About the Project
In 2008, for reasons I've since forgotten, I decided to listen to all of the music in my collection. And then I just kept doing it every other year. In 2012, I wrote a few short posts, so once it was time to do the project again, I thought I would start a blog where I could write the thoughts I had while listening to all of this music. Since I started the project, I've collected a lot more music (and more varied music, both in genre and time period), and I've gotten better at listening to and understanding music.
That first year, I went through my collection alphabetically by song. Since then, I've gone alphabetically by album (with some skipping around now and then).
About Me
My formal musical training consists of a little less than a year and a half of elementary school band (playing trombone) and a semester of beginner piano class (in spring 2011) during my first year of college, so I'm mostly a self-taught musician. I started teaching myself guitar in 2009 (and still find myself learning things five years later), and learning other instruments followed.
My musical tastes are mostly directed toward British music from the 1960s. (My favorite band is the Zombies - a result of this project in fact: hearing their version of "You've Really Got a Hold on Me" back-to-back with the Beatles' version was life-changing and secured them as my favorite band for the past six years. Since 2012, I've been trying to figure out all of their songs.) Lately I've been getting into more classical music (Mendelssohn is my favorite composer), and there are certainly other genres and time periods that I'm interested in.
Every year since 2010, I've participated in both FAWM and 50/90. I also have music available to purchase on Bandcamp.
