Today’s Random Album of the Day is Do a Two Sable from Danielle Howle. This is Singer-Songwriter but also Rock ‘n Roll. This is one of many albums in my collection where I have no idea where it came from. Hence the Random Album of the Day…
I wasn’t expecting much here but for the first part it is a solidly good album. My songs are messed up though. Each song is titled wrong. How exactly does that happen? Did I end up with a bootleg download? fixing this will be annoying.
The album is good at first but I’d not say it’s great in the end. Some songs fall flat for me and some are just bad to me. Sort of a Blues Rock I suppose. Though some songs are practically Country. Which does not work for me at all. Which I suppose is why the more I listened the less I liked it. But then there’d be a good song I liked. So a mixed overall album.
Rating: 7.1
Favorite Track(s): “Feel So Bad” is a great song. “You Came A Knockin'” is great and ok now I recognize her. “Where Were You” brings back the rock and it’s solid. “Dusty” is probably the only slower song that I liked on the album. But I did like it.
Keep or Trash: Trash. Honestly I might have been on the fence about this if it weren’t for the mislabeled songs. That made me realize I didn’t care enough to fix them. Like it’s easier to just discard them and I seemed ok with that once the thought crossed my mind. Especially with me not really liking half the album. Also I was a bit too enthused when we got to the last song and the album was over.
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: