Info
- Artist:: Neutral Milk Hotel
- Album:: Ferris Wheel on Fire
- Year:: 2011
- Label:: NMH Records
Track Ratings
| # | Title | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oh Sister | |
| 2 | Ferris Wheel on Fire | ★★ |
| 3 | Home | ★ |
| 4 | April 8th | ★★ |
| 5 | I Will Bury You in Time | ★ |
| 6 | Engine | ★★★ |
| 7 | A Baby for Pree / Glow Into You | ★★ |
| 8 | My Dreamgirl Don’t Exist (Live) | ★★★ |
Log
2016-09-30
oh sister recycles lyrics?
★★ ferris wheel on fire has a lovely chorus
★ home
★★ april 8th’s notes!
★ i will bury you in time
★ engine (has a really nice melody)
★★ my dreamgirl don’t exist (the bend at the end of the verse)
2021-06-17 memex
maybe a consequence of me now having too much time on my hands is that i’ve started to obsess a little about how i want to organize my life. and while i should probably do a fuller writeup about that some time, the compulsion has started to spread into how i want my music collection to be organized. and my feelings here are complicated:
- i want to make sure that i don’t lose the metadata that matters most to me, but i want to keep the files themselves untouched and not just bake the metadata in them
- but also the play count metadata makes me nervous for some reason and i have half a mind to hide it and forget about it, except i don’t want to, except i do
- i could use this notebook as an ad-hoc metadata storage. i think that’s what the plan originally was, but i’m averse to bumping entries for albums i’ve already listened to.
- incidentally, this is why i’ve been backdating albums, especially as i’ve been redoing the stars used in the album because my current fontconfig setup just won’t show the other ones anymore.
- maybe i’m averse to bumping because i see this as a chronological journey through music? or because oftentimes i don’t have much else to say? but then again, relistens like this prove that my feelings have changed in the interim, at least somewhat.
- plus the data in this notebook is hard to get out and manipulate. that makes me want to move away from joplin, but there are also plenty of incentives to stay.
- also i’ve been looking into cmus as an alternative to clementine, because i have a cli fetish. (this is what inspired me to start setting up the track tables like this… even though i have all this set up on rym too…)
- that said, currently cmus would be a step backward in a few different ways
★★ engine
★★ a baby for pree / glow into you. it’s a sweet one, i think.
★★★ my dreamgirl don’t exist. this has become a really meaningful song for me, i think. i really love the story it tells about how true love is so fickle, and maybe we all were just one missed connection away from it. also the “just you and i and this tv” verse… i feel like this has become relevant in multiple ways now. still, for the first time in my life, i’m optimistic about the way it’s relevant now.