The Random Album of the Day is the You Happy Puppet Single from 10,000 Maniacs.
I haven’t listened to this in forever. I do like 10,000 Maniacs. Unfortunately for some reason the single was missing a song but I managed to fix that without buying anything.
I love Natalie Merchant’s voice. Musically I think 10,000 Maniacs can vary a bit. Some songs have great melodies while others rely too much on Merchant to carry them in my opinion.
This particular single didn’t blow me away. It’s solidly good. Sometimes my mod can affect how I receive an album so keep that in mind. But these songs didn’t grab me as much as I wanted them to. Still I liked “Hello in There” quite a bit. Also, it’s really not that unusual for me to be most into the last song on a single. I’m weird in that way.
Rating: 8.0
Favorite Track(s): Hello In There
Keep or Trash: Keep. I like 10,000 Maniacs so I can’t see me getting rid of this.
I could not find the full single as a stream so here is the song You Happy Puppet:
Background
Every day, or nearly every day anyhow, I will randomly select an album from my collection of digital music, listen to it, and share it here. – Jayne
My wife and I are board gamers and we gamify nearly everything in life. This includes our music listening. We use a dice catapult to roll dice and then use the dice results to pick our vinyl listens. So why not do something similar for the blog?
I have made the randomizer table I use for picking the album of the day available! What? It’s a simple table but uses some weird dice. If you are not familiar, if you say D30 that means a 30 sided die. These are the dice the randomizer table uses: D30, D4, D8, D10, D12, D14, and D20. The D14 and D30 are unique but you can buy cheap packs of dice with those in them off the internet.
The basic steps are to 1) roll the D30. That picks the starting letter or if it’s a number. 2) Then use the chart roll the die associated with the first letter to pick the second letter. If you get “Other” that means numbers or some other weird character. If none of those exist re-roll. 3) Once you have the second letter you can use that to roll for a third letter if needed. 4) That should get you down to a few artists and from there you pick dice based on the number of artists. 5) finally for the artist selected you roll a die for the number of albums listed. Then you have your Random Album to listen to….
Download the Random Album Selector Table here: