An Album a Day

I'll admit it, I've grown a little weary of my 17 Youtube playlists of about 200 songs each, pulled together over a couple years now whenever I listened to a song, and the mood struck to "add to playlist".  Needless to say this mood struck often, and will continue to strike, because as you all should know if you don't already, I'm a Youtube (music in particular) addict.

In an effort to funnel spew of videos into something perhaps a little more structured and hopefully a bit more productive in a new way, I've started assembling some of the critically denoted best rock albums of all time, one per day, so that I can listen to them straight through as though I had legitimately purchased them in full form!  As sacrilegious as it is to not only not pay these timeless artists for their hard-earned work, pull together clips from online that are for sure not as good quality or even consistent with each other (or even may be live versions if I can't find the album's studio version(!)), and then eventually listen to it all in just one day (doesn't mean I won't come back to them!), I have to say that I haven't ever had this much success and pleasure out of digging into albums I'd always wanted to.

Basically, I got tired of waiting to take time out and listen to these albums and decided to sacrifice the proper environment to fully appreciate these important albums.  However, I consider there to be worth in laying the foundation so that I can come back to them for repeated listens with even a little background and some familiarity.  Plus, it's all just really amazing music and often times pushes me to hear what I normally might not be ready to try out.  I'll go more into how I select them in later posts, but it involves help from Digital Dream Door and Rolling Stone.

That said, I'd like to go through them with you all here on Demons.  Just note that the posts will likely be quite haphazard (reflecting the sort of approach I'm taking) and not as in depth as Edward's impressive works of depth and precision in his Beatles and guitar solo lists.  They also might not cover every album I listen to, or maybe they'll cover more than one at a time, but I just know I won't be able to keep up a post a day.