5 songs for every mood
Mar. 13th, 2007 05:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
enthusiastickI'm starting a new project here on the old livejournal. Its partially inspired by a recent Friday fill-in-the-blank of ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rollick's, and partially by loopygirl's super awesome AlphaGeek. And partially its just something I thought would be fun to do. If I do it the way I'm currently envisioning, it'll take over two years to complete. I'm hoping to stick with it that long.
I'm going to create a list of 5 songs for every LJ mood.
You may notice I didn't say Top 5s, which is significant, given my obsession with High Fidelity. I've blogged in the past about my difficulty calling anything my Desert Island, all-time favorite. These are intended as snapshots; 5 songs that fit the mood in question, in my opinion, at the point in my life when they were written. Which means I also won't be revising them; if I think of (or discover) a song so good that it absolutely should have been on the list, then I'll probably make mention of it in a separate post. But the lists themselves will stand as they're originally posted, for better or worse.
I would not be particularly surprised, given the proliferance of LJ communities like![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
thefridayfive to discover that there is already someone doing this.
Its also worth mentioning that the LJ mood list is patently ridiculous. It omits any number of common moods and doubles up on others, which will force me to make fine distinctions. It lacks a "wistful" but has a "nostalgic." Its got both a "dorky" and a "geeky." Some of these, such as "thirsty" and "nauseated," will almost certainly be a challenge to put to music. And "exanimate"? Who the Hell even knows what that means without resorting to a dictionary?
There are over 100 of these things in a standard LJ mood set. Allowing for one a week and a couple weeks off a year, this is quite a long term commitment to make. But I'm eager to get started.
rollick's, and partially by loopygirl's super awesome AlphaGeek. And partially its just something I thought would be fun to do. If I do it the way I'm currently envisioning, it'll take over two years to complete. I'm hoping to stick with it that long.I'm going to create a list of 5 songs for every LJ mood.
You may notice I didn't say Top 5s, which is significant, given my obsession with High Fidelity. I've blogged in the past about my difficulty calling anything my Desert Island, all-time favorite. These are intended as snapshots; 5 songs that fit the mood in question, in my opinion, at the point in my life when they were written. Which means I also won't be revising them; if I think of (or discover) a song so good that it absolutely should have been on the list, then I'll probably make mention of it in a separate post. But the lists themselves will stand as they're originally posted, for better or worse.
I would not be particularly surprised, given the proliferance of LJ communities like
thefridayfive to discover that there is already someone doing this.Its also worth mentioning that the LJ mood list is patently ridiculous. It omits any number of common moods and doubles up on others, which will force me to make fine distinctions. It lacks a "wistful" but has a "nostalgic." Its got both a "dorky" and a "geeky." Some of these, such as "thirsty" and "nauseated," will almost certainly be a challenge to put to music. And "exanimate"? Who the Hell even knows what that means without resorting to a dictionary?
There are over 100 of these things in a standard LJ mood set. Allowing for one a week and a couple weeks off a year, this is quite a long term commitment to make. But I'm eager to get started.
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Date: 2007-03-13 11:08 pm (UTC)And DUDE - you pimped the AlphaGeek, how rockingly cool is that? Thanks!!
(And Dude - I have one due this week. Yikes!)
(And dude...those tags need some fixing, I see. I'll take care of that right now.)
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Date: 2007-03-15 02:03 pm (UTC)