also an excellent song about looking for realness in an artificial way.
So, the only thing that the horrible lead singer of The 1975 has done right is making me listen to some good music. Even though it’s 13 tracks and lasts only half an hour and I only actually like 2 tracks, it’s still awesome compared to me listening to anything by The 1975.
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