Today’s Random Album of the Day is Out of Time from R.E.M.. Well it’s R.E.M. so its Alternative Rock or Jangle Pop even.
I am either weird or I have this thing with R.E.M. where I love the obvious songs but the rest kind of bores me. So I find them good but not great I guess. But I like Document a lot so maybe it’s just later R.E.M. that is more hit or miss with me from song to song. Or maybe it is the kind of music that grows on you the more you listen and I don’t listen enough.
Rating: 8.0
Favorite Track(s): “Losing My Religion” is great. “Shiny Happy People” is good. “Belong” and “Half a World Away” are ok. “Me in Honey” I like.
Keep or Trash: Keep but honestly it’s not an obvious keep for me. But there are a couple songs I really like so worth keeping.
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: