OK so better late than never.

A while back I talked about an “experiment” in which I’d select singles from Days of Yore(tm) and listen to their containing albums in their entirety. I don’t know how music works today (I suspect it’s pretty much the same) but back in My Day(tm) singles were released and that’s what we heard on the radio. This would send impressionable young people to the Record Stores — pour one out — to buy the whole album on the back of one song. It was hit or miss. You could love all or most of the songs on the album, you could encounter other songs on the radio over time, or you could hate the whole thing. Crapshoot.

Last weekend my wife and I went to a local flea market, and I picked up a few CDs. I am at a point in my life where the 80’s are a distant yet comforting memory, but the early 90’s are where it’s at. This is my college years. I focused on CDs that were from that period of time, and managed to score 9 or so. I also had purchased several from Qobuz because they had lossless versions. Some albums are from existing collections. Right now, it’s a pretty small selection, but I’m working on it.

I have created a “90’s” playlist which I thought should only contain the “songs I know”, but then realized that I now had entire albums from which sourced the songs I knew, so why not get familiar with the songs I missed Way Back When(tm). So that’s what I’ve got: a playlist of entire albums, sourced from the early 90’s, which will hopefully grow over time because as I’m sure I have enough songs across all current albums to last me for a while, I would like to fill the gaps with the actual songs that evoke the memories of the early 90’s that I’m interested in right now in my life.