Today’s Random Album of the Day is It’s Always Sunny in Tillamook from Meg & Dia. This is straight up pop music, perhaps folky pop music. And it may surprise you if you follow the blog to know that I love it! Yes, I like noise rock but I do like some pop and I have a soft spot for Meg & Dia due largely to Dia’s roles in some lesbian movies that I watch.
Intellectually this is not in my wheelhouse but I enjoy it anyhow. With that said, this isn’t my favorite album of theirs. It feels slightly less rosy. I like their rosy positive sound. When they do it they do it well! Anyhow I like this.
Rating: 8.5
Favorite Track(s): “My Ugly Mouth” is good. “Dreams like Oceans” is wonderful. Makes me feel so warm. “Don’t Be Careful” also makes my insides tingle. And then I zoned out as I tend to do sometimes…
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: