Previously, on “Star Trek: The Next Generation”…

In an effort to attempt to blog a little more, I’m somewhat “borrowing” a schtick from Blobby at Blobby’s Blog. I guess this makes the second thing I’ve borrowed from him actually. Maybe one day I’ll come up with something of my own.

I have this method of ranking music in my library, which currently consists of 34,968 songs: By default, all new songs in my library get ⭐️⭐️⭐️. As I listen to them, I sort them as follows: ⭐️ means it’s “rubbish” (as Dr. Spo would say) and I’ll probably delete it from the library, ⭐️⭐️ means it’s just “meh” but I’ll probably keep it, ⭐️⭐️⭐️ means it’s okay and we will probably talk over it, ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ means I really like and may potentially sing at random, ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ means everyone better shut the fuck up because my song is on! You know the kind of songs I’m talking about. We all have them.

These are mine, one post at a time.

I’m starting my approach to this with songs I’ve given ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ to in iTunes. There’s only 90 of them at the moment. I’ll probably sneak in an occasional ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ as well.

I went through and looked at all the videos I’ve talked about under the tag “Music I Love“, and apparently I’ve already talked about a lot of the ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ songs. Which I guess shouldn’t be that surprising. That said, it looks like some of the ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ entries will be bubbling up sooner than expected. If you want to check out some of the other songs I’ve talked about in the long ago, you can take a look at the “Music I Love” tag.

I’m not sure why, but I know I bought a lot of music based on album covers back in the day. Today’s entry is from a band I swear I fell in love with because of an album cover. At least at that time. This is the album cover:

What’s not intriguing about what I’ve always presumed to be eels and feathers?

There’s a lot of good songs on the album, and I’ve talked about one before that made it as somewhat a hit at the time. But this one is just… different.

I find it… soothing. I don’t really know how to describe it other than that.

I present, from 1985’s Oil & Gold, Shriekback’s “Fish Below the Ice” (apologies for the “video”, it’s fan made, and not from the band):