Today’s Random Album of the Day is Give Up the Ghost from Brandi Carlile. I originally rolled another “album” but it wasn’t clear if it was an album or just a bunch of singles I had for that artist. So I’m going to research that and bump it to another day. I just need time to clarify information on it.
Brandi Carlile is pop folk. A bit on the poppy end to be something I get too into maybe. But I do like her music. Like I thought “Looking Out” was a solid folk rock song but “Dying Day” felt bland to me. I should love it as it’s a sappy love song and I’m a total sap. Same with “Oh dear”.
So overall I have mixed feelings on the album. Some songs I like and some I don’t love. Nothing I absolutely hate though so a good album overall.
Rating: 8.0
Favorite Track(s): “Looking Out” is a solid folk rock song. “Dreams” is nice and anthemic. I Like “Caroline” quite a bit actually. “Touching the Ground” is the reason I have this album. I love it.
Keep or Trash: Keep.
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: