Speed Goys and Pigeons for Life: Blindfold Test #10

The overriding theme this time is clearly songs that evoke specific musical genres without actually being of those genres — Several examples of those. Then again, we’ve also got four consecutive examples of unusually clamorous ’80s-style post-disco dance-diva music in the middle (even though one of them or maybe two didn’t technically come out until…

I Like Cows: Blindfold Test #2

In the initial installment of this sonic experiment and/or semi-educated guessing game, I blindly played myself 25 songs out of a random shuffled playlist of 1699 I was curious about, and people kept joking that 1699 is an awful long time ago to pick 25 songs from har har. But more importantly, four different bands…

Hopeless on Juice: Blindfold Test #1

Here are 25 songs culled randomly on shuffle from a 1699-song, 104-hour and 24-minute Napster playlist of generally pretty obscure or at least slipped-through-the-cracks mostly ’70s and ’80s songs/albums/compilations I was vaguely curious about which I’ve been playing in the background while living my life these past couple weeks. Music nobody talks about, and that…