Today’s Random Album of the Day is a compilation from various artists. This is the Slow Rack Sampler from Badman Recording Company, I don’t ever listen to various artist compilations. So I’m glad to see them come up on the Random Album of the Day. I just don’t naturally seek them out. But sometimes they do really rock.
As a Slow Rock Sampler this is pretty chill overall. Which isn’t bad for the morning. None of these songs knock me off my chair. But only like one of them makes me want to march off in disgust either. Still, there are songs I didn’t love. There are songs I liked. I guess what you’d expect from a compilation that isn’t entirely in your wheelhouse.
Rating: 7.0
Favorite Track(s): “Home by Saturday”. I’ve always liked Hayden. “Wax Museum” from Read Thread is good. I like the guitar riff. “Hollow Heart” from N. Lannon is peaceful. I liked “Impossible” from Pleasant Grove. I liked “Brightness” from Lanterna. And it was nice to hear a woman’s voice on “Tomorrow On the Runway” from the Innocence Mission.
Keep or Trash: Trash. Honestly it’s a higher threshold to keep a various artist compilation. I have to like it more to keep it than a stand alone album. And this doesn’t meet that higher threshold for me. There is no song I absolutely love and must have. The album itself is fine but not spectacular. And so forth… If I ever feel the need to hear this album (won’t happen) I’ve reconstructed in streaming links below.
I could not find this, but I found ALL of the songs separately so here are links to stream THE songs in the order that they are on the compilation…
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: