Today’s Random Album of the Day is the If a Tree Falls compilation. This is a compilation of music around saving forests. Yes, it’s hippy music. And yes we need to save our forests which are currently under threat!
Currently our National Forests, our National Parks, all Federal Lands are at risk. They are attempting to sell them, to clearcut them. to drill them, to mine them. Evil has been unleashed upon the land and they are doing awful things.
Rating: 9.5
Favorite Track(s): This is biased but I’m just going to say “Trees” from Robert Hoyt. Robert was an old friend so I’m biased. I also really like Joanne Rand’s “Never Alone”. I do like most of the album. Alice DicMicele’s “Defend the Earth” is an old favorite. And we’ve got some great guest appearances from Hank Williams Jr., Jello Biafra, and Mojo Nixon among others… And of course “You Can’t Clearcut Your Way to Heaven” from Darryl Cherney is a classic tree lovers song!
Keep or Trash: Keep.
And if you follow the second song here you can find all of the songs from the album…
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: